Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlight: Megan was on Ellen!

Episode Date: January 30, 2024

Enty on Barbie at the Oscars. Can you guess these lullaby's before we do? Jono shares what weird things are on his Instagram feed... How do we stop this strange sound in studio?! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations. I came into work this morning and this is going on in the studio. Seems to be coming out of a computer. Under the desk. That little noise is quite nice. As far as error messages go, it's quite pleasant. You were saying Ben, does the beginning part sounds like a milk truck reversing up, isn't it? To deliver goods. But none of us know what it is,

how to deal with it. So we're just sitting here complaining about it, recording it and playing it on the air. Hopefully, is there any IT experts up and at it

at six o'clock in the morning? Once you really zero in on a sound tool, you can't ignore it. I mean, this is quite a noise. You can't ignore it. This is hard to ignore. I had a friend of mine who was flatting and his flatmate, underneath his mattress, he cut a little hole and he put a smoke alarm in there and then it went, forgot about it.

I don't know why he put it in, but he decided to put it in, but forgot about it. And you know when the smoke alarm beeps when it runs out of battery it just drove my friend nuts because he would

just wake up and go there's a beep in the room I can't find it anywhere and it was a hidden smoke alarm

up under the mattress now I know for years you've told this story Ben and you've never mentioned the man who was responsible

for putting the smoke alarm there now he's clear we can name and shame this guy I know why you didn't mention him because you didn't want to cause a scandal. I won't mention him. It was Clark Gaffin.

What is this? Clark Gaffin, the first man in New Zealand, pranked Ben's friend by hiding smoke alarms in his mattress. Many years ago when they were flat again. I don't know if he's doing that to Cindy nowadays. But Ben was refusing to mention it because he didn't want to create a headache for him during his tenure as First Man of New Zealand. Now he can deal with the fallout. No, that's going to break us a massive scandal today. It's on you, Jono Pryor.

That's not on me. Oh, and over to the hits. Does anyone know what this noise is? Please. What can we do to fix it? Otherwise, we'll have this as a wonderful soundtrack to our radio show this morning. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. It's 6.10, that noise is still going on in the background right now.

No one's called up, no one's texted, no one wants to help us. So, well, you deal with the collateral, okay? Yeah. Now, Taylor Swift, a lot of talk about her because her partner, Travis Kelsey, is playing in the Super Bowl which is happening and not next Monday the Monday after they sort of have

a week off this week and will she go to the Super Bowl? Everyone's talking about her schedule right? I've seen so many people mapping it out like what time

she'll have to leave how long the flight is then when will she go back? I don't think we need to stress about it she's probably got people who are worrying about that she probably pays people to do that stuff for her.

Don't worry. She'll be fine. I feel like if she doesn't go now, everyone's going to be so disappointed. We worked it out. You can go. You can do it. Well, because basically she's got the Grammy Awards, huge Grammy Awards. She's up for about six awards in America.

And then she travels to Tokyo, Japan. She's got four concerts, night after night in Tokyo. And then if she wants to go to the Super Bowl She's either got to leave straight after that final concert Or pretty much she has to leave after that concert To fly back to Las Vegas for the Super Bowl All in the same week It's a wild week

I mean the other option is You just watch it on telly Yeah, I mean the great coverage, right? Yeah, great coverage Sometimes better than when you're at an actual game Because you get to see all the different angles There you go, bathroom, stuff like that A lot of people, yeah, really concerned about it

There was a great tweet yesterday The big game and also the big concert on the same night Is the plot of High School Musical That was the plot of the It is They had the big game She couldn't do both And what are they going to do?

You know, that's what happens Also, poor Usher Like, that's what happens. So, yeah. Also, poor Usher. Like, he's doing the Super Bowl halftime show. No one cares. Everyone's just completely forgotten about it. There was even talks of like, could Taylor take over from Usher?

So he sits down. And they're like, well, that's not going to happen. We've booked the poor fella. He's bloody been rehearsing. Yeah, she's not going to do that. I was listening to a podcast yesterday and they had a great little theory that imagine at the end of the game they win the Chiefs and then he gets down on one knee.

Travis Kelsey in front of everyone. They've only been going out for a couple of months, haven't they? But imagine. It's too early. Too early. Wouldn't that just send the world the world would explode.

And the wedding ring is the Super Bowl ring. Oh, yeah. And she holds it up. Yeah. And they pose for a photo. And it becomes the billboard campaign for the NFL.

What do you reckon about the theory? Enty, who we're talking to very shortly, he's got a theory that it's all just a G up. Well, I think he thought that at the start, but I feel like he's backtracking a little bit on that. The NFL wanted to promote the sport. They got her in there. They're like, which one of the players can we offer up to you as a bit of meat?

She's promoting the Eras Tour. Not that that needed any assistance, but I don't know, maybe. This reminds me of that time where we all got whipped up into a frenzy about bloody Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga from The Star Is Born. And everyone said that they were together. Yeah, they were. You better hook up. You better dump your wife

Bradley Cooper and start dating the lady who was acting with you. But they did break up. But they didn't hook up. They didn't hook up. Because they were acting. They were doing a great job.

