Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: Help! Is this a red flag?!

Episode Date: February 20, 2024

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The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations. Of course, we're all going crazy this side of the world about Taylor Swift in Australia. Her second lot of performances in Australia are in Sydney this weekend. Last night she was out for dinner at a restaurant in Sydney. Eating! Just out and about and everyone... Putting food in her mouth. Everyone outside was screaming when she walked out the door.

Yeah. Wow. It's funny in those situations when you see someone like that, you don't know what else to say. She's just like screaming their name. Yeah. On repeat too. Yeah.

On loop. Now her jet, her private jet that took her from Melbourne to Sydney, apparently that's left Sydney. Now, she's still there. So the rumour is that maybe it's going to pick up her boyfriend to bring her to Australia. Interesting. Travis Kelsey. Because his dad was asked whether he was going to go.

Obviously, you can't get comment from Travis himself. So his dad said. He's too drunk. He probably is. He was pretty drunk after the Super Bowl, wasn't he? He said that we spoke after the Super Bowl and he said he was keen to see Sydney and Singapore.

So it sounds like he's keen to go to Sydney. Weather not good this weekend. If you are heading along to the concert, they reckon severe thunderstorms potentially on the Friday and Saturday. The show will go on unless there's lightning but they reckon the weather could be pretty shocking on Friday and Saturday nights. With thunderstorms potentially on the Friday and Saturday. And the show will go on unless there's lightning, but they reckon the weather could be pretty shocking on Friday and Saturday nights.

With thunderstorms generally comes lightning. Yeah. Oh, no. So she's sending an empty jet across the world back to America to pick up her boyfriend to fly the jet back. Yeah. Mate, get a grab a seat. Grab a seat.

Get the work still. I don't think money is too much of a problem for her the place that she's rumoured to be staying in in Australia I thought it was kind of unusual

she's staying right in the heart of Australia they reckon in Melbourne she was staying at the Crown well the Crown Casino but there's a penthouse

department and they reckon it's the same in Sydney $40,000 a night $40,000 a night it's like three levels it's like huge gives you a butler

service everything oh wow overlooking Sydney Sydney Opera House Sydney Harbour as well so yeah Travis is probably like yeah I can come

yeah I can come stay yeah sounds nice sounds doable what are the reviews like on TripAdvisor for that room I don't know how many people have actually stayed there and I don't think they're

leaving a review on TripAdvisor they're not those sorts they're not that sort of clientele no I don't think so're leaving a review on TripAdvisor. They're not those sorts of clientele. Three level, two level, sorry, three bedroom. Yeah,

just incredible. There it is. Look at it. $40,000 a night. Oh, wow. Yeah. $40,000 seems like, hey,

call me frugal, a little steep. That's expensive. That's expensive. It looks like something from Fifty Shades of Grey. Yeah. $38,000 in Australia.

Wow. $888 in Australia. I don'tades of Grey. $38,888 Australian dollars. I don't know how they got landed on $888, but anyway, $38,000. Let's put those photos up on social media. That's always nice to do, isn't it? When we reference something visual for the people to see it. We'll put it on the Hits Breakfast Instagram story so you can see where none of us can afford to stay. And Taylor Swift is rumoured to be staying, but we don't know 100% if that's actually happening. The hits the Jono and Ben podcast. Just talking

about her staying in Australia of course she's there in Sydney at the moment so the rumors are she's staying in a penthouse in Sydney overlooking the harbour about 40,000 New Zealand dollars a night. Now I just said you know with that clientele leave reviews on TripAdvisor? Turns out any clientele will leave reviews on, they have. And would you like to know what it's like? No, I would imagine, I would imagine if you're paying $40,000, you're expecting like incredible.

So you probably could be, you know, at some places you're like, oh, I'm only paying a hundred bucks or whatever, but this you'd be like 40 grand. I expect everything to be perfect. Well, Lynn B, Lynn B was very satisfied with the room. We recently spent three nights in the penthouse. Oh,40,000, I expect everything to be perfect. Well, Lynn B. Lynn B. was very satisfied with the room. We recently spent three nights in the penthouse. Oh, $120,000.

$120,000. In New Zealand. Lynn B., you badass. Listen, the small touches were amazing, says Lynn. Bath salts, toothbrushes, combs, vanity sets. Guess what? The toilet even opened when you walked into the bathroom. Wow.

That's cool. But you'd be expecting that for $40,000 a night. Lynn B. was very happy into the bathroom. Wow. That's cool. But you'd be expecting that for $40,000 a night. Linby was very happy with the views. Outstanding. However, Jeanne, not as happy. Stayed there recently for the 50th birthday. A bit overpriced. Don't believe it was worth spending the extra money. Stayed there on a Sunday, though.

A bit more affordable than a Friday and Saturday. Oh, it's different nights. Well, Swift, they told us we'd get the Swift surge. Everything's it's a different night. Yeah. Or Swift. Tell yourself to get the Swift search. Everything's more expensive over there because of her. Hopefully, she's charged up. She'll be like, oh, why is it so expensive? It's because of me. It's because of you, mate.

It's because of you. All right, it's time to play Dead or Alive. New game to the radio show where we look at celebrities and Megan and Ben have to guess whether they are dead or alive. Pretty simple. We simultaneously surprise ourselves and probably still offend the living celebrities, don't we, with this game?

Now, I'm going to start international, okay? The dad from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, is he... Dead or alive? Will Smith's dad. I think he's passed away, sadly. Yeah, he died.

