Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: Are You Ready For Xmas Already??

Episode Date: October 17, 2023

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The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations. We're going to have everyone here. How's everyone going? All right? We're going all right. Because Ben, you know, reflecting on our previous years and our brand was tarnished with a pranky... You know, everyone thought that when they come into contact with us, there was some sort of prank involved. We're trying to stitch someone up, pull someone's pants down, do something to them. And fair enough. Years of doing pranks have kind of built up that reputation for a lot of people.

Decades, decades. Damage has been caused. But we haven't pranked in a very long time. Well, not in that way. We're trying to be a bit cleverer. We just prank each other now. That's all you can do in 23. Prank anyone else

You get cancelled Yeah So yesterday Across the road Lovely lady from the cafe Palm Cafe Had some coffee Extra coffee

She'd given to me That she'd made That weren't required And we don't want them Because we're Dilma We're a Dilma show mate Dilma takes I was like

I will not take Caffeine In fact What am I even doing in this building? Oh, they're doing tea. They're doing tea. I should be at a tea plantation right now. Yeah, exactly.

That's right. So that's why I denied the coffees. Yeah, you're like, no, not for me. But they were perfectly good coffee if you're into coffee. Yeah. If anything, I should have drunk it and spat it back in her face. But no, we came back here with these coffees. And Joel gave you one

yep producer joe he's like i'd prefer tea but okay didn't have it spat it in your face and there was another one left over you said don't worry i'll go and i'll go and give it to someone else around the office do a good deed for the day and you didn't you went missing for like 15 minutes yeah i honestly went through like three or four different radio stations uh to the zm talent team over there as well one of the day show hosts georgia i was like do you want a flat white and she said i prefer tea obviously but um as do everyone as everyone clearly does and then um yeah she's like is there uh is it from you or so oh jono actually got a spare one they're like oh jono and ben is it is it breast milk someone said is it so they

thought it was a prank coffee you can't we can't we're so we can't even be trusted to hand over a free coffee no you took a long a long time to give it away until finally someone reluctantly went oh yeah i guess i'll have it yeah he's the only reason he took it he's like to be honest like you have a weird smirk on your face but the only reason I'm taking it is because I saw Jono walk in with a tea and two coffees earlier. So he'd seen the evidence. Yeah. New Zealand's divided.

We don't want to take free things now since we've got the free vaccine. Everyone's a little bit shaky. I want to accept. So, yeah, there we go, Ben. That's the issue that we're faced with after decades of pranking. That's what the rest of the building thinks of us. That's some home truths we'll find out. Yes, you can't even do anything nice, can you?

No. Because people think it's a prank. Yeah. Don't blame them. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. And going into shops, I find it always interesting as someone who works in radio to hear what they're playing over the loudspeaker. Sometimes it's a radio station.

Sometimes it's The Hits, sometimes it's the hits, and it's awesome when shops play that, right? Do you always try and make a point of saying who you are? I had one the other day when I was waiting in a waiting room and I was sitting there and they had the hits on next to the stereo next to me and then someone came out from there going, oh, did you turn it on to your own station, did you? And I was like, no, no, I didn't.

That would be your worst nightmare ben got caught watching uh an episode of our tv show on a plane too by another person oh this is on there what's the episode someone's like oh there we go mate yeah that's your that is your worst nightmare watching yourself are you uh but i've noticed how that uh stores sometimes have the radio just like you know the hits playing and then other times they have their own radio station chemist warehouse does yeah they've got their own chemist warehouse fm and vitamins on sale 5.99 here's justin timberlake um you know a lot of supermarkets have that same sort of thing as well you get little little ads in between for that place but welcome to our life after this radio show my friend we've got the shift the breakfast shift at chemist warehouse live from chemist

warehouse in masterton Have you noticed though there's a couple other stores that just started to creep in where they've got a sort of like a computer monitor in the store, sometimes clothing stores and you can choose the songs on a playlist to play over the loudspeaker. It's like set

up to like a Spotify or a streaming site of music and you can choose the playlist. That's a fun service. Yeah, and I was waiting yesterday. How quickly does your song come on? Is it like a jukebox situation? There's the thing as well,

because it did seem like I was looking at yesterday while my kids, my daughters were getting changed in the store. And I was like, oh, it's a radio thing. They're skipping through there and looking like I was going to put up a song. And then I was like, oh, there's quite a few already backed up. So to hear your song, you'd probably have to come back in like an hour's time or something. And there's no other place that you could hear your song.

I can't think of any other service that would provide that. But it was quite fun. It entertained me just going through all the songs at the moment. Then I showed my daughter Indie and I was like, oh, look, you can choose a song in here at the moment. And she looked, she went through and then she went, Dad. I was like, what? And she goes, have a look. Have a look what I've just scheduled and she scheduled uh this song right now

she's like and i was like and i just sort of looked at her we sort of smiled and nodded on like in an hour's time that store's gonna have a wonderful surprise over the loudspeakers i was like good gag i couldn't have been more proud of my daughter at that moment. Poor shop workers. They probably fall victim to that all the time. I know. Why is WAP playing? Guys, come on. First thing on a Monday morning. Oh, we can't trust anyone.

