Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: The Great Escape!

Episode Date: September 7, 2023

Jono's run in with a security guard Did Ben shoplift??? We try to escape from a prison cell! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. Ben Boyce lost in clues here in the escape room. We are in the Great Escape, trying to win two family trips to Rarotonga this morning. Eight trips to give away if we get out of here, out of this prison-themed room, by nine o'clock. Yeah, every time you see something, you see some sort of numbers, some sort of thing, you're like, maybe this is it, go across then you think i'm going to be the smartest person in the world and then you put the thing into a keypad or something you're like okay so if you want to

see the room what it looks like you head along to the hits breakfast on facebook and instagram as well also if you comment if you're the last person to comment as we get out if we get out if we get out uh you're gonna win that trip to Raro. So you head along to the Hits Breakfast on Facebook to comment on that post. Jeez, we are, I just don't, I don't know how we are going to

manage getting out of here and do a radio show at the same time. That's really daunting. I already missed the end of that Dua Lipa song. That was song one of the show. Don't worry, you'll hear about that in the post-show meeting. You definitely will.

We've lost Ben Boyce. 80% focused on getting out of this room. Well, I keep wanting to. I thought I worked out something before, and now I'm like, oh, I just want to keep plugging it into numbers. Anyway, producer Taylor's going to make things even more complicated this morning because you've added some riddles to this escape room to get us to the next stages.

To be honest, it feels like the last thing this environment needs right now, but okay. Well, because normally people only have an hour to do this, right? You guys have the length of the show. So I thought it was going to be way too easy, but looking at how things have started. Normally people aren't doing a subpar job of entertaining the nation at the same time. Well, would you call this a job? Okay, I'll kick things off with this riddle. So it's shorter than the rest

But when you're happy You raise it like it's the best What is it? So if you know I know 100 of the hats I will say that again Then maybe this could help us get A little bit of an advancement in the room Okay, say it one more time

Sorry, Taylor It's shorter than the rest But when you're happy You raise it like it's the best What is it? Your mood? No No, not your mood Is it's the best. What is it? Your mood? No. No, not your mood.

Is it located in Jono's trousers? It's really good. It's not a showish, it's a grower, mate. Okay. All right. This is where we started this morning. Oh, I entered the hits. 4, 4, 8, 7.

If you can help us with that. It's neither of those two, to be honest. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. But to add another layer of complication to this whole experience, Taylor is coming in with riddles that can get us clues. So, Marilyn, welcome from Pawanui. How are you, mate? Hello.

Lovely to have you on, Maz. How are you? I'm good, thank you. I was listening yesterday and getting quite a few of the clues, but I don't know if this one I thought about is done, but we'll see. Okay, so, Taylor, what's this riddle here? It's shorter than the rest, but when you're happy, you raise it like it's the best.

What is it? Well, my answer is the tongue. The tongue? No. The tongue, no. No. A laugh? No.

A smile? No, no. Stop thinking head region. Move lower down the body. Eyeballs? Okay, sorry. Lower than the rest. Feet.

Feet? No. Legs? No. Knees? No, Legs. No. Knees. No. Up a bit more.

This is just, oh, God. All right, 4487 on the text. I feel, like, I came into this this morning feeling confident that we're going to get out. Now I feel, I don't know. I don't know what to think. When you raise it like it's the best, what is it? Is anyone texting through 4487? There's callers on 0800.

Let's go to the phones. Okay. Stefan is on from Wellington. Thanks, mate. Stefan, welcome. Do you think you got the answer to this one? Yeah, possibly your thumb. You give somebody a thumbs up.

You're the best. Thumb? Yeah! Stefan! Oh, you're a hero. Well done. We will send you out some hell pizza, and that means we're going to get a clue,

which is hopefully going to advance us through to the next stage of this escape route. Thank you so much. Oh, God, let's hope you guys get out before nine. So do we. So do we, yeah. Jeez, that was a bad start, though, wasn't it? Eyes, chin, thumb, nose.

