Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: Jono has been caught doing a bad thing on camera...

Episode Date: May 25, 2023

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The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations. When you're at home, at the moment, the government have now released some cash-saving tips. Times are tough, right? Yeah, five-minute showers, they're up there, is one of them. I'm going the full length, no showers. Just not doing his shower. No friends. When you have no friends, you don't have to go out for dinner You don't have to pay for food It's a flow on effect Of not showering They've kind of released

They're releasing some brochures They're going to do some ads as well Of how you can save some money Throughout You know throughout winter as well I mean it's a nice thing to do They Right

Have gone Oh now they're telling us How long we need to shower And I get it's a good headline grabber But when you delve a bit further, you're like, oh, you can turn off your electrical switches and you can save power. So there's actually some nice, I think the government are just trying to go, hey, I know times are tough.

Here's a few tips. Washing machines, set that to cold wash, things like that. If you haven't already done that, these are things you could potentially do to try and save some money. But you're right. It's like, oh, now what are we living in? They're telling us how to shower? What country are we living in?

What is this, China? Yeah, yeah. So it's a lot of debate in election year as well. But, you know, five-minute showers. What do you do? What's your shower length? I don't know. I've never really timed it.

You just do your routine. Yeah, just kind of do my routine now and again in the mornings to kind of wake yourself up. You might spend a little bit longer than maybe if you're having one after the gym or doing some exercise. Okay, you're full Ben Boyce. We've got full nothing hiding. Okay, you get in there. What's the first thing you're doing in the shower?

Soaping? Yeah. Brushing teeth? What are you doing? No, I'm not a teeth brusher. Not that I find it that wrong. I'm just not a tooth brusher in the shower. No, just for soaping.

Soaping the undercarriage. Getting all that done. The pits. Yeah. The pits and bits. And then what do you do? Are you shampooing the hair after that? Oh, this is your fantasy line.

This is where I save a couple of minutes. This is your fantasy line. You tell me more about the shampooing. I wish I could do that. Not every time, but yeah. No, a couple of times a week I probably shampoo my hair, but it doesn't take very long. And then once you've done the soaping, do you have a wonderful facial face wash? I like to look, I like to look at the little shelf and go, oh, what's my wife got here?

You know, that's one of my favorite little joys. Potions and lotions. I go, oh, what's this little thing doing? A light exfoliating scrub. Yeah. And I just give every one of those, not every time, but every now and again, I'll give one of those a crack just to kind of go, and then she'll go, have you been using it? I'll go, no, no, no.

No, no. Well, your skin's glowing. Yeah, but every now and again, I'll just give that a crack. It's quite nice. And then you know what? Just hose it off. Yeah, just hose. That's the Ben Boy shower. Not for long. I love doing the three-quarter squat and getting the old shower head underneath. I always feel sorry for the shower head in that situation.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Where are we going? Oh, God. And it can't shut its eyes. No. Can't unsee that. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Yeah.

Now, thanks to Izzy, 11 years old, from Rotorua, who designed the hippo. We're currently getting it made. We're sourcing the hippopotamus. And it's going to debut at the Warriors next weekend, halftime. We're having a champagne halftime mascot race, Ben. We're trying to get as many mascots as we can to take part in the race. And businesses, if you've got a mascot, 4487, let us know. You could take part in the race. And businesses, if you've got a mascot, 4487, let us know. You could take part in this race.

Yeah. And our first entry. We've got our first entry. Camilla, good morning. Morning. How are you guys? Great. Lovely to have you on.

Now, firstly, we don't know what organization you're from, what mascot you're bringing to the halftime race. We're very excited. Yeah, cool. Okay. Cool. So I'm Camilla. I'm from the Starship Foundation, and I'm going to be bringing Captain Starship.

Captain Starship. So Captain Starship's competing in our mascot race. Sure is. It's been a while since the last outing. I think pre-COVID probably for Captain Starship, to be honest. So, smelling a bit stinky, but been to the dry cleaner and good to go. How do you think Captain Starship's going to go in front of a volatile Warriors crowd? Got some good pace on him?

