Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: Jono's False Identity...

Episode Date: November 26, 2023

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The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations. I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend, been away for a couple of days. So how did your tennis go? ASB Tennis Classic, you have 40 hits to win 40 tickets. How'd you go? Yeah, can I be honest with you? It was a little disappointing that my coach, my mentor, said, hey, BT Dubs, I'm off on a Disney cruise. Well, I hadn't planned to originally go on a Disney cruise. The opportunity came up and I was like, oh my goodness, I will jump at this.

This has got everything that I want. You know, food, there's Disney characters, you can dress up your family in matching outfits. I'm like, I am on board, literally. They said, have you got anything else on important? I said, no, No, definitely not. Not a huge tennis. The rebooting of my tennis career.

Pivotal moment in my sporting career. That didn't cross your mind? No, I knew it was on. But I thought, well, hey, I'm not physically on the court. You can do a lot of coaching over Wi-Fi and stuff these days. That's funny because I didn't hear it from you over Wi-Fi. I was logged onto a Zoom, but you didn't join it.

But anyway, but how'd you go? You all right? I had a great time, by the way, too. Disney Chris 10 out of 10.

But anyway, you over to you. We have some audio from the tennis, actually. Don't you do that thing with your neck, Joel, where

you're like, no, we don't. Oh, yeah, got it. Here we go. Come on! Here he is! Here he is. Come on. Here he is. Here he is. Come on.

Go, Chuck. 28. 29. Yeah. We did it, Ben. We got the 40 shots for the ASB Classic. 40 shots, 40 tickets. And we'll give away some on social.

So, you know, we did it. I was thinking, did Ian Foster, just before the Rugby World Cup go hey guys think I might just go to Disneyland Paris good luck with your tournament I might zoom in

they've got wifi at Disneyland Paris opportunities you know you've got to take these opportunities when they come about more on the what I was up to

later on the show but you know I'll leave you away for a few days and geez Luxon Winston Peters David Seymour.

There's a coalition going on. There's a whole lot of stuff. We've got a shared deputy prime minister role. It's all happening today officially, right? Christopher Luxon's sworn in as prime minister. We've got pseudo-ephedrine back, baby. Is that bad? Is that bad part on the menu as well?

But yesterday was the Farmer's Santa Parade, which we're all part of, which was a lot of fun. Yeah, we went, you, me, and Megan Puffus went up there and awkwardly waved at people sort of two metres away from us. A lot of obligation to wave when you're on the novelty transport and people can see you on there. It's big waves. Yeah.

If we were just in a normal car, no waving. No, and you feel a little bit like, well, I'll wave and people wave back, but I'm not really that important. I feel like I'm taking waves away from other more deserving people. It should be waves. Don't use your arm energy on waving back at me. People were filming. One person had two cameras.

I'm like, who's going to see this footage of us? The parades, don't get me wrong, it's incredible. It's so good, but of us. I was like, what are you going to do with this? It was nonstop filming. It was taking up a But of us. Yeah, I was like, what are you going to do with this? It was non-stop filming. That was taking up a lot of space on people's phones. Anyway, we went along and hit the parade. Jeez, we turned up and the music we had on the hits float.

Blasting. Oh, it was. Jingle Bell Rock. A Merry Christmas to you, man. I don't know if anyone can hear what we're saying, but we're at the Santa Parade. Megan Pappas, you've got an issue with the music. It might be like the 100th time I've heard Jingle Bell Rock and we haven't even started yet.

It's one song and one song only. I don't know why, but on our floats, one song every year. And it's coming through at an air bleeding level. Quite loud, eh? It is. I walked past the speaker before and it blasts the clothes off you. Yeah.

Well it doesn't, it doesn't. Otherwise you'd be naked around children and that would be weird. That's not a good life. Sweet and sour. So you're going to pick someone and if you wave at them and they wave back they're sweet, if not they're sour. Megan, salty man in the hat. The purple hat? Yeah. Okay, am I waving? Hi! Oh! She got it!

She got it. Alright. Girl in the reindeer antlers. We're there. Oh. Oh. She pretended not to see you. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast.

