Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: The Chafing Debacle

Episode Date: January 24, 2024

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The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. Now yesterday, Jono, you had to whip away and we got some cherries we brought in as a wee bit of a gift for an interview that we were doing. Lovely, lovely gesture. Someone just brought in some cherries for the show, for us to eat. What was the interview? Kaylee Bell.

Kaylee Bell. No, Kaylee Bell we're going to be talking to for the show for Friday. And Heidi from The Record Company just brought in some cherries for us. What a lovely gesture. You don't get enough cherries gifted to you, do you? No, and it feels like it's a very seasonal thing too, you know, very Christmas time. When you're cherry, you cherry hard.

Yeah, they're really good. And then you came in, Megan, and you were like, oh, you and Taylor, you were like, Megan can do a cherry trick. I can. No, I felt a little bit like, I bit like you were pranking me in this trick. Now, you claimed what? That I can take the cherry stalk and tie it in a knot with my tongue and no hands. Without using your hands.

Now, she demonstrated it to me yesterday. We're going to put the video up on our social media at the Hit Breakfast. Here's the end of it where I'm just wowed. No. No. Surely. No. No. Surely. No. I'm in.

I'm in. Did you? What? No. Is that one you saved for later? Yeah, did you have that hiding in there? Uh-oh. Ah.

So this was yesterday. See, there's you tying a knot with a cherry, with a stalk, with no hands. Now, I felt like maybe there was another one inside your mouth. No. That's what I'm thinking. You saw me do it like three times. Yeah, I did actually. So right now, open, open.

Can I open wide? Open wide. Okay. Let us inspect inside your mouth. Okay, now you've got to take a stalk right now and see if you can do it. The pressure's on now. The pressure is on because Jono hasn't seen this. And we'll put it again on the Hits Breakfast Instagram.

It did take me a little while yesterday because you kept talking to me. Okay, well, I have to keep talking. We have to keep – we can't just sit and silence. She's got the look of someone who's vomited inside their mouth and is trying to hold it in and swallow it back down right now. Just how did she get to knowing how she could do this? I think I was showing off one day. Stop talking. Just do your thing. think I was showing off one day. Stop talking.

Just do your thing. Just do your thing. Nothing. Shush. Shush your sweet cherry stalk mouth. Yeah. Stop making me laugh. It's not working?

Is it working? She's got, yeah, a lot of concentration going on as she's trying to tie. Her eyes, she's staring dead straight ahead. With the stalk. This is pure concentration here. Megan Pappas tying a cherry stalk with her tongue nothing but her tongue hands free i know there's that show uh that we had for a while new zealand's got talent and it ended but i think we could bring it back just for this just for this okay she's pulling it out oh my gosh she is tight pressure and not just yeah that's great. It's pretty impressive, eh? Thank you. Just a little, just a skill that she, you know.

That tongue is. It's good. Yeah, yeah. Keep it clean, Prager. Keep it clean. It's good that I work in radio because, like, it's the only job that would ever be impressed by this. There's no other job that this would come in handy.

You take that to Stephen Hawking. No, probably not Stephen Hawking. He's no longer around to take to it as well. He might be too busy on the island anyway. But you take that to Stephen Hawking. No, probably not Stephen Hawking. He's no longer around to take to it as well. He might be too busy on the island anyway. But you take that to science, any industry, they would be impressed with that stork toy. Yeah, yeah. I tell you what, using your teeth as part of a wall.

