Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: The Burden Of Your Work!

Episode Date: June 19, 2023

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The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. I've been having not such great times at home. Did some impulse art purchasing online. Oh, did you? Now, I've got a bit of a shaded history when it comes to artifacts. My only other art purchase for the household was a banner featuring North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and sort of his smiling, big happy smiling face on a nuclear ship

and it said, live, laugh, love. It was a wall hanging and I thought I'd take that home. Did you honestly think you were going to put that up? Yeah. Okay. No one else saw the humour in it. Yeah. I feel like a great for a flat or like a garage situation, you know.

Probably. But I can't talk. I've got like LeBron James figurines and Toy Story figurines and Simpsons figurines in the lounge. So I can't talk. My respects are allowed to place those up. I've got a shelf. It's my shelf and it is cluttered.

Maybe I need a shelf. With all sorts of stuff in the lounge, yeah. Yeah, because I haven't learned my lesson from the Kim Jong-un wall hanging. And so then a couple of weeks ago I saw a funny thing pop up on Instagram. You know how it's like, oh, check out this art. And they have all these cool videos and stuff with hot looking young people holding bits of art and looking like they're living their best life. And it was a picture of Mickey Mouse, but he's pulling the fingers. Oh, that's very off brand for Disney

I don't know if the Disney Corporation are fully across the artwork So anyway I bought it Oh so you bought it Yeah I got it turned up And I went to hang it in the main living area Don't you think that's not going up there And I was like where's it going I've purchased some art And't you think that's not going up there? And I was like, well, where's it going? I've purchased some art.

And Jennifer's sort of, my wife, she's sort of suggesting an area with less foot traffic. Right. So I'm like, okay, the hallway. No, no, not the hallway. I was like, well, what about the spare room? No, not even the spare room. I'm like, where am I putting this thing?

I think it's going to end up in the shed. We're still in intense negotiations about where I can hang it but i'm at this stage i'm thinking the only happy place is going to be in the garden sheet at the back with the bloody lawnmower and ladder so i'm going to i'm going to give up on buying art maybe it's not my thing you know some people are art yeah you probably but i i bought a mickey mouse clock and mickey mouse is not pulling the fingers but his hands are yeah they're doing the time. Doing the time as well. And that's up. Have you got that up?

I got that up, but reluctantly that's up because our other clock fell down and broke and I was like, I'll get another one. And I took it upon myself to get the clock and now my wife. Oh, so this wasn't like, you didn't go to Disney Land or anything? No, no.

You went to a clock shop and there were all the clocks. Out of all the clocks, I was like, oh, that one's cool because Mickey Mouse's arm's the clock. So I bought a bank. A normal clock shop. So were all the clocks out of all the clocks I was like oh that one's cool because Mickey Mouse's arms are the clock so I bought a bank a normal clock shop so there were normal clocks that was the only Mickey Mouse clock

the novelty clock in there so I was like this is the one for us and I've got that up reluctantly reluctantly it was up there on the wall for my wife's situation oh good the hits the Jono and Ben podcast. Over the weekend, went with the fam to Taco Bell.

Oh, nice. Have you been to Taco Bell? I did. I really enjoyed it when I went to Taco Bell. Yeah. Relatively new to the country, isn't it? I remember when the first one just randomly opened up in the middle of nowhere in between Auckland and the Waikato.

Oh, that's right. Yeah. Oh, that's... The side of the road, yeah. Odd location. Yeah. Maybe the people in the States were like, oh, that's... The side of the road, yeah. Odd location. Yeah. Maybe the people in the States were like, oh, we'll just open one up in New Zealand.

Yeah. The back of someone's paddock in the middle of State Highway 1. But, yeah, went there over the weekend. And what I didn't realise is the in-dining experience is they have this giant obnoxious bell. So, and they leave it in the hands of your average dining manta aka me now you can ring the bell whenever you want if you're satisfied with your meal happy with the customer service bang bang bang you can fire away at this bell

it is loud which i mean i guess yeah i guess it's good it works with the name taco bell you know but it's a big bell and it's like a hunchback Notre Dame-sized bell. You'd hear it in Tijuana all the way from Sylvia Park. So I just wanted to know, like, if you're pulling a nine-hour shift behind the counter at Taco Bell, does the bell, after five or six hours, the novelty of it wear off? And we want to get the burden of your job. What is it?

