Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: Career Advice With Jono Pryor

Episode Date: September 3, 2023

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The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations. It was Father's Day yesterday, so I hope everyone listening that it was the Father had a great day. Didn't see my kids at all on Father's Day. They had sleepover and then we left duly to go to Tauranga and got late. And that's the way you wanted it as a dad. Not a single second with my kids. Pretend I don't have children. We're down to the Ames Games, which we'll talk more about later today, but it was a lot of fun.

It was a lot of fun. Yeah, jeez. What, 10,000 screaming kids inside Bay Park, but it's a great event, the Ames Games. And hey, Ben, you didn't have your two children with you, but you had 10,000 of your closest. Exactly. You spent a day with screaming children, and that's the main thing for Father's Day. And now on our social media yesterday on the John O'Ben accounts that

I thought I'd put up something while we were in the car ride down. We're like we should put something up for Father's Day and we'd found a photo that we'd taken with Alf Stewart. Ray Marr from Home and Away, the iconic actor. Stone the Flaming Crows. I think we've got some audio of, you know,

Alf Stewart and his flaming galahs. Flaming mongrel. Flaming drug deal. Flaming menace. Flaming bargain. Flaming maniac. Flaming hernia. Flaming devil worshipper people.

Flaming kids. Flaming white ass. Flaming yoghurt. He likes a flaming, doesn't he? He does. And so we put a flaming poster. He gets a script and he's like, I'll chuck a Flamin' in front of every second word here, okay?

So because we did a photo with him years ago, and I thought, cheap joke. I'll put a photo of you next to him up there. I'll crop myself out of it and we'll put it up online because, you know, you both got the same hairstyle, haven't you, Jono? Yeah, you're saying striking resemblance between Alf Stewart and myself. There could be DNA running through both of us.

So put it up there. Well, there is DNA running through both of us, but it could be the same DNA. Happy Father's Day, Dad. Love, Jono was the caption. Put it up there. Thinking that everyone would understand it was clearly a joke. Appreciate your level of humour. But it didn't seem like...

Your bullying of my baldness. It didn't seem to be taken by a joke by everyone. There's a lot of comments here. People going, oh, wow, you're so lucky to have an awesome dad, Giotto. Flaming galahs, you've got a corker of a dad. Alf is a New Zealander? And the eyes are like, wow. Seriously, your dad is Alf from Home and Away.

You're so lucky, Giotto. Like a lot. I mean, it's probably split that some people got okay I guess but then when you when you go happy Father's Day dad lots of love Jono yeah you know I can see how people would end up there there's other people that said I thought David Lomas was your dad which is a great comment it's it's Father's Day not April Fool's guys and someone else just is not as dead yeah so. So some people did appreciate that. So would you like to clarify for the people that...

Well, you can clarify. I don't know. I mean, I wasn't... Listen, I haven't done... Well, yeah, I haven't done the paternity test, but as far as I know, Alf is not my father. Although I'd love him as a father. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Jeez, it must pump. These amateur athletes must pump a lot of money into the Tauranga economy, Ben Boyce. Yeah, and we went there last night because we were part of emceeing the opening ceremony and it was so big they had to have two of them throughout the day. And kids, just they're away from the parents for the most part. They're away from school. They are just jacked up.

They're ready to go. Energy. I mean, we were just talking about Prime Energy Drink before. They didn't need Prime. They were jacked up. Now, up the wars popular phrase at the moment we thought i'll get on this bandwagon yeah because the warriors playing saturday night finals excited about that thought we'd film a video so we could send it to them and just

nothing gets 5 000 kids going like saying why don't you say up the wars have a listen we've got 5,000 people here. They're pretty excited. They've got a message for you, the Warriors. What do you want to say? Up the Wars! Can we get one more for them? Up the Wars.

