Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: DMing celebrities gone wrong!

Episode Date: February 21, 2024

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The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. Now, Megan, not the only takedown of you first thing in the morning, actually. I've got something that I'd like to do, and I'm just going to head next door. You can fill in the dead air. All right, let's go next door. Can you grab something, Ben? All right, Jono's leaving the studio.

Oh, God. What's he got here? I'm going to grab a... For about three weeks. Okay, three weeks, I would say. Megan has left a note on a cardboard coffee tray. Okay, you're the ones that hold the cups. Yeah, so if you get more than one or two coffees from our place...

Yeah, it's a takeaway tray. A little tray, yeah. On this note, I mean, the intention behind it is pure. Greta Thunberg-like. It says, we will reuse. Do not, in capitals, do not throw out. Well, no one's thrown it out. No one's thrown it out, to their credit.

Very threatening note as well. Can I just say, I've never once seen you reuse this. I said we right So the owner Was on all of us To take it back To the cafe Oh so you want to

Take it back So they reuse it Yeah Because they pay for those And I was like The cafe's just there We can just take it back It's just there

Or that can be Our carry tray forever Oh like tape one To the thing You know Like small things As long as I have Chinese takeaways

There's some leftovers I'll put those in the fridge and I'll eat those tomorrow for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Three weeks later, they're still in there. But I used to own a cafe and they cost money.

How much is one of those? Oh, not much. But you know, in the grand scheme of things. But it probably all adds up, right? Yeah. I was like, well, we don't need to keep using one

when it's right there. We can just have our standard one. But you're right, we haven't have our standard one yeah but you're right we haven't used it once yeah for a lady who didn't want to throw it in the rubbish you've just now created rubbish it's just sitting on me a lady that's so nice that's what i call you it's weird though when people i get out of the supermarket when when someone will go let this man through and you're like where's the man I still feel like a child oh my god I'm a lady

thank you so I better stand aside oh this woman they're talking about me yeah that's for sure the hits the Jono and Ben podcast

now Bradley Cooper a famous actor you know him from The Hangover and the Star is Born movies among many others now he was kind of in charge of putting together

A Star is Born he really wanted to make that movie and before Lady Gaga was signed on he went to beyonce and he wanted beyonce for the main role and he went over to their house he flew over to beyonce and jay-z's house and he talked about how nervous he was and how where jay-z was watching a very unusual show when he walked into the room and so then i went to beyonce's house and jay-z was watching judge judy i still remember no yeah i'm not kidding stop it and i was and i was freaking i was so i remember i had this weird cough when i was pitching it to her like it was so crazy i'm like and then

and then uh and it was crazy jay-z watching judge jud Judy oh my god that's pretty crazy she's a no nonsense judge yeah he likes that he likes that yes apparently she was they were kind of

helped him for a year they were kind she was kind of almost she was kind of helping develop Jay-Z and Beyonce the movie

and then her schedule got too busy and she pulled out wow so they were kind of working on it together for a while so it would have been

a very different movie I imagine. Yeah, because Lady Gaga was awesome. I thought she was very, very cool. Yeah, you can't imagine it not with her. That's crazy. I was reading an article too, you know, his Black Album with 99 Problems on it.

Oh, yeah. 20 years old this year. Oh, wow. That song. You think it's so cool when you sing it. Now you're like, oh, you're just an old man singing a song. Do you know 99 Problems, Grace? Our producer?

No. You don't know 99 Problems. Jay-Z. Well, she would. It's not even as a meme. I was two in it. Yeah. I know, but sometimes you can know things past your point.

Can you sing it to me, John? I've got 99 Problems problems But a bit chain one Hit me It's coming back John's rendition wasn't the best Pretty lacklustre It's early in the morning if you ask me at 8.16 I've got 99 problems

There was a white man Singing it then So Jay-Z Judge Judy My wife Jennifer loves Judge Judy Our TV. Judge Judy. Big fan of Judge Judy. My wife Jennifer loves Judge Judy. Our TV's clogged up with recordings of Judge. Oh, yeah.

