Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: A Listener Jumped On Her Ex Boyfriends Car...

Episode Date: June 21, 2023

Wom was not happy when her BF cheated on her! How To Dad talks banning phones from school... Jono had a waving dilemma 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. Big recovery had to be made in a crowded cafe across the road. I'll hand it over to you. What happened? I went in there to get a hot drink, and I was just sitting on the chair while I was waiting for it, and I leapt back on something, and then I just heard a loud noise. And it all happened in a bit of a blur but this large painting huge painting was was starting to come off the wall down to and I just kind of like I didn't know what it was but I was trying to put my arm up to stop

it without looking what it is to try and stop it still things crashed on the ground and all sorts of stuff I think I saved the main painting yeah but other ornaments came crashing down yeah and you you came over and helped me and so i couldn't even see what the heck the thing i still don't even know what the painting was off no uh it was the mona lisa actually so a little bit of a touch-up job required there yeah but the person behind the counter she was like oh just just dangle it over the it was like covering you know when you're in prison and those prisoners hack away at an escape hole with a spoon or something like shawshank redemption or something yeah and they would put that over to cover the hole though it was covering something

yeah i was just covering something behind there because it was in an unusual location the painting and i didn't expect to lean on it when i went back and it definitely wasn't as secure as maybe i thought it would shoulder height painting is never a good height so it came crashing down with a whole lot of stuff in the store and it was it's quite embarrassing you make a scene everyone try you can tell everyone in the cafe they're looking but they try not to look they're definitely looking they're all like looking and they're all whispering but they're trying not to look i'm like all eyes are on me yeah this is why i can never take you to the museum you're gonna bloody run your caboose into the tea reeks come yeah falling down but moments later i was like well i'm just gonna go to the loo and i went to the lavatory i ended up kicking their loud metal chair into the wall i look back at the lady she's like you want to

drive a car through the front window you two yeah i've been in the same position though ben i was in the chemist and i pushed my trolley into a whole whole stand of multivitamins a couple of months ago they came crashing down yeah multivitamins don't fall silently either no i can imagine very very noisy yeah and the worst thing is when people come over to help you like i know yesterday was just me but you know when if all those people came over then that's more and you apologize and they're like it's okay it's okay but it's not okay you know it's not okay but they're really helping you out first thing is you look for someone to blame don't you but there was no one in your immediate vicinity you could throw shade at I did have one instance because we do want to know on our 100 the hits or 4487 we ever caused a damage you know maybe

even the store like uh like I have all, Bo, I took him into Bunnings. Love Bunnings. And they have a, you can bring a dog into Bunnings policy. I was like, great. Wild policy. Wild policy. Give that a go. Firstly, the escalator just confused him a lot.

I can understand. Was this his first time on an escalator? First time on an escalator. And he was like, legs went on front, the back ones were like, whoa, whoa, whoa. He's like spread out. But anyway, we got through that. I lifted him up. We got inside.

Did you have to carry him up the escalator and i was talking to one of the wonderful uh team members in there in bunnings and it was about something and next to the dog and i could just hear this noise like like you know like like someone had just turned on a tap and i'm like uh-oh uh-oh the dog the dog's peeing uh and the person knows you know and it's just over like a little display unit. And I'm like, nah. And they knew, I knew, we all tried not to look at it. And then after that, I'm like,

I'm so sorry all these things have been peed on. To be fair though, this is on buddings. We love buddings. We do love buddings. But you know, if you want to let dogs wander around the aisles. Yeah, so I haven't brought them back to buddings. We haven't returned to buddings.

Oh, 800 the hits. This is what we want to open up. Most amount of damage you've caused. It could be in a store. It could be at work, in the office, wherever. 0800 The Hits, telephone number 4487. We've got some hell pizza for the most amount of damage to give away. You can get in touch with New Zealand's Breakfast.

We want to know the most amount of damage you've caused. Not necessarily. It doesn't have to be in a store. It could be at a workplace, the place you're working or at your house. I mean, someone may have put a digger through my house. I don't know. That might have happened. But we don't talk about that.