This is not an acting thing. I don't think this is. I mean surely they wouldn't Taylor Swift doesn't need any more publicity. But he's not her type. Yeah. She likes like

English cute dudes. Well this isn't And he's like a big American jock. Maybe she needs a big old beef cake. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now I was quite excited to tell you guys about a hack that I discovered over the holiday period

that involves that if you've got some people around and you've got like a platter or some food, then you can get the little thing out of the microwave that the circular sort of glass thing is sitting on. The plate. Yeah, that twirls around. You get the other thing, the plate that makes it twirl, and you can put your platter on that, and it spins around like your own little Lazy Susan. It's amazing.

That's great. It's a great hack. And I love you dearly. I love you dearly and your hack. But are you not offering like the world's tiniest lazy Susan, like putting a tiny little platter on and how lazy are the people that they can't just reach over to the other side of the cheese platter board? Well, the platter can be big.

We've got quite a big platter at home that we usually use. Oh, you've got a big platter. Yeah, so it's still quite a big platter that my wife's dad had made. So, yeah, it was quite a wooden one. Yeah, so it was one of those. So I thought it was a good trick. I was like, oh, this hack's going to blow everyone out of the water. Be the living everyone.

And then Megan's like, oh, I had a hack that went on Ellen. And I was like, oh, I can't compete with that. Well, if Ellen was still on air, maybe she would see your lazy Susan hack. No, she'd probably say the same thing as you. How lazy is everyone? I mean, Susan was lazy. She was lazy. Well, if it makes you feel any better, this was in 2020,

so this was like lockdown. So she was probably short of content. Right. Because remember, she was doing her shows from her house, and there was probably not a lot to talk about. Hard to bully people from your house, too. Hard to bully your staff when you're at home alone. She's since been cancelled.

So you did a hack? I did. Shall I explain to you what staff when you were at home alone. She's since been cancelled. So you did a hack? I did. Shall I explain to you what it is? Yeah. So basically when you're shopping for shoes online, you can make yourself a little cutout of yourself and put it on top of the shoes. So you print it out like a picture of yourself?

Yeah. Yeah, like you can cut it out so you've got a little figurine of yourself. With your feet missing. And then you can put the little cutout on the shoes on the screen

on your laptop. So you get to see what it looks like on you. Yeah. Great hack, great hack. If you don't mind people judging you for wandering around

with a mini cutout of a footless version of yourself. It's a great hack. You can put yourself next to famous people as well. What would I look like dating Pete Davidson?

Or just hanging out and things like that. So this got on Ellen and it got played to you on the radio. Have a listen to this. I've noticed that because we can't go anywhere, everyone's shopping online, but it's hard to tell what something looks like. Can't try it on. Take a look at this video of something a woman invented to make it easier to shop online. There's one woman out there in New Zealand.

She's being hailed as a hacking hero for her method of shopping for shoes. Megan Pappas printed out a mini version of herself and then holds it above each style of her shoes that she's considering on buying. Are you trolling me? So that was you screaming in the background with joy. Yeah. Because this was playing out on Ellen. I was gutted she didn't say my name.

A woman in New Zealand. Megan Puppers. You're a woman in New Zealand, though. Yeah. Yeah. That is the lofty heights of hacks. But do you know, like, there's so many. I've had a very long career, and that's the one thing that's made me get on Alan.

Oh, I hate you got on Alan. A little cut out. Yeah. A hack worthy of Alan. That's pretty impressive. Why don't you just do the normal thing when you're internet shopping and assume you're going to look as good as the professional model wearing the clothes and then when it turns up, realise that is far from the case.

It's not going to happen. So do you have a hack worthy of Ellen if she was still around anymore like Megan? Like just a little hack? I mean, you wouldn't have thought when you came up with that one that it was going to make it all the way to an American television. No, not at all. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We wanted to know your best hack after Megan's hack for buying shoes.

Got all the way on Ellen DeGeneres' show. Do a little cut out of yourself and hold it up to some shoes online. Do you still do it now? No, not so much. It was in lockdown when we were just stuck at home with nothing else to do. Yeah, we did some wild stuff, even cutting out little mini versions of yourself. Well, speaking of which, I've got a great hack. You want five easy days off work. Just say you tested positive for COVID. Does that still get you five days off? I don't know if it

gets you five anymore. No. What's it doing now? I think it's kind of just like... You might get a morning off. You might. When you're here after lunchtime. Kim, welcome. Hi, how are you? We're talking about your best hacks and you've got one for us.

Is it worthy of going on the TV show, Alan? Oh, could do, I suppose, yes. We'll start the TV show back up. Just for this hack. Just for the hack. We'll see how good it is. All right, what is it?

So, on a wooden table, any white stains that you see on the table from heat marks, you pop a white cloth or pillowcase on there and you iron it, and the white mark comes off. Oh, really? I've seen those on wooden tables and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. So, no, it was a risky few seconds there.