She doesn't, well, they don't air her show here anymore. I don't know if she makes it anymore. Right. Highest paid TV star in the world. Wow. Just syndicated in so many countries. Just wouldn't have picked him for a reality man. Jay-Z?

No. I wonder if he watches Real Housewives too. Maybe he does. And wonder how much the court bailiff in Judge Judy. He says like two words in the episode. He's probably getting paid a lot. He's probably on a million dollars an episode. He's probably getting paid quite a lot.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Do this once a week. Things you can say in the bedroom and dot, dot, dot. Today we're doing things you can say in the bedroom and dot dot dot today we're doing things you can say in the bedroom and at dinner um you know dinner party at home or just dinner with the family you know there's innocent things you'd say at dinner but then take it out of context uh can sound a little dodgy when you put the bedroom con things like sloppy service tonight that sort of stuff uh yeah so these uh thanks to you, without a word of the light,

it's the most popular thing we put on Facebook. Yeah. By far. But it started out at 8.30 in the morning. Then it got relegated to 7 a.m. in the morning. Now it's just been shunted into the dark cupboard of 6 o'clock in the morning. Yeah, for the 6 o'clock club. So let's do it.

Things you can say in the bedroom and at dinner. Oh, slow down. It's not a race. Don't talk with your mouth full. Great thing to say. Yeah, say at dinner. See, as soon as you say dinner, none of these dogs... Polite table manners.

Yeah, exactly. You're right. It's really lovely when the four of us can get together like this. Isn't it? Or just nice to connect with friends. Yeah. Stop playing with it and just eat it. Next time we should invite the neighbours.

Not my neighbours. I have to say, it's a little bit salty. You didn't want to say this one? It hasn't risen as much as it should have. I can say it, it's fine. I'll pass on the meatballs tonight. Wow, that's spicy. Would you like some more stuffing?

Here you go, Megan. It's left a bad taste in my mouth. And one more, and I'll go on the edge, Otto. I apologise. I didn't take it out in time. So... those are things you can say in the bedroom

at a dinner next week 5.30 in the morning yeah we'll be getting in earlier and earlier for it the hits

the Jono and Ben podcast now yesterday we talked about shower habits around about this time in the morning yeah then just

kind of in the same wheelhouse we spawned off into another conversation off air about teeth brushing routines. And Producer Taylor, you confessed vulnerability. Vulnerability plus here, confessing this. You only brush your teeth how often? Once, just in the morning.

I don't even see it as vulnerable because it's not even a big deal. So you only brush teeth once a day? Yeah. At what stage? After breakfast? Before breakfast? Before breakfast because I have breakfast here. Okay.

So you get up in the morning and part of your routine, brush your teeth. Yeah. Skincare, wash the teeth. Take your tape face off your mouth or whatever your mouth tape. Yeah. That is step one. That's not a joke.

You actually wear that to bed to stop your snoring. I definitely do. And I've noticed actually while we're on the subject, I'm breaking out a lot around my mouth. So I think the mouth tape's got to go. It might be a reason. Can you see it? No, just one little one.

So you're only brushing once a day. How does Marcelo, your husband, feel about this? He hates me for it. He uses it twice a day. And you wonder why he your husband, feel about this? He hates me for it. He's a twice a day. And you wonder why he's taping your mouth shut. At night. When I talked about vulnerability at the beginning, he's the one in the vulnerable position.

Yeah, every night before he tapes me up. Again, not a joke. He goes, when are you, Taylor, when are you going to finally start brushing your teeth at night?

