Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: Jonos button pressing disaster.

Episode Date: February 29, 2024

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The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. Getting into the weekend, the one New Zealand Warriors, we're actually rewarding a pretty cool prize after 7 o'clock this morning for the Ultimate Warriors fan. And last year, you saw that video we did? We took Steve Megan, so he's a huge fan of the Warriors. Jono, you'd noticed him, he worked at your local Wendy's.

A guy by the name of Steve, and he was always in Warriors Cat working when the games were on. Yeah, yeah. And it was probably a sad reflection of how many times I drive through Wendy's, to be honest. But Steve, a very humble gentleman. And yeah, we turned up one night, Friday night. He was in the middle of a shift and said, come with us. You're coming to the Warriors. And beautiful.

He was a beautiful guy. So we took him to a Warriors and beautiful he was a beautiful guy so we took him to a corporate box and he was lovely Wendy's were awesome

to pay him for a shift and let him have the night off which is pretty cool so we thought

you know there's new Warriors tops out this year the new Heritage ones

sold out in like 10 minutes we should get Steve one of those and Dynasty and One New

Zealand Warriors gave us one to give to Steve so yesterday after work we surprised him with producer Taylor's husband, Marcelo Montoya from the Warriors. We came along and surprised him at Wendy's again

and gave him a top, which was cool. Turned up. I don't even think Steve knows my name. He just knows me as four Baconators and five large fries. But you know, we gave him his new top for the new season. Which he was very grateful for.

But you had a bit of a haunting experience last night. Yeah, because when they sent us the tops a while ago from Dynasty, they had a little, they opened up the box, a really cool box, and then they had a little screen inside, and it played a little message, like a personalized message from Chance Nickelcluck's dad, who plays for the Warriors, saying, do you like the tops?

This is for you. Have a listen. Hey, gentlemen and men. It's Chance Nickelcluck's dade from the One News and the Warriors. And what you have in front of you is our 2024 Heritage's jersey for the upcoming season. It's pretty cool. So every time you open the box, that message plays. And so I was like, oh, maybe we should give the box.

You put the top in the box last night for Steve. Yeah. But I was like, oh, it's got the personalized message for us. So I'll try and rip out the screen. Oh, you wanted to rip out the personalized video. Because I don't want him opening up and going, hey, John, I want a bed. Because that clearly looks like this is a re-gifted situation.

So I started ripping it out without trying to rip the box. And it was obviously glued quite well. So the box started coming away. And I was like, it's not going to look good. It's going to look shabby at best. It's going to look very re-gifted. Yeah. So I was like, I can't give that to Steve.

We'll just give him the top from Marcelo Montoya. That's good enough, right? And so I put the box in the hallway. But I didn't really realize when I ripped it, it obviously started malfunctioning. I just heard this guy talking in the hallway. I'm like, what's in the house? What's going on?

John's in my house. Hey, John O'Brien. Hope you like the Warriors jersey. That's all I worked out. There was obviously the box that's talking at me. But all through the night, this thing kept going off. And I was like, it's off. It's not going to go again.

And it just got random times without even opening the box. So this is all we heard all last night was this blimpy chance. Hey, John Old Man. Chance looks like it from the one using the Warriors. I had to put it outside. Maybe it's like a very localised rugby league version of that movie Megan, where the box is going to come to life.

I put it to work now, so I can't leave it at home. So the box is in its way. Also, did you miss the memo on that box where they said they wanted it back? I thought it was really cool to keep. Did they want the box back? I said, could you please return this?

Yeah, like a courier. They sent a courier bag. They said, if you don't want it I wanted it I don't think he said that but the other option was to rip the box to pieces

and have it malfunction what if it mysteriously turns up in your house tonight and all you hear is this in the middle of the night hey John I'm Ben he's like you were at work

the hits the John Owen Ben podcast. I've never known what it is. I always said Blink-182, but I think it's Blink-182 because I watch the Kardashians and old Courtney's married to Trav. Okay, Blink-182. I was like, well, he's not going to lead her away. I'd say Blink-182, but I don't know if I'm right or not.

Yeah, no, you are right. They still look really good. You know, sometimes if people haven't seen us for a number of years, they see us and they're like, oh, jeez. Life's taken its toll on your face. But, you know, Blink-182, the members are all looking fantastic. Travis Barker has not aged. If anything, he's just made more regrettable tattoo decisions,

but he's not aged. He looks brilliant. Do all the tats stop the wrinkles? Maybe. So they're in Australia right now, and they're coming to New Zealand soon. And they are meant to be doing, actually this weekend, they're going to be in Auckland this weekend on Saturday night.

And they were meant to be going to Christchurch as well now due to scheduling conflict or something. Something went on. Logistical issues. Yeah, that's what they said. Something went on. They can't go to Christchurch anymore. But they're on stage in Australia and they were in Melbourne, right? And Travis screwed up where they were, right?

He gave a shout out to Sydney. Yeah, he was like, anything you want to say, Travis? He's like, I love you, Sydney. And then the other band members are like, oh, mate, we're in Melbourne. And then the crowd went, boo. And then I think it was Mark Hoppus was like, oh, well, don't worry. Sydney sucked. Sydney sucked so much we had to cancel Christchurch.

So he's just doing a gag. Yeah. And then he said, F you, Christchurch so he's just doing a gag yeah and then he said F you Christchurch as well too as well and have a listen to it this is them on stage Blink 182

look to be honest Sydney sucked so f***ing bad we had to cancel Christchurch f*** Christchurch then he said

F Christchurch so it was all a joke I think it was just on stage ad-libbing Because they're quite A hard case group right Yeah so You would think

The intention was a joke They don't actually Hate Christchurch But in the media yesterday There's all these things Going around saying Blink 182 says Like the lead story

On the Herald and stuff Saying F Christchurch And then the comments As you'd imagine When you don't have The context of it It sounds like they've Taken a real cheap shot at christchurch all these people saying oh i hate you anyway i need to tell you and then they i heard on zb yesterday they had a counselor from christchurch

to talk about it and he's like oh christ has been through so much oh no the last few years we you know it's hard to get people here and we get this as well oh my god this is spiraled out of control yeah so everyone mowing into them which i think and i don't want to talk for someone else but it felt like the intention was a bit of a laugh it was joking i don't think they would actually saying f christchurch yeah they probably would love christchurch if they went there uh the problem is we have got our pitchforks out now and it's too late to put them away. Old Springfield, old New Zealand. How do you say that? Oh wait, 180, 1080. Exactly.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. An iconic TV commercial we're looking back at from back in the day. We've been looking at chocolate bar commercials over the last couple of weeks. Yeah, we have. And, geez, they had some big budget stuff when it came to chocolate bar commercials. Remember the, I don't know if everybody played it, but the Cadbury Train. Remember the... Milky Bar Cats? The crunchy one?