When is he going to get over the fact I put a digger through his house? You're right. I'm sorry. I shouldn't bring that up. It's like I want to cause hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage. Yeah, yeah, that's true. When does someone actually just let it go? No, Keevo, I'll talk about the painting that I managed to save yesterday

that quite knocked an ornament off or something in some serviettes. But,'ll keep, I'll talk about the painting that I managed to save yesterday that quite knocked an ornament off or something in some serviettes, but you know, we'll talk about that, that little amount of damage. You know, it's more recent. Yeah, exactly. We're going to go to Wendy. Welcome. Most amount of damage you've caused in store, Wendy? Hi, actually

it was my youngest sister and it was Christmas Eve and our family had had a stomach bug the rest of the house, and she hadn't caught it. But we were at the far end of the warehouse, and she goes, I don't feel well, and she just vomited. And I had to, like, screw her up and carry her, and just left, like, this trail of vomit.

Oh, no. No, like, those poor warehouse people don't get paid enough to deal with that. Yeah. Yeah. I had to go back in like an hour later to actually go get something, and there's just a trail of wet floor signs everywhere of mop trails. It was quite embarrassing. Oh, your poor sister, your poor people at the red shed, everyone.

Everyone. We're going to send you out some hell pizza. I hope your day's better than that one today. Thanks, yeah. Love your work. Lee, you're on. Welcome. How are you in Auckland this morning, Lee?

I'm going good. It was actually me and a workmate. You know the old postal boards that you have? We were putting a fence and showing the holes with a post-all bore. Yeah. And we picked out the fiber optic lines, the power, water. Oh, no. And we found that the fiber optics was $10,000. Oh.

So you drilled holes into the ground that went straight through cables? Yep. Oh, a $10,000 cable, too. Oh, my goodness. Why are cables so expensive? Yeah. Who pays for it? You work on insurance?

What happens there? Company pays for it. Company. Do you keep your job? Yeah. Oh, good on you, Lee. All right. Well done.

Keep up the great work, and we won't get you over to our place to drill a hole. We'll send you out some alpacas, Lee. Welcome, Wom. Wom from North Canterbury. You're on the air. Most amount of damage you caused. Well, good morning.

I ended up dating this fella and found out he was having an affair, so I was outside at the time, and I ended up jumping on top of his Toyota Corolla. I jumped all over the boat, all over the bonnet, all over the roof, and I kicked in every single panel. It was the greatest feeling in the world. It was awesome. But then later, did you have some regret?

Oh, we lasted three years. Wow, fiery. So you kept dating after this whole Corolla incident? Well, yeah, he made a promise, and I thought I'd give him a try. But no, after three years, I was just like, nah, dude, seriously, I just can't trust you wholly, you know? You're lucky I gave you three years.

Yeah, wow. And he's like, I can't trust you around my car, to be honest. Exactly. The trust is, how much did that cost to repair one? I don't know. I didn't ask him.

I wasn't bothered. There you go. He did it. He deserved it. That's right, Ben. Okay. You take that message. You ever do the dirty on on wombs you're going to jump all over your Hyundai

Something terrible happened to me yesterday Not as terrible as that obviously Very light compared but Someone was walking towards me They started waving I'm thinking this wave's directed at me. Yeah. I get my arm up and I give a lot of wave when I wave.

Eyeballing them. At some point I can see their eye lines just slightly off to the left. One of those situations. And you realize, we've all been there. Yeah. You realize, dear God, this wasn't fired towards me. And you kind of look behind there's someone behind you waving people are around they see it even the waver sometimes the waver catches your eye as

well and you can see the look of pity in their eyes they're like oh buddy that wasn't for you it's not for you but then they kind try and give you a half wave while still waving at their friend behind you it's amazing how embarrassing that is when you just wave. It's such a simple thing. You're like, oh, it wasn't for me. And then you're like, oh, shame, it wasn't for me. You wave goodbye to your dignity, don't you? When people see it as well.

