Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: Megan reveals how her and the hubby communicate.

Episode Date: March 5, 2024

You'll never guess who was at P!NK in Dunedin. It's time for you try spice up your mundane texts. Someone remembers being in the womb?! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. Instagram, Facebook, you just said in the news there, Megan, down worldwide. Yeah, issues. It's Messenger, Facebook and Instagram. So if you're trying to do that first thing this morning, it's not just you. Not loading and stuff like that. I wonder if it was my, you know, when sometimes it's not connecting to the network or whatever.

Hey, good news, TikTok's still up and going. Still going. Rock solid. yeah, rock solid TikTok. So we can still be self-indulgent on some platform. Yeah, you can still give China all your details. But a lot of people will be, you know, hurting right now, you know, photos at their breakfast, photos at the gym, things like that. How will we know you went to the gym?

I know, so you feel free to ring us at East Age, 0100 the Hits or 4487. You tell us what you would be posting and we'll verbally like it. That's awesome. Thumbs up. Oh, that's cool. John O'Brien likes this.

That's great. Yeah. Hey, guys. What would we post? I don't know. Yeah. We'd probably post something in the radio studio or something. Smiling with thumbs up.

Yeah. Yeah. I'd give that a like. You'd give it a like. Yeah. You can tell us because at the moment we can't get any validation from that. Although hard for you to do thumbs up at the moment. Oh, yeah.

I went to the gym yesterday. You should have taken a photo of it, put it on social. No, I didn't. Well, now I'm telling everyone what I did, but I wouldn't have told anyone otherwise. Can I just say I like the fact that you went to the gym yesterday. Yeah, thank you. And I think my arms are too weak, and I overextended myself.

Something popped inside, some sort of ligament. What gym workout were you doing? It was like a chest machine, like a chest press thing. How much were you benching, bro? Not much. Look at the size of me, to be honest. It was kind of a little embarrassing. And I was like, oh, that's really sore.

And then later I kind of carried on the workout, obviously. Guys, you know. Legend. Did you? Benjamin. You should have documented that on social. Really, really sore. And the body's kind of trauma.

My elbow's gone into kind of trauma and sort of caused a big swelling, fluid, burstitis thing or something around it. So whatever the ligament I've done. So, yeah, I had to go. My wife made me go to the A&E last night. I'm like, I don't want to go to the A&E. He didn't even want to get it checked out. I know.

Because he's a legend. You heard something pop in your elbow. And now I'm going to wear a sling for a couple of days as much as possible. I'm like, oh, mate. Can we get a photo of you? Oh, no, we can't put that on. Do you guys like that photo? I do.

I like that photo. I'd write some cheeky comment like, you're a bit old for this, aren't you? Yeah, right now that's what we would be doing. We'd be chucking it. And we can't. Can't do it. You've just got to imagine his arm in a sling and a very swollen elbow. I've had that before.

They drained it, though. Yeah. The lady drained it. She'd never had that before. They drained it though. Yeah. The lady drained it. She'd never done it before. The doctor, she was frothing. She's like, I've never drained a bursitis before. And all this weird sort of jelly liquid, red liquid comes out. Apparently don't drain this one because it's not caused through like a graze or an infection or something like that.

Otherwise you're creating. He was like, otherwise you're creating a potential infection. You just got to wait for it to. Got to wait for it to heal. Takes a while. Isn't the body amazing? When it goes into trauma, all this liquid goes to one location to protect it, to protect the injury.

Incredible. It does feel like a bit of a, oh, he's got a sling, and everyone's like, what's happened? You're like, oh, it's just a, you know, it's not like a break or anything. I was trying to bench some weights. Yeah, my arms are too weak. You two have to be careful at your age. This is the turning point, right? I was trying to bench some weights. Yeah, my arms are too weak and I've done some ligament. You two have to be careful at your age, you know.

Yeah, but this is it. This is the turning point, right? So no physical activities now. Just like light walking or that side-to-side hip walking, you know, that you see them do. I'm going to get one of those things where you sit on the couch and you move your legs and the bicycle thing. Oh, the cubie. The cubie, yeah.

Yeah. That's what I'm going to get as well. Do the Tour de France on your couch, mate. Still watching the chase every night in One News. Just getting a good little leg workout in there. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Because Pink played in Dunedin last night. It seemed like an incredible, incredible concert.

And we're going to catch up with someone this hour who went along with a couple of Taranaki farmers. That's nice. That's smack bang in the target demo right there. I wonder if they definitely would have worn their stubbies to pink, wouldn't they? I'd imagine so. Stubbies in a swanny.

They also like stubbies and swannies in Northland, don't they? How far would you go for the far, far north? We've been doing this all week. Basically, would you sit on hold for an hour, all while doing your morning routines, getting ready for work, getting the family ready, getting breakfast in your gob. Andrea, good

morning. Good morning. Why the hell are you up at 6.15? Because I have to go to work. Boo. I pay the bills. What do you do for a job, Andrea? I run a childcare centre in West Auckland. That's a really rewarding job, though.

Yeah, that's very cool. I love it. How many kids you got on your watch there? 62. How many have you lost? None at the moment. Flawless track record. You don't even want one lost child, really, do you, on your books?

