Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: Ben's Daughter Called Him What?!?

Episode Date: June 12, 2023

Ben was called an interesting name by his daughter Jono's new technology discovery What parts of the relationship are you and your partner not compatible in?? 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. Now yesterday, I discovered a new piece of technology. WhatsApp, a bit of a... It's not just WhatsApp, is it? That's the new bit of technology, but it's got a maps function. Now their maps function, the ultimate co-driver, it really is. Someone sent me a link and I just clicked on it. Right. And they're just lovely, friendly, and a bit more sort of personal.

Oh, is this a voice talking to you? Yeah, a bit more personal than Siri or Google Maps. They're like, hey, after the next set of lights, you might want to think about taking a right. Right. What I really did appreciate is coming up in 150 metres, there's a speed camera. You might want to slow down to avoid a traffic infringement.

I was like, yes, I would like to slow down. Sometimes it does pop up on my other maps on the phone, the speed cameras and stuff, which is quite handy. I really made a connection with WhatsApp. Yeah, didn't you? Jen's sitting there going, well, if you love it so much, marry it. And I was like, well, I could, I would. But society would frown upon us.

And our relationship. What's going on, Producer Joel? My parents have this thing, it's a Google Home. That's not a new piece of technology. But every half hour in the day, it stops the music or whatever. And it's like, it's four o'clock now.

You should get up, go have a glass of water and go for a walk around. That's personable. That is personable. Oh, so it tells you that sort of stuff. Every day at what, at four o'clock or just every half hour? Every half hour from like three to six p.m.

I don't know how they've set it up. Just get up, have a glass of water, walk around. Do your parents just sit down all day just dehydrating? No, I was listening to the radio. It gave me a fright as well. But yeah, that's technology. And this is where it's heading, isn't it? AI, the robots, they're going to be manipulating us soon.

I know. Well, yeah, they will. Yeah. Well, you're probably right. You're probably right. You look like you need to get up and have a glass of water. I do. I do.

I need to stretch my legs. But the hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, while you might not be compatible with the person that you live with, but in many cases with relationships, it's opposites attract. If you're both into the same stuff all the time, it'd become mundane and boring, wouldn't it? That's true. You're right.

You can't be into everything that the other person's into. Yeah. Now, Producer Taylor, you're saying you and your husband, Marcelo, can't agree on... Movies or TV shows. I'm sure that's probably a common one. Yeah. Yeah.

So you guys will separately watch movies, I guess, then? It's gotten to that point. At the start, it's like you pretend to be interested, will separately watch movies, I guess, then? It's gotten to that point. At the start, it's like you pretend to be interested just to seem cool, I guess. You're like, I love all the Fast and Furious franchise. Yeah. And that went out real quick after they went to space. I was like, yeah, that'll do it for me. They've lost me.

Yeah. And now I'm just like, as soon as he recommends something, like the other day he wanted to watch The Godfather That's three hours That I would never get back And I was like Hell no And he's like

But that's your culture I was like I'm not involved in the mafia I'm not watching that Just because I'm Italian Yeah What an assumption The Godfather's your culture

Yeah so now It's a documentary on your family mate So now we've just set up a TV in the spare room And that's his space Oh nice. I mean yeah, Jen's always like let's watch Hollywood blockbusters. I prefer watching my home movies that I make on the iPhone.

Here's the neighbour putting out the bins, that sort of stuff. Real life footage. Yeah but that's what we want to know this morning. What are you not compatible with your partner with? 100 the hits, 4487? I do, I like to lose things. It's what? Yeah, I 100 the hits, 4, 4, 8, 7. I like to lose things. It's what I do.

I lose wallets, keys, swipe cards. All the time I'm losing stuff. Jen doesn't like to lose stuff. So we work well in that regard where I'm like, oh, where's my keys? She helps me find the keys. Loves it. I love it.

I'm sure she loves it. Bonding. Yeah. It may surprise you guys. I don't know. This might be a shock, but my wife doesn't enjoy test match cricket as much as me. Wow. Yeah, I know.