So good. Even when the musicians are playing on stage, we had wonderful Georgia Lyons. All I could hear through the whole thing was, Up the waz. So good. Even when the musicians are playing on stage, we had wonderful Georgia Lyons. She's like, all I could hear through the whole thing was, up the waz. It's like, all right, we'll just say up the waz. Everyone embracing it was pretty cool. And so we were on stage and we were trying to, you know,

relate to get some good, some energy out of these kids. And we were sitting backstage at Bay Park Stadium and we were like, okay, we need to come up with some things, some references. Yeah, brain stop. Like two 40-year-old guys just trying to relate to 12-year-olds. And we're like, okay. So what do you reckon?

Planking. I learned to plank and dabbing. What are we doing here? No blocks. What are we doing? Oh, that's a good one. Oh, yeah, because we came out. We're like, well, let's give an example.

In hindsight, we didn't need an example of trying to warm up the crowd because everyone was fizzing anyway. But we're like, let's pretend we're not John Orman B and let's pretend we're like well let's give an example we in hindsight we didn't need an example of trying to warm up the crowd because everyone was fizzing anyway but we're like let's pretend we're not john or ben let's pretend we're someone cooler so like what about taylor swift harry styles they're like yay and then i said you threw me under the bus you're like say charlie d'amelio they love charlie d'amelio the whole stadium i don't know why she seems lovely we lost him i was like yeah then you're trying to pull it back. You're like, and she bought Jake Paul a friend, and he's got free Prime drinks.

It was like, ah, yeah. You kind of lost him. So that was the first show. So then we're backstage in the- The crisis meeting. In the war room. Sitting around going, okay, well, that one. Okay, let's get rid of references that didn't hit.

Let's get some more going on. Like Miley Cyrus. Yeah, I guess you could be a reference yeah harry potter harry potter's a good one as well so yeah that's right we did a thing crocs crocs yeah i was like and then i pulled out it was like oh god look at us but it works it works and that was what we met so many cool uh so many cool people uh it was awesome actually to be part Made us feel much cooler than we actually are to be part of it. So thank you for having us. Have a wonderful time. If you are going along to the AIMS Games this week,

you're taking part because it is just once in a lifetime for many people. And thank you to everyone who tooted and waved at us on the motorway because we were driving down in a car, the hits car with our faces on it. And nothing draws more attention to yourself than driving in a car with your face on it. Well, you, because you didn't have the lights on i kept going you've got the lights on you're like yeah you know it's because we're up high i was like oh yeah i don't know if it does yeah you know it's a boy i drove for about 20 k's without the lights on i'm pretty sure you know it's somewhere up high all these people are flashing at us hi guys how are you good night mate must be a

fan great to meet a fan i'm like oh just put your lights on. Dear God. There we go. Honestly, 15 minutes, you were like, are you sure they're on? Are you sure? Yeah, it doesn't seem like it's going. I can't see too far ahead of me. You're like, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it's all good. Driving in darkness. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Joined by former Māori All Black and Highlander, Joe Wheeler, Sky Sport reporter and commentator. You haven't got the ticket to Paris, Joe. No, no, no, mate. Unfortunately, I'm not off to Paris. I'm part of the broadcast back in New Zealand, so I'm going to be floating around the country, engaging with all the beautiful All Black fans.

Not Paris, though, unfortunately. Not Paris. Buddy, what greasy shark got to go over to Paris, mate? Well, I'll tell you what, you know, you've got to be either bald or 100 test all black to go over. So Jeff Olsen and Mills Bolleina got the bump ahead of me. And I don't know why. Now, actually, Jeff Olsen, I was reading actually last night, that you idolised him, you know, in your playing days,

and now you work alongside him, one of your heroes. What is that like? That must be quite surreal, going from rugby yourself to working for Sky Sport next to your idol. Yeah, it is really, really cool, mate. I do have sort of moments where you go, far out, this is the guy as a kid that I idolised. Yeah, he was certainly my hero,

although I couldn't do nearly half what he could do on the rugby field. But yeah, now obviously getting to work on the screens alongside him and talk rugby, I sometimes feel a little bit like I'm suffering from imposter syndrome when I'm working beside him because he is, in my eyes, one of the greatest New Zealand sportsmen, full stop, that we've produced. I've got a Jeff Wilson story. Actually, my son plays basketball. We turned up to the gym. My son's team was playing a team coached by Jeff Wilson.