Oh, no. All right. Any clues If you've got any tips How we tackle this escape room This morning And also how we juggle A radio show at the same time

Any tips welcome I feel like I'm very unfocused Right now I'm like Thinking about clues I'm thinking about a radio show So any help at all

Even from our bosses That would be great Dogs Dogs Dogs Undies You know I can't grab Your fish chips

Friday Flashback It's something we like to do on a Friday Look back at something iconic from yesteryear And reflect a little bit heading into the weekend Yeah, and because we're at an attraction this morning We thought we'd look at local attractions And a wonderful theme song from, I'd say mid-90s, this track. Yeah. Rainbow's End.

Purist Ball was the name of the group. They had hit songs on the radio as well, and they had this banger from Rainbow's End, wasn't it? They were kind of like the Boyz II Men of New Zealand in the matching suits, beautiful harmonies, weren't they? They were, yeah. And my favourite was the rocking rolling

rolling roller coaster because they they found themselves a couple of syllables short of the words they had to fill in the rocking rolling

rolling roller roller coaster just to get them through across that little bridge It's rolling yeah but it's rolling quite a lot so we'll do that a couple of times

Yeah they were great like everyone knew the song yeah yeah and it sort of subliminally dragged you towards Rainbow's End didn't it? Oh as a kid that a couple of times. Yeah. They were great. Like, everyone knew the song. Yeah, yeah. And it sort of subliminally dragged you towards Rainbow's End, didn't it? Oh, as a kid growing up

in Marston, that's all I wanted to do was come to Auckland and go to Rainbow's End. That was it. That was like my life mission was to go to Rainbow's End. Yeah, it's the Disneyland of music.

It is. It is. There's no denying it. What would you say was the greatest theme song that New Zealand's ever had? That would be up there. Yeah. I wouldn't say there'd be too many more. Could you think of another song that New Zealand's ever had? That would be up there. Yeah.

I wouldn't say there'd be too many more. Could you think of another one that was better, more iconic? I mean, you know, I've been involved in Novus, you know, windscreens. She's had some airtime this week. Yeah, no, but I wouldn't say it was better. I mean, the harmonies of Purist 4 were a lot better than my harmonies on Novus. Yeah. What ever happened to the Purist 4?

I don't know. Because they were good. I looked at them last night. A group of very good looking men. Yeah. Weren't they? They had very colourful jackets too. Yeah.

They were kind of sort of, they went with the colour tones of the Wiggles. That's true. Purist Four. Four members. Four. The number four. Four.

That could equate to something in this room right now. Purist. What is the P? What's the purist form of something? What is it? Oh, jeez. We're overthinking things. Meth.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Hey, I got told off yesterday. And you've said for a while now, my electric scooter, which I use to transport myself from the car park, about four blocks away from work every morning, fanging down the middle of the road. And every day you're like, something bad's going to happen. Well, especially because you don't go down, you know,

you're going down the middle of, you come out the wrong way way the car park where the cars go all sorts of stuff i'm like yeah i did it once with you and i'm like no i'm not going to do that again never again i thought we could have a segment he was a scooter boy and i could just tell tales of what's happened to me on the electric scooter uh but the law of averages suggests that something's going to go bad at some point. Yeah, you're probably right. Think someone that it hasn't yet. It hasn't so far, yeah. Appreciate it. But yesterday I went up the road the wrong way, Ben, you know me. And then I went down a driveway into the car park.

Yeah, you do that. That's why I was like, I'm not doing this. I'm not doing this every day. And then I heard a, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, buddy. And that usually signals that you're about to be told off And no one likes to be told off as an adult Do they? No

And it was a security guard He's like, what are you doing? I was like, I'm going to McCarmick He's like, you can't go down here I said, why not? He said, because you're on a scooter I said, what's the difference between And I was in one of my moods

You know, antagonising me Right I was like, what's the difference between this and a motorbike or a bicycle and he was like you've got me there but yeah but then the argument

is not going to work on a motorway yeah true well you should have been there on the side of him yeah he would have liked that

and you're going the wrong way I mean even a scooter and a bicycle couldn't go the wrong way down one of those he's probably like he probably thought of that after the conversation too.

