Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: I was in the shower and...

Episode Date: January 29, 2024

Enty speaks on Taylor Swift and the Super Bowl. Hey diddle diddle try and guess Tayla's riddle! Bens's daughter becomes an entrepreneur.  Reece Witherspoon shares her grandmother's advice. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better team. The holiday yesterday for quite a lot of New Zealand, Auckland anniversary, which as we said yesterday, if anyone was listening, I'm not sure if anyone was listening yesterday, what do you reckon? I feel like numbers down across the board there Ben. A lot of people on holiday across the country. But from Auckland all the way pretty much to Nelson and a few areas in between, right? Yeah.

Got their holiday yesterday. Yeah, well I hope you enjoyed it. Now you're back to the grind. Back to school today for a lot of kids. Yeah. They sort of go back across the next week. I went to a warehouse stationery last night with my kids to get the – geez, that was heaving.

That was heaving. I feel like you've left that to the last minute. Yeah, too late. But one of my daughters, it doesn't start for another week. So I was like, I've got plenty of time, but a lot of people are going back today. Tindall's bloody cashing up the storm at Warehouse Stationery. I was like, what club is this? This is going off.

It was packed. It's just people buying 1B5 books. And then they went over the loudspeaker. They were like, we're closing in 30 minutes. We're like, 30 minutes? Because it was a holiday, I guess, shorter hours. And everyone was panicked then. Have you tried to buy a printer ink cartridge from warehouse stationery they've got those locked in a vault yeah it is like a half hour process to get one

ink cartridge out yeah well fair enough one of the other times i was there last year some guy just walked in cut the cord from a cell phone on the thing you know how they're connected to a cord yeah and just walked out it made a noise, and just walked out. It made a noise, and he just walked out. I needed to call someone, mate. Yeah, yeah. It was some desperate need. Actually, we need to call someone right now. Producer Joel.

He's been with the show for a while, and now he's moved to Radio Horeki, which is, for him, it's a sweet spot. From when we interviewed him for the job, I was like, this isn't the station for you. I was like, Radio Horeki is where you need to be, and this is where he's gone, and he's going to have a fantastic time there. Yeah, we loved working with the producer, Joel. He was great. He was like, this isn't the station for you. I was like, Radio Hauraki is where you need to be and that's where he's gone and he's going to have a fantastic

time there. We loved working with the producer, Joel. He was great. He was a lovely guy. Great, wonderful human being. But we forgot to say goodbye to him on radio yesterday, Ben. So we must call him now on his first day in his normal 9 to 5 job hours. Yeah, like yesterday as he left

he was like, oh, I can sleep until 8, 8 30 tomorrow. Don't have to get up at 4. We've got to give him the send-off he deserves. It is a two-hour sleep-in, to be fair. Do you think he'll answer? Uh, hey, yeah, you've just reached Joel Harrison's number. Oh, I read one.

Dial again. Dial again. He would have tried to answer but accidentally pushed the decline. Accidentally. Because he said yesterday, oh, you guys

didn't say anything on air about me leaving. Well, here's his chance. Yeah, we want to do it to him. Yeah, with him,

you know. Now he's just put it on like do not disturb or something, hasn't he? Smart play, Harrison.

No longer does he have to answer our calls no he doesn't have to do this he's not he's not required to and he's not going to so he definitely switched it off the first time

didn't he he sent us through the message yeah well there you go that's your goodbye Joel I had a whole like speech a poem

everything written for him but he'll never hear that so there we go the hits the Jono and Ben podcast the Riddler The Riddler. The Riddler. That's what we're calling her around the office.

Behind her back and in front of her back. Two Ben boys. That's your official moniker now, Taylor. You come weekly with a riddle. And it's too early for the average human brain to engage in this activity, I find. Yeah. So you're going to try to trick us with a riddle.

We get a chance to try and get the answer first. Yeah. And then throw it over to you if we can't get it. Or if we can't get it, we'll throw one out to you as well.

All right. All right. I'll kick things off. I am present at the beginning of love, the start of life, and I am the end of evil. What am I?

I need you to read it out another six times. Yeah, exactly. Feel free to have some working out paper, guys. Do we need that, do we? Okay. I am present at the beginning of love, the start of life, and I am the end of evil. What am I? A thought?

No. Don't be like, no. Don't you get all high and mighty. Okay. Beginning of love. Would you have got this if you didn't? No, but I don't do these things. That's why I ask them because I'm really stupid at these.

Well, the phones are going. Let's go to the phones. Should we hit the phones, Grace? Yeah, go on because we're dumb. You're on New Zealand's breakfast. Welcome. The answer. I'm at the beginning of love, the start of life, and the end of evil.

Yeah, good job. She got lesser L. A what? The lesser L. Yes, good job. Oh, my God. Very good. These are just annoying.

Yeah, they are really annoying. I'm trying to think of something. I'll do these. Okay. Yeah, I agree. Do you want some hell pizza? Oh, absolutely. Yeah, right.

We'll give you that. What's your name? It's Joanna. Okay, Joanna. Well, that was our one. We get one chance to answer one, and I don't think once you're going to get a right answer out of us. But now you asked one for the audience.

