Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show highlights: Megan and Tayla love football!

Episode Date: February 12, 2024

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The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. A lot of people talking all right around the world about the Super Bowl yesterday. The longest ever game in the Super Bowl. Of course, the Kansas City Chiefs won just over the 49ers with about three seconds to go. So that's Travis Kelsey's, yeah, it's his team. You don't need to explain to me, I know now. I know you know now.

Yesterday you went home, Megan, and watched your first football game. Ever. Yeah, and we knew it on the text, on the group text. It was a flurry of comms between Producer Taylor and Megan. It felt like, you know, that cliched situation where there's a sports enthusiast on the couch and there's partners next to them firing off questions. We were living that in real time, Ben. Now, I'll be honest with you.

It was a very, very boring first half. It was definitely a very boring first half. So you kind of watched it. For your first game, it was pretty slow and it was pretty boring. There was a lot of shots of people on iPads on the sidelines, people like wriggling their necks. I was like, oh. A lot of shots of Taylor Swift.

They were getting frenzied up in the corporate box. Great celebrities there. You know, Leonardo DiCapriozied up in the corporate box. Great celebrities there. You know, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jay-Z. Beyonce. LeBron James, Paul McCartney. They were all there. Chief Goldblum. Ice Spice.

My daughter kept going, it's Ice Spice. She was very happy to see Ice Spice. But then the game got really exciting, particularly towards the end as it got close and then got into overtime as well. And you kind of did a 180 on it didn't you well it did get exciting and they were like neck and neck was it 16 all and then they got to 19 all I didn't realize that they could just bring a guy on the field and kick to level it up because I was waiting to go pick up my kids from daycare and I was already late and I was like oh no we're in extra time do I wait or do I go and get them and did you neglect your children oh we didn't got them but then I missed the end of the

game so we back and watched it on plus one I was like who am I I like it I like it no it was cool I mean you get kind of swept up on it it's huge I mean the Super Bowl commercials the halftime show it's a it's a massive occasion where you like football or not. And I was quite invested because I don't support any team, but I really wanted what are they called? The Chiefs to win. Because of Travis Kelsey. Yeah, it was a bit annoying

they kept interrupting the rolling Taylor Swift coverage with the annoying shots of the football. I found. But really good game. Fun game. Like you say Ben Ben it's the it's the Annie Pryor was watching and you know

if you've got Annie Pryor you've reached mass saturation so I reckon it'll probably be they were talking about the most viewed thing ever I think it will be

the most viewed Super Bowl of all time if your mum's watching it Annie Pryor would have bolstered those ratings yeah and even Usher we'll get to Usher later

because I think you and Producer Taylor were against every article and everything I've read online. Really? Yeah. Like, Usher was on roller skates. If I could quote one of your texts, which we will read out later on this morning in a reenactment being you and myself with the text between Taylor and Megan.

One was, too much thrusting. He's wearing Gen Z clothes. I hope he falls over on the roller skates. These are just some of the highlights. Usher came out, he was shirtless, he had little John. Did you see his little, like, he did almost fall over. I didn't see it. He's on roller skates.

He had a quick change. It was pretty incredible. And you guys were like, the classic New Zealand haters. Where the hell is Bieber FFS? That was one. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Do you pick for your husband, Andrew Megan? The classic New Zealand haters. Where the hell is Bieber FFS? That was one. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast.

Did you pick for your husband, Andrew Megan? Titanium. He was in a boy band. They had an enormous amount of success, Titanium, didn't they? Yeah, like 12 years ago. That would be a bit of a laugh. What was the name of? Come on Home was their big one.

Yeah. Can you find that grace in the of? Come on Home was their big one. Yeah. Can you find that grace in the system? Come on Home by Titanium. Would they have that locked away in here? I don't know. It was a promo for another radio station, so I don't know if we would have that. Oh, yeah. It might be one of those ones that never got played across here

because it was from the dark side, the other side of radio. Yeah. They do that sometimes, don't they? Yeah. It's like Anchorman. Blacklisted. Yeah. And so, because they all got put up in a house, didn't they?

I remember the manager at the time had rented a house and he locked all these young boys up in the house. He's kind of like the Simon Cowell of New Zealand with One Direction. Locked them on and he's like, you take your shirts off and you record songs in there. It was a terrible idea because that house was manky. It smelled because there's like five guys in there not cleaning it. It was a terrible idea because that house was manky. It smelled because there's like five guys in there not cleaning it.

It was nasty. They put them together and they it was pretty big. It was pretty big for a while wasn't it? Unfortunately it's not in the system. Yeah I figured as much. In the UK though for Valentine's Day and then carrying on afterwards you now get an adult Happy Meal for a limited time only which is pretty

cool. Which comes in like a little adult size Happy Meal box. You get either a Big Mac or a 10-piece chicken nugget, so slightly bigger than the children's Happy Meal, fries and a drink, and an old school 90s toy, one of the McNugget baddies. That's cool. Not where I thought you were going with that one. What's that?