And I was just like, time to, let's pack up, kids. Yeah, it feels like that, right? I think he took out the whole tournament. Wow. Yeah, he would have. He's super competitive. Like, there's no way that those kids, unless they had come first, he wouldn't be very unhappy.

He wouldn't be dropping them home, mate. Pulling out. Exactly. Joey Wheeler with us right now. Also, you, I was going to say, the husband of, well, Courtney, your wife, she was on the block, New Zealand. So did she do all the renovations at home? Does she take care of that?

Yeah. I mean, struggling at the moment with a four-year-old and a two-year-old in the house to do any sort of, look at any sort of renovations. But yeah, she does have a passion, much to the bank account's inability to fund her passion for renovation and also anything interior designs. Yeah, she was on the block

and she thoroughly enjoyed it alongside her best mate, Emma Diamond. It's a lot more challenging than what they make out on the TV screens, I'll give you the tip. They had to work bloody hard for the three or four months that they were involved. So it was a cool experience for Courtney. We've got Joe Wheeler with us.

Sky have got all 48 Rugby World Cup matches on Sky Sport and Sky Sport Now. What are we thinking? Are we feeling confident about the ABs heading into the World Cup? I was feeling a lot more confident than a week ago before the South African test. Yeah, look, that was a little bit of a concern. I must admit, having a record-breaking loss for the All Blacks

two weeks out from the first game against France. My prediction is that the first round, which is France versus the All Blacks, will be the final as well. That's how I think it's going to all play out and we'll play them again at the pointy end of the competition. But the likes of Aaron Smith, Brodie Retallick, Dane Coles, Bowden Barrett

and also Ian Foster, for them to go out on a high note like a World Cup win would just be the perfect way to finish their All Black careers. Just quickly before we let you go back to your life without us in it, Joe Wheeler, I'm honored to play a quick game. Wheeler and dealer. So I've gone on to Trade Me and I've found some sporting items.

I thought maybe you could guess the buy now price and see how good you are. Right on, mate. Yeah, that's good. Australian 2016 rugby jersey, a Wallabies top, extra large. What's the buy now? This is in New Zealand, but it's a Wallabies jersey. What do you think of that for sale?

What year was that? 2016 Australia rugby jersey. I'm just showing that one to Jono right there. It's probably 2016. I'm going to say the buy now on that bad boy would be, you know, a little bit retro, not retro enough to be a high price. I'm going to say $62. Oh, $59 buy now.

Jeez. Well, yeah, $59 buy now. Well, geez. All right, here we go. A cricket box, male. Used cricket box. Any size. Any size.

I love how the person stipulates used but hasn't put the size no i haven't got a size as well that's a key that's quite key when it's about the box isn't it you know that is key it comes with the sort of the underwear as well that you put inside but that's lost the elastic it says as well so it's not well used well used by the look of it what do you reckon i buy now for that one worn byorn by anyone, say this? No, not this year's. We'll do a DNA swab. I don't think so. A box that's in its jockeys with no elastic.

I would have thought you're looking at five bucks plus. What? Are you serious? It's bang on five bucks. Joe Wheeler, lovely chatting with you. Good luck for the coverage of the Rugby World Cup. As mentioned, all 48 games live on Sky, Sky Sport, and the brand new channel as well.

Thanks, lads. Yeah, can't wait for it. Rugby World Cup is going to be awesome. Make sure you get up for it, team. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Hey, went for a meal at a friend's house Saturday night. And you know how certain people in your life, friends or family members, they've got hobbies. And when you're in their field, you're in your life, friends or family members, they've got hobbies.

And when you're in their field, you're in their environment, you've got to pretend to be interested about the hobby. Do you have those people? Yeah, I guess so. Everyone's got their hobbies, which is great. Anyway, and my friend, he's a whiskey connoisseur. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, I knew it was coming at the end of the night because it would be a lovely meal,

and I always dread the end of the night because he opens up his cupboard, you know, displaying five bottles of these whiskeys, which, you know, it's kind of like, you know, in Fifty Shades of Grey when Christian Grey opens up his playroom. And that's kind of the light comes beaming out. And I've got to act impressed by these bottles of whiskey. And he's very passionate about the whole thing.

