Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: The 90 Year Old On A Lime Scooter...

Episode Date: May 16, 2023

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The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations. We're after child champions. What were your champion as when you were a kid? Joining us right now is my niece Ayla. Good morning Ayla. Good morning. Okay, I see what's going on here. Donald Trump nepotism? Bringing your family members into the fold? I thought it was a pretty remarkable story. Now Ayla lives lives up north, and you went fishing a couple of days ago. And, Ayla, what did you catch? I caught a yellowtail kingfish, and it weighed 29 kgs.

Jeez, that probably weighs more than you. Yeah. It's huge. 29 kgs. Now, how long did it take to pull the fish in? About 40 minutes. 40 minutes. 40 minutes. Gee, that must have been like bloody Maui fishing up the North Island.

Yeah. So Ayla's 12 years old. I think I got that correct, haven't I, Ayla? Yeah. You're good. What a shocking uncle. I thought I did, and then I second-guessed myself on my way through. And you were just saying Ayla's birthday as well.

Yeah, it's one of my favorite days of the year. What was it? Ayla, oh, it's better. Remind me again. Remind your Uncle Ben when your birthday is again saying Ayla's birthday as well. Yeah, it's one of my favourite days of the year. What was it? Ayla, oh, it's better. Remind me again. Remind your Uncle Ben when your birthday is again, Ayla. October the 11th. That's right. Favourite day of the year, October the 11th.

But your fish that you've caught, it could be a New Zealand, well, it's a New Zealand record, but we understand. Yeah, so the New Zealand record was 18 kgs. Oh, you smashed it. What, over the New Zealand record was 18 kgs. Oh, you smashed it. What, over 10 kgs? Yeah. And now you're getting it verified for a world record.

Yes. How do you do that? Do they just look at the photo or you have to send the fish over and then it arrives and they're like, geez, this took three weeks to get here. I mean, it includes a lot of paperwork. A lot of paperwork. Are you doing the paperwork? No.

So the skipper that I went out with, Adam Davey, he's helping me with it. Just remember when you do the paperwork, your birthday is October 12th, all right? 11th. 11th. Yeah, I always remember. What a day. October 11th. What a great day.

That's incredible. And so have you looked at the current world record? What's that sitting at? The current world record, the junior world record, is 28 kgs. So you've beaten 1 kg. That's amazing. So you might get your name in the Guinness Book of Records. Yeah.

That's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. That's great being a kid, isn't it? The world's your oyster or your tuna. Or was it a kingfish? It was a tuna or oyster or your tuna. What was it, a kingfish? It was a tuna or something. I don't know. Was it a kingfish?

Yes, it was a yellowtail kingfish. Do you get to eat it or do you have to wait until it's all been verified? The skipper cut it up for us. We have a lot of fish. Oh, good. I feel like you're going to be eating kingfish from now until Christmas. Well done, Ayla. And we'll celebrate your birthday on October 13th.

It's 11. Shocking uncle. I can imagine. What is he like as an uncle, Ayla? Let's talk. He's cool. Does he come and talk to you at a family function? What's he got to say to you?

Sometimes. I'm usually just playing with my cousin. You'll say, say hey happy birthday for the 14th of October I'm going to get on and chat with the adults we hang out we do

Ayla and my my daughters they put on and Ayla's sister Skylar as well they put on wonderful productions oh do you do the show

I've heard about these great shows yeah shows to the family they go away they work on the show they come back and they perform some would say

they need a little bit of editing from time to time, but hey no, it's great. Ben did say, he didn't say your performance, he said some performances dragged on a little bit. But everyone gets dragged up there, it's great. It's great fun.

Well done Ayla, that's awesome. We're so proud of you and hopefully you get the world record. Thank you. So what we want to know right now on 0800 The Hits, what were you a child champion in? What did you achieve? I didn't really achieve anything. Not like Ayla, but hey, someone in my family is a potential world record holder.

You were a child champion when you won that colouring in competition for a supermarket, but the only downside was he lied about his age and he entered the under nines category when he was over 14. You know me and birthdays have just demonstrated I'm not great with birthdays, so I put the wrong one in. I was thinking of Ayla's birthday. But you were a child champion, colourer, innerer, and you won a supermarket voucher.

I did, I did. I got some Milky Bars. So 0800 the hits, 4487. As a kid, what were you a champion in? Would love to hear from you next week. I wish that a text come through to say, Jono, you were a champion radio announcer as a young kid, as a young fellow.

I mean, have a listen to this. Oh, my God. Johnny Pryor, eh? We love Johnny Pryor. When are you going to lose this? When are you going to lose this footage? It's so bad it only plays out one of the speakers. How long ago it is?