Now, going into a bathroom, a communal bathroom area, this can be a weird experience. And yesterday I walked in there and saw something quite shocking. And this is coming from someone that will often get changed in a bathroom many times when we're like we're doing a job and we're getting into a suit or something to host something we're just like we'll just go in the bathroom the two of us don't we we get changed together and when people walk in they're like oh oh yeah that's always the first reaction oh and they look around to check they haven't walked into the wrong room last time it happened it

was in a very small cubicle wasn't it and we were kind of crammed in with the third guy and he's like do i still and we're like you do what you need to do mate we'll do what we need it is kind of weird but we got nowhere else to do it you can't do it out of the bathroom so you go in there and then people walk in you're like half undressed and they're like what have those guys been doing in there so yeah so i i front vote by saying- They're superheroes. Now shout out to the superheroes who have to go and get changed into their spandex too. True.

Because they're having to do that. People are walking in on them. They're doing what they do. So yeah, that's a front vote by saying that's where we do some strange stuff in a bathroom. But yesterday I was in a shopping centre

and walked into the bathroom and there was a guy standing by the basin just there as well. You know, lots of bathroom cubicles behind him. People in a lot of them. And he's having a chicken drumstick. He's eating a chicken drumstick.

And I'm like, I was just going to double talk. And I'm like, hey, you got to, I mean, sometimes you do have to eat lunch on the run. Yeah. And then you got like the hand dryers and just blowing around of bacteria. Yeah, I was just like, maybe in your, I mean, and even in your own bathroom, I'd feel like that would be a bit, I don't know, but. Jeez, you must really be wanting chicken. Yeah.

I was like, what, how did that happen? Like, obviously purchased the chicken, they decided to go to the bathroom. But then you go, well, I'll finish this before I go in. That's what I would have thought. No one would have delivered, and I don't know if Uber Eats is delivering to bathroom stores. Very, very unusual thing to walk in on the bathroom.

But he didn't, you know, he seemed to carry on like nothing was going on. And what, was he obviously used the facilities too? Yeah, I don't know if he just used the facilities or if he was just about to and he was standing next to the mirror by the base and just eating a chicken. I thought he was brushing his teeth at first. Then I was like, oh no, he's eating a chicken drumstick. So very unusual. You do walk in on some strange things.

As I said before, sometimes it's us. I remember a mate of ours, Dunk, at the Rock radio station. Oh, yeah. Slipped over. Yeah, now the company had some sort of arrangement with a bar that was going out of business, and it was a Contra deal. Back in the wild west days of Contra being where you'd come to an arrangement and they would pay in alcohol and they'd get free advertising

and they were shutting down. So you've got to spend the Contra. And it was a powerful day, I think, just getting rid of the money. And so Dunk had spent a long time there and he'd come back across the road just to use the Bluchin block again. And he passed out and collapsed yeah very dangerously actually hit his head on the floor of the bathroom yeah right in this sort of communal section next to the hand basin he was using the urinal and he i think he slipped

fell unconscious and he was unconscious another mate of ours walked in there as well mike and he was like oh this is not good lying on the floor but unfortunately he was lying on the now this is Duncan you know the guy who house the bloody house rules New Zealand don't tell everyone that house rules New Zealand

Duncan his house rules well for next time it's to sort of zip up first before you fall over in the bathroom

he's on the ground sprawled out passed out with everything on display unconscious unconscious because he'd hit his head Mike's like okay what do I do I need to call he'd hit his head and Mike's like

okay what do I do I need to call so he called an ambulance and he's like when the ambulance people turn up I can't have him like this

so then what he did once he hung up the ambulance genius play he got his cell phone and he nudged it nudged it back in and then

zipped up his friends now that is a friend that is a friend that is a friend I'd nudge you back in with this remote controller or a stapler or something. Just anything.

With a chicken drumstick, whatever you get your hands on. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now a story that's made news at the moment happened just out of Wellington, Lower Hutt, right?

Yeah, the story of a lost wedding dress and Donna joins us on the phone now. How are right? Yeah, the story of a lost wedding dress. And Donna joins us on the phone now. How are you? Hi, good morning. How are you? Lovely to have you on. Lovely to have you and your adorable accent on the show this morning.

Cheers. Jeez, high drama in your household. Yeah, this has gone a bit nuts. So I got married a few years ago, and I had a beautiful designer dress, and it was stunning. And I had my wedding day, which was incredible. Rolled forward a few years, and a friend of mine was newly engaged and getting married. And I said to her, like, well, why don't you take my dress? I know that they're stupidly expensive.

It's a hideous amount of money to spend. If my dress fits, you're more than welcome to it. More often than not, you're only going to wear it for one day. One thing. And I imagine if you had a second wedding, maybe you'd want another dress just for some sort of omen. So you're right. I don't think I would fit into it if I was to have another wedding. It was a while back and I was a bit skinnier in those days.

So yeah, I gave it to my friend and she was delighted and I didn't think anything more of it. And then earlier this year, unfortunately, my friend's relationship broke down. So I left it a few months and then I went back to her and said, I said, could I have my two dresses back? And she went, yeah, no problems. That was August and I didn't hear anything from her until Friday and she rang me and said, look, I'm so sorry, but your dress is gone. It accidentally got donated.

I've been into the op shop, it got donated too, and it's not there. They don't have it. Oh, so she's piled up your dress with a whole bunch of other clothes and she's given it to the Salvation Army. Accidentally. Oh, your wedding dress. It turns out she had another friend who was getting married and that friend had a load of wedding dresses as well

and had loaned those to her. So she had this collection, apparently two boxes worth of wedding dresses. Gee, she wasn't short of a wedding dress, was she? No, no, she wasn't. And after the breakup and at some point, all the dresses went to the friend and the friend donated all the dresses. Oh, okay.