You bite the ends together, and then you stretch it in a curve with your tongue, and then you bite the ends together, and then you have to twist it and poke the end through. Liz. Who would have thought? I struggle even to tie a knot with my hands, with your tongue and then you bite the ends together and then you have to twist it and poke the end through. Liz, who would have thought? Who would have thought? I struggle even to tie a knot

with my hands with a stalk of a cherry. But there you go. You have just paid for yourself, Megan Puppers. Great TV on the show. Yeah. Everywhere we go now,

we're going to take the great cherry stalk tying Megan Puppers with us. You want to get yourself a husband 10 years younger. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, 100 The Hits, we want to get yourself a husband 10 years younger. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, 100 The Hits, we want to know the most unusual locations

that a baby has arrived in because just a couple of days ago in Auckland at a Costco supermarket, a baby boy was delivered unexpectedly, it's always unexpectedly in those situations, in the bathroom. And the mother joins us right now. Jill, good morning. Good morning. Lovely to have you on.

Sorry, I'm talking all over you, Jill. Last thing you need right now. You've got a lot going on in your life. Sorry, can you hear me properly? We can hear you. Can you hear us? Yep, I can hear you now. Ah, Jill, lovely to have you on.

I'd say rock solid start from all of us there. Lovely to have you on, Jill. Congratulations on the new arrival. Thank you. Unexpected, though. You were in a Costco store, and all of a sudden you walked out of there with a baby. That's right. I don't know if it was all of a sudden, actually.

It was probably quite a lot happens during that. So talk us through. It was a month early? Yes, 35 weeks and five days to be exact. So were you experiencing any signs of labour before you went to Costco? Yeah, the night before I've been having, I couldn't even sleep. I didn't have any sleep at all because I had tummy pain. It was on and off. Just got an extremely high pain threshold

when you were actually in labour for hours. Wow, yeah. I didn't even think about it like that because... You didn't think your pains were anything to do with the baby that was inside of you? Yeah, I didn't really. Like, did I have a bad lunch or what's going on? Yeah, because the thing is, side of you yeah i did it really um don't have a bad lunch or what's going on yeah yeah because

the thing is um i i asked uh my midwife about what's happening and she kind of suggested that it might be just what i've eaten it reminded me of the butter chicken that i had from oh the food court food court butter chicken yeah right So even your midwife's saying it's not a baby. And so off you go, and then all of a sudden you're in Costco, you've got these pains, and you end up in the bathroom giving birth. Yeah. And it wasn't to the butter chicken. No, it wasn't.

So the Costco staff, they were really helpful by the sounds of it. They were very, very helpful. We're just thankful for all that they've done for us. We were at the parking lot and I just couldn't hold it anymore. I just felt like I need to go toilet. I don't want to pull here. That's what I've been thinking.

Not in Costco. I will feel so embarrassed if I pull in the car or somewhere. In the car park, yeah, right. So you went back to the bathroom. I've done it once before. It is embarrassing. Yeah. Pretty amazing thing that happened.

And your baby boy, all very healthy? Yes, praise the Lord. Just need to wait for a few more weeks to gain more weight. Well, I'll tell you what, Costco's got a lot of bulk food. I went out there the other day, so it's probably the store to shop. It's an incredible store, but I know they're quite strict on the membership. You can bring certain people in. Did you have to get a membership for your son on the way out or what?

On the way out. You have to sign him up. You should get a free membership for life. It would be nice. Did they use towels and things from the shop to clean? They did. Did you have to pay for those towels?

No. Did you have to name your baby Costco? No, my baby already had a name. Did you name your baby Toilet? No, we wouldn't do that. That would be silly. What's your baby's name? Nathaniel Mark.

I love Nathaniel. Beautiful name. They always say the birth plan never works out, so yours, I imagine, was quite different to what you intended, but congratulations nonetheless. Thank you. Go and get yourself a bloody food court butter chicken now. Have a great day.

Oh, Andrew, the hits. 4487 is our text number. The most unusual birthing locations. Can we beat a Costco supermarket? We'd love to find out next time. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. I just spoke to wonderful Jill, beautiful Jill,

who gave birth in a supermarket, giant supermarket, sort of Costco it's called. It's kind of like a Kmart supermarket it's an American chain that's our only one so huge I like I feel like I went there of the holidays I spent I think proud seven to nine days trying to walk around the store the whole week just great but everything's bulk and who needs like three kgs of gherkins and one does everything come in massive it's like a Gilmore's on steroids.

Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, giving birth in the toilets of Costco, pretty impressive. So we want your miraculous birth stories. Maybe, here's one, you're in a manger in Bethlehem. You proclaim to be a virgin. All of a sudden you gave birth. No questions asked. No questions asked.

No questions asked. You had asked. No questions asked. You had a partner. He was like, we've never... He was really cool about it. He was pretty chill. What a good dude. I don't think I've been as cool about that. I think the three wise men turned up and were like,

oh, poor Joseph. They're like talking behind his back. Yeah, totally. He's got no idea. Nice guy, nice guy. Nice guy. Wise men definitely. Joseph wasn't one of the wise men,

was he? Lance, we'll get you on New Zealand's Breakfast. Welcome. How are you? You doing well, Lance? Yes, thank you. Good, thank you. My friend, now, unexpected birth where? We were heading

from, me and my partner were heading to Perth 2nd 2022 in March and she gave labour or got into labour while we were on the flight which was very awkward

and the air hostess was really helpful. You were on the plane? Yeah, actually on a plane. Wow. Did the. You're on the plane? Yeah, actually on a plane. Wow. Did the baby come out on the plane? Yes. I don't know. We both, I think we've got dual citizenship now.

Oh, yeah, because where was the baby technically born? We were flying over Australia at that time. We were about one hour away from Perth. And where on the plane do you, is it in the aisle? Is it in the, where they serve the food? The food ready whereabouts? The cockpit? No, it was near the front of the plane and they just had towels and then they got us to lie down or I heard them lie down. And then they put like a little curtain up to give a bit of privacy. Are you doing it in a bloody business class? The business people will be like, I haven't paid top dollar to see this. I'd like to think if I gave birth on a plane it would be in business class. The business people will be like, I haven't paid top dollar to see this. I'd like to think if I gave birth

on a plane it would be in business class. Classy lady. It was pretty full on. I can imagine. Well, I'm glad everything went well and you've got a great story to tell. Yeah, and now we've got a beautiful girl, Amora. I thought it would be a little Boeing

737 or something, but that's beautiful. Good on you Lance. Emily, we'll go to Taranaki. Welcome. Where did you give birth, Em? So two in the hospital, one at home. So my first one, I actually went into labour shifting cows on the farm and then got to the hospital and managed to have him about five hours later, first baby.

So they were like, oh, you'll have lots of time. And I didn't have lots of time. I went to the shop, I went to the vets, and they were like, no, you need to go to the hospital. I was like, oh, okay. You must be – oh, man. As soon as I was having pains, I was like, help me. You're, like, out doing jobs.

Yeah, well, I mean, we went to antenatal, and they were like, oh, you know, pre-labor, expect like 12 hours. I'm like, okay, well, I've got heaps of time then. Like, this is fine. It wasn't fine. Hey, good on you, Emily. Where else were they born? So then my second one, we got into the doors of the hospital and I was like, I've got to

push. And they were like, nope, hold on, hold on. Got me onto a bed, pushed. Baby, bit the midwives. No midwives there, just my the baby's dad and hospital midwife lady. Just came out boom, then you back out milking cows.

That afternoon. Like a legend. Have you some great day. Appreciate you sharing those stories with us. This is the internet wormhole Get lost on the internet More lost than a spouse at a workplace function I got click baited Megan I'm a sucker on the internet Hook, line and sinker

And you know how the side articles pop up Yeah They're targeted to you right And this was 72 mind-blowing facts that will blow your mind just felt like a strange number to stop at 72 not rounding it up 75 80 um now these are these are just facts i know megan uh on a former show that you're on you would have been used to facts coming through on a daily schedule yeah daily basis not on this program Not on this program.

We fact, but we fact hard. Just do it once, don't we Ben? Yeah, we're not going to do all 72 though. I'll say that now. We fact hard and fast. Okay, here we go. These are meant to blow your mind. Tell me if they do or not.