Yeah, the crunchy. Sorry, not the Cadbury. The crunchy bar train. Interesting Cadbury Train chocolate. Remember the crunchy train? Yeah, yeah. I think we talked about it last week. Yeah. Yeah, it was good. It was I think we talked about it last week. Yeah.

Yeah. It was high budget. You said it was high budget stuff. It was pretty much movies. Yeah. You brought it up. And we all went, yeah, that's right.

It was on a train. It was a big budget thing. Well, I did. Remember? You were talking about you being the Mookie Bar Kid and saying claimed you were the Mookie Bar Kid and that. Yeah.

It was last week. This is my wife's frustration in my marriage too is I forget what I've said, stuff I've said. I'm constantly having to apologise for that. But today, Pixie Caramel. Now, Pixie Caramel, you might remember there was this charismatic sort of British man who was up against a wall in front of a firing squad. So not the most light-hearted of scenarios for chocolate.

Very intense. This guy's got to die by gun he seems to be I'm thinking he is facing the firing squad I don't know what heinous crimes

that he's committed well that's what I'm thinking we all fell in love with this gentleman he obviously did something to end up in front of the firing squad I don't know if it's

a prisoner of war situation I reckon it's like sneaking in drugs or something espionage either way pretty heavy for a chocolate bar yeah so he's got about eight soldiers situation. I reckon it's like sneaking in drugs or something. Espionage. Either way, pretty heavy for a chocolate bar. So he's got about eight soldiers

about to load some bullets into him. Have a listen. Any last requests? A pixie caramel? Pixie caramel is my only chance because smooth, creamy pixie caramel is a longer lasting chew. While I keep chewing, they'll get tired of winking and fall asleep. Pixie Caramel is a longer-lasting chew. While I keep chewing, they'll get tired of winking and fall asleep.

Pixie Caramel with a delicious chocolate and caramel taste. Aha! Saved again! Pixie Caramel, the longer-lasting chew. So, yeah, so you obviously hear, they were lovely. They were generous that they gave, despite the fact they were going to kill him, they gave him a request. And they were very tired as well, obviously.

Big day on the whatever they were doing, hunting baddies, and they fell asleep probably in about two or three minutes. I mean, couldn't even wait for a guy to finish the pixie caramel. No, it's not that long. They are chewy. You're wrong. It does take a while, but they couldn't wait. His life's about to end and he's like,

smooth, creamy, pixie caramble, coated in chocolate. That's not going through my mind. In the list of top 100 things to try and get out of that situation a pixie caramble doesn't even come into it. I'm thinking sobbing, begging for mercy, light sexual

favours, I'd offer some of those. It's like when they say what would be your last meal I'd probably wouldn't be hungry I dare say. I'd be like pretty those. It's like when they say, what would be your last meal? I'd probably wouldn't be hungry, I dare say. I'd be like pretty upset. He had a good theory. All you can eat buffet. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Valentine's or something. Yeah, like take me there. I'm still going. Still going. Genghis Khan. Head off to Genghis. Yeah, just keep going. Just keep eating.

So, yeah, well done to that guy. He got away because they fell asleep and he got over. He climbed over the fence or something and got out. But it's a jaw workout, isn't it, a pixie caribou? Yeah. You kind of feel like you spent three days at Rhythm and Binds after a pixie caribou. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast.

Joe Biden, the President of the United States of America, wants to run again his medical. He did it yesterday. Apparently all good. Yeah, he did well. He had five or six pages they released of his medical after the doctor went apparently all good he did it well yeah five or six pages they released of his medical after the doctor went through it he's got sleep apnea

that was one of the main things but I think that's quite common people having that do they release the whole thing? I think well they release five or six pages I don't know I don't know

well he did a medical once and you lie firstly about your alcohol intake don't you? everyone does that and I can tell the medical professionals are, don't you? Everyone does that. And I can tell the medical professionals are like, yeah, okay, buddy.

We'll times that by three. And then secondly, we had to give a sample, a urine sample, didn't we? And I didn't know where to put the cup afterwards, so I walked out to reception and I put it on the reception desk and I was like, there you go. And they're like, I think you just meant to leave that in the room.

Yeah. I was like, well, someone could have told me that. Now, Producer Taylor, you're on a fitness buzz at the moment, right? Yep. When is she not? You're always drinking some form of like turmeric, deer velvet, sheep vag, some sort of smoothie like look at the color of the thing it looks like cement yeah that's one way to put it yeah do you feel good no no i feel normal like i said i'm feeling any better no half the time she feels nauseous she's taking my pregnancy

nausea drops the tannins in the green tea I found out through Google, sir. She takes these enormous pills, about half an inch long, and every morning she's like. I hate it. Because you know why? They don't go down vertically. They go down horizontally. So both sides of my neck, my throat.

Are you trying to swallow them down with your smoothie that's like thick as. Yeah. Maybe it's that. Okay, so you're doing that, but you're also trying to do a lot with your smoothie that's like thick as... Yeah. Maybe it's that. Okay, so you're doing that, but you're also trying to do a lot of steps each day. Yes. Counting your steps. So anything over 8,000 is normally the goal. Yeah.

They do say 10,000 is a goal, don't they? A lot of the experts. Well, it's like apparently there was a test done and anything over actually 7,000 is good. So if you were at home, let's say it's 10 o'clock at night, you're about to go to bed and you're like, geez, I've only done 6,000. Would you go for a walk around the block or how come it ain't? So this happens all the time. I actually just walk on the spot in front of the TV.