Well, that's what radio is like in the 1920s. Okay. You're still a champion radio announcer today, mate. Well done. I feel like... I'm mocking you. You are? Yeah, a little bit, a little bit.

My parents, and this is the problem when you're an only child, your parents have got nothing else to compare you to. Yeah. They were like, you were a champion swimmer, champion tennis player, champion basketballer. I was none of those things. And then it's just the disappointment when they turn up to a tournament and see how bad their son is. You ended up making sandwiches at the tennis tournaments.

Toasted sandwiches. Yeah, I'd get knocked out in the first round. Then I'd go to the plate round. Then I'd go to this real special round if you'd lost in the first two. And you ended up making toasted sandwiches with the wonderful mums in the kitchen there. But yeah, we wanted to know what you were a child champion in. 0800 HITS is the

telephone number. Darcelle, what were you a champion? Athletics? I was actually quite good. Really good. Oh, really good. What were we talking? 100 metres, 200 long jump? What? The whole lot. At primary and intermediate in high school, no one ever wanted to go against me.

Oh, that good. You were, you know, mini Zoe Hobbs. Yeah, yeah, something like that. Did you ever, your school used to be with mine as well, where everyone would try and race you for your shoes or something new that you'd come to school with, and it would be like a running race to see who would get to win it. I'd never take anyone on because I couldn't run that fast,

but you could have. Yeah, no, not quite running shoes, but it would be pretty fun. Now, because some people, you know, they would turn up to Athletics Day with sprigs, and you're like, damn, if you're wearing sprigs, you're mean business, don't you? Were you barefooted or sprigged? No, I had the sprigs, had everything. Oh, everything. So really good at athletics and then

when did things start to sort of fall away in your athletics career? Probably when I was about 17 and I discovered that if I worked and got money, I could buy whatever I wanted. What were you buying? McDonald's pies was my favourite

and Diet Coke. I thought Diet Coke, if I just get a Diet Coke, it's not as bad as any Coke, right? Yeah, it's been the end of many promising athletic careers. Yeah. And so what, could you still run a hundy today? Probably, yes, I could. What were you doing it in back then?

Yeah, not quite 10 seconds. I can't even remember because it was so long ago. And back then, you didn't think about your times. You just thought, I can run faster than everyone else. Your Forrest gumped it. He wasn't worried about time. He just ran. Oh, good on you, Darcelle.

Hey, thanks for your call, mate. That's okay. You guys have a good day. Great text here, 4487. I was in the under-20 New Zealand swimming team until I discovered there was far more fun to be had in partying. That would be a common one. I was in the under-20 New Zealand swimming team until I discovered there was far more fun to be had in partying. That would be a common one. I was in the under-14 New Zealand table tennis team until we went to China and realised we were shocking in table tennis.

That's sometimes the way, eh? Especially if you're at school, you're like, oh, great, the school. And then your school goes into a regional thing. The zones. You're like, oh, my goodness, we are way off. You get that false... It really puts things in perspective when you go to the zones. You're like, oh my goodness, we are way off. You know, you get that false. It really puts things in perspective when you go to the zones. It does.

And everyone's got that one friend, overachiever, who just has 39 medals dangling on their door handle in their bedroom. I wasn't, don't worry, I wasn't that guy. Were you that guy? No, I definitely wasn't that guy. Hey, look at us both. We're definitely not that people. The hits.

The Jono and Ben podcast. Our 10-year-old Kogan saw our ads, our ads with kids, where we get ideas from kids to try and come up with ideas for the show. And they've got much better ideas than we have. And he saw those on TV. Well, not always, Ben. Let's be honest. We're adults.

We've got a bit more to talk to. Let's just not palm that off. Kids don't have better ideas than adults. That's the thing with it because they're kids. Well, Kogan had a good idea. Kogan had one good idea. It was a win for the kids. Yeah, and he called us yesterday and here's his idea.

Apparently, you've got an idea that we should bring to the hits in our radio show. What is it? A mascot. Yeah, what I love about Kogan, you're an ideas man. You're a big ideas man. He's the Elon Musk of the West Coast. I like the idea of a mascot. A sports team mascot because they're big and strong and athletic.

Maybe not. No. Yeah, no. Are we going to sports team? What do you want to do, mate? What's going on? He's talked himself out of it. What about a pigeon, but it's the punny pigeon?

It's a pigeon that goes around and it's a never-ending supply of puns, which is good for you, Ben? It could poop through that paper note. Poop out paper notes which have puns and then everyone opens it and goes, oh, that's a funny... I think we're getting somewhere. We're getting somewhere.