Over the weekend, have you been onto that Real Me website? It's the government website, which essentially I think is all for your identification. Yes. Set up for those purposes. And so on this, if you're needing to renew a passport or whatever, they've given you the tools to do so. So you can take a photo of yourself for your passport. Yeah, well, it's just quite handy, right? Instead of going down to the chemist, they pull down that little curtain and you have to stand there awkwardly while other people are getting

all their joint medication and things like that from the chemist. It's always in the middle of the shop too. It doesn't have to be so public. That's a really good point. If you ever tried to get one, I remember when my daughter Indy was little, she was a couple months old, we had to get a baby passport photo and that was like, they ended up lying her down

because looking up and looking at the thing. In the middle of the chemist as well. On the floor of the chemist? Yeah. Just because and again, a baby look up not smiling. I was like,

jeez, this took, this was like a 25 minute process. It's very hard to direct a baby in a photo shoot. The baby doesn't know. It's like, don't smile, look at the camera, look.

Remember old bloody Ann Getty? She would shove them in pot plants and things. She did really well to keep those babies looking at the camera. Shout out to her. But yeah, so I was doing this real me thing.

And you take the photo with your phone. But you have to take it within the circle of like a 20 cent piece and the specifications for the photo to be accepted. I did honestly about 10 to 15 different takes. Because did they reject it like straight away? Do you know if it rejected or did they? Yeah, it wasn't fitting within the whatever. I don't know. And it was starting to 15 different times. Because did they reject it straight away? Do you know if it rejected or did they? Yeah, it wasn't fitting within the whatever. I don't know.

And it was starting to wind me up. This bureaucratic red tape. Luxon, I know you're a day one, isn't it? Sort this thing out. He's got bigger problems than you taking a passport photo. Finally. And then they're like, we want to confirm that on this Real Me website is the real you. Can you tell me if this is a giraffe?

It's like a photo of a giraffe, but it was a cat. And I was like, well, no. Is that what they're doing? Yeah. I was like, no, it's a cat. It's not a giraffe. And you start to think, is it a giraffe or is it a cat? So it really gets inside your head.

I hate those ones too with the boxes and they're like, click on the ones with the traffic lights for the motorbike. You're like, geez. Sometimes the traffic light will blend into the next one. I'm like, do I count that box or not count that box? Very confusing.

For a simple test. There's the other one that's like, what's this word? It's like a drunk person has put on a blindfold and written talent or something. It's like,

what the heck is gonna know this word? Surely a better system. But anyway, put the photo through and I never know where to look when I'm taking a selfie Do you stare directly into the lens

Or are you looking at the screen? I don't know Again, I don't know that one either Because that was apparently the big issue And so I ended up quite cross-eyed One eye on the lens One eye on the screen And I just got an email back

We can't accept this photo Your eyes aren't looking in the right direction Hear that, Luxon? My eyes Sort this out, mate If you can see the eyes Surely they're good enough Your eyes aren't looking in the right direction. Hear that, Luxon? My eyes. Sort this out, mate. If you can see the eyes, surely they're good enough to be accepted for the passport photo. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

50, we spoke to Matt Fenn about a week or so ago. He is running the equivalent of the length of New Zealand, not once but twice. He's doing it for I Am Hope, raising money. It's a wonderful cause, and he joins us right now to give an update on how sore his body is. Good morning, Matt. Hi, guys. How are you going? Still running? Still running.

Just about, yeah. Holding it together. Yeah, so we spoke to you last week. You're running not only the equivalent of the length of New Zealand one way, but also back. So what is that? That's over 4,000 kilometres. Where are you up to right now?

So I've got 4,200 kilometres to run, and I'm 3,058 kilometres in. So three quarters, basically three quarters of the way. Yeah, basically three quarters of the way in. Yeah, but it's not quite feeling like the home stretch yet. That's definitely, you're nearly there, mate. How's it going? Just a little way to go go Last time we spoke to you Was a couple of weeks ago

You just said your feet Were in absolute agony Let's get a foot update How are the tootsies mate? Yeah Feet aren't great I've got a Stress fracture

In the right foot And in my shin At the moment You've got a what sorry? A stress fracture So it's basically Yeah It's just been like

An overuse injury Well it's fair, yeah, it's just been like an overuse injury. Well, it's fair to say running the length of the country twice is a bit of an overuse of your legs. Yeah, you could say that for sure. But yeah, at the moment, it's just battling through and trying to keep moving. I'm getting there. It's an amazing achievement. How are you stopping to eat and things like that? How's all that happening?