Yeah, it was sad news that Uncle Phil, yeah. Well done. Yeah, passed away. James Avery, age of 68. Will Smith

commented saying, James Avery made me the man I am today. I don't know if James would be wanting to claim that. James would be like, hey, we can button off the accolades. Apparently he was quite strict.

Like his kind of Dr. Phil persona was kind of very similar to what he was in real life. Oh, really? Like he came in for the read through or something when he didn't quite have the role and Will Smith had his feet on the table. He was like, mate, get your feet off the table and they're like

you've got the gig he's the guy he's the guy Uncle Phil he's going to be able to tell Will Smith off well done one from one

okay next one but closer to home as I said like the Jeopardy raise the stakes on this one John Rawls John Rawls

famous New Zealand entertainer performed alongside the likes of Elvis back in the day. Bit of a crooner, John Rawls. You've got a history with Rawls. Yeah, we had lawn bowls with John Rawls one day. He came along. But I think he's alive.

I think he's alive. I haven't heard anything. Living in Te Atatu, he's 76 years old. John Rawls. I just got into an article of John Rawls, and he was sort of discussing the amount of ladies he's spent time with. Bit of a pants man, Rawls says. Turns out he's now single.

He said, who would have thought after all these years I would end up single? He's like, I never messed around with girls that I worked with, though, because it didn't work. That's the rule. Yeah, I did it once, and then I ended up having to fire her. I don't know if that's... I think that's frowned upon. We'll get away with that in 2024, Rosie.

And he said, all of the women I've been with, I thought I would have had dozens of ladies knocking on my door saying, here's your son or your daughter. I don't know how I got away with it. Oh, there you go. There's Rosie. Still kicking. Still kicking and saying some stuff. Okay,'t know how I got away with it. Oh, there you go. There's Rosie. Still kicking. Still kicking and saying some stuff.

Okay, here's another one. Dead or alive. New Zealand's first female Prime Minister, Jenny Shipley. Dead or alive. Dead or alive. I'm pretty sure she's alive. She's alive.

She's alive. She's alive at 76 years old and was found liable for $9 million for her role in the financial failure of Mainzeal, the construction company. Oh, really? So there we go. That was Dead or Alive today. Three from three.

You nailed all of them. We did all right. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Grant Robertson, who was the former Labour finance minister, is no longer going to be in Parliament. He's announced yesterday he's going to be the head of Otago University after many, many years of service. Oh, there you go. I know there was always conversation around him taking over from Jacinda

and he was like, I'm not interested. I'm not interested even when the job was up for grabs. That's right. No, wasn't keen. Obviously knew what came of it. We met him at field days once. He was a lovely guy. He was lovely.

For some reason we thought he was Deputy Prime Minister for a while. We teased him all morning. We met him at field days once. He was a lovely guy. He was lovely. For some reason, we thought he was deputy prime minister for a while. We teased him all morning. We had him on the show. We're like, coming up later, deputy prime minister. Said it about six or seven times and then got on and he was like, guys, I'm not. Who was the deputy? Kelvin Davis, I think it was. Yeah, and then we were like, well, you should be the deputy.

And he's like, yeah, but I'm not. So stop saying. I thought he was deputy. We all did. We'd be saying it all morning. He's coming up, deputy, deputy. And he's like, yeah, but I'm not. So stop saying. I thought he was deputy. We all did. We'd be saying it all morning. He's coming up, deputy, deputy. And he heard it. And he was like, guys, you need to come on and say, I'm not.

Calvin rung him and was like, oi. Blind arrogance, too. It was such confidence, too. But now, a bit of a fracture in the show. Over some showering routines. Now, we'll bring you and producer Taylor as well, because you're team Megan on this one. um ben when do you take a shower well see i'm gonna be i'm gonna confuse things because i'm twice daily twice daily yeah because i get up in the morning i always have

a shower in the mornings 100 getting up in the morning but then i always go to the gym in the afternoon evenings and so 100 go have a shower there so i'm twice daily double showers baby so I'm kind of like helping out your argument either way okay well the girls not like you to be on the fence well yeah that's what I'm saying so I've kind of screwed things up from the get-go okay so Taylor and Megan you refuse to shower in the morning uh you come in here with a layer of uh filth that's been excreted from your body overnight whereas I'm a morning shower and I don't shower at night, but you do shower at night. Yes, but you also exercise in the morning.

So you need to shower in the morning. But then you're like, you're going to be all filthy. You're covered in the filth of the day. Yeah, you've been out in the streets and the dirty air. You've been wearing your shoes all day. Don't make me sound cooler than I am. I'm not out on the streets. It's hot at the moment, so you're like, you know, sweating a little bit.

And then you go and roll around in your sheets and dirty them up. It's nasty. You guys are nasty. Don't you think they're nasty, Ben? The whole, like, filth of the day, and then you get into your sheets. Now, 0800 the hits, 4487. This is what we going to chuck open. Snap poll for the 6 o'clock club.

Shower, morning or night? Yeah. What are you doing? I can see your argument for doing it before bed. Nighttime, 100%. And a treat in the morning. Do you feel like in the morning you need that though, to kind of wake up and get a rest for the day? You don't? You just kind of get through it? Okay.

Okay, live phones, Grace, we take this call. A high risk, high reward at this time of morning. Who have we got here? What's your name? Caleb. Caleb, morning or night shower? I shower at night. I don't have time to do that in the morning.