When you said Valentine's Day and adult Happy Meal. Oh, right. I thought this is an bit off brand for Maccas Yeah not quite that Definitely not quite that Yesterday well producer Taylor You and I went out to a Warriors launch for a new jersey They've got the heritage jersey which is very cool

Sort of old school jersey they're bringing out this season And you went to your husband Marcelo Montoya's place of work yes how was that do you interact professionally as a radio producer and him as a professional player do you fraternise

well in the morning I was like oh I'm coming to your workplace today I'll text you when I'm there and he's like why and I was like

so you can come out and see me and say hello and he's like no no no he's a professional he's a professional athlete, no, no. He's a professional. He's a professional athlete.

He's like, and that is my place of being a professional athlete. At home, he's a professional husband. Yeah, well, he needs to do a better job at that one. Oh, my God. So he's not listening right now. Does he listen? He does, yeah. Hi, Marcelo.

That is definitely not going to save it. Not going to save it, yeah. I was at a very cool event yesterday. They modelled the new jerseys. They had the players come out, a few of the players in the jerseys. They looked great, Megan. They were like, you know. Yeah, I got a photo from Taylor of her husband.

When they put on the jerseys, they just fill it out really well. Yeah, they do. I see why you're like. Okay, creep. Well, they do. They do. They look great. And then they asked me, they're like, do you want to put on a jersey? And I was like, oh, well, they do. Okay, creep. Well, they do. They do. They look great. And then they asked me, they're like, do you want to put on a jersey?

And I was like, oh, well, I do. But also at the same time, I don't after looking at the players. I didn't quite fill it out as well as the players. They fill it out really well. They do. You look great in the jersey. You look like an under-14s Warriors cadet. Yeah.

Up and cover. Yeah, like I'm bringing out the tee on one of those bikes or something for the players. A little ball boy. But I got to quickly talk to the boss of One New Zealand, who are great supporters of the Warriors as well, and I got to ask him a couple of quick questions. Jason, my old boss. How you doing?

Kia ora. Very good, thank you. Who do I talk to about my One New Zealand accounts? I keep getting that message. Me. I'm your personal account manager. In fact, anyone who's with us, I am your personal account manager. It's a lovely service that you offer at One New Zealand. And all seriousness though, the new jumper, it's awesome.

And mate, and you look fantastic in it. I don't really fill it out like Tohu Harris and, you know, the other boys, Wade McKinnon and that, do I? No, no, you don't. Well, you didn't have to agree with that. It's radio. Mate, mate, you're still an athlete. That pre I? No, no, you don't. Well, you didn't have to agree with that. Mate, you're still an athlete. That pre-season training

is still not too late. Yeah, so I've got to put it on. I've got to talk to them. It's very cool. One New Zealand, Vodafone beforehand, they've supported the Warriors for a long, long time. Yeah. 25 years. I bet there was probably a couple of years there where they were probably like, mate. Mate, the sponsorship

money, mate. Yeah. But we did something yesterday, mate, mate, mate, the sponsorship money, mate. Yeah, but we did something yesterday accidentally that you've been wanting to do for a long time and that's when you go to things like this or there's an album coming out or something, they always go, it's embargoed to a certain time. You can't release the details into a certain occasion. Whenever there's a concert, it's like 8.01am. We can't even mention it before then

and I've always wanted to jump on at 7.59 just break it by a couple of minutes well producer Tyler broke it by 15 minutes yesterday because the picture of me in the top you put it out straight away yeah got a bit too excited but sorry to do this to our old assistant producer Joel

but it was actually his fault because he uploaded I saw him upload a photo 20 minutes early and I was like, oh, did you get approval to do that? And he's like, yeah, it's all G. I should have known then. No. And I was like, oh, okay.

He stood at symphony mentally. Yeah. Yeah. And you put it out there as well. We said to the media people, that photo's going great. The photo, did you put it out? And I was like, this is an interesting gag from a media person to be going, oh, the photo.

And he was like, you're not meant to put that out for 15 minutes. And we're like, uh-oh. So the first imagery of the new Warriors top, the only image that went out was a malnourished Ben Boyce. Having it dangling off his bony frame. It's getting shared by the Jersey Hunters and all the people that froth the Warriors tops and stuff because it's the first time they've seen that.

That'll be the first lasting image. They did proper shoots and everything. Those are the images they wanted to go out. So sorry about that. But thank you very much to the Warriors for having us. It was a lot of fun. Just a guy like the Pack and Save Stick Man just took a thumbs up in a Warriors jersey.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Get the fiddler on the roof. You never want someone fiddling away at three in the morning on their fiddle, do you? Bloody noisy, those fiddles. We have a riddler on the roof. The riddler. Come down.

She's in the studio. That was a long bow. Producer Taylor comes in every week with a riddle, which not once have we nailed these. No. You got one last week, though, because it came pretty quickly after another one that was all the same theme. Same format. Yeah. What was the format? It was kind of like the same theme. Same format. Yeah. What was the format?

It was kind of like... It was a spelling one. Yeah, and we couldn't get the first spelling one. Then you did the second one. It was exactly the same. Just trying to keep you guys on your toes, see if you're listening, you know? All right, what's today's riddle for us?

And then we'll put one out to you on 0800THEHITS. All right. What question can you never answer yes to? Working on the weekends No Never answer yes to This is for kids as well I just want to preference that

I got it off of Google Don't say kids She said I want to preference this Is that not Preference 4487 on the text This is meant to be our one She said I want to preference this. Is that not... Is that... Preface. Preface. Yeah. 4487 on the text.