You're like, this is either going to make things better or a whole lot worse. Yeah. So more heat on top of something that's already caused damage from heat. Removes the heat stain. Yeah. Jeez, you ran the gauntlet there, didn't you? Shoving an iron on the wooden table. Who told you about this hack?

I think it was one that popped up on Facebook or something like that. I thought I'd give it a whirl. Social media. You're on a social media hack. Well done. It worked for you. Are you bringing back Ellen for that hack then? Yeah.

It'll be a short season. They've got the one hack and then they'll... Yeah. Thank you so much, Kimberly. No problem. Lynn, welcome to the show. You want to share your hack? Oh sure. I hate radio.

I'll go all stupid but I'll try my best. You hate radio? Not a great time to say that Lynn. I hate thinking on radio. Yeah, not a great time to come on here and say you hate radio. Ben, how does that make you feel? I'm not live now am I? Oh mate, we're here. We're here. Megan got a hack on Alan so we can't beat

that but what's your hack? So my hack is to turn the toaster on its side and I put pipelets in it and toast the pipelets. And then when they're done, I put golden syrup and butter on them. Does that look like a bit of a fire hazard, potentially, turning the toaster on its side? I don't know. I don't know.

I don't leave it unattended. No. That hack brought to you by its side? I don't know. I don't know. I don't leave it unattended. No. That hack brought to you by the New Zealand Fire Service. Yeah. What else do you put in your toaster, Lynn? Yeah, I've tried hash browns, but that's real messy. You could chuck anything in there. It's like, put it on its side, it becomes a toaster sandwich maker, doesn't it?

Well, it does pretty much. I wouldn't put, like, anything with cheese in it, though. Someone in the work kitchen, remember? Was it here or the old place Someone in the work kitchen, remember? Was it here or the old place we used to work at, Ben? What's steak? Oh, that was on the... Yeah, the toasted sandwich maker, wasn't it? Yeah.

No, inside a toast. It must have been the old place. Yeah, steak in there and all these steak juice dripped out of the bottom. Yuck. Yeah. Grim. Now, that would be a fire hazard, surely.

Yes, you're right. Don't you come on and get in high and mighty about fire hazards, Lynne. Oh, Lynne, thank you very much for your hack. You're very welcome. Have a great day, guys. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. A lot of kids back to school yesterday or over the next week. It seems to be a staggered start to the school year for a lot of kids.

Well, your kids don't kick in until next week, do they? One's tomorrow and then one's next week. And you left your warehouse stationery running a little too late in my opinion there being stuck in there for an hour and a half. It was heaving.

It was definitely heaving warehouse stationery this week. They're doing great business. It's just good. Now, we started something that Producer Taylor actually suggested. Reading out our mundane text messages

from our phones in a sexy manner. I mean, texts, it's a form of communication that can be just easily misinterpreted, can't it really? Like, where are you? You said you were just going for one beer. Sometimes I read that as, stay out for another four or five hours. Have another six beers, you know? Easily misinterpreted. Are they? And we're all married,, you know, sometimes the text messages,

you know, they're not quite as spicy as, you know, maybe they could be at the start of a relationship. They're more mundane. So we thought we'd sort of sexy them up a little bit by reading the mundane texts in a sexy style. Have you sent legitimately spicy texts, Megan, Puppers? Like ever? Yeah.

Not for a long time. Read those out instead. Let's just scrap the segment. Let's re-scrap. You said you've never sent a sexy text. I told you. Why? Because I fear that I'm going to missend it to someone. Yeah, that would be embarrassing, wouldn't it? Imagine if so many group messages Ben, we've got, you know.

And I'm not tech savvy. Maybe you should send one to your wife. There of me at 7 00 a.m on a wednesday yeah well i could find one what do you want me to say to her that's what i'm saying what would you say benjamin me oh don't put this on me i'm not You flirt with my wife, Ben. All right, back on track. Let's get this back on track. Okay, read out the last text message you sent. Well, these are texts from my wife I've just gone through. I'm trying to make them a little bit sexier. Can you send me through the New Zealand Herald article?

You have premium access. Premium access does sound quite... Does. And he does have premium access. Yeah, I know quite... Does. Premium access. And he does have premium access. Yeah, I joined it from working at the same company. What have you got from your wife? Jennifer, my wife, she said...

She's just decided to get things all hot and spicy with, why did you wash the sheets? And I picked up on her vibes and I fired back with, because the dog vomited on them. Good on you for washing the sheets. Keeping things alive. Megan, what have you got from Andrew, your husband? I got you a surprise. It's a

watermelon. OMG. Nothing quite like a surprise watermelon. They're expensive. This one actually from my wife could sound a little bit like sexy. This is a we need to drop back

the wind blowing machine to Dave. Yeah. What the fan? No it's a it's a thing that I got off my mate Dave it picks up leaves.

Do you mean the leaf blower? Yeah. No but it picks them up but not and it doesn't work that well to be honest. It's easy to pick them up by hand. Thanks for your wind blowing machine, Dave.

