Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: Paddy Gower Has Issues & Shaun Wallace Is A Genius

Episode Date: May 23, 2023

Shaun The Destroyer Wallace from The Chase is a genius! Paddy Gower has issues.. Jono Pryor has a life hack! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations. At the moment, I wasn't feeling that miserable when I went home because for many years, and we've talked about this on the radio, we've got a garage at home. And my wife has always complained that she's never been able to park the car in the garage because it's full of props and costumes you name it i've got costumes i've basically held on to over the years of making

tv shows and radio things i've just got all the costumes in there and i'm like one day we're going to use these costumes they're your other love aren't they your costume i mean they're your number one love in life i don't get a lot of costumes and we can't get the car in there because the costumes take up all the room. And my wife's like, why are we keeping these costumes? I'm like, you can't not, I can't get rid of these costumes. Well, I can see from her point of view that you're not using them. They're in there, they go to the odd costume or the odd themed party.

Yeah. But apart from that, they're taking up valuable real estate in the garage. And they're not organized to it. I need to go and I keep saying, oh, next holiday I'll go in and organize them. Or alphabetically. Or just put them so it's a little easier. Sometimes I'm like, oh, I think there's a costume down there, but it's too much wading through.

So it almost defeats the purpose of having the costumes. But as you know, we're looking for a Hits mascot, and in about four minutes' time we're going to tell you the winner of the Hits mascot. But we filmed something this week, and you john you're like hey can you bring in some mascot costumes and for something we want to film you can see on the hits breakfast i'm like yes yes i can so i brought in the cookie monster the chicken the pear costume the fox the twitter bird the eminem all your favorite characters the hypodermic needle yeah i brought it all in and then we filmed this thing we put it up on social media and i had great joy in showing

my wife i was like look at this look at all these costumes we've used all these costumes justifications justifications she wasn't quite no she's like so hold on let me just say for the five years these things i've not been able to park my car you're saying it's all been worthwhile for this minute 20 sketch that has had 23 likes on Instagram. That's pretty much what she said, word for word. She was like, yeah. You are vindicated.

I believe you are. So I want to thank you for making me feel slightly better. It's my role as a wingman. And, you know, as husbands, we need to revel. It's not often you get the chance to revel. It's not often throughout a marriage career you've got the chance to be right. You bathe in that glory. You bask in it for seven more years.

Yeah, so you're right. So, yeah, so great. And after 8 o'clock in just a couple of minutes' time, we're going to tell you who wins $500 and what the mascot is going to be. Because you need to say to Amanda now, we're going to have to keep them because you never know who will need them next. We needed them. There's demand.

All of a sudden we needed them. The car can go outside and it depreciates every day, but that's okay because the costumes are in the garage. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, a fun little thing we've been embarking on over the last couple of weeks, trying to find the Hits a mascot. The radio industry as a whole has had mascots in years gone by.

They slowly died off, didn't they? Died away. We need to bring it back. Well, let's bring it back. And we've been running a competition, as John O said, and $500 up for grabs for the winner. Our kids are calling the shots, like our TV commercials, and kids can design a mascot for the hits.

There's been some fantastic entries. And it's so hard to pick. It's really hard to pick, like you your annual hottest office babe competition doesn't happen every year he's like i don't know who's the hottest i can't pick it we'll throw it to the floor who do you think's the hottest and we're all like oh i don't know it doesn't and we're gonna have to have a bikini round this is so me further from the truth. If anything, I'm more timid to talk to people, especially after all the stuff you say.

So we're going to go through the winner of our mascot competition. Hello? Hello. Hi. Is this Izzy? Yes. It's Jono and Ben, Izzy. We'rezy we're on the hits hi hi how's it going uh sorry for the early morning phone call it's all good i was awake it's all good i'm getting ready for school another big day on the tools izzy yeah now as you know you entered didn't you you entered

our mascot competition where your creative vision was placed on paper and you explain what it was. Yeah. Yeah, so the hit hippo or the hit hippo is supposed to be a very chilled out character. He's got a part of him that's really cool, but then really chill, but then like... He's just a chilled out hippo. I like, yeah. So you've drawn us a mascot, a hippopotamus, which you've called, great name, the Hittopotamus

for the Hits. And it's very chill, like you say. It's a chill character. There were some great entries, Izzy. There were some really good, some shocking ones as well. Was there? Mainly suggestions from me. Let's have a sexy camel.