80% of the country. Yeah. She won't sit there for five days watching a game that may result in not a result. So, yeah. I know it's shocking. Have you taken it? Has she seen the thrill of live test match cricket? Well, yeah.

Yeah. She will go, like, in her defense, she'll go to one day as T20. She's like, fine. She'll watch those. Just when it comes to test match cricket, she's like, you're on your own. Even commentary on the radio, she won't, no, I don't know.

I don't know what it is about it. It's strange. Yeah, and to be fair to her, even the players look like, oh, jeez. This is dragging on. They're the ones playing the game. Yeah, yeah.

They're meant to be into it. Okay, so 0800 of the hits. 4487 is the text. You can get a hold of New Zealand's Breakfast. What you're not entirely compatible on when it comes to your partner. The relationship. You suffer the same fate, too, with your wife, Amanda. Temperatures, our body temperatures.

Mine and Jen's just way off. Yeah. She runs a very cold temperature. My body operates like a Tahitian island. It is like a tropical oasis in these underpants right now, Ben, but it's very hot. You could sauna down there if you wanted to. So the air con on the car, we can't agree.

It's not compatible. There's not one temperature where we're both satisfied. Yeah, well, there you are, but you still make it work, and that's why we want to hear those calls and texts this morning. I know, 100 of the hits. Let's go to Vel. Welcome from Tauranga. You're on New Zealand's Breakfast.

What are you not compatible with? Sleep. Oh, yeah, the body clock's not working together. No, no. He likes to sleep and I don't. I imagine that's quite a common thing in relationships all over the country. People getting up earlier than others. People going to bed early.

I go to bed at 7.30 and up at 4 every morning, so I can't sleep. You go to bed at 7.30 at night at 4 every morning So I can't sleep You go to bed at 7.30 at night? I do, I'm a courier driver Jeez, how does that work in summer? You're like going to bed in broad daylight Yep, yep In winter you go to work in the dark and come home in the dark And what time's he going to bed, Val? Oh, about 9

Yeah, well there you go Well that makes sense I thought you said you don't like sleep you're getting a lot of sleep some good sleep early sleep I don't you're getting up early though aren't you I get up to 11 or 12 not syncing up when it comes to the sleep

thanks Val Tom you're on welcome what are you not compatible with when it comes to your partner yeah my girlfriend doesn't think rugby league is proper rugby. I'm like a total Warriors fan. Rugby league, rugby league.

No, no, no, it's not proper rugby. Proper rugby has 15 people a size. Also, she's a union fan, you're a rugby league fan. Oh, there's many an argument around the country about this. Oh, boy. He said,

hyperventilating. Told you, we've really pushed the button too early in the morning to start hyperventilating, I'm sorry for one of you. I'm sorry, mate. Thank you for listening.

You go and have a great day. Up the wasp, up the wasp. Go and have a cup of tea and a lie down. Mate, a cup of Dilma and a lie down. Joe!

Good morning. How are you? Yeah, we're doing well. Good. Lovely to have you on. You're not compatible with your partner on one area of your life. And what is that? We don't live together.

How long have you been together? 13 years as of this week. Right. So obviously it works, then, the fact that you don't live together. Yep. Have you tried? Have you tried living together? We have, like, more or less in the beginning of our relationship.

It didn't work? Her behavior was controlling and annoying. And so what happens? You guys stay at each other's houses? Yeah, I normally stay with her on the weekends, just one or two nights, and then I'll go back to mine. But it obviously works. You're obviously both independent people, so you probably like your space,

but also like the fact when you come together. Yeah, exactly. Are you married? No. Are you planning on getting married? Yes. And what happens at that point? Would you move in together?

I don't see it like that. Hey, if it's working, don't fix what ain't broke. Exactly. And if I do move in, we'll probably fight a lot more. And so have you got a lot of your stuff over at her house, your belongings? You share the same bedroom at her house? Yeah, we just take a bag of clothes if I stay over.