Thanks for nothing. Here's one that I actually tried to set the mood light with on the sexy texties. Just finished cleaning the toilets. Managed to get rid of all that green stuff that was leaking out. Jen then replied back with, oh, that's good. Can you please order two ham and cheese pizzas? Do you know though, like

you said you clean the toilets, like that turns a lot of women on. You've done a chore that they don't have to do? Good on you, sister. And I won't even wash my hands. And finally Megan, Let's wrap this up

Sexy Texties What have you got from Andrew? Don't forget the milk Get a big one There we go Oh there we go Yesterday We went to the cafe

The lovely Jono Shouted us coffees I actually offered to Not very I wasn't very assertive about it. I was like, oh no, I don't mind. Jono was like, I got this one. I was like, well, who am I to argue? But you actually did something that weirded me out a little bit.

They said, can we take a name for the coffees? And you said, yeah, Jonathan. I was like, what? My full birthday. Yeah. But apparently that's when you have to yeah, Jonathan. I was like, what? My full birthday. Yeah. But apparently that's when you have to give a name, that's what you always say. Yeah.

Jonathan Richard Bryan. Make any bookings. Yeah, right. I like to keep things official. Yeah, you do. Why don't you say that it's a lot less effort just to say Jono? But to be honest, I've never really called myself Jono in my personal life. Only when I started in radio. Right. Everyone's like, yo, you can be old. Hey, Jono. Whack be honest, I've never really called myself Jono in my personal life. Only when I started on the radio.

Everyone's like, yo, you can be old. Hey, Jono. So you'd always say Jonathan everywhere you'd... When I was Johnny, and then JP, J-Dog, J-Pumper, you know all the great nicknames. I had J-Juice. Or the big one. J-Bomber.

But yeah, I like to say Jonathan. I don't know why. I don't know why. But yeah, I like to say Jonathan. I don't know why. I don't know why. It makes me feel awkward to say Jono. What does your wife call you? She just says J. Oi.

She says J. J, right. Yeah. It was just weird that you chose Jonathan of all things. I know. Or like Johnny or John. I could see you looking at me. Unusually.

And you said, what was that all about? When you're looking at me, it doesn't scream a Jonathan, does it? No. Not at all. What am I screaming at? It's not a Jonathan. Yeah, more of a Johnny. JP. J-Bomber? Yeah, J-Bomber.

I don't know if you're a J-Bomber situation. Do you go to a cafe and say Benjamin is your name? No. Even though that is my full name, that's my name. No. I never really call myself Benjamin. The good thing is you can go into

different alliances. So if Jonathan causes an absolute nightmare at a dinner out, who is that idiot? Is that somebody called Jonathan coming in here

throwing meals out around the table complaining about how the steak was cooked? I feel like that's a Jono thing, not a Jonathan. Jonathan would behave himself. Now I found this,

now I get a little bit of grief for committing to Apple Music and not Spotify, but I've just made my decision years ago and it works with my phone, so I've carried on. I'm with you. Who's been giving you grief? It wasn't Rita Ora, was it? Niche. Every time you have people over and they like music and I'm playing you. Who's been giving you grief? Every time you have a... It wasn't Rita Ora, was it?

It's niche. Every time you have people over and they're like, music, and I'm playing it off my phone, and then you go, oh, you decide. You know, sometimes you make a playlist with people there over the night, and people are like, oh, Apple Music. You know, they always scoff at Apple Music.

Like, what's wrong with Apple Music? It's just a bit niche, isn't it? I don't even know if I've ever used Apple Music. It is niche. It's never done me wrong. Good on it? I don't even know if I've ever used Apple Music. It is niche. It's never done me wrong. Good on you for supporting the little guy. What do you roll with?

Spotify. Now, is that a whole female thing? Do all females roll with Spotify? So anyway, I found on Apple Music there was a place that makes, you know, these people that make lullabies,

children sounding lullabies. I-sounding lullabies. I mean, you guys are both parents. But they make pop song versions of it, and I thought it would be quite fun. And they haven't told the original artist, so no one spread this. Probably not, because they're all on Spotify, the original artist. They don't know about this. It's our little Apple Music secret. And so I thought I'd play a little game right now.

I'm going to play you some songs. So these are lullaby versions of pop songs, popular songs. And between the two of you, who is the first to guess what the song is? Okay. Okay, here's the first one.

Here we go. Nailed it. I'm sorry, Miss Jackson. You were very confident at the start, too, Joy. I was like, oh. And it wasn't the song I thought it was. Well done, Megan. That was Miss Jackson from OutKast.

Okay, here's number two. Got it. Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen. Wow. This was what I was just about to say. Say it rather than got it. Internally, I had it. They're really cool, though.

That was a good get from you, Megan. Well done. Okay, Megan's up. That's good, though. I've got two more for you. Oh, it's a competition. Yeah, well, yeah. Why do you think I'm yelling?