It's going to be touch and go, to be honest, guys, because it's got this massive helmet with these tiny little eye peephole things. It's going to require a lot of concentration and a lot of cheering and just going to have to run straight. I'm not going to be bearing off. Visibility is never the best in mascot costumes, right? No. But Warriors fans do like, so run it straight,

is one of the things that they'll say. So run it straight is a great thing if you're in the mascot. But when you can't see where you straight. It's one of the things that they'll say. So run it straight. It's a great thing if you're in the mascot. But when you can't see where you're running, 90% of where you're running, you don't even know if you are running or not. We don't want you running straight into a TV camera or something. No, we don't. Injuring another player.

Well, or into the pit pile or one of the other mascots. I mean, you know, it could get wild. Are you going to be in the costume, are you, Camilla? I sure am, yeah, it could get wild. Are you going to be in the costume, are you, Camilla? I sure am, yeah. Oh, Camilla. Yeah, I'm one of those people that put my hands up for things and then regret it inadvertently. And I thought when I tried it on and complained about how sort of stinky it was

that that might, you know, finish it. So I was like, surely they can't dry clean this thing. But, I mean, yeah,ut went to the dry cleaners and she's now sort of sitting there packaged up nice and clean. So it doesn't look like I'll be getting out of it. Oh, well, it's an awesome thing you're doing. Thank you very much for taking part in the mascot race. And on a serious note, Starship do such an amazing job.

I do remember when my daughter was very young, she was very sick for a long time. We'd go visit Starship quite regularly and they were amazing. The staff there, they do such a wonderful service and such a great thing to have in New Zealand. Yeah, it's incredible. It is just an amazing place to work

and to work for such an amazing hospital that looks after not only kids of Auckland but all sick children of New Zealand. So, yeah, it's a really, really amazing place, and I just take my hat off to what the staff do over in the hospital. So, yeah, it's going to be really cool to be running for Starship, raising awareness, and hopefully winning. Yeah, I've just looked.

I've just Googled Canada Starship. It's like a Spaceman sort of race driver sort of thing. A humongous head. Yeah, humongous head. You should see the shoes. They're even worse. Bigger than Dora the Explorer's head, that head. The weight ratio.

I mean, you're going to be, the head will probably get to the end of the race before you do, a long way before the rest of your body. He was definitely a bloody C-section. Hey, Camilla, well, can't wait to meet you. Thank you so much for coming on board, and congratulations for all the great work that Starship does, and we'll see you next weekend.

Thanks, team. Have a great day. If you've got a mascot and you want to enter our mascot race at the Warriors next week at halftime, 4487 on the text. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, my dog, Beau, gets very jealous of the cat. It's quite funny that the dog, just if you give the cat any attention, if the cat looks like he's going to get any food.

The cat, on the other hand, doesn't want any attention. He wants food. Yeah, they're playing hard to get. That's why the jealousy kicks in. He's like, we got the cat, you know. So nonchalant, those cats, aren't they? Yeah, but the cat, so anytime the cat looks like it's going to get something, the dog's getting up.

He's like, what's the cat getting that I'm not getting? But yesterday, because I don't like flies. You know I don't like flies. I like to keep the doors shut in summer so that no flies get in. His house raises to mid the doors shut in summer so that no flies get in and his house raises to mid 40s over summer where he doesn't allow his family to open any windows doors they're just sitting in a sauna just so that no flies can get in didn't you offer up a fly bounty there was a bounty for my kids to get flies and i didn't realize when i wasn't home they were just opening the doors to let more flies in to get more money. I mean, entrepreneurial,

you know, that's great stuff from the kids. But you, we were both gifted a few years ago, one of those assault rifles where you put little salt granules in, you massacre the flies. I don't want one of those. And you're like, I can't do it, it's animal cruelty. Yeah.