I get up too early in life, innit? Yep. Agreed, Caleb. Yeah, there's a routine in the morning. Get up, get stuff done, get to work. Yeah, get up, have a shower, get stuff done, get to work. No, it's get up, coffee, breakfast, work, didn't come home, more work, gym, shower. Okay.

And I get, hey, I've showered before bed before, and it's a nice feeling getting into bed clean. Don't get me wrong. Okay, we'll keep this coming through. But not for you every day. It's not for me every day. Okay, that's one for the evening shower there. The votes are open right now.

The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, that's one for the evening shower there. The votes are open right now. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Now, debate is raging on at the moment. Shower, morning or night? Megan and producer Taylor shower at night time, but they come to work in just, what can we describe as a- Well, I went to bed clean and then I'm not doing much

because I'm in my clean sheets. Do you all know? Right, so you're clean going to bed, you clean sheets, and then you go out in the morning and come to work. You're dirtying up your sheets by not showering at night, so you're rolling around in filthy sheets, so you have to have a shower in the morning.

And then I shower in the morning. Great way to start the day. Ben, you're a fan of showering both. I do love showering in the morning. I do love to wake up and shower in the morning, but then I go do some exercise in the afternoon or whatever, so then I always have a shower. Try and make it quick showers both times, but yeah.

Save the planet. Someone's texting saying, I have four showers. Four showers? Jeez. Wow. That's a sub-poll. Most amount of showers a day. We're going to get Jeff on.

Welcome. How are you? Talk to us, Jeff. Hello. How are you you sweet cheeks? Morning or night showers? It has to be the morning It has to be

But like you're getting dirty You sound like you're a hands on guy You're getting dirty throughout the day Are you a hands on guy Jeff? Yeah What are you hands on with? I'm a key taker to primary school Oh you're physical work You're hands on see And I'm a key taker to primary school Oh, your physical work

Your hands on, see? And then you just go straight into bed With everything from the day Yeah, I don't notice, I'm asleep That's a great argument You go and have a good day caretaking, alright? Thank you Geez, I loved the caretaker at school

Aren't they always great characters, the school caretaker? Amy, where do you stand in the shower on this debate? Oh, look, I'm twice a day. I just, yeah. I work out in the morning and I'm busy with the kids after school.

So, yeah, I'm definitely a shower before I hop into bed as well. Yeah, wouldn't dream of going to bed dirty after the day, eh? Oh, nah, that's just sick. Yeah, but you know, what happens, what your body does while you're sleeping, all sorts of wild stuff. You wake up and you're

like, what has happened in my mouth to create... But you won't brush your teeth, though. This toxic odor. Yeah. Yeah. But you're not running marathons in your sleep, though, are you? But you're right, you could get, you know... Your body excretes stuff. But that's also happening

throughout the day, and for Megan's argument, and you're going out and about to the... You're right. You mentioned me on my team. I'm on the fence, because I do both, so I kind of like, I can mock you, I can mock Megan, I can... It's quite a nice position to be in.

But you're seeming more mockable currently. You are, actually. I feel like the more they sort of talk about it, I feel like Megan's probably in the right. I can mock you. I can mock her. Hey, thanks for your call, Amy. You go and have a great day and enjoy your shower tonight.

Hey, no worries. You too, guys. Great text here as well, 4487. I shower once a week or whenever my partner's interested in me. Whichever comes first. partner's interested in me. Whichever comes first. Are you interested in me? Well, then I'll clean myself. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Now Taylor Swift in Australia, of course, and entertainment reporter for the New Zealand Herald, Lily Rowan, went over and wrote the review. She went to the first concert over there. Yeah, big weekend, not much sleep, a lot of work, a lot of Taylor Swift, and then came in Monday and gave us a review. And we want to conduct a little bit of a science experiment of sorts. So Lily's back in the studio.

You're back, Lily. I'm back. How's it going? You're back. Two days. Well, two days this week. Because you came in on Monday and we talked about you going to Taylor Swift. And having to go back after the concert and write your article

for The Herald. Yeah. It was crazy. Yeah. We were up to, it was 4 a.m. New Zealand time that we were up to writing it. That's a long haul. After the concert finished at what? Yeah.

It finished at 11 Melbourne time, so 1 a.m. New Zealand time. Jono, you were saying we should have just got ChatGPT to write it. Listen, I'm not a... You're a far better journalist than I'll ever be. But that's what I would have done. You said, I'll just get ChatGPT to do it. It was artificial intelligence, you know, chuck it in there. Just write me a review of the

concert. I mean, how different can the Eras Tour be? Every concert, like she's done a few now. So I was thinking about that yesterday afternoon. I went, well, I'll just see what ChatGPT would do So I typed into ChatGPT Write an article for a New Zealand newspaper About the first night of Taylor Swift's concert in Melbourne, Australia

On an Errors tour With an opinion of how it was And within a matter of seconds It just spat out an article Oh so you don't even have your own opinion I didn't give an opinion at all I just said you tell me what I think. And then I was like, wow, that just came out pretty quickly.

And then I looked at it and I was like, well, there's some good things and some bad things. Like a teacher marking. I was like, well, I saw a few mistakes. You want to go through and be like, A minus. No, this wasn't quite correct. So we've sent that to you now, Lily. We wanted to see if you could give a review now, not of Taylor Swift, but of ChatGPT's review of the concert that it never went to.