Yeah, yeah. Even though the audience helped us out with that one, it's fine fine we'll take that one probably a bit hard i thought i'd do the easy one for you guys oh that was the easy one okay okay so here we go what occurs once in a minute twice in a moment and never in a thousand years once in a minute twice in a moment And never in a thousand years The letter M Yeah I was just thinking it could be a letter from the thing Is the answer?

Yeah So now you want to do one You want to get one right You read the two letter ones Yeah I know We were already thinking about letters I was like trying to You read the horse to water for the first one

Yeah You should have got one that wasn't a letter-orientated one. It's the same riddle. Now we're all looking at letter-orientated ones. It's the same format. Whatever, whatever. Cool. Go write your own ones next week.

I don't know the hints. If you want to play nothing because the riddle's done. No, I can get another one. I'll get another one. It's too late. You have two chances per week. The riddler, you let yourself down. You brought shame upon the Lombardi family.

Yeah. You know the second one's meant to be harder. That was harder, I thought. It wasn't harder. It was the same answer. We were all thinking you had to do something with the letters. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Went to a train station over the weekend

And probably the most unexpected soundtrack I found at this train station Was blaring over the speakers And it wasn't just a one-off song This was constant The format of this radio station At the train station Was classical

Classical music the train station was classical classical music i'm just recording this beautiful music now i spoke to a lovely guy pushing a trolley with bags dangling on the outside of the trolley not the inside yeah uh his theory was he's like, he'd wondered the same thing. Right. His theory was the de-escalation of violence at the train station. Oh, because the music's a bit more soothing. No one wants fisticuffs to that playing in the background, do they? Kind of seems comical.

Yeah. The juxtaposition doesn't work. So apparently, his theory was, he's like, I've spent a lot of time around here and I've been thinking about it. Yeah, people feel less violent around Beethoven or Mozart. Banger. Yeah, I suppose that could make some sense.

Have you been in those really flash bathrooms, this sort of port-a-loo situation? Well, not port-a-loo, the public toilet thing, but they go, you have 10 minutes and then they play classical music too. Yeah. But 10 minutes,

I'm going to need the whole 10 minutes? What's going to happen? If you're going beyond 10 minutes, there's something wrong. They're those ones that like auto-clean as well.

Yeah. I was like, these things are incredible. Like I went on one, I was like, oh my God, this has really changed the game. Classical music,

they auto-clean. Next time I went to that same one, it would malfunction. There was water coming out from everywhere. I'm terrified. And then the automatic door suddenly opens. You're like, no! There's so many automatic parts to those toilets. Just one breaks down the whole thing.

My friend went into the one at Taupo, got locked into the cleaning part of it. Oh, there you go. That's my worst nightmare. Came out like a smurf because of all the blue cleaning detergent. I feel like they've got cleaning part of it. Oh, there you go. That's my worst nightmare. It came out like a Smurf because of all the blue cleaning detergent. I feel like they've got too smart on it. It's just a toilet. Just keep a toilet as it is.

You open the door, you do what you need to do. We don't really need the classical music. But hey, it's nice. There's one near my house that plays Why do birds suddenly... It's a lovely soundtrack. Yeah, there we go. Classical music.

I always find I've only got one to two classical songs in me, then I'm kind of done with my session of classical music. It's kind of background, I find. Maybe that's also the trick. They want you to move along. Yeah. Imagine working there. You'd slowly start to go bonkers.

That's why we play the same pink song every four hours. Totally. Mate, you're working radio. I won't throw any stones. About music driving people nuts. Now, Rhys Witherspoon, Ben Boyce, I've been gagging for this advice that you said will change lives. Oh, not once did i say it'll change life

i wouldn't say like that but i think it's a good a good way to live your life uh yeah it's advice grandparents i mean you know they do they do come up with pearls of wisdom because i guess they've you know lived longer than all of us they've been through a lot of things that's what i just keep trying to say to my kids i was like when i'm offering advice and they're like shut up old man they're not saying that but i can you can see it in their eyes you know I'm like I've just been around longer yeah been around longer seen more stuff no more stuff yeah my kids get annoyed with me saying you understand when you're older they're like what does that mean what does that mean but you do like you reach the stage and you're like oh yeah I get it and I remember my nana uh she passed on

some wonderful advice she's like you don't ever want to live to the age I'm at. That's a great little bit of positive advice. She was about 95. But we do want your best bit of a grandparent advice today. Something that they've passed on to you. And this is Reese Witherspoon, the actor's advice from her grandparents. My grandmother shared it with me. It's just a principle I live my life by.

And it is this. People are either radiators or they're drains. And you need to spend time around radiators. The people who radiate goodness and light and positivity, not the drains. I always feel like I'm watching Sweet Home Alabama when I hear her talk. Yeah, but she does seem like she is a radiator. Yeah, 100. Yeah, always seems happy and upbeat.