It's just all on the go, to be honest. There's a lot of people expect the nutrition to be energy gels and hydration powders, and in reality, it's pies and flake Coca-Cola and stuff like that. And it's messy and ugly, but it's just trying to keep on pushing through. Oh, so you're running and eating pies and drinking Coke at the same time. Yeah, you could say it's sort of a dream. It's definitely not a recommended diet. Yeah, but I imagine you're just shredding KG so you could eat anything.

Yeah, I think I've lost about 14 kilos in the last two months. Producer Joel's pointing at me. Why are you pointing at me? Maybe you could run the length and lose a bit of your summer body sort of. Shredding for summer. There's other ways you can do it, but yeah. Now you're doing it obviously all for I Am Hope, and you've been very closely associated with Mike

King and the I Am Hope charity as well. People can text RUN to 469 for an automatic $3 donation. But some fantastic news, this money is very important too, but some fantastic news, the new coalition very important too. But some fantastic news. The new coalition government is going to be committing to $6 million per year for I Am Hope for as long as they're in power.

Yeah, that's amazing. And it was so awesome to hear that on Friday. Take the pressure off so much to be able to focus on the kids and being able to focus on providing a service rather than trying to fund it, which is amazing. Yeah, because that's what it is. It provides qualified psychologists and therapists to go into schools and talk to children about mental health.

And valuable. They're all paid for. Every dollar's going to those people. Yeah, exactly. And it just sort of, it's a huge step in being able to keep sort of pushing forward with taking care of the young people of the country. So it's amazing. How's your mental health been through this?

Because obviously you're doing it for mental health, but how has yours been? It's definitely been, I would say, a learning experience and I wouldn't change it for the world, but it's definitely a tough time. And I think that's part of it is I'm a huge fan of the idea of you do hard things by choice and it prepares you for when they're maybe not by choice and just learning from those experiences. But yeah, you know, it's definitely tough

and I'm also sort of being very aware of it as well, you know, you push into the some of the dark times of this sort of event. There are other ways you can learn that lesson, Matt. That's a good point. They're running up and down the country twice but hey, good on you. And so every day you've been averaging how many k's recently? Pretty close to 60 yeah and that'll start knocking up

a bit higher I'd say as we get to the finish. That is, so are you actually running up and down the country or are you running? So we started that and i got about a thousand kilometers in and things just fell apart logistically yeah and i was like i've got to find a way to just keep going and keep pushing through um so the only way around it was we've got to stay in one place so for the last two two and a bit thousand k i've been running around lake papuki

in auckland oh do you want should we run the last hundred metres with you or something? Yeah, yeah, that sounds great. Yeah, for the glory, the glory lap at the end. Yeah, yeah,

yeah. I'll tell you what, we'll, we'll take the lead. Oh yeah, we can race to the finish. That's right, yeah,

race you can. Come on, Matt, come on. I'm imagining the Rocky theme music playing at the same time. Oh, that's an amazing thing you're doing, running the equivalent of the length of New Zealand twice.

It's a Monday morning. We like to motivate you with a bit of inspiration. You were saying just before, not but three minutes ago, how fleas can motivate us. I know bedbugs are going around. Is there a spot of bedbugs are going around Is there a spite of bedbugs? I think mainly

from overseas but I think some people have brought them back Where do you get the bedbugs? A lot of hostels

I imagine be laden with the old bedbugs I think around Paris in the fashion week last year I think they had so it was rife

even through fancy hotels It's always like don't let the bedbugs bite It was always a good night's sleep. You've got no option, do you?

Yeah. Producer Joel, I imagine you used to sleep in a bed, a filthy bed. Your mattress probably moves up and down, does it? Nah, scabies, not bedbugs. Yeah, that's right. So have a listen to this guy. This is a bit of an experiment,

social experiment they do with fleas. We got a thousand fleas, and we put them into a huge mason jar, and we put holes in the top, and we left the cap on for three days. Now fleas can jump three or four feet. After three days, we took the cap off. Not one flea jumped higher than where the cap was.

What was more interesting is the babies they had in that jar, they won't jump higher than where the cap was. They've never even seen the cap. Childhood trauma. We only do what our parents and caregivers believe we can do. Hey Johnny, what do you want to be? I want to be a doctor when I grow up. What about you, Peter?