I'm sorry. Okay, next one. See ya. Check thrills. Oh, she's good, isn't she? She's bloody good. She is wiping the floor with me I won't lie

3-0 And can she get A total clean sweep Here we go Here's the dead rubber The last one When I'm in need Gold digger

Kanye Sing the whole thing Commit to the lyrics Gold digger. Card game. Yours? Yeah. Old digger. Sing the whole thing. Commit to the lyrics. How does it do this? But... Oh, okay. It's very gentle, isn't it? Aren't they gorgeous?

They are lovely, aren't they? They're huge. Like an audio sedative, those things. There we go. Thanks to Ben's niche, Apple Music. Yeah, we might bring that back again, the lullaby game. What's the point? She bloody came out.

We'll get someone else to play against Megan. Someone decent. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. You were saying earlier this morning, Megan, in the news, we're the third least corrupt country in the world. Yeah, Denmark taking out number one spot. I actually don't know who's number two, so don't ask me. But it seemed like it was voted on by people, by the countries themselves.

I mean, you're never going to say, put a hand up, we're the most corrupt. And who do we pay off to become third? Yeah. We're the corruption line. Who's the most corrupt country in the world? Let's have a guess. What do you think? Chuck it out there. North Korea. You're going to say North Korea? Don't come for me.

Yeah, well, yeah. Russia. Oh, that could have been a good guess. That makes. Yeah, well, yeah. Russia? Oh, that was a good one. Yeah, that makes a bit of sense, doesn't it? Ben was too afraid to name any countries for fear of a racism scandal. Exactly, exactly. We'll just say New Zealand. No, even New Zealand I can't say. Actually, I was just telling you guys this before Christmas,

which was a while ago, but I had mentioned it to you guys that I went on a Christmas party. Now, I do some work from time to time for the alternate commentary collective which is you know they're called the acc they're kind of like a sports commentary but not really talking about sport it's a bit more fun uh you know and so they had organized a big christmas party and i like everyone come along we're like this is cool now last year they'd gone out in this massive launch i'd seen photos of it looked impressive you know like it's they were like oh they can it. It looked impressive. You know, like it's, they were like, oh, you can go biscuitting.

You can jump off the back. It's just cool. This is a flash launch. Drinks and all that. So you don't find it out on a boat party. Yeah, it's a boat party launch. So in your head, you're like three level, massive launch. I'd seen the pictures of last year.

It looked incredible. You should have heard producer Joel and Ben going on it. They're like, oh, planning their day. They're like, oh, big boat party going on and on about it. Yeah, we're very excited about it. Very excited. Had your bikini sorted. Yeah.

And then we turned up at the water and they went, oh, here's the boat. Now, I thought, you know, because it's quite a jokey, you know, little crew, that I was like, oh, that's a good joke. Because the boat that they pointed out was like an interesting looking boat. It was sort of had like an area that was all sort of covered up. And I was like, oh, what sort of boat is this? And they were like, oh, this is the boat that takes the fuel. The Somalian refugees.

Well, probably. Under a tarpaulin. Yeah. This is the boat that takes fuel out to other boats. It's a fuel boat. So the middle of it's all filled with fuel that takes it out. They're like, oh, this is the boat we're going on. I'm like, oh, yeah, great joke.

And then everyone started getting on this boat. I was like, oh, listen, they've really committed to this joke. Maybe we're getting on this boat and they're going to travel out. Take us to the launch. To the launch. The boat's so big it can't dock. They're going to fuel up the launch and then away we'll go. No, none of that happened.

That was the boat. That was the boat. And they were like, hey, a few health and safety rules guys no cigarettes no light any open flames it was obviously like a lot of fuel in the middle of the boat and you couldn't really stand all together because it was quite you know the middle was all taken up by all the fuel so you sort of had to stand around the outside like i didn't see joel for about two hours he was standing like 10 meters up the other way there's alarm bells where they're like, hey, please no one light a cigarette.

You're basically on a floating petrol station forecourt. Yeah, pretty much. Having a party. It was a lot of fun. I mean, we did enjoy it, but it wasn't quite the boat party that I had imagined. Cost of living has hit the ACC. If you had lined up the Titanic

and a fuel boat with 22 drunk people and said which will end in a maritime disaster I would still pick the fuel boat and I know what happened to the Titanic The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast It's time to talk about famous people who couldn't care less about our opinions Spilling the tea on Hollywood's

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Yes. It was a script. No. His identity is a secret. But his stories have been proven right time and time again. This is NT. Joining us from Hollywood, it's been a week since the fallout of Barbie being snubbed by the Oscars. ENT, what's the latest?

Margot Robbie was not going to win. It doesn't really have anything to do with the patriarchy. The Academy voters don't vote for comedies. Ever. It just doesn't happen. The more important award is the fact that Margot Robbie is a producer. She is the one who put together Barbie. She is the one who made hundreds on hundreds of millions of dollars being the producer of it and putting it all together and hiring Greta Gerwig and hiring America Ferreira and hiring Ryan Gosling. And if

it does win for Best Picture, she's the one who gets to go up and get the award. Greta Gerwig, you know, should she have been nominated for director? Possibly. There's a lot of people who don't like her, but did she get nominated for award yes for adapted screenplay which is you know just as important almost as the director award i don't think that ryan gosling you know should even nominate and maybe america ferreira deserves it i hope that she wins and she's got a really strong chance of winning that's that's how comedy wins is in the best supporting category so it's never going to be the lead okay does anyone you like the general public do they care about the oscars you know like you know because it does seem like a lot of movies that i haven't seen or i haven't heard of

there's it used to be probably the second highest rated show after the super bowl back when they're before cable tv or anything like that. But now, no. I think people kind of watch it, like I said, for the outfits and stuff. But now it's all on social media, so you really don't even have to watch the pre-show. You don't have to pay attention to Ryan Seacrest. You know, it is funny.