So your dress, it's gone into the ether. Someone's wandering around with that wedding dress on right now. Hopefully not. I mean, it's a bit of a miserable rainy day and I'm hoping they get a better day for it. Yeah, so what are we after? We're after the return, the safe return. We're trying to find it. You know, obviously accidents happen. You feel just gutting for yourself and your friend who was a genuine mistake. So where was it last seen? Salvation

Army in Lower Hutt. Is that right? Yeah, that's right. So I went to the Salvation Army in Lower Hutt and I've rung them and I think it got donated at some point in the past couple of months. That bit isn't clear. Somebody would have picked it up. It's a beautiful designer dress. It's a Maggie Cetero. And the one thing I want to clarify is I don't want it back right now. It deserves to have another day out.

It's gorgeous. Somebody's going to look incredible in it. There's going to be tears. There's going to be happy memories. I want that still to happen. I just want it back when they're done with it because I wasn't finished with it. And that was always the deal.

I don't care what conditions it's in. I just want it back because I wasn't finished with it. You know, that sounded like a nice Liam Neeson taken speech right there. It did actually, right. I don't care. I just wanted to have fun with it. I just wanted... Weird if it was

He was talking about it As a family member though He'd probably want it You know But it sounded like A more softer version That's maybe Liam might have got

Better results If he approached it like that I'll tell you what It's a random fact My daddy once beat Liam Neeson in a fight What? My daddy was a boxer

Back in Belfast In the 50s and 60s He did boxing as a kid And he went up Against Liam Neeson And beat him The guy from Taken? The action movie star. Every time

he'd watch a movie, I'd be going along to the movies. See that guy out there? Yes, these people in the movie can't take a punch. I took the guy from Taken. Yeah, wow. I think I saw it when my dad dropped that into the conversation a few years ago as we were watching Taken and he went, oh, he's not that tough. I took him in a tight one. Wow.

What are you talking about? Donna, listen, so very nice of you to say, hey, if you've got the dress, use it for what you had planned to use it for. But just the safe return of it. Now, what we'll do is we'll put a picture of it up on the Hits Breakfast on our Instagram. Oh, thank you so much. People can go and have a look for it. And hey, keep us up to date. We hope you have the safe return of your wedding dress.

Tonight. Tonight Tonight Tonight The hits The Jono and Ben podcast What have you lost And found A long period later David Lomas

He'd be an ideal candidate For this phone topic Right now He would do Right Good knack of finding things I'm a shocker Wallet

Keys Bag It got to the point Where Jen My wife She was I think just sick of me Constantly going Where's my wallet Where's my keys Where's my bag Wallet, keys, bag. It got to the point where Jen, my wife, she was, I think, just sick of me constantly going, where's my wallet, where's my keys, where's my bag?

So she got me this little Apple tag. Oh, yeah. It's been a saviour, honestly. I'd say at least 10 to 12 times, that Apple tag, because it's hooked up to your phone. And the amount of times I've been driving away, it's like, bing, bing, your wallet's been left at the location. At least a dozen times.

Well, good play. So 0800 the hits, lost and found. Matilda's with us. What happened? Was it you? So it was not me. It was my husband. So far, he's misplaced his wedding ring three times.

Okay. And the best one was canyoning at night with friends. And it slipped off as he went down the rope into a pool at the bottom of the waterfall. And so a couple of nights later, or maybe the following night, he went back with said friends, did the canyon again, got the torches, and spent a lot of time diving in the pool, and they found it. They found the canyon? Yeah. So we live in Auckland near the White Axe, and when we could still go out there, you just go down waterfalls

with ropes and bags and sailing gear, but you go down waterfalls with ropes and bags and sailing gear. But you go down and, yes, that's canyoning. By a waterfall. Jeez, chasing waterfalls to get the ring back. Yeah, they did. But he's lost it three times. Is there any part of him that's like, maybe wedding rings aren't for me?

Maybe there's another way. Maybe there's another way. So now when he goes in the garden and the tractor and mows the grass and all that jazz, he leaves it on the little table next to the door. Aye, good on. Well, yeah, Ben Bush,

you had to get a ring tattooed on your finger, didn't you? Well, I didn't have to, but I decided to as well because I wasn't wearing a ring, so yeah. You can't lose a tattoo. No, unless I lose my finger. That'll be a horrible accident. Amber, you're on from Invercargill in the south.

Welcome. Lost and found. Yeah. Hi, guys. Hi, guys. Hi to Amber. It was a set of keys. How long did you lose them for?

I lost my entire set of keys for about three weeks. Oh, see, now that's a period where you're like, you're getting to replacement stage. You're heading to Mr Minute, getting some keys cut. Yeah, I was real close. I had three different house keys, mine and other family members

and a car key. It was, I had six people helping me find them. Searching my house, every pocket of pants, my mum's house, even went to the extent of thinking my husband had picked them up and had them in his pocket and he'd fallen out in town somewhere. Yeah, right. Don't you hate it when you fall out in town all the time?

Always a great thing. Always a great person to blame to the husband for lost care. Where did they turn up, Amber? They turned up on a bunch of decking boards out the front of my house oh they've been out there for three weeks yep it was my older brother who came down to help or came down for a holiday he was walking around checking things out for the new house and he just saw them there. Too much importance we place on keys. You know, keys, they really have got us by the... Yeah, I know.

When you lose them, you're like, oh, wow. Yeah, I really appreciate that. And giving some hope to Donna that she will find this missing wedding dress. All right, welcome along to News or Not. Producer Taylor comes in. More misleading headlines than those clickbait articles. You won't believe what Sandra Bullock did on a bus.

And you click through 49 windows and it turns out she just rode a bus. So what do we need to do here, Taylor? You explain the rules. All right, so I'll read out three stories. Two of them are true, one is false. You have to guess the false one. Okay. 0800 the hits.

