Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: Producer Tayla shares her icks about Jono and Ben!

Episode Date: October 18, 2023

Are clinical trials a good idea? Jono shares his mayo obsession.  Ben tells an unbelievable story about a flatmate!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. Last night on Paddy Gower's show on TV3, he was in a sauna at 70 degrees. Have a listen. Really starting to get a bead on now. And sorry Eli, I accidentally wiped this bloody make-up. And I don't know if I'll get this out of your little shirt. Show must go on. 70 degrees Celsius baby.

If this ain't a hot flush, I don't know what is. Why women wear make up when they're going through this, I do not know, that'll be one of my first questions when I get out of here. Yeah with Paddy Gow up, put in sauna too, basically to find out, to experience what it's like to have menopause, it was World Menopause Day yesterday. To raise awareness, break the stigma and share support available for those experiencing menopause. And so he decided to do that. To experience what it was like with hot flushes.

Does it get up to 70 degrees if you've got menopause? Yeah. Jeez, that's hot. Yeah. Yeah. You really could have taken some of that audio out of context, couldn't you? Paddy Gower doing that. Putting his body on the line, though, doesn't he?

That's what you love about Paddy Gower. Yeah, and I don't know if you have heard these ads, speaking of trialling things, these ads that we're playing on the radio at the moment, but there is a lot of cash to be earned by putting your body on the line. Have a listen to this. Do you struggle to control your weight? NZCR is looking for people aged 18 to 60

to participate in a clinical trial to help us research potential diabetes treatments involving an investigational drug and study assessments. How much money? You'll spend five nights at our world class Auckland clinic. Follow up visits can fit around your schedule. Plus you'll be reimbursed up to $8,500

less tax for your involvement. $8,500! That's pretty good, buddy, isn't it? Take the tax. Interested? Visit nzcr.co.nz. There we go. Incredible.

That seems like some good cash for five nights just sitting in a bed, getting prodded and poked for a few days. I mean, obviously you're taking experimental drugs. I mean, a lot of people through their 20s have done the same thing. That's right. Hey, we were all part of the world's biggest clinical trial a couple of years ago when we jabbed a vaccine into our spits. Oh, jeez, don't.

Okay, no one asked any questions then, did we? Well, you know, there was. No one got paid for it? It was questions that were definitely asked. It was people that were definitely. No, you're right. Yeah. There was a whole big protest actually asking questions.

But yeah, eight grand. Jeez, would you do it? Wow, it's pretty tempting with the money, isn't it? But then you're like, what? There's a lot. I don't know. Yeah. I'd like to think that a certain amount of testing has taken place.

Enough for me to feel like 50% confident that I won't mutate into like a cast member of the X-Men or something. Yeah, you'd imagine so, right? You'd hope so. There'd be a lot of forms, you know what I mean? Kids would be signing away. But hey, I'm sure there's people that, 4487 on the text. If you have taken part in one, I would love to know what it's like. Text us with your third arm.

No. We'd love to get you on the radio. How much money do you get? I imagine. $8,500. Oh, no, but in general. Oh, right. Like, is there good cash? Is there low-balling? Yeah, but in general. Oh right. Is that good cash?

Is that low balling? Yeah, I see what you're saying. Have people earned more? Because a lot of the times they give people placebo pills as well. Yeah. So half of the

trialists aren't taking anything bad and you just sit there and get $8,000. We know a guy, he can't come on here and talk about it. It's signed his life away.

Yeah, well that's the other thing as well. I imagine you can't talk about a lot of stuff. And he's blinking with a third eye. No, he's not. He's fine. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Now, yesterday I got into a bit of trouble because I kept doing something. I don't know if you're the same, Jono, when it comes to – when people like to ask you for your number for something. Like, we had some people turn up yesterday. It was, like, real estate people in the area, and they're like, are you interested in real estate? And, you know, the house prices. And I'm like, I'm a people pleaser.

I'm not, to be honest, I'm not that interested in house prices. But I'll play your game. I'll pretend I'm interested just so you think I'm a good guy and I'm a real estate guy. Yeah, I know what you're saying. But at the same time, I don't want to hand my number out to lots of people. Like, I just don't like that idea. I always think that too, but I'm like, who gives a shit if they've got my number?