Never. Just stop asking. I don't care. Well, yeah, from the opposite end of the scale, being boys,

I would spend, when we're filming the television show, all day together. The guy would brush his teeth four to six times a day. I used to,

like, I definitely brush my teeth morning and night, but yeah, during that, you know, because I get food stuck in my teeth i have teeth that gets food stuck and i'm snacking throughout the day so i would always carry a toothbrush now i've found those little things they always carry around you've probably seen them fall out of my pocket around the little flossing sort of thing yeah yeah right flossing things that i carry those around so since i've had those i probably brush my teeth only like twice a day right but i have these and

use these throughout the day heaps so yeah so it would be before that yeah six or seven times a day I'd brush my teeth

who's got time for that but I just sort of go around and do it as I was you do it in the car do it in my car frothing it like a dog with rabies at the airport

didn't matter I was just doing it wait with toothpaste no not not usually during yeah just to get it's a dry brush yeah just

yeah exactly Megan what are you sitting at I do morning and night and then anytime I leave the house Not usually during, yeah, just to get some dry brush. Yeah, just out. Yeah, exactly. Megan, where are you sitting at? I do morning and night. And then anytime I leave the house, I just like to freshen up. So I'm not like breathing on someone's gunky breath. I reckon it depends a lot on your relationship status too. You know, whether you're still, I imagine when you were courting Marcelo,

Matt Taylor, back in the day, you'd wake up before you'd wake up, brush your teeth, get back into bed. I don't care. She's wake up before you'd wake up, brush your teeth. No. Get back into bed. I don't care. She's like, don't get them used to any high level. I would do that. Oh, God. Jeez, and then I've really let myself go.

You know, you do over the years. Haven't you just? The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Just talking about your habits when it comes to brushing your teeth. I'm producer Taylor. Just once a day. Just in the morning. I mean, it's not like a shocking revelation, is it? At least it's getting done.

Yeah. We've spoken about this many times. We were friends with a dentist named Sam Smith. Also, he was a writer with us on our show. He writes children's books now as well, too, amongst other things. Yeah, very telling. He was on the tree. He won the Traders New Zealand, Sam Smith.

He did. Oh, yeah, right. Okay. Previous life, he was on the tree won the traitors new zealand sam smith oh yeah right yeah previous life he was a dentist and uh we got him on to the rock radio station when we're working there and we're like okay we've got our friend the dentist here phone him up and shock him and boy oh boy did the rock audience step up to the mark there there was a guy who uh flossed his teeth with his long, so he'd pull a strand of his long hair out and use that as teeth floss. I used to work with someone who used to bite their nails and use their nail offcuts to floss their teeth.

Oh, like to sort of pick away. Yeah. I guess that could kind of work. Yeah, I guess so. Not in public, though. You can do that in the privacy of your own home. When I cut my toenails privately, sometimes I smell them and I'm like, oh, that's... But that's in the comfort of my own home, Megan.

Not out in the office. So, yes, your toothbrushing regimes. Shock us with them. Are you not brushing your teeth? Are you overbrushing your teeth? You can call us on 0800 THE HITS. Kay, good morning. Good morning.

Great to have you on. Producer Taylor, she's just brushing her teeth in the morning and foregoing the nighttime brush. What's your routine? I just use mouthwash usually because the dentist told me I was going to lose all my teeth, so I don't worry about it. Yeah, you've given up on your teeth, have you? Yes. Why are you going to lose your teeth?

Oh, smoking too many cigarettes, if I can say that on the radio. You can say that on the radio. It's probably it. Yeah. Yeah, you still smoking the Gaspers? You still committed? Well, I did quit for three months, but then I had some news, so I started up again.

Yeah, good on you. Back in the game, eh? Yeah. You've also texted saying you had a boyfriend who never brushed. Yeah, yeah. I've had a couple like that. They don't really concentrate on hygiene too much. You want your partner sort of having some sort of concentration

on personal hygiene, don't you? Oh, well, you just avoid kissing. Where would you kiss? On the cheek, would you? Yes. That's smart play. Smart play. Hey, thank you so much, Kay. Really appreciate you doing your time. You're welcome.