No, that wouldn't be good. No, the parents wouldn't like me for that. Okay, Andrea, well, next hour or so, we're going to chuck you on hold to see how far you would go for the far, far north. So far, the game hasn't gone south, to point of phrase. Everyone stayed on hold, Andrea.

Perfect. We'll keep checking in on you between now and 7 o'clock. If you can stay on hold, you'll be in the draw for that amazing family holiday. Woo-hoo, thank you. Good on you, Andrew. Good on you. Don't lose any kids in between now and then. Now, Megan, you've got a brand new game that you want to road test.

All the stuff we're a bit unsure of, we chuck at 6.30 in the morning. Yeah. What is this game? So this is from like a board game that I played at the weekend. It's basically where you try and join the herd. You have to like have the same answer as everyone else and then you get a point. So we chuck out a question, very random question, and we've got to all try and match up. All right.

Got to get in sync. Like sometimes when people live together, don't they say they sync up with their bodies? Us girls were syncing our toilet breaks yesterday. Okay, that's good. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. She was in Dunedin last night playing for 32,000 people. And we're going to get a review from someone who went along to the Pink concert. And we just heard they, Megan, they took a couple of Tararaki farmers.

We've been saying the parents of Bowdoin Geordie Scott Barrett. The Barrett parents. Parents. Presents. They gave us the presents. Yeah, they gave us the presents. Some amazing rugby players. Pink fans.

Yeah, well, yeah. So what do they think of the pink concept? We'll find out in five minutes. All right, this is a new game we want to play. Are we going to call it NSYNC? Yeah. Yeah. Hit it, Grace.

These guys. Bah, bah, bah. Now this was for fear of a plagiarism case because you played a board game, popular board game at your friend's place over the weekend. Called Herd Mentality. So the idea is you get a question and you get a point if you

sink up or you are in the majority. So we've got to try and answer this question. You will think of an answer yourself, but then you've got to try and answer This question you will think of an Answer yourself but then you've got to also think What would everyone else say You've got to try and sink your answer up And we'll just sort of blurt it out at the same time shall we for this version The radio version

And you're the quiz master So don't overthink it sort of thing Yeah or try and think what everyone Else would say Producer Taylor's joining us for this as well. Do you answer as well as the quiz master? You could, right? Yeah, okay, I'll answer Taylor.

Okay, all right. It feels like this is a big road test we're doing here. We haven't even tried to see if the car works. We've just already taken it down the road. Here we go. Also, the question is totally up to your interpretation. There's no wrong answers. You've just got to have the same as everyone else.

We should generally try and sync up, though, right? Yes. Rather than going toast to sandwiches or something random. It's just like, let's just try and. Okay. If we get this in one, boy oh boy, we probably are the most in sync radio show you could find. Okay.

First question. What do you lose as you get older? Hair. Oh, Taylor. Taylor and Jono. Yeah. I used to lose your marbles. I didn't even say. You didn Oh, Taylor. Taylor and Jono. Yeah. I used to lose your marbles. I didn't even say.

You didn't say anything. It's your game, mate. All right, Bradley Walsh, you just do the questions, all right? I was going to say virginity. Oh, you're working, yes, you do. I guess so. We were thinking old, old, but all right. Yeah, OK.

But then you don't need to start to get any of it the older you get. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. OK. Well, Taylor and Jono, let's give them a point. Well done. All right, next question. Name a famous leader.

A button. Oh, I love it. Taylor and myself. What did you say? Putin. Oh, no one's saying Putin. Well, he's a famous leader, I guess, you know, like controversial for something. I thought we were all going to say Jacinda.

Well, no, Putin's getting, how much lip service is Putin getting nowadays? Okay, all right, next one. Okay, so Taylor's got two points. I've got one. Name something adults hate to share. Kids. Please. Kids.

Who's sharing their kids? I'd love to share. No, I'd love it. Divorced parents, you're like, oh. I see. But then the times that you don't have the kids, that's all yours. Yeah, true. I've panicked.

All right, guys, what did you guys say? I said sleep. Okay. Yeah, I said food. Oh, that's a good one. Oh, yeah, food, yeah. Probably was the best answer, but no one got a point. All right.

What is the largest animal you could fight? Bear. Crocodile. Crocodile. You couldn't fight a crocodile. No, because they get on their hind legs. I feel like I would be able to. Okay.

Okay, what did you say? I said a bear, but I really, a bear would definitely take me. A baby bear? I said a meerkat. That was probably me. I said a sheep. A sheep. You could definitely, like, said a meerkat. That was probably it. I said a sheep. A sheep. You could definitely like kick a meerkat in the head, couldn't you?

Yeah, but I feel bad about it. One more. One more. Last one. Let's see if we can. All right, last one. If you could be a part of any famous family, which family would it be? Kardashians.

Did you say Kardashians? I only said it because I knew you would say it. Well done. You actually did well. I didn't want to say it because I thought it would be predictable. Well done. You got a point with that one. Producer Taylor took that one.

I said Dwayne Johnson's family, but no, you know. I thought that I would be on my own there with that one. And you were. Well, that was fun. In sync. Bye, bye, bye. Taylor, nice. The game might not be bye, bye was fun. In sync. Bye-bye-bye. To do with Taylor. Nice. The game might not be bye-bye-bye.