He's like, mate, you're still going down the wrong thing. None of those people should be doing that. You're right. But I had one of those moments, one of those rare moments where I said something back and I just bamboozled the other person. Hopefully you can not bamboozle me. The Hits, the Jono and Ben

podcast. We are joined by a friend of the show The wonderful Monty Beetham And Sky Sport commentator Good morning Monty Good morning boys, great to talk to you as always Long time, long time no see Monty We always love catching up with you

Now as a Warriors alumni You must be so proud of the club at the moment I'll wrap to mate Because not only my alumni But I also get to broadcast and watch over, and we've had many hard years when we were in there, we had to think about creative ways

to talk about what we've just seen unfold on TV, but also being part of the club as well and doing bits and pieces part-time, it really has been a season to behold and the crowd of today, man, like never before, it's unreal. Oh, it's incredible. I mean, that's why you'll be having the the crowd of today, man. Like never before. It's unreal.

Oh, it's incredible. I mean, that's why you'll be having the best weekend this weekend because you are part of Sky's coverage. Sky Sports, Saturday's match, Warriors, Panthers from 5.30 on Sky Sports 4. A tough, tough match. I mean, I know if we lose, we're not out of the competition, but the Panthers are a good side, Monty. Oh, a very good side, man.

And they came last week after getting their pants pulled down by Parramatta at home. So, you know, it's the master versus the apprentice. You know, it's Ivan Terry versus Andrew Webster. So they both know a lot about each other. So it is going to be a really good matchup. And some wonderful players across the park, man. It is the hardest game in terms of going over to the against the reigning premiers who want to pick the back end and trying to get that win, man.

How tough is the competition? Because all the teams are amazing. And to get even in the top eight is a real win. But then to win it from there, I mean, I know you've been part of teams that have made the final set. I think you were injured when the final took place, so you couldn't play. But how hard is it to get to that next, to get to the final?

Oh, look, it's hard. It's hard. That's why you really need to finish in the top four. If you finish in the top four, you get an extra life to play. When we got the grand final, we finished first. So we won the first game at home, then had a week off, and then you played against the grand final. And that's what everyone's trying to do this week in terms of the top four.

They want to win the first week of the finals, have a week off, and then play to make the grand final. You've been with the club for so many years, Monty, through thick and thin. Have you ever seen support like you're seeing at the moment? Never. You know, like we've seen moments and glimpses of the team this year that we've seen in the past. We've seen all sorts, but I've never seen the fan base, the supporters,

the home ground experience, the sellouts like we have this year to this level. The fans, the super fans, the signs they come up with, the creativity, even just iconic moments where you used to come through that tunnel and the drums beating. Now it's just as iconic coming through that halfway sort of passage into the blackout with the lights and everything. It really is a great place to witness when it's at home. And in terms of the crowd, they've never been as good as they are now.

Always been good supporters, but now they're just taking it to another level, man. How do we feel about up the wars, Monty? I mean, it seems to be the catchphrase everywhere you go. It's up the wars, up the wars. I'll tell you what. At first, I disliked it. I hugely disliked it. But it's so catchy, and I love that everyone else is saying it,

that I just feel it slipping out soon. But I've also probably been saying it when there's not been any witnesses around as well. But it's a border base, mate. Congratulations. Whatever you say, whether it's the Warriors or the WAs, let's just keep going, man. It feels like they've now become New Zealand's team. I'm sure there's probably periods where they felt like New Zealand's team, but they're definitely a New Zealand team now.

Oh, mate, for sure. And even, you know, that cry of up the wires around the world globally. You know, I think Zion Dowd, who doesn't get the credit for getting, you know, NBA coaches to come out and say, up the wires. Oh, Steve Kerr, yeah. That's really good.

And I've seen what you guys have been doing as well. I think it was the Ames games. With 5,000 frothed up children, this is the beginning of the Ames games. This isn't when they're all shells of little human beings. Jeez, they had some energy. What do you want to say?

