Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: Jono & Ben's Relationship Advice Corner..

Episode Date: June 7, 2023

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The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations. We were going into this and I said, what do you want to talk about? You said, I don't care, I don't mind. I don't mind, I don't care, I just said, I don't mind, you know, like often you have something on, a tale of what happened when you were driving to work. No, I did have a tale of when I was driving to work, actually, but I won't share that. I will share a tale of sleeping last night, though. Every now and then, just sporadically, we'll do camping on the floor in the household, mainly because I've got no outdoor camping expertise.

I couldn't put up a tent. I feel like I would just halfway end up taking down the tent and just leave it there in the forest because I couldn't be bothered with the admin sort of thing. So, you know, the alternative is camping on the floor of the lounge lying down. But then I lie next to my son, Oscar. He's on a mattress. And geez, he's an active, active guy. Active sleeper.

Like he's really, he's got my genes running through him. Yeah, you know, he's sleep talking. He'll just pop genes running through him. He's sleep talking. He'll just pop up like a zombie. Oh, really? And now he's obviously developing some swear words in his vocabulary as well. Oh, they come with you at night, don't they? He starts swearing things at night.

And he's like punching, kicking. It was like sleeping next to Israel Adesanya last night. And nothing, because when you're in a deep slumber and his head was down the opposite end where my head was on his mattress I'm just getting

a foot to the face jeez it really wakes you up well kids are like that what Jerry Seinfeld says it's like sleeping next to a goat in a sack sometimes

when they're little and they come into your bed you're like they just that's the perfect description a goat in a sack the goats just wanted to get out of that sack, as you'd imagine,

and that's what it's like. And then you tell them in the morning and they've got that, oh, I don't care, mate, it's just how I sleep. What do you want me to do about it? The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. What used to cost 75 cents that's going to blow my marbles? Well, yeah, 47 years ago this week, New Zealand's first ever McDonald's store arrived in the country.

Pāreroa was where the first store 47 years ago. And Big Macs were for 75 cents. Wow. Cheeseburgers, 40 cents. When the doors opened, there was more than 100 people outside, which, yeah, I mean, it's probably... Yeah, that's a good turnout. 10 o'clock in the morning, you know, Pāreroa, it's pretty decent. Next one was Queen Street, the next store, and now there's over 100 stores in New Zealand. I would dream of 100 people to turn up to a radio outside broadcast. 10 in the morning, you know, it's pretty decent. Next one was Queen Street, the next store, and now there's over 100 stores in New Zealand.

We would dream of 100 people to turn up to a radio outside broadcast 10 in the morning. 2023. But it wasn't a big deal. I remember even growing up in Masterton

for many years, we didn't have a McDonald's. We had to go to Palmerston North or Wellington. You know, if you were there, you'd go, oh, it's McDonald's.

You know, it's a big smoke. It's a special part of it. It came to Masterton eventually, but yeah, it took a while I used to love the playgrounds they had on them Remember those they had

Big old Grimace Was it Grimace and he was a prison Yeah Or was the Hamburglar the prison Oh Hamburglar Yeah there was There was one you'd go in And it would rock back and forth

On springs And they had steel bars And I always remember Smashing my face into the steel bars No I think it might have been Grimace Because I think Hamburglar was the swings Was the arms out Surely, I think it might have been grimace because I think Hamburglar was the swings, wasn't it? It was the arms out.

Surely Hamburglar should have been the prison. Yeah, it should have been the prison. Now we think of it, they did it all wrong, didn't they? The McDonald's playground was fantastic. I remember when they chucked balls in the ball pit, didn't they? Yes. Then they started finding out they were all soaked in all sorts of kids' nonsense that you wouldn't want to take a swab of.

No. But I was just looking the other day, coincidentally, at things that used to be wildly cheap. Levi's jeans, $5 a pair and $62. $5 a pair. World War I, you could get a Ford car for $325. I mean, I guess it's probably all relative in some ways. You want to find out what that would be the equivalent of now.

Yeah. Haircuts, $2. A house, you want to find out what that would be the equivalent of now. But yeah. Yeah. Haircuts, $2. A house, $5,000. Wow. Yeah. But you're right. When you put it back in that time,

like a $5,000 house would have been like a $5 million mansion. Yeah, you imagine it might be quite a lot. So it was in the park. There was a council worker in the park, an older gentleman. He was sort of 70s, mowing lawns and whatnot. And he pulled over next to me. First thing he said, you're one of those twerps from the radio. And I mean, it's an industry full of twerps.

It is. Isn't it? It was that Wayne Brown had media drongos. I thought that was a pretty good description. It was good. Yeah, we are media drongos. I mean, this guy pulled a leaf out of the Len Brown insult book, didn't he? From the 1930s.