I think it was quite interesting. There were a couple of mistakes. They said that it was at the Marvel Stadium. It wasn't. It was at MCG. Minor detail. Also in Melbourne, I was looking up yesterday. So yeah, I was like, that's in Melbourne,

but they got that kind of wrong. They got that a little bit wrong, but good for them. There's just really minor things. Like they said, you know, the first song was Shake It Off. It wasn't. It was like Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince. Right. Minor deeds.

Just little things that like if you were at the concert, you'd be like, this is a lie. Played all her tracks, her hit tracks from her latest album, Era. And I was like, well, no, the album's not era the thing's era but you know they tried they tried um i think it's really interesting i think chat gpt definitely in generative ai it definitely has a place uh in journalism but can it really replicate our own opinions no well clearly when you said write an opinion of the uh but then the okay we're focused on the negs. Yes, it's had some losses, some minor deets.

The stadium's wrong. The songs are wrong. But it kind of set the scene. I mean, it says, last night, the streets of Melbourne were pulsating with excitement as Taylor Swift, the global pop sensation, took centre stage. Oh, pretty good, right? I see you glittering lights, enthusiastic fans, all eager to witness Swift's electrifying performance. It feels like they've just gone for synonyms in the dictionary, you know, they're good

with adjectives. Totally. But also, it's just pulled from other people's work on the internet, right? Oh, really? Is that what it's... That's how it works, yeah. So it just gathers all this information, it pulls keywords from all over the internet, and then it just compiles it.

So it would have gone to multiple reviews of the year as to, I see. So if you plagiarise hundreds of people it's not plagiarism. Just the ultimate in bullshitting. This thing didn't even go to the concert in Melbourne. As the final notes

of Love Story echoed through the stadium was a collective sense of a euphoria amongst the crowd. Things like that. You weren't even there. You didn't lie to me at all. I'm ashamed to admit that I use chat GPT to, you know, what's some good Valentine's presents?

Comes up with great options. Really helpful thoughtful presents too. Oh wow. I think it's a great idea as well if you're like writing a card to someone and you don't know what to say. You're like, hey, can you write this card for me? Wedding vows.

Yeah, I can't write my best man speech. Yeah. That's when it comes into the forefront. But we'll keep it away from reviews. In the meantime, your job's very safe, okay? You and your opinion. Go and have a wonderful day, Lily. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

It was a few weeks ago that Elon Musk, there was news around Elon Musk putting a chip inside, a computer chip inside someone's brain, a microchip. Yes. Now, he's trying to help with patients who have disabilities and can't speak a lot of the time as well. So they put this chip in the first test patient and now just weeks later what this patient can control with the chip that is inside their brain is crazy can control a computer mouse now how does that work have a listen to Elon your progress is good patient seems to be made for recovery and is able to control the mouse,

move the mouse around the screen just by thinking. Just by thinking and can click and drag things on the computer screen? How do you click with your brain? How do you do it? You just think about doing that. It's not a Bluetooth feature, is it? No, that's wild. Insane.

Insane. So hopefully it's doing the things, what it sounds like, it's doing the things that they want it to do. Sometimes a lot of those people can't talk. So that was one of the things that they're trying to do, enable them to communicate. Crazy. This is where it's starting.

Immediately I went to the supermarket where I just tapped my head. It's like pay wave. Oh, yeah. I just got my one card in there. There'll be a point in 10 years' time where you just blink and your shopping will turn up to you. Oh, yeah. That's got my one card in there. There'll be a point in 10 years' time where you just blink and your shopping will turn up to you. Yes, you will.

Probably, yeah. Just think about what you need. And it comes by drone. Crazy, isn't it? Wow. Something to think about. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

So weak in Dunedin this week, all the students getting back into their studies. As you said before, it's almost towards the end of February. Yeah, it feels like really kicking things off late.

And all being told to get meningitis shots. Listen, I'll tell you what, it's probably not the only shots they need, but whatever you've got, just jab it in the students. Have you been through

like Castle Street and some of those iconic places? Interesting. It's eye-opening, isn't it? Yeah, I stayed the night in there one time down there. Oh, as an adult?

As an early adult. Oh, early adult was fine. Yeah. We went there as fully grown adults, and it's very confronting. Yeah. I remember those kind of beans, I know what you're talking about. Yeah. We went to these guys' place in my castle, and I was standing in the area,

and they're like, ooh, wouldn't stand. That was outside, eh? That was outside, yeah. Ooh, wouldn't stand there. And I said, why? You're standing in our area and they're like oh wouldn't that was outside eh it was outside yeah wouldn't stand there and I said why are you like you're standing in our vomit pit they have our vomit pit

it's a wonderful garden feature this is so lovely for parents who have got kids that are first year uni and to need it hey it looks like

everyone that goes down there has a great time yeah like a really really great time make some wonderful memories you know like when you're in that

age of life memorable memories you know and probably great friends oh yeah all my mates that did that couldn't speak highly of it you know it's called like scrunter and shuntering yeah hey uh something at home that well probably sounds like i should be in castle street at the moment causing over many years you know about this jonoo, that I've got in the garage at home just a lot of costumes, props and costumes. For many years of working in radio and TV and stuff, I've just kept a hell of a lot of costumes to the point

that we can't park a car. We've never been able to park a car in our garage because there's too much props and costumes. It's kind of like the garage of when they catch a serial murderer and they're always into weird hobbies. Oh, he was a model train enthusiast. Or, you know, he collected McDonald's Happy Meal toys. He's got to collect garage full of costumes.