Earth's rotation, okay, it's changing speed. Meaning that the length of the day increases about 1.8 seconds per century. So 600 million years ago, the day was only 21 hours. Now it's 24 hours. Ben Boyce, I'm thinking of you. There's not enough hourage in the day for you to get all the activities done. So it's going to change. Like eventually we'll have 25 hours a day.

Yeah, so it's slowly going to get more and more. But we're not going to change. We haven't changed 24 hours a day for like... Well, I don't think we've been alive long enough to experience the difference. Hold on, I'm just checking back on the title of this article. Facts that will blow your mind, not factual questions. I'm questioning that.

And there's 72 of them. I don't think we can have this banter after every fact. That's why you guys only did one on your whole show. You had the chance to talk about it. I'll just go, I'll take that on face value and move on. I see why you guys said it was one back in the day. We've got 71 to go. The next one.

Your average cloud, okay? Average cloud is one. No questions, no follow-up questions. No follow-up questions. Is about one kilometre long, okay? Okay. Do you know how much that weighs? No.

A million tonnes. What? A cloud weighs a million tonnes. Fat shaming the clouds. That is wild. But it looks so light and fluffy. Correct. Wow, okay, you have blown my mind.

Okay, that's good. Do we sing? Or no, no. It's the wrong show Why don't we call it the mind-blowing fact of the day Day, day, day, day, day, day Okay There's been a lady who was constipated for 45 days straight

Do you know what they had to do? How did you go from facts about her Have we changed articles? You clicked on another article that's not for the same article that's definitely not for the same from earth facts to constipation all right i need to know though okay so you know what happened they had to uh surgeons had to remove it and it was the size it was the size. It was the size of a football. The size of a football.

Wow. Imagine being the surgeons having to do that. That's a paper-scissors-rock situation. We might come back to that. There's obviously, what, 69 more facts to go in that article? So, yeah. Why don't we do one a day until we finish? It's a great idea.

It's never been done before. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Bloons. Bloons are wonderful, aren't they? They really do sort of, wonderful to accentuate any celebration. Bloons, but your birthdays, anniversaries, you don't see many bloons at a funeral? No.

No. Really, it's the symbol of celebration, isn't it, the balloon? Now, I was watching a doco over the holidays of a gentleman, a balloon expert, okay? So he blows animals, and you know how they can come around to kids' parties and stuff. But, geez, I can guarantee no one loves balloons more than this guy. Okay, have a listen. My love for balloons, it's also a sexual love. When I see a beautiful balloon my heart

starts to flutter and I get aroused. I'll take a 12 inch and I'll inflate it to 11 inch. That way it can take a lot of abuse. I'm holding one, you know hugging it, I'll kiss it and it's like being in heaven. I mean don't you like to hug and kiss the woman that you love? Damn, he loves blues. He does love blues. He loves blues. I don't want to judge. Because, you know, each to their own.

You don't want to yuck someone's yum? No, that's right. Yeah, and I would just hope that someone in his life would have said to him, you know you don't have to say that out loud on camera. You know? You don't have to. that out loud on camera you know you don't you don't have to those thoughts those you can internalize those they can just be your special thing you do behind closed doors when the documentary crew comes around play dumb play dumb when they say hey we've heard you really love balloons just say what no not me geez the movie up would be like a bloody hardcore film it would be too much, too much, wouldn't it?

But in some ways, I mean, I was going to say, isn't that kind of good that he's, at least he's proud. Like, you'll back yourself. But at the same time, there's a, yeah. Yeah, it's like when you see those docos that, like, lady, oh, I've married the Eiffel Tower. It's like, that's cool. Just keep, just do that.