What are they going to do? Well, I just don't like talking on the phone. It's not because I think I'm anyone important. It's just I don't like it. And you don't want to be pestered about the real estate thing. So what do you do? I just give my wife's number now. I'm like, my wife is very interested in real estate in the area. Oh, poor Amanda. And then she gets a call later and goes, did you give my wife's number now i'm like my wife is very interested in uh real estate in the area oh poor amanda and then she gets a call later go did you give my number to her you

know i'm like oh yeah well i thought you'd be interested in real estate in the area and she's like well no i'm the same as you you know whenever i do online shopping or anything like that i always give jen's number yeah i'm the same i don't want to put my personal details out there i'll put someone else she's, stop doing that. I'm like, oh, it's better to have your number down as well. Just, oh, yeah, my wife's more interested in this than me. What I do too when some sort of, you find yourself in a bloody charity, so they're charity people who got their claws into you at the mall.

Yeah. And you're filling out those forms. I just have, I 90% fill out the correct details. It's a bit of a spout, bit of a, might be a couple of houses down on the same street for my address. Might be a couple of numbers off on the old cell phone. The email might have a, you know, a different, it might be a slingshot instead of Gmail.

Right, I see. So it looks like. Oh, sorry, did I? It must have been a, oh, sorry, sorry I wasn't concentrating Because then it looks like You've 90% told the truth You've filled out the form Yeah but they can't Get a hold of you

That's okay You don't ever I don't think anyone In 2023 Ever wants to be Contactable No You phone a business nowadays

No one answers the phone Well it's very hard To find the number For a business If you go to a website They're like Go through our thing Here are all the

Frequently asked questions I don't want the Frequently asked questions i don't want the frequently asked questions yeah i don't want the facts and then you go through sometimes i noticed the other day you go through and you have to go they give you options like push one for this press two for this and then you're like well none of these things are what i want and then you go would you like those options again i was getting so fresh i was like no because this is not what i want and then you just try and push you try and uh screw the matrix up by pushing 000 to get to an operator. I just want to talk to a person about something else

and none of those options are what I want. Because no one wants to give, I now sound like a boomer complaining, but no one, Grace who's filling in for producer Joel, she's nodding her head. No one wants to give customer service nowadays, Grace. There's no such thing as a service customer. I haven't been serviced

in a very long time. Jeez. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I don't know when you're driving around if you take notice of people

who have baby on board stickers on the back of their cars. Oh, you do see the odd ones at the time too. Baby on board. Yeah.

And I assume it's to warn motorists that, hey, there's a baby on board. Yeah. I guess if you're driving a little bit slower, a little more cautiously and stuff. And it's good to know because I had planned on rear-ending that car until I'd seen the baby on board sign as well. But I don't know. What is the general thing for them?

Obviously the warning, but. Yeah, I just think it's, I always thought it was people, if you were driving a bit cautious, then people wouldn't get frustrated. You know, you're like, why is this person here? You're like, oh, they're taking their time because, you know, they just,

they want to be safe. You said you drove about 15km an hour home from the... When I first, yeah, when Sienna first arrived, my first born, yeah. I was very, very nervous, yeah, about that. Yeah. Then all of a sudden you forget about that

and you're fanging 120 down the motorway. Yeah. But you do, you are. Can you spare a thought for the people with baby on board? I also thought it might serve as a warning of like, hey, just so you know, this motorist is running on 0% sleep. And I'll be quite a rarer, like if I'm swerving over the road or I doze off or I'm trying to blindly drive and stick a dummy in the backseat in someone's mouth. There's always that too. You're right, actually.

It could be a mother that's very overtired. I'm a fan of the old bumper. The bumper sticker's kind of gone by the wayside, hasn't it? It was prevalent in the 80s and 90s. Especially radio station bumper stickers. Jeez, we're all over the place. You're right. They're not that popular these days.