And you're like, no, we can't have an attractive camel. So what I wanted to do is I wanted to line all of the kids up in a savage elimination ceremony to announce the winner. Ben, you were like, that'll traumatize childhoods. Yeah, that's right. I couldn't let you do that. Roar emotion, tears, anger. We were going to have it all.

I didn't want to have any of that. So Izzy, the people we work with at The Hits, everyone got together and chose their favourite and guess what? You're the winner. Oh, thank you so much. You've got $500. $500 to spend. Oh my god, thank you. What are you going to do with this

cash? Are you going to retire? What's going on? I think that are you going to do with this cash? Are you going to retire? What's going on? Well, I think that I'm going to spend it on a way, a trip, overnight trip to Auckland. Oh, that's very cool. Treat yourself. Yeah. What do you want to do in Auckland? Is there anything special?

Yeah, so I want to go to Rambodin. I want to go to the museum. I want to go to the zoo and the sea life place by the harbour. Oh, yeah, Kelly Totten's there. Awesome. Gee whiz, you're going to have an action-packed time. Yeah, that's awesome. Thank you so much.

Well, thank you so much. So what we're going to do now is we're going to get a hippo costume sorted, and the hippopotamus is going to be the official mascot of the hits. And what we need to do, Izzy, is have a big launch. We've got to debut the hippo into the market. Oh, yeah. We haven't really thought about that, have we? Yeah.

So if you've got an event that we could roll out the hippo for the first time, the hits hippopotamus, you can call us right now, 0800-THE-HITS-4487. So what's happening in the next couple of weeks around the country? What can we bring the hippopotamus along to and unveil him for the first time? Yeah, like is there a controversial sort of Posey Parker? No, let's not go anything too political. Let's just go somewhere where it's going to be great to have

a family friendly event. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Ben, look at me. Anything changed over the last week? A natural glow? No A healthy hue?

I hadn't noticed I mean you're not looking any more sickly than usual But no Any less haggard? No Tired looking? Yeah I've got

You know how there's the You've got to have your five plus a day Vegetables and fruit Yes gotcha I find that over a day it can be quite a task to try and... Well, especially for you, because you don't actually eat during the day. So, of course, it's going to be very hard for you to...

Got to knock them off in one meal. Yeah. Whereas I can kind of, like, I've bought fruit, I can have them consistently throughout the day. Spread it out throughout the day. But I'm not, you know, I like to just get things done. So I've got into just shoving it all in a blender. Oh, yeah.

Just having a big, disgusting, looks like lawn clippings. Put it in there, drink down the garden mulch, hate life for about two minutes, and then you're done. You're done for the day. It's all done in one hit. Are you, like, trying to make it taste nice, or are you just basically chucking fruits and vegetables that shouldn't go together? Anything.

Just chuck it all in. Oh my goodness. And just plough it back. But isn't that the great way to do it? Then it's not hanging over your head. You know? No. No.

I'd much prefer having an apple and a pear and stuff throughout the day. Problem is it does act as quite a high-speed laxative. You do go to the bathroom a lot throughout the show. And I see, like, oh, it's the tea. I was like, I haven't given you any tea this morning. You're blaming it all on your tea. It might be the old age.

Yeah. The leaky old age. But, yeah, that's just a bit of advice. Do you put, like, juice or anything in with it? Or what are you putting in with it? Yeah, you pour juice in with it. Yeah, right. Because you need to.

Otherwise, you're just chewing a drink now. Yeah, OK. Like some sort of like... Oh, I do know, like bits of lettuce and spinach dangling off your teeth as well. And I imagine too, that's at four o'clock in the morning

in your household, you run in a blender. That's convenient time to be running a blender too for the house. Yeah, that's my, it is. And I'm hearing about that. I can imagine.

Like, do you need to run a blender? Like, no part of this is a good idea. You said you've changed health. Well, I don't know. Yeah, starting a lawnmower would be probably more convenient. At least it's outside of the house. But yeah, just my public service announcement. And knock off your five plus a day and one convenient, disgusting drink.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, kids in general, they don't really develop a social barometer, do they, until maybe mid-teens? Yeah, you're right. They sort of get a gauge on, okay, what's appropriate to say in this environment. So I bumped into an old colleague of ours we worked at a previous company with yesterday. She's just had a new child, been off work, but she has a six-year-old already. So she was juggling a newborn and a pram and a six-year-old. Hey, how you been?