So this is meant to be our one, but... You didn't preface it either. If you preface it, you would have done it before the question and made us feel bad about the kids. Okay, so I'm the one asking the riddle? Yeah. Okay. What can you never say? Can you used to?

Think, guys. Like, you know Think Is it obvious? I think so Yeah Give us a clue Um Well

Why Why couldn't you answer yes to something Like To To speak Are you dead? You're You're ballpark

Something about You're You're not actually alive Are you breathing? Are you Very close, team. You're on the right track. Oh, 800 of the hits if you think you know the answer.

Are you asleep? Yes. To be fair, someone takes that in. Are you asleep yet? Thank you for all the people that text that in. Okay. Megan, it's radio. You didn't have to say it.

Too honest, Megan. Too honest. Too honest. Okay, so we've got another one for the audience that we're going to chuck out there. That was our one that thankfully you answered for us anyway.

Yeah. Okay, go. There's a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture.

What colour are the stairs? There's none because it's one. Oh, yeah. Lucky I haven't said another one. It's a one-story house, Jono. There's none because it's one. Oh, yeah. Lucky I haven't said another one. It's a one-story house, Jono. There's no stairs.

Sorry. Well, I nailed it. You're smart. Okay, I've got one more because I thought that might have happened. Unless they put a staircase in, June. They're like, why are you doing that? What has four wheels and flies? Four wheels and flies.

Okay, 100, that's 4487. If you know, we've got some Alpizza up for grabs. Give us a text or a call. Okay, let's go to the phones here, Grace. Carissa's phoning through from Rotorua, Viva Las Vegas. Welcome. What's the answer? Carissa, can you turn your radio up louder?

Is it possible? No, no, louder if possible. What's the answer, matey? Is it a garbage truck? Yes, good job, Carissa. I've heard that one before. What? Four wheels? And flies. It's like...

Good job. What? What? Four wheels? And flies. And flies. Oh. Good job. But also, doesn't a plane have wheels? Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car doesn't fly as well with a child catcher? Well done. Listen, she got it right. Technically, if you're talking about a rubbish truck too, they'd have more than four wheels.

Wouldn't they? What? Rubbish trucks. They've got like multiple wheels. Anyway. Whatever. You guys ride them next week. The hits.

The Jono and Ben podcast. Of course, Super Bowl was yesterday. Still talking about it. Yeah, what an event. What a spectacle. And Travis Kelsey's post-match speech brought to you by protein and steroids in association with. Geez, we got into the Vegas theme, and now he's teamed up with Elvis. Viva Las Vegas!

Viva Las Vegas! Viva Las Vegas! Viva! Viva! Las Vegas! He sounds like a WWE He does He does He kind of looks like one too That was yesterday

As his team took out the Super Bowl Yeah Taylor was there They've been only together for a few months right And You were saying yesterday It was quite quick that he said I love you To her

Because it was the game before That everyone could see that they had said I love you to each other So they must have been saying it for a little bit by now Is that quite early in the piece? What, six months dating do you say? It's like five or six months that we know about I don't think that that's early

Ben Boyce We were talking about this and you floored Megan Yeah I did I said to Amanda that I loved her probably within three or four weeks, within a month. That's a quick turnaround. See, I think that's quick. That's quite quick.

We have been together over 20 years, so we've been together a long time. So, you know, like it's, you know, like it's, I felt, you know, like this was, you know, like probably the one. And yeah, but I say I love, you know, like probably the one. And yeah. But I say I love you to lots of people all the time. Like I say to my mates. I say I love you like to my mates, my family, all that sort of stuff. Do you like.

I thought you were joking. I thought you'd only said I love you after 20 years. Oh, no. That's why I thought I was laughing. I thought you was joking. I know. We've been together a long time. We've been together a long time.

So you knew she was the one. Yeah, I just felt like she was the one. Yeah. Did you, had you said I love you to previous girlfriends? I don't know. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I just felt like she was the one, yeah. Had you said I love you to previous girlfriends? I don't know. Yeah, I would have probably, yeah. Do we feel that Ben maybe is like an I love you guy? Yeah, I would say I would be a love, I would love you.

But as I say, I would say it to a lot of people. He said it to Grace, our producer, this morning. She got me some audio. I was like, I love you, Grace. She's like, that's a bit weird. He really appreciates everybody. When did you fire an I love you, Grace. She's like, that's a bit weird. He really appreciates everybody. When did you fire an I love you off to your husband, Andrew? Ours was three months, pretty much to the day.

Now, do you know, I looked into this, and they got science to look at this. I don't know why they wasted science's time with this, but the difference between guys and girls saying I love you to each other, exactly a month for males and three months for females is what they both deem appropriate durations of time. So guys earlier. Apparently. Sometimes it usually just sort of falls out of your mouth, doesn't it? And it's kind of like when your stomach makes indigestion noises and

everyone in the room hears it, but you try to ignore it a lot of the times. And then you're like, uh-oh, that lay dropped out. Did Amanda say it back to you straight away? Yeah, I think so. It was a while ago, so 20 years ago. Here's a trick. If you receive an I love you and you're not ready to say it back, you just come back with I love YouTube.