You want a Cookie Monster costume. You want a popcorn. You want a Twitter bird. I've got it all in there. And these things, I'm like, I don't want to throw it out. It might be useful one day. But then it gets quite messy in there. And then sometimes I know I've got something in there,

but it's too hard to find because there's a lot going on. It's not what the garage thought it was destined for when it was being built. Or my wife. My wife Amanda is very upset that we've never been able to park a car in the garage. That was her intention, was to park her car in the garage. We never once have. We just park it outside. But I'm like, oh, well, that's the props.

Props and costumes, that's where they live. That's the props and costumes. And I'll be fine with that. Is it like a friend that said, hey, I'm just going to come and stay for a couple of days and end up staying for six months probably yeah exactly like that uh so but i've been like it's fine it's all good i love the props and costumes it's good to have but then on friday night i went along to the breakers the basketball and all the family like we want to wear you know our breakers singlets breakers outfits and i've i've got you know my. And I'll go, oh, the other ones must be downstairs

in the props and costumes department where the sports get. Department. Department. So I found one and I put it on and then gave one to my daughter. And she went, oh, smells like the garage. I'm like, oh, has it got? And we got to that stage now where the thing smells like garage you know when you walk into

like a Salvation Army shop and you're hit with that wall of that familiar odour yeah I'm like oh oh gee so maybe things are I don't know

maybe it's time to sort that out props and costumes get some mothballs categorise it up I'm like I've never had I was like what if it smells like the garage

she's like it just smells like the garage you go down the garage there's a smell and this singlet smells like the garage. You can't throw any of them out, though. They're like your children, under those props and costumes.

That's right. You probably throw your children out before your props and costumes. Yeah. Props and costumes won't lead me to go to Castle Street when they're 18 years old, will they? The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, a friend in a bit of a social pickle and uh yesterday received

a text uh well sorry a couple of weeks ago received a text inviting him to a a colleague's birthday and he was like oh not taken back to be invited but not overly surprised to be invited but wouldn't have expected to be invited he's sitting overly surprised, to be invited, but wouldn't have expected, to be invited, he's sitting in that category, right, but wouldn't look out of place, if he turned up,

to the birthday party, so then, it's all teed up, at a restaurant, the message said, in lieu of presents, please just donate some money, to my favourite charity,

some sort of animal shelter, of some description so he's gone ahead and done that he's put them he's put the money in bang receives a text yesterday oh my god i am really sorry to do this but i didn't mean to invite you i meant to invite someone else in my friend circle with the same name now Now the conundrum being she's, it's a restaurant, so there's table seating, so there's no room for him to now attend. So he's been invited, uninvited, but in the meantime, purchased the bloody present or the donation.

I guess it's not a nice thing, but probably. He's like, can I ask for my money back from the animal shelter? Oh, that sucks. Savage world of having to invite people, isn't it? Surely you could bring

the restaurant and add a person. Yeah, it feels like in that situation. I think a lot of people wouldn't go through the social awkwardness of going,

hey, you wouldn't, I didn't mean to invite you. Yeah, but then if it's just your tight group of friends and you've got one random colleague, you're going to be like, yeah.

You can see where she's coming from. I mean, I would be too awkward to uninvite someone. Bloody Aaron Gardner from the technical department. If I accidentally invited him to the birth of my next child and then realised I invited the wrong Aaron. What other Aaron do you want to go? Why are you inviting Aarons? What is your wife going to say?

I'd say mate Come and get your hands dirty I'm not going to uninvite anyone I can't imagine you uninviting anyone No That would be too An awkward situation Have you been uninvited?

I Oh this is very fresh I haven't been uninvited But I've been in a situation Very recently Where we invited someone And we didn't mean to And

We Went through with it. Oh, right. I was like, literally have no idea how it happened and my husband was like, how did you invite this person?

And were they none the wiser? None the wiser. They were like, thank you for inviting me. We went through with the whole thing, like put the name tag, place setting, all of that jazz.

Well, it happened to one of my kids at birthdays many years ago uh like a girl's turned up parents dropped her off and then my daughter's like i didn't actually invite her but it's all right no and i was like okay she's here now we'll try and get another place to place at the place because we're like in a trampoline park and it was like oh i guess we could try and get another place on the table. She's here now. She's here for the three hours. As long as they know people and it fits in. But it feels like in your friend's scenario, probably wouldn't have fit in.

Yeah, so maybe saving him a bit of an awkward social. I remember we have done some emceeing work with another Jono who runs some events. Oh, yes. Yeah, and I sometimes get emails for him. And I was invited to a very swanky black tie event. And to be honest, I did get uninvited. But the whole time I was thinking, how can I get out of this event?

And then the dream email came through. Sorry, that was meant for the wrong Jono. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. You invite someone to a function or a wedding or a birthday. Can you uninvite them at some stage? I imagine you can, but it's an awkward conversation. You can do it, but do you want to do it? Yeah, it just happened to a friend of mine who was invited to a birthday dinner from a colleague

and then uninvited after he fastidiously followed the instruction to deposit, in lieu of a present, deposit money into her favourite animal shelter's account. He's like, I don't even like animals that much, but I did it. That's better than actually buying a present. Yeah, that is amazing. Like, just donate it to a charity. Great play if you're a charity.

You say, I have a big birthday party, donate money into this account, and then go, oh, the birthday post, I have even more. But thanks for donating to the charity. Yeah, great play. Now, we're going to kick things off with Anonymous on line one. Welcome. How are you? You were invited and uninvited,

we understand. Are you there, Anonymous? The problem when we call people Anonymous is they're so anonymous they don't know whether to speak up or not. It was about your daughter. Yes, it was. What happened?