I mean, personalized plates maybe took over for a bit. I know the hits when it was classic hits, they had the, remember the diamond logo? Oh, yes, yeah. Then the classic hits brand, they diversified into four-wheel drive wheel cupboards, and they were everywhere. For your RAV4 and all sorts. You remember those? They were everywhere yeah very specific piece

of radio station merch you'll see the old one around again yeah classic hits we haven't been classic hits

for a while but I do I'd also appreciate the sticker that's like I wish my wife was this dirty

and you're like a little bit of misogyny there but when you break it down you're like what you wish your wife was like

covered in dirt and exhaust fumes is that what you're like, what, you wish your wife was covered in dirt and exhaust fumes? No, I don't think it's quite what they mean. I'm not getting the connotations of that. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I went out to dinner the other night with some friends and I was talking to someone and we were just

talking about first flats and flatting situations and she was saying... Where your bar for health and hygiene standards is set very low. It's a wonderful time in your life, isn't it? All of a sudden you get all finicky about when does that happen? So a lot of people were talking about how they were studying

in Dunedin and other universities around the country talking about first flats and she said her first apartment was actually, she went over and did some study over in New York and so her first apartment was in New York City. Right. Concrete jungle, where dreams are made of. Yeah.

And we're like, oh, fancy. And she said, well, yeah, it was okay. The place is showing it. She was flatting with another person. She saw the pictures online. She turned up. She's like, this is great. I'd like to live here.

And the person's like, yeah, all good. The other lady's like, yeah, that's fine. And so she moved in. And then the first night she went to sleep and she woke up and she felt something moving around her. Oh, dear God. And she turned on the light and there was a massive snake wrapped around her neck up by her pillow.

She freaked out, screaming like this. Her flatmate came running in and apparently said, and this is barely a true story, sorry, I forgot to tell you, I've got two pet snakes. That feels like you write that on trademarks. Yes, exactly. She's like, normally I keep them in my room during the day, but at night they like to get out and go about the house.

Oh dear God. So maybe keep your door closed at night. What are they, like pythons? Apparently they were legal to have as pets. And she was like, okay, maybe you'll get used to them. Metropolitan snakes? Yeah, she was like, they seem harmless. This is what the person was saying.

You know, maybe they thought they wanted cold-blooded. They thought you were warm. So one of the snakes sort of cuddled up. Again, I'm with you, friend. I'm like, you should have flagged this. Yeah. This is like quite big news. She thought about it.

I was like, do you want to move out? She said, I it but i sort of gave it a gave it a shot living there got i kind of got used to the fact that the snakes were there and was living there for a few weeks and uh shutting my door a bit more at night she said but then she said her flatmate uh in a few weeks time came up to her and went have you seen one of the snakes because I haven't seen it for a couple of days. A couple of days? And she's like, oh, no, I haven't. So this is quite worrying. So they went looking all the way.

It's not ideal to lose a giant snake in the city. Through the apartment, there was two snakes. They could only find one. They went looking through the apartment, couldn't find it. And they're like, oh, we better alert the people, the building maintenance people, the people that own these. And they're going to go, what? Yeah.

Maybe it's crawled down a drain pipe. Maybe it's gone somewhere. Maybe it's gone out. And so the whole place was all sort of, you know, everyone was looking all around the building. They still couldn't find it. So you put the posters up, lost snake. Yeah.

Very scary situation. Apparently they went back to the apartment, gave it one more look around the apartment. And this lady, she said she moved her mattress and something fell out on this. She's like, what is that? And then she looked underneath her mattress and the snake had bitten into the bottom of the mattress and created a nest. A nest. And it birthed like 50 snake eggs inside her mattress.

Under her mattress. And she's like, oh, my goodness me. I found the snake. Also, it had a lot of babies as well. Was that the time where you're like, okay, I think I might move out of here? Is there like a huck-a-lodge? Is there a backpackers? Her flatmate's like, apparently, this is great because these are quite valuable.

We could sell all these snake eggs. She had a snake pit under her bed. Basically a snake pit. I'm like, dear God, just get out of there. So yeah, very, very scary situation. So there was obviously a male snake and a female snake. Yeah. When did that all take place? I don't know. Where?

On her bed, maybe. That's for sure. So this has sat with me, the story, for a couple of days. Now I thought I'd share it with you guys. Yeah, that's incredible. Producer Taylor is in with us in the studio to it with you guys. That is, yeah, that's incredible. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Producer Taylor is in with us in the studio to reveal our icks. Now, if you don't know what an ick is, explain it to everyone, Producer Taylor.