I want to be a professional soccer player. What happened to them dreams? I'll tell you. Our families and friends kicked it out of us. Babies are born with two fears. Fear of falling and the fear of loud noises. Everything else is man-made. Wait till your father gets home.

If you do that, that's going to happen. You can't do that. You can't be a teacher. And we take all this in As children And our teens And that becomes Our core beliefs Interesting Isn't there

Now the whole way Through that great message See what the guy's See where he's going there See his angle But the whole way Through I'm going What scientist

Wasted their time Catching hundreds And hundreds of fleas How do you wrangle Hundreds of fleas It's a good Is that a tweezer situation A tweezer

Going through some sort Of doggy daycare Or something Yeah That's a lot of fleas? Is that a tweezer situation? A tweezer going through some sort of doggy daycare or something, getting them on the dog. That's a lot of fleas to catch in a jar. And I don't want to take away from the message. That's a great message, you're right. But a lot of backstories got into that message. Yeah. And it's like,

why did some scientists waste their time on this? There's other more important... I mean, it's great for a 30-second Instagram video. Yeah. All worthwhile. It's great. We're playing it. But it feels like there's more important things science should be doing

than wrangling hundreds and hundreds of fleas and jamming them in a jar and going, I wonder what happens here. Well, of course they're not going to jump higher than the lid because the lid's the lid. Yeah. Well, there we go. Some Monday morning motivation. And, yeah, there's some motivated scientists that got all those fleas

into their jar as well. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Our producer, Taylor, is back with us in the studio for a wee game of News or Not. Yes, our favorite part of the show because we do 0% of the heavy lifting here, Ben Boyce. Taylor, you've been trawling through the dark web. You've seen some stuff. Yeah. Just to find these headlines two are real one a fake you can play

along in your car text 4487 if you know the answer we've got some hell pizza all right kicking things off endangered hippo forces plane to make emergency landing after breaking free from cargo hold oh sounds like the pot from madagascar okay so, so it's running around the plane while the plane's flying. Yeah, break free. Not ideal. No. Is that a legit news headline? We'll find out in just a moment.

Okay, doctors use breast implants to save lung transplant patient who nearly died from vaping. What? So they've replaced his lungs with a couple of implants? Breast implants. Yeah, breast implants. So does it look like the patient has... I feel like it would look good.

Yeah. It's a win on two levels there. Okay. Okay, number three. Space burials grow in popularity as man plans to send DNA to the moon for $13,000. Okay, one of those is fake news. Space burials. Textable for H7 if you think you know the one.

They're all quite wild, wild stories, aren't they? Let's loop back to the rhino that escaped on the plane. Now, producer Joel was showing me a video before the show this morning. He's like, take a look at this. And it was two rhinos mating. And he's like, have a look at that thing. Wow. Do yourself a favour today google rhinos mating

oh don't I didn't realise I had five legs it's he's like this is great for you know they're extinct

this is great for the I'm like you're not you're not showing me this video because you're passionate about the extinct rhinos I know why

he showed me the video yeah okay so what do we say can we say what do you think is the fake rhinos. I know why you showed me the video. Yeah, okay. So what do we say? Can we say what you think is the fake story? I don't know why or how they would let a rhino escape on a plane. They obviously barged out of the door. Is that what you're saying? Yeah.

Okay. The next one, breast implants replaced his lungs on a vaping patient. Lungs. I mean, yeah, I feel... I suppose it could work. Yeah. A couple of... Sort of sex.

Yeah, that's okay. They fill up and they deflate. And then the final one was, again, remind me about space. Space burials growing popularity as man plans to send DNA to the moon for $13,000. I'm going to... You know what? I'm going to lock in the space burial one. Is it a fake story? It's the fake story. you know what? I'm going to lock in the space burial one. As the fake story?

As the fake story. You know why? Why? Because I was over your shoulder and I saw the article on the implants one. Okay. So you've already spied on that one. You need to stop looking at my computer screen.