It might be back for another week. Bye-bye-bye. The Hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Pink's summer carnival tour encompasses 10 cities across 44 days, 20 stadium shows across Australia and New Zealand, the most stadium concert by any artist touring both countries. Now, I think by the end of it, she's going to perform to 940,000 people.

That's crazy. That's insane. Just phenomenal. And someone who went to the show last night and done is Rowena Duncombe. Good morning. Good morning. Jeez, you are up early after a late night concert. I know, right?

I'm not going to lie. It's going to bite this afternoon, so watch out, anyone around me. From about 2 o'clock on today. Feels like it's already biting, to be honest. I can hear it in your voice. So what time did Pink finish last night? Yeah, I reckon just before 11 o'clock. Like, she came on maybe 10 to 9-ish and, yeah, went for about two hours.

So it was a huge concert. Now, we heard that you went along with a couple of Taranaki farmers along to the Pink concert. And you yourself, that you like Pink, but you of Taranaki farmers along to the Pink concert and you yourself that you like pink but you're not a die-hard pink fan so this is good this is like the honest review of a concert what did you think what did the farmers think? Yeah I'm gonna out the farmers because it was actually Robin and Smiley Barrett who have sired a couple of All Blacks and I'm gonna out Smiley as being the one who drove us to go into the concert. You got Bowden Barrett, Geordie Barrett's parents.

Okay. Oh, really? You took them to Pink? Yeah. So, you know, when you're standing in the mosh pit at the front with someone who's sired in all black lock, you know, you stand out of bed and you just find him and kind of follow along. But no, Smiley was the one who was like, we're in town.

Let's go to Pink. So we got tickets at one o'clock Tuesday afternoon. 1 o'clock that afternoon and went to the concert that night. And look, you know, I have my ticket for Pearl Jam in November already. I got my Pink concert ticket yesterday afternoon before the concert. So, like, it wasn't something I planned on going to, but as we know in Dunedin, this is the last event we've got booked for, you know, at least 18 months, they're saying, so you've got to support them.

And so, yeah, for someone who doesn't really know much about pink, I didn't expect much, but I was blown away. She was phenomenal. It is worth every single cent. So many parents and kids going. It was a really family-friendly concert. She was just the energy, the acrobatics, the sequins, everyone in the crowds wearing pink. It was phenomenal.

How was Smiley? All smiles? Oh, my gosh. He was singing away. He was loving it, loving it. But, like, all of us were walking out saying how good it was. But for the love of God, people, if you go to a concert, don't watch the whole thing on your phone.

Like, put the phones away. It is so disheartening, I reckon, for a performer to look down and everyone's watching it on their phone. I know. And if you're, like, a little way back, and I'm quite short, I'm not like Smiley who can see across everyone,

you know, all you see when you're trying to look around to see the performer is people's bloody phones. We always have the conversation of, like, when do you go back and look at that footage? That distorted, the lights are blowing out. Terrible footage. Shocking footage.

No one goes back and looks at that. What did Pig say about New Zealand? What did she say? Did she say she liked us? Oh, absolutely. She loves us. She wants to move here. You know, all the lines.

But just from her, it felt genuine. She exuded genuine warmth up there, and just the crowd responded to. She said she wanted to move to Dunedin. Wow. Maybe not Dunedin. You know, she has been here before, five or six years ago, and she loves Dunedin.

And I heard the biggest cheer was when she brought out her daughter, Willow, to sing with her. Yeah, that was really, really special. It was something like Cover me in sunshine or something yep little willow comes out and the crowd just roared it was really wholesome oh that's great hey well one word one word to sum up the whole evening just phenomenal oh wow that was two that was two yeah it just dropped the just so ask me that again one word phenomenal thanks rowena uh lovely talking with you have a good one you too the hits the jonah and ben podcast in instagram facebook

down worldwide at the moment it's back oh yes it's back yeah validation if you've just woken up god you've missed out it's been horrend know what was going on in the world. What would it take for me to get you to delete Instagram? Would you do it? Would you do it? Yeah, I could, but I can put,

bring it back later, right? No, but it's like delete. Oh, delete it. No, I'm not deleting it.

What would make you do it though? A hundred grand? A million bucks. A million dollars? I don't know. Like, no, I don't want to.

You don't have to. You don't have to No Okay well Megan She's not going to delete her Instagram But she's going to bring a new theory to the show And you can test the strength of your relationship Based purely on a cough Now we must reiterate No actual research has gone into this

This is just a theory you've made up No but I did get marriage counselling For my first marriage. And one thing I do remember from the counsellor was that we treat strangers and our workmates better than we do our partners. Yeah, I do. So sometimes you go home and you don't even say, hey, how was your day? Well, because you've given all this energy out in the world.

And then you get home, you're an autopilot. I know what you're saying. And someone at work could be coughing, coughing. You're like, are you okay? Do you need a water? But then you get home and you're like, shut up. Well, yeah, so this is your theory, right? You cough around your partner, secretly record them and see what their reaction is.

Maybe you act around your partner how you actually really want to act. So you kind of want her, right? Yeah. You're like, am I just an asshole? That's the real me. But anyway, producer Taylor yesterday, we played this audio and it's great. But she was, it felt like she was hacking up a lung in front of her partner, Marcelo. Giving it everything.