And so it sounds like you're saying I love you too, but you're actually saying you love the video platform i love youtube who doesn't yeah no harm no fail great isn't it yeah do you know do you remember how long it took you and your wife to say i love you i was trying to think about it i can't remember i can't probably first date for me to be honest it's a female spending time with me. I love you. I can't actually, I can't remember. That really surprises me, that stat that guys say earlier. Because I was waiting for him.

There was no way I was saying it first. So I was waiting for him to say it. And it took him three months. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Is it too early for love, though? Now, that's the question we're asking right now. Oh, 800 The Hits. When do you drop the I love you bomb?

Ben, you waited. Oh, pretty quick, according to Megan. You said three or four weeks. That's pretty quick. Did it happen consciously? You were like, this is a decision I'm going to make? Oh, I don't think I planned to go, okay, it's going to happen tomorrow. But I did, yeah. It didn't just come out and go, where did that come from?

So, yeah. As I say, I feel like I say it quite often. So, yeah. And you? Three months. Three months for me. John, I can't remember. I can't remember.

I don't think we've ever said it to each other. Nearly 20 years of marriage. The respect is there. Now, Abby, we're going to get you on from Invercargill. Welcome. How are you? I'm good. How are you? Good. Now, Abby, we're going to get you on from Invercargill. Welcome. How are you? I'm good. How are you? Good. Now, the quickest I love you's.

What are we talking? Well, it was probably about a week, maybe. Woo! This is from first meeting each other. Pretty much, yeah, but we kind of moved in pretty fast, too, and we're now coming up to our second year wedding anniversary on my birthday next week.

But who said it first? We kind of said it at the same time. Like 3, 2, 1. Love you. It was funny. It was just like sort of came out of the blue. When you know, you know. Two years deep.

Alright, well I hope you still keep loving each other. Do you still say you love each other? Yeah, we do, and then we tell each other other things as well. What other things do you tell? It's more sarcasm now. Yeah, that's the relationship I'm going for a while, yeah. Then it turned to resentment in 40 years for you, Abby What's that, sorry?

Have a great day, mate You too Ashley, welcome, how are you? Hi Good to have you on the quickest I love you's Yes How long was it? It was probably about eight weeks

Okay, two months You're not too crazy. Yeah, that's pretty good. Did you wait for your partner to say it first? Yes, I did. Yes. I was very similar. I didn't want to say it first.

Why not? Take the lead. I don't know. You don't want to be too overzealous. Like too sort of clingy feeling? Yeah. You don't want to be clingy. Yeah, exactly.

I didn't want to be the, yeah, too forthcoming. Okay, so there's a risk you've sort of put yourself out there in some ways, eh? Yeah, you don't want to scare them off. If they say thank you or something back, you're like, oh, that didn't go well. A bit awkward. Or a what was it? And so eight weeks, that was quick. And did you fast track the relationship after that? We did.

I actually fell pregnant about three months into our relationship. Maybe not purposely, but it happened and it was great. It is great. So we've got a four year old and a two year old now. And we get married next Friday. And we're getting married next Friday.

And you're getting married next Friday. Children out of wedlock, hang up on her. We kind of did everything backwards. Oh, says who, Ashley? Says you did it. You've done it right by the sounds of it, mate. You have a great day. Appreciate that.

We'll get Brittany on. Quickest I love you is Britt. Hey, how are you? Yeah, we're doing well. How quick was it for you? Well, I have it on two occasions. The first time was a week. He told me that he loved me.

And going back to what Ben said, I felt awkward and I said, thank you. I'm not quite ready. And then he dumped me a week later. Apparently, I seemed like someone he could, like, a long-term thing, like a commitment, even though he was the one that said he loved me. Right, so it turns out he didn't actually love you that much. He loved you for two weeks.

Yeah, yeah. And then we sort of separated for a couple of years, but we sort of still knew each other. And then we got back together a couple of years later, and again, he said it within a week. And I was like, oh, God, this is going to end in a month. But no, we've got three kids

and we've been together 15 years and married for one. Oh. Out of wedlock too. Out of wedlock. All these people, hang up on them. These mixers

get having children out of wedlock. Hey, that's incredible. What a lot, ending with a happy story. Appreciate that, Brittany.

You're going to have a great day, eh? You too. Thank you so much. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Hey, that's incredible. What a lovely ending with a happy story. Appreciate that, Brittany. You're going to have a great day, eh? You too. Thank you so much. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, country music, huge at the moment, isn't it?

It is. You've got your Combses, your Luke Combses, your Morgan Wellens. Yeah. Jelly Roll's big at the moment, right? And so I'm scrolling

through Instagram, Ben Boyce, and Instagram's like, you know what this guy needs? He needs a cowboy shirt. Oh, okay. Yeah. So I'm scrolling through Instagram, Ben Boyce, and Instagram's like, you know what this guy needs? He needs a cowboy shirt. Oh, okay. So I'm being fed these ads on Instagram. You know, you ignore them for a while,

and the more you ignore them, the more they end up in your feed, and the more they sort of subliminally tell you, bald man, you need a cowboy shirt. What have you been up to that you've been targeted for cowboy shirts? I wondered that, yeah. I was just thinking that, you need a cowboy shirt. Yeah. What have you been up to that you've been targeted for cowboy shirts? I wondered that. Yeah, I was just thinking that. Because I haven't been targeted with a cowboy shirt yet. Neither.