He's like, oh, implants. What's this about? Are you thinking of getting some tape? Not appropriate for the workplace. That conversation. You can do what you want with your body, okay? Who am I to tell you what to do with it? And so yeah, let's lock in the space burials Okay, you're incorrect

As if there's a hippo on a plane, are yous for real? No That was the fake one Oh, the fake one was the hippo on the plane Don't look at us with disdain, eh? They all sounded very out there Alright, then News or Night is always a fun game. The Hits,

the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, we want, oh no, 800 The Hits, 4487 is the text. Your biggest, your biggest blow up

or stuff up, sorry, at work, but you still managed to keep your job. Yeah, so it wasn't a fireable offence,

but something that happened because producer Joel, you thought you'd got away with something. For years. Yeah, back in the day, I used Producer Joel, you thought you'd got away with something. For years. Yeah. Yeah, back in the day, I used to do stuff, like really random jobs around the company.

We mentioned that on Friday as well. And one of them was driving a caravan for the ACC, the Alternative Cricket or Alternative Cometry Collective, that you also do a bit of work for, Ben. And I took it to go get a warrant of fitness one day. And I hadn't really driven many trailers, but I kind of said I could just because I needed the money back then yeah this is what this is what radio does it's like we put these kids in positions where well well below their skill well above their skill set uh had you driven anything any trailer

I'd driven a trailer once only forward never backwards as well which turns out to be a lot harder than reversing a trailer it is tough yeah so I took this 1975 caravan that they used to broadcast uh to go get us war on a fitness but no one told me there was a break on the trailer reversing a trailer. It is tough. Yeah, so I took this 1975 Caravan that they used to broadcast to go get us to Warina Fitness, but no one told me there was a break on the trailer as well. On the Caravan. Caravan, yeah, yeah.

So I drove about five kilometers on the motorway as well with the brakes on, on the tires. And it was smoking up and I was looking at it and I was like, oh man, this is a,

I know it's an old unit, but I don't think it should be smoking up as much. And yeah, got to the Warren Fitness Place, VTNZ and the whole caravan, the undercarriage was on fire. So it's safe to say it didn't pass as warrant? It didn't, no. And I got there and I was like, oh, cause I was only about 19 years old. And then they got, they called the fire, the fire engine came and a guy, like three guys came and fire extinguishers put it out and

uh all of jeremy wells lee hart their faces are on the side of the caravan as well burning up in flames yeah hilarious and you came back what did you say to the boss i came back because the apparently the fire oh the people at vtn did they said oh whoever drove this before you had like didn't take the brakes off or something and i was like yes apparently um whoever did drove the caravan before me didn't take the brakes off and all. And I was like, yes, apparently, whoever drove the caravan before me didn't take the brakes off and all the fluids were out of place and stuff. And then for the last three years,

he was all, yeah, cool, no worries, no worries. You thought you got away with it? Just, yeah, I was, I kind of, I was at ease with the situation, at ease with the situation. And then on Friday, we're having lunch and he's like, mate, you know, I'm not stupid. I know you set the caravan on fire.

And you still retain your job, though. Still retain my job and that's that's what we want to know this morning as Jonah said before 0800 the hits 4487

what did you stuff up badly at work but still retained your job you couldn't sack Joel look at his he's got beautiful charisma plus it's impossible to fire anyone nowadays

it's really hard case in point that the hits the Jonah and Ben podcast. Taylor, it's one of our favorite stories. Your mom. She was working as a flight attendant, right? For Qantas.

Check-in. Virgin, yeah. Yeah. So she was at check-in and she was meant to collect a passenger who was a first-time flyer and get them from one flight and put them on to the next. But she didn't understand that and she thought they had just arrived to the airport and she thought she was checking them in. They didn't speak any English.

So she was asking, where are you going, where are you going? The passenger thought she was asking, where did she just come from? South Korea. So my mum checked her into the next flight going to South Korea and poor thing was back on her way from where she just came from. She'd get home and go, how was your trip? You're like, well, it was a rollercoaster. I arrived and then they put me back on a plane.

What is the flight time from South Korea to Australia? I saw the airport. Nine hours. Was it? Yeah. You're back a bit quicker than I thought. Yeah. Yeah.