Animal cruelty. Oh, it's too much. And I don't want to like a big, anyway, some people are really into that, not for me. But then you just end up with thousands of salt granules sprayed all over the house. So I got a fly swat and yesterday there was one fly in the house. It was starting to bug me.

So I went and got it. And when the fly fell down after I got it from the ledge, the cat who was wanting some food at the time saw it hit the floor and thought maybe it was food. So the cat came over like, I'm going to eat the fly. I'm like, no, no, no, no, to the cat. You don't want to be eating the fly that's just gone on the ground. What did the cat say back to you?

I just sort of held the cat back. But then the dog thought, oh, the cat's getting some food here. The cat's getting some food. Now's my time to strike. Now's my time. So the dog came straight on over. Before I could say, no, no, no, No no no no The dog had just eaten the fly Straight away

I'm like Sucked in cat Sucked in I got that one I win again We win for the dog I'm like Look at the dog

Not just to win for this dog All dogs Dog humanity One of those moments The dog you're like Mate Mate Just slow down

Think about it They don't have any They'll chuck anything in their mouth They really will They'll give it a go, yeah. I, too, my little Milo, our dog, almost eating a hedgehog last night. And you can't reason with them. You can't make it like, get away, you know.

You can't negotiate. This is going to end badly. They're disease-laden. Very spiky, yeah. Yeah. But, yeah, that's it. So that's the dog. The dog didn't really have a win on that one.

The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Now, it's quite funny. You know, technology moves on so fast. But it's funny when you go back to technology you had sort of 10, 20, even 30 years ago. My daughter Indy off her granddad got given his sort of old stereo. It's probably about 10 years old. It's got a CD player.

It's got a radio. She's got a little player in her room now now and she didn't really know how it works it's quite funny for a change for me to come along and help the kids out with some technology what has it been doing since your dad gave it to her just sitting there let's be sitting at his place so amanda's dad's has been singing he doesn't need it anymore so now she's got it for a room she was quite excited about it but she didn't know how this stereo with a CD player and a radio works. I'm like, oh, how the tables have turned. I can show you how this data technology works.

And it's amazing how excited I recorded it, how excited she got over like a stereo, like a ghetto blaster from like 20 years ago. Okay, so do you not know how to use this? No, no, I've never had one. Okay, so if you push this button FM AM this will get your radio it's not tuned in right now but then if you do this this is your tuning button and there you go wait what how do you do that there you go come back to that I did it wait that's actually so cool

and then if you want a CD you push that one there do any CDs? Oh, I don't know if we do have any CDs. Oh, look at that. Yeah, no, that's it. We pop the thing for the CD. Oh, that's so satisfying. I love that. And there you go. This is an area where if the radio is not really tuned in properly, you can pull that

up as well. Oh my gosh, it goes so far. Look. Oh my gosh, it goes to like the ceiling, I swear. This is like really low budget. Look how long it is. You get really excited by this. Yeah, it's as cool as me. Enjoy your radio. gosh it goes to like the ceiling i swear this is like really low but how long it is you get really excited by this yeah it's cool with me enjoy your radio i will it's a pretty excited

about a bit of technology it was amazing how you both sounded out of touch simultaneously two generations sounding completely disengaged but i'm like hey everyone listening right now and particularly for this radio station, we need to get kids. Like, she's like, it's quite cute. Every morning since she's had it, she's like, I get up in the morning, I put the radio on, I listen to you, Dad, in the morning when I'm getting ready. I'm like, more kids should be listening to it.

More kids need radios in their room. Let's get her to spread the propaganda to her generation. That's right. Every kid, we need to give hits, stereos to everyone in the country. She's an old soul, Indy, too. Wait until she discovers RNZ, mate. It's our mate Lance Savalle. Welcome.

Welcome. Nice to see you all. I've been here. Well, you're here. You're treating me like a guest. I'm like, I'm here. We've already welcomed you. We've hugged.