There's a backstory on each bottle, you know, some Scottish legend in a kilt fought an army of 340 men by himself and then drank a bottle of this whiskey or so, you know, this bottle was soaked through the bagpipes of some other Scottish battler. And then I'm like, I know what's coming next. He's going to pour straight whiskey. Oh, that's the thing. They always go straight.

This is the way to have it. You're like, just put something else in it. It's not the way I have it. Yeah, I feel the same as you. I feel like it's lost on me. It's obviously expensive. You have it. You have it.

So he pours over there. It's just raw whiskey and ice's obviously expensive. You have it. You have it. So he pours over there, and it's just raw whiskey and ice. And I'm kind of drinking. I feel like petrol's pouring down my throat. And I'm like, I could just do it with another. Let's just have a beer. But I'm having to go through this whole charade and dance of this whiskey-tasting session. But it's great. I love that he's into it.

But it's like wine-tasting people. Nine times out of ten, most people, when they're brought over a bottle of wine or something like would you like to taste this for the table no one has any no one has any idea i know i know there's one time one time i've been with someone that sent the wine back i was like it felt like it was like this never happens before but the guy my mate of mine does work for a winery he's a winemaker so if anyone and he did it in a lovely way but it was like, this never happens before. But the guy, my mate of mine does work for a winery. He's a winemaker. So if anyone, and he did it in a lovely way, but I was like, oh, this never happens. It's normally like, oh, that's great.

Thanks. You try it and away you go. I know. It's not like when you go to Friday lunch with Charlene from Accounts and she's like, you're going to really taste the tangelos. Well, this wine's corked. I need to send it back. She's like, just chuck another shardy in my glass in those

in those situations how much tasting can you do before they go hey mate you've got to start paying can you please

bring out another bottle just keep trying and trying you should try that after seven tastings she's like actually no I'm pretty good

for wine to be honest the hits the Jono and Ben podcast had a really interesting interaction outside the fish and chip shop. Okay. Someone who looked like they had been at a long lunch.

They probably had started at a office lunch around about midday. They were picking up fish and chips. And all of a sudden there's a phone in front of my face. And they're going, what career advice have you got for me? And I don't look like a career advice sort of person, do you? No, you probably don't. If anything, if you've seen what I've done, try and do the opposite, and your career will go well.

But I think she was probably like 21 years old, and as she was asking me what career advice do you have for me, I was like, well, it's not going to matter because chances are you're probably not going to. And then she's like, that's why I'm filming it so I can look back tomorrow and remember the advice. So this is the person that was wanting the advice while they were filming it. They were wanting it and filming it.

So it wasn't for someone else. No, this is for their career. Okay. And I was like, well, this is a big gamble to ask a complete stranger for career advice. But she claims she'd been in a job for six months and she was like i've chosen the wrong career oh and she's obviously thought well the best person to talk to about this would be some rando outside a fish and chip shop at six o'clock

on a friday night yeah uh but here's the advice i gave you spend so long at work throughout your life you've got to do something you love. And I was like, damn, that's some good advice. On the spot, Friday night, 6 o'clock advice bed. Yeah. Yeah, no, it's actually really good on the spot. You're right. I think it's something people do.

Yeah, you can work just to make money, but then you can also work because you love the job as well. And that's when a lot of people get a little pleasure from it, right? What's the advice you would give just to anyone in general from what you've learned? What did I hear the other day was quite good. Success is not a – you put me on the spot here. There's no elevator to success. You've got to take the stairs. That was quite good.