I like twerp. Twerp's good. You don't get called twerp enough these days, don't you? And it's kind of like, oh yeah, I can take a twerp. Yeah. I am a twerp. If you were to sum me up, you'd be like, this bull is a twerp. I agree. And yes, I said, yes, I am one of those twerps

from the radio. And it is the joy of this job. And it also can be a harsh reality of this job is people do feel like they can give you instant feedback. You know, I imagine it's like a politician or anyone like that. And so they can, boom,

straight into feedback mode. And don't get me wrong i appreciate the face-to-face feedback i'm this old guy could have logged on to some nerdy forum and you know done it from his keyboard yeah no but he's like you know your problem with you twerps you're you're in the part of the twerps i get it you're the twerp we're the twerp twins yeah too much jibber jabber and i said said, hey, listen. That's true. Yeah, you're right. Our bosses say that every day, both those things. We're paid to jibber jabber.

And I was like, I can tell you're not a jibber jabber guy. He's like, I'm all business. I'm all business. I don't want to hear about your opinion on this and his opinion on that. He's like, so I listen to Gold. Oh, yeah. Classic rock station. He's like, they just play the music.

They come on they give you a little bit of information about the artist useful information then they play another song he's like that's what I want in a radio station

and I was thinking jeez no one give him the bloody memo about Spotify or Apple Music sounds like too much admin and too much thanks for that

so yeah so I do appreciate his feedback and I said hey why don't you come tune in tune in today well not now not this bit.

Well, yeah, actually, I hope he hasn't tuned into this bit. This will definitely put him off a couple of twerps talking for a long time, too. A long time about not talking too much. I'd better wrap it up. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Ben, we do a burner phone podcast. It's just on iHeartRadio, generally podcast only. We bought a burner phone from a

petrol station you can leave us a voicemail and we sort of clear one every day just talk about what I like about is you never know what the message is and where you're going to head but if you want the number text uh 4487 burner phone it'll bounce back the cell phone number and we received a message to me that we thought mate mate, too good for burner phone. This is prime time stuff. Now, this is from Rick, who's in a bit of a situation at home. At 10.41am. Jono, Ben, it's Rick here. I feel like a bit of an idiot for calling. Could be in my head, but I kind of need your help with something. Basically, my fiance, she's got this colleague

that she hangs out with very closely every day. He's a very good-looking man. They're just friends, which, you know, she's my fiance, so I'd hope so, but they just spend a lot of time together. They have boozy lunches together. There's actually been a few occasions where she has come home quite late at night and it was just them drinking in the office, catching up.

So I'm not too sure if it was over work stuff or not, but I'm a bit confused. Like I said, it could be in my head, but any help is much appreciated. Bit of a situation. Now, you've just heard what Rick had to say. My theory on this is, happy, you go off, you be friends with who you want, as long as they're uglier than me. You know, that should be the, that should be, that's my theory. And the problem is, being who I am, it's very, it sets a very, very low bar.

Like, I'm sure there's lots of relationships out there where like, yeah, sure, you go be friends with Jono. He's no threat. Oh, so you think of him as a threat. Yeah. Well, he seems good looking with Jono. He's no threat. Oh, so you think of him as a threat. Yeah. Well, he's good looking. You know, that's the problem. But doesn't it all just boil down to trust?

I mean, I don't know. That's why we wanted to ask you, because the hits audience is so much better than we are at these things. But I went under the hits four, four, eight, seven. But I feel like it just boils down to trust. If you trust the person, then it doesn't matter who they're friends with at all. You trust the person, but you don't trust the bloody filthy little weasel ploughing cocktails down their mouth, do you? Well, how do we know it's a filthy weasel?

But if you trust your partner, then you trust your partner. Apologies to him. I don't know if he's a filthy little weasel. Exactly. He's probably a lovely guy. There's probably nothing to worry about, but understandably, people do get worried in this situation.

But I reckon, and I might be wrong, it's all down to trust. Yeah. No, well well i'm sorry for calling him a weasel but uh you just never know other people's intentions i'm sure he trusts his fiancee through and through yeah but she's still got to make that decision that if anything was going to happen so the trust still was there even if the if you know the person is a filthy weasel as you said i want to know is he single and available? And how randy is he? Those are my three questions. But the message was cut down a little bit as well.

He's very concerned about coming across untrusting and all paranoid and needy. So how does he tackle, how does Rick tackle this? Are you in a relationship with your partner? Are you friends with someone from the opposite sex? Purely platonic? Yeah, same. I'll text my mates. We're mates with someone. I'll text her more than I'll text him.