So it's kind of like a small little behavioral thing that someone might do that you've noticed and you go, oh, I don't like that. Maybe it makes you feel a little bit icky. Yeah. Sometimes these are just little things that sort of you don't like that makes you feel a little bit icky I guess and sometimes these are just little things that sort of you don't like yeah and just before

you unleash our long list of icks Taylor Ben and I got together and we were like okay we'll talk

about Taylor's icks and we were both like we can't think of anything there's not one not one thing just lucky you know feel privileged

to work with you every day I feel really bad now I only assume you should so that Feel privileged To work with you every day I feel really bad now I only assume you should So that's why we did that Just to make you feel really bad Yeah okay Almost the perfect human being

Thank you You never think of a single thing No Can't think of the fact That you go from 0 to 120 I swear Every second word Yeah can't think of anything

No nothing Nothing comes to mind Alright so Okay go for it It's radio There's no hard feelings while the show's on. And I will. The car park, a different story.

We've actually got someone from HR here right now. Do you notice that? I will say as well, these are harmless. Like, you don't have to change anything about yourselves. No. We're definitely going to get self-conscious about them. Well, it'll be interesting to see in a week or two's time if we're still doing these things or not.

True. True. All right. I've got three for each. Okay. So, Ben, I'll start with you okay okay so the crocs mate the crocs the crocs but you take it to another level i've seen you rock the sock with the socks and crocs and i'm bringing them to work though have i really but i yeah but yes yes i do really socks and crocs i've seen them in some of your holiday pics. What was a beautiful family photo ruined by that? Justin Bieber's wearing socks with Crocs.

I was like, I could do that. Okay, Justin Bieber can do a lot of things that you can't get away with. All right? Yeah, all right. He turned up to a fashion show in track pants and a hoodie. Yeah, okay. All right, Crocs is a heck. Okay, yeah.

Number two. Taken. You've got to think for backpacks. And now, so when you walk as well, you take it to another level where you put your hands in the straps. And I'm like, oh, we're in primary school again? And it's Bart Simpson all over the backpack. My Toy Story one and my little pony ones are both broken.

How do you steal my little pony backpack? Oh, Jesus. I'm about to break that down too. And he's got a theory All your theory behind Having a child's No one will ever steal A child's backpack

If you leave it anywhere You know They're like Oh some kid's got his Paw Patrol lunchbox inside So he can leave it In the middle of a bar Anywhere

And it won't get taken It's a security blanket Well if that goes missing You know what I'm saying Okay number three Now this one's I've just picked up While just watching you

Over the past few months and i'm like oh so when when you think you put your hands in your pockets and you pace i do like pacing because i have to what i have to follow you still i really don't sometimes when he's making a point he'll'll start talking, but then he'll get uncomfortable at the point, then he'll stand up on his seat, and then he'll circle around the seat, and then come back down and sit on the seat. Do a full 360. Yeah, yeah.

It's a lot. So, they're my three with you. Okay. So, take those how you will. Hey, thanks for that. Taylor, on to the next thing. No, no, no. All right.

Jono. Now, I've brought this up with you before, but the font on your phone, mate. All right. I was expecting some change after I confronted you. It is huge. Oh, my friend set it up. Jono Now I've brought this up With you before But the font on your phone Mate Alright I was expecting some change After I confronted you It is huge Oh my friend set it up I don't know how to change it

Well we could all change it Yeah we could all change it It's on Tahoma 24 It is big font I went live It is big font And it screams your age Mate

A blind person Could read this font Yeah And this morning You took it to another level You had it on loud So I'm out there It's 5am I'm trying to do level you had it on on loud so i'm out there it's 5 a.m i'm trying to do prep and all i hear is like how rude and i've got a

taste as well very obnoxious i'll take that on the chip number two you don't eat all day now that's an ick because say me say we went out for lunch as a team and you didn't order anything well now i feel bad and i'm like i don't want to eat in front of you. That is why I do it. To control everyone's intake of food. You know, keep you all thinking about it. And I just, yeah, I just, I hate that. So if you want to just snack throughout the day maybe.

Okay. Or ban myself from staff lunches. Those are the two options. Yeah, those are the options. Yeah. Okay. Now this one, the third one, it's a big one for me. So for everyone listening, we are lucky enough to get car spots near work,

really close to work, and you still choose to ride a scooter to and from the car park. Electric scooter. Yeah, but would it kill you to walk? It's not a long walk, is it? No, it's two blocks. It's two blocks and it's a reckless scooter use down the middle of the road.