Unless she's like one of those Ellen stories that behind the scenes are not quite what you think they are. But that's good advice, isn't it, from her grandparents? Now your grandparents who famously you superglued your granddad's eye shut. Yeah, I did. That's the gift you gave him. I did. What did your granddad pass on to you? Anything interesting? Well, yeah.

They were very quirky, my grandparents. Both his grandparents were very quirky, actually. I've talked on one side about how they had their birthday on the same day and they'd go out and get free dinners all over town because you get dine free on your birthday. That's amazing. So that was on one side. Just you get dine free on your birthday. That's amazing. So that was on one side.

Just extort the eat free on your birthday guarantee. And then on the other side. There's a reason why you have to take a paying customer now. Probably because of those two. My grandparents were Christchurch at the time. Then on the other side, on my mum's side, they lived in a nice house out in North Canterbury, but then they decided they wanted to stay in the caravan

about 15 metres away from the house every night. So every night they'd go out in the cold with no one sleeping in the house. They'd just go out there. It was just a – yeah, anyway. It's like an exterior bedroom. Yeah. It's very weird. It was very weird.

I do remember my grandmother because from that era of everything, you had to save everything. She was always like, eat what you can and then can what you can't. That was her saying. So I mean, put stuff into cans or put it away and save it and use it again was kind of her thing. I was like, oh, she always would say that. Eat what you can and can what you can't.

Well, that's a bit of advice that I haven't seen you incorporate in any facet of your life. No, to be honest, I haven't. Eat what I can. If I don't, put it down there in a cigarette. Or give it to the dog. Now, Megan, you grew up in a nudist colony did your grandpa your grandparents nudists no actually I don't know where my parents have adopted that from but um today did

they offer any of us your grandparents well no one of my grandparents she had a stroke so she just like she didn't say much. I just remember her, like, always telling me off and going, ah, ah, ah, ah. That was the extent of what she could say to me. Like, that meant don't do what you're about to do. Yeah, and don't turn off the life support. Ah, ah, ah, ah. I'm still fine. All right, we've set the bar very low.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Who wanted the best bit of advice from your grandparents that they tried to pass on reese witherspoon's grandma do you want to play the the adorable southern accent of reese this is what she fired off my grandmother shared it with me it's just a principle i live my life by and it is this people are either radiators or they're drains and you need to spend time around the radiators the people who radiate goodness and light and positivity, not the drains. Thank you, Reese Witherspoon.

Now, Rebecca, she's got one of those names where you need to say the first and last name. You've got one of those too, Ben Boyce. Your names feel so much more satisfying when I cover the whole thing off. Megan Pappas works well, although we're not allowed to call you by your full name on the radio show. No, just Megan.

Just hang out with Megan. Just hang out with Megan. Just hang out with Megan. Rebecca, we'll get you off of the Waikato. Best grandparent advice. What was it? Hey guys, my nanny used to say to us, which I never understood until I became an older teenager, it's a boy's right

to try, and it's a boy's right to try. Sorry, I'll get it wrong. It's a boy's right to try and a girl's right to deny. Okay. Wow. I don't know if that's good advice, actually. That's great advice. They can try, but you can deny. Basically explaining the laws of, I guess, consent. Yeah, I can try, but you can deny. Basically explaining the laws of, I guess, consent.

Yeah, well, you're probably right. A wonderful, a wonderful piece of advice there. Odd, but how old were you when you got this advice, Rebecca? I think about 10, and I was like, what the hell is she saying? She's coming in early. She got in early, very early. All right, well, thank you. Appreciate it.

On the text machine, great advice. Sarah says, you look tired. You should get more sleep. That's advice from her grandma. That's something that my mum says to me all the time. Tasha says, be yourself. If someone doesn't like it, then be more of yourself. That's good advice from your grandma.

Johnny Lovegrove, our listener in the US correspondent. He says, Grandad told him, you're a failure if you can't break into your own house. You must be able to break into your own house. Doesn't that mean you're successful at security? Yeah, that's good. Another one here, Joy. It's better to give way than to give evidence. Thank you, that's from Joy's grandad.

It's better to give way than to give evidence. We've got Sue on the phone. What's your grandparent advice? The advice was if you get a bird in your house, we get them coming down our chimney every so often. You shut all the curtains except for one window you leave open or in our case a ranch slider. And so it's all dark and all they see is the light

and they fly towards the light. Genius. That beats chasing them around fly towards the light. Genius. That beats chasing them around with a tea towel. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah, because I get all flappy when birds are inside too. No one's ever comfortable in a bird. The bird's not comfortable, you're not comfortable.

Absolutely, yep. Great advice there. Goes towards the light. Yeah. Hey, Sarah joins us. Sarah, what was the advice you got given? To use peanut butter to strengthen your nails. So put peanut butter on your fingernails.

How long do you have to leave the peanut butter on for? Not too long. Yeah, well, I was under the impression that you left it on overnight. So you went to bed with peanut butter on your fingernails? With peanut butter on your fingernails. And what happened when you woke up? I was covered in ants. Ants.

Well, the ants, they really sniff out stuff, don't they? During the night, don't they? But were your nails stronger? I'd never had ants in my house before. No, they were not any stronger. And I tried this more than once. You're really stuck with the whole peanut butter thing as well. Was it smeared all over the sheets?