We're mates with both because we're a sporting connection. We organise to watch sports games together and it's not a thing. And apologies to Ben's mate if he's just fighting out about that now. He would know about it as well but he's not as big a sport as she is so we're texting about cricket, we're texting about basketball, we're organising to watch the games and stuff and he's not as big a sport as she is. So we're texting about cricket. We're texting about basketball. We're organizing to watch the games and stuff. And it's not a big issue because I trust,

you know, Amanda trusts me and I'm his, yeah, he trusts her. So, you know, it's one of those situations. I feel like it's all about trust, but maybe I've got it wrong. Oh, 800 of the hits. There we go. Chuck it out there.

Give us your number two. Ben will send you a filthy little text as well. I can catch up, watch some sport with you. I'd love to. We have a special podcast on iHeartRadio called The Burner Phone. You can leave us a message at any stage. We'll clear one message a day. And yesterday's message we thought we should bring.

Because someone asked us some advice, so we thought we should bring it to the radio. Because we felt that we weren't the best people to offer advice in this situation. Yeah, and it's from Ricky. At 10.41am. Jono, Ben, it's Rick here. I feel like a bit of an idiot for calling. Could be in my head,

but I kind of need your help with something. Basically, my fiancée, she's got this colleague that she hangs out with very closely every day. He's a very good looking man. They're just friends, which, you know, my fiancée I'd hoped, though, but they just spend a lot of time together. They're just friends, which, you know, she's my fiancée, so I'd hope so, but they just spend a lot of time together.

They have boozy lunches together. There's actually been a few occasions where she has come home quite late at night and it was just them drinking in the office, catching up, so I'm not too sure if it was over work stuff or not, but I'm a bit confused. Like I said, it could be in my head, but any help is much appreciated.

There you go. This is the conundrum. What does Ricky do? He doesn't want to come across needy. He doesn't want to come across like he's untrusting of her. She's clearly got nothing to hide. Yeah, true. Being open and honest about where she's been.

I'm a little suspect on the weasel, the workplace weasel. You can say that, but you don't know that. Buying exotic drinks with multiple flavorings, Ben Boyce. I'd have no problem with it. If Amanda's got work colleagues, she'd go out with a coffee, go out and catch up with a male, female, it doesn't matter. No problem from Ben. Susan, have you got a problem with it?

What are your thoughts on the Waikato? I definitely think there's something going on there. Oh. Hold on. It's very similar to a couple of real estate agents around our vicinity who think that people are a little bit blind, but when you walk past and all the lights are off in the office and then all of a sudden two people pop out,

and there's a little bit more going on than what people think. Maybe they're just checking the indoor-outdoor flow of the office, just seeing if there's potential for the office to be done up. And sometimes when you're in the office, they have those lights on a timer and it just turns off automatically, you know.

And, hey, cost of living crisis, Susan. We've got to save a penny when we can. No, I don't think they're saving anything. They're both married, and I don't think it's going to work. So I think he should run for the hill. Okay. I wasn't expecting that. Everyone can see it.

Okay. And apologies if you work with Susan. You have a great day, mate. Thank you. Appreciate that. Thank you. A lot of text flowing in on this one, on 4487. What do you think he does?

Here's some advice. Take him down in professional sabotage in the workplace. Who cares if he's innocent or guilty? Plant a drug test and that's the advice there on 4487. Jaquayla, you're on. What does Ricky do here? Does he trust? Does he let it

go or does he query it? I definitely think he has every right to query it and if he's uncomfortable with it then I definitely think he needs to communicate that with his fiance. You know, I just have that kind of conversation and say I'm kind of uncomfortable.

It's a bit strange to me, like he's spending a lot of time with him. But yeah, I would definitely question it and just express those boundaries and that he's uncomfortable with it. But yeah, I would definitely question it and just express those boundaries and that he's uncomfortable with it. What does that cute little kid in the background think? Should we get their advice too?

He's just talking about tractors. Yeah, that's the important, that's the topic we need to get to. He's saying to stop. There's not enough tractor chat on this show. I've always said that. Good on you, Jaqueline. You have a great day. And Craig will take one more.

Ricky's in this situation. His fiancee is in a platonic relationship, or for what he believes is a platonic relationship, with a workmate. They go out for drinks, go out for lunch. Your thoughts, Craig? Yeah, no, I think something's definitely going on. Where's the respect and the values?

Where's the boundaries? Yeah, the values of the relationship. Yeah, interesting. I did not expect that it was going to be swayed this way. Craig's cut off there, but I understand Craig has been in this situation. He did let his partner go out and have a relationship like that, friendship.

That turned into more. More than, okay. So those are Craig's thoughts. And I guess open comms is probably the. Yeah, you're right. Probably the takeaway there from this here, Ben Bush. Free-flowing conversation. That was a good takeaway.

And I really appreciate your thoughts and your calls and texts, as always. A lot smarter than us on the hits. And the best thing is, Ricky, we're going to get him to call his fiance live on the radio next.