But maybe that'll come. My algorithm is, yeah, I wouldn't wish this upon anyone, this algorithm. There's some stuff on here that I can't unsee that I've seen on Instagram. Anyway, cowboy shirts are definitely at the lighter end of the scale. Okay, so slowly this place is Boozaleelee. It's called Booze as in drinking leelee. Booze-less. There's the first red flag.

Sounds like you're drunk when you say it. Boozaleelee. It's like when I bought stuff off Uncle Rico, which is another website, where I bought a Kim Jong-un wall hanging, a poster of Kim Jong-un next to a nuclear ship that said, live, laugh, love. And I took it home to Jennifer, my wife, and I said, we'll hang this up in the lounge, darling. wall hanging a poster of kim jong-un next to a nuclear ship that said live laugh love and i took

her home to jennifer my wife and i said we'll hang this up in the lounge darling and she she's like i'll be moving out of the house if that comes anywhere near me so uh that never got to see the light of day that kim jong-un wall hanging so anyway same sort of website you know lads lads sort of merch okay so but so I bought this cowboy shirt. It looks cool. All right. On Instagram, it looks cool. The model looks cool in it.

And it's got, like, a couple of horses sewn onto the front just above the nipples area. You know, it's got all the cool cowboy design. I'm like, after two weeks of just slowly chipping away at me, I'm going to get this cowboy shirt. Bargain. 65 bucks, okay? Wow. That's not a bargain. It's a lot for, like, a real roll the dice on instagram yeah well so i've learned so i've since learned so i get home to jennifer my wife

again my trusted wife i said you man just bought a cowboy shirt she's like where'd you get the cowboy shirt from i said instagram she's like did you check the website for you know how you can do this the scam searches is it a scam oh no have you been ripped off uh well no it came through very very very profitable for scams it was a very favorable scam web so a lot of people saying they have been scammed by it so yeah yeah so and then I'm like oh dear gotta put my credit card in here uh but lo and behold the shirt turns up oh good okay I'm gonna pull the shirt, got to put my credit card in here. But lo and behold, the shirt turns up. Oh, good. Okay.

I'm going to pull the shirt out of my bag. I really thought this was going to be a story about how he's lost money. Now look. Now look at this. Look at this thing. Oh, it's black. It's a black shirt. Okay.

I was expecting denim for some reason. So there you go. So it's like, it's printed on. It's printed on. Oh, is that not? Like the graphics are printed, not sewn on. It does look like it could be an embroidered on, doesn't it? Yeah, and then look on the back, there's a headless cowboy,

but he's not headless by design. He's headless because he's cut into the seam, and it's made out of a material that you would make a barbecue cover out of. You know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm thinking if I go next to an open flame in this thing i'm gone it's melting into my skin right up polyester yeah that's very polyester yeah yeah booze a lily okay so how often have you worn that never never i've never fulfilled lived out my cowboy dream

but this is why i brought it in i want i want people to text in four four eight seven what event will you wear this cowboy shirt? You're not even going to wear it yourself. I'm not going to be able to pull that off. I feel like you could. If we need a photo with you, I'll put it on. I've seen some of the stuff you wear. Of course you could wear that.

I don't know if that's a compliment or not. Why do you suddenly go, oh, I couldn't wear that? I'll put it on. We'll put it on Instagram, and you can text 4487. What event would you like to wear this shirt to? Okay. Weddings? Oh, no.

Funerals? Is it a funeral? I don't know. Important business meetings? No, none of those. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Let's talk of a second Costco megastore coming to New Zealand at some stage later in the year.

In, like, what centre? Do you know? South of Auckland. So maybe, yeah. They've kept that vague and open. Yeah, well, they're kind of not saying anything. They're not confirming or denying. Right.

They are looking for an enormous piece of land to chuck their Costco on. And we will froth every part of us. Some tension in your relationship at home there, Megan, at the moment. Well, there is something my husband wears that I don't actually mind the shirt, but it's the whole idea of these types of shirts that annoys me. So he's gone and got himself a band shirt. Okay. Now the issue with this is,

I'll describe what's on the front of it and you see if you can tell me what band it is. There's a triangle and there's a beam of light going into the triangle, which then comes out as a rainbow. Is it Led Zeppelin? Pink Floyd. Pink Floyd.

Pink Floyd. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's one of the iconic album covers. But when I asked him who his shirt was representing, he was like, oh, I think it's a band from the 90s. Oh, and so this winds you up. Yeah, now could this be- Well, see, I don't know.

Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd. Yeah, yeah. It's in the same ballpark. No, are they? Breaking the wall, obviously. Pink Floyd, right? Well, at least you can name a song. So I said to him, it's Pink Floyd. And he was like, oh, yeah, Floyd. Yeah, yeah. It's in the same ballpark. No, are they? Brick in the wall, obviously, Pink Floyd, right? Well, at least you can name a song. So I said to him, it's Pink Floyd.

And he was like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was like, can you name a song? No. Cricket. This is because you're musical generations apart. You know, you're 10 years apart. I mean, there is 10 years. He's like, you and your old fuddy-duddy music.

But this annoys me. I'm happy for people to wear band shirts, but you have to know who they are. My mate does that. Same as you. He does the two question test. Name two songs. You see someone,

random people on the street with a t-shirt. They all go, name two songs for the artist. For some poor kid in a blondie t-shirt, we're like, oh, man. I'm nine years old. He's like, oh, yeah. Two songs. Two old. Two songs. Two songs. Now I take that shirt off you.