Maybe you're in the service industry. Maybe you're, I don't know, but there are jobs out there. I don't need to list examples, but we'll go through to Taco Bell now. Hopefully they're setting up for the day. Taco Bell, Sylvia Park. Hi, may I help you? Oh, hello. How are you?

I'm good. Lavina speaking. Lavina, it's Jono and Ben from the Hits Radio station. Yeah, how may I help you? I came in there over the weekend, had a lovely meal, really enjoyed it. But I noticed that there's this bell, a giant bell that all the customers ring. Yeah? I was just wondering, does that become the burden of of your day having this Bell being rung all the time

Are you asking if it is a burden? Yeah the Bell No, it makes us happy. It makes you could you do us a favor and can you ring the bell for us now? Would you like me to ring the bell for you? bell. Ring the bell. There you go. Guys, it's a lot of bell too, isn't it? Yeah. And it makes us happy also if the people we serve are happy. Everyone's happy. I was happy when in there.

All right, yeah. It feels like if you came in with a headache, that it would be a long day at the office. It keeps us motivated. Oh, that's awesome. Our customers are happy to serve us. You're lovely.

Well, lovely to talk to you. Thank you very much for ringing our bell. Thank you very much. Have a good

day. Can you take us out with the bell? There we go. There we go.

Another happy customer. That's us today. Love your work at Taco Bell. Thank you.

See you, Lavina. Thank you. Bye. They love it. Love the bell at Taco Bell. So it's See you, Laveena. Thank you, bye. They love it. Love the bell at Taco Bell. So, $800. So, it's not a burden

of their job. Not a burden. No. So, this is doing the complete 180 of the angle and the point I was trying to make,

Ben Boyce, is what is the burden of your job? If you were to pick one burden of radio, and it's a very sweet job on the whole. I'll tell you what,

and it's a minor thing, but when we say, give us a call, like, what's your burden of your job? And then no one will call. But then suddenly we've got a competition, Ed Sheeran Vancouver, and there's like thousands of people like, oh, you're all listening and you all want to call now.

But when your Jono says, what's the burden of your job? And I'm like, under the hits, no one calls. That would be the burden of my job. Amen, brother. Amen, brother. Mine was for a while there uh they used to have radio hosts sending out prizes and my admin was shocking sloppy at best so much so that my checkered prize posting history followed me over here to this new radio member was like you

promised me a whole bunch of beach towels and we made it the hits problem to sort that out so that no longer that's a problem but it used to be a burden of this job oh 800 the hits what is the burden of your job maybe you're you work in a call center you're an uber driver bartender whatever give us a call right now you can text 24487 the hits the jonathan ben podcast and we want to know what the burden of your job is doesn't mean you don't love your job but just the one thing that maybe after time you know over time gets a wee bit on yeah be a bit annoying but hard to endure now another one of the again we front for this by saying this is a wonderful job we are privileged to be in this position here but there's some mornings where you're like we're unreasonably happy at 606 not everyone can be that consistently happy morning after morning and you kind of

if you pretend to be happy you kind of bully yourself into being happy by 7 o'clock don't you so the people who tune in now you get the happiest version of us some dark dark times at 6.03am man I tell you but 0800 the hits we'll go to Hamilton get Tina on New Zealand's breakfast Morena Tina

Morning how are you? Oh, listen, we're doing well, mate. We're happy now. We've had an hour of warming up. What do you do? On my way to work. You what, sorry? On my way to work. On your way to work. What do you do? I work at the hospital.

Oh, okay. All right. And the burden of your job at the hospital, I imagine there's a few. Yeah, definitely. So when you're finishing a night shift, I work in the lab, and the blood culture analysed flags are positive blood culture, so they end up having to stay late. Oh, yeah. If you're putting the last blood test through,

I imagine you're thinking of bed, you're thinking of going home. Do you sometimes go, oh, just say no not positive I don't think they just can't do that so this is why I don't work in the laboratory hey thanks for your call Tina

appreciate that great text here 4487 guys I work at a call centre and I just deal with people questioning or complaining all day long no one ever phones a call centre just to say, hey guys, keep up the great work. Do they? No, you're a hush.

I can't imagine there's too many of those calls coming through. We'll get to Auckland. Terry, you're on the air. Welcome to New Zealand's breakfast. She's coming in hot. Terry, burden of your job? Well, when I worked at McDonald's, it was the ice cream machine. Why was that a burden?