Honestly, when the musicians were on the stage, they would come off stage and they're like, all we could hear were kids screaming up the wards at us as we're trying to play our music. And boys, that is unreal.

It's unreal that there's people like yourself going out there just to give them a little bit of a helping hand, but they don't need it, do they? I mean, we've seen people going wherever they are on TV and often, you know, showing their colours and just been a great year, boys.

Well, I can't wait to watch you bring us coverage Saturday night on Sky Sport for Up the Wars or Go the Warriors, however you want to say it. Can't wait. Absolutely. Regardless, just support the boys, man. Thanks for chatting, boys. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Producer Taylor advancing us through with some riddles. What's the latest one, Tay? A man is driving along and sees three doors, a diamond, ruby and emerald. Which door does he open first? Now, we have Hayley and Connor who are from the Hits in Wellington and Christchurch, respectively, ready for the best weekend. Do you we have Hayley and Connor, who are from the hits in Wellington and Christchurch, respectively, ready for the best weekend. Do you two have any idea?

Yeah, I think I got it, guys. You think they got it? I've got it first, though, actually. The North Island, I think the North Island got it. Okay, big rivalry. I know. As you say, it's up there with the history's greatest rivalries, tea versus coffee, PC versus Mac.

North versus South. What do you think the answer is, Connor? I'm going Emerald. Is that right, Taylor? No. That's not right. That's not right? Okay.

Okay. Hayley? Okay, we'll leave it to the North Island. If you've got to open one door first, it's going to be the car door, boys. Yes, Hayley? Okay, we'll leave it to the North Island. If you've got to open one door first, it's going to be the car door, boys. Yes, Hayley! Hayley, well done. All right, well, we'll go to you. That will help us get through the next stage of this escape room,

hopefully win someone the family trip to Raro. But what's happening in the North Island this weekend, Hayley? We have got an absolute of a rager this weekend in the North Island. It's happening all in Auckland. We have the Rabbit Club show on Saturday run by the Rabbit Council of New Zealand.

Oh, that's beautiful. Directly after the Rabbit Hunt show will be taking place as well. Yes, there we go. I then got stuck down the rabbit hole and I discovered there's 10 exclusive rabbit clubs, and I've taken the liberty of signing you all up to their weekly newsletter. Oh, wonderful.

Thank you so much. You know, when you meet a club designed around a specific animal, we met the Gerbil Club or something, didn't we, Ben? That's right, yeah. Yeah, the Hamster Club. Hamster Club. They are very passionate about their animals. What else is happening in the North Islands as well?

Wow, do you know what a pestival is? No. A pestival is a festival all about pests. Oh, Ben Boyce's festival. Yeah, he's actually one of the guest speakers. You're a keynote speaker

at Pestival 23. Yeah, and this is held in the Tron in Hamilton. Of course it is. Yeah, it's a whole day of glorious talks on predator-free and pests, and you're going to have the time of your life. Oh, it's a good thing. It's a good thing, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

We don't want pests and predators in the community, that's for sure. Okay, that's what's happening in the north. Now we're going to leap over to the South Island. Connor, I've just been told, Producer Joel stitched you up with the answer for the riddle. He told you you had the right one? Yeah, massive pest, Producer Joel. He'll be at Pestival, mate.

I've heard some stories about him at that Warriors dinner, but I'll leave those off here. Catch him live at Percival 23 for the TED Talk. Alright, what's happening in the South? Well, this is a big one because personally, my first ever half marathon, the Emerson's Dunedin

Marathon is on Sunday morning. Of course, the full marathon as well. 21, 42 kilometres. You can also do the 5 and 10 K. It's a beautiful run along the coastline of Dunnas there. And I'm hoping for a sub 145.

You're going to do the half marathon. That's cool. Yeah. No, having a go. I've been training hard. I don't know. I'm feeling nervous. I'm really nervous about it. Any words of encouragement? My only words are, trust Connor to run a marathon sponsored by a beer. Good luck for that.