Bye. Okay, keep these coming through. Oh, 800 the hits. Shock us with your toothbrushing regime. Someone just texted 4487. I use my earring to clean the gaps in between my teeth. Have you ever sniffed your earrings or your piercings? No, just my toenails.

Not good. Not good. I wouldn't want that anywhere near my mouth. I can imagine it's not. Yeah. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. The last few days that every member of the show has actually direct messaged, DM'd, slid into a celebrity's DMs. Yeah.

That gives me the ick and we've all done it. I know. It's something that I'm like, when you were talking about it, I was like, no, I haven't. Then I was like, oh God, I've done it once and only once. But yeah. And it was not a fine moment. The times I've done it, it's always involved a certain level of intoxication as well. Yeah.

Oh, that's good. That's an excuse. Yeah. Kind of built up blind arrogance and gone, you know what? Chris Hemsworth needs to know what I think of his show Limitless. He needs some honest, raw feedback. And I gave it to him. Yeah.

What did you write? All positive stuff. All right. Yeah, all positive stuff. That's good. That's nice. Hey, Chris, mate. Just watched Limitless.

Fantastic show, buddy. Keep up the great work. Love your work. Jono. Has he seen it? No, no. He's left me unseen, which is good. But then, believe it or not,

he never got back to me. But then I'm like, why does he, why do I think that Chris Hemsworth needs to know my review on his show Limitless? And even privately too. You don't want to say it's publicly made I'll just come in

you know. He sits down with his wife and he's like do you know what oh my god day made John O'Prior has sent me a DM.

Loves the show. Doesn't want to tell everyone that he's watching it but he just will do it quietly. Mostly I've DM'd other people too. Have you? Oh god.

Mostly positive stuff. Kitty Allen, when she was going through her thing, the MP, I was like, hey, we all make mistakes, mate. You come out this other side a happier person. And then I quoted Kelly Clarkson. Oh, jeez. Yes. Never heard back.

Oh, God. Never heard back. Wait, what Kelly Clarkson? Message Meghan Markle. You American minx, how dare you rip Prince Harry from the clutches of his cushy royal eyes off. No, you did not. I hope you suffer unbearable constipation for the next five years.

No, you did not. I see that all in caps. No, you didn't. He went from being a very supportive therapist. He needed a gag at the end of it, that's why. Meghan, you've DM'd a celebrity? I do this quite often. Do you do it quite often?

Because I just know that, and I'm not a celebrity at all, but I don't even check my DMs. I know. So why would someone who's got millions of followers ever go there? But like, I don't know,

maybe I have like delusions of grandeur when like celebrities are going through a rough time and you see all those nasty messages. I'm like, do you know what? They need to hear from me something positive.

Yeah, right. Okay, so we'll just send the Cosby. No. Supportive messages. Back in 2019 when Khloe Kardashian was cheated on again by Tristan Thompson, I was like, this is not good. I felt really bad for her. Khloe's like, you know who I need to hear from?

Me. Megan Puppers. So this is a very long message. Do you want the whole thing? No. I'll be honest, no. We haven't got to Bill Gates in three minutes, have we? Jono's done three messages.

Yeah, absolutely. I did start by saying chances are slim that you'll see this. And then I said I met her once and she was very nice and I tell people that she was very nice all the time. But I said I hope you find some comfort in knowing that there are people who feel for you and wish you nothing but happiness. You can't control the actions of others and you can't control the way

they, wait, oh no. You can't control the actions and thoughts of others or the way they act. All you can do is control your life and your attitude. That's actually a lovely message. That's a lovely message. Should we get back to you on that one? No. Don't even give it a heart or anything like that. She hasn't even seen it. Now, Producer Grace who's been working with us for a couple of weeks,

you said yesterday that you'd DM'd a celebrity, Bill Gates. Bill Gates. Billionaire Bill Gates. Microsoft owner. I believe so. I just know he has money. I believe so. I believe so.