I don't think we're getting anywhere at all, to be honest. A great idea for a mascot, so we need your help. 4487, what should the Hits mascot be? It could be anything at all. Had a couple of suggestions come through yesterday, and we want to curb these immediately. And I thought, well, a donkey would be a great mascot for you fellas

because you're both a couple of arses, mate. I do like it. A donkey. It could be a double-ended donkey. But it's just the back. Yeah, well, that's making it a little bit easier. You made it sound weirder, Jono. Yeah, I'm thinking a couple of clowns. There's a theme here.

Look at our guys. I know this is a brainstorm. No idea is a bad idea. Oh, well, yeah, you've got to say that. You've got to stick to that. There's been weasels. There's been bald eagles for you, Jono. There's been all sorts coming through this morning, right?

So, yeah, lots of suggestions coming through. A lot of people taking this opportunity and great opportunity to mock us. Bully us. And that's great. That's fine. That's fine. Any chance to bully someone, take it, except for Friday where it's don't bully anyone day. Any other day of the year.

Don't bully anyone. Well, that's pokey fun. We do it every morning. We're all good with it. But we do want to, jokes aside, we want a sensible mascot that we're going to get out there and take it out and about to market the station. Well, it's a decision you can't take lightly

because once we have the mascot, we've nailed our foot to the floor on the mascot. Yeah. You know, there's ones around the world, which I can get into more very shortly, but many colleges in America have them over there. They've got the Grumpy Gherkin

at the Upper Iowa Community College. I don't know why the Gherkin has anger management problems. It's grumpy. There's Gary the Camel, who was a camel representing a university back in the day, sponsored by Camel Cigarettes. These are all legit. Leg's grumpy. There's Gary the Camel, who was a camel representing a university back in the day, sponsored by Camel Cigarettes.

These are all legit. Legit. Wow. The only camel with lung cancer back in the day. And then they had the big red clam. Just a big, giant clam. So those are some of the ones that are overseas. There's some options.

We'll get a costume made. We'll use it as part of our marketing. So this is all on you, New Zealand. So give us a call right now. 0800-THE-HITS-4487. Help us out. We want a mascot. We've had the idea through 10-year-old Kogan to have a mascot for the HITS radio station. We're going to get a costume made.

We'll take it around on a bit of a marketing tour. Get the word out there about the HITS. And what's the best suggestion for a mascot? I was in Palmerston North, another Palmerston North story. There you go, some Palmerston North propaganda for you, Ben Boyce. Timarawa, a wonderful museum there, went along there. And they had, back in a room there, they had the Mouse Head, a rich history of mascots and radio.

There was Buzzer Bumble, iconic mascot as well, Gary McCormick for many years as well. Well, they kept him. And in Timarawa and Palmerston North, I saw the mouse head of an iconic Manawa 2 mascot. Radio 2ZA in Palmerston North. You're looking at Monty the Mouse. So Monty the Mouse, what you were saying,

was part of the birthday calls in the morning. Every child could have its parent phone in and they would do the birthday calls at 8 o'clock in the morning of the day. And Monty the Mouse would then go. The reality was it was actually a cork being rubbed against the bottom. I'm not allowed to tell you that. Oh, you've just told me that.

Okay, so Monty the Mouse is now in the museum. He is, to remember something which was a significant part. So they made a costume after the birthday calls and they had a mascot for the station that would go out. Yes. The kids would have loved Monty the Mouse. They did. When his father, Morrie, married Millie, producing Monty, they had the entire one quarter of the square

filled with people to watch the marriage. They had a mouse wedding as well. Mouse wedding. They filled up a quarter of the square. Not the whole square, but the square. It's big. What I love about that is she wasn't going to lie. She could have embellished it, filled out the whole square, but no.

I like that suggestion too of making noise with the cork from the wine bottle. The cork rubbing against the wine bottle. It sounds like they were just hiding the announcer's drinking problem. Yeah, cork against the glass. Oh, that makes a mouse, mate. That's why the wine's. It sounds like they were just hiding the announcer's drinking problem. Yeah, cork against the glass. Oh, that makes a mouse, mate. That's why the wine's in the studio. Tell you what, having a mouse for the birthday calls, high concept stuff. But we're getting many suggestions

coming through for the Hits mascot. Briar, you're on. What do you reckon? Hi, how are you? Lovely to have you on. We're doing well, Briar. What do you reckon for the mascot, matey? I reckon you guys should have a microphone and call it mike mike the microphone beautiful is it just some guy called mike no no like a full-on costume or a puppeteer or something like that mike the microphone you

guys use them every day a giant microphone i think it's good i mean the hands inside the costume out of the costume i feel like they need to be out of the costume, but then it wouldn't look as good for the microphone having hands out. That's a good suggestion, Brian. Although the only thing is when you see a microphone not on a stand, it can look like... Yeah. Well, there's two of you, so

one of you could be the microphone and the other person could be the stand. We connect together like Transformers. I love it. Good on you, Brian. I appreciate it. We're going to go to Tommy, 16 years old.