And whenever Angelina Jolie goes, because she hates Ryan Seacrest with a passion, the efforts that she does to make sure that he doesn't come into her vision. It's very low rated. All these movies that win, nobody knows. They tried to counter that by nominating more movies. So then if Barbie is nominated, oh, well, maybe now more people will watch. But Barbie is not going to win.

It's going to be some movie that nobody's heard of. I tell you what, if you promised me every year a movie star would walk on stage and slap the host, I'd be tuning in. If you could guarantee a slap a year, that would get viewers, ain't it? Yeah, you know, if it's who's going to be the slap victim this year, you know, something like that. Yeah. And then they could bet on it. I like it.

What did Ryan Seac. What did Angelina, what did Ryan Seacrest do to Angelina Jolie to bloody get a frosty reception? Yeah. You know, for whatever reason, she does not like him

and he has tried to get her, every time, you know, she's there, he has tried to interview her and she always refuses. Wow. Have you been to the Oscars

before, Auntie? I have been to the place. I've been there the day before. I have friends who are seat fillers, but no. It's almost impossible to go to the Oscars. It's a very small theatre. The seat fillers, so they're the people who have to,

when they go off to the lavatory, the movie stars, they go and fill the seats so the theatre doesn't look empty. Yeah, it's more of a, I mean, they definitely do it there. It's more of a thing at, say, the Golden Globes where there's a bar and people are drinking and having to go to the bathroom a lot. Can you potentially end up sitting by Leonardo DiCaprio

as a seat filler? Yep, 100%. Yep, they have casting calls for it. So you couldn't be an ugly person. You know, if you guys come over here I can get you a casting call today. Really? You could go that way.

That'd be a great mission. Try to be a seat filler at the Oscars. That would be great. Fair to say I'm not baking it past the casting process, but we'll give it a bash, E.T. Have your friends sat next to the big players? They sat next to George Clooney. That's good.

I'd be happy. They sat next to Heidi Klum. They sat next to a Clooney That's good, I'd be happy They sat next to Heidi Klum Yeah, I mean they sat next to a whole bunch of people Well I don't know if you could Trust us to do that job to be honest NT, hey thanks for your time mate, we'll catch up again this time next week Sounds good The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast

A couple weeks ago we had a bit of a rat Problem at home The problem was the cat brought in a rat that wasn't fully uh dead and the rat ran away inside the house caused a lot of still had a little bit of kick left in him yeah i came home that day from work and uh that your kids were like oh there's a rat in the house this morning i'm like well good it's out now and they went oh no we haven't found it that's the last thing you want to hear. Eventually we found it and we managed to get the rat outside. After it had been in the cupboard for most of the day, it was outside.

How did you remove it? Well, it ran around again. The dog's chasing it, the cat's chasing it. I managed to get a washing basket over the top of the rat. Nice work. And slowly sort of shuffle that towards the door. And then you sort of get it up over into the sliding doors. And now that went outside.

You've got so many rats in your property. I feel like the plague is about to kick off again. So quite paranoid about rats at home. You went jumping and hissing at them. Yeah, we did. There was a big rat outside. Oh, my God. So the dog was like looking under the couch last night for a long time.

Just the eyes set under the couch. And we're all like, uh-oh, uh-oh. And all we're like, there's a rat under the couch. Because the dog was just like, there was something under the couch, something they wanted. So we turned the couch upside down and all the family around it. And everyone's got theories. They're like, it's moving.

The kids see the underside of the couch. You're moving through the material. It's moving. There's a family of rats. All these theories going around. We're like, oh, God, there could be a breeding ground for rats in the house so we carried the couch outside and then i'm like am i going to do it am i going to do it family am i going to cut with a knife the bottom of this couch on the piece the piece of cloth the material i'm like that's the only option

we've got we don't want to am i doing this family yeah we're like rats in the couch we don't even want to know what's in there though if, if there is something in there? No. Just burn it. Everyone's there. We're all looking. I cut it open very, like, not. I wasn't brave. Like, I was a little, eh.

And then I'd stand back. And then I'd, eh. Instead of standing back, I was very tentative about it. Who knows? Did that move? Did that move? Everyone's like, it's moving. It's moving. Don't touch me.