It is. And I see you just zooming past like, hey guys, and just keep going past. I'm like, wow, mate, ick. If you have the option not to use your legs, you always got to take that option. I don't think so. I think we only are in this life for a short time.

And if you can scooter through it. That's always been my say. Yesterday we had Donna on the show. Now Donna had lent her wedding dress to a friend just out of Wellington. And her friend, after using it, accidentally donated it with a whole lot of other items to the Salvation Army. Here was Donna yesterday. I got married a few years ago and I had a beautiful designer dress and it was stunning. And I had my wedding day, which was incredible.

Roll forward a few years and a friend of mine was newly engaged and getting married. And I said to her, like, why don't you take my dress? I know that they're stupidly expensive. It's a hideous amount of money to spend. If my dress fits, you're more than welcome to. And then earlier this year, unfortunately, my friend's relationship broke down. I said, could I have my two dresses back? And she went, yeah, no problem.

That was August, and I didn't hear anything from her until Friday, and she rang me and said, look, I'm so sorry, but your dress is gone. It accidentally got donated. I've been into the op shop, it got donated too, and it's not there. The thing I want to clarify is I don't want it back right now. It deserves to have another day out. I want that still to happen.

I just want it back when they're done with it. There you go. Yeah, we sort of see she sounded like a very softer Liam Neeson from Taken. I don't care what you do with it. I just want to say something. And then she was like, oh, my dad actually used to box against Liam Neeson from Taken. I don't care what you do with it. I just want to say something. And then she was like, oh, my dad actually used to box against Liam Neeson.

Yeah, her dad beat up Liam Neeson. Beat up Liam Neeson. In a boxing match many, many years ago. But that's not important right now. What is important is getting Donna's dress back. And there's many other tales of... The picture's on our Hitspreface Insta too if you want to go look at it.

Tales of people losing things, sometimes getting them back. We wanted to inspire Donna. But then there was a wedding dress story closer to home here at The Hits. Now, Megan Pappas, who hosts the day show on The Hits, she emailed us and said this exact same thing's happened to me. And I called her about 23 seconds ago, midway through tending to her children and said, jump on the radio and talk to us about it. Megan, welcome. Hello, good morning. Inconvenient time. How inconvenient is it for us to call you right now?

My daughter has just had a bath because she's had a punami. Oh, early morning bath. Yeah, she's semi-inconvenient, but that's okay. Taking them outside, hosing them off an option? I thought about it, to be honest. Okay, so Megan, you've got a lot going on this morning, but let's take your mind back to a wedding dress that you had, and you gave to who? So I've had two wedding dresses, I've been married

twice, but my first one, it was like Donna, it was like, it wasn't designer, but it's fairly expensive, and I loaned it to, you might know, PJ, radio announcer, who used it for a radio promo, you might know, PJ, radio announcer, who used it for a radio promo. Like Donna, I was like, well, I'm not precious about it. I just like it back because it has sentimental value. So I loaned it out so it gets another day.

But I've never seen it since. So PJ, this is PJ Harding. Used to be on ZDM with you. Jason PJ, yeah. You lent her your radio. She's never returned it. She took it to Vegas for some fun radio gag,

as we do, and it never, I don't know if it came back or not, but I had it up a couple of times. Yeah, I was like, you know that wedding dress? I know it was my first wedding, but I'd still like it back.

She's like, I'll see if I can track it down. Oh, that doesn't sound confident. No. I actually don't know where it's ended up. That sounded like it got stuffed in a Las Vegas hotel room and forgotten about. Doesn't it? Oh, well, there we go.

Okay, so we want to open up the lost and found lines. You just never lend stuff for radio promos. Remember I lent my chainsaw to one? They were doing a novelty wedding, and they're like, have you got a chainsaw? We'll get the couple to cut the I lent my chainsaw to one? They were doing a novelty wedding and they were like, have you got a chainsaw? We'll get the couple to cut the cake with your chainsaw. And even I was like, is this a good idea? I think some of us

on rollerblades. Yeah, and they're like, Andy's on rollerblades. I'm like, well this is definitely not a good idea. And it wasn't. Crazy LA. Health and Safety said, no, it wasn't a good idea. My chainsaw got taken off me. I was part of a health and safety investigation. So just never lend stuff for radio promos. Megan, you go and deal with whatever you're dealing with.

