Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: Ben's Kids Are Stoked He Is Back At Work!

Episode Date: April 16, 2023

Ben took his family on way too many activities! The Hand sanitiser incident... Jono lost his sunglasses after 3 hours. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. Second week of school holidays, we had a few days off after Easter, which was nice to hang out with the family, but both of us have got young kids as well. But I felt like maybe I overdid it, because you work a bit, you don't see the kids as much when you're working, so I was like, cool, we're not going away,

but let's do some activities. I like activities. I could have predicted this going into it. You weren't in the mood for a holiday. You weren't in the mood to relax. You wanted to keep on going. Look, I think the worst possible thing for you right now, what would happen if you contracted COVID today?

Would you just pretend it wasn't there? Because you have so many emails backed up, so much stuff you want to get done this week. That last week, I imagine, was action-packed. I looked back last night and I was like, oh, it's probably too... Well, my poor family, they'll be like, just go back to work, mate. Because, as I say, we were going to go away

and spend money on accommodation. We're like, no, that's, you know, that's spent some money on a few activities, stay around the home. And then I looked back and I was like, geez, we did a lot. We packed in a lot. Every day did you have something going on?

Yeah, so we went to Mini Putt. We went to Bouncy Castle, the obstacle course one day. Made his wife go on a bouncy castle. Did she stick it out for 60 minutes, Amanda? No, she did a couple and then she went and got a drink. She got a wine at the place next door. I was like, that's good. Warriors, took them to the Warriors league game.

I went to Wicked, the musical. Went to Weta workshops as well. Went there as well. Went to the movies. I was like, but one morning, my family, like I got up and they were like, they hardly sleep in. They were 10.30. They were all still up.

They weren't even asleep. They were just hiding from you. Hiding from the room. Shutting the doors. Do you know what I did, honestly? Don't make it sound. Because my wife is a very, very deep sleeper. It does wake up.

But I was like, I checked her pulse. It was 10.30 in the morning. I was like, she never sleeps that long. I just checked her pulse just to be sure. She woke up and I'm like holding my hand on her wrist. She's there. She's still good. They're the only family who come back more exhausted from a holiday

than when they went into the holiday. So now they've got a week without me. Well, I mean, I'm still going to be there trying to jam activities. You'll be wanting to do afternoon activities now. No, but no, maybe I need to pull back. Maybe that was too much. Looking at the amount of days and what we did last week, I was like, oh, it was too much.

So, yeah, so I think I should pull back, right, for my family. Have you looked up the meaning of holiday in the dictionary? It doesn't mean when you make yourself and your schedule busier than when it usually is when you're working. But I hate the feeling of not, you know, like it's always just. When was the last time you just sat down for an hour? And did nothing. Went on your computer, went firing off emails to me.

What am I doing if I'm sitting down for an hour? Just sitting, just being. Just being. Just being. Existing. I couldn't do that. I just couldn't do it. No.

Because what I love about Bed 2 is We've mentioned His prolific emailing Is he figured out a hack That you can schedule Send emails Oh yeah And now he just

Like he writes them all He gets them all out of his system But then they're all just Sitting in this giant folder Waiting to fire off You wait guys Six minutes Eight o'clock this morning

Bing bing bing bing bing Your inboxes are going to be Lighting up Producer B Jono They're all ready to go. Couldn't see them last week because I'm on holiday, but they're written all ready to go.

Although he wanted to see them last week. He's just like, this will look bad on me if I do. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Need the motivation heading into the week, and so we like to kind of try and inspire you and us Heading into another working week Yeah, this is the uplifting content that you need And if you just cast your mind back

We know we've been off for a week We thought we'd pay this Israel Adesanya, UFC fighter Living in New Zealand He made a wonderful comeback a week ago Yeah, it was awesome, wasn't it? Directly after the fight He he'd knocked the guy out, and he looked around for the guy's kids,

and he taunted some crying children. And that's the inspiration I need. Get out there, bully kids. Kids, they're not too young enough to lose. It's all part and parcel of UFC. It's all what happens. But what he said afterwards, I thought was pretty cool. He grabbed the microphone from Joe Rogan.