There was the other one that we heard the other day too. This is just us half remembering Instagram quite. What is this? The guy Teddy came in here And he's like Oh Teddy Swims Yeah we're playing him on the hits Yeah

10 years to become an overnight success That's how long he'd been ploughing away Yeah So yeah those are little quips that I could have offered I couldn't think of anything else apart from You gotta do what you love I hope she handed in her resignation Some rando outside the fish chip shop

Some weird bald guy I filmed him So sorry boss I'm out of here It's all on you Like I was saying four minutes ago I fell across this lady Who Feels like this was filmed in the 1960s or 1970s,

and she looked like a sweet old lady who could be anyone's grandmother. Okay? Yeah. And she had some advice. Now, this is a lady who's at the end of her life, and what she's figured out, this is an absolute cheat code to life and getting everything you want. Everything is energy, and the main lesson you're here on earth to do is to learn how to manipulate energy.

And what does that mean? Create. You have to learn how to create. Once you figure that out, you can have anything. There are no limitations unless you put them on yourself. Once you learn these things, you can have anything you want in life. That's what we are. We are creators. We are manifestors. There you go. We because that's what we are we are creators we

are manifestors there you go we talked a lot about manifesting yeah we're deep we are a deep af radio show but isn't that good how much energy you put into something you can manifest anything i manifested 26 heinekens into my stomach over the weekend he believed it and i believed i could do it but it's a it's a powerful message it? Anything, we're all the same being. Anything you want to do, you can actually do it. You're the only one stopping yourself from doing it. Ben, you want to wake up every morning at 3.30 and create three hours of filler radio content, mate, every day?

You can do it. I can do it. Nothing's stopping you from doing anything. Yeah, I guess you're probably right. You don't sound sold. Well, okay, here we go. I'm trying to motivate the people. What are you trying to do, mate?

No. Try to bring them down. Okay, well, now look at things. Olympic Games. I'm never going to represent New Zealand at the Olympic Games, am I? I'm too, I'm past it. You know, things like, you know,

there are some limitations to, you know. I guess there's a small smidgen of a chart but what's in what sport and worrying okay well maybe at some point in your life i could have yes yes exactly you could have done that yeah i could have manifested so what we're saying is you can manifest anything you can put your energy into anything and you can achieve it, as long as you're not over the age of 40. Because that's too far gone. News or not.

Now, this is where Taylor finds the best novelty headlines from the internet. She reads out three of them, and you have to figure out, along with us, which ones you think are fake. So we'll rattle through the headlines first, so the fine people of Aotearoa can hear them, Tay. All right, I'll kick it off with number one. Man who purchased phone off the dark web shocked to receive a mysterious pineapple instead.

Ooh. Mm-hmm. Okay, number two. 68-year-old grandmother named Barbie Oppenheimer says she's been having a wild few months with most people thinking she's joking oh that's okay carry on is that a fake story we'll find out expert reveals two wipes is the perfect amount after doing a number two two oh okay those are the three headlines we'll delve into them a bit deeper though uh oh 800 the hits which one do you think first off is the fake one? Now Taylor, you

actually have a degree in journalism. I do. So we're making you put it to good use with that two wipes story, aren't we? Is that what you imagined when you studied five years of journalism that you'd be here reading out these headlines? It makes it all worth it, I think. This is where you pictured yourself. Okay, so we'll go back to the

two wipes. We'll start from number three. Two wipes! That's what the experts, who are these experts Okay, so we'll go back to the two wipes. We'll start from number three. Two wipes. Well, they're experts. Who are these experts? And what are they saying? That's the perfect amount. Well, I would think it'd be like people who do like colonoscopies and stuff. Surely everyone's an expert. Hopefully they are.

I hope so, mate. It's a certain age, right? You don't want to be an amateur in that sport, do you? Okay, so two. It doesn't seem like enough. What are you averaging? Oh, it doesn't. What's your average?

I'd say more than two. Yeah, more than, yeah. I'd say six. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I don't want to name people, but I know someone who wipes until they, like, get, like, scratch their skin.

Oh, wow. Because that's, like, they know then it's clean. It's done. It's fully done. So we're saying that one's fake? Well, I haven't read the hits. If you think you know which one is fake, I don't feel like two's enough. So we're saying that one's fake? Well, I'll hundred the hits if you think you know which one is fake. I don't feel like two's enough.