Thank you. All right, the hits. Lost and found. That's inspired Megan. That's inspired Donna with some great tales of things being lost and then being found again next on The Hits. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We just heard from Donna before who donated her wedding dress to a friend

and then her friend accidentally donated it to the Salvation Army and now it's gone. Yeah, we're talking lost and found. Make everyone feel better this morning. Andy with us on 0800 The Hits. You've got an adorable story about your grandmother. Yeah, it's a good one. So she lost and found not something but someone.

Yeah, so it's her childhood sweetheart. They were together when they were about 14 down in Christchurch. And then he moved away. They both worked for, I think, the courthouse or something like that down there. And he moved away for work. And then they sort of lost contact and stuff like that. And then about 65 years later, she moved up to Wellington where we are to be closer to my mum. And then she bumped into him and they fell back in love and then they ended up getting

married. Wow. Yeah, which is lovely. And then about a month later, he got diagnosed with cancer and then he was about, he died about probably three months later. So they were married for four months? Pretty much, yeah.

After being apart for 60, 65 years. Isn't that crazy? That is the universe, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, but she said it was the best four months

of her life. She said she didn't regret it that much. Yeah. And you can see she was pretty happy over that time. Oh, that's awesome.

At least they got to do that. Sad they didn't get to do that's awesome. I mean, at least they got to do that. Sad they didn't get to do longer for many, many years, but at least they got to do that over nothing. Yeah, and he died happy, so yeah. No, it was nice for them, but I mean, she's still going. She's 95 or something now. I imagine the whole time he's like, Jesus, I could have done this about 35 years ago.

They were both married. I mean, she had two marriages during that I could have done this about 35 years ago. They were both married. I mean, she had two marriages during that time, and he was married with kids. Oh, right. It was the time that they were both available. Yeah, otherwise I wouldn't be born if they... Yeah, that's true. Everything happens for a reason. I really appreciate you telling that story, Andy.

Go and have a great day. Yeah, you too. Have a good one. Kelly with us on the phone this morning. Lost and found, Kelly. It was your dad's handmade wedding ring. Yeah, that's right. Yep. What happened? Well, he had a beautiful ring that looked like a belt buckle, but it had been, it was two sapphires in it and it had been handmade. When he passed away, I had that and I always loved it. And I had left it in the bathroom in my home

and a family member was flatting with me who had lots of guests come and go and the ring disappeared, which I was devastated about. And over the years, I always thought perhaps I had misplaced it and just happened to be in a secondhand store. Yeah, about five years later, don't usually look at the jewellery,

just glance in the jewellery section and there was Dad's ring. I just was absolutely in shock. No way! Wow, so someone had stolen it from your flat. Someone stole it from my flat. So obviously a very distinctive ring that you recognise. A hundred percent. I was in so much shock that I rang my mom and went and picked her up and brought her

in to have a look at the ring and it definitely was Dad's. Did you have to buy it back or did they give it to you or how did that work? I had to buy it back. There's irony there, but you'd pay anything for it, I imagine. Yes, totally. It was only $150 and I got it back, which is a lot of money from an op shop, but it's absolutely 100% Dad's ring. Even Mum was in shock when she saw it.

Jeez. That was, again, mentioned in the universe. Yeah. Yes, yep, so we've got it back, which is, yeah, amazing. So we offered you $160 for it. What would you say? No, I'll keep it. Okay, you're already going to it?

All right. $170? It goes over $400, I think. Okay, all right. Now we know where you're playing. Okay. It's obviously not that special. Yeah.

All right, good on you, Kelly. Go and have a great day in Greymouth. Awesome, thank you. Now, I don't know if you guys, this affects you but it's starting to affect me a wee bit lately and I make a lot of the meals at home during the week just for scheduling purposes

as well. I'm definitely not a better cook than my wife Amanda but I make a lot of the meals during the week and I'm finding myself getting more and more upset that I'll make a meal, present it to the family and without them even trying it, they'll be putting salt on it, they'll be putting condiments on it. And I don't mind those things coming in later,

but I'm like, no one is even trying it. Even taking a taste of it first before they're dousing it in salt or putting tomato sauce on it or mayo or something. I'm like... You're like, this thing is rich, full of rich flavours. At least give it a bash. Give it a bash. I'm like,

or is it that bad that you've got to cover it up with all this other stuff? And I don't know if it offends other people who make stuff. Producer Taylor as well, I know you do a lot

of the cooking at home again for scheduling purposes. Yeah, I hate it. It's the same as you. I hate when I've just slaved away in the kitchen for hours, especially with chicken schnitzel.