Don't disrespect Flamdeen. But do you know what I mean? Like, it just annoys me. Is it a Gen Z thing where they're like, this is called bad t-shirt, and then they don't know. It happens with sports teams as well. There's a lot of people, I get it, that wear just sports teams tops,

and they wouldn't know players, they wouldn't know, you know. Listen, I'm a fan of the hat, particularly over the summer months. I get it. That we're just sports teams tops and they wouldn't know players. They wouldn't know, you know. Oh, listen. I'm a fan of the hat, particularly over the summer months. It's a cap and just purely to hide the shininess of my head from general public consumption. And I just buy caps that I like the shape of and the look of. You've got a Mets hat. New York Mets hat. New York Mets hat. Baseball.

Barry. Barry baseball. Yes. There you go Name two players I'll take that hat off I have no idea But when you go to America

You forget, you're like People wear sporting team merch Because they support the team And I got into a rollercoaster Of a conversation I had a CR hat Which was the Colorado since found out, the Colorado Rockies,

rookies, baseball team, and got into a deep conversation at the airport about their season. Up and down season, new coach, player trades,

and I bluffed, I semi-bluffed my way through the conversation to the point where the guy was probably going, am I a fan? Do I know what I'm talking about?

So yeah, I know what you're saying. There was a Smashing Pumpkins t-shirt in here yesterday, Bronte, who's just started with us. I said, nice t-shirt.

Producer Taylor was like, I thought that was just her and her sister. It was the album cover of Smashing Pumpkins. She had printed her and her sister on the t-shirt. It's an iconic band.

So you're saying people can't wear the t-shirts or whatever. If you don't know the band, you can't wear the t-shirt. Okay. All right. My daughter, Andy, actually went to wear the t-shirt. Okay. All right. My daughter, Andy, actually went to buy a t-shirt, same thing.

And she was like, what do they play? She wanted to know. She wanted to hear songs. And she was like, no, I don't like it. And then we didn't buy the t-shirts. Good on her. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Of course, last night, American time, was the Super Bowl.

Everyone talking about Taylor Swift's boyfriend's team winning it and Megan yesterday, you were not at all interested, well you were interested in the Super Bowl because Taylor Swift and all the hype but you're obviously not interested too much in the football I just wanted to watch it initially to see Travis Kelsey play a little bit and to see the cutaways

of Taylor Swift and inadvertently I found myself getting into it a little bit well yeah because we're on a group chat between yourself you know there's there's Jono and myself and then producer Taylor as well so the four of us were on sort of a group chat for the show and so there was it was almost like a live stream a live blog of going on were you guys actually watching it yeah I was watching it okay So it was actually commentary that you understood. I was spectating the Super Bowl and probably the Super Bowl of text messaging. It was just coming through at a rate of knots between producer Taylor and yourself.

You can come in, Taylor, and have a chat too, producer Taylor and Megan. Just firing off like, honestly, it was like a Formula One race. It felt like whatever popped into your head came out via the communication of text message. Sometimes I don't even think the thoughts had been fully formed in your head before they had ended up on text message. Yeah. So here it was. So we're going to read some of these back.

We can't read them all, unfortunately, because that would take four days. It's a hell of a thread. Yeah. So this is from the start of the game. We'll start with Megan. OMG, the Super bowl is so boring and then taylor replied so boring w2ef is usher then megan replied i am not loving this and then taylor replied when's half time so that was the start of the game not interested in the football to be fair it was a bit of a boring

start but then half time, Usher came on. Okay, so Usher's on. Megan, he's trying to do too many songs. Taylor replied, Dad, keep your shirt on. I presume that was

about Usher, not your dad? Yeah, no. Dad's not staying. Angelo's not staying at the moment. Okay, then Megan replied,

OMG, best bit yet. Please arse off those roller skates. Ha ha, ha ha ha. And then Taylor replied, OMG, best bit yet. Please arse off those roller skates. Ha ha, ha ha ha. And then Taylor replied, where is Biebs FFS? Then Megan replied, there's too much hip thrusting. I tried to get involved for the first time, first time, and over like two hours.

I thought, you know, I tried because I've been seeing online a lot of people loving Usher. Everyone thought he was great. I said, you guys've been seeing online a lot of people loving Usher. Everyone thought he was great. I said, you guys are tough critics. A lot of love for him online. Taylor then replied, shut up, Ben.

Then I went again, doubling down on Usher. Ha ha. He was on roller skates for crying out loud and actually not lip syncing. Then you got a double response from Megan and Taylor.

Shut up, Ben. Now we fast forward to the end of the game. There was a whole lot of comms happening, Ben. Now we fast forward to the end of the game. There was a whole lot of comms happening back and forth between that. Then we're at the end of the game. Megan. OMG. I have to pick up the kids.

If I miss Travis Kelsey getting the winning try down, I will die. Then Taylor replied, OMG, apparently another 15 minutes overtime. Megan replied, OMG, OMG. Taylor replied, OMG, apparently another 15 minutes overtime. Megan replied, OMG, OMG. Taylor replied, OMG, they won so good. Megan replied, what? Who scored? Was it Travis Kelsey? Taylor replied, my homes pretty much won it for them.