It was very annoying. So much coughing. He had his head in the fridge. Cleaning the scene. You need to set the scene. You're right. He's cleaning the fridge, wiping down all the things, the glass bits and everything. Cleaning stuff up.

She's like, all over the kitchen. And this is the result of her cough test. Oh, you're getting more than f***ing hot. Hey! TK, I'm choking! I'm not! You're choking! Oh jeez! Oh my god, look how I'm dying! I know, what's wrong with you, see? I know, I'm choking! I love it.

Breaking point of, hey! That audio brings me so much joy. It sounds enough. Yeah, and then you said, he comes out of the elevator, he's like, hey, I'm choking! I'm like, hey, I'm choking! I'm like, hey, I'm choking! I'm like, hey, I'm choking! I'm like, hey, I'm choking!

I'm like, hey, I'm choking! I'm like, hey, I'm choking! I'm like, hey, I'm choking! I'm like, hey, I'm choking! I'm like, hey, I'm choking! I'm like, hey, I'm choking! I'm like, hey, I'm choking! I'm like, hey, I'm choking!

I'm like, hey, I'm choking! I'm like, hey, I'm choking! I'm like, hey, I'm choking! I'm like, hey, I'm choking! I'm like, hey, I'm choking! I love it breaking point of that audio brings me so much joy and then you see a day he comes out of the head out of the fridge arms flailing great stuff like he's just been penalised for the Warriors or something

very funny well listen I went home and I gave it a crack last night the results were nowhere near as amusing. But have a listen. Do you need to do a COVID test? No.

Do you need to do a COVID test? Well, you know, it's an affectionate and caring in some way. You need to stick a rod up your nose kind of way. You know, yeah. You need to test, so I need to see if I need to stay away from you. It's a big leap. It is a big leap, yeah, from a cough to a COVID test. It was a good cough, actually.

I wasn't being concerned. Yeah, well, I listened to Taylor's performance. I thought I'd just dial it back a little bit. It is hard to pull off a convincing cough actually I wasn't being concerned Yeah well I listened to Taylor's performance I thought I'd just dial it back a little bit It's hard to pull off a convincing cough though So you've heard all of ours Now yourself, Ben's, producer Taylor's and mine We've all done the test Who do you think has the strongest relationship?

Probably me Yeah yeah From your cough test Which you're like Oh are you okay? Oh good morning That's Andrew you know Like yeah I had a practice run though Yeah, yeah. I was going to say, from your cough test, which you're like, oh, are you okay? I'll give you a warning. That's Andrew, you know? Like, yeah.

I had a practice run, though. This is my second marriage, you know? I'm under pressure to make it work. Well done. You're rock solid. Well done. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast.

And Nelson, they had Angus Bull casually just walking down the street yesterday. Casually walking down the street. Casually or? An Angus Bull. Looking lost or? Yeah, well, it just seems like, yeah, that was all over social media yesterday. Just casually walking down the street. Casually or? An Angus bull. Looking lost or? Yeah, well, it just seems like, yeah, that was all over social media yesterday. It was just like, there's this bull,

just giant bull just walking down the street. So when you're eating like an Angus burger, is it that guy? I guess it would be, yeah. Maybe he's walking to his restaurant, his destination. China shop, maybe. I don't know.

Don't we go in there? You grew up in Marsden. Dad. Did you see things? All right, Megan. No, not so much bulls, just sort of weird, strange individuals roaming the Wadanabo and stuff.

I was probably one of them, to be honest. Yeah, some quirky local characters. Yeah, definitely some quirky local heroes. Yeah. Well, I'll tell you what local hero of ours, Andrea. She's in Auckland, and we've had her on hold to see how far she would go for the far north to win a trip to Northland, all expenses paid,

flights, a comm, you name it. Andrea, are you still there? I'm still here. Ben said we'd lost you. I thought we might have lost you, but you're still there. You've stuck with us the whole hour. Well done. Thank you.

Busy doing the housework. It's amazing what you can get done in an hour. She's the ultimate at multitasking, really, isn't it? What do you want to say to the housework. It's amazing what you can get done in an hour. She's the ultimate of multitasking, really, isn't she? What do you want to say to the fans? The fans? Bring it on and I'm going to want a trip to Northland. Yeah. Well, you're in the draw for that trip.

You've proved how far you'd go for that trip up north to the far north. You have yourself a great day and look after those kids. You too. Do you know, actually, speaking of the Northland, I had a really shocking incident in Northland once we went up to, have you ever been to Cape Leanga? I never have, no. Oh, you've got to go.

Everyone's got to go there at least once. It's beautiful. It's almost very spiritual up there. Yeah. And we were filming some stuff for Kiwikas. It was like a Red Nose Day thing. And so we were welcomed on by the local iwi. Okay.

And they lined up and it was a line of hongis, you know, welcoming hongis. Yeah. So we had a mix of females and males along this line of hongis. Ben, you weren't here for this. No. No. And so I started with the gentleman, hongi, nose to nose, textbook stuff. You know, chapter one of the Hongi playbook.

Nailed it. Okay, went on to the next person, and that was a female. She went for a kiss on the cheek. I was like, oh, okay. So we're mixing things up here. And then, however, the next female next to her gave me a Hongi. So I was like, mm, right, okay. So some are kissing on the cheek, some are Hongi.