Poor thing. Jeez, yeah, you're right. 10 hours, 30 minutes. That's a bloody 21-hour round trip just non-stop flying. Yeah, and all her family were looking for her because she was expected in Melbourne so they were ringing up the airline going where is she where is she she went to land 24 hours ago

Oh yeah we're going to get your biggest stuff up at work but you still managed to keep your job. Get Dean on. Welcome Dean to New Zealand's Breakfast. How are you this morning? Yeah not bad mate not bad. Lovely to have you on. What happened? So I was working in Drury there. I was a

big operator. Forgot there was power lines over top of me and sort of put the boom up into them. Now, quite big ones, and we shut down half of Drury power and traffic lights onto the motorway and traffic lights around the motorway and everything like that.

Oh, no. Yeah, it wasn't the nicest thing to go through. And do you have to phone the boss? How does that conversation go? Yeah, yeah, we were working for a different company. We were just subcontracted to a different company and then had to ring them first and then go through the proper channels and then the bosses all have to get notified as well. And they're like, you're what now?

Yeah. I'll get on your day. I they're like, you're what now? Yeah. Oh, good on you, Dave. Still work there, 11 and a half years deep. Oh, that's good, yeah. And yet, now, these are the learning experiences, aren't they? Oh, yes, yes, yes. But you haven't taken the power out to Drury ever again? No, not once.

He's taken the power out to his phone, though. I do remember when we were filming the TV show, remember that, and we we were one of the things you were being punished for some sort of deer that we did and i said well i was going to fire some cricket balls at your car and we worked it out because it was low budget stuff we're like hey we can probably afford one window one door to be replaced one panel yeah yeah and the first cricket ball hit in between the two doors so basically both the doors were damaged. And we're like, oh dear God, that's two doors from the first hit. Hello, we're here now.

Oh, well, we're here now, yeah. Andy, get you on from New Plymouth. How are you this morning? Yeah, good, thank you. Great to have you on. We understand this involves one of the boss's positions that you ruined? Yeah, I've made a few good stuff ups along the line. I used to work in sound and lighting, driving out the back around Benidale

that way, hit some roadworks and flipped and rolled the boss's four-wheel drive, middle of the night. So he comes against me, Scotty from LMNOP is one of his best mates, he takes me back to Rotorua and we're finishing a gig. But I think the one you'll most like is i used to work in graphic design in australia and i had the boss there and i stuck a photo of his face on a photoshopped his face onto a like a crescent shifter tool sent it to the sales rep put the title on there rob is a tool so this is awesome and then next minute well probably like an hour later rob calls me into the office and here's this printout on his desk and he's like, I thought I was dead set, fired, on the spot, and luckily he saw the funny side

of it and we had a good conversation about it. Oh, dodged the bullets there as well. Getting personal. Fully dodged the bullet. I thought the family and I were going to be moving back from Australia. Thank you for your call, Andy. Appreciate it. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I was at the petrol station yesterday, walked in. Have you ever used a petrol station, Bluch and Block?

Yeah, you'd love one. Remember when we were filming, we used to do these things for telly. It was like we'd put actors in shops and things and we'd control them via earpiece and stuff. And we're filming at a petrol station down the road and I had a gas trouble or something. It was terrible.

And I had to go to the bathroom, the petrol station bathroom. And that's a gamble at the best of times, isn't it? You walk in there, and it's a hold your breath situation. Shut your eyes, and just pray you make it out alive, isn't it, a lot of the time. Yeah. Portaloos are another experience Very similar Can be

Yeah I always go there and I'm like Some poor person has to Has to deal with all this Who is it? Whoever it is They're not getting paid enough To deal with it

Anyway Walked in yesterday And opened the door And there was a Like a wall With a door with a latch on it. And there was a gentleman straddling the top of the wall. So climbing out of the toilet.

So what had happened, the latch, he was having to explain. So not trying to exit, not trying to flee, but just trying to exit the tub. He was trying to exit the tub. The cubicle. Yeah. So he, probably last person you wanted to see was someone staring at him as he's got a leg on either side of the wall of the lavatory. And he was like, the lock's stuck.

And he was like, this is my only option now. And he's like, I wasn't going to go under. Fair enough. You don't want to be crawling along the floor of it. See why you chose the over route. And yeah, but he made a safe escape as well. Yeah, very unusual, but it does a very terrifying experience

when you do get stuck in that particular location. Have you found yourself locked in anywhere? Well, no, but I do remember that we had the same sort of situation. Remember the TV show bathroom? Remember there was one of those bathrooms in our office that you're locked and then you could not get out. And it was one of those bathrooms in our office that you locked and then you could not get out. And it was kind of away from the main office so you were out on your own, weren't you?