Oh, there's more inspiring stuff. Yeah, have a listen to what he said afterwards i thought was pretty cool he grabbed the microphone oh there's more inspiring stuff yeah have a listen to what he said afterwards after head one it was awesome i hope every one of you behind the screens on this arena can feel this level of happiness just one time in your life i hope all of you can feel how happy i am just one time in your life. But guess what? You will never feel this level of happiness if you don't go for something in your own life. When they knock you down, when they try and **** on you, when they talk **** about you, and they try and put their foot on your neck.

If you stay down, you will never ever get that resolve. Fortify your mind. That's pretty awesome, wasn't it? Yeah, because obviously he copped a wee bit after he'd lost. And to come back, so he'd written it on his wall, his mirror as well. He'd written a message up saying the date. And he was going to change the world and shock everyone. And he did.

Yeah, he really is. He's an inspiring guy and probably our most famous athlete. Wouldn't you say? Yeah, I'd say so. Internationally, yeah. And that was inspiring enough. You're probably already inspired. Well, we ought to stop there

because we've got a heartwarming inspirational story now. And we're joined by Sarah from the Kindness Collective. Morena, thanks so much for having me. Oh, nice to talk to you. You're doing something really awesome at the moment. Mate, 6.30 in the morning, we'll have anyone. We're desperate. We're desperate.

We'll chuck anyone on the radio. Yeah, but this is actually a very important thing that you're doing, Sarah, with the Kindness Collective. Yeah, thank you. We're in the middle of the PJ Project that we just launched about a week or two ago. It's really simple. We just collect and distribute warm winter pyjamas for thousands of children across the country who need just a little bit of kindness.

So it's a really simple project and the goal this year 20 000 pairs of pyjamas yeah look it sounds like a lot when you say it like that doesn't it um but i think it's just we can collectively all kind of jump in together and just chip each pair off one by one and um and get them to kids who need them so it sounds like lot, but I think we can do it. It's a great idea coming into the winter, the colder months. It's already started to get cold. So if people are listening right now and want to help out some kids around New Zealand with some pyjamas, how can they do it? There's a few ways, actually.

So you can jump on our website, which is just kindness.co.nz and donate $10 and we'll turn that into a pair of pyjamas. Or you can drop them off at any participating Columbus coffee cafe around the country and all the lists of them are on our website as well. Brand new ones, please, not secondhand. And also you can go into Posty and we've actually made our own Cleanness Collective pyjamas and they are super cute and not unfortunately in your size. But you can buy them from posty and uh until the end of the school holidays for every pair um purchase posty will give us a dollar which we then put back into pjs as well now i'm i'm not

a pj guy full commander okay oh look that's a bit early to be talking about that, isn't it? It's quite confronting when I stay at the in-laws. Mmm, okay. I had to go on the kids' school camp once in the dormitory. Oh jeez, oh jeez. Fantastic thing to think about on a Monday morning, can't you? Yeah, it's too early for that, you're right. Now Sarah, congratulations to you guys, your community. You were the New Zealander of the Year Awards.

You won that out, the Best Community Group. We did, yeah, a couple of weeks, three weeks ago. Time has lost. Yeah, it was a real honour. It's really exciting and we were really chuffed to win this year. Yeah, it's really cool and we're on ads all over TV. It's really quite confronting to see

yourself on TV, isn't it? Not as confronting as Jono without my javas, but I'm sure it's up there for you. Well, that's what the school principal said anyway. Sarah, lovely talking to you. Kindest collective, just amazing things for New Zealand. So keep it up. And you can follow them on social media

and find out how you can help out some Kiwi kids over winter. Thanks so much, guys. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We went away to Whangamata over the Easter break there. It was wonderful there in the Coromandel. And I'm not a big sunglass guy. I said to you a few months ago, I was like, I've drawn a line in the sand with sunglasses

because I can't be held responsible for them. I lose them. If they were children, Oranga Tamariki, they would have been called on me, mate. They would have been set upon me. But I've lost probably, in the last 12 months, a dozen pairs of sunglasses. To the point where I was like, well, all I do

now, I never buy sunglasses over $5. Okay, I don't know how good these are going to be for your eyes, or your fashion sense, but you're doing it, so that's your thing. You can feel your corneas slowly burning off through the lenses.