What did you ask Bill Gates for? I asked him if he could pay off my student loan because I'm stressed about house prices. And I said it's okay if you're not up to it though. I said I wanted to say that. Oh good. No because he was going through a rough time. She started personally. I said yeah hey Bill sorry to hear about the divorce but you seem to

be happy. Can you pay off my student loan? I offered to knit him a sweater because I was learning to knit so he could have gotten a sweater. Did Gates ever get back to you On the student loan request? Unfortunately not I'm still paying it off

He wouldn't be the Multi-billionaires today If he just handed out money To randos on Instagram No Randos that ask nicely The hits The Jono and Ben podcast

Cool thing A Kiwi mum has actually Come up with a new invention It's glow in the dark Fluorescent knit powder So that you can tell and then it's it will basically glow in the dark bloody genius yeah what did i see at the supermarket the other day and i was like oh flavored toothpaste for kids they have like it's too fast

get the kids into it yeah kids are there yeah it's spicy it's not spicy it's not spicy it's not spicy

it's not spicy it's minty fresh I'll show you spicy we'll go I'll be my daughter and always say it's spicy yeah

constant feedback it's not spicy minty yes spicy no you're right maybe there's a market for a spicy toothpaste. Now, I just want to gather the troops, rally the troops of Aotearoa here on this one.

The road cone. A little sort of orange, rubbery symbol of authority, isn't it? Trying to assert its power on all of us. And tells us where we can and can't park. Tells us where to walk. Tells us where to stay away from. Yeah, true. Doesn't it?

Multiple purposes. But yesterday, an entire road was road-coned off. Both sides of the road. This road's probably about a kilometre long. Oh, right. No one could park on the road. But the issue, I don't have any issues with road cones when there's stuff being done around the road cones. You down the road but you just couldn't park you could drive yeah

uh but there was no maintenance happening on the side of the road there was nothing being done at the foot but nothing not a not a worker in sight but no one could park there and some a couple of brave souls little kiwi heroes intrepid journey people, parked their cars in front of the road cones and just chucked them on the side of the berm. Now this, over the course of what I saw was probably about an hour, led to other people going, hey, those brave people have done it. If we all do it en masse, they can't tow 52 cars. And this is what we need to do to fight back against the road code.

Maybe it was being coned off for work that was happening today or in the future. Yeah, sometimes they do do it. You're right. But it wields no power if we don't adhere to it. That's what I'm saying. You know, we all just avoid it. Thinking that something bad in your car is going to get towed or something bad. Something in your car could get towed, I guess, is the downside.

But not if we're all doing it together. We come in as one, the team of five million. COVID, we came together for a bit there at the beginning, then we all hated each other. Now it's time to rejoin the team of five million. I just feel like you'll get a team of tow truck people working together. I don't really want to test the towies. I feel like they'll take up the challenge. You'll get 10 of them coming and go,

oh, sweet, we're going to make a lot of money here. But hey, give it a go. Tell us how it works. And let's take the road cones and use them for what they should be designed for. Putting them on the heads of statues of colonial people who came here and stole land. That's what they're getting, uni students to do that for us. That's when they're at their most best.

Or trees. Sometimes they get them really high on the trees, don't they? Yeah. I don't know how they get them up that high. It's like a trophy, right? Getting it up there. Yeah. I love it when I sound like this.

William Hobson down there on the waterfront. I love it when every weekend he ends up with a road cone on his head. Do you reckon in the 1800s he thought, one day some sloppy student during O-Week's going to straddle me and slap a road cone to my head. We can only dream. This is what I found this country. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Swift in Australia, going to be performing this weekend in Sydney, spotted at the Sydney Zoo. Interesting, wandering around the Sydney Zoo, which I thought was an unusual place for her to go. Very touristy thing to do. Yeah. It said Travis Kelsey's on a private jet

on a private plane departing Hawaii. Oh, so he is coming. He's coming. Yeah. He's coming. I'm always coming to New Zealand. He's just having two weeks

of partying, eh? Yeah. Vegas, Hawaii, going to Sydney. Be a pretty quiet flight. Yeah, just sleep the whole time. Just be going,

dear God, what have I done over the last four nights? Yeah. Until he gets back. Now be going, dear God, what have I done over the last four nights? Yeah, until he gets back. Now, yesterday, you know, young people, they're always on their phones. It seems like a constant discussion that I have, and I know a lot of parents out there listening will relate. You're like, on your phone, off your phone, off your phone.