God, that's such a tedious thing to make. You put in the breadcrumb and stuff. And then Marcelo just goes and puts barbecue sauce all over the thing. I was like, those two don't even go together. It's got bloody breadcrumb on it. You don't need anything else. In Marcelo's defense, they're a condiment people. They're a people who just want to spray.

We're a saucy family. I'm spraying sauce over everything. But I get it. But just have a taste. And then just like cover it in like 90% sauce. But then I'd go, oh, a bit bland. But then I'd offend you even more. I'm like, just give me the mayo.

All over it. All over it. Mayonnaise on everything. Really? Oh, anything. Yeah, you're saving all the things you put mayonnaise on. Steak. Yuck. Yeah. Yuck.

I'll put mayonnaise on chicken, obviously. I've had mayonnaise. Even chicken? Obviously. Obviously what? I'm like, a sandwich or salad is as far as I'd stretch mayonnaise as far as chicken. Yeah, like an egg salad. I've had spaghetti bolognese.

No. No. Pasta. No. Pasta, the meat sauce, mayonnaise and a bread sandwich That's disgusting That is feral That's not even ballpark Of things you compare with each other

I chuck anything in bread I sent you a photo Of a lasagna That I put in between Two pieces of bread. But you only eat once a day. Your poor, poor body is just like, you know. Do you have an ulcer?

Like surely there's a stomach ulcer. I might have it in my mouth, remember? You can space out your food throughout the day and get energy from that food. It boosts some energy. I just love the energy. One big energy hit. And then probably feel so tired you have to go to sleep. Yeah, that's right.

You put me dead right. Yes. So I don't know if anyone, 4487, I want to do a quick snap poll. Are you offended if someone just puts mayo on your chicken or salt or whatever it is straight away without trying it? Or are you like, oh, that's cool. I mean, if you're Gordon Ramsay, I'm going to give you the respect. I'm going to be like, yeah, well, obviously Ramsay knows what he's doing.

There'll be all sorts of wonderful flavors in there. But Ben Boyce handing out some fish fingers? All right. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, I've really enjoyed working with relatively new producer Taylor who's been with us for a couple of months now from Australia. You've been in New Zealand, what, for a year, just over a year? Yeah, over a year now.

We've welcomed you with open arms, haven't we? Yeah. Yeah? Yeah. Yeah? Yep. And we feel it's our patriotic duty to educate you on all things New Zealand because you've come over here, you're raw-dogging it. You don't know many of the names of the towns. Yeah.

We have a phone system here at the studio and Taylor will type next door in the producer's booth the name of the caller and the town they're from. But the callers obviously said, oh, you know, I'm from Matamata. And so then she will write M-U-T-A-R, M-U-T-A-R, not knowing how to spell it. And I'm like, where the hell is Hamilton? I'm like Danny Jerk and things like this. I'm trying to have to decipher where these places are.

And also people as well, you'll go, do you want an interview with this person? Yeah, absolutely. Because, you, because you don't know. I'm not aware. Yeah, I'm Googling a lot. Yeah, which is only natural. Tell your Dan Carter story. Yeah, well, I didn't know who he was at all, and I got seated next to him at a rugby event,

and I messaged my husband. I was like, hey, do you know this bloke called Dan Carter? Apparently he's a big deal. And what was met with sentence after sentence, sentence capital letters what the hell are you stitching me up i was like why what what what's so good about him and then i got an education did you ask him what he did yeah uh well i was just like yeah i was like oh yeah so what do you do like why are you here he's like i'm a chemist warehouse salesman he's so humble man and then when i realized just how big he was i was like i, oh, he played it cool.