And that counts your steps. So that's movement. That's stepping. Yeah, movement. Yeah, that's movement. How accurate is it? Well, I think it's like I've got an Apple Watch and I wear it 24-7 pretty much. So I think it's quite accurate.

But on the phone, I feel like that's where you would lose the accuracy. Oh, the health app. So on average, what are you doing a day? Easily like 11,000. Oh, really? Yeah. That's a lot of steps. Okay, let's compare our steps.

I've got the health app on my phone. Are we doing like today? Yeah, just today so far. Okay, go. 606 AM. How many doing like today? Yeah, just today so far. Okay, go. 6.06am. How many have you got? 1.538. 687 for me.

See, there you go. I'm already at 6.38. Well, you did take an electric scooter a couple of blocks away. Don't you go to the gym in the morning until you work out? Yeah, well, not much. Not enough. But then you don't take your phone. If there's no phone on you, then it's not counting any of the steps.

That's why you need the Apple Watch or something like that. Now we're talking about the most amount of steps that you're doing. Yes, the hot stepper. Claire, good morning. How are you? I'm great, thanks. How are you guys? Now, what's the most amount of steps you've taken?

Now, we know someone who used to call it the pedometer, didn't they? Yeah, pedometer., yeah. Pedometer. Pedometer. Pedometer. So what are you doing to get your step count up? Oh, one thing I do, we live on a state highway and I get out and walk up and down and pick up the rubbish outside.

A lot of takeaway stuff gets thrown out and it's pretty ugly so that's something I do and it does get the step count up a little bit. There you go, Producer Taylor. You can walk along State Highway and pick up the rubbish. Roadside rubbish.

Yeah, like you're doing community service or something. It's like win-win. You don't have to wear a high-vis vest either. And most amount of steps you've had, Claire, what's your record? Oh, gosh. I think about 30-odd thousand. Can you beat that, Taylor?

Yeah, I think the most I've done is 33. 33,000. Yeah, that's pretty good. Did you pick up rubbish and save the planet at the same time? No, we were on holidays and we were too tight to get Ubers and taxis everywhere. So we just walked everywhere. That'd be like sort of 20Ks, is it? Easy.

Maybe a bit more. Because 10,000 I think is around the 8k mark isn't it? Well it depends on how big your steps are I don't know Just try it Well that's great for me, I'm very short You do more steps What's your daily average Claire? I try for 8 to be honest

8,000, I've got a pretty sedentary job now But I make up for it a bit on the weekends. Weren't, didn't you say someone put it in the dryer or something and it clocked up? Yeah, that's another way you can get your step count out. Just put the thing in the dryer and it really gets up there. Yeah, well, I believe so.

I don't know if it's that good for the step counter, though. Or that good for you in the long run. Oh, true. You're kind of cheating yourself, really, aren't you? Hey, thanks, Claire. Go and have a great day. Thank you. Bye.

Maz, you're on from Pawanui, our friend Maz. How are you? Steps. Now, a crazy amount of steps you've done already. Yeah, well, I get up after sports, and once I get to the supermarket, you know, open it all up, and then I'm in and out putting papers in, doing the burgers,

doing everything, pies. You're sounding very Coronation Street at the moment, so I'll just translate. It's the landlady, Jack. Just to clarify, she starts at four. She works in the supermarket. She's cooking burgers. She's walking around.

How many steps are you doing or have already done this morning? Well, I've done, total this morning, I've done 3,200. Wow. Wow. What will you do today? Well, no, because I'm finishing early today, but every day I do about 20,000. 20,000. 20,000 steps.

Well, that deserves a pint down at the Rovers. Go and have a great one, Maz. Thank you very much for your call. See you later. Great texts. People are doing, some are doing 45,000 today. Wow. That's a lot of walking going on.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Into a weekend, a big weekend of sport again. We've got the cricket, the black caps. We've got the second weekend of the Super Rugby, the men's, and the women's competition, Super Rugby Alpiki, kicks off tomorrow. And we had all four captains from the Super Rugby Alpiki teams come in. And, geez, when you have, like, fit athlete people come into the studio, you're like, oh, that's what human bodies are meant to look like.

Every time athletes come in here, I'm like, oh, I see. I see. That's how you're meant to do it. Yeah, we're joined by all the captains. Kennedy Simon, Alana Bremner, Jackie Patea-Ferretti, Rohe DeMont, and Maya Ruse joined us in the studio to talk about Super Rugby Up. And you had a really tough first question, Ben.

You were like, one word to describe your feeling about the tournament. One word to describe how you're feeling about the competition coming up this weekend. I'm going to say fizzed. Fizzed? Good word. All right, let's go around to everyone else.

A word to describe how you're feeling about Super Rugby Apiki. I feel privileged. Oh, that's a great word. Good word. I'm going to say that might have been fizzed.

Yeah, well, John is judging which is the best word. I'll be judging. I'll get quite judgy on these words, OK? OK, go next. Mind's blessed.

Oh, no. Mine's bliss. Still beats fizz. Fizz, I like fizz, though. Fizz is good. Now, of course, the Rugby World Cup a couple of years ago in New Zealand, which was so awesome to have. Do you find that it's been a wave of support that's carried on since then?

Because it was sold out at Eden Park. It was such an epic final as well. Pretty cool experience. Did you find it sort of rolled on since then? Yes. In the Blues region especially, we've noticed a lot of girls wanting to come and try rugby for the first time.

There's been a lot of players attracted to the local clubs. So it's growing rugby at the grassroots level. I think young girls are being inspired because they can watch the girls on TV. They can see the girls on their phones. And so the pathway and the goal for them is there. They can see it.

They can touch it. They can follow it. And so competitions like having a World Cup and a home World Cup inspired a generation. Well, you guys are pioneers, really. I know there's been many that have come before you as well, but it's really lifted up a gear over the last three years could you have ever imagined playing on this sort of platform when you guys were growing up coming through the grades when we were younger we just played for the love of it um none of us probably thought it could be a career or a job and yeah i think that's what makes the women's game so special we're all here for the

love of it we love playing with our mates um each week and yeah these opportunities that we're able to be part of we're the first ones to be a part of this kind of professionalism it's a pretty special one to be in and um yeah definitely thank the ladies that have come before us and paved the way now a lot of talk about the mouthguards with the men's competition the new mouthguards going on so we wanted to play a quick game right now now jonna do you want to do this now we've got like a mouth guard here that I've sanitized right now. It's kind of like, and he's going to read out some iconic women's rugby moments

and you guys got to work out what he's actually saying. Okay, with the mouth guard in. Okay. Okay, first one to guess what he's actually saying

right now. It's kind of one of those dentist mouth guards. I don't know how you'd go playing super rugby in this one. You look great. So, hello,

very vulnerable. Very vulnerable. Megan, you might need to help out with this one as You look great. So hello. Very vulnerable. Very vulnerable. Megan, you might need to help out with this one as well. Okay. Ruby Terry has a cool red streak in her hair.