Like a sleeper? Is she far from your place? No, about 10 minutes drive. You do what works for you. Yep, exactly. Hey, good on you. Well, you go and have a great day. Congratulations on the 13 years and the wedding. Thank you.

Go and text here, 4487, what you're not compatible with your partner. My partner's constantly checking out other people's bottoms. Drives me crazy. I don't know if it's for medical purposes or just purely personal or professional. Prostate doctor, maybe. You would. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Yeah. A lot of people have been suckered in by your many romance scams online over the years, too, haven't they been? That's true. Poor lady, she's been caught up in one, not two, but two. Two love rats pulled the wool over her eyes. And her name is Kasania. Good morning.

Hello, can you hear me now? Hello, I can hear you now. Can you hear me? Can you hear Ben? Yes. Yeah, I'm here. We're all here. We can all hear each other.

This is a textbook bloody phone call going on right here, Kasania. Now, you got scammed, love scammed. Yes. Unfortunately, I'm really popular with that. Have you fallen victim to a love scam more than once? Yes. Unfortunately, I'm really popular with that. Have you fallen victim to a love scam more than once? Yes. More than once, yes. How many times?

Twice is quite serious. And so this has come through online, obviously. Yes, online. First one was through Tinder. He was stuck somewhere in South America, and he wanted to come back to New Zealand, but he wanted to get to know me, and then he asked me for a credit card,

to send him a credit card. Well, that seems like the first logical question when you're getting to know someone. I know, Ben, one of the first things we asked each other were... Credit card details, yeah. And so did you give it to them? I almost sent it somewhere. I almost

did, but the post office said, nah, we can't send credit cards. Well, they saved you bacon there. And I can like, Kisanya, I know you probably feel a little bit embarrassed, don't you, after you've been scammed like this, but what they do is they come in on a personal connection level,

you know, so you feel like you can. Yeah, they know the tactics of love language. Manipulation. Yeah, yeah. And so you feel like you're in a position where you can't say no to hand over your credit card. Well, I said, you know, I cannot. Then he started threatening me with a lawsuit and stuff like that.

A lawsuit? Yeah. Oh, my goodness. A lawsuit of what? Yeah. Of that I played with him, that I was a player and stuff like that. Oh, you were scamming him. So that was one situation. You got out of that? You broke up with him that I was a player and stuff like that. Oh, you were scamming him.

So that was one situation. You got out of that. You broke up with him. Yes, I did. I actually blocked him. And just recent was through Instagram. The search person from Texas commented on my photo. And I said, who are you? And then we just started chatting and chatting with him.

And then he said, I'm coming to New Zealand. And I need to pay. Can you help? I said, how much? I said, 500 US dollars. It was like a year and a half. Oh, you did. You pulled out a year.

Good on you for doing that. How quickly into the sort of relationship, dare I say that, were they asking for money? Within a month. Wow. But I guess a month if you're talking to someone every day, maybe you form, you know, like people have been married in less time. This guy from Texas was already thinking that we are in a relationship, but we never met. Yeah. Why don't you just...

Love online can be tricky. Why don't you go back to finding a guy the good old-fashioned way, calling a number off a toilet wall? I tried. You've tried that as well? That's not working. Have you got someone in your life now, Kisanya? Kind of. That's good.

And when you mean kind of, has he started asking for credit card details? We're just friends, but we're taking it slow. Well, good on you. And a couple of valuable lessons learned. And it's just terrible, too, that they're preying on people, and all they want is a lovely relationship. Yeah, that's right.