It was everywhere. And then I was told to use gloves, and you just end up with ants inside your gloves. You're an ant in your pants, apparently, but yeah. Thanks for your call. And Perry has just messaged Hitsbury for some Facebook. Nana said to take great care not to drop her cast iron fry pan on her toe. That's good advice.

And Wayne Hickman, my granddad told me to get a trade and the world will be your oyster. I did, and I've been stuck in New Zealand for 23 years. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Spilling the tea on Hollywood's A-listers. Auditions. I have met every single one. Exposing scandals.

She's not a good person, but either is he. Digging the dirt. Is she a diva? Yes. And finding out what's going on behind the scenes. Killing a cast member. Yes. It was a script.

No. His identity is a secret. But his stories have been proven right time and time again. This is NT. From the lowlifes of Hollywood to the lowlifes of radio, welcome NT. How are you? You guys aren't lowlifes. Come on now.

I know. We're very self-deprecating here in New Zealand, aren't we? The theory being you knock yourself down before people can knock you down. Yeah, true. What I love about whenever you see a lot of Americans on TV, this is probably stereotyping, or you see they go there, everyone's confident. Everyone's back you know, like backs themselves, which is totally

kind of against a lot of what New Zealand is all about. Well, I think in Hollywood a lot of that's like, you know, it's a lot of fake it till you make it kind of thing. Yeah. And if you have that confidence, you know, you don't want to oh yeah, you know, I want to make this movie, I want to make this TV show, you can't go no, you know, I'm not sure this is a good

idea or not for this show. That's a very good point. Maybe a bit more confidence in the game, Ben Boyce. Yeah, you might be right. A bit more cockiness. Now, everyone's talking about the Super Bowl. We know who's going. And it looks like, I'm looking at ESPN, they're doing wall-to-wall coverage of Taylor Swift.

And it looks like she might be able to make it if she leaves Tokyo on a private jet. Tokyo is 17 hours ahead. That means 12-hour flight. Taylor Swift could still get to the Super Bowl, to Vegas, about 7 or 8 p.m. Saturday night. I mean, the NFL obviously wants her to be there. I mean, I thought, well, if she can't be there, what the NFL will do is have some kind of camera there in Tokyo,

and they'll cut to her every 30 seconds for the entirety of the five hours of the game. What is the Taylor Swift coverage like compared to the football coverage at the moment? Is it a 50-50 split? Well, like the game yesterday that didn't have Taylor, the Detroit

Lions and the San Francisco 49ers, obviously there were no Taylor cutaways. But the Kansas City Chiefs game, there were tons of cutaways. And here's the thing. It's great for football. All the extra merch that they're selling, they have more eyes on the sets. Not that they needed more people to watch, but what they have is they have a new audience that is going to be there at least for the rest of the season.

Now, Megan, who's joining us this year, couldn't have given two hoots about the Kansas City Chiefs, could you? I was just asking if they were favorites. Do they usually go to the Super Bowl? I know nothing about NFL, but my interest is definitely peaked now. Yeah, I mean, they won the Super Bowl last year. They played against, actually, they played against the Philadelphia Eagles. They played against Travis Kelsey's brother, Jason Kelsey, he of the shirtless wonder.

And so, yeah, so they played. And there's a great documentary, Megan, you should watch it. It's about the Kelsey brothers. And it kind of ties into, I think, you know, Travis' plan to become famous this year. But it's more focused on Jason and whether or not he was going to return for another year. It talks about how he met his wife on Tinder and other things like that. It's a pretty interesting thing and how their parents got divorced but lived together so that way they would have enough money for the kids to play football.

Now, your friend's tour manager for Taylor Swift, right? For her publicist. Publicist. So does your friend's tour manager for Taylor Swift, right? For her publicist. Publicist. So does your friend go on the road with Taylor Swift? Because she's coming here, Australia, end of February. Yeah, Tree generally goes. Internationally, I'm not sure if she goes as much. But Tree is pretty much attached to Taylor.

Wow, that is so would-have number, would-have self. A good text. You're not going to get Taylor Swift to interview you. I know where you're going here. I don't interview you. I'll stop her before you have number. Would have self. It could text. You're not going to get Taylor Swift to interview you. I know where you're going here. I don't interview you. I'll stop him before you have to. I ask for very, very few favors from them. Very, very few.

And they're mostly selfish. And this is not going to be one of them. I was going to say, this could be one of them. Think of your time again, mate. Go and have a wonderful week. We'll speak this time next week about Taylor Swift and the NFL, okay? Sounds good. The Hits, the Jono

and Ben podcast. Yesterday, my little dog, Leo, he needed to go to the vet. He's got allergies, so he has to get a jab to stop him from itching and sneezing. Oh, really? Yeah. What sort of dog have you got? He's a Bichon Griffin. Right. He's a little guy. So what if he doesn't get the jab

Why he just like He itches Until he bleeds And chews on his feet And sneezes So I think he's literally got hay fever So he gets this jab Like four times a year

And it stops it So Dogs have become increasingly needy Through the way that we've been breeding them Over the last hundred years Yeah it's not good Yeah That sounds cheap too

That sounds cheap Oh. That sounds cheap. That sounds like something that they'd probably just do it for free, the vet, right? They'd be like, yeah. Pet insurance comes in handy, but then you still have to pay some. But anyway, we went to the vet yesterday, and he actually knows some sign language because when he was younger, I was like, this dog is going to be in the movies.