But that's been my rule. And if I lose them, I lose them. But as it's transpiring, the amount I'm spending on under $5 glasses, the total would have added up to probably a decent

UV protection. Do you find you're more reckless with them? I don't care. Yeah. And so I arrived in Whangamata I was like I don't have any glasses

I've lost them again Okay So I was like I'll go to the Wonderful Sonny's there An emporium Of everything you want You name something

It's in Sonny's Yeah Well hopefully Sonny's That's the one thing you want Hopefully it's in Sonny's Plenty Plenty Plentiful supply of sunglasses

And I stretched my budget I went $12.50 on this pair Treat yourself So I bought these I had to look back At my purchase About 10 o'clock

In the morning They were gone By quarter to one In the afternoon Jeez Two hours 45 minutes From buying a pair

Of brand new sunglasses To them Who knows Where they've got how many beers were also gone in that time i also bought a box of heineken then you lost your glass that's i do know you're very you are very erratic with your with your stuff you know like there was one of my big bug beers whenever we film anything or do anything you're just like you've got a hat on.

We filmed something last year with a balloon. You had sunglasses on for half it. You had sunglasses on for the other one. You had a hat on. You put a hat backwards. You had a beanie on. Oh, yeah. It ruins his continuity.

He's got a toupee. I don't know what he's doing. Cowboy hat now. It's like, hat was on backwards. Hat was on forwards. Which way is he going? It's like consistently through. You're very all over the place.

Do you remember when we went to go to Europe for work and we were flying? And I had heard that there was a community of people throughout Europe, pickpocketing community. Yeah, you were very worried about the pickpockets. So I had what got affectionately named the paranoid pouch. And it was a little pouch that I'd wear inside my shirt. I mean,

I could have put it inside my body. Yeah. So it's like a little bum bag but thinner, right? Yeah, an internal bum bag. Yeah, something like

if you're trying to get some contraband through customs you might hide it in the paranoid pouch. To the point where you were mocking me for the paranoid pouch.

I've got my cash because it'll safe I'm gonna blow you'll be you'll be the ones laughing when I keep it safe and then what happened I left the paranoid I tell you what tell you didn't get it the pickpocketers you got And back. I don't know, to bust back through security? Oh, my God. Tell you what, who didn't get it? The pickpocketers. You got it in the end. But I almost gave it to them on a plane. The quickest time that you've owned something and then you've lost it.

Lightning speed losses. We'd love to hear from you. You remember I tried to start wearing bracelets? You did for a little bit, didn't you? Yeah, wrist bracelets. Lost that. Did you lose it I wondered what

happened to that I love that it gets to the boomer age particularly the boomers where the reading glasses become like the panic station

where are my reading glasses and it's always funny when they're on their heads but they always sit on the end of their nose

or on the top of their heads that's why mum was like where were glasses you're like is this a gag you're doing right

now because they're on the top of your head 0800 the hits mum was like, where were the glasses? You're like, is this a gag you're doing right now? Because they're on the top of your head. 0800 the hits 4487 someone's texting here, Amelia actually I lost my, I have got a new car I lost the car keys within an hour. Looked everywhere for them. Their two year old comes in

complaining that his butt was sore and when I had changed his nappies, the keys were inside the butt cheeks of her two-year-old. So there you go. Lightning paste losses. Wonderful stuff. That's awesome. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Second week of the school holidays and a few activities. I did a few activities with my family. We covered them off. It'll make you exhausted just listening to the list of stuff that Ben got done. But one of the cool things we did, we went and watched the performance of Wicked, the musical, which is the story. I didn't really know the story, but it's got the story. It's kind of like the origin story of the Wicked Witch of the West,

how she becomes wicked. So it's kind of set before Wizard of Oz. So she was all innocent and then obviously something transformational happened in her life to turn, and then you feel sorry for the witch. Yeah, kind of go through with optimal feelings. That happened with Cruella when I watched Cruella. Yes, it's kind of like, oh, she's got childhood issues here.