You know, to your kids and stuff, when they're at that age and they have their phones. I do that while I'm even scrolling on Instagram. Yeah. It's like, where did they learn it from, Ben? Go back to my to my phone but yesterday i got told off by my daughter because over the last you know a few months uh she's 14 now so she can go to the gym so it's been a cool little activity we do from time to time we go to the gym and go along and she you know we just do basically cardio stuff and together but it's fun and and it's kind of like you're getting them games well you're not trying to hit the weights or anything like that uh but it's a cool And it's kind of like... She get in them games? Well, you're not trying to hit the weights or anything like that.

But it's a cool little thing because she plays netball and other sports as well. So it's kind of a cool little thing. Enjoy that for like the two years before she doesn't want to be seen. Yeah, exactly. Well, yesterday she didn't want to be seen with me because sometimes there's equipment that she's like, oh, what does this do?

We walk past and I'm like, oh, I think I know this one. But yesterday it was the chin-up. You know, it's the chin-up one that has weights at the bottom. It's kind of like a pulley system. Oh, it's like a chin-assist. Yeah. And you put weights on it and then it helps you do the chin-ups. For those that aren't confident to do it themselves.

Yeah. I like that one. Yeah, it's good. It kind of makes you feel like you're doing lots of chin-ups. But, you know, you put some weights on it and the weights help you get back up to the top. So I showed her a couple of those. I was like, this is how I think it works. Now, you know, you put some weights on it and the weights help you get back up to the top. So I showed her a couple of those. I was like, this is how I think it works. Now you have a go.

But I didn't change the weights back up. So the weights were a lot, you know, for me, for my weight. As soon as she got on, whoosh, straight to the top. Straight to the top. She was at the top. She was a little hunched over. She couldn't get back down. She couldn't push her weight back down with the weights.

I was like, this is a fun moment. And so the first thing I did was take a photo I was like well I'm gonna photographic evidence of that and she looked down and she's like are you taking a photo of me right now before you help your daughter I was like yeah well social media we might put that on social media at some stage and then I got it down safely she was okay she wasn't hurt or anything but then she was like that after or before the photo? That's what she was saying. She said, what was your first instinct to take a photo? I was like, I don't know.

Because I like likes on the internet. Now get off your phone. He's got to get some engagement. That's right. So I haven't posted or anything like that, but I was like, well, hey. Oh, hero. I've got it there, ready to go. He's just trying to think of a witty caption.

There, good to go. But I thought, think of a witty caption there good to go but I thought this is ironic that she's telling me for getting off my phone and I thought well that was a good thing to do yeah

you were just saying how nice it was to go to the gym with her and you've made it it's even better now it's not going to happen now I got told off in public again yesterday

it was like was it last week and I got told off for parking in the Click and Collect car park at the supermarket. When you hadn't done any Clicking and or Collect, or you had done the Click and Collect. I'd done it, but I'd gone and spent half an hour in the supermarket as well. Right. I don't think that was my fault. But yesterday, I got told off again in public by a stranger, someone I don't know.

I was at... Generally what a stranger means. Yeah. Are we going to get through this John sorry so I was at a petrol station a petrol pump it was like a self-service one um but I was actually talking to our boss on the phone and it was like great in-depth conversation there was no one I was just airing my grievances. Cricket, cricket. Oh, cricket. Oh, that's fine. Ben sends too many emails. John is taking the piss out of me too much. No. So I, yeah, we were in-depth conversation and there was no one there.