She uninvited last minute her grandparents and several of that side of the family to her wedding. Oh, how last minute? Weeks. How did that go down with the wider group? She's still not speaking to them and she's been married for more than 10 years. What happened? There's a whole big back story like families have that you wouldn't want to know but

she just decided and I've got absolutely full admiration for her sticking to her guns that she was only going to have people surrounding her at her wedding that she thought were the right people I guess. It kind of sounds like if she had invited them, there would have been

a fallout afterwards anyway. And then you have to see them in all your wedding pictures and videos. Yeah. Good on her. Good on her for doing that. It's a hard thing to do,

but you're right. It's the person's wedding. They should be able to invite who they want. Yeah, I agree. And Megan and Harry, I didn't realise you were related to them.

So thank you very much for your call. Appreciate that. Have a good one. Have you been invited and uninvited? Claire, good morning. Good morning. Uninvited. Were you uninvited? No, I wasn't uninvited, but the best man was uninvited.

Oh, you did the uninviting? Yes, my now husband did the uninviting, and it happened two weeks before our wedding. Oh, you did the uninviting? Yes, my now husband did the uninviting, and it happened two weeks before our wedding. Oh, now can we go into any details? Well, I hope we go into some. It was pretty much, I don't really understand what exactly happened, but he met up with his friend, and his friend pretty much turned around

and said to him that he had no time for him and that he was going to show up on the day just to um to do what he had to do and he never talked to him again oh yeah so he just my husband said you know don't worry just don't don't come i want you to be there and he was the best man yeah yeah he was yeah and this was before it was a bit stressful. It was a bit stressful. Did he manage to sub in a new best man? Yeah, yeah, he did. But we were still one person short. That's okay.

We had an uneven wedding party, but that didn't matter at the time. You were going quality rather than quantity. That's right. Then he would have had to be like, you were always my bestest man. Yeah, well, that's a hard thing as well, too. You're like, well, I know that I wasn't, but yeah. And come off the bench. Yeah, you're being promoted. Yeah, well that's the hard thing as well too. You're like, well I know that I wasn't, but yeah. They come off the bench. Yeah, you're being promoted. Yeah, true. And so they haven't spoken since?

No. No, they haven't. That is very sad. And you don't know what the reason was? Something to do with the Bucks night. He felt like he was being stitched up At the strip club or something But I'm not really 100% sure

What happened there But I don't think there was any stitching up Yeah right, bit of murky stuff happening at the old Bucks night It can happen It seems like a wild thing to do before the wedding When you think about that That's why they say no phones on the stags do Well listen I'm glad your marriage is going well to do before the wedding when you think about that. That's why they say no phones on the stags, dude. Stags, dude. Don't they, Ben?

Yeah. Well, listen, I'm glad your marriage is going well and the wedding was a success. Oh, thank you. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

It was only yesterday that I mentioned that my husband, I've got a petite daughter and he was like, yeah, I don't know where she gets it from. Rude.

Yeah. So rude. And today, this happened after the show yesterday. We tried to dissipate Andrew's listening. We did try and form a defense for you, big guy. We failed miserably. And then after the show yesterday, we were having a meeting, and I mentioned something that he'd said.

And the room went quiet. I wasn't expecting the response that it got. So we were talking about friends of ours that have a custody situation where they share the children, you know, have different periods of time. And the guy in the relationship doesn't get the kids as much as the wife, the ex-wife. And he was feeling aggrieved for him uh and he was like you wouldn't do that to me would you like we'd split custody evenly right and i was like sure yeah i don't know

what we probably don't need to talk about this um but he went in and he was like because i feel like you know sometimes the guys get left in the lurch a little bit. He was like, I feel like it should be 50-50. I'd hate to not see them all the time. And he went on and on and on about it. And I was like, you probably don't need to worry. We don't need to go into the nitty gritty of it now. And he was like, who would live in the house? He went into full detail.

So he's trying to figure out what life looks like post, you know. Post me. Tell us yesterday that you'd had a conversation about friends that were in the situation. I just thought it was out of the blue, just going, hey, look, if things go – Well, no, there was a kick point. Yeah.

But he went in for quite a while. Well, maybe you've reached that certain age of marriage where you're like, well, we've had all the conversation we're going to have. Let's start venturing into new exciting areas. What happens if we're not together? Who gets the kids? What's happening? You want Monday to Friday? Yeah happens if we're not together? Who gets the kids? What's happening? Do you want Monday to Friday?

Do they just see Dad on the weekends? It's like a world situation. You don't want to think about it, but it's good to have these conversations. Maybe he's along those lines. Well, he got home after work yesterday because you guys were all like, whoa, red flag. Red flag, red flag. I like saying red flag. I never really said it.

Oh, that's a red flag. I didn't say anything, but obviously it was all overical doesn't it It's a red flag I didn't say anything But obviously it was all over my face And he was like What's wrong And I was like No nothing And he was like No what's up

And I was like Well everyone said That it was a red flag That you wanted to talk about Custody of our children He said In his defence That it was a

Like character Test On me Oh good play It was a character test He was testing you. He was testing my character. It's when you start getting the Google invites,

the calendar invites for who gets the kids on what days. That's when you need to start worrying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, do you know I have a good divorce lawyer? The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, a lot of companies nowadays, they tend to pretend to care about what the employees think, don't they? And it's great that we live in a society where you can voice your opinion.