Yeah. Happens all the time. And here we've got a big glass window which looks out into the foyer of the building. And a lot of the times we end up waving at people and they just give nothing back. And Producer Joel, you find a lot of joy when no end up waving at people and they just give nothing back and producer joel you find a lot of joy when no one waves back yeah to be fair no one waves at me either but yeah it's good to see my dad my dad kept voice would love a love a wave in the car but he had also he he got one where he'd toot he'd be driving he'd give a little like that someone be on the side of the

street and i'd look in the passenger seat and then he'd go to wave but then he'd pull down the you know the sun sort of, what are those things that protect you from the sun? Oh the visor. The sun visor. So he would just pull up and then I'd be looking straight at the person who's looking at me and I'm like I don't know this person. We clearly don't know each other but you've

tooted. What do you do in that situation? I don't know. You just stare blankly. And they stare blankly at me. You're like save me from this strange man. Pulls down the sun visor and has a laugh. So I was like, yeah, good on you, Dad. Yeah, anyway, it's the ultimate leveler, isn't it? Waving. The world's most simple act.

High risk, high reward stuff, mate. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Joining us right now is Jon Watson. You know him as How To Dad. He's got a new parenting podcast as well out on iHeartRadio with Clint Roberts. But he's on a bit of a mission to get rid of cell phones for kids, particularly at school. Good morning, Jordan.

Good morning. How are you? Lovely to have you on, Jordy. Banning cell phones in schools. Is this a really good idea? Because how else are the news sites going to put up the footage of those fights they have in the playground? That's a good point.

Maybe we still need to let them have GoPros. GoPros. You might get better footage of those fights they have in the playground. That's a good point. Maybe we still need to let them have GoPros. GoPros. You might get better angles of those fights. No, we don't want to see that. Are you saying kids shouldn't have phones full stop or just phones when they go into the schoolyard? Into school. It baffles me that there's kids at lunchtime and morning tea

that they're just hunched over a phone. You should be dropping them off at the office maybe if that's still a thing. You can pick it up at the end of the day. We all played marbles. We all played chatterings. We all played bull rush. We all interacted.

And now you've just got kids that are hunched over in a group, not even talking to each other, and on social media. It's weird. Like, human-to-human contact has really slowly faded off. And I agree. Take it back to the old school. The bull rush. The cane. Electroshock off. And I agree. Take it back to the old school. The bull rush. The cane.

Electroshock therapy. Gets results. Well, maybe that's a bit extreme. But it's interesting. Every school seems to have a different policy on it. Some will allow cell phones. Others will say you've got to leave them in your bag. Because obviously we gave our phone to the kids, our old phones,

when they got intermediate age. Did you clear it all out? Yeah, I'm sure I definitely cleared it all out. But making sure that, you know, the security, if they were walking, taking the bus, that sort of thing as well. But you're right, not really designed to use in the school grounds. Yeah. Another big kind of point that I was trying to talk about

in the little dad rant video I did, parents need to also embrace dumb phones, which are basically the phones that we all had when phones first came out. Blue Nokia that could only play Snake, can only call your mum or text your mum and dad, but there's none of the apps or the smartphone PS that you've got to deal with when you've got kids that are searching the internet and you have no idea what they're doing.

Oh, you've just created some tough conversations there. We're getting you a battler phone. You're, what? I want an iPhone. No, this one's great. You can play Snake and you can text and call. I know. But if we all go in together as a group, you're right. Because I, you know, Snapchat was a big one for my daughter.

Really wanted it and for a long time I resisted, you know, but then she felt like she was out of the friend group and out of those sort of things and you don't want to isolate your kid even more. So it's a tough debate for parents and kids. Yeah, it just sort of be tough, mate. My daughter, she's 10,

and I just had to pre-warn her in case she goes to school and everyone's like, your dad's got to get all the bloody phones back. I just say, hey, look, we've got no plan. In the next few years, probably not going to have a phone. And if you do, it's going to be one of those dumb phones.

You're not getting one with all the apps and stuff. You're going to give her two paper cups and a piece of string. That's how you'll communicate. How's she going to like your social media videos if she can't get onto Instagram and Facebook? She shouldn't be watching my social media videos. I'm thinking of just giving her each day a stack of kindling, newspaper, and if she needs me,

she can go to the school field and do smoke signals. Now, in theory, it's a great theory, will kids always beat the system? I think it's, the coolest feedback I've had since posting this video is teachers writing in saying, we're an intermediate that banned phones two years ago and the changes have been insane, have been the best thing ever. So I think there are schools that are doing it already.

There's a lot of schools that are umming and ahhing about it. And for me, if you're a principal, just pull the trigger. I see no positives in kids just hunched over phones during their school bit. So if they get their phone out right and you keep cool with it, you just chop their thumbs off. That's the punishment. Okay. Back to the old school. That's the punishment. Okay. That's the old school.