So I taught him to sit and speak just with signs so that when I was on set. No, no, no. Like I signed to him. He signs back. He's like, I'm hungry. So I don't have to say anything. I can just like put my finger out and he'll sit and I can just like clip my hand together and he'll speak because I was like, I'm going to go into the movie sets.

Yeah. And I'm going to be like behind the scenes showing him. We've not been in one movie yet. You had big aspirations for this dog. I did. Yeah. It's just what the dog let you down or did you let the dog down damn cute dog from marley and me got that role didn't it yeah um so at the vets everyone there was like oh my god he's so cute and i was doing that like check this out here's him sitting and speaking he should be in the movies. He should be. We went through that old chat.

And so he was charming the vets, charming the woman on reception. They were like, he's so cute. Just as this little family, like young family, two young kids, and their really cute white fluffy terrier comes out from the vet. Straight away I was like, I've got to get Leo away because I know what's coming. I've got to get him away from this situation. But he went over, sniffed the gorgeous white terrier,

and he mounts it. What's the hand signal for that? I don't know. I'm trying to pull him away and he's mounting this in front of these two young kids. He's getting into a different genre of movies. Well, maybe that's the movie that the dog is calling. I'm so sorry, trying to pull him away as these two kids are like, what is he doing? I'm like, I don't know who's supposed to explain. Pull him away.

And he starts like mounting the little bed thing. But he's also been. Well, because you pulled him off mid-mouth. Imagine if someone walked into your bedroom and were like, uh-uh, enough of that. Thanks, Megan. You're done for the day. It's not an isolated incident.

I knew it was coming Because he's often You know Like he's very forward With dogs Even like You know Huskies and everything He'll really try his luck

Oh really Yeah So unfortunately I left it I didn't explain anything To the two kids I left that to the parents I can saw that

Well Ben's dog Did the same to his little baby Niece My niece Yeah When she was crawling and our dog was a younger dog

as well that was at a good height I guess in the dog's mind this is an obtainable I was like whoa whoa whoa maybe our dogs

need to meet because my dog's also been known to do that to young children the hits the Jono and Ben podcast

I was clearing out the old voicemail on the phone, you know, the voice memo. Oh yeah. Recorded as just a library of just

random recordings. Do you find that as a radio host? You just, you elicitly record your family. You've got that thing rolling all the time.

I do, you're right. How about you Megan? Yeah, oh I do videos as well but the videos, I mean there you're right. How about you, Megan? Yeah, oh, I do videos as well, but the videos, I mean, there's no visual, I like video them

and put it face down, which voice recorder would be better. Oh, right. Is that the way you do it? Yeah, yeah. You video them face down or then they don't know

they're being recorded. Yeah, gotcha. And then you've just got a black video with audio. Yeah, no, force memory is definitely a better option for you. Anyway, I was clearing out audio and we, over the break,

completely forgot about this, went to the Karangahaki Gorge. I don't know if you were just out of Waihi there. Oh, nice. It's beautiful. Activities. Day of activities. Traipsing through those old gold mines and things. But what quickly became a reality is when you take more than four children into a cave, all they do is this.

And they set each other off like howling dogs or bickering politicians. And the whole time I was thinking, geez, you remember that Thai soccer team who got stuck in that cave? Oh yeah. If they were doing that the whole time,

that is... For days and days. For days on end. I don't think they were doing that. I think the novelty would have worn off for the poor team.

I hope so, yeah. But there's locations where it's just hard to navigate children. You know, you don't want to take kids to a strip club. They always bring down the vibes, don't they, Ben? You've always said that. It's a little awkward, isn't it?

Never bring the calendar girls. You've gone, let's go and get some calendars, guys. I went to Wee House Stashery for that yesterday. That was a lot more wholesome. Workplace. I reckon it's hard to navigate when you bring the kids into the workplace. All they want to do is use the vending machine. Yeah.

Every time Sienna comes in here. Yeah, they do, actually. They're the same as dogs. Like, they're cute initially. Everyone's like, oh, cute, your kid's here. Okay. It's interesting, too, to know, I had a moment yesterday with the kids, or one of my daughters, what they pick up on.