And we had a writer come and join us, a comedian Corey. And he came along his first day helping us out and we were like, well I wonder where he's been. He's been away for a good couple of hours. And then we realised that he'd gone off to the bathroom and no one had told him, hey don't lock the bathroom door.

And he's too polite to call anyone. He was like, it's day one, I don't want to make a fuss. I don't think he had his phone. He was just sitting there. That's right. For a couple of hours, he's like, is this a prank? Is this part of the show? We're like, no, he just can't get out.

Well, you know, hey, listen, if you know radio, you know where this is leading. 0800 the hits 4487. Where have you found yourself stuck? Give us a call this morning. We'd love to hear from you on New Zealand's Breaky. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Great text here on 4487.

I got stuck in the service lift in the Sky Tower when I was working there, and I had five American tourists with me. We were in there for five hours. That's a long haul with strangers in a lift too, isn't it? It is. There's not much breathing space, is there? No, and you'd be like, there's a phone, you can call that. Yeah.

But then after that, you're just like chatting. Who's on the other end of that phone? And they're like, oh, just on my lunch break, I'll get back to you soon. I knew I had to ring one, thankfully. Maybe we should pick it up one day and see where it goes to. I got into a whole, speaking of being stuck in spaces, you know submarines, there was a lot of talk about

submarines this year actually. You know when you go down a submarine, there's no facilities in a submarine. The only facility you've got is a glad Ziploc bag. Oh really? It's all you've got. It's all you have. And you're down there for hours and hours.

I'll be like, what's Ben doing? Maybe he's getting a sandwich out. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, jeez. And you zip it up and you have to... You don't think about that, do you? No, you don't.

You definitely don't. Sarah, good morning. Hi, good morning. Lovely to have you on the show this morning. Where were you stuck? Now, we understand it wasn't you. No, no morning. Lovely to have you on the show this morning. Where were you stuck? Now, we understand it wasn't you. No, no, it wasn't me. So my two-year-old locked herself in our toilet.

Oh, gosh. That's a tough negotiation. Is it what? So as a result of that, we have now a broken lock, a broken window, and a kicked-in door. Oh, jeez. So were you at first, I guess, you're not just jumping straight to, let's kick down the door. So were you at first, I guess you're not just jumping straight to let's kick down the door. So you're probably trying to

tell your two-year-old what to do to try and get out? Yeah, at first I was kind of like, oh bugger it I'll just, you know, it is what it is. I'll boot the door in. But then I thought, no. So now we have to boost our son, who's 15, who's all of six foot five, do you mind? All his limbs

through the window to unlock the other door to the wash house from the outside to let his dad and his other brother in. So they start getting underway trying to unlock the door from the other side so they can somehow jimmy it, but it's no luck. In the wash house is the shower, and in the shower roof there's a manhole, so they boost him up into the manhole. He gets up onto the level, and now he's trying to get through the window. She's now screaming because she can hear me trying to jimmy one side of the door,

trying to ask her to open it. She can hear her father trying to theme the other side of the lock, and now she can see her brother trying to climb through the window at her. You're coming in from all three angles. We're coming in hot, whānau. We're coming in hot. The rescue mission is well underway. My eight-year-old's running around the house screaming, we're coming on the hot rescue mission as well on the way. My eight year old

running around the house screaming, we need to ring the ambulance, this is what I prefer. And I'm like, she runs off down the street because we're quite lucky we live next to heaps of whānau. So now at this point, the auntie's here, the cousin's here, all the kids are here. So I run outside to go and find a hammer and while

I'm outside, I just hear and like just glass shatter and instantly my heart just goes straight to my like throat and I'm like oh my god so I'd boot the door and the panel like swat kick a nice perfect hole put my hand up unlock the door and there she is bailed up in the corner unscathed oh the the rescue now you've just ended up with broken doors windows and damaged bathroom, but at least the two-year-old escaped. Hey, thank you so much for your call.

Now, also, just to hit a message there, too, it's Kyle, her partner's birthday. 20 years they've been together, Ben. Well, happy birthday, Kyle. Maybe as long as you and me, mate. Yeah, and the next one.