Electroshock therapy. Backstream again. Backstream. Oh, Jordan Watson, howdy, Dad. Thank you for that. Thank you for starting this very important conversation. Hey, sweet as. We're going to be talking about it on the podcast,

the Parenting Hangover, the episode that's out today. There you go. Jordan Watson, howdy, Dad. Social media superstar. Now, 0800. Going to chuck this out there. Have you go, Jordan Watson, how to dad, social media superstar, now 0800 the hats. Going to chuck this out there, have you banned phones completely from the house?

Oh right, for kids as well, you know, got rid of them entirely. Yeah. Okay, not just at schools, we're talking about

get rid of them from the house. Across the board. Oh, take it back to 1970, landlines, thanks. And how did that go down? I'd love to hear from you,

Nick. He's okay with kids bringing them to school and leaving them in the office or leaving them in their bag or whatever it is, but allowing kids to have cell phones on the school grounds, he's like, there's no good can come from that. But he's probably got a point. You could get those futuristic little bags that, you know,

bands get you to put your phones in at a concert. Oh, yeah. You went to Kevin Hart and they made everyone put phones in these little satchels. Yeah, and you carry them with them, and then afterwards they'd made everyone put phones in these little satchels. Yeah, and you carry them with them. And then afterwards, they'd unlock them afterwards. Government-funded satchels. That's what I'm calling for. And then you have to go back and get the school office to open them up.

At the end of the day, you could actually do that. Very expensive, though. It seems like a few costs. A few unnecessary costs. Oh, 800 hits, though. You know, banning them from school. Have you banned them from just every area of your life? Yeah. The phone. Minky, banning them from school. Have you banned them from just every area of your life? Yeah.

The phone. Minky, you're on. What up? How are you guys? Mate, we are a box of fluffies this morning, Minky. Cutest name I've ever heard on this radio show. Well, I must say, firstly, I've got two great fans of you guys in my car. It's my two daughters.

They love you guys. Oh, that's very funny. Love you. Love you, too. They love you guys. Oh, that's very kind. Love you. Love you too. Did anyone ever say to your mum that she sounds like Ursula Carlson? Might be a huge South African stereotype there. Yeah, I am.

I am South African. You're all correct. So you've got no phones in the household, Minky? Well, what my kids do, due to we had to immigrate, and we've got family in South Africa, but it's only on weekends, only for two hours, and then I'm taking it away. Damn, did you get a two-hour limit on the weekends?

Yep, they got a two-hour limit on the weekend because there's more things to do outside than on the phone in front of the TV and on the couch. So no technology is taking over. Nice. Now, is it hard to police that? Yeah, it is. It is.

The kids is. But, oh, but everyone is doing it. It's TikTok. And I'm like, sorry, sweetie, I know. But the knowledge that comes from going out and doing stuff is more worth the knowledge than learning on a phone. Good on you. Hey now, kids, you just heard your mum's impersonation of you. What did you think?

Was it accurate? Yes. Oh, look at my friends. I did it. I know that's two hours a week, and that's really impressive. Have you found a difference in their whole aura, their behavior? Yes. So they got this.

Well, I got this rule. If you're naughty, you don't get your phone the weekend. So they help cleaning the house, keep their rooms clean, listen, do homework. And then I give them, usually, if they did good the week like I'll give them an extra hour, hour and a half. But if I don't listen, sorry, you lose your phone. Meanwhile, you're on the couch, buddy, flipping through TikTok. Hey, shut up, you dumb geek. There's some great videos on here, but you can't see them.