It was, the ice cream machine is a machine of its own. We couldn't control it at any point. At any point, it could suddenly go, I need to heat everything up to cool it all down, so I'm going to stop working. Or it would go through a clean cycle. And at any point in the day, we could never program it to do it at a certain point in the day we could never program it to do at a certain point of the day all right you have to deal with people going oh i bet you it is working and yeah yeah right so people get unreasonably upset when they can't get their mcflurry yeah absolutely yeah i

get that renegade ice cream machine works on its own hours but it is frustrating you go there you like the ice cream thing's not working. It's cleaning. It's an ice cream machine. It's always working. Hey, thanks, Terry. Appreciate that. Another great text here.

Guys, I'm a bartender in a nightclub. Having people scream their drink orders at you while simultaneously spitting in your face can get a bit tenuous. I know. Yeah, I understand that. I can imagine, too, being a bartender as well, where you're trying to work out who to talk to.

Like, you know, who's the first in the line? And people are like, oh, it was before that person. Oh, you're just serving all the girls. Hey, what about the lads? Where's the cocktails for the lads? The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Made a huge mistake. I think I've made a fatal mistake.

Fatal mistake. So Sunday afternoon, it's about four o'clock, okay? I get a request from Poppy, who's my daughter. She's like, oh, her and her friend Zoe are over and, oh, can you go get us Starbucks? Oh, yeah. You like Starbucks? Yeah. Yeah.

I do, actually. Jeez, I really reckon the Starbucks will let the drinks get away on them, though. They've got a lot of drinks. It's all the sort of frappuccinos, the ice ones, and all sorts of stuff at the moment, right? The beverage creations, they're out of control at Starbucks, but many options. So what the request was,

was get some bloody caramel custard fairy sprinkled frappuccino or something. Yeah, yeah, you gotcha. Okay, so I was like, okay, great, I've got that. Then she and my wife, she's like, pretty clear instructions.

No caffeine. Yeah. Make sure no- Because you get some with coffee and some without coffee, right? great I've got that then she and my wife she's like pretty clear instructions no caffeine yeah make sure because you can get some with coffee and some without coffee right yeah she's like you must stipulate

no caffeine I'm like got it got it got all these instructions so I head along to Starbucks and I do it it was great

it was fun I had the thing the whipped cream get your name right I always love giving the name in New Zealand they get it right

overseas at Starbucks they give me bin bin or bean feels like they've just checked out on taking In New Zealand they get it right Overseas in Starbucks They give me bin Bin or bean Feels like they've just checked out On taking names New Zealand accent though right If you just stand around long enough Eventually your name might come up

So then yeah Went back boom Kids love them Halfway through the drink I get This tastes funny And I'm like No it doesn't taste bloody great

Keep going through it And then for the Remainder of the day, Jennifer's like, oh, they're incredible. They're very jumpy. Oh, jeez. Like a miniature jackhammer just sort of blasting around the house. And things haven't really clicked for me at this point. I'm like, oh, they're kids.

They're having a blast. Then I get home yesterday because obviously we leave first thing in the morning. I don't know what's happened overnight. And Jennifer mentioned, she said, oh, Poppy had a shocking sleep. Up and down all night. Got barely any sleep. Woke up this morning exhausted. And at this point, the pennies dropped.

Yeah. Have I just caffeinated children? You did talk about this as a joke for many years, didn't you? Yeah, like put coffee in the kids, get the productivity going. No, I'm pretty sure at the counter I was like, no caffeine. Did you? Well, I'm not entirely sure. Oh, God.

So if I've given caffeine to Zoe, I apologise. That was shocking. You should never come into my house and expect your kids to be caffeinated. And apologies to Poppy as well. But you've got to get them in early. Get them in early. Get results. Caffeine. The hits. got to get them in early. Get them in early. Gets results. Caffeine.

The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Now, I saw something on Instagram the other day, and it kind of, one of the things that kind of spoke to me, because it's a conversation you have as parents all the time with your kids, because kids just want to, they want to be older, they want to get, and we're all the same, but you're kind of like, this thing was like, well, these are good times when you're a kid.

It kind of reminded me of that. and it was basically the instagram question was what's something you hated as a kid but you ended up loving as an adult oh yeah good yeah because there's so many things as kids you're like oh i hate having to do this and when you're an adult you're like that is all i want to do yeah that particular thing i. No worse day in a young person's child's career when, oh, Timmy Richard's mum's cancelled the sleepover. Oh, yes. Devastation. Some cancellation to party, you're right.