You don't have to put yourself out there and feature on, you know, 655 filler breaks on radio shows. But maybe he's doing it so that other balloon lovers don't feel so alone Oh yeah, that's a good idea Well you might be right, and also there's also the soulless world of TV

where some producer has probably mind screwed the person into doing it It's fine, it's fine. It's fine. We'll take care of you and all this stuff. They'll get the bit. They go, all right, thanks, mate. And you'll never hear from them again. Thanks, you balloon weirdo.

They'll be like, well, they didn't leave it in all the other parts that I talked about. You're like, no, no, mate. I don't know what he does when he comes into contact with the actual contraception. Oh, yeah, true. Hey, after 7 o'clock, You can win a whole lot of cash You're going to fly and be like

Oh well that's enough You shared a story yesterday There's a bit of a Hair raising issue Going on in your household At the moment There was an argument Yeah

Actually in real time I sent you guys a text Being like I'm currently having an argument I was looking for backup Probably in the wrong place because, yeah, it's a hair argument. Jono probably can't relate.

You can leave me out of that group text. Yeah, I have no place doing that. But it is a contentious topic what we're about to get into because I face the same problem. I'm surrounded in my household by hair everywhere. Poppy, my daughter. Oscar's got a long, flowing mullet. My son, Jen's got hair.

Just hair everywhere. Just follicles everywhere Like Sort of almost taunting it Rubbing it in your face Rubbing it in my face Going They've got so much hair They can even just leave it

Lying on the You know Lying on the ground Yeah and that does bring me To the argument I'm having With my husband Is that I have long hair And

It's molting So We've heard your side of the story But There's always two sides To every story Yeah So we've heard your side of the story, but there's always two sides to every story. Is there? Yeah. So we've got your husband Andrew on the phone for his voice.

Good morning. Good morning. Look, I'm just glad that I get a voice. I get a say in this. I really appreciate being heard. Yeah, men have been silenced for so long. Oh, Jesus. It's not taken into areas.

But you're right. You're right. We have been silenced, particularly the middle-aged white guy. So it's about time we had our voices. Now, Andrew, from your side,

from your side of the fence, what do you want to say? Look, I made a little comment about the situation in the bathroom and I instantly regretted it. But we're here now, so I might as well

make it happen, right? So relay it how you sold it to me. Look, I was shaving I instantly regretted it, but we're here now, so I might as well make it happen, right? So relay it how you sold it to me. Look, I was shaving in the bathroom, right, and there were little hairs and things everywhere, and I was going, oh, this is gross. I should clean this up before Megan gets in. So as I'm doing this, I'm looking at the bathroom floor,

and Megan, having very long, beautiful hair, she's like going through some sort of molting season at the moment in summer. I'm not a dog! A molting season. Every time she brushes her hair, it all comes out and it all falls on the floor. But it never gets cleaned up. It just lies there until you vacuum that part of the house again in, like, you know, a week or two or whatever. I said to her, I was like, should there be some sort of, like,

in-between little, like, you know, just grab the stick back and just do a little wee zing-jing every couple of days? Yeah, see, you're claiming your hair, your responsibility. Absolutely, right? But it was the floor. Different to, like, his little stubbles in the sink. No, listen, i fall into the same issue uh andrew every time i'm pulling clumps of soggy hair out of a drain uh i'm thinking to

myself geez i am taking one for the team here because there is no way i've contributed to any of this you know not having any here absolutely so you know and It's just how many times have I, at the end of the day, you take your clothes off and you're about to jump in the shower and you're like, why is there parts of Megan's hair in my underwear or something like that? Why? You really are molting quite a lot, aren't you, Megan? Oh, you're molting inside his underpants.

We get our dog his belly shaved in summer too. I don't know if that's something you've considered. Okay, it's twice in this break compared to a dog. Thank you. Oh, well, thank you so much, Andrew. You go and have a great day. Sounds like you've got some vacuuming to do. Have a good one.

Appreciate your time. Cheers. So I imagine it's a problem this is happening in many households around the place. And who is in the right? Do I have to clean? He wants me to do a vacuum every day or every second day to clean up my hair. Fair enough. I'm with him.