You can join in. And if you pick the false headline, the fake news, you win a hell pizza this morning. What have we got, mate? All right. Historian reveals the harmless game of rock, paper, scissors originated as a form of foreplay used in brothels. Okay.

All right. Number two. So if that's not a legit story, again, that's come from Taylor's mind. We're shady big swasslers. So, yeah. Okay. legit story again, that's come from Taylor's mind. Which anything's possible. So yeah. Okay. How you got there, I don't know. But anyway, so that may be your story.

All right. AI technology said to finally allow dogs to understand and speak back to their humans in any chosen language. Okay. Number three. Man successfully sells his dead mother's ashes On Facebook Marketplace for $30 Okay

Now let's go Oh 800 the hits Which one do you think is the fake news? Go back to the top there Geez you're good at this They're all really like All very believable right So back in the early days

The origins of scissors, paper, rock Or rock, paper, scissors Whichever way you say it Dates back to brothels foreplay. Yeah. And what would you go in and be like, if I beat you? What was the foreplay involved? What's the format of the game of these rock, paper, scissors?

Yeah, I feel like something like that. Or maybe like what kind of activities they're going to do. Oh, okay. Surely she's just like, well, have you got an Air Force card? Let's forget rock, paper, scissors. Where's the dog? Okay, so that's it. And then number two, the dogs can talk back to you now.

An AI. AI is helping. Well, it'd be great to know what your dog was thinking. Amazing. And for them to really understand. I know some dogs do. So, okay, that one. And the final one, ashes on Marketplace for $35.

His mother's ashes. Oh, I'm picking the ashes. I'm picking the ashes. As a made-up story, you think? Yeah, you've got to pay at least $100 for it. That's a person. But why would you buy someone else's ashes is my thought, but it could be... I wouldn't even pay $5 for someone's ashes.

I wish I had that dog translation device the other day when i was caught stranded without a doggy deposit bag oh yeah and he could have gone hey mate i'm feeling i'm feeling full you might want to bring that bag so uh oh wait we've got a lot of texts coming through a lot of people saying the dog translation is the fake news headline taylor what is the answer oh they're correct that is the correct. That is the fake one. That is the fake one. Okay, so the ashes. Reminds me of Up.

They had that dog with the translation. That's right. Have you seen the movie Up? Yeah. Yeah, probably. You're 27. You've probably never seen Up. Why are you watching a kid's animated movie?

It's a really good movie. It'll make you cry right from the outset. But you're right. There's a dog in that that is unable to talk back. So there we go. So the ashes were sold for $35. Yeah, so two influencers on TikTok bought this random guy's ashes. And the back story is he didn't really get along with his mom.

So even being in the presence of her ashes made him feel a bit uneasy. You know there's options to do things with ashes. Yeah, definitely. He sold it on Malcolm's Place. Maybe it was the final nail in the coffin. Well, it wasn't a coffin, but I'll sell you for $35. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Walked past a very loud gentleman yesterday in public,

and it's a really great theory to keep people away from, if you don't like people around you just be loud in public all right by yourself yeah and people will wide birth you 100 of the time you're probably right if you like your personal space just be loud yeah and uh he was doing he had headphones on singing having the time of his life have a listen little pitchy he's having a great time though great time you

wouldn't find a happier person where if you tried. They always say, like, dance like nobody's watching. This guy was singing like nobody was listening. That's good. I mean, sometimes I notice that people have those cool little phone, the little earpiece for the phone, but then they come into, like, a store and you'll be there

and they'll be talking and then you think they're talking to you and you'll be like, oh, what's that thing? And then they'll be like, they'll do talking and then you think they're talking to you and you'll be like oh what's that thing and then they'll be like they'll do the little sign that they're pointing they'll point to the air the bluetooth earpiece yeah always false but then if they don't have that you're like is this person what's why is that why are they talking to themselves uh there's uh there's there's a whole bunch of people that hang outside the casino ben uh and always having a good time like they they're always in 100% party mode no matter what day it is. And they're our people. Honestly.

Walk past, John O'Ban. Come have a photo. They make you feel like a million bucks, Ben. Those are our people. I know. That's exciting. Our friend Joe Damon, he's a comedian. He's got a wonderful bit where he's like,

how come when those people are walking down the road, every time the person they want to talk to is across the other side of the road, across four lanes of traffic. They're like, hey, how's it going, mate? And they're, like, having this conversation across four lanes of standstill traffic where they could just cross the road and have the conversation. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Christmas, 68 days away, you were just saying before the show Oh no it's 68 days and it is

It's beginning to look a lot like Not quite yet Is it beginning to look like Well supermarkets have already started to bring out You know Christmas confectionery and things like that But I feel like Halloween feels like It's the next year and then Christmas Halloween's a big banger in our household

Yeah the kids love it. We've got rotten skeletons dangling from the ceiling and all sorts. It feels like some sort of slaughterhouse at the moment. But yeah, they do like Halloween. Now, it's bigger than it used to be. Yeah, I feel like everyone's, which is great. I love it. I can't wait for it.

So what that does, it does act as a good little buffer to level the excitement. For Christmas. And then it feels like after Halloween You can kind of get into Still a long runway November, December Yeah, you're right There's still quite a few weeks Before Christmas

But this is what we wanted to open up And you know it is really beginning to look like Christmas When radio shows start doing novelty Christmas radio topics Well, you're just wondering now Because it's way too soon to be talking about it regularly But has anyone already kind of sorted Or fully sorted for Christmas at this stage? Surely not.