What a man. Remember the good old days of the internet, Ben, where you'd just send pics of your bits and pieces on a chap roulette? Remember that? Yeah the internet, Ben, where you'd just send pics of your bits and pieces on a chest? Yeah, now it's a roulette. Remember that? Yeah. Well, thank you for sharing your story. I imagine it would be hard, but it's probably helped a lot of other people out there

who are in the same situation. Yeah. Exactly. Good on you, Kisanya. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Ben, we've got a pretty shabby history with the courier industry, this show. In the past, you, well, you can share the story about how you almost –

well, you wanted to hand over a celebrity autograph to a hardworking courier. I had a – yes, I've told this story before, but I had a long conversation with a courier at work. It was talking about the TV show and all that sort of stuff. And at the end, he went, oh, mate, better get an autograph before I go. And I went, oh, come on, I'm not that famous and he goes, yeah I know, I just need you to sign for the package Nothing hurts the buddy, nothing hurts the low level broadcaster

like an interaction like that Anyway, I was waiting for, probably my daughter's getting a study desk so we had ordered a study desk online, it was arriving yesterday the guy turned up, lovely gentleman, and put the packages on the driveway there. And he's like, I just need to, there's a new protocol now with the industry. We have to take a photo for my management to show that the items have arrived. Oh, yeah, I've had that happen before too. Yeah. have arrived oh yeah i've had that before too yeah and so in my head i'm like well for the courier

management to believe that the package has arrived surely they need to see the packages in the happy owner's hands oh yeah okay so i've been down i pick up the big desk i'm holding it and i'm giving it a big big cheesy smile even a thumbs up like this guy's done a good job got the package we're good to go posing waiting for him to take a photo and he's not doing he's not clicking bit right and he's like no i just need a photo of the package oh i don't need you holding and smiling i was posing for like a uh i thought it was a great photo yeah good angles so the light was good yesterday smiling i look like a happy customer. Oh, so he needed a photo of a package just at your property.

Just, yeah. But then that really took the wind out of the sails of the photo shoot, to be honest. I'll get one with me just to get deleted afterwards. I was feeling good. Just get one. But then I was like, what is that proof? Yeah.

Just a package on a footpath. I had one where the guy took a photo of me. The same situation as you, but they actually took a photo of me. But I'd come out in a lot of boxer shorts same situation as you but they actually took a photo of me but I'd come out in a box of shorts and I'm like oh you know

you're like where's this photo going is it going to be sent around the courier office you can actually buy it on the dark web now yeah it was shirtless

in a box of shorts I'm like oh I wasn't looking malnourished man holds ASOS package yeah I was like oh so maybe after that

they said let's all get ones with the customers well when Yeah, I was like, oh, so maybe after that they said, oh, let's all get ones with the customers. Well, when he left, I was like, it's like the photographer telling Brad Pitt, hey, mate, you know, he's doing one of those, you know, those watch photos, you see them all in the airport. Mate, take the watch off.

We just want a photo of the watch. We don't need you. He's the good bit. Yeah. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Do you prefer hot summer days Or cold beautiful winter days? It's quite nice the cold I quite like the cold

Yeah the cold When the sun's out Not when it's cold you know Is it when we're guns out? Were you guns out over the weekend? Definitely not guns out over the weekend But no it was nice over the weekend Yeah it was beautiful

It really was Talking to someone yesterday Just outside the school gate And she is our age in her 40s, and she's like, I've got to go to a work function tonight, and they're going to get us all. It's a team-building one. They're going to swap.

Hey, you team up with someone you don't know, and we're going to do a big create, you know, try and get the morale up there. Yeah. And she's like, I'm at a point in my life where i feel like i know everyone that i want to know i don't want to meet any more people and i thought that's an interesting stage of life to be in yeah like i've met everyone i want to meet and she's like i don't even keep up those relationships as well as i as i probably should

let alone bringing new people into the fold. But then when you're working with people, I think the relationships, you're kind of having to work with people. You're forced to. So then in that case, team building is a great idea. You're not trying to team build with random people. You're creating a more team environment. And those are those things sometimes you go into going, oh, what's this going to be like? But afterwards, you're like, that's really good.