He's got an idea, and it's of the now, too. It's topical. Oh, I like this. What have you got, Tommy? All right. You should get an emoji with the head tilted sideways, the tongue out, and one eye bigger than the other one. Oh, like an eh.

Yes. Yeah. I've got it on my phone. You should look. You should find it. Yeah, I do like that. Very in with the kids. The hit moji.

The hit moji. Yeah, it's good. Good thing. I like that. We'll write that one down, Tom. Corey, you're on from Southland. It's good to have you on. Is it chilly in Invercargill, mate?

Yeah, it's actually raining. It's been quite good, though. No, well, Corey, your suggestion for our mascot. We'll bring it to Invercargill, mate? Yeah, it's actually raining. It's been quite good, though. No, well, Corey, your suggestion for our mascot. We'll bring it to Invercargill. Okay. Right, this one's for you, Jono. I listened to you yesterday, and I reckon that your mascot should be a record player with a scratch disc. You hear the same stories over and over again from Jono.

You know how I say we're going to bring the mascot to Southland? Southland's now off the list. I've made an executive decision. I'm going to Southland. I love that. Listen, Corey, in life, you only have so many stories you can tell. There's only so much stuff that happens to one human being. And when you have to fill three hours of radio in the morning,

yeah, you might tell the same story. Some would say he could go out more, but hey, he's decided not to. He's all the stories he needs to rotate. Plus I've got Alzheimer's too. Hey, Corey, we're going to hook you up with some Hal pizza. Thank you so much for your suggestion. No worries, cheers. Keeping these coming through, 4487.

Tomorrow in the New Zealand Herald, the good old Herald have come on board. What they're going to do is they're going to have a page on the Herald where you can draw your design of a mascot. Design it, yeah. Yeah, and we're going to pick a winner. It's happening. There'll be some prizes up for grabs as, and we're going to pick a winner. It's happening. There'll be some prizes up for grabs as well. We're going everywhere apart from Invercargill.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. An elderly gentleman that I saw yesterday driving home. Ben, I had to dot away quickly, and I came back to work after that. But as I was driving home, I drove past a retirement village. Oh, yeah. And there was an elderly gentleman yeah i don't want to make assumptions between the age of 85 and 90 i would have thought yeah they sort of hit 17 it's a gamble isn't it as to what yeah what age they are but um there was a lime scooter

and he was walking towards it and i was like okay here we go this will be an interesting interaction to watch an electric scooter oh hey you know yeah i mean i don't want to discriminate anyone can jump on an electric scooter but it feels like his age bracket might have been out of the demograph might have been too much electricity for him you know a defib machine's probably the right amount of electricity that he needs in his time but like a bloody cowboy riding a wild stallion, jumped on, swiped what he needed to swipe, took off like a legend. Wow.

I don't know how it panned out of the air. But it felt like that thing was going 20 k's faster than that guy should ever be travelling. Because whenever I ride them, I'm like, oh, this could go wrong at any moment you've said I'm going to have an accident on mine

yeah or you take your electric scooter in people are probably like what's that 85 year old doing on an electric scooter when they see me scooting past

but I'm like at any stage especially because I see you you go down the middle of the road you go on all kinds of things

you're like man I was like oh he's going to injure himself it's going to happen I saw someone from another radio station This morning

They're like Whoa here he comes They said you come You come in quite fast Yeah I know You don't take it slow No Do you

You don't You know That's why I think I don't think people On the scooters Are gonna injure themselves I think you're You're gonna injure yourself

Just me Just because you're a radic You're all over the place But you know I've got that In the back of my mind now Every time I'm riding that I'm like Ben says

I'm gonna fall off And he's gonna, Ben says I'm going to fall off. And he's going to have great joy when I come into work with my face all scratched up from the road. And so now I'm trying hard not to fall off. Every fire I'll be trying not to fall off, just so you're not proven right. You'll come in with all sort of bruises. You're like, what?

Fall off scooter? Nah, nah, nah. Maybe I'll be like the guy from Phantom of the Opera and I'll just have half a mask. You're like, what's wrong, mate? Nothing. Just a new look, baby. The hits.