No one. It was very like empty. And so I kept checking my rear view mirror. I was like, oh, we're fine. We're fine. So I was just having a yarn. It's still in the car, parked at the pump. So you put gas in not yet

oh right you just not yet oh you're just taking up valuable forecourt space yeah okay you keep going but no one was there in your defense no one was there and i was checking and it was an in-depth conversation and i don't know what's going on no i just mean like we were yarning it was going on for a while and then all of a sudden I hear a toot behind me. And it was kind of a polite toot. And so I was like, okay, yeah, okay, I'll wrap it up. I'll drive off and I'll come back and get the petrol. And so there was a wee toot behind me.

The guy's like, come on. And I look to the left and this woman, keep in mind, it's not even her car. She's on the other side of the pump. She bends down, looks in my window And does the finger to me With angry eyes And points, move on, move on

And she's like shaking her head at me Because I was on the phone Taking up a spot in the forecourt Fighting for the rights Of the other motorists, good on her Good on her The polite little beep beep was enough for me to be like, okay, I'll move on.

Some people love getting involved though. That's their jam, to get involved in stuff. She's got to get her finger waving quota up for the day. So I pulled out and drove past and she's still shaking her head at me. Get off your phone. Here's my thing. Maybe the speaker in my phone was really loud and she could hear it was like casual chat, but she doesn't know who I'm talking to.

I could have just had a very serious conversation. It didn't affect her day at all, really. So I might've just been told someone was in hospital or something serious. I wasn't. It was. Unless she heard through, you had the Bluetooth speaker so loud, she heard what you were saying about Ben and me. And she's like, ah, ah, ah.

That is not for you do not go snitching to the boss yeah that's where the wavy finger came from you get off that show young lady get away you're getting told off quite a lot in public I know so that's the thing like if you get told off by a stranger once it's on you right but if it's multiple times

am I just the menace I think maybe I'm just a bit like, in a daze when I'm out in public and it's really peeing people off. I love people who are like, well this affects her in no way at all. Has no, really does not need

to try. It feels the need to. Yeah, just to bring me down. Those are the people we want out there in the community. Yesterday it made big news actually. There was a bus stop Bring me down. Those are the people we want out there in the community. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Yesterday it made big news, actually. There was a bus stop and painted on the bus lane was the words bus stop. A little bit of a typo. They'd painted, instead of stop, it was S-O-T-P.

S-O-T-P. Yeah, and this was out West Auckland. Damn, why did we hire dyslexic Terry to do the road signs? And I kind of thought, well, you know, this was making big news. There's lots of chats. This was on the AM show yesterday. Can we go back to that stop sign or the sotip sign, is it? Yeah.

In Te Atatu. The council say that this was just a minor mistake. I mean, it's 50% wrong, isn't it? You had one job. Go it? You had one job. Go back. In the grand scheme of things, what's happening in Gaza, yeah, it is a minor mistake. I thought, in all seriousness, they

should have just left it. I mean, everyone knows it's a bus line, it's a bus stop, and it will cause people taking photos of it, but the council got someone out yesterday afternoon. I mean, you get something the council never moves that fast on anything. You know they're just going to get constant complaints, though, from people who don't know that it's a thing. They'll just be fielding complaints forever that it's spelt wrong.

When they're going to be mocked, they move quick. When they want to send me parking tickets, boy, they move quick. Yeah, that's true. So we wanted to know this morning, 100, the hits, 4487, when spelling let you down. Often it's autocorrect. The autocorrect function on emails or on your phone can let you down. It happened the other the auto correct function on emails or or on your phone can let you down it happened to the other day to a text exchange with you producer taylor yeah