Oh, when now in adult life someone cancels a party, I'm like, thank the bloody God. Yeah. There's no more happier moment, is there? Because the older you get the more i realize anyway a party is just basically a group of people locked in a room who would prefer not to be there we prefer to be at home on a couch well sometimes it is isn't it you're right yeah sometimes there's social occasions with friends you're like well i don't want to be the one to cancel but

whereas back in the day a sleepover oh not just, you're gearing up for it for weeks. Yeah, exactly. Long runway to a sleepover. So that's all we wanted to know this morning. Oh, I read the hits, 4487. We've got some hell pizza up for grabs. What's something you hated as a kid but you loved as an adult? Because there's so many different comments on this Instagram post.

Something I noticed the other day that I was looking back on, my dad, Kevin Boyce, loves a guitar. And he would go to a party, you know, like we'd go to a friend's house and he'd bring out a list of 100 songs he'd keep in his wallet and then he'd bring his guitar and I'd be like. That's five hours of entertainment there. But as a kid, you're like, oh my God, we're going to be here all night, I'm going to be asleep on the couch waiting for them to take me home,

put me in the car, all those sorts of things. And as soon as the acoustic guitar, what was his first song he'd lead with? I was in the shop the other day and some Simon and Garfunkel came on and I actually enjoyed it like I loved it reminded me of my dad and you know and good you know it's like but as a kid oh this was just like torture to be honest it still sounds a little bit like torture but I can see the memories You've got the nostalgia

But as a kid I didn't appreciate that You know whereas now You're like oh something I loved hearing that song But as a kid I was like You know Oh Blake make this end I'm not going to get home till three in the morning

Yeah Well done to Kevin on remembering the lyrics To all hundred songs as well Yeah oh there's a few a little You know there was a few ums and ahs And humming along But he did pretty well I do. There was a few ums and ahs and humming along, but he did pretty well. I do love an unconfident ums and ahs.

Okay, I went 100 of the hits. What you hated as a kid but loved as an adult. Another one I just thought of. Hated sitting on Santa's knee. Now I just bloody love it. He's got his nice soft thighs. Just this guy hugs me and says... It's not really what we're after.

We're not really. What would you like for Christmas, little boy? And I'm like, oh, thanks, mate. You make me feel like a million bucks here. Oh, Andrew, the hits of 4487. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. So what things you hated as a kid but you loved as an adult?

To kids, I say that, you know, as a parent to them all the time, you don't really appreciate those things. And later on, it's all you want to do is some of those things you didn't want to do as a kid. Yeah, well, we're going to kick things off with Dave Ho. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast, Dave. How are you? Yeah, great.

Thanks, guys. Lovely to have you on. Hated it as a kid, but love it as an adult. What is it? Oh, it has to be going to bed early. Oh, jeez. What I wouldn't give to be forced into bed at 6 o'clock at night. Oh, man.

It is a luxury, isn't it? As a kid, you did not want to go to bed. You didn't want to nap as a kid. Definitely didn't want to nap. But you're right, as an adult, a lot of people just want to nap. Yeah, imagine Davo. I'm scheduling in for you. Okay, this week I'm scheduling you in two nap times per day.

Oh, man. Yeah, I'm in for it. Oh, man. He put me down in for it. Oh, man. Schedule it. Put it in your calendar. We'll share it with you, and we're going to share some Hell Pizza as well. Best damn pizza in this lifetime and next. Enjoy that. It even goes better still. Thanks, guys.

Good on you, Dave. Have a good nap, buddy. Hey, Melanie from Tauranga, welcome to New Zealand. Hi, how are you guys? We're doing well, buddy. Good to have you on. Hated as a kid, love as an adult. Eating mushrooms. well, buddy. Good to have you on. Hated as a kid, love as an adult? Eating mushrooms. Oh, okay. Imagine vegetables for a lot of people as a kid was something you had to be forced to eat,

and now as an adult, sometimes it's nice. You're all about the mushies, are you there, Melanie? Yeah, no, I love my mushrooms now, especially the creamed ones with the eggs in it. That's the ultimate nowadays. Yeah, I mean, there are a lot of confronting flavours as a brand new palette to the culinary game when you're a kid. That really, they take you by surprise, don't they? But eventually, you sort of bully your taste buds into submission.

Like coffee's probably another one. Oh, your kids are into it now. Yeah, I got the kids into it a couple of days ago. But Melanie, tell you what, we're going to give your taste buds some hell pizza. They can put mushrooms on there too. That would be fantastic.