Yeah, the Barbie Oppenheimer one, I could believe there's a lady out there. There's billions of people in the world. But it seems like for all, from someone who was named how many years ago, if she's a lady that's not in the next, you know, I just feel like that's such an unlikely coincidence as well. And what was the first one, Tay?

Man who purchased phone off the dark web shocked to receive a mysterious pineapple instead. Ben's too scared to go on the dark web. I went on the dark web. He wouldn't even be in the same room. I'm so fascinated. I've got like my whole TikTok algorithm is videos off the dark web. Stuff, you could buy anything on the dark web. You name a thing.

Name a thing. A pineapple? You could buy a pineapple on the dark web When you think you're getting a cell phone So 0800 the hits the telephone number Which one of those headlines do you think is false? On the text machine A lot of people locking in the wipe story Taylor

Really? Over 6 texts on 4487 People saying the wipe is the false headline I'll reveal it No number 1 was the false headline. All right. I'll reveal it. Yeah. No, number one was the false headline. What? The pineapple? The pineapple was false.

No, out of all of them. And I'm really good at writing headlines. Are you just? Yeah. That's why you went to journalism school. Okay, so that's the fake one. That's the fake one. So there's someone called Barbie.

Oppenheimer. Yeah, she's 68. Oh, my God. And obviously two wipes is. Yeah, so the expert says If you are eating enough fibre Two should be enough Well, we're not We're not, we're clearly not

And we've still never got Ben's average as well That's coming up after 8 o'clock Wow, okay Well done to you Speaking of jacked up kids, my son, Oscar, and I'm sure there's going to be many people listening to this who will relate to this particular topic at the moment. Bloody prime energy drinks.

All I've heard about for three to six months. Prime energy drinks. Now, it's Logan Paul, social media influencer, brother of Jake Paul, and another guy, KSI. Yeah, YouTubers, the Paul brothers, they're two in boxes as well, right? Great promotional people, aren't they? They're so good.

I mean, I think there's the prime energy drink, and there's just a prime drink as well that's not energy as well. So the kids can have that one. Well, that's great. They've catered for the kid market. But it is a prime example of marketing like genius pun intended yeah but it is yeah it is your your kids your daughter indy just wanted one drop oh yeah she said someone brought it to school and she was like

everyone was just going around going just a sip i'll pay a dollar for a sip i'll pay you think i was like this kid could have made a lot of money just by rationing out a prime drink. It's like holy water for pre-teens and teenagers. Like the blood of Christ. Just having a little dollop of prime. Anyway, so we're in Papatoetoe on Saturday. Stopped off at a petrol station.

He walks in, comes sprinting out. You will never guess what they've got in there. And went in. Guess how much? Well, I told you how much before the song. Yeah, I know, I know. walks in, comes sprinting out. You will never guess what they've got in there. And went in, guess how much? Well, I told you how much before the song. Yeah, I know, I know. $19.99 for one bottle of Prime, just the size of your normal V or a Red Bull. $19.99.

He's like, please. I'm like, this is another Prime example of you getting ripped off. You're getting played here by old paul and ksg or whatever his name is yeah uh and i was like listen i'll pay for it but you gotta put you gotta go into your bank account pay you back pay me back there's i can't in any good faith pay 20 dollars that doesn't pay for dad mate and then i was like what a dad conversation you know that's that's no that's a good conversation to have, isn't it?

Yeah, I thought so. But it sounds like something my parents would have been telling me off about when I was younger. Yeah, but you're kind of perspective. I guess it's exciting, but at the same time, you've got to go, well, hey, that's a lot of money. And then the thing is, he's got this thing. And his friends are in the car too, and they're like, can I just have a drink? Can I just have a drink? Do they try it?

Do they have it? He tried it, but then he's in the position where he has to like it. And that's why they're so genius, these guys, because people have invested all this money in it that they can't not enjoy it. They're like, this is great. No matter what the flavor is. But yeah, no, well done to them.

I got into a hole when I got home. They've got a 20% stake in the company, Logan Paul and KSI, already pulled in $200 million. Well, it's because they're $20 a bunch. I know what they're pulling in $200 million.