Oh, no. This is, you know, for your average middle-aged white man, this is sending a lot of confusion through my head. And you don't get to confirm beforehand. No. And so I went a couple down, a couple more nose honkies and then the next

lady, I went in for a nose honky and she went in, sorry I went in for a kiss on the cheek actually she went in for a nose hongi her nose ended up in my mouth

she was like this is a first and I was like for both of us but she's like well welcome and have a good time and can you please

remove my nose from your mouth the hits the Jono and Ben podcast Chilly start to autumn Over the last couple of days And it looks like A bit of rain

To go ahead To hit New Zealand Next week By the looks of things Well a great time for Pink To bring her summer carnival tour To the country Which kicked off last night

In Dunedin We spoke to Rowena Who went to the show With Bowden And Geordie Barrett And Scott Barrett's parents And they loved it Farmers from Taranaki Time of their lives Smiley Smiley We went to the show with Bowdoin and Geordie Barrett's and Scott Barrett's parents. And they loved it.

Farmers from Taranaki. Time of their lives. Smiley. Smiley, the dad. Couldn't have had a bigger smile on his face apparently all night. Loved the show. So very, very cool. Yeah.

So give us a 4487 actually if you went along last night. Love to hear from you as well throughout the morning. But we do this every week. We like to make our mundane texts from our relationships sound a little more sexy with some sexy texies that's right and we had a bit of a discussion bit of a meeting didn't we so i thought we'd bring some audience members into this as well as we go on but you can kick things off ben spicing things up just a real sexy message from my wife this morning. K-E-N-J-N-G. Kingen. Just came through this morning, early, just after 6 o'clock.

I was like, ooh, what? Question mark, question mark, back from me. And then she went, sorry, hit the buttons by mistake. But we're all just sex, just flirting, just flirting from us. Keningen. I know exactly what she means you're like I'm just keninging

is what she's saying you keninging as hard as you want to kening you later so that's

what sexy texts are we're sending to each other you guys got anything yesterday for

me it was don't forget to pick up the car are you coming home before the gym

I'm here now so I'll go now just flirting again flirting again from you and Andrew yeah I sent a text to Jennifer I said don't forget I'm out Wednesday and Thursday nights this week she said have you put it in the calendar I said yeah I put it in the calendar

she said what calendar I said your calendar she's like it's not in my work calendar I said yeah because I put it in the calendar. She said, what calendar? I said, your calendar. She's like, it's not in my work calendar. I said, yeah, because I put it in your personal calendar. She said, can you put it in my work calendar? I said, okay. I'll put it in your work calendar.

Might want to schedule some other things in that calendar, if you know what I mean. Yeah, so that's what we're dealing with right now, but we want to get your sexy texies on what you're sending back and forth to your partner recently. We'll get Jodie on. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Sexualise your texts, Jodie. Good morning. Lovely to be on.

So they set the scene, your partner, how long you've been together? Oh yeah, like 20 odd years, so a long time. Okay. So I get a text from him, he's out fishing. He took the day off, so I was a little bit angry about that.

Anyhow, he says, babe, we're sitting at a buoy, and this boat beside us just landed a massive kingy. About 15 metres away, we got three snapper. Was this information you, A, wanted or, B, cared about? Yeah, wasn't too happy about it, you know. He's just showing you what a great day it was out in the water. Nothing sexier than hunting and gathering. Oh, sex it up, though.

There's plenty more fish in the sea when it comes to fish, but not in relationships, I think. Was he going to, like, come home and cook you a romantic dinner with the snapper? No. I don't think so. I did say 20 years. Did he come home smelling of fish

hands? Yeah, he stunk of fish. Thank you for sharing your sexy texties with us this morning. Now we'll go to Andrew in Papamoa. Fire off your sexy texts with your partner, Andrew. Yeah, well she was working at a clinic

and then I had an appointment there and she texted me in the morning, are you coming this morning? Ooh, that sounds sexy. And I went, yes, 8.30am. That's great. Oh, thank you so much. I have a question mark though.

I forgot. Oh, right. It was an Asian name question mark. Can you confirm that, please? I love it. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. My daughters have been talking about something recently and it was starting to annoy me because I was like,

well, I've taken you on this and they don't remember it. So we were lucky enough to go on a Disney cruise last year, and when they were younger, though, because we've got family in the States, we paid to go on a Disney cruise, and we went over there, and we went for a week. It was awesome. Had a great time, but the girls don't remember it. They were too young, and this frustrates me.

How old were they? I think they were like two and four. Right. So even like, you know, I was like, four years old, surely this would be a core memory of such a great time we all had you're trying to create lasting lifelong memories right and nothing nothing no i talked to her about it last night again i was like you sure you don't remember this there was something else that she remembered have a listen so you honestly don't remember going on the disney cruise no i don't it was so long ago i don't remember it like i remember things from

pictures and i'm like oh maybe i remember that but then like i realized it was money well spent me a little was that well i had a good time anyway it was great and so did you yeah you'd like to remember what do you remember when you were little though i remember um one time when you were backing out of the driveway and we were saying bye to you because you're going to work and then we were telling you to stop and you had a big smile on your face you're like bye but you would leave the passenger door open and you crashed into the gate oh yeah i've never really told anyone about that but you're left the passenger door open and you crashed into the gate. Oh, yeah, I've never really told anyone about that, but you're right. Yes, the door was open. Yeah, so she remembers that.