I mean, 68, that's over two months away. I'm still not even sure where we're going to be on Christmas. You know, like those sorts of things. I haven't even thought about that when it comes to it. Well, what we've done with Christmas and the whole theatrics around it is we've just created this thing on our to-do list. And when people have to-do lists, they like to tick things off and get it this thing on our to-do list and when people have to-do lists they like to tick things off and get it you're a to-do list guy i bet if you had a little more time you would have christmas sorted by now yeah if you didn't have a job christmas

would have been sorted in march so we want to know uh listening right now on 0800 that hits the most organized christmas person The phones are already ringing. Annie Pryor, my mother. She wouldn't be organized for Christmas now, but gee, she loves Christmas. She overdosed on Christmas decorations. And now, every time she arrives from Christchurch, she has a big box of Christmas decorations. Oh, she gives it to you?

I'm dealing with the consequences of her Christmas addiction now. It's lovely though. It's a lovely tradition. Oh, and it is nice to get, you know, it's all kind of about getting the family together, you know,

special memories and stuff like that. So I know how people, why people love it. When do you get your presents sorted? Oh, close. Yeah. December? Yeah, probably December.

I do like to keep them early. I mean, I love to experience them all the night before Christmas and just to see all the frantic people go. God, God, God. Seeing producer Joel sprinting around. When do you do your Christmas shopping? Morning of.

Swinging by the petrol station. McDonald's drive-thru, yeah. Challenge is a challenge service station open? Yeah, okay, sweet. What can we get you from there? Here's a McCafe coffee, Dad. Peanut slab. Okay, I hundred the hits of telephone number

4487 in the text. Are you already sorted for Christmas? Surely there is no one. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Surprisingly. It is a huge response.

Just looking at the Facebook page. 154 people. All sorted for Christmas on the comment section. Really? Yeah. People pre-wrapped presents.

Pre-wrapped presents? No. Have you already ordered delivery for shopping? For the meals? Well, yeah, some people do need to plan that far ahead. All those... Crazy. A lot of people with spreadsheets, Ben Boyce. That would make you happy. I do like that. We're going to get Jenna

on from Taranaki. Good morning, Jenna. How are you? Good morning. Don't. You're already sorted get Jenna on from Taranaki. Good morning, Jenna. How are you? Good morning. Don't. You're already sorted for Christmas. Don't tell us. I am. I am.

What have you done? I have all of my stocking fillers for my three kids and all pre-boxed in each child, so I know which one goes into which bag. And all of their under the tree presents are sorted as well. Wow, wowee. You are very organised Jenna. Now is it something that you're organised with every year? Yeah, yeah every year. I mean I kind of start with the end of summer sales from the previous year.

Smart play. Yeah I knew that they'd need some shoes and stuff heading into the next summer so i wait till the end of summer sales and um and grab those and say like march and they're kind of ready for the ready for christmas good heck my friend actually they don't do christmas present giving on the actual day they wait till boxing day all go to the sales and then gift in the afternoon. That's a great idea. No, that's not a nice idea. That's stressful. Good on you. Hey, speaking of stressful, mate, you already sorted yourself for Christmas. No stress.

Exactly. Good on you, Martin. Tracy, sorry, in Martin. How are you? I'm good, thank you. How are you? Are we talking to Martin and Tracy or Tracy and Martin? Tracy and Martin. Oh, you. How are you? Are we doing a Martin and Tracy or Tracy and Martin? Tracy and Martin. Oh, lovely.

Tracy, you're sorted for Christmas. We are. My husband and I do a Santa's Cave in Martin for all the local children. Oh, okay. We've been doing it for three years, and yes, we have to be sorted. What? Like a little grotto situation? It is, yes. We've got a Santa's cave from newborn up to 13.

Every child gets a present, lollies, and they get to adopt the second-hand soft toy. Oh, what a sweet thing. Is this in your house? It's all free. We don't charge

except we've been asking for a voluntary can of food for the food bank. Oh, lovely. Yeah. Oh, God. When you talk to people like this, you're like, oh, jeez, I'm a horrible human being.

I really need to do nicer things in my life. Tracey, that is a wonderful thing. Is this all the grotto set up in your house? Yes, it's all set up. We've got a pagola and we've set it all up in there. Oh, good on you. And my husband's made, like, wooden things to go on the lawn and on the fence and things.

And we have competitions and, yeah, you know, there's prizes to be won. It's really fun. Good on you, Tracey. Well, Tracey's sorted for Christmas. Charitable Christmas. There we go. And her, Grotto and Martin, Danielle and Matamata. Okay, 68 days out from Christmas.

I'm sorry we had to come to you straight off a very charitable call. Are you sorted for Christmas, are you? I am. I fully am. And it's just a shame that my kid likes Halloween, otherwise it will all be up. Oh, right. You are waiting for Halloween to finish. Yeah, yeah.

So I've got all the Halloween stuff up and got a big bag of Santa Sacks full of presents for our friends and family, The whole lot's done. We're ready to go. And what are you doing for charity for the community? I hide rocks for everybody. So there's like little Santa rocks going around. Matter, matter. I see them everywhere.

Oh, good. There you go. Another charitable person. Two out of two. That's incredible. And so as soon as Halloween's done, boom. Christmas tree up, lights up, tinsel up. Stand straight.

Oh, well, Merry Christmas. Is that too soon? That felt weird, me saying that 68 days ago. It's happy. See, Halloween's a bit scary. We lost it. Okay, there we go. High drama. Is Daniel okay in Matamata?