You know, doing the back and forth. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're having a top-level light dusting of a conversation. All of a sudden, the six-year-old comes out. My mum gets her face tightened. And both of us choose to ignore it we just try and plow on with the top level conversation oh so when are you planning on getting back to work you know that sort of thing uh and again the audience you know the the cheap seats down below yeah the kids like hey no one's listening to me no one's listening to me uh and then again he's

like my mom gets her face tightened so she doesn't have wrinkles on her face. Again, round two. We're like, okay, you don't acknowledge it. Just ignore it and pretend it's not there. Like my family did with me when I was growing up. It got to the point where he was just like, she gets injections in her face.

And we both had to acknowledge it. She's like, so I went and got some Botox yesterday and I don't cast judgment you know whatever makes you feel good no yeah each to their own you're right

but geez if you want to get Botox tell me jab a couple of my chops was the kid looking at you

when I was saying that like a hint he should get his face tightened like mummy like mate you're not

picking up on the hint here yeah but he really captured the attention of the crowd but in general, but he really captured the attention of the crowd. But in general, I think we should, across the board, just treat children like you treat me. You drip feed me information that you're okay with being broadcast on the radio.

Because if you tell me too much, you know it's just going out. Oh, yeah, we have conversations with people, and I'm like, oh, here we go. They've made a mistake of telling Jono this. As a function of this, they're like, oh, yes, so anyway. And I'm like, you know, this is going to end up on the radio. We talked to a police officer the other day. I was getting all the information about the police helicopter. And I'm like, this is going to be on the radio on Monday.

This is not a conversation that is going to just start and finish right here. And I did. I shared the information about the police helicopter. I said that it had a monitor on there that could measure heart rates of drivers to see whose heart rate was elevated. And it wasn't, right? No, apparently. But a lot of other sensitive police helicopter information too, which

I don't know. Is now the time to share it? The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Tonight on three on the telly you can catch Paddy Gower. He's got a brand new show. It's called Paddy Gower's Got Issues. And he joins us in the studio right now. you can catch Paddy Gower. He's got a brand new show. It's called Paddy Gower's Got Issues. And he joins us in the studio right now. Good morning, Paddy.

Great to have you here. Thank you for having me. Tonight, very exciting. Paddy Gower has issues on 3 tonight. Very exciting, your new show. Yeah, lots of issues. Lots of issues. Most people know that I've got issues, you know.

What are your biggest issues at the moment? You've stopped drinking. So that's not an issue. I think that's how the show came about is that i started to run out of issues about myself and the bosses were like well what else have you got and you know i did have a few issues but they were not really things that could be televised we couldn't actually film that yeah we don't have enough cream for that so the show is looking at issues in new zealand we've had to move out from my issues to source them from issues in New Zealand and around the world We've had to move out from my issues to source them from around New Zealand and around the world as well It still sounds like you've got a lot of these issues, calling it Paddy Gower

Yeah, I know, but really it's Paddy Gower with our issues I think And tonight I've said we'll do big and small So tonight we've got massive issue to do with the way that our kids are taught to read in this country and the way that we actually suck at reading in New Zealand right now. On a global scale, we are just terrible at reading. And a lot of that comes back to the way that it's been taught to our kids. I know, I was saying, cuffs have started their own curriculum now. Yeah, yeah.

Because they don't think that NCEA is turning out intelligent students. Yeah, they've just bailed out of it. And I think we're finding with our reading, you know, there's lots of kids at secondary school who can't read right now and they just haven't been taught properly from the get-go. So to my mind, this is one of the biggest issues we face because reading is the key to life. And, well, it's all got the flow on effect, right, even after school.

Yeah. So that's a big issue. But we've said we'll do big and small, so we're also going to investigate why supermarket music is so sad that's a good one yeah now you don't because i mean going to the supermarket no one's in the greatest frame of mind to begin with when you're in the super so the last thing you want is now with the cost of living yeah yeah yeah yeah so why drive them down even lower so we can confront the supermarkets about that tonight is it so you take your time in the supermarket because the music's slow he's gonna

take it out mate he's gonna make you tune in well look it's it's not just so you take your time it's like if you feel sad do you buy some wine do you buy some chocolate do you you know that kind of thing yeah so you know there's there's a lot going on there yeah there's a lot going on there now i have noticed something about you when we see you on the telly at the moment, Paddy. You're growing a beautiful mullet out the back there. Yeah. Are you going to keep this thing growing and flowing

or what's going on with it? Look, I would donate it to you if I could. That's what he was angling for, right? I was just like, you've got extra hair you don't need. That's what he wants. Let's just get it out there. But at the moment, science just hasn't quite advanced just yet. But science is moving quickly, and when it does, this is yours.