I'll tell you what, they're probably not worrying about the opinions of the staff at the fast fashion factory in China. Imagine they're not sending out staff opinion surveys. Sorry, I can't hear your opinion over the deafening noise of hard-working underage children. Get back to work. But we get asked in this company to fill out staff opinion surveys. Quite regularly, actually. Yeah, how often is it?

It feels like it's all the time. It feels like every seven days. It's so close between surveys that my opinion hasn't changed from the last one to the next one. Sometimes you're like copy and paste from last week or whatever we had to do it. It's probably longer than that, though. It's probably a month or two, right? And I'm not the sort of person to fill out surveys.

I'm not much of a survey person. You know when you go to a restaurant and they're like, would you like to fill out the quick survey on the EF FPOS terminal about how you've enjoyed the service? You know how sometimes they check those in there? I'm like, no, no thanks. I just don't think my opinion is valuable. And so for a number of weeks I haven't filled out

our staff opinion survey because I barely struggle to come up with an opinion on the radio every morning. And as I'm doing this I'm getting texted by our boss Mando saying, I knew you were the last person who hasn't filled out the survey. Because he's been sending out emails as well. But now I find that if you avoid doing the survey for a number of weeks,

you start to get from the system, the administration system, the gentle reminder emails. Hey, this is just a gentle reminder that we could see you haven't filled out the survey. And you get those for a number of days in a row to the point where it becomes far less gentle and more passive aggressive from the automated system. Yeah. A gentle reminder is never a gentle reminder. No, you're right.

A passive aggressive reminder. Come on, you useless piece of garbage. Can you just do the simple task that was asked of you to tick a few boxes on an online survey. That's what a gentle reminder is. You're even making it sound simple in your explanation. It takes like five minutes.

I know, it takes nothing. But I ended up doing it. There's one person on staff who doesn't know who it is and our boss keeps sending out emails going going hey no i don't know who it is but if you could all fill out the survey one person one person's dragging the chain we even got a special text on friday they don't know who it is it's anonymous but somehow they managed to text just us three and i know it was pointed at me on friday because then i filled out the survey uh so there we go.

The staff opinion survey all done. But we're not much of a survey nation. If the participation in the last census was anything to go by. Yeah. And then they're like, remember? Maybe they need to bribe us with Warriors tickets and stuff here at the company. They did that for census, didn't they? Yeah, remember?

It reached the point where they're like, guys, what do you want us to do? Do you want us to fill your cars up? Anything. We started bribing people to do the census. Still, the worst ever census ever done. Was it? Yeah, I think so. The lowest ever turnout.

To the point where they're like, should we even do a census? Does anyone care about the census? No. Not really. Well, they probably gave a survey or a census on that and no one thought of that. We probably had a chance to go,

we don't need this thing. Just a general reminder. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast This would have been Kurt Cobain's 57th birthday today Jeez 20th of Feb

57 Gee whiz Wow I suppose that's what happens When you know Years go by And time Time catches up with you

And you go Wow 57 Yeah Would have been his 57th Was he 30 years Was he 27

Was he Yeah he was 30 years ago Do you reckon he Yeah he was 30 years ago Do you reckon he would have got Botox Who Kurt Cobain Yeah He didn't seem like a Botoxy guy Yeah I don't know

I don't know Maybe Maybe I don't know He seemed a bit too cool To head down that path I think you know A lot of those rock stars

They look better rankly Don't they Look at Mick Jagger Yeah Keith Richards Stephen Tyler's had work though right Yeah some of them would have had work He looks like an auntie now

Doesn't he Everyone's auntie Stephen Tyler He does He actually looks like One of my aunties Stephen Tyler Like free flowing

Like dream catchery Sort of scarves From Eros Yeah Wonderful lips Stephen Tyler Natural Those are all

Oh natural Yeah Those lips There we go There's some coverage of Older rock stars Now Megan Yesterday

You know we're getting To know you better I mean we've known you For a while But working with you Every day We're getting to find out More things about you

That we didn't know And you took part In a very dangerous activity For many many years Yeah I used to play Roller derby For I think i was like two two years it was probably all my body was could withstand now roller roller derbies are a sport

for those that maybe enjoy roller skating but but are like you know what i wouldn't mind if there was like 20 people trying to push me over right now it's hard enough to roller skate as it is a roller you know like but to get people nudging you and pushing you, it's very, we've tried it a couple of times. It's like UFC on wheels. Yeah, and it's very full on and scary. Because I watched a movie, Whip It, and I was like, I watched it with my mum, and I said to her, I'm going to do that.

She was like, and then set the challenge. And so I literally went out and by myself, you knowing me now, I don't do anything by myself. I went to, they call it Fresh Meat, and learnt how to play roller derby. Wow. It was like, yeah. Looking back now, I was like on the bones of getting a divorce,

so maybe it was something to do with that. Yeah, right. You're like, where's the meat? Is there a meat raffle? What's going on here? We filmed, as we mentioned, we did do roller derby, and we turned up without a word of a lie. They were demonstrating to us before we strapped on the skates how to do it. And a lady broke, was it her wrist or collarbone?

Oh, yes. Something really bad. And we watched this horrific incident take place just as we were about to go out. And they're like, all right, your turn now. And they were the professionals. What's happened to the poor lady with the collarbone? Yeah. I don't know if this is a bit grim to tell you, but I saw someone hit the deck with chin first.

Oh. And let's just say that the skin stayed and the chin carried on. Oh. Yeah. Oh, the chin came out of the skin. Yeah. Oh, you could see the chin bone. Yeah.