That's another driveway incident. Yeah, another driveway incident. He's ridden off a car in his own driveway. He forgot to put the handbrake on and it rolled down the driveway and across two lanes of traffic. And you ripped the door off. You didn't tell me the door was open. Yeah, no, I kept it pretty quiet, the door one, but she remembers that.

Of all the things I remember, my daughter remembers that. Well, you're not allowed to take the strudel anywhere that's right I'll take it anywhere so you would have been better off sending them off

on a rubbish barge that stuff we used to chuck all our rubbish off to China put them on one of those went on a boat it's funny when you think of it

like we're all sort of been playing this game in the studio over the last couple of days going what is your earliest memory what's the thing

that you can think back to age wise yeah we want to we want to see how low we can go this morning in terms of age and what you can remember so 800 the hits four four eight seven what's it for you megan i i don't think i can go earlier than five i remember shaving my legs when i was five with my mum's razor terrifying to think of now because i knew that um that's what she did so when before a party, I shaved my legs. My dad was very upset. It wasn't a great job either. No, a bit patchy?

A bit patchy. I was real proud of myself. How hairy were you at five years old? I was hairs there. Okay, gotcha. All right, just asking. Idea, to me, not much further. I remember my sister arriving when she was, I was about almost four years old,

and I remember hitting my head on the corner of the bed and having to go to hospital. I was probably about three years old when that happened, so I got a bit of a scar from that. So that's... It's both hospital-based symptoms. Hospital, master and hospital, mate. Yeah.

Great time. Well, because I grew up on the air base at Fenelpi. Did you? Yeah, my old man was in the Air Force, and I distinctly remember, I must have been about three, there was a lady called Vivian who lived in a few houses down,

and I'd go over there and she'd feed me two-minute noodles. Oh, yeah. Now, I was also an only child, so I had a lot of imaginary friends, and I sometimes think, did I make up a noodle-peddling middle-aged lady named Vivian? Maybe. Yeah. I need to ask my parents if Vivian was a thing.

Is Vivian real? Yeah But that was about three Alright The hits The Jono and Ben podcast Netflix Netflix is going to be

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In a couple of weeks time You were bloody Mooching off your family's one Were you? Yeah they put a stop to that Because you can't share passwords. So now they're putting the prices up. But I imagine that's going to happen a lot more over the

next coming years. Now we're talking about your earliest memory. What was the memory that you could remember the most and how far back can you go? We're going to hit the phone. 0800, that hits the telephone number. Rachel, good morning and welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. How are you? Good morning, I'm good, thank you. Lovely to have you on. So Megan good morning and welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. How are you? Good morning.

I'm good, thank you. Lovely to have you on. So Megan, can read my wish. She's five. Ben, you reckon about four? Three or four, yeah. Three or four. I think I'm around about the three-year age bracket.

How about you? Well, unfortunately, it was five years old, so it's not quite as low as you guys were probably expecting, but it was my very first day at school. And at lunchtime, we were all sitting down eating our food, and I was clicking with this new friend, and she stood up and lifted her skirt and showed everyone her undies. And I'm like, well, she's so cool.

I'm going to do that too. And then a teacher came past and benched us both for lunch the whole time. Flashing, flashing on day one. Day one, jeez. I love the way kids find cool. You're like, she's so cool. She showed her underpants to the entire playground. What a badass.

Ben suffered the same fate in the office. Yeah, that's right. It's not quite as cool when you're a little bit older. Oh, that's great. Just a little bit. You guys have a wonderful day. Rachel, appreciate you listening. Cheers, you too.

Now, this is going to blow your marbles. We're going to bring Barb onto the show. Is this our friend, Barb? Yes, it is. Still with us. Hey, Barb. Day one or two, we started at the Hits four years ago, and Barb phoned through and said,

you're not as bad as I thought you were going to be. Yeah, she wasn't sure about us, but she's warmed to us slowly. Although we haven't heard from you in a while. You're stuck around, Barb. Yeah, that's just because my phone and my car is just, you know, it's useless. Oh, stuck up again. You're a captive audience. Yeah, haven't had it fixed.

Oh, well, it's lovely to hear your voice again, Barb. Now, your earliest memory. Okay, now this is a bit weird, but I had significant problems with fear of needles in hospitals and I had to go and have an operation and I couldn't get in without fainting if I faint the heart stops that's how dramatic it was right so I had to go to I went to a therapist did CBT but I also went to a regression therapist and they talk you back through your memories. You don't say, you know, you don't have to talk about it, but you go right back, you go right back. And as I went right back, I got to this incredible feeling of being in this warm water,

being content, being comfortable, and then this invasion of a needle into my water space. And it was a big needle, and it was like, where the hell did this come from? And I had no idea until I talked to my big sister. This was my big sister knows all the things in our family, because my mum wasn't around and when mum was pregnant with me, she had to have an amniocentesis.

No. So you remember being in the womb? Well, apparently. Apparently I do. That is wild. We're not going to beat that. You can't get any earlier than that unless you can remember being conceived. That's a bit weird.