We will find out. I'm just trying to let a horse go. Okay, you we go. High drama. Is Daniel okay in Matamata? We will find out. I'm just trying to let a horse go. Just wanted to go. Okay, you're negotiating horses, telephones and Christmas all at the same time. We can multitask. We can do whatever we want. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Tonight on Sky Open, a brand new series of Raised by Refugees, Series 2. Look what I found. Our son is having sexual intercourse. It's a lollipop. It's a sex lollipop. What is a sex lollipop? It's a comedy created by comedian Pax Asadi, and he joins us in the studio.

Good morning. Great to have you here. Thank you for having me. Lovely to have you here. That's my favourite radio station. And that's not what I say at every radio station. You're going to say for the next, what, five minutes and then you'll move to another one. But that's fine. We're happy to be your favourite radio station as of now.

Lovely to have you, mate. It's always fun hanging out with you. Raised by Refugees back for season two. And the award-winning Raised by Refugees. You didn't have to bring that up. Well, you told us to. Yeah, I did. You know the script.

Now, last time we spoke to you was Series 1. Yeah. On your favourite radio station, The Hits, we spoke to you. And a great story about how you found the person who plays a young version of yourself by accosting him at the movie theatre, which I love. Yeah, I did. I'm about to go to the movie theatre after this because Season 3 is coming out and I need another brown kid.

Younger kids, yeah. I need another movie. Perfect child hunting ground they love them but this series is uh you know so quite personal for you because it kind of tells your parents uh so their love story and how they met and saw sort of an interesting time in their lives yeah yeah well season one was full of gags and season two is also but i challenged myself this time when i was writing it to not be afraid to lean into the drama and really tell stories that genuinely make me uncomfortable

and make my family uncomfortable because the show is called raised by refugees and we explored the idea of being a refugee in season one briefly but we didn't really go into it and this season we really go into it and that story of my father becoming a refugee and escaping persecution is tied in with him meeting my mum. They are inseparable stories. I don't want to give everything away because it's all in the series. But just like a wild story looking back involving him in a car boat, on a camel through the desert. A whole lot, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We don't go into that. But the story of my – how do you know this stuff? I was reading, doing some research. I know it's like a – Have you talked to my dad? How do you know this stuff? Is this not common knowledge? Yeah, so my dad – yeah, he did, you know, on a camel for four days through the desert,

you know, like no water, no food, just to – that stuff did happen. We don't explore that specific moment, but we do explore what happened when my dad finally gets to Pakistan as a 18, 19-year-old and has no one around him, no family with him. I'm nervous about it, but nervous in a good way.

Nervous as a result of pushing myself creatively. Good on you. It should be amazing. And pushing, I guess, the production team as well. Again, always reading or talking to your dad, one of the two, about how you,

in a warehouse in Mount Wellington, created a Pakistani hospital Yeah Yeah we're well over budget That sounds wildly expensive Yeah it was very expensive And I know we haven't paid you yet Jono I do it for the love

Yeah for the craft Jono is extra despicable this season Oh yeah because he played a character That was a boss of your dad Yeah he's Afnan's He's my dad's boss And he's gone up a level in annoyingness yeah which i've just done in real life as well yeah yeah but he's the owner

of bruce's second-hand appliance store which i've done works for now on a bit of a serious question yes for you uh being raised by refugees yes in new zealand yeah what was it like being a refugee inevitably you come to the country that you uh give an asylum to with trauma um those that trauma that your parents have does seep into your everyday life and you as a person who was born in this country and can only imagine what your parents went through you can't you can never ever know what they felt have to traverse it in a way that still maintains unity in the family it's really yeah there is a lot of difficulty around it but the beautiful thing about it is that you get to really experience your parents appreciation of being in a country like this and for your kids as well to kind of learn your family story in a unique way through a television show yeah yeah my dad like my dad

loves New Zealand more than like any kiwi you know what i mean and that comes from like a deep appreciation that no one who was born here can ever experience you know it's really painful and hard at times and also really beautiful and and joyous at times yeah well they welcomed with open arms yeah thank you are you the refugee welcomer i'm the official one i wait at the airport with my house it's a bit weird too welcome welcome refugees this intimidating

bald white guy who's just like welcome everyone oh god open the van I'll drop you off raised by refugees Sky Open

tonight Sky Open tonight channel 15 Sky Open channel 4 if you have Sky if you own Sky then it's channel 4

free view it's channel 15 and then tomorrow you can watch the whole thing for free on Sky Go. Create a login and you can watch it for free on Sky Go. You don't even need to own Sky to watch it for free on Sky Go. Why doesn't, surely Sky want to make some money out of it? Why are they handing it out for free? Well it's, you know, we're just trying to, it's not that great. We're just trying to entice people.

We can't charge people for it. Yeah we can't charge, it's a hot mess. Facts Society, trying to entice people. We can't charge people for it. Yeah, we can't charge people. It's a hot mess. Back to Sardi. Lovely to hang out, mate. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. David Beckham

documentary has been on Netflix for a few weeks and, you know, I really enjoyed it. I found it fascinating insight into his career and all the ups and downs and

things they've gone through. No one I've spoken to didn't enjoy it. It's been receiving rave reviews until producer Taylor came in with a very unpopular opinion. And what's your thoughts? So overrated.

I was like, I kept waiting for the penny to drop to be like, wow, this is so good. After four episodes, mate, sorry to say, I'm still waiting. That may be the issue is it's been built up too much when you go into things unexpected like i rolled into the barbie movie and i'm like this is going to be a pile of trash but it was great it's fantastic and you actually saw the barbie movie over the weekend and i thought maybe it'd been built up too much for taylor but you enjoyed it, right? Yeah. No, I loved Barbie. Okay, so you loved Barbie.