I just want you to grow it to a length where I can just cut the whole thing off and just put it on like a mat. So I promise you, actually, and your listeners can be a witness to this, once science is ready, I will donate my mullet to you to have. As soon as the science is there. You grow it, you keep good care of it, and eventually you'll pass it on to Joe. And it's a bit like the show.

The show's going to have some serious issues out the front, business out the front of the show, but the show's going to have a bit of party at the back. So I've been calling it the mullet of TV shows. Party at the back. Are've been calling it the mullet of TV shows. Party at the back. Are you nervous going in tonight? Because you've done TV for many years. You're a political reporter. You had your own documentaries we

just talked about. I'm really nervous. And you guys have had, I'll get some advice off you guys afterwards about what not to do like that. We got cancelled in the end so maybe. That prank at the airport. Definitely don't do that definitely don't do that don't do that John I thought

you could call it the Gower Hour would have been a good name yeah was that a pitch that's right yeah the Gower Hour I think it got lost with the mullet

the mullet of TV shows but yeah it will be an hour of Gower I guess yeah if Hattie Gower has issues on tonight we're soaked for you you deserve this

it's going to be a great show and everyone should tune in tonight on 3 that actually means a lot coming from you, bro, so thank you very much. Can I say it too, then, if it means a lot? Yeah, he said it in a nice, caring, genuine way. If it was you, I don't know what's going to come here.

If I say just over that way. Yeah, so no, it'll be great. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, The Chase, the quiz show, it's huge. It's on every night on TVNZ1. And Sean Wallace is one of the stars of The Chase. He's coming to New Zealand. Five charity events at the end of the month with, believe it or not,

quizzes around the country. You can hear him talk. You can even take him on in a quiz. And he joins us right now over Zoom again. Great to see you. How are you, Ben? How are you, Jono? You good?

Yeah, we're doing well. Nice to see you again. The last time we saw you. Yeah, long time no see. It's about three and a half years since I last saw you guys. We're doing like a Zoom-a-thon, 24 hours of talking to different Zoom people. Do you know what? We were quite delirious, we were quite tired, but we didn't realise until later there was such a big delay. And we were taking you on in a quiz and we did better than we thought. And then we realised afterwards that the delay was not in your favour at all.

That's how it goes. Sometimes you've got your technical glitches, but I'm not going to quite fail there. You won fair and square. You know what I mean? I was like, this three in the morning, we've been awake for 18 hours and we are smashing the guy from the chase. Well, we had like a 10-second head start on all the questions.

It really wasn't a win. And we had a pretty strong wi-fi connection with google too so yeah exactly yeah i can imagine it's like being a ufc fighter where every bar and restaurant they go to there's probably some yobbo trying to fight them but for you it's probably some yobbo just trying to out quiz you yeah and you know guess what i'll always be up for the challenge and if i get beaten i'll get beaten yeah i'm brilliant but uh even superman is vulnerable to kryptonite boys so that's how it goes are you like the show is huge the chase that plays on tv nz1 every night new zealand i mean my dad is just one of the thousands of people that every night

5 30 has to watch it loves it are you surprised it's such a big hit around the world um when uh the beast lost the first show by a couple of seconds and I won the show by a couple of seconds, I knew we had the right format. But what made the show, for me, a success was obviously the host. Brandy Walsh, as you know, is a tour de force when it comes to sort of presenting.

And his affable charm, his laid-back wit, you know, people just love him. How did they discover you? Like, how did they go, hey, here's this guy who knows everything? Well, I was known before the chase came to our screens in 2009 because I was the first black person to win Mastermind. So when I won in 2004, you couldn't buy the publicity I got. I then retired from quizzing because where could I go?

They're not going to let me on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. They know that I'm going to win that quiz hand down without even using a lifeline. But then ITV coaxed me out of retirement, and I'm glad this time I succumbed because 14 years later, having the opportunity to actually go to such wonderful, exciting places like New Zealand to meet people, to thank people for making the show a phenomenal success.

And sometimes, guys, I still have got to pinch myself that this is really happening. It must be so frustrating for you knowing that if you just put on a moustache, you could go to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in Spain and blitz it. It's like knowing all the lotto numbers but not being able to win lotto. You can't actually play, yeah. I want to know, how much are you reading and consuming each day to actually just get about two hours preparation per day i normally record all the toughest quiz shows and sort of test myself and i'm not interested in the questions i get right i'm interested in questions i get wrong that's how i learn watching uh uh you know

news events not just in england but around the world. You know, I know Mr. Is it Hopkins? Chris Hopkins. Yeah, Chris Hopkins. Yeah. So things like that. I'll make sure that I'm on the pulse because I'm going to be asked that question somewhere along the line.