Might be a bit traumatic. That is incredible. Oh, no. Look, I tell you what, I cried in our house because it was like, it was just so, it was almost traumatic in itself, sort of going through this, like, oh, my Lord. When that happened and I went back to that space and the needle came in, it was really disrupting to my world.

And so now needles. You okay with needles now, Barb? Well, yeah, pretty good. Pretty good. I can go in the hospital. I can do blood. But cognitive behavior therapy was a lot of the thing that dealt with that to me. That's incredible.

Thanks for sharing. That's a crazy story. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. The rough weather for the country, that's meant to arrive next week, but something that is arriving to your phone is your partner. It was loose. I was trying to tie it in. It was.

I was like, do I let him have this secret? Let me have it. I'm not going to let you have it because you're about to give me crap for this. We are. Now, the voice message. So the voicemail, you know, when someone leaves you a voice message, clearing that is just a burden. It is.

I find that really tedious. Don't leave voicemails anymore. No, I don't think anyone does. They should probably just eradicate it like the landline and linear television. If someone doesn't answer your call, you send them a text message. That's the way to do it, right? So I don't like voice messages like that when you have to clear your voicemail. But the other thing that does kind of hurt me as well is when people,

instead of texting you back, will send you like a voice recording. A voice memo. Yeah, a voice memo. My daughter starts to do it from time to time. And it's always meandering. Hey, man, how you going? You're just doing this thing. I was like, yeah.

And it goes for three or four minutes sometimes. You know, I think what was the point of the, what was the initial core reason you messaged? And you don't know what's in it. So it's not like I get one now, I can't play it in front of you guys. So I've got to go find somewhere quiet to have a listen to and actually hear what it is.

And once you've played it, it's gone, right? Yeah, well, sometimes I think that's the way. You can keep it, not to keep it. But anyway, this is something that Andrew, your husband, and yourself, you do back and forth to each other. I didn't realise it irked you so much. I'll remember not to do voice memos. I won't listen to it.

I'll probably won't listen to it. This is like, this is hip with the kids, you know? Like it's a Gen Z thing. Is it, Grace? You're Gen Z? Are you sending voice memos? I send like thousands a day, so can confirm. Is it the preference over a text message now? I think people do it together.

Right, you can combo the both. Okay, so you and Andrew send each other voice memos and you're like, Hey, Monday. Very cute voices you have. I thought we should have a game show. Are you a more sickeningly cute couple than Megan and Andrew? You could run that one day, one morning. But yeah, you send each other voice memos.

We do. It's just like he's got the kids, so there's a lot going on. So he can just like chat into the phone rather than sit down and try and type something. I'm doing radio shows. There's a lot going on. But I do it with my best friend too. We send each other voice memos. It's just easier.

You can rattle off anything you need to. I think that's probably the key. That's probably the key to sending a voice memo, is you want to be sending, if you're a voice memo, you want to be knowing you're sending it to a voice memoer. So you're both, you know, you're of the same like-mindedness when it comes to the method of communication. It's like you've got consent from them, you know? Yeah.

So we've got one that Andrew sent through. When was this one from? This was just this morning. Okay. Okay. How are you doing? Daddy! Daddy!

I want to pick it up. Bastion's upset because he wants to give Aya a huggy, but she has made very clear boundaries and said no. And he doesn't understand why she doesn't want his huggies. We're up. Hope you're doing alright, babe.

You forgot your coffee this morning. Too cute. Are you in a rush? Oh my god. I feel exposed the whole country hearing that. Such a good husband. too cute too cute are you in a brush oh my god he is he's shaking like I feel exposed the whole country hearing that

such a good husband but I'm like okay that's lovely it's a great update is it something that you would text message and go

hey she's bestie's trying to hug Aya but Aya doesn't want it like it feels like just filler yeah yeah

we're burdening the 5G network what is this what was that it was like a radio show it's just filler it was just like pointless update was only given because he was yelling in the background you know yeah yeah you know as a mom i like to hear what they're up to and what did you say back well i haven't had a chance say something now give a live voice memo go on go on and you're always in the voice voice in the middle go get your phone record it oh yeah the voice. Go on, get your phone, record it. Oh yeah, I'm going to close my, oh, am I actually going to record it?

Oh my God. I'm going to close my eyes because I can't do the voice if I can see that you guys are here. Don't waffle too long too either because we need to wrap this up. Oh my God. All right, just be like,

a little cute little update. You got me coffee, that's a thing. Hi babe. I hope you've had a good morning. It wasn't too busy. Yeah, I did forget my coffee this morning. I was in a bit of a rush. I was running late. The fridge was leaking. But yeah, I hope you have had a good morning. It wasn't too busy. Yeah, I did forget my coffee this morning. I was in a bit of a rush. I was running late.

The fridge was leaking. But yeah, I hope you have a lovely day. Okay, I'll see you later. Love you. You asked for it. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Ponderipé, it is The Hits, Jono and Ben. I was just trying to sexier that up a little bit as well.

What's the song called? Ponderipé. You gave it a bit of an. What's the song called? Ponder Replay. He gave it a bit of an Italian flair there and I hope you appreciated it. Well, she has just been performing at a wedding. Now, you may have seen this over the last couple of days. It's been making news.

The most lavish wedding I think anyone's ever seen. It's been two. It's about three days I think it went on overseas. Asia's richest man threw his son a wedding bash and it had everyone there.