You get a lot out of those. You throw yourself into it those are the good things to go on with a negative attitude and then be pleasantly surprised about how they turned out what do you think is the perfect number of friends that you can maintain i don't know it's tough when you get older i guess you know like when you're a kid you have so many friends and stuff producer joel you'd have a lot of friends three three do you maintain three good friendships no i feel like i i am kind of at the at the point where i've come from high school uni and stuff i do have like a decent group of friends but you're now realizing like to maintain and communicate and and and see these friends on a day-to-day basis very very hard taylor if you

want to come through taylor our producer, perfect amount of friends. I would say anything under 10. 10's good because you can remember personal kids' birthdays. You can remember all the finer details, anniversaries. Yeah, so we got married last year, and I struggled to have three bridesmaids, and so I had to add one that was a sister-in-law. So I'd say I have three friends.

Oh, so three in total. How many at your wedding? 200. Woo! About 180 my husband's side. Wow. She's a big family. Did you only invite 20 people?

Pretty much, yeah. Four of those were parents and grandparents. That's a massive wedding, isn't it? Yeah. You can let numbers get away on you, can't you, with friendships. So, you know, Facebook too. Social media has a lot of responsibility with this. How many friends you got on Instagram, Ben?

Well, I don't – yeah, friends on Instagram or people that follow. I guess you have close friends and you have people that you're friendly with, I guess is the way you kind of do it. You're right. You have lots of people you're friendly with and you don't mind hanging out for a drink or whatever it is, but have people that you're friendly with, I guess is the way you kind of do it. You're right. You have lots of people you're friendly with and you don't mind hanging out for a drink or whatever it is, but then I guess you're right. There's only a small number of people that you can actually have

decent relationships with. Especially when kids come along and then you spend most of your time driving them around to their friends. And you're like, hey, well, thanks for ruining my social life, kids. Do you know I had 32 friends before you came along? The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast my daughter Indy 11 years old

she's we talked about this before she says she will never swear she'll never say a bad word in her life and I keep going yeah

it's lovely she's cashing checks she can't what's the saying cash you can't yeah you're writing checks you can't cash

yeah she didn't have an idea what checks were so I don't have to explain that one. Checks still functioning in the banking system. Even if she hears a bad word, and I'm with her, she'll look at me like, did you hear that? I'm like, yeah, I heard that, you know? I forget sometimes that little ears are around. Just, you know, sometimes when kids come in here.

Yeah. Oh, just talking away like we're eating. But then you go on the radio and you don't. I know. It's unusual. Yeah. kids come in here yeah oh just talking away like you go on the radio and you don't i know it's unusual we were uh in tauranga weren't we for a couple of days and we ran into an old friend who was looking after a gaggle of school children and you just like there's a whole lot of kids around and you're like oh my god you've done about i felt like my daughter indy then in that situation i was like he said about five different if you know also like we've been talking in the pub or something yeah but i like to test my daughter

just to see how much she'll stick to it like bribery she's like no whatever it is what's the going rate at the moment for let's say an nf bomb well i don't want to push it too hard because i actually quite like the fact i'm like good on you that's your thing but i'm like all right 10 bucks she'd be like no no 10 bucks 10 bucks you buy this and that this is some shocking parenting yeah i know so i'm like good on you but uh every now and again i like to test it and last night she was walking through a doorway i could hear her coming i was like i'll just jump out and give her a bit of a fright see what her reaction was and she got a bit of a fright but she in the in the moment she just looked at me and went bro

that was that was what she came out with and then she looked at me and went, bro. That was what she came out with. And then she looked at me like, why did I say bro? I looked at her like, why did you say bro? We're both very, very confused by the situation. Well, you know, you really have, once you've reached the stage where all you're doing is trying to get your daughter to swear, you've done all the heavy lifting on parenting, haven't you? No, she's great. She clocked it.

But a very unusual bro. Bro. She's never said that before And I don't think she'll ever say it again But it is weird Where you call someone I've called my wife accidentally bro As well too

And that's not good I do that to my son all the time too Ben used to weird out Our old producer bee humps You do yeah You talk to him like he's a Mate Yeah

Yeah true And well that was the end of that story Yeah The beginning and end bro That's right