Ruby Terry has a cool red streak in her hair. Yay! We got one. Okay, good. The mouth guard game continues. Alana, Alana,

Alana, hanging out with John O'Hanley at the Weepers' Spice Along. Alana, you got this one? Good job. Alana Wiener hanging out with John O'Hanley at the Weepers' Spice Along. That went on a big moment for us. Probably not for you.

Okay. Kennedy Simon. Kennedy Simon held up the Rugby World Cup. Kennedy Simon held up the Rugby World Cup. Yeah. And we've got one more. Let's go to the final one. You guys are really good at this game.

Hello, how do you do? Get known the Rugby World Cup. How do you do? Hello, how do you do? Get known the Rugby World Cup. Play of the Year. Yeah, we got it all. It was five from five.

You guys nailed that game. Really, really exciting. You must be used to talking to drunk people quite a lot. So nice to have you all in here. I can't wait for the competition. Get along and support Nottingham, the telly and the games around the country. It's an amazing competition. So nice to have you guys in the studio.

Thanks so much. Thank you for coming in. Catch Super Rugby Alpiki starting tomorrow. Very excited about that. Coming up, dinner time with two little toddlers is always difficult, but something has changed in my household that has made dinner time just a nightmare. Oh, really? Yeah.

You were explaining this to me. I was like, that's a lot. A lot of admin. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Our first of March. We have officially started autumn. Doesn't it feel like it too around the country? It's going to be bad weather this weekend in the South Island,

and it gets to the North Island on Monday, apparently. We've had a good summer, though, hasn't it? Really feel like you got summered. Summered hard. I wanted a tail out, though, rather than, oh, hi, autumn. Yeah, it's really ripped the door open, hasn't it? So something that you're doing in your household, a lot of admin, right? I was having a little bit of a whinge to Jono

about this yesterday. So dinner time's always pretty difficult with two little toddlers. But my husband has decided to go on a health kick. So he is gymming quite hard out. And he was like, if I'm going this hard at the gym, I want to make sure I'm getting the right food. He's got a great body, Andrew, your husband.

Hot body. All right. Hot body. Lucky you snapped him up mate Otherwise I would have gobbled him up Gobble gobble gobble So he has started this new plan That involves him weighing food

Oh So it's not only like specific things to eat He has to weigh certain amounts Right Is he like chicken, fish He's doing all stuff that I should probably be Chickpeas, vegetables, rice So very healthy Yeah and I have to

weigh the rice, I have to weigh the carbs, I have to weigh the protein and then it's like two cups of veggies So now my dinner time has gone to making a special meal for him that I have to weigh then my three year old will eat something that my one year old won't eat So, do you know last night I ended up making

four different meals. So you're not eating, you're not weighing your food just to kind of go with Andrew. So, do you know, last night I ended up making four different meals. So you're not eating, you're not weighing your food just to kind of go with Andrew? No. I've cooked like a spag bol that I've been dining out on all week for me. So I've got like sad, dry spag bol. And then like mashed

potato for my daughter with like a little veggie situation. And my son's got something different. I'm just like, I don't know if this is sustainable Do you know what I love too is I love how New Zealand's just called Spaghetti

We just call it Spag Bowl Spag Bowl Had a Spag Bowl in the fridge for a whole week It's not even spaghetti it's just pasta and mince

Yeah Spag Bowl Spag Bowl And it's been there all week and it's dry and it's nasty It'll be unsexy and a sexy Italian meal You're right actually Spag Bowl Spag bol And it's been there all week And it's dry And it's nasty It'll be unsexy In a sexy Italian meal

Right actually Spag bol Yeah Spaghette bollole So have you Are you going to put a stop to this This feels like this can't go on Four meals a night

It's been a few weeks I honestly thought He would have got sick of it Before I had to whinge about it But I think the whinging Is going to have to start And is this him

For the foreseeable future Yeah And he's supposed to have a cheat night. I was like, when are we having a cheat night so we can eat dinner together? He's like, I don't know if I'm ready for one. Oh, God. He's disciplined. I admire that discipline.

I don't. I'm just happy if I can make it through four days without drinking a Heineken. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. The World Vision survey saw the cost of food in New Zealand increase by 50% over the past year for some common items that you'd get at the supermarket. It puts us very, very high up there in the world compared to other countries as well. What's a lot of pressure on people? A lot of pressure. So you feel sometimes there's a bit of anger out there.

I've seen two couples this week arguing in public. Going off yesterday, I was parked at the lights. My daughter was in the car. There was one couple using every colourful letter in the alphabet. Could you get the gist of what they were arguing about? Yeah, he'd done something. He looked like he'd been awake for far too long. He'd messed up again.

And she'd had enough of it. And I was having to explain to Poppy what was going on. I was like, they've obviously had a disagreement. This guy looks like he's might have made a couple of bad life decisions over the last 48 hours. Now, the One New Zealand Warriors, their season starts in the NRL next week, their first game. We're very excited about that. And all week, we'll be running a competition looking for the ultimate Warriors fan. Jeez, so loyal and such a passionate group of people as well.

A very special bond amongst all Warriors fans. It feels like it's that they own the team. Yeah. Not the owners of the team, the fans own the team. And many of them have been there since 1995. My parents haven't even been that loyal to me. They left me. So we've got an amazing prize right now with two tickets for the entire home games,

or every home games of this season, and a signed Warriors jersey as well. Yeah, we're going to go through to our winner now. It'll be awkward if they don't answer the phone. Yeah, it will be a little bit awkward. This is what happens when you call Winners Live. They're not expecting the call. Hello, now speaking. Oh, now. Thank you so much. Hello.