The amulets came. And they had one of those like The breezy thing Yeah yeah The gas Oh my god I've seen neck braces There was lots of injuries

You never want to see anyone's chin chin Do you? No Can I see a photo of you In your roller derby Yes Oh here we go That's

I was actually in like a rep team. We went to Australia. Do you have a nickname or like a cool nickname and stuff? Sometimes they have nicknames at the back of their tops. You have to. So yes, I did have one. But get this. This is quite serious.

So when you get your name, you have to register it internationally. And there cannot be any duplicates. So like you can register your name. But if there's another one, you don't get it. It's like a Gmail account. So what were you? Chloe Karbashian. Oh, that is good.

They're always good names. I got to play as the jammer, so I was Ben Jammin. You were jamming? Yeah, I got jamming. I wasn't any good at it. And you were a blocker. You were Kid Block, remember? Yeah, yeah.

Kid Rock. Oh, Kid Block. I held the remember? Yeah. Kid Rock. Yeah. Oh, Kid Block. I hold the same political views as Kid Rock as well. I love Koei Kabashian. I love Koei Kabashian. That's great. I love the photo of you two. Very kind of gothy looking.

A little bit gothy. Like you would head out into a forest and sacrifice an animal. Yeah. As part of a ritual sort of look. Yeah, I was going for aggressive. Yeah, it's good probably Kardashian, my lover. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast.

Just discovered yesterday that Megan used to do rollerblading. Roller derby. Roller derby. Someone has actually texted and asking what league I was from. Pirate City Rollers. There you go. Same league. How many years were you playing this sport?

Oh, like two. And I'm making it sound like I was real bad and badass, but I was pretty rubbish. Chloe Carbashian. Great name. Now, Producer Taylor, before working in radio, you were? I was a cheerleader in the NRL. That's way cooler than mine.

Did you have a cool nickname or not? No. No, not to my face at least. You had some nicknames behind your back. Probably. Who did you cheerlead for? I started off with the Bulldogs and then got sacked because Marcello was playing at the Bulldogs at the time.

Can't fraternise with the players apparently. Didn't read that part of the contract. And then went to the Eels and then was like you know what this feels weird cheerleading for someone else yeah so were you cheerleading for like a what happened when the bulldogs and the eels played yeah yeah conflict of interest majorly it's yeah you're half out of cheers you're like oh it's not really giving it at all she's not a true eel supporter no so yeah hung the pom-poms up and now I'm with you guys. You can actually still kick quite high.

I can. Like your foot goes above your head. And that's without a warm-up. You should see me when I'm warm. I can backflip around you. What I've seen is fine. I can do better, I promise. Do you need to see a warm bed?

I don't know what that means But no Muscles Muscles are warm Yeah And so The fraternising was frowned upon Did you get sacked on the spot

There was a bit of snitching Going on is what I believe Oh really Names were dropped I know who it was But you know Bring it on Gotta be the bigger person

I ended up with the husband Yeah Did you apply the Stitches theory To the snitches I ended up with the husband. Yeah. Did you apply the stitches theory to the snitches? I did. Yeah. Went ugly. Went ugly.

She did get stitches. Was the club like, well, one of you is more important to us than the other? Yeah. And I'm a bit, you know, like feminism. Hello. But no, I guess he was more value at the time. Well, he was playing the sport that the club was created for. Yeah, I guess so.

Who are we going to lose, the cheerleader or the professional league player? Ooh, I don't know. Tough one. We haven't seen her warm yet, so maybe there's some potential there. Hey, 0800 The Hits, what were you in a previous life? Adrian, welcome. How are you? I'm good, thank you. How are you? Yeah, we're doing really well.

We're just talking about what you used to be in a previous life. What was it for you? So I used to be Adele's accountant. Adele, Adele? Like, you used to work in London.

Yeah, I used to work in London. Well, I hope Adele, Adele. Otherwise, it's just some random lady called Adele. Well, it could have been Adele or someone else. Wow.

Like, during which era, like, which album would she be famous for at the time? It was Chasing Pavements. Really? Wow. During which era, like which album would she be famous for at the time? It was Chasing Patience. Really? Yeah. So did you have to ring her up and say, hey, you've filed this wrong or you need to do this thing or anything like that?

Occasionally, but it was more done through her PA. Gotcha. So it was at the time when she was really, really sick and she had to cancel a lot of her shows. And so did you ever speak to Adele? Did she phone you up and be like, hello, it's me? No, no, she didn't do that. It's me, no.

It's me, you're like. She didn't call me. She didn't call you. Hello, it's me. You're like, who's me? I don't know. I'm with, no. So does she, now does someone of that stature, that fame,

have their own accounting team and that's all you focus on are her accounts or you do multiple? I did multiple. It wasn't just her. There was lots of different artists. Oh, who else? Who else? So she had a few accountants and then in the London office, she would have a team as well.

She's a team of accountants. Wow. And so you would balance the hell out of Adele's spreadsheet, no doubt. Yeah. What other artists did you have on your books? Craig David, Arctic Monkeys, lots. I've worked for different firms as well, so I've done lots of different artists. Craig David had his week all planned out too, just something on Monday, Tuesday, you'd be

like, oh yeah, that makes sense. That drink you took there for a drink on Tuesday, that's not, we can't claim that back, Craig, I'm sorry. And a lot of his week revolved around lovemaking as well, so I don't know when he squeezed time in to meet the accountant. That was the second week, the week after. Monday, I went to the accountant.