It's kind of the same thing. So you go through, it was actually a really awesome performance. So the cast were incredible. the whole thing was amazing and yeah the story you kind of watch uh wizard of oz now and go oh i know that this thing kind of leads into this but one thing i did notice at the end uh about i've been to the musical for a while the standing ovation is an interesting one i remember i had to go to our friend Dan? Oh, yeah, you text at halftime. He's in musical theatre and he was at some bloody show and it was an obligation of us to go along and watch him. But you text him halftime going, hey, mate, how long to go?

Like, this guy's performing. You're going along there and you're like, I mean, no, like, hey, this is awesome. You know, how long to go? And he said, don't worry, the second half is shorter than the first. I said, good to hear. But this is really incredible.

Did you text the cast? No, I enjoyed the whole lot. But I noticed that someone wrote very early on the standing ovation, maybe because they knew the person. But then after that, they were like, oh, do I keep standing? Do I sit back down? Do I not keep standing? I've always dreamed of leading a standing ovation.

Well, they kind of led it, but then they sort of bobbled up and down. And then we all kind of got up towards the last, savagely towards the end of that. You should have probably done it from the start because they were all incredible. But I had a moment because I love my hand sanitizer, as you know. He loves it as much as he loves his children, that hand sanitizer. And I had a moment where I was like eating some snacks in there and I went to spray it on my hands.

And you know when it kind of shoots out at the wrong angle? Oh, listen, this is a topic that goes largely unspoken. As misfired hand sanitizers, this has happened to you previously. Yeah. You squirt down the thing and boom, it just goes off on a complete dog leg. Straight into my eye. And then it starts to burn to your eye. You start rubbing your eye.

I kind of rubbed it on my hands and rubbed the other eye. And I went out of there looking like I'd just been bawling my eyes out and wicked. Everyone afterwards you're talking to, you can tell when they're looking at you, you're like, oh my God, he's really got. Was it a tear-jerking performance? No, it was amazing. But I wouldn't say at the end of it you would be sobbing or anything. It was like, yeah, it was a story that kind of, I don't want to give it away,

but it didn't end in tears for anyone else. But it looked like it ended in tears for me for some reason. How did you cover up your crying? I don't want to give it away, but it didn't end in tears for anyone else, but it looked like it ended in tears for me for some reason. How did you cover up your crying? I don't know. I just awkwardly talked to people as they could have stood there. I should have probably front-footed it and said it was hand sanitizer. Well, I took them along to Puppetry of the Penis. It's the same thing.

Started crying afterwards. I'm not a lobbyist. Don't worry, mate. I went home and watched, though. We just seen how they actually meant to look. We went home and watched the original Wizard of Oz because it got us inspired after watching it. And really, like, in the 1930s, they came out with that movie,

which was incredible. And actually, when you look at it now, you're like, oh, that was amazing how they did that. But behind the scenes, it was a nightmare. Oh, we dived into this about a year ago. Yeah. It was all sorts of crazy. Didn't the Tin Man got lead poisoning from the paint.

He did. Yeah, he ended up in hospital. The Wicked Witch got burnt, and she ended up 14 days in hospital with, like, second-degree burns. The snow was like... Asbestos. Asbestos.

Just raining asbestos. What did she get again last night? The lion's got his mouth open and that's it. I'm like, mate. Swallowing asbestos. You know, they had poor Judy Garland who was only like 15, 16 at the time. Had her jacked up on amphetamines so they could get more hours out of her on set. Get a bit more pepper to step.

Those were the glory days, eh? Party men nowadays would be PC men. And the bunch kids, they had wild, wild adult parties as well too. So that was really, that was, yeah, there was a lot going on in the original Wizard of Oz That sort of activity would get you cancelled nowadays Get me crying, that's for sure