Yeah. But you didn't love David Beckham's stocking. No. And everyone's coming out of it saying, wow, he's so, him and Victoria are a dream couple. They're so cute. Wow. Perfect kind of whatever.

And I'm like the whole time sitting there going, you know what? If I was your coach too, I'd put you on the bench as well. He had so much attitude. Oh, you're saying he got a bit too cocky. A bit too big for his soccer boots, so to speak. And the whole thing with his hair and stuff and the modelling campaign. It's like, are you trying to win a World Cup, bro?

Or are you trying to just get a modelling gig? Come on, bro. Yeah. And then the whole thing about the cheating scandal. Well, he just brushed over that. So everyone's saying they've got a perfect marriage it's doco well don't bring it up if you're not gonna like put an end to it in my humble opinion why don't you just watch it on mute yeah i should have you know what there's a there's a documentary on netflix about the furies which tyson fury he's the boxer that absolutely crapped on the Beckham doco.

That was so much better. It was actually funny. They're actually cool. Well, as in terms of relatability too. Yeah, and you don't come out of that going, oh, whatever. I do appreciate that, Ty. I did watch it on your recommendation, that documentary, and I do appreciate it.

He lives in the most glum, dull British seaside town. He's like, this is paradise, mate. And you look out and there's some sort of empty swamp he lives next to, but he loves it. He could live anywhere in the world, too. He's got the money to live anywhere, and he loves his hometown. So that's a very unpopular opinion, what you have of David Beckham and his doco.

And I'm not saying he's not amazing. Obviously, he's an incredible athlete. But I just think he could have been a bit more humble. Okay, I'm going to chuck an unpopular opinion out there as well I don't like talking to people on the phone I've come to that conclusion I just like text text you in and out, you get your information

you don't have that 4 or 5 minutes what have you been up to I'm like you I've come around to you I'm like yep even though come around to you I just get to the point I'm like yep yep

even though my wife is like yeah hi good yep and then I'm just wait well you've called me what is it for just get into it and I was like

okay cool sometimes people just want just a meaningless undirectional banter yeah just flowing around and get to the point so yeah I'd rather

that's my unpopular opinion stop talking on the phone let's just communicate via text. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Unpopular opinions. We want to hear them on 0800 The Hits this morning. Producer Joel just dropped a bombshell while that song was playing. Well, saying David Guetta shouldn't have remixed I'm Blue.

That's a popular opinion, I think, that one. Producer Joel, about Ed Sheeran. I love Ed Sheeran. Great songwriter, great performer, great guitarist. but i don't think he's that good of a singer if you listen to him and if you don't believe me sorry pavarotti if you remember this audio could back me up as well okay oh this was him when he was 14. Oh, mate.

Now we're just bullying a teenager. He's an incredible singer. He's an incredible singer. Producer Taylor, the producers are coming in hot this morning on the John O'Bian Breakfast Extravaganza. Producer Taylor, not a fan of the David Beckham documentary. Yeah. Now, you did say, sorry, Taylor, if you can come back in. The thing that did annoy you Most of all

Is that he didn't deep dive Into the Rebecca Luce incident That was the one But he's never admitted to it No And I just don't think They should have brought it up at all then Because it's waiting

But then everyone said Oh you didn't even touch on it You glossed over this Well this is way worse Because now I'm like He obviously did it Because if he didn't He would have gone hard

And also While he goes started Here we go Don't you think if it wasn't true, he would have sued for defamation? I think he tried multiple times. Oh, did he? Yeah, I think he did try multiple times. Any news in publication, that's what made me nervous when we were talking about it the other day with Henty

because he was going, oh, he was saying stuff, and I was like, I think they've been going pretty hard about people that do come out and say it's true. Am I going to receive an email today? Oh, listen, hey, we're all up for it. We'll have a good press coverage getting sued by the Beckhams. So, 0800, what is your unpopular opinion? Ben, have you got any?

I'm not a huge fan of cake. And that seems to, like, I'll eat it, I'll do, but I feel like it's always an obligation. Rosemary's made this cake for someone, and you're like, oh, okay. You know, I'm like, oh, it's great. You know, I'm never really in the mood for cake. What about Rob Dickey in the office? We've got wonderful Rob.

Oh, he's incredible. Like, incredible. And I did have some of his the other day, and it was great. But I'm never in the mood. It's always at the end of a meal or, you know. I'm full already. We've got Alicia on the phone. What's your unpopular opinion?

I do not like tomato sauce at all. What about any form of ketchup? I do not like tomato sauce at all. What about any form of ketchup? I'll eat barbecue sauce, but not tomato sauce. Tomato sauce is probably one of the top three greatest condiments in cuisine. I disagree. Okay, so fish and chips, for example. What are you having with that?

Nothing? An aioli or a spicy mayo. Oh, you hate both spicy mayo. Both great condiments. So mayonnaise trumps tomato sauce in your opinion? Not mayonnaise, spicy mayo does. Okay, so is it the flavor of tomato sauce, the taste? What don't you like about it?

I think I ate too much of it as a child, and it just really doesn't resonate anymore. Have you tried Tui Mato? No. That is good. You know the beer company Tui, they've got their own brand of tomato sauce for some reason, and it's very tasty. And I don't think it's got alcohol in it, even though it's called Tui Mato.