me and the big boss mando matt you guys know him um so is he okay with you saying his name is he right with the other names of this because obviously it was an innocent thing but it sounded a lot more that's the deal he knows he's tough up it gets on the radio he's got no choice he's gonna have to be right with it now so last week i went to our sports awards the hellbergs yes the hellbergs and i you know i looked a lot different than what i look when i come to work every day me and sister looking okay and uh love our boss he was he's very committed to the warriors as a huge fan so he was watching the live broadcast because they were nominated for two awards so the first award was given and the warriors unfortunately lost the first award so you're there obviously with your

husband he's gonna go up on stage if they win an award so you guys would have been a little bit sad that they didn't win yeah whatever yeah right well matt was obviously passionate about it he was he was he sounded more upset than you did he texted me saying robbed and then he texts it. I'm ready to root. And I look at my phone and I'm like, mind you, this is Valentine's Day. So if you remember last week, my husband was adamant, I don't get anything for Valentine's Day. Well, at least you know he's ready to do what he's ready to do. So I show my husband, I look at his text and I show him, I said, I bet my boss would buy me a Valentine's Day. Well, at least you know he's ready to do what he's ready to do. So I show my husband, I look at his text and I show him,

I said, hmm, I bet my boss would buy me a Valentine's Day present. I've got options, bruh. Nothing gets more excited than the Warriors

not winning an award, that's for sure. So what did he mean to say? So he unsent the message, but I've already seen it, and he meant to say, screenshot that one, I'm ready to riot.

Riot. Riot and autocorrect it to root. Okay. The panic that sets in when you send that. Tourism, poor you. But it leads you to believe that the word root has been used more times on that particular sequence of letters on that device. The algorithm's not dumb.

The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Yesterday there was a slight spelling mistake with a bus stop in Auckland where it had been spelt, a stop had been spelt wrong. So we wanted to know when spelling would let you down. A lot of great autocorrect messages are coming through making us laugh here. Some of them are not safe for radio. Pretty much 100% of them are safe for radio,

but we're going to try and trick them. We'll never go our way around it because we realise there's kids in the car. Yeah. Let's kick things off with Kay in the Wairarapa. When spelling wasn't your friend, Kay. Yeah, no, definitely wasn't. So what happened with you?

There was a potential border I was looking at and I sent him a message saying, I can't meet you Tuesday. It has to be Wednesday or I can phone you but instead, because I'm slow and I pressed predictive text for the phone and it came out with please so I heard from him, I checked my phone four hours later or two hours later when I heard back from him and he said oh that sounds very interesting. Yes, I'm keen

to move in. Because I said I wanted to please him. He's like, oh, didn't realise this was part of the property arrangement. Yeah, so he never moved in. I cancelled that idea. That's very good.

I appreciate your call this morning. Scrap text. I've got one more quick, please. Don't you try and wrap Kay up, mate. Sorry, Kay. We I appreciate your call this morning. Scrap text. I've got one more quickly. Okay. She's doubling down. Don't you try and wrap Kay up, mate. Sorry, Kay. Were you trying to

shut her up? I messaged your mate and I said to him, I'm just going to master them, but instead it came out with something else starting with M.

Oh, no, I'm going to master them now. And yeah, it wasn't mastered them at all. Thanks for the info. Okay. Well, thanks,'t mastered at all. Thanks for the info. Okay. Well, thanks, Kay. Appreciate it.

You guys have a good day. You too. Appreciate it. There's a great text coming through here, 4487. Hi, my name's Anushka. You wouldn't believe how many emails I get saying, Dear Arousal. She's got a new version now.

It says, Dear anorak. Great text. I was asked by my cake maker what flavour I want. Went to put vanilla. It auto-corrected to, well, let's just say another V word with the woman's part of the body. And something flavoured back to the cake maker. Oh, no.

I'd like my cake this flavoured, please. So, yeah. You just wouldn't go pick it up. Another lady text through, her name is Alicia, and it autocorrects the lesbian, so she'd keep signing off with all her texts with that. And great one here, my partner's name is Angus. The amount of emails and messages I get from him saying,

kind regards, Anus. I can't count. So thank you so much for that and well done all of us navigating our way through that