It's Jono and megan with us as well uh good morning good morning how are you all right thank you so firstly from the bottom of my commercial radio heart thank you so much for answering the phone oh that's okay secondly secondly and now you won our warriors competition stop you're the ultimate fan yeah we had to put them in a warriors cap in the end and pull out a name because everyone was such great fans. But your name was pulled out and you've got two tickets to every home game this season and a signed Warriors jersey. Oh, that is amazing. What an amazing way to start a Friday.

Oh, that's pretty cool. Now you, sorry if I'm wrong, you have two Warriors tattoos, right? Yes, two. Yeah, two. Up the Waz. Up the Waz. Which I'm very jealous about. two Warriors tattoos, right? Yes, two. Yeah, two. Up the waz. Up the waz. Which I'm very jealous about.

Up the waz and the logo, yeah. Yeah, now where is up the waz placed? Because if it's placed in a... She's not knuckles. She's not knuckles. I think it was leg. Was it ankle? Where was it?

No, it was my arm. It's on my arm. Oh, okay. Yeah. You definitely want to keep it away from their posterior. Do you think that Ben should get up the waz on his knuckles? Yes, absolutely. Get it. If they win the premiership, maybe I will. their posterior. Do you think that Ben should get up the wires on his knuckles? Yes. Absolutely. Get it. If they win the premiership, maybe I will.

Maybe I will. Please do. Keep that. And you go to all the games by yourself a lot of the time. Yes. But now I'll be able to take my son, which is amazing. That's very good on you. Hey, we're so glad this couldn't have gone to a better person.

There were a lot of other great fans as well, but like Ben said, we couldn't choose, so we had to pull it out of a Warriors hat. And congratulations, Anel. Thank you guys so much. That's so, so amazing. You have a lovely weekend. Look after yourself and... Thank you.

Up the wars. Up the wars. There we go. Up the wars. Can't wait for the season to start. The NRL actually starts this weekend with games in Vegas, but the Warriors' first home game is not – well, one week today, actually. So that's very exciting.

The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Front across the country today and tomorrow. Yeah, cold weather, particularly in the south, and then on Monday it heads north as well. So, yeah, summer was a good one. That was a good one. For my first week wearing full-length trousers,

it feels unusual to have cloth. I'm sorry I didn't notice. Listen, to be honest, you're going to just see the same pair of jeans for the next six months now. Megan, they're nothing special. Yesterday I had an absolute shocker. You did? Probably the worst possible thing you can do in a radio station.

You see, after the show, what we do every now and then is review pieces of audio with management and immediately regret everything that has come out of my mouth when we review that audio. Sometimes it's painful listening back to yourself, isn't it? Horrible. Yeah, they play audio back to us, one of our bosses here, Matt. Any person you have listened to, you listen to yourself and you're like, oh, jeez.

And then he pauses and he was like, right, what are your thoughts? Yeah, when he goes, what are your thoughts? You're like, he's got some thoughts. I just want to every time, one time he says that, what are your thoughts? Yeah, when he goes, what are your thoughts? You're like, he's got some thoughts. I just want to every time, one time he says that, what are your thoughts? I want to go, that was probably the best radio I've ever heard. On to the next one. Yeah, that's not going to happen.

Radio can't be radioed any better than we just heard. Yeah, because you don't want to bag something, you know, but then at the same time you don't want to say how good it was and he's like, well, you know, I don't know what to say next. Ben always comes back with one bit of feedback. He's like, ooh, it's a bit long yeah because i know he likes and we do go on quite long sometimes so i'm like oh yeah that's the safest thing yeah yeah yeah but anyway uh as we were listening to the audio yesterday of the show uh you were you were doing some cleaning busying

yourself around the studio i know i got a scattery brain i was like detail wiping the studio and stuff while we're listening back so It just gives me something to do instead of sitting there and listening to ourselves. I get it. And yeah, I was wiping the debtor wipe across the keyboard and then all of a sudden, Matt, our boss is phoning. He's like, oh, that's the

off-air alarm. I wonder what's going on. So it means the radio station has been turned off. It's not going. There's not broadcasting anything. We're like, oh, okay, what's happened? Yeah, and we were like, oh, we don't care, mate, your problem. He ran out, made some calls, came around, he goes, mate, the satellite's down. You know, maybe there's lightning or it's been knocked over or something's happened. You're like, oh, this sounds bad.

Yeah, again, I did not care. Like, I was like, this sounds like a Matt problem. Sounds like a you problem, yeah. And if anything, I was grateful for not having to listen to our audio of our show. And then he came back in about five minutes later while we were all just waiting. And he said, Jono, you pushed F10 on the keyboard. You pushed the button. You pushed the button.

And I was like, what do you mean I pushed the button? He's like, were you just wiping the keyboard? And I was like, yeah, I was wiping the keyboard, mate. He's like, well, you've turned the station off air. Yeah, F10'd it. A minute and a half. Push F10, it just stops everything. Correct me if I'm wrong, Jono,

but you have spent years pushing the buttons in radio. But why would they have a button called F10 that just stops stuff? I think everyone knows F10. But why do you want to stop stuff? Yeah, true. Oh, some radio. Radio's done.

The keyboard has hotkeys. They all have commands. And no point have I gone, you know how this show should just stop. Let's just have dead air. Why is that even a thing? Radio's done The keyboard has hotkeys They all have commands What if I've gone You know what This show should just Stop Let's just have dead air Why is that even a thing

Anyway Yes completely pushed The wrong button Radio station Nothing Nothing around the country For a minute and a half So yeah if you heard

That silence yesterday That was Jono's fault We should find the audio of it When it just stopped dead This is the audio That's it That's it That's the audio

You're right Megan That's the audio The hits The Jon, Megan. That's the audio. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Yesterday, Jono pushed the button. He was cleaning the studio, wiping the keyboard, Megan, and he took the radio station off air. He pushed F10.

And yes, that does seem silly that one button pushed once could take the station off air, but it does. Nothing but silence. The sound of silence. Not Simon and Garfunkel, but just silence on the radio yesterday. Thanks to Jono. So we wanted to make him feel better about your stories of when you pushed the button. And Debbie joins us.