Thank you very much. Ticks come through. Something I hated as a kid but I love now, being in the house alone. It was frightening as a child. Yeah, but now it's like Macaulay Culkin will testify to that.

But now you've got the place to yourself. You're like, oh, the place to yourself. There's no noises, no things. You're all locked. Yeah, being left stranded. But now you've got the place to yourself. You're like, oh, the place to yourself. There's no noises, no things. You're all locked. Yeah, being left stranded.

But it's some shocking parenting if you're left alone as a kid, too. No, that's right. It's traumatic for a kid, but as an adult, that's a good thing. We'll go to the Mount. Renee, welcome. Hello. Good to have you on, Renee. Hated as a kid, love as an adult.

What is it? Sick days. Absolutely hated them when I was a kid because my miss used to make us stay in bed all day now it's like that idea of just staying in bed all day perfect yeah it's a common theme coming through yeah so kids are you listening to this enjoy the sleep while you can sorry i'm yelling at kids right now renee enjoy the sleep while you can. Sorry, I'm yelling at kids right now, Renee. Enjoy the sleep while you can. I tell my daughter that all the time. Yeah, because as you get to our age, you're just constantly tired.

It's all you dream of. Exactly. You're even willing to contract an illness just so you can sleep. Just sleep in bed. It's true. Appreciate your call. We'll send you out some hell pizza. Thank you.

Appreciate that, mate. Producer Joel, year now, the year, this is where you like to play some clips for us from one particular year. And you gave us a wee clue before, and then while that song, Molly Soros song was playing, you went, oh, actually, that might not be a very good clue because it's not quite the year. So although already the phones are calling on our

under the hits, if you can beat us to it. Let's get to Morrinsville. Danielle, you're on. How are you? I'm good. How are you? Yeah, we're doing well in Morrinsville with the giant cow. Yeah, the place to be, isn't it? The only local reference I have, Jacinda Ardern.

Yeah, she's amazing. We were very lucky to have her. Hey, good on you. Now, you weren't saying that last year though, were you? Oh, I would. I would. Maybe not a lot of farmers, but I definitely would. And now, Danielle, you know the game. Joel's going to give you some clues, TV shows, movies, songs.

We need to try and figure it out through intense investigation and forensics. All right, let's get into it. Jacinda Ardern, she was around during this year as well. But there were some big songs and these were three of the top songs at the end of the year. So we keep blowing lights. It was a lockdown.

So by the end of the year, these were the top songs. So the weekend, Blinding Lights seems to be in Spotify top lists forever and ever, right? I think all these three songs still hold their own to this day as well. But yeah, it was a great year for music, to say the least. Danielle, have you got any idea? Yep, 2019. Is it?

It's not 2019. Oh, Danielle. Watermelon Sugar High came out when I got my dog. 2019, yes. And this is where Joel, when the song was like, oh, I need to explain this a bit more. All right. So by the end of this particular year,

the song was number one, was one of the biggest songs. But so I'm guessing we need a few more clues. Yeah. There's some great TV out this year. Interesting fact, this was the lowest of the 2000s, the lowest grossing year ever at the film, at the cinemas as well. Big TV shows like Ted Lasso came out.

Belief doesn't just happen because you hang something up on a wall. All right? All right? Tiger King, Squid Games. Oh, we're talking 20... I think I've got it. Yeah, I think I've got it too.

I think I've got it because I can just cast my mind back to us coming in here. There was no one else in the building, Ben. Keith, you reckon you got the year for year? Nah, year? Yeah, was it 2020? 2020, I reckon it is. Yes, it is.

There you go. You kind of threw everyone off with Harry Styles saying that was released in 2019. It was, yeah, but it kind of kicked in in 2020, and everyone's sitting around at home listening to it. Tell us your fondest memories of 2020, Keith. Well, I don't know if you could call it a fond memory. No, no one really does, right? So many fond memories.

So many fond... It was my 40th birthday during the lockdown, and I ended up just with a box of ran fairly dancing in front of the TV by myself because I couldn't have a party, mate. That's a bloody dream night. Boxeran fairly dancing in front of the mirror. Keith. You went all out with a Boxeran fairly, that's for sure.

I was the same. I had my 40th in lockdown, but that was the greatest present the universe could ever give me, was not having to throw a party. Oh, really? Should have come to your house with a box of ranfelley, Keith. No, it's fine. Keith, we're going to hook you up with some hell pizza.

Thank you very much for listening this morning. You have a great day. All right, you too. Here we go.