We've welcomed you again. Although you say, mate, but hey, we didn't get the invite the other night. You, Jason Momoa yeah Taika Waititi I see I was like oh mate you know you're too good for us now Sabali

everyone's asking me what's that about me oh maybe it's a new Marvel film maybe it's a maybe I'm the new superhero yeah I love it the Avengers the Kiwi Avengers

I wish it was so random but was it a good night though yeah how does it get to the end of the night group setting I always get worried about how the bill's going to be split up.

Oh, that's when I just go to the toilet, but the toilet's at my house, so I'm gone. I'm pretty sure Aquaman can look after this. 100%. I can't hang with those guys like that. It's good to see you again. You're doing something very cool with Red Bull. It's called the Red Bull Dance Your Style.

Looking for holo dancers in the different styles as well too, right? It's actually real exciting because Dance Your Style. Looking for a whole lot of dancers in different styles as well, too, right? It's actually real exciting because it's a freestyle battle. Like, New Zealand's so celebrated in, like, the dance crew, like, industry. This is more so for, like, the underground freestyle world. And that's pretty cool because we have such a big community here in New Zealand that, like, I feel like it's not celebrated enough. So Red Bull is doing this competition, which is known around the world. It goes viral on TikTok everywhere.

And it's called Dance Your Style. And it's for the freestylers. And the public votes as well too, right? Exactly. You rock up 6pm to 8pm and you get given a red baton and a blue baton. It's like the red corner, the blue corner. They say Jono and Ben, red corner, blue corner.

At the end, the audience gets to vote. It's not up to me. It's not up to Red it's not up to red bull it's up to the public we can bring our unique brand of underground dad dance style yeah boy it is all styles so oh he's doing the spring club kids kids go oh dad you're embarrassing that's what we need that's part of it yeah that's the style the embarrassing what a wonderful thing to be part of and because i mean you've yeah we don't need to speak too much about your career, but you've had such a brilliant career.

You've just come off a tour with Chris Brown. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was fun. That was fun. But it's good to be back home. You're always living a life that I feel like I want to be living. He's like, just arrived back from Bali, bro. Surf's up, dude.

I'm going to go to Germany, dude. Like, you really, nothing's. When was the last time you were stressed? Oh, mate. I stress every day. I have to pay $14 for an avocado. What are you talking stressed? Oh, mate, I stress every day I have to pay $14 for an avocado What are you talking about? What am I doing?

It costs a living, that's stressing us out So I'm just drinking Red Bulls And doing this dance your style comp And getting out of here Well, New Zealand though, on the world stage I mean, like yourself, Paris as well You know, like so many great performers as well So you must be getting real name for ourselves overseas

100% The New Zealand dance scene You know, like so many great performers as well. So it must be a real name for ourselves overseas, right? 100%. The New Zealand dance scene, we have such an energy that like no other country has. So like when we go perform or like compete overseas, they can feel that. And I think that's what's special about like the freestyle world. Like this is their turn to kind of express that. Like you say, we've made a name for ourselves on the international stage. But you know, the average person might not know how respected the New Zealand dance community is. Exactly.

How big is it? Like, when you look at Rihanna, who uses Paris to choreograph a lot of her stuff. Well, the Super Bowl. Yeah, everything pretty much. She did the Super Bowl, which is incredible, right? And did you turn that door, right? I just wasn't available. I didn't turn it down.

Yeah, it was like you had something else on at the same time, so you couldn't do it. Yeah, it was a bit rough. But you've done Super Bowl before as well too, which is amazing. Yeah, but I think the New Zealand dance scene is very celebrated. Everyone kind of knows about it. But like I was saying, it's more so the choreography, the people we've danced for, like Chris Brown, Rihanna, all of that. But the individuals who are just themselves,

who just solely freestyle, that world, like this is their chance to be like on the platform and celebrated. Last time we saw you was we did a live TikTok show. That's right. We forgot to tell you it was like the end of year TikTok awards and it was a live stream. But what we didn't tell you on the night, because we had earpieces in as we were hosting for the director to talk to us. For some reason when everyone got microphoned up that was going to come to talk to us, we could hear all their conversations as well. So you were talking about

Avatar. You were getting very angry with your friend who went to see Avatar without you and you were on the phone to them and all we could hear you was just abusing your mate How could you do that? We were trying to host this thing and a lot of our subordinates were really upset about not going to Avatar. Fuck!