Good morning, Debbie. How are you? Hello. How are you? Good, thanks. We're talking about accidentally pushing the wrong button. What happened to you? Oh, my goodness.

I think I scared a few local tourists. We were traveling down to South Island and stopped at the lovely Te Kupo. And there was a big queue for the loos, and I joined the queue. And then when I was in there, I sat down to do my business. And then I looked at the door, and it was flashing a red light. And I thought, oh, I don't think I've locked that. So I leaned over and pushed the button, and the door flew open. And there I was, and there was this poor little lady standing outside the door,

and she ran to try and cover the door because she was so embarrassed. I could just see the horror on her face, and I can only imagine what I was looking like. And then, of course, finished and had to walk out past everybody. And, yeah, it was really awkward. How was she covering? Was she like starfish shape shape or what was she doing? She was.

She just sort of ran and her mouth was open and she sort of looked at me and she turned and she tried to cover the doorway. Oh, that's so sweet. That is cute. Because you can't really get up. You couldn't really probably stand up in that situation and go push the button.

So you've got to stuck there. Those toilets are so confusing. What do all the lights mean? It's a lot. I know. I thought red meant must have been not locked, but apparently red means it was locked. The last thing you want to be is bamboozled when you go into a toilet,

confused by all the lights. I know. Exactly. Well, listen, so a quick exit out of Tekapo, was it? It was. We were driving straight through, thankfully, so I didn't face any of those people again. Debbie, we really love your call.

Have a great day. You too. Thanks, guys. Bye. Ange, good morning. Morning. All right, pushing the wrong button. What happened, mate?

Okay, well, my husband was doing, this is a long time ago now, he was doing some, let's just say, community help. Oh, yeah. Ben's done it as well. I've done some charitable community help where people thank you on your day and, you know, you feel good about helping out. They don't need to know sometimes the reasons why you're there. You're forced to help.

We don't need the reasons. No, exactly. It was a long time ago for both of you. Yeah. Done it, done it. been there, done it. That's great. Yeah, that's right. So anyway, it was actually a church,

and he was doing some cleaning in the church, and not a huge churchgoer himself, so it was quite a different thing. And there was an area in the church that the vicar said, just don't go there, and if you do go in there, just don't touch the button. So he couldn't quite, I mean, that's just like telling the toddler not to.

Yeah. The button. It sounds like it's the button. If you push that button, it exposes all of the church's skeletons. Just about. Just about. Just about. So what it actually did was, of course, the curiosity that killed the cat. He pushed the button, and that button set off the bells,

and it was like it went on and on and echoed around the region for so long. It came running, and he wasn't to go back the next day to finish cleaning. Because the church bells, you can't really say it wasn't you in that situation. No, not really. Absolutely. Church bells were ringing all right.

I love the guy coming, he's like, I told you one thing. I just told you one thing. He couldn't resist. I love it. That's just dangling the carrot, that, isn't it? Oh, brilliant. That is so funny.

Hey, you're going to have a great day, Ange. Thank you so much. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Getting into the weekend. Always a good feeling. Lots of great sport around the country this weekend. We've got the cricket. The Blackcaps are playing in Wellington.

Super Rugby. Super Rugby Alpac. He starts this weekend as well. The women's competition The Blackcaps are playing in Wellington. Super Rugby. Super Rugby Alpac. He starts this weekend as well. The women's competition, NRL, kicks off in Vegas. Look out, Vegas. League players in Vegas. That was a good idea. They're only taking four teams because I think they had the admin on taking the whole thing.

Do they get next week off? Yeah, they do. Yeah, that's probably for the next cover. Did you not let Marcelo and the Warriors play in Vegas? No good call, mate. Good call. And then the break is a must-win game again on Monday. So heaps of great sport around.

And speaking of sport, I got into an internet hole, something our boss, Matt, actually mentioned in passing. You know when the Super Bowl was on? And he was like, you wouldn't believe how much actual gameplay, actual football is played over a period of a Super Bowl game. Because it's quite a stop-start, isn't it? But they go for like three hours or more, right? It's a long time.

They have commercials and they have stop and they have the offensive team and the defensive team. There's a lot of stoppages. Your average sport game is filled up with a lot of meaningless commentary banter, a lot of kiss cam stuff, a lot of people just getting strangers to kiss each other, and over-analysis of slow-mo replays.

You're not really just plus chucking the ads, it fills out the time. But the average American football game, and we can't really say this about the Super Bowl because it was the most amount of minutes played in a Super Bowl. Oh, yeah, because it went 10 years of time, right? Yeah. But the average American football game, 10 to 11 minutes on average of American football

over a three-hour, four-hour period. So is this where the ball was actually in motion and being played? Well, they're actually playing the game. Yeah. Wow. 10 to 11 minutes worth. Isn't that insane? But then watching it, I watched the Super Bowl for the first time.

It's the first time I've ever watched one of those games. There's so much downtime. And then suddenly the teams are switching again. And they're focusing on the people on the sideline talking. But there is a lot going on. But at the same time, there's not a lot going on, like you say. people on the sideline talking. And it's just a lot. But there is a lot going on. But at the same time, there's not a lot going on, like you say. But then the ball's there and it's thrown probably for that three seconds. The ball's in action and then it's a stop.

But every sport's probably like that. Well, yeah, basketball. The average amount. How long is a basketball game usually? Our NBA is 48 minutes. You only get 20 minutes of actual basketball being played over a 48-minute period. Rugby. Interesting.

80 minutes. Yeah. Only 35 minutes of rugby on average. Oh, because I guess the ball gets kicked out. They get scrums about nine times. They try and back down a scrum. Yeah. There was a lot.

There would be more than that. There was a lot. He went the full 80. No, he didn't, mate. He went the full 35 and then wandered around and had a bit of a laugh for the rest of it. Boxing, you get banged for your buck in boxing, though. So if a fight, a boxing fight goes for 12 rounds,

that's 48 minutes total. Three minute rounds. And in each of those rounds, there's 36 minutes of actual fighting. Well, I guess they're in the ring, they're doing stuff. They're doing stuff. They can't time out until the... Interesting. Soccer, football,

a 90-minute game on average, 55 minutes. Okay. Not too bad, but then 57 minutes of them rolling around pretending to be injured.