Like, I'm a huge fan of the Warriors. Talk about this all the time. And ran into sean johnson who's the warrior star and i've taken the kids to many warriors games i've got every game on they've sat and watched me had a chat to him he was lovely he's introduced him to sienna you know they had a bit of a chat walked away and she's like who's that all those ways All those worries All those worries Guys You just spent a That whole scenario Was wasted on you I know

Dad's hero I know I'm going Oh my god It's your Johnson Black If dad could wear Anyone's skin It would be his

Yeah He was like Oh he was lovely He was lovely But who was that I was like Sean Johnson I mean who was that

All the games Are going to make It a watch this season So there you go Yeah they just don't Pick up on stuff like we do. You definitely sound like the teenager in that situation playing the parent. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Now, Hollywood star Jessica Biel revealed something very interesting that she does in the shower. Have a listen. Maybe some of you know this about me, but I love to eat in the shower. I love to eat and drink in the shower. Shower appropriate items like cereal or yogurt, coffee, tea, popsicles. I know, melt factor.

Shower appropriate foods. Yeah, yogurt and cereal. Yeah, I thought that too. I thought it was a bit strange, but eating cereal in the shower. I was thinking more things you can just hold in one hand like a piece of fruit or like, I don that too. I thought it was a bit strange, but eating cereal in the shower. I was thinking more things you can just hold in one hand, like a piece of fruit or like, I don't know, but not something that involves a bowl and liquid and a spoon.

Call me old fashioned. Still my preferred eating location is around a table in dry conditions. Do you eat in the bed? No, I used to. Yeah, I used to. Yeah,

but now. I can't remember the last time I had time to eat in bed. No. I used to. Yeah, I used to. But now... I love eating in bed. Yeah, I can't remember the last time I had time to eat in bed. No. Yeah, I used to. I used to spend all day in bed eating KFC. Those are the days. Smoking cigarettes, living the dream. Sometimes, you know, the kids will go,

oh, we're going to make breakfast in bed, but I'm already the first one up. And then I'm like, do I have to go back to bed to have this? Like, I'm already up. Like, can I just have this? Oh, how awful. I would definitely go back to bed. No, but it feels like you're restarting your day.

You know? It's already hard enough to get up the first time. I'm up. It's like, I'm not going back. Once that train's departed, once it's departed the board's terminal, it is not going back to bed. And so is Timberlake across?

This is Justin Timberlake's wife. Wife, yeah. Is he across this? I don't know if he's... He's trying to just bring sexy bags. He's just trying to bring a bloody casserole into the shower. So we wanted to know this morning, shower stories. I was in the shower and what happened?

Have any of us got any fun examples or are we just pinning this all on the punches? Let's put it on the punches. This one's all on you. Okay, make it. You're like a beer in the shower, you were saying. Yeah, or just a beverage. When you're getting ready to go out and have a shower, I like to have a drink, like a whiskey or something in the shower

because the shower's hot and your drink's cold. I get it. It's the best. Great way to hide your drinking problems from the rest of the household as well. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Morning actor Jessica Biel revealed something that she does in the shower and it includes eating and drinking a lot of items

and she said they were shower-friendly items, but I don't know about eating cereal and yogurt and things like that. Does she mean because they're already wet? Well, maybe. Maybe that's her rationale. Does it matter if they get more wet? I've never heard the word shower-friendly eating items before. No, maybe. Maybe that's a rationale. It doesn't matter if they get more wet. I've never heard the word shower-friendly eating items before. Maybe you could have a sandwich on a water slide.

Who knows? This could be a hack to life that we haven't yet sorted out. But you need to finish the sentence this morning. I was in the shower and Emily? Well, I was obviously having a shower and my daughter came in. I think she was like three and I had my baby in the bassinet and she must have started FaceTiming my friend with the camera pointed at me and all I could hear was, Emily, your daughter FaceTimed me! That's my friend.

He's a real screechy boy. Oh, no. So full footage, like top to bottom. Yeah, literally full footage. But then she would have got even more because as I'm jumping out of the shower to turn the phone off. Running towards the phone, yeah. And a low angle. The last image of you just pouncing towards the phone.

Luckily, she's a great friend, so it was all fine. Yeah, well, I mean, that almost happened to you, Ben. Oh, yeah. Just recently. I did. I had no three-year-old to blame it on. It was just myself. I was somehow bumping buttons to FaceTime someone that I didn't really know that well.

So it's a little bit awkward. No, I tell you what's a little bit awkward. This bit right here. Yeah, that's a little bit awkward. You're right. That's actually more awkward. Hey, Emily, you go and have a great day. I will.

Thank you so much. See you, mate. Bye. Marla's actually more awkward. Hey, Emily, you go and have a great day. I will. Thank you so much. See you, mate. Bye. Marla's on the show. Welcome. I was in, finish the sentence. I was in the shower and? I tried to do a handstand and I.

So hang on, hang on. Before we get to whatever happened, why were you trying to do a handstand in the shower? What took over? I think I was trying to make my partner laugh. Oh, gotcha. That would be guaranteed lols for me if my partner tried to do a handstand in the shower because you're working in a very confined space.

Yeah. Yeah. Do you want me to keep going? Yeah, now I do. Sorry, I just wanted to know the backstory. Now you're trying to do a handstand and what happened? I kicked the tap. And so when I got all the way up there, the hot water,

it burnt my butthole. Oh, you poor thing. You poor thing. You kicked it to hot. Now, did this entertain your partner? The initial theory was I'm going to really entertain my partner, did it? Yeah

Yeah, I'm sure it did Your partner was already laughing At the handstand But then the hot water into the mix Did you have to fill out an ACC form? No No, the D-O-D I don't think the water goes that hot

Marla, great call You're going to have a wonderful day Thank you. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. As a parent, I witnessed a really heartwarming moment yesterday between my two daughters. And I was honestly really proud of this moment. It was heartwarming.