Megan replied with, OMG, fairy tale ending. And then Taylor wrapped it up with, I love how into it we are. So you came full circle from hating on it, hating on Usher, and then getting full circle into the game. You know, you went from hate to love over the space of a long time, I get it. It went on for four hours. Yeah. But well done.

I was so into it by the end. I had to go pick up my kids and i was i was trying to find a radio station that was like live streaming it or whatever couldn't what a journey i was annoyed at radio stations for not giving updates like constant updates are you a fan now yeah i'm actually upset that it's the end of the season i'm like ready like what's happening next week start again whatever you do please make sure you keep us in your group chat. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. What did you once despise but now you grew to love

after producer Taylor and Megan yesterday very quickly became fans of American football. I've no idea what's going on, but I'm into it. They got that touchdown with three seconds remaining. It was pretty exciting at the end there. Pretty tense. You're right, three seconds to go in a game for the Chiefs to win. And I don't care what impact there has been on the environment,

but as long as I got to watch Taylor Swift watch her boyfriend do his job, I don't care about the private jet, mate. She chugged a beer as well. She had a great time. It was a great spectacle. And I think people all over the world grew to love it. I want to pitch something for Briscoes next year as well. They should have a Super Bowl sale.

Their entire bowl range. Half price. Next year, next year, Briscoes. Unlike them to have a sale. Carly, you're on from Tauranga. Welcome. How are you? Hey, I'm good, thank you.

What have you done a complete 180 on? Something that you were off and then turned into a mega fan. Oh, rugby. Me originally being from Australia, it was always AFL, AFL, AFL and rugby. Right, right. So you hated rugby once upon a time, you're like not into it and now what?

You're into it, you watch it? I would watch it if I could. We don't have Sky at my place but I've been refereeing different formats of rugby. Oh you're a referee? Oh wow. Oh there you go, you've gone from Hayden Get to Hexley participating, Referring in the games. That's awesome. Yeah, referring different formats. Wow. Well, there you go. There you go, Megan.

You'll be a referring American football next. You'll be wearing those fun Foot Locker shirts. I'm not wearing those pants. Those pants are ugly. It's a text through. I hated Justin Bieber with a passion. His daughter got me into it. Love his music, and I'm 48. those pants. Those pants are ugly. It's a text through. I hated Justin Bieber with a passion. Daughter got me into it. Love his music and I'm 48.

Where was he yesterday? Am I right? Yeah. Emily, welcome. You're on from Taranaki. Good morning, boys. Yeah, good morning. And Megan.

Morning. And Megan. And welcome to you, Emily. What did you hate and now you're into? I hated the idea of motocross. My sister had her kids riding motocross at four, six years old. I was like, stupid sport. You spend thousands of dollars of money watching your kids potentially hurt themselves.

And I'm now a motocross mum to two little boys. Watching those kids hurt themselves, eh? Oh, yeah, the thrill. Like, are they going to come off okay? Oh, the thrill of it. The kids hurt themselves, eh? Oh yeah, the thrill. Like, are they going to come off okay? The thrill of it, eh? The thrill of it. Senior kids, are they going to break a leg or not? I know it's got a good community too, the motocross one, isn't it?

Oh, it is indeed. Yeah, kids have got heaps of new little friends now. It's real cool. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. You are a little frustrated. I know this comes off the back of you not being allowed to use certain pillows that are displayed on your bed. Do you have display pillows at home, Megan? Yeah.

And are you or Andrew allowed to put your head, rest your head on these display pillows? No, that's why they're called display pillows. That's exactly what my wife says. You take them off and you sleep and you lie your head on the pillow pillow. Your head on a display pillows. That's exactly what my wife says. You take them off and you sleep and you lie your head on the pillow pillow. Your head on a display pillow. I'm like, again, who are we displaying them for

and why are these pillows on the bed if I can't put my head on them? It's been... Why make them pillows? Why will they create it? Just don't put them on. For looks,

for aesthetics. You take them off and then you put them back on but they serve no function, really. Like he just looks at the pillow and is like, oh Jesus,

I'd love to put my head on that. That's what he's looking at that pillow doing so display pillows now i have learned not not to be put not for my head but yesterday do you put them off and on the bed every single day i don't i don't because i leave in the morning but my wife often will so you'll get home and they're all displayed off and then i'll take them off at night this is a pointless anyway it's an exercise we do and we do it and that's fine but i learned one a couple of days ago there's a new one there's another thing that goes along with the display pillows now i was in the shower i hopped into the shower with water on over the weekend and then i

had that moment i was like oh there's no soap in the shower we've run out of soap yeah and so you're you know you're sort of half wet and you're trying to do it in a bit of a fluster and i was like opened up the drawer we normally keep a. It wasn't any in there. I'm like, Oh, I need to get some. And then I saw on the corner of the bath next to the bath, there was a whole lot of soap, sort of fancy looking soaps.

There's three or four of them. They've been put all together in a pile. I'm like, well, great. Here's your chance. We've had these sitting there for a long time. Here's your moment.

It's like subs off the bench, like in the Superbowl. Soap, you're up and let's go grab the soap, use that. And of course afterwards, put it in the shower. Then I get my wife going, later on, going, hang on a second. Why has this got curly hairs on it?