Yeah. And let's not break down how much actual entertaining we do on this show over a three-hour period. Actually, speaking of American football, I just saw something before

I thought it was quite cool, quite good to get out. You know, Tom Brady, you know, he was legend of the game. You'd know Tom Brady. Has he won like five championships? I think seven rings or something like that. He's got a lot of rings. More rings than Jennifer Lopez, I think people say.

And the Mad Butcher. He's now retired, 46 years old, but they got him to run because when he first got into the league, he had to run like a 40-yard dash. He's running faster now than he was at 20 years old. So that's a 46-year-old. He's running just slightly, just slightly, but that's still pretty cool. Like, yeah, 46 when you think everyone's like, he's on his way down.

He's running faster. So there you go. See, and that's propaganda from a 40-something. You know? Prime of our lives, mate. There you go. Tom Brady. Pinking.

We're pinking. The Hits. The Jono and Ben Podcast. Now, Taylor Swift was, of course, in Australia. She performed in Sydney, Melbourne. There were huge concerts. Many Kiwis went across, including a lot of people at work. And one of our bosses, Matt, was going across to the concert.

I was very jealous. Big fan of Taylor Swift. Tried to get tickets. Didn't get them. I was talking to Matt, and he was like, hey, if I go get some merchandise, would you want something? I said, yeah, great. I'll pay you back for something. So he very kindly, him, Matt and another of our bosses, Jason, got me a t-shirt.

That's nice. Did you get some for the kids or just yourself? No, just me. You're just calling me out about this actually because today I'm wearing an Olivia Rodrigo t-shirt that I bought on the internet as well. I noticed it's the new tour, so it's a new t-shirt. Yeah, I ordered that. Spill the guts, spill the guts. And Megan's like, oh, what did you get for the kids?

And I was like, nothing, it's got this with me. She's like, I'm the Olivia Rodrigo fan. Yeah, the kids are like, that's so cool, did you get us anything? I'm like, no. They got you into Olivia Rodrigo. Yeah, and I got a t-shirt. They get it, nah, they get stuff. And I'm like, no.

To be fair, they'll probably steal t-shirt. They get it. Nah, they get stuff. And I'm like, no. To be fair, they'll probably steal it off me at some stage anyway. You are a fan. You listen to Olivia Rodrigo in the car by yourself. I keep saying we need to play more of it on the hits

or any of it on the hits. And oh, it's still some tears as well. I want it. Anyway. Whatever. Do not talk smack about Olivia Rodrigo in the t-shirt as well.

Most have seen you wound up without anything. She's testing well with your heart. Yeah, exactly. So I bought this Taylor Swift T-shirt, and very kindly they bought it back for me, which is great. And so I've been wearing that around. But I find that because I'm wearing the T-shirt around

that says Taylor Swift and the Errors Tour, everyone comes up to you who's been to the concert and like, oh, it was so good, wasn't it? And I'm like, oh, I didn't go. And everyone's like, oh. Why have you got that? It's just a a fan and our boss has got it for yeah so i had that happen without a word of a lie for it walked around with a whole day five or six people came up to me throughout the day places oh it was so good what was your i was like i had kept saying no i wasn't there i wasn't there

at the concert were you ever tempted to be like it was amazing right at the end i did oh yeah so good you know it's just it's just a lie just saying it's so good we've seen enough footage to bluff your way through it oh so good three and a half hours could have been longer great night and that's what they started what we'll do is we'll make the 32 friendship bracelets as well you can wear yellow look at all these i got as well although it did remind me of that story remember when you pretended to oh god this is embarrassing the guy used to make coffee for across the road we go see Jase for a coffee back at TV3

you gave him some tickets to Chris Cornell concert a rock concert yeah former Soundgarden singer would come over here do the solo show

oh god this is terrible I don't know why again you like I don't know why you gave him tickets and then he was like next day he was like concert was so good

how did you enjoy it and you were like oh yeah it was great you didn't go I didn't go I didn't go and I don't know why I said, yeah, it was great. And I was in autopilot.

And then he was like, he obviously wanted to talk intricate details about the concert. And probably before social media. At least with Taylor Swift, I've seen enough stuff there to go, oh, the pressure braces. Oh, the costumes. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, God. And he was like, well, what was your favorite part?

And I was like, dear God, he's zeroing it. Just pick a song, Jono, and go with that. I should have. I'm flustered in the moment. Pick a hit that you know he would have definitely played. This would have been great information to know before I walked into this terrible social situation. So what did you say? I was like, oh, I went big.

High risk, high reward. I remember I was like, I loved it when he walked out into the crowd and got that person to play the guitar for him. Yeah. And he's looking at me going like. Yeah, and then you were like, and then he got on that guy's phone and he made a call, and I was there at the time. And you could see him just go, what? When did he get on the phone and when did he get a guy to play guitar? What concert did you go to?

He was like, I'm pretty sure I was there for the whole time and didn't see any of that. And then I was like, I'm pretty sure I was there for the whole time and didn't see any of that. And then I was like, I went back to the office and I went, oh, guys, I've made a fatal mistake. And then our friend Jamie's like, what have you done? I'm like, this is Jay, so I had to go see him every day. He made me coffee. And so I went back in later on that afternoon.

I was like, bro, I've made a terrible life decision. I lied to you about going to a concert. Was he like, yeah. He was like, yeah, I picked it. And I was thinking, why? He's just like, why would you lie about that? Fair point, fair point. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Who's having the best weekend? Heading into another weekend. We really like doing this every weekend, finding out which island out of the north and the south is going to have the best weekend. Yeah, now we've got the wonderful Connor from the Hits in Christchurch representing the south and Hayley from Wellington.

The Hits in Wellington representing the north. Now, Hayley, full transparency here. Connor has a slight advantage. Hosting us in Christchurch last weekend, taking us to Electric Avenue, inviting us to his grotty flat for pre-drinks, chaperoning us to the Wheatbix Triathlon. We've been marinated.