The latest film. Who won the Oscar? Who's the number one in the charts? You know, who's won the rugby championship? All those sorts of things. You've got to keep yourselves up to date. So it's pointless me revising things like why Tangi Day is the 6th of February,

because I know they're already, it's not going to change, is it? You must, like, really enjoy learning stuff. And, you know, there are a lot of kids listening to this who go to school. Like, what's one helpful bit of advice? That's why I go into schools and colleges and say to people,

I've come from relatively humble beginnings, but the one thing I always had a passion about was learning. And I always and say to people, I've come from relatively humble beginnings, but the one thing I always had a passion about was learning. And I always say to young people, you can be anything you like in life. I could be talking to the next Prime Minister. I could be talking to the next All Black. Ask yourself this question, why

can't it be you? But the way in which you stay in control of your own destiny, educate your mind. Once you educate your mind, the world's yours to. Sean Wallace, it's lovely seeing you again. We can't wait for you to be in New Zealand. Thank you. All the details at believeitornot.co.nz slash seanwallace2023.

Lovely to see you again. We can't wait to have you in New Zealand. Cheers, kid. There you go, Sean Wallace. Cheers, kid, too. Great sign-off there. Raising the IQ levels of the show by 100%. Oh, exactly.

I don't even know i don't know what my iq is but clearly it's not much speaking of how brilliant he is we did something yesterday after the interview something we've always wanted to do and it just proves how amazing he is yeah we're gonna play it for you next yeah so we wanted to this was meant to just be off air we just wanted to have a win so we're like hey mate have you got another 10 minutes i know you've given us your time can you help us fill out this quiz that will benefit you in no way at all and he was very generous oh yeah this is sean wallace going through the new zealand herald daily quiz and jeez he's brilliant now sean uh it's been a dream of ours uh the two of

ours to get 10 out of 10 on the herald daily quiz and we've got the daily quiz here we're wondering if you could help us see if we can get to 10 out of 10. Go on then, let me try. Go on then. All right, here we go. First question. Woodrow Wilson served as the President of the United States from which year to which year?

He won the first presidential election in 1912. He then won the 1916 presidential election and he retired in 2020. So from 1912 to 2020. Okay, well that's the closest one from 1912 to 2020. Okay well that's the closest one 1913 to 1921 the middle one. Just lock it in. Boom! He's got it.

Which country used the Iron Cross as a military decoration? It was awarded by Germany in 1813. I can't remember but yeah 1813 was the very first award of the Iron Cross. Yeah, two from two. All right. Which Dutch art movement is Piet Mondraan associated with? Piet Mondraan would be, I'm going to say, De Stijl. Is it De Stijl?

De Stijl, yep. We'll lock it in. Yes. Three. Three. Three from three. On to the next one. Which film earned Jake Gyllenhaal an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor? Brokeback Mountain.

Brokeback Mountain is correct. Johann Gutenberg is known for inventing which revolutionary technology? The printing press in 1455. Oh, printing press again. This is good. We're halfway there. Which instrument did George Harrison famously play in The Beatles?

George Harrison was the youngest Beatle to play the lead guitar, I think. He was the lead guitarist. Guitar locking it in. Six from six. Here we go. On to number seven. Which NBA team does billionaire and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer own? I'm going to say the Clippers.

Clippers is correct. ball my own which British band is known for hits like killing moon and lips like sugar I'm gonna go to cure the cure it was Echo and the Bunnymen. Which year did Liverpool win their most recent Premier League title? It's football. 2020. That's correct. Nine out of ten we're chasing here. Who was Romeo's loyal cousin and confidant in the play Romeo and Juliet? Right, right.

It's either Benvolio or Mercutio because Tewo got killed. Okay. So I'm going to say Benvolio either Benvolio or Mercutio because T-Bone got killed. So I'm going to say Benvolio. Benvolio. Yes, nine out of ten. That is the best that we've ever done on the Hero Daily Quiz. Yeah, we're all going to remember Echo and the Bunnymen and their song. Maybe we're not all going to remember Echo and the Bunnymen. He's already forgotten.

That is Sean Wallace from The Chase helping us get nine out of ten on the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. He is coming to New Zealand thanks to Believe It or Not quizzes for five charity events.

You can get all the details at the hit scott.co.nz and