What was it that? It was just like, did you use the soap? The soap. And I was like, yeah, I used the soap. She was like, this is display soap. Oh, jeez. I'm like, well. You said yourself they were all stacked up and it was fancy looking.

Yeah, but I was like, well, again, why are we displaying this soap? And for what moment? What better moment than now to use one of these fancier soaps than when I needed it? Apparently not. It's probably expensive too and you just rubbed it on yourself. It was expensive soap that I've used. And I'm like, well, now we're washing ourselves with expensive soap.

There's not one occasion in my life where I can think, jeez, I could do with just looking at some soap right now. Exactly. Just admiring the soap. Yeah's not one occasion in my life where I can think jeez I could do with just looking at some soap right now. Exactly. Just admiring the soap. Yeah. Taking it in.

What better place to have like soap displayed than in the bathroom? Yeah I get it but I'm like can I not use the soap? It wasn't like

carved into a rose or anything like that was it? No it was just a couple on top of each other fancy stuff that we'd been given

by someone along the line, or multiple people along the way and I'd started using it. So now I'm using it as part of the rotate and that's not okay. You keep using it, mate. But I'm like,

why have these things if we can't use these things? You do look extra fancy and clean today. It looks good actually. Your skin looks moisturised here. It reminds me of when you're growing up,

you know, you go to your friend's house and most New Zealand households had the good couch. Oh, yeah. The good couch that no one was allowed to sit on. So what's the point of the couch? Or the dad's seat, the dad's special, like, lazy boy or chair. No one touches it.

No. So I'm saying now, don't have these things on display. Let's start using them. My wife disagrees, so hopefully she's not listening right now. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Super Bowl on yesterday, and we spoke yesterday to Ben, who was traveling there. He works in America and going to the Super Bowl,

and now he joins us this morning. Probably a little tired. How are you doing, Ben? You know what? Pretty rough. How about you guys? Well, thank you so much for talking to us again. How was it?

It was incredible to watch the game. I mean, a bit slow at the start, but the finish and the end and everyone was there. What was it like being there? Yeah, it was pretty amazing. To be honest with you, because like we were saying yesterday that the prices of the tickets were so high, I was sort of expecting that a lot of the crowd would be like

lots of, you know, cashed up corporates or people that were just going because, you know, they got invited from their work. That's a sponsor or something like that. I was so amazed. There was so many actual fans in the stadium and the atmosphere was just incredible. When Mahomes and the Chiefs came back in that second half, there was a place I've never experienced anything like it. It was just an amazing, it was so amazing. It was just even putting, I am obviously not able to put into words right now

how good it was. It just exceeded all my expectations. Oh, yeah, incredible. And, of course, all the celebrities, Taylor Swift, she was chugging a beer. Leonardo DiCaprio was there. Paul McCartney. I mean, just an amazing crowd to be amongst. Yeah, that's right.

You know, you just casually got Beyonce there. Ice Spice is next to Taylor with Blake Lively. It's like everywhere that you looked, you saw just random celebrities just in all different suites and all over the place. Now, the post-match speech from Travis Kelsey. I don't know if you, because I know you work for a radio station over there in the States. We have teamed him up with a collab with Elvis. Yeah, I just thought we'd pitch this to you, Ben, see if you can get any traction on the airwaves over there.

Viva Las Vegas! Viva Las Vegas! Viva Las Vegas! Viva Las Vegas! What do you think, mate? Is there anything in it? I love that. I feel like that Baz Luhrmann and the film company are two years too early on the Elvis film

that he did at Travis' head. He could have been Elvis. There's a sequel coming. But being in the stadium and you hear a speech like that, like Megan, who we work with, she's like, oh, dear God, she's got her head in her hands going, getting the ick. And I felt like Taylor was a little bit embarrassed. But Ben Boyce is like, this is America, son.

Yeah, this is what the athletes at the end of the game, they're showing their feelings. And for New Zealanders, some athletes don't do that. But it's really, I think it's cool to see them just celebrating and having fun. Was everyone in the stadium into it, Ben? Yeah, they were. Everyone was super into it, and I do agree with you, Megan. Watching Taylor get the ick in real time was very funny to watch

in that post-game speed. What about Usher's halftime performance? Did that go down well? It went really well. We were talking yesterday like, oh, Bieber might show up, and he was there in the stands. But instead we got roller skates. So I don't know if that was an equal tradeoff.

You know what? It went really good. Usher is one of those artists that you honestly forget how many killer songs he's got until it actually sort of lines up. And then obviously the discussion goes to, oh, we didn't get this song, we didn't get that song. But it went over really well in the stadium. Oh, that's good.

Putting on roller skates in front of that many people, that was high risk. Yeah, and like three costume changes as well. I was like, dude, you've got like 15 minutes to get all this done. Like if you just have like one fall on the stage, like you're going to be a meme for the rest of your life. So I admired him doing the roller skates. Bearing in mind, one costume change was him just ripping his shirt off.

That counts as a costume change. Sorry, I should have clarified that. I should have clarified. Ben, thank you so much for talking to us yesterday and again today. I'm going back to bed. I'm just here in my hotel bed just taking calls from you guys. Well, thanks so much, Ben. You have a great day.

You too. See you later, guys.