Bill Gates was there. Rihanna was performing. Sashen Tendulkar, cricketer. It just was like a who's who. Mark Zuckerberg. Yeah, all your favourite characters turned up there. Now, Rihanna turns up to the wedding. Now, hey, don't get me wrong.

I love Rihanna as much as the next fan. But if you're having your wedding day, Megan will put you in this position. You're the bride, okay? I come to you a couple of days before the wedding. Hey, hey, just so you know, I booked Rihanna in. Yeah, she's going to do a three-hour concert. Yeah, got dancers.

I've made sure she's going to bring all her raciest outfits. Yes, it's going to be a lot of fun, a lot of fun. How are you going with the floral arrangements? How do you feel about that now? Rihanna's coming to your wedding. I'd be stoked. Yeah, I'd be on that one too. I think everyone would.

Because she wasn't actually too, because I guess it was over, she was a bit more reserved in what she was wearing and how she was... Yeah, she was dressed modestly, which I guess it was the, I guess she was told to.

Yeah, I guess the other option too is you're so rich you can have another little quiet wedding, can't you? Yeah. Yeah, this is the extravaganza. 1,200 people went to this. It was huge.

A whole lot of entertainment over a few days as well. Just an amazing, amazing time. Imagine the wishing well on that bush. Only 1,200 people coming into your wedding. What, 6 million it cost to get Rihanna alone, I think. It was over 10 million New Zealand dollars

for Rihanna. What wedding entertainment did you have? Well, not Rihanna alone, I think. It was over $10 million New Zealand dollars for Rihanna. What wedding entertainment did you have? Well, not Rihanna. I did that. Well, as I said before, I had a mascot fox that tapped in for me in the dance. Yeah, you're right. That's not Rihanna. A mate in a mascot costume that came in and interrupted the dance so I could tap out of it.

We had Jupiter Project. Oh, they were famous. Yeah, they were great first wedding second wedding second week what entertainment did you have your first meeting like a covers band the failed marriage what happened with that entertainment this covers band okay yeah right yeah we had a covers band as well but i do distinctly remember uh we worked with a gentleman at the rock called ricardo oh yeah you love ricardo he kind of like picture an italian jack black yeah kind of kind of ricardo italica-esque looking yeah sort of like heavy

metal but yeah at one point i looked over and ricardo's singing with the band metallica oh the wedding and i just i looked over to my left who and my very elderly auntie was politely dancing away politely dancing and it was a wonderful day. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We're talking amazing wedding entertainment. Casey, good morning. Good morning. How are you?

Yeah, good. Thank you very much. What was the entertainment at the wedding? My husband fell asleep during our reception. He fell asleep on your wedding day? Yes. It's a big day. It's a big day.

It's a big, long day. A bit of drinking in the sun sometimes if it's a nice weather. How long was he asleep for? Probably two or three hours. Oh my God. That's a good sleep. At what point in the night did he go to sleep? What time was it? Oh, it was pretty early, but it was after the it was after all the speeches, so probably about eight or nine and he slept through until I was ready to go. So everyone just partied around him. They sat his head up and took photos with him. Did anyone try and wake him up, or was he just like,

let him sleep? No, we just let him sleep. Had you done the first dance? Yes. Okay. You got the formalities out of the way. He was there for the important stuff. Yeah, exactly. And he was still present. He was just asleep. Okay. You got the formalities out of the way. Cut the cake. He was there for the important stuff. Yeah, exactly.

He was. And he was still present. He was just asleep. Yeah, you're right. Does he do this often, or is this just kind of something for the wedding day? He used to do that. Not often, but he was known to have a few drinks and fall asleep. Yeah.

Was the wedding night a rager after that? It was. Yeah, he woke up and carried on. The second one's good to go. Did what he needed to do. He freshager after that it was he um yeah yeah he woke up and carried on the second one did what he needed to do after that oh awesome i appreciate you sharing that with us thanks so much jenny moreno welcome what happened at your wedding with the entertainment well we were out at sea and off wakatane and um all the wedding guests were on one boat. Six of us came around in another boat. And unbeknown to me, they had put the wedding ring on a fishing line.

Okay. And when it came time for the best man to hand the ring over, brother-in-law said, hang on a minute, I've got a fish. And he started winding the line up and it got caught. And he tugged it again and it came free and he wound it up and the clip that the

ring was on had come open. Uh-oh. And the ring had dropped off. Oh, in theory it sounded very theatrical. Yeah. Wonderful reveal of the ring. Oh, great entertainment. But it's the one that got away. Literally the wedding ring broke off and fell into the ring. Oh, great entertainment, but it's the one that got away. Literally, the wedding ring broke off and fell into the ocean.

Yeah, but wait, there's more. Oh, really? Here we go. I'm thrilled. The best man who happened to own one of the boats, he had his dive gear on board, and so he went over and found the ring. No.

No way. And after 13 minutes, he brought it back up, and we got ring. No. No way. And after 13 minutes, he brought it back up and we got married. Oh. Amazing. So cool. Was it when a hero comes?

He's just coming above with the ring held above his head from the water. Wow, that's so cool. Well, thank you so much, Jenny. You guys have a lovely day. Yeah, you too. Bye.