The Jono and Ben podcast. Have you got my internet wormhole intro there, Joel? Thank you. Jono's internet wormhole. You're getting more and more down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories, aren't you? Well, I feel like the internet has stereotyped me as a Joe Rogan fan.

I believe it. I'm slowly turning into one of those Joe Rogan fan. I believe it. I'm slowly turning into one of those Joe Rogan podcast listeners who's a little sceptical about the vaccine and believes in aliens and things like that. And I keep getting fed a certain

type of content which is making me question mainstream media being us. The media drongos. You played this to me before and i'll let you be the judge of it but i am definitely not going where you're going on it so sorry producer john i need to give it a fair intro okay this is what happened when i went down to parliament with my tinfoil hat no one gave us a fair platform so in america they have loads of local news stations obviously every state or every small city would loads of local news stations obviously

Every state or every small city would have a local news station Okay Hundreds of them Here is a montage Of local news stations Saying word for word Exactly the same thing More alarming

Some media outlets publish these same fake stories without checking facts first. The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media. More alarming, some media outlets publish these same fake stories without checking facts first. Unfortunately, some members of the media use their flashcards... A lot going on. It's a noisy montage. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. Now that's all I need to play you. Okay. Hundreds of news outlets saying the same thing about control of information and how online you can't trust it, but you can trust them. But it's a script. It's a script. They're all reading a script. Quick Google will say that local news stations get given from large networks full of news stories where a script is given to them and they read the same the same script small affiliate stations around america then they lack sufficient resources

to maintain all their stories so they get sent a script from the bigger like we were reading scripts throughout covid and stuff like that the same script on here and the same one on other radio stations exactly word for word of what the other ones were because that's what we had to do on the radio station. But who's writing the script? Well, yeah, okay. Well, sometimes it could be, yeah. Well, bigger networks and that's okay. But hey, you could go down that, yeah.

It's like when Lego Masters Australia is playing on one channel and then on the other channel, Lego Masters New Zealand is playing at the same time. How much Lego can we take? Oh jeez. He's really gone down that road.

It's like when they play My Kitchen Rules Australia on one channel on the same night as they play My Kitchen Rules New Zealand. The Hits. The Jono and Ben Podcast.

Will we park? Will we park? It's a couple of blocks away from here. It's sort of a hotel casino situation. That's not where I park but anyway.

I like to park in the hotel casino situation. Easy access to the floor, you know what I'm saying. Yeah. But the good thing, one of the things I really enjoy about hotels is you just get a mix of everyone from all walks of life. Yeah. They're for all sorts of reasons. Yeah, you're right.

You know, business. Yep. Pleasure. Adultery. Yeah. Which could also fall under the pleasure category. Yeah, there's a lot going on at hotels at any stage, you're right. You know, business, pleasure, adultery, which could also fall under the pleasure category. Yeah, there's a lot going on at hotels at any stage, you're right. Day or night, they're always bustling, right?

Yeah. They never like you filming in hotels, do they? They're very careful about the privacy, the privacy of the clientele as well. Why do you go around filming in hotels? Mate, I wasn't what you go around, even at work, I don't know what you go around filming in hotels? Mate, I wasn't what you go around. Even at work, I don't know what you go around filming. Yeah, they get a bit antsy when I'm in there with my phone. I'm just like, what are you up to, Sears?

Just getting some footage for the website. But I bumped in this morning. Now, this is bearing in mind 4.40 a.m. early in the morning. Three guys, two in togs, one in speedos. Now there's not many buildings that people are completely chill with being in suits or speedos. And you don't bat an eyelid. If someone's going towards

the swimming area, you're right. You could just be running around in... You're like, oh clearly they're going to the pool. But maybe they were off to a board meeting. You don't know. The world is your oyster in a hotel. That's very unusual. You got locked out of a hotel room once, didn't you? Oh, no, a mate of ours did.

No clothes. And I wouldn't have bet it on either. They kind of did. Went to the bathroom in the middle of the night and just got the door completely wrong and then ended up in the fort. You can't get back in. You've got to make that slow sort of awkward work. middle of the night but then going to the the guy on security down the bottom to go hey mate he's like oh okay how did he cover himself i think he grabbed

a plant like a plant from a hallway and sort of just sort of had that sort of appropriately like an austin powers sort of scene or something and then walked up there and they were like, okay. Apparently it happens quite often. It would do. People just get the doors wrong and then getting locked out. So yeah. A naked sleeper. Naked sleeper.

Yeah. I mean, some people, it's the thing. Not for me. Not for me. Not for me. Tuxedo, mate.

All types of three-piece suit. Like to lie on top of the duvet. Always ready to go at any time.