Okay, I feel like this is – he's starting in a genuine place. No, honestly, it was a heartwarming moment. But, you know, they get on really well, my two two daughters most of the time but in the like all siblings they have their moments where you know they they discuss stuff uh between the two of them and uh and you bicker about the occasional thing you know it's just like a married couple yeah that's what happens but um my daughter so you know they uh she really enjoyed doing clothing and creating and making clothes at school so my mum gave her a sewing machine as her birthday present last year and it's good to get the kids into sewing, I mean they make some great stuff in the factories in

China and stuff. They do mate, they started early there, two, three or four years old they got them. Yeah kids into sewing, so she's been like creating stuff at home, like mucking around with it and stuff and really enjoying it and then then Indy, my other daughter, had some singlets that she found a bit big. And Sienna's like, oh, I can help you sort of make the straps a little shorter. I was like, oh, that's cool. So Sienna was working away at this and working out for Indy and he was trying them on, taking them back and forward and did it.

And then – It reminds me of – what's that one with Anne Hathaway? Oh, The Devil Wears Prada? hathaway oh uh the devil wears prada yeah the devil wears prada in your household yeah so sienna and you know fixed indy's uh singlets made them uh made them better for her and indy was like oh thank you sienna and you know they had a hug and they had a moment i was like as a parent i was like that was awesome and then off indy went she was really happy with it and i was great and i said uh i said to sienna i said that's awesome you did that for your sister and she said oh thank you

and then she went well she is paying me and I was like what? what? and after this heartwarming moment I was like what? she goes oh yeah she's paying for it

we worked out a rate and everything for me to do the adjustments you know I was like oh oh okay this is not how child labours need to go

you don't need to pay them were you less proud or more proud she's showing entrepreneurial business yeah true actually probably prouder actually to be honest yeah yeah so there was no need for a hug no need you know you're right you know if it's a financial one the hug is yeah unnecessary i'm not hugging the dry cleaner but we did that yeah thanks so much for the dry cleaner. No, that's a bit weird, isn't it? Yeah, thanks so much for the dry cleaning and give them a hug. Yeah, you're right.

The hug was very unnecessary. So, yeah, maybe you're right, Megan. Maybe I am prouder. She's found a skill. She's learned a skill. She's not giving it away for free. She's making money on it as well. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Well, I had an incident of my own with the dog overnight I could feel my feet were sort of in a wet area of the bed he'd hopped on the bed and there was a wet area and I'm like well I can't remember overly perspiring

sweaty feet overnight so then I kind of in the darkness you kind of pat around with your hands Feel it So this is the bottom of the bed Bottom of the bed Sort of where your feet are And then I

Took my hands And I Smelt my fingers Risky business Yeah it is risky I wasn't fully awake Coherent But I did it

And it was Greeted with a very confronting Odour Which I was like That smells Almost vomity to me. And so I just turned on my phone light and I was like, the dog's vomited there.

And I've had my fingers running through it and shoving it up my nostrils. Honestly, he's vomited on me multiple times. I'm the only family member he vomits on. I take that as a compliment. He feels comfortable with you. It's like a kid goes to mum when they're feeling sick, your dog goes to you. And they're lovely. Sweet

souls dogs, aren't they? If they were humans, you'd be like, geez, we've got a stage five clinger here. Every time you get home, they're like, and then when you leave, where are you going? Very beautiful. And they know so they don't judge dogs do not judge you imagine some of history's worst people some have had dogs i've done the research yeah they have cosby had a dog yeah cosby's dog had no idea what was going on cosby's dog won dog competitions

in uk like the big... Really? Yeah. Do you reckon the other dogs were talking behind his back? Maybe, but then those dogs would have no idea either. They'd have no idea either. Could fall asleep on cue and everything. Hitler had a dog. Hitler's dog didn't know what his owner was doing. With a German shepherd, I think, yeah.

Appropriately. Yeah. Although Hitler kind of stiffed him up. When it was all unravelling towards the end hitler was in his bunker and uh his right hand soldiers whatever scientists came in it was like here's a cyanide pill to take which he took eventually and he didn't believe the cyanide pill was going to work so we gave it to the dog first just just the cherry on top of all his atrocities Gave his dog that pill And then he took the one the following day

But all through that life That German Shepherd was like This guy's great He let him sleep in a bed with it A German Shepherd That's a lot of dog for a bed We've really come some ground in this chat I don't know how we got here

I really don't know how we got here Matty and PJ were actually Talking about this briefly yesterday I don't know how we got here. I really don't know how we got here. Matty and PJ were actually talking about this briefly yesterday. I heard them talk about a news story. It happened to a guy, an elderly guy in Auckland. Now, he was just in his garden, and some guy came up to him. He reckons about it in his 20s. This was just before Christmas, and he asked him his name,

and he told him his name, and he said, this is for you is for you handed him an envelope and then the guy just walked away and as he as he walked away he sort of opened up the envelope saw it was a whole lot of cash five thousand dollars worth of cash he didn't realize how much it was until he counted it later he tried to run after the guy going what's all this about and the guy just ran off he was like this is weird this is really weird uh no one owes me money I don't know anything about this. So the guy didn't know what to do. So he took it to the police. And he's like, I've been handed this money.