See, it's the small things that really pissed me off, mate. Did you end up seeing Avatar? Yes, I did. Oh, yeah, it was good. Oh, yeah, it was very long. I may have felt fallen asleep. It was a good power nap,

but it was a good movie. So, yeah, if you're my friend and you're listening to this and you don't come to Red Bull Dance Your Style, I'll be very, very cross with you. It's lovely to see you're doing so well and it's an awesome thing that you're doing. Red Bull Dance Your Style, I'll be very cross with you. It's lovely to see you're doing so well and it's an awesome thing that you're doing. Red Bull Dance Your Style, go along and see. It sounds very

entertaining. It's on tonight in Britomart. It's free from 6 to 8. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Been trying to be generous, gifting lemons to a neighbour. I've since discovered that. Did you bring one in today? You're like, I'll bring lemons in tomorrow if I, you know, did you? No, again, no. It's been you know it is yet no i don't again no it's

been over a year now and i have still haven't uh and i said yesterday i saw the gate open and the lemons i've been leaving uh gathering in a pile and rotting i don't think she's seen them that's one side of the fence now i have another neighbor on the other side of the fence backstory the dog sometimes in the night will rake me you know sort of lick and and bite me gently to take him outside to go to the toilet right we really need to teach them how to open door handles and unlock doors don't we yeah i know sometimes your dog goes here he goes just to wake me up he makes a lovely little polite noise rather than barking which is nice some people get a doggy doors like cat doors but my dog's so big,

it's like it's pretty much the door you'd have to leave open. So I'm like, well, that's not going to work. And he gets stuck in that. Yeah. And so I take him out. It's 2 in the morning, roughly roundabout when he needs to go. And when he's out there, I'm like, well, this is a great opportunity for me to sort myself out too, relieve myself i'm you know in the wild right okay

and i've just been blindly half asleep going in a bush yeah while he's doing what he's doing uh because i find when you wake up you don't want to be up for too long or actually find it hard getting back to sleep yeah so i'm like if i wait for him to go then i go that you know you're up for a lot longer i get it so that's but I noticed this morning the neighbor's got a bloody camera pointing right in that direction. Now, I've been doing this for, I'd say, as long as we've had the dog, which is a year. Is there footage of me?

Well, probably. You know, regularly. Night vision always looks more suspicious too yeah night vision relieving myself in the bush and

do these people have this footage it's gotta look dodgy no matter what you know it is they're not particularly gonna know

I'm sure the stream you know like it's not the live streaming the live streaming literal live streaming is not all gonna show up is it

no it's just got to look. Anyway. What's he doing in that bush? It's not in your favor, really. It's not. And I feel like it's one of those videos that when your friends come over and you're like, check this guy out.

Or it ends up on TikTok with that funny animated voice. You won't believe what I caught my neighbor doing on camera. Yeah. And your dog's so little. The dog's not going to show up. Oh, there's a dog there. Yeah. Yeah. It's just going to. It's. Yeah, and your dog's so little, the dog's not going to show up. Oh no, there's a dog there. Yeah, yeah, it's just going to, it's, yeah, I mean.

What is the sicko doing at two in the morning in the bush every night? That's where I, that's what I would think if I had the footage. Well, totally. So yeah, good luck

with that court case. That'll be, that'll be coming up. Okay, so use this as my alibi. This is the evidence. I feel like I've just been dragged into it.

The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to 11 year old Izzy from Rotorua. She came up with a mascot for us because we wanted a mascot. It was a hippopotamus called the Hittopotamus, and we've kind of loosely based a theme song on it. Here's the hip-hop-opotamus, the hip-hop-hippo. They call me the hip-hop-opotamus.