It's on the floor, though. So you're saying it's totally different. His stubble was in the sink, which, you know. So maybe he can clean that up every second day, what are you thinking? Do you use the floor? Do you walk on the floor? No, but with my feet, like I'm washing my hands in the sink.

Is this a problem in your household? I do say it's going on in Faris right across Aotearoa. What would be an issue that you're having at home to the radio station this morning? My husband wants me to vacuum every day my hair off the floor because I'm molting. I've got long hair Do you deliberately

Like I know sometimes hair just happens to fall But do you do the thing Like sometimes my wife will Sometimes brush it or whatever And then we'll just sort of like Finger it off the floor Now and again And she's like I'll get that later

And I'm like will you? And she does Normally he does I don't do that at all I'm like where's that going to go? Where's that going to go? Where's that going to go? He's like, I have to clean up my stubble out of the sink, so you need to clean up your hair every day.

I dispute that. It's the floor. Just leave it. I wish that our dog were very, we've got a Samoyed, very white, fluffy dog. He molts in big clumps through the house. Third time I've been compared to a dog. He won't clean it up either.

You've got a lot of white. Even I go in your car sometimes and I come out looking like a polar bear. Yeah, there's white fur everywhere. Oh, he's so cute though. Yeah, I know. But anyway, it's not the issue right now. The issue is right now your household issue with hair. Let's get

Tanya on from Kaikoura. Welcome. How are you? Hi, good thanks. How are you guys? Yeah, good. Beautiful part of the country, Kaikoura, isn't it? Maybe we were doing a bit of a trip around the thing And we got to go on a tiny little plane, Ben Along the Kaikoura coast Oh yeah, it was beautiful And I think I slept the whole time

And you kept going, look, there's dolphins, there's whales What's that caravan cafe? That food is delicious The caravan, um, Nans Bins Yeah, that's awesome The crayfish, you're right Here Here Is it your hair, your problem in your household, Tanya? Yes it is, but I don't really care

about it, my daughter is a teenage daughter who has really long dark hair and I've got long dark hair and there's only us three and my husband and I've got a really nice situated bathtub beside the basin, so I've trained my daughter to pull the hair out and myself, and the big clumps of hair that come out when we're doing our hair, I just throw it in the bathtub, and once a week when I'm vacuuming, or twice a week, I'll just vacuum it up.

There's a plug in the bathtub, so the plug doesn't go down the plug hole, and if someone comes, it looks really gross, but it works for me. You've got a tub of hair once a week you clean it up. What if you want to have a bath? Yeah I was going to say I don't want to have a bath I've got a spa so the bath we just put in the house you know as you do The bath's just there to hold their hair man

The hairy bath. Yeah baths are just messy places and they keep dust and crap in them anyway so it's just like it's somewhere instead of walking to the bin and putting it in it's just like I pull it out and just throw it in. It does get cleaned up, but yeah. Have visitors ever stumbled upon your hairy bath? Yeah.

Two words that go really well together. Your hairy bath. Yeah, my hairy bath. Feels like we're talking about, there we are. No, good, good. It like we're talking about, there we are. That's it. Yeah, no, good, good. It doesn't get over the floor. You know, we do the plug hole thing in the shower and that's all cool,

but you know, when you're doing your hair, if you're doing something, you're plaiting it, there's all these other strands of that, just whack it out and just throw it in the bath, it's out of the way.

Listen, you can keep talking and you can keep explaining yourself. At no point are we going to go, that's a great idea. No, well, that's your solution, Megan. That's your solution. You're going to have a hairy bath at home, all right? The more she explains, the more I think that's still a terrible idea. It really looks gross. You look in there like, oh, I really need to...