It could be a rat. Yeah. So we're doing that. I was slowly cutting it open. And then nothing happened. We sort of tipped the couch back, nothing happened. And I looked back inside again very tentatively. Nothing, nothing until a tennis ball fell out of the couch

and then the dog went nuts. The dog ran around the tennis ball and away it went. And then I was like, oh, great. Well, there's no rats, great. But I've just ripped the whole underside of the couch. Like just, yeah, so. Well, at least you found what the dog was after so the couch now has material dangling off it all coming forward and it's yeah so no rats in the house but the couch is kind of ruined yeah so that was yeah that was worth it well I guess in some ways I can sleep at night knowing

there's not more rats a family of rats that was. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, speaking of, you know, you're trying to, you're doing the reverse of me. The kids have got me into Olivia Rodrigo and now I'm flying the flag for her. Sobbing to driver's license? Yeah. I'm doing the opposite.

I'm trying to get my three-year-old son into some cool music. The only actual songs that we would play that he, apart from, you know, like animated songs, is he likes Taylor Swift's Shake It Off. Oh, yeah. Nice. You're trying Olivia Rodrigo.

But he's not really into like actual music. I have a question. Can I ask you a question? Yeah. Name Megan's kids. Bastion and... I mean, my daughter, everyone gets stuck on her name. Yeah. I did ask a question? Yeah. Name Megan's kids. Bastion and... I mean, my daughter, everyone gets stuck on her name. Yeah, I did ask that the other day.

What's her name, Jono? This is what I was asking. Are you? Are you? Yeah. There you go. I was going to say, Katrina? Katrina.

I can't even imagine a baby called Katrina. Anyway, so what happened to poor old Basti? Basti. So, yeah, he's into Bluey and we've got the Bluey soundtrack playing over and over. It's a bit painful. But there's one song that's quite good and it's got like a na-na-na-na-na-na aspect to it. Right. And he loves it.

And I was like, you know, that reminds me of the Beatles. Hey Jude. I was like, this is my moment to get him into the Beatles. So I was trying to make hey jude happen what about the beatles Paw Patrol Paw Patrol Yeah, Paw Patrol song Paw Patrol song So yeah, even through your great rendition of it I know, right?

And I thought, na-na-na-na I was persistent Because he just wanted He likes playing the Paw Patrol theme song Over and over again Which is horrendous So I carried on And I was like, I'll get into more of the song

Maybe he'll enjoy it Hey Jude Hey Jude Got him. Do you like Hey Jude? I love how I'm singing my song and he's like, but have you heard Paw Patrol? It's a great song. He's right. It's a great song.

Do you think maybe you could have let the Beatles do the heavy lifting on the singing? I'm trying. He just wasn't into it. I even tried some David Bowie and he was just not even for that at all. But it was like an hour later and I was still trying to make the Beatles happen and it didn't work. Na-na-na-na. Hey, Jude.

Na-na-na-na. Na-na-na-na. Na-na-na-na. Shut up. It's a big na-na-na-na from him, that's for sure. Na na na Na na na Na na na Shut up It's a big na na na na from him, that's for sure Again, they did a bang up job of recording that song So you tried to get your son into cool music I pushed real hard

And I imagine that happens to every parent trying to do that now Or even when you were young Your parents tried to get you into something that maybe you weren't really into Force their own likes and hobbies onto you sometimes or even when you were young, your parents tried to get you into something that maybe you weren't really into. Force their own likes and hobbies onto you sometimes. Well, you end up living vicariously, don't you? As an adult, you realise what a failure you become. So you're like, well, maybe I've got a second chance here. Do it.

Bully. Bully the children into something. I mean, Ben, your mum was hugely disappointed you didn't become Jack Tame in the broadcasting. They got me to learn violin at one stage. I was like, I hate everything about this. Can you play any now? No, not at all.

I just remember going, why? I have no interest in violin. But anyway, yeah. But good on you. And there was someone in the class who was amazing. I'm like, well, teach that kid. That's your violin kid. That's great.

She's incredible. Yeah. Oh, 800 the hits. What did your parents try to force on you when you were growing up? Sometimes it pays dividends. You look at Michael Jackson, Tiger Woods. William's sisters. The William's sisters.

They all went on to huge success. All you have to do is rob a child of their childhood. No long-lasting effects. The Hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. The kids get back to school. And now, if they're not already, it will be over the next week. And we wanted to know this morning, what are you trying to get your kids into?

Or maybe what did your parents try and get you into as a kid? Nothing brings me as much joy as watching parents pounding up and down the sideline of a Ripper rugby game. Just screaming in there. The four-year-olds are just doing fortnight dances and picking their noses yeah yeah but you have huge aspirations the failed athletes yeah you got another chance at life there ben are you forcing anything upon oh my kids i did try for a wee bit i decided tennis was going to be the game earlier on i think i got swept up in a king

richard yeah in that phase i bought tennis racket For my daughter Sienna Went to some lessons And then Midway through It wasn't really for her You know She didn't mind it But at the same time I was like Maybe that's something

That maybe is not Should be her dream No but that's when you go This is not for you This is for me Okay Yeah True