Thank you for sharing that. That seems like a good tactic to use. And you know what? What Minky's saying, I know I should be doing. But I'm too lazy. And I need to get better at that stuff. That is really impressive, Minky. Really, thanks for your call.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. My daughter, Indy, 11 years old, said the most random thing to me on the couch last night. We were watching telly. And out of the blue, she just said, I love it. Our kids, just whatever pops into the head, pops the head she just said do you know i can fit the remote in my mouth that's what she said and i was like what the tv remote and she's on the side and so she turned around on the side and i was like what horizontally well not yeah not the whole like i brought it in how big is it okay so it's it's a it's a long remote right now that way that way on the sides yeah just the end of the remote i'm not good at radioing but i think

how do i describe that so they're she's putting it straight in but it's not flat yeah up on the thing and i was like well i work on radio i would have the biggest mouth in the family but i can't do it i can't do it and yeah like i was like i was out of the whole family i thought you would yeah i was like why is that i'm a fully grown adult mouths are like egos the more you feed them the bigger they get yeah and i'm like i've got a fully formed mouth i'm an adult in this in this household my two kids are there i'm like why have i got chuck it in you knew this was coming. Yeah, but it was... How many of your family members

have tried to wrap their mouths around this? Just three. Just three of us. Okay. I'm going to go... Oh, yeah. I've got a big mouth. I've got a huge mouth.

Yes, you do. The stuff I've put in this mouth. Oh, yeah. Easy. So there you go. Slides in like a pocket. Producer Joel, put that in your mouth. Don't have to do that.

This is a new segment you've just joined us called Put That In Your Mouth. Yeah, Joel's got it. I've got the smallest mouth on the show. What else can we put in your mouth? Do you reckon I can put my phone? Mate, you could probably put your phone. Do you reckon I'll go with my phone, son? Great game.

Put it in your mouth. We could do a little Watson Jono's mouth game, and then people can guess. I'm really going to stretch the jaw for this. Almost dislocate it. Okay, putting my cell phone in my mouth and working with an iPhone here. It's up and down.

Can I have you do this? I reckon I could. I've got bloody Invisalign in. Hold on. Just kidding. I have full faith in this. Sorry, I'll just take out those. What have I brought to the thing?

I didn't mean to bring this to the thing. I know. All right, all right. Oh, I think you can. You can. I'll wrap my lips around it. We can take you to Cirque du Soleil. I don't see how to come to work.

The man who can fit kind of impressive objects in his mouth. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. We were on high alert yesterday afternoon, weren't we? Yes. Where we work upstairs, there's the New Zealand Herald newspaper. So there's a whole floor of journalists, respected journalists. It's quite a quiet floor.

Tommy walked through there, like, I don't know. You kind of want to be like, hey, mate, hey, yeah. Because everyone's busy and I don't want to be loud, so you kind of just keep your head down and sort of walk through. You do that. You kind of almost tippy-toe through, don't you? Yeah, because everyone looks busy and far more important than we are. So you're like, oh, I don't want to interrupt you.

Yeah, you go through quietly. But then the room we were just doing a little bit of filming inside of this next door to it like a studio they've got a cool little studio there right with the green screen and stuff and so we were getting changed into some costumes now these were silver morph suits that you had purchased yeah yeah not very breathable uh. Very revealing when you've got them on. Excellent for the environment, no doubt. Yeah. And we were putting on these.

I felt like, do you know that superhero, the, is it the Silver Surfer? Oh, yeah, yeah. From the Fantastic Four. I felt like a chubby version of the Silver. Oh, geez, the Silver Surfer's let himself go sort of thing. Yeah. Maybe he stopped surfing for a while. It kind of looked like the Oscars trophy in some ways, you you know but maybe a little more silver than gold but you know so

we're halfway through you know peeling these tight morph suits on when tom the lovely gentleman we're working with is like hey i'm just going to need to change the screen behind you do you mind if i open the curtains and we were like oh whatever. We'll get changed anywhere. Doesn't matter. Not quite factoring in what that meant, what the repercussions of opening the curtains meant. Yeah. When he opened the curtains,

there was a floor-to-ceiling window, enormous window. Massive. Who knew that was there? 10 metres long. 10 metres long, 2 metres high. The entire newsroom. All the New Zealand Herald out there.

Just staring in it, half-dressed. It was a fully expose to the newsroom. Obviously, they could hear the curtains whip back and the change of light. So they all looked over there. And then we're looking at them, as you say, half-dressed, trying to put on these morph suits. Looked like we'd been caught in some sort of compromising position really yeah and then they're not and they're like i could see a few phones you know the phones come out don't they bloody phones and tom when i

look back on it tom did say it in a tone of like are you sure you want me to peel back the curtains i think he even might have said there might be a couple of people out there i didn't really pay attention. Well, now if you could re-ask that question, the answer for me would be different.