I really need to thank you. Appreciate your call this morning, Tanya. You and your hairy bath. Have a good day. Thanks, Tanya. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. You were just saying before, Megan, that you witnessed something at the petrol station yesterday. So I pulled up to the pump. And you know, if someone's on the other side of the pump,

you can see through. The reason I was looking, it was a young couple. Not too young, because the guy was quite attractive. That's why I was looking. I was like, oh, he's quite cute. So they stopped in the car. He was driving. Love's the young guys, Megan.

That's why I said not too young. When I say young like you know youngish um and so they stopped the car and i assume it was i hope it was his partner in the passenger seat and he leaned over to her and i thought he was going to give her a wee kiss but he leaned over and she was wearing a singlet top you really were taking in a lot of details and he's getting any petrol in your car during this process or what clip on so it's just like doing its thing itself gotcha and he leaned over and squeezed a pimple on her shoulder oh i thought this is not where i thought the story was

going he did it to her i was like i've never and she didn't even flinch. She was fine with it. Do you think she would have brought it up and gone, oh, I've got, you know? I don't know. But it was, also it was something she could have done herself. It was accessible, yeah. Yeah. As a pimple, love pimples being popped. Ben, you know this, that all my algorithms just filled up with cysts and pimples.

Oh, do you watch Dr. Pimple Popper? Yeah, yeah, very relieving. How do you feel about your wife, like, popping your pimples popping. Oh, do you watch Dr. Pimple Popper? Yeah, yeah, very relieving. How do you feel about your wife like popping your pimples though? Is that a thing in your household? Yeah, well, it depends where the access is. You know, if it's unaccessible, if it's inaccessible, no, no.

But I mean, what I love doing is sometimes my son gets them and he's just like, leave my face alone. You know, you can't, once it's in your head. He might have seen it and gone, I can't look at that thing anymore. Do you like popping pimples? Yeah.

See, I thought that was something reserved for women. I thought we were the ones, like, you know, we're preening and we like to do it on our partners. I thought it was weird that a guy was doing it to his girlfriend, but you like it. It's the ultimate act of love. I'd pop a pimple on you ben i don't know if i would and i don't think we'll quite hit that status yet but we will it's a it's an interesting thing though because you don't want to like sometimes i remember as a teenager attempting to pop many pimples on my own for

and and and just make it worse so that's a fine line between, you know, like just, yeah. The problem is, you know, you know in your gut, you're like, if you haven't got that thing in the first 10 seconds, it's not coming up. And you keep digging and you keep trying. You're like, maybe this is the one that will. Yeah, I know. You make it worse and worse.

Maybe this is the week I'll win a lot of. No, it's not. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. But I have been enjoying watching a new, you know, whether it's Hunger Games, Mean Girls or Lord of the Rings. Pulp Fiction's another big one. I haven't got quite to Pulp Fiction yet, but we might get there. Not quite at that stage.

Exorcist. No, I'm not quite there at the moment. But we're like, hey, should we watch Lord of the Rings, you know, and then we'll go to Hobbiton once we've watched it all. And you've got to experience, you know, these iconic movies made in New Zealand. And I'm like, they're very long. I've seen them all the first time, but why don't we do it like a series and we'll watch like one hour a night and then we'll come back to it. So we did that. We watched the first

movie over about three nights and then we enjoyed that. And I think I neglected to tell them that there were three in the franchise. So we watched the second movie over about three nights as well and then we got to the end of it and well, this was my daughter Sienna's reaction at the end of the second movie. Okay, so we've just watched the second Lord of the Rings movie. You've been enjoying them, but you've got some complaints. How pointless is just to leave it as a cliffhanger?

The second one is actually just a pointless movie. It literally just shows people dying and that's it they don't even get to the fire how pointless is that we had to wait like a year between these movies now i have to wait another three hours to find out what happens i can't even watch it yeah so that was her that was her issue with that one which is i guess just the exasperation. We're going to do this again. We're on a marathon. What was that?