I don't know if I've been caught up in some sort of illegal activity or whatever. I'll hand this money over. He was quite frightened about it. And he even stayed at a hotel that night because he was like, I don't know if I've been caught up in something that I shouldn't be part of. Hopefully he spent the $5,000 for the penthouse at the hotel. Yeah, so the police had the money, and now the police can't find whose it is.

So he hasn't spent a dollar of it. No, they've now said the money is yours if you want it. And he's like, I don't know if I want it. I don't know what the catch is. I don't know. Because two days earlier, he wasn't home, but his daughter was home at his place. And the guy came up then, knocked on the door asking for him,

and he wasn't home. So he came back two days later. So obviously that money was intended for him. It wasn't just someone like trying to offload this money anywhere. But now the poor guy's very, very worried about what to do. He's like, I don't know if I should spend it. I don't know if there's a catch to it. What happens in this situation?

I mean, generally young people nowadays, they're rammering and taking money off you. It's not often they're going to just go on the other way around where they're giving the money to you yeah and not wanting to be contacted normally it's for an instagram video or a tiktok or something going look at the nice thing i'm doing for this old guy yeah yeah here's five thousand dollars mate put some emotional music behind it have a hug that sort of thing it's been over a month if that video was happening it would have come out by now surely what a wild situation what would you do in that situation because yeah i mean initially i was like take the money like it's been given to you it was meant for you but then the more you've spoken about it i was like i guess it is kind of

creepy he's talked he doesn't want his name to be out there the guy fair enough but he's talked about he's like i can't see a reason i've been thinking about this for weeks i can't see a reason why this is but i haven't done. He might have done a nice gesture to someone. Yeah, not that he knows of. He hasn't done anything. That's what he means. Yeah, he might have done something, but he can't think of what the reason is. He might have let a drug lord merge like a zip on the motorway and

the drug lord's like, damn, he's a top-notch citizen. I will repay him with $5,000 in an envelope. I'll do a quick text poll this morning. 4487, would you take the money? Would you do a quick text poll this morning, 4487. Would you take the money? Would you spend the money? To be honest, I wouldn't.

I wouldn't because I would be so worried. I'd be worried. But I imagine a lot of people right now would be like, $5,000 is a lot of money. I think I'd roll the dice and just spend it. See what happens. Yeah. Also, if you're the guy that delivered the money, give us a call. Tell us why. Yeah, that's definitely not going to happen.

Reach for the stars. Okay, so you're spending money? All right, are you spending the money, Jono? No, probably not. No, because you're right. I'm like, if I spend it, yeah, exactly. I really thought you'd play it fast and loose. Do I become like a mule of some description?

Am I in debt to these people? It feels like a plot to a movie or something. Oh, you spent the money, did you? Yeah, well, now you are such and such. Liam Neeson's definitely involved somewhere along the line. We're just speaking about an Auckland elderly man who got given $5,000 just before Christmas in an envelope. The guy ran away after giving the money,

but he said the money was for him after he got his name. And we're like, would you keep that money or not? The guy took it to the police. The police was like, well, we can't find out whose money it is. You can have it back. And he doesn't know now if he should take it. I was thinking maybe someone did him dirty in the past, and he never knew about it.

That's what I was thinking. So to clear their conscience, they've given him money. Maybe the young guy ripped him off some. Or a family member or something. Yeah, that could make sense. You're right. Yeah, clear the name. Chris on the phone, are you taking the cash?

No, no, I'll go to the nearest BNZ and chuck it in my account. Damn, don't take it. You take it. I mean, fair enough, it has been taken. If he wants to give me money, of course, I'll take it. I don't care what fair enough It has been taken If you want to give me money Of course I'll take it I don't care what it's from

And he's done the right thing He's taken it to the police They've said it's yours That's He says, I don't care what it's from Human trafficking Whatever No morals

Put it on a fixed term deposit It doesn't matter If I don't know Won't hurt you Ignorance is bliss Oh, there you go, Chris Thank you Thanks, mate What? You don't know won't hurt you

Unless the hit men come over Then they might hurt you Shelley, you're not taking the cash No, I don't think so I just wouldn't like to know There's got to be something behind it Because he specifically wanted to give it To that guy

So you wonder, have they done something to him Or taken something of him? I don't know. Shelley sounds like she doesn't trust the internet as well. I've watched too many movies where stuff like this sort of happens. But if it's like drug money or something like that, something nefarious, you'd think it would be more than five grand. All right, mate.

Right? You know a lot about it, mate. I just really want the money. Good on you, Shelley. Go and have a wonderful day alright You too guys see ya