My lyrics are bottomless. Thank you, Flight of the Conchords, for that. I feel like we need to acknowledge them every time. Yeah. But Ben, we are launching the Hit-O-Potamus at a halftime race at the Warriors next weekend. It's going to be a mascot race. If you've got a mascot with your business,

you know a mascot, whatever, you can text 4487, you can enter this race. And it's going to be the race that stops a nation. Step aside, Melbourne Cup. The halftime mascot race. So the Hit-O-Pot it's going to be the race that stops a nation. Step aside, Melbourne Cup. The halftime mascot race. So the hippopotamus is going to be taking on other mascots. And a lot of people putting their mascots forward, including the Sky City Breakers, Sky Sport Breakers.

They are chucking their mascots. I think it's Cheeky the Kia Ford. And Simon, the GM, joins us from the breakers. Welcome. Hi, John. How are you? We're doing well. You're wanting to, is this an official entry for the,

is it Cheeky the Kia from the Breakers to enter the halftime mascot race? How you're talking about it is probably not the respect that Cheeky the Kia should get. Okay, so how do we need to talk about it, Simon? Well, you should just, oh, Ben, you didn't introduce yourself. I didn't know you were in the interview. Welcome to the interview. Thank you, thank you, thank you. First of all, I've been welcomed to an interview,

and it felt good too, Simon. Yeah, you're welcome. You know, Chiki the Kia, 2009 mascot Dash for Cash winner. So, you know, on average, Chiki the Kia is probably the best mascot in terms of results that you're going to have in your race. The Dash for Cash of 2009.

How much cash was up for grabs? It was a $10,000, and it was for the charity of choice. Wow. So Chiggy the Kia won, and at that time, Canteen was the charity of choice for the Breakers. Wow, that's awesome. And now, Simon, you are a general manager of the Breakers now and you do a wonderful job on game day as well, hyping up the crowd.

You're the hype guy as well. Thank you, I appreciate that. But you also started being a Cheeky the Kia. Is it right in saying you started at the Breakers being Cheeky the Kia? Well, when I was talking about the 2009 Mascot Dash for Cash, I was the person who was in the mascot, who was a very fast 18-year-old at Ellerslie that blitzed the competition.

Unfortunately, I am a bit older now and probably not up to speed, so I unfortunately am not going to be donning the costume but I actually started with the breakers as a 13 year old cowboy the the players would you know fall on the court and they'll be all sweaty I'd be mopping up and then it kind of got to a stage where I thought oh there's this awkward 18 year old that's hanging out with these 13 year old kids so we better give him another job and then I I got Cheeky the Kea from that. So I'm very interested in terms of your mascot.

We at The Breakers have a Cheeky's party, and we have all mascots that come and celebrate that. So I'm looking forward to, during the season, to invite your mascot to Che, we're going to... Oh, the Hattipotamus is at its first official party invite. He's getting more party invites than us. Simon, well, thank you for entering Cheeky the Care. We love Cheeky the Care on game day whenever you go to the Breakers.

And can't wait for the Breakers season to roll around. It'll be back pretty surely, I imagine. Yes, September 30th, Spark Arena. Game one, looking forward to it. Now, while pretty much most of your home games are at Spark Arena, can we pitch to you something we've been doing for a while now, that every time you advertise it,

you say, the Breakers are on this weekend, playing the Wildcats at Spark Arena. I like it. Yeah it I really like it bring that to your performance I think there's not a lot of ideas that I'm like boom let's go I think that's a home run

you can get the whole crowd chanting and everything a Spark Arena good on you, Simon. Can't wait to see you at the Warriors for the halftime mascot race. All right.

Thank you. Take care. It's taking flight, Benny boy. It's happening. If you've got a mascot and you want to take part in our race,

the big race in Auckland the next weekend at the Warriors, 4487. Give us a text. We need your mascot. It is the Hits