Or if it does, it's not like you can, you know. You can taste it. No, it's kind of like a sweet chutney sauce, isn't it? Great excuse. You've been pulled over, and you're like, have you had anything to drink? Oh, well, I had some fish and chips with some tomato sauce. I was on the sauce. Yeah. Maybe that's the time. What happens if someone sprays it all over your shared fish

and chips? What are you doing then? Well, I'm picking out all the ones from the bottom that don't have sauce on them. Well, you're that against it. Last time you tried tomato sauce? Over the weekend, I believe. Oh, you're still dipping your toes back into the sauce game from time to time. When there's kids involved you have to

try everything because otherwise they learn to dislike things. Ah leading by example. And your taste buds do change over time. Yes they do. And for you you love tomato sauce and you've changed to not loving tomato sauce so that happens. Exactly.

I want to know when do you bully your taste buds into liking blue cheese i don't think you ever do that yeah it's kind of like i still i like i enjoy blue cheese but i'm still like this is a very interesting flavor i'll put in my mouth here all right you're good on your leash you're gonna have a wonderful day i will you too what to watch with megan megan megan it Megan, it's good to see you. Good morning. It's good to see you. Hopping for a dungaree today, I see. I wondered if you were going to bring up my dungarees.

It's 90s. 90s fash is back in. Yeah, I do appreciate an overall don't have the confidence to wear them, me. I don't want to get too personal. Yeah. You know what the next question is? Well, it's a dress dungaree. Oh, right.

Because you're going to say, do you have to get naked to go? Yeah. It's like when you wear jumpsuits and everything, they're a great idea until you need to go to the toilet. Yeah. Especially when you're out in town and you realise you're in a public bar and I'm naked going to the toilet. I'm down to my ankles here. Have you got any dungarees at home? I did it back in the day. I used to have a pair, but I haven't got any currently at the moment. I feel yeah have you got any dungarees at home i did it back in the

day i used to have a pair but i haven't got any uh currently at the moment i feel like you could rock a dunk no offense john i feel like ben could rock a dunk can i just say plenty of a fit to take plenty take it i feel like sometimes it's just a confidence thing yeah you just gotta just be confident with it and ride it out people like i found that in the croc game when i've just sort of dipped my toes and literally into the croc game. Are you doing the gibbets? Oh, yeah. Yeah, no.

He's overdosed on gibbets. I'm on gibbets now. I'm with my daughter. We're like, gibbet, gibbet. I know, but see, you can do it. I'm not just. I know, but they got them for me and they really like zero to 100 in crocs. Not just crocs, but crocs with gibbets,

the croc charms. And now I'm shopping for gibbets and all sorts now. He's got a family of gibbets. Cousins, distance cousins. Now you said to me no offence. Have you got a no offence comment for Ben now about Crocs? If anyone's going to be able to do it maybe it's Ben. Again, no offence. Plenty taken.

What are we watching this week there, Megan? Okay, so this is called Gen V. Welcome to Goodalkin University. We've trained the best and brightest young heroes since 1965. Godalkin is a safe space for you to thrive. All right, this sounds ominous. When I sent this trailer, I was like,

I don't actually know what we're going to be able to get audio-wise out of this because the warning, I think it's r18 there's uh graphic violence there's um bad language there's uh sexy stuff it's all go because this is from the universe of the boys with uh kiwi guy Anthony Starr and Carlo Barn if you've seen that exactly the Very vulgar. The boys was kind of like all these superheroes, but they kind of weren't as, they were kind of bad, I guess, in a lot of ways, right? They were flawed, just like humans. Like they did naughty things,

some of them worse than others. And this is about the high school that everyone, the superheroes go to, to try and get into the league of the boys, the seven. Right off the bat, I was shocked by some of the superpowers and some of the things that happen. You're just explaining a story about a lady who shrinks.

She's a shrinking girl. And where she ends up and what she's holding on to. And what she's doing while she's holding on to it. I'm like, who thought? What sick people thought? I know. I appreciate it. It's great.

But you can have any superpower in the world. What are you doing? Anything. Initially, I thought invisible, but then you're going to end up hearing things about yourself that you don't want to hear. You're going to end up in places, so maybe not that. I was immediately invisible as well.

Yeah. I feel like flying is probably cliche, but it would be cool. You know, I'll whip it away and not have to worry about paying for airfares and where you went, you know. Yeah, but you can only fly yourself. Like, your family's just doing it to take economy. Yeah, but I'll see you over there. I'll get the bags, put them in the room and stuff. I'll set up the whole flight.

I'll fly to the Oasis. I'll meet you over in the Gold Coast. Do all that stuff. If you're, like, getting a rental car, you're like, I'll check it. Get all that sort of stuff. I Coast do all that stuff if you're like getting a rental car you're like oh check it get all that sort of stuff I'll worry about that

will you pick them up from the airport oh yeah no probably not because then it'd be easier for me to fly everywhere sorry guys you're stuck down there

in peak hour unless I got a rental car and then I would but otherwise it'd be like oh I'll fly to the thing you guys there's a tram and stuff

you know I think maybe what like healing powers so then the byproduct of that is like I'll never get old because I'm just constantly re-healing myself. Forever youthful. And if I cut myself, it's healed real quick. Yeah, that's a good one.

I'm going to stick with invisibility. The stuff, the places you'd end up. That's nefarious. What are you planning on doing with that? It feels very sketchy. Why does it feel sketchy? Of course you picked the dodgy one. Is there someone in here looking at me right now?

I feel like there's a presence in here. A real dodgy presence. Just me going. It started with a conversation about how you go to the bathroom, but now we're still, you know. Yeah, you're invisible. You're not silent. We can hear you heavy breathing.

Got the dungarees on again, haven't we? Not very convenient, are they? I'm wrapping it up there. Megan Pappas, that's what to watch for another week.