So this is the level we're playing at. So as we said, we feel it's our duty on behalf of the country to educate you on famous New Zealanders. So we're just going to name

the person and I'll give you A, B or C options and you can pick. But if you know straight away, just answer. Yeah. Okay, first up,

Stan Walker. I know him because he's a singer right yeah well done he was quite big in oz yeah he is quite big sorry yeah one from one okay you've upset john because he's got some jokes about the jokes that i spent five to seven minutes writing those are wasted minutes do it honestly yeah yeah they're not worth that don't do it too honestly a lot of work's gone into this helen clark do you know helen clark no so i have the option okay are you just you're just being nice okay helen clark is helen clark a newsreader a singer or actor or a former prime

minister well i said joke you didn't have jokes. Just serious answers. For some reason, I don't know why, but I'm thinking she's the same person as Hilary Barrett. Newsreader. Former Prime Minister Alan Clarke. Wow. Yeah. Wow.

Not too long ago. So was a female Prime Minister before Jacinda. Yeah. I've called you guys are progressive. I think we've had one in Oz. You won't even let Aborigines have their same part. Next one. Ernest Rutherford. Oh God.

Did he split the bill, split the atom or split the difference? What does split the bill mean? Like at the dinner? Famous New Zealand bill splitter. What's his name? He actually invented the act of splitting the bill mean? Like at the dinner? Famous New Zealand bill splitter. What's his name? He actually invented the act of splitting the bill. Did he actually?

Oh my God. He's the first person to do it. He's like, I've had nine more cocktails than everyone else, but I reckon we should all pay evenly. They're like, all right, Ernest. Ernest by name, Ernest by nature. I don't really want to pay for it because I don't eat any garlic bread, but all right. No, he split the atom.

Okay, cool. You understand how to press my arm? No, I don't even know what that means. But yeah, good for him, man. To be honest, I don't either, but it's someone who's done a lot. Hey, that makes three of us. All right, next one. Last one, but last one, we'll come back to this.

Valerie Adams. Okay. Valerie Adams. Okay, Valerie Adams. Disgraced politician, New Zealand's leading Bitcoin investor, winner of New Zealand's Bachelorette, or gold medal winning shot putter? Valerie Adams. Valerie Adams. She should have bloody split the atom. That's her name.

It's not atoms. It's atoms. Oh, atoms. Oh, Adams. Oh, I'm sorry. What if anyone says her name? Valerie Adams. She missed her calling with a surname like that. It's Adams.

I don't know. Bachelorette winner? No. She's a dame. She's an Olympic gold medal shot putter. Oh, my God. Okay. Listen, we wouldn't know anyone if we went over to Australia.

Yeah, I'll come back next week and I'll quiz you on Aussies. Okay, let's do that. That'll be good. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. In this, there's the doctor's surgery. Now, it's just paying at the counter. And paywave.

Popular payment system nowadays. Popular, very dangerous, I reckon. Yeah, you're right. It's like, you know, recklessly tapping your card or your phone bang bang bang no consequence well there are consequences but you're not thinking about it no it just feels very easy you're right yeah I feel like there was more of a thought process when you actually get to pull out your EFOS card swipe it put a pin and you know there was a process where you're like actually do I need this thing that's why I got a Valcrocro wallet just an extra layer of security it's just an extra

process uh but so i was tabbing away on the air force terminal and nothing's happening and i'm hearing behind me i can feel energy you know impatient energy behind me yeah huffs and puffs and groans and moans and i i feel like it's towards me because I'm holding up the line. Yeah, right. And I look at the person behind the counter, giving her the eyeballs of like, can you believe this person behind me? The pure impatience of the whole thing. And I keep tapping away, tapping away, tapping away.

And I turn around and the lady's got a bleeding hand. Oh. Yeah. Okay. So she's wrapped it up in like a tea towel or something. away tapping away tapping away and i turn around and the lady's got a bleeding hand oh yeah okay so she's wrapped it up in like a tea towel or something there's obviously been some incident that's gone on at home and you're like trying to work i'm trying to work out pay wave i'm tapping tapping tapping and then the lady who's profusely bleeding you know bleed probably very woozy light on energy she's like there's no pay wave she's the one to tell you that there's no pay wave. And I'm like, what? So she's the one to tell you that.

There's no pay wave. And there's, you know, on the terminals there, clearly it's got no pay wave written on it.

But I never pay attention to the no pay wave sign. Oh, jeez. So hopefully she's alright. Hopefully she's still with us. And you had to use Airpods.