Okay, we're tainted, Hayley. I have been sending you guys invites every Thursday asking you to join me for the weekend. Now you said I'll neglect my family and take you around Wellington. Well, a couple of weeks we're heading to Wellington. No, no, I said you can babysit for me. Oh, I was babysitting. Okay, well I shouldn't say we're coming to Wellington in a couple of weeks then're heading to Wellington. No, no, I said you can babysit for me. Oh, I was babysitting.

I was like, okay, well I shouldn't say we're coming to Wellington in a couple of weeks. I don't think Hayley lives in a grotty flat either. I think it would be a nicer accommodation. Yeah, but now the best weekend riddled with bribery and corruption like FIFA. Alright, so what's happening in the North Island? Not that we care anyway. We're already going to vote for the South as the best weekend.

What's happening, Hayley? Wow, we have in the capital, we have one of the biggest street festivals in New Zealand. We've got Newtown Street Festival. This goes back yonks and yonks and yonks. It's on Sunday. They shut down the whole street. There's dancers, singers, stalls, fire trucks,

and it's really Wellington coming alive, showing the kind of eclectic fun nature so we've got that didn't we do something for that it was like oh no i'll stop talking i'll stop i'll shut up shut up jono keep going keep going hayley you're doing a fine job well and then we've got an event that um connor is a fan of himself as a regular we have magic mike extra extra large ladies night in palmerston okay magic might let himself go was the night so We have Magic Mike Extra Extra Large Ladies Night in Palmerston North. Woo! Okay.

Has Magic Mike let himself go? Or is the night so big? What's happening? Who's big here? That's what I'm trying to figure out too. I thought it meant Extra Extra Large as in the performers on stage, but then someone said, no, the night will just be Extra Big. Oh.

I see. Extra Big. We're definitely not missing anything there, guys. Well, that's big, big times. Big times are winning. You've got strippers and street parties. Now, Connor, what's happening in the South this weekend? Well, it's been a misunderstanding.

Connor wins. Connor wins. Great result. Great result. Thanks, guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's been a misunderstanding. I'm not a frequenter of Magic Mike.

I'm in the show. I'm in Magic. I find out. Now, why is Magic Mike so big nowadays? Why has he gone to XXXL? I think I'd be cancelled if I actually got in. All right. Why does that make it to South Island, Connor?

Looking now at this weekend in particular, Sal and Sounds is back here in the South Island, as well as the North Canterbury Wine and Food Fest. There's the Weet-Bix Kids Triathlon in Dunedin. It's a lot of prize. I could list on all day, and I actually just can't find anything else. That's the real reason why. He's going for quantity rather than quality.

Yeah, he's come on in. He's come on in hot. So we're going to leave it to you, Megan, because we've obviously been tainted with the bribery scandal. We had a great weekend last week with Connor, Electric Avenue, Weetbix, Triathlon, as we said. How good was it though? I wasn't there actually, Connor, so

I haven't been bribed and Hayley's brought Magic Mike to the table, so I think we're going to go with the North. Well done, Hayley. Hayley gets it this week. You guys have a wonderful weekend. Appreciate your time as always and we'll catch up with you

next Friday you came up with a bit of a test to test if our anyone's relationship is rock solid yeah this was one I kind of just made up myself always the best test

yeah I'm definitely a psychologist and great at relationships having been divorced myself. But before I did get divorced the first time, I've only been divorced once, I went to a marriage counsellor. And something I found really interesting, and I still remember now, I didn't implement it on my first marriage, but they said that most people in a relationship treat their colleagues and people, you know know friends better than they do their partner so every time I see you guys in the morning I'm like hey how was your day you know we have nice

banter and sometimes you'll get home and be like hey you're right the best version of yourself is not always at home used on someone else you're right so that was something that has always stuck with me from the relationship counselor so this was kind of a test that spawned out of that yeah is when you're coughing someone at work would probably be like are you okay stuck with me from the relationship counsellor. So this was kind of a test that spawned out of that. Yeah. Is when you're coughing, someone at work would probably be like, are you okay? But would your partner?

So that was the test. You did this the other day with Andrew, your husband. Yeah, you cough. Do a dry cough a few times and see how many coughs it takes for them to say something. And what do they say? You guys are so cute. Have a listen to this.

How cool. You know, you're cute baby voices for each other. Sorry. they say you guys are so cute have a listen to this how cool you know your cute baby voices for each other sorry yeah i am actually thanks babe thanks for asking okay do you know i was actively trying not to do that voice going off your marriage counseling theory of the best version of yourself is at work uh i'm glad you don't bring that version of yourself to work the um oh you are okay okay i mean don't get me wrong it's cute it's cute a little weird but cute so i went home last night uh a man and my wife was working on you know she was doing some she's a teacher she was doing some school

work for the next day on the computer and i I sort of walked close to her, behind her. And I thought, I'll record it on my phone, start coughing. So to be honest, it wasn't great. Because first, I gave her a fright. And then secondly, I think my acting was terrible. Is it hard to pull off a convincing coughing performance? I didn't think so. I didn't think I really overplayed it or anything like that.

But have a listen to how it went. He definitely overplayed it. Yeah like that but have a listen to how it went he definitely overplayed it yeah good oh good thanks what are you laughing for when you cough what why are you laughing like a door what are you what are you doing oh yes you were really quick to say am i alright fake cough poor me how is it fake oh damn it my cough's not good enough I love how she

like came across really great she's like are you okay and then completely undid it yeah she's like fake cough what are you doing

can we just go to the top of the take again just have a listen again Grace too much just go it's just gonna be one dry cough and repeat it like like you've done Too much. Just go. It's just going to be one dry cough and repeat it.

You've done zero coughing. And then you come in with this cough. Too much. Suddenly you've got COVID. Okay. Well, I didn't realize that was the test. The acting test. It's come out of nowhere.

First he gave her a fight. She went, oh went like she jumped because it was quiet and then all of a sudden I'm going and then yeah she was like alright with your fake cough

so yeah she saw she did say are you okay but at the same time she knew that I was clearly like full of it

full of it so yeah I'm not going to lie full transparency you gave us homework yesterday go home and do this cough test I forgot to do my homework I thought about texting you last

night. I was like, John, I was not going to do it. Monday. Yeah, I'll text me over the weekend. Remind me over the weekend and I'll do it over the weekend. Okay, we'll find out. You can test your cough test over the weekend with your partner.