And then they had some good questions, because obviously we've watched all the Harry Potter movies together as well, and they're big fans, but they had some interesting thoughts on the similarities between the two movies. Here's my other daughter, Andy. Exactly like a Harry Potter movie, because, like, Mr Frodo is Harry, and then Sam is Ron, and then Gandalf is Dumbledore, and then, like, all the other characters line up to the same, and it's also, like, bits, like, Gollum slash Smeagol is Dobby,

and how he sees... Yeah, but Harry Potter was after this, okay? Oh, well, some of them were. Now, you've got issues with... Okay, some are right. Okay, are we're gonna watch the third one yes I mean I love them there's such great movies but I just feel like they could have really summarized it in two so what skip out the second one yeah well they could have just done

this in like 20 minutes and then they could have like why'd they do three hours of literally just a war well someone wrote these books all right? Well, someone should have done a bit of it. My girl. I don't disagree with it. Some of the movie critics already, aren't they? Yeah, so we've done the third one. We go to Hobbiton this weekend, actually, so we're looking forward to that one as well.

And then I'm like, we should watch The Hobbit. They're like, yeah, how many movies is that? I was like, that's three as well. Cut it down. There's something in these girls reviewing these movies. I like it. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Not individual.

No, I feel like maybe there was something that we did, like an activity many years ago, whether it was cycling or running or something I did once for school that I remember getting some chafing. Yeah. I know there's a lot of stuff going on in the world right now, but there is nothing worse that can happen to a human than chafing. There's a shoulder that's just been shot in the arm,

and he's listening to me going, oh, you got chafed? I was like, yeah. He's like, fair call, man. It is so painful. I've never had it before. And you don't know, having not had it before, you don't know what's happening. It's a slow, slow builder to the point where i my i don't want to

get too graphic here but there's a region going to region in the undercarriage okay okay and it felt like two bits of steak pressed together just being tenderized until they bleed well i guess because it's because you every time you move right i imagine you're getting it's getting rubbed and shaking and getting reminded of it every step you move, right, I imagine it's getting rubbed and chafing and you're getting reminded of it. Every step you take to the point where you're like, should I just stop and stand on this footpath for the rest of my life so I don't have to move anymore? Have you experienced – that's a very personal question.

I think, like, I don't know, do girls get chafing more than guys maybe? Some women get chafing around the boobage areas. Oh, really? I mean, you've got a lot of chafable parts, don't you? Do I? Not you. I'm stuck out of this. Where's the popcorn?

Watch this conversation play out. What parts of Megan's do you think are quite chafable? You're on your team. You and your type. Yeah, your type. Yeah, and I guess like the thighs can chafe. Definitely had that before. Remember that wonderful commercial on TV that was for a chafing cream?

It was just like animated buttocks and thighs. And boobs. They had eyes and a face. They characterized buttocks and thighs. And boobs. They had eyes and a face. They characterized buttocks and thighs somehow. Amazing. Anyway, my wife Jennifer's like, you need to put some Ben Panthan on. You know Ben Panthan, what you rub on? The Panthan.

What's it called? It's not Ben Panthan. It's not Ben Panthan. I always thought Ben Panthan. Just the Panthan. I was like, the Panthan. It's not Ben's Panthan. That's their stuff for nappy rash and things like that. Yeah, I think it I always thought Ben Panther. Just the Panther. I was like, the Panther. It's not Ben's Panther. That's the stuff

for nappy rash and things like that. Yeah. Jeez, if you use that stuff, wow. Instant relief. I was like,

get one of those, you know, the concrete trucks with the pumps. I'll just pump it. Just keep pumping. Just keep pumping. I'm going to be

a Ben Panther influence now. I will. Get the name right. Use my code, Jono20, to get 10% off. But there's no other way to apply it apart from with your hands and fingers. Yeah. You know, I felt sorry for where my fingers had to go then. But instant relief.

Thank you for doing that hand gesture of where you put it. Yeah. I needed that in my life. Yeah, there's a lot of images I'm going to move on from. I'll just tell you that before 9 o'clock.