Okay let's get Natasha on For Whangarei Welcome Thank you Welcome to you guys Thank Thank you. Welcoming to everybody. Your parents, what did they force upon you? My mum's aspiration was for

us to eat Brussels sprouts when we were kids. That's a bad branding Brussels sprouts. I don't mind the Brussels sprouts. But I think back in the day, was your mum just boiling them? Yeah. Like over, like... Yeah, they weren't the best and we had to eat up the far up to five brussels sprouts for dinner and if we didn't eat them at dinner they would still be breakfast and they end

up going like a greeny gray color i think the problem is they put them on the same time they put on like the roast meat or something and then an hour and a half later the brussels sprouts are well cooked yeah they were very, they were very well cooked. And yeah. But the funny thing is, I love them now as an adult. You can bully your children into doing stuff that you want them to do. You can bully

your taste buds into enjoying things as well. Do you remember the old silver beet? Just a big old soggy, soggy green silver. Again, boiled. There was no other way to cook veggies you'd end up with a literal puddle on your plate

yeah next to the corned beef the boiled corned beef put it in there maybe some mashed potatoes that was a standard dinner stock standard

just boil the hell out of anything alright Natasha go and have a wonderful day up north eh thank you you guys too. Okay, from the top of the north to the

south in Vicargill. Abby, you're on. Hey, how's it all going? We're doing well. What did your parents try and bully you into? Well, it wasn't really too much bullying, it was more that Dad, we grew up on Star Trek Next Generation. Right. Oh wow.

And ever since growing up on it, it's like every other captain is inferior to Captain Picard. Oh, so you're a big fan. You got into it. You lost us with the jargon. I'm not really a big fan, but I will happily sit down and watch the next generation. Any other ones, I'm like, nah.

Oh, right. So you love the old school. That's good because I made my kids watch all the Lord of the Rings movies recently. So I'm like, nah. Oh, right, so you love the old school. That's good, because I made my kids watch all the Lord of the Rings movies recently, so I'm like, did I just do what? But it's good that you've grown to love it. Oh, yeah, I actually really enjoy The Next Generation. I won't sit

down on my own to watch it, but if my dad or my husband's watching it, I'm like, yeah, okay, I can do this. What about the movies with Chris Pine? That's the only Star Trek I've ever got into. I think I went to go see it once at the movies, and I'm like, yeah, no, it's all right. No, no, it's got his next generation.

That's right, Captain Picard. Don't like the next generation, ironically, of Star Trek. Just like the old generation. I feel like the Trekkies, they're bloody peak nerd, haven't they? The Trekkies. You've got Star Wars. They're safe for general public consumption. Yeah, same-ish.

Same-ish. But in terms of sci-fi, when you've got the Trekkies, you're like, well, that's the heroin addict of the sci-fi world. Yeah, you're right. You love your work, Abbie. Go and have a wonderful day. Appreciate it. You too. The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Now, sometimes, um, I'm going to lie, it frightens me what pops up in my algorithm. Okay, in my internet algorithm,

like Instagram algorithm. You were showing us the other day, you're like, do you get all these videos of Joe Rogan? And I'm like, no,

none of us are getting these Joe Rogan videos. Yeah, this crazy new thing where it's like, it looks like Joe Rogan's interviewing someone on a show,

but it's voiced over with like AI that sounds like Joe Rogan going, have you ever been to casino.net? And I'm like, no, but Joe Rogan's talking about it. Maybe I shouldn't. Then his guest is like, oh, man, yeah, my bro, he went on to casino.net. He won a million dollars. And Joe Rogan's like, no way. Definitely click on that.

And then you start to see that their lips aren't moving. They're quite matching up, yeah. But yeah, no, so that frightened me. But there's certainly some days where I'm like, I need to officially retire from the internet. Yesterday was one of them, okay? Up pops this video, and it's for, this is a legit commercial for a furniture store in America.

Now, I would just love to know what events had taken place prior to this for them to have to roll out this advertising campaign. Can't we all just get along? At the Red House Furniture, we can. I'm Richard, a.k.a. Big Head. I work at the Red House, and I'm black. I like pumping iron and pumping furniture into people's homes. I'm black and I love the Red House. I'm white and I love the Red House.

I'm a black woman and I love the Red House. I am white and the Red House is for me. Look at this sofa. It's perfect for a black person or a white person. At the Red House, where black people and white people buy furniture. No. And Hispanic people, too. And Hispanic people, too. He tags that on the end.

Now, I don't know. Through that whole creative process, did no one go, hey, should we just focus less on the race of the people buying the furniture and more on the furniture? I feel like they were already caught up in their name being a color you know and then they were like hey we'll go with the color theme oh like white red yeah and it was like well no then you're like oh geez what about oh they definitely in the end they missed out some key demos but then you don't want to be inclusive of name all that just say it's for every it's for everyone it's for everyone or It's furniture for everyone.

Or maybe just don't say. It doesn't matter. Just say these are good couches. Yeah, let the couch sell itself. You look at the Big Save commercials and you're like, well, damn, we nailed it. We nailed our furniture commercials over here. There's going to be a Big Save Lily any day.

Yeah, they've got Lily.