What a great thing. I've always wanted to do one, but how much training have you had to do? Well, I was looking at my Strava app. Over the last couple of months, I've run almost 300 kilometers total in training. Wow. So, yeah, we'll see how we go. for the month I've run almost 300 kilometres total in training. So yeah, we'll see how we go. Connor, on that alone, I'm going to award you the best

weekend this weekend, or the very best for the marathon. Thank you guys, appreciate that. Next week, come with a marathon or something, mate. What are you doing? I've got a riddle. How many weeks have we not had Connor throwing his running in our face?

I haven't run since like 1997. I'm hearing every Saturday, every Friday morning. You guys are awesome. Have a great weekend. We appreciate your time. We're back to the escape room right now. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. It was one of those situations where you know it was innocent,

but it doesn't look innocent. Now, the back story, we went to the United States of America, saw some family for Christmas. We hadn't seen them for a while. And one of my daughters went to a store and bought a bag, a backpack. And we actually noticed as we left the store, about 10 minutes later, we're still in the mall there, that it still had one of the security tags on it. So we took it back to the store there in America.

They took off the security tag and off we went. And yesterday she said to me after school, guess what, Dad, I found another security tag. You know one of those things they clip on with shoplifters for things and clothing? Still on the bag. It's still inside there. I'm like, well, we should try and get that off because it looks like we've shoplifted it.

So I took it back to the store because there's a New Zealand store here in New Zealand. But taking in an item that you know you've purchased and you know that it's all legit. You got guilt all over your face. I just, you know, and I didn't think about it. I just went, yeah, there's a store up there. We'll just go in.

I walk on there with a bag going, hey, we bought this bag in America that was too america that was too soon you as soon as you started explaining you would have gone oh i know how this looks and then you would have started over explaining exactly what happened and they're sort of looking at me like no this story does not stack up here and i'm like listen i know you lost your tele gig mate but things are just tough yeah and no yeah there's no situation where that looks legit no there is no you know it does look like i've got i've stolen an item and i've got remorse it happened when my kid was one of my kids was little uh they grabbed a drink

bottle when we were pushing them around the store and the pram and then i didn't notice we were out of the shop and then i took it back and again i'm like hey the baby took the thing and they're like yeah whatever buddy yeah and also that uh pack of eye fillets you stole from the supermarket yeah I took it back. And again, I'm like, hey, the baby took the thing. And they're like, yeah, whatever, buddy. Bye, buddy. Yeah. And also that pack of eye fillets you sold for the supermarket. Yeah, I suppose the baby took that as well. And the car that drove through the jewelry store.

You know, it just, you know, it was all. I'd love a thief who just gets remorse. You know, gets home with their loot and is like, you know what? I shouldn't have done that. Go back and get it. I'm sorry for ram raiding your dairy. Here's all your bait. The H done that. Go back and get it. Guys, I'm sorry for ram-raiding your dairy. Here's all your vape. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Been in the escape room since 6 o'clock this morning. Prison theme one at Great Escape. Trying to get out of here. There's two rooms here. There's a lot of things we've been trying to solve while doing a radio show just before. Something big's happened, guys. I know. The lights went off before.

It was high drama as we solved another puzzle. Rip it up. Rip it up. But I feel like we don't need to lift I know. The lights went off before. It was high drama as we solved another puzzle. Rip it up. Rip it up. But I feel like we don't need to lift it up. Sirens are going off. What are you carrying? What's that? I don't know.

This is a magnet I sucked out of the desk with my mouth. I sucked a magnet clean out of a desk. That's how I suck your power out. Okay. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. They suck. So, yes, we're slowly losing our minds

in prison. You know, usually what happens in prison stays in prison, not in this case. Yeah, so that was meant to be us solving a puzzle,

but John had done something else. Whatever we need to do to win someone a trip to Rarotona. You may have wondered how we survived in prison. It was my suction power, mate. Now we have found a key.

We've got, what, like 14 minutes left to get out of here before the end of the show. Shall I go? We think this is the key. So I'll send Ben, because I'm in the prison cell at the moment, we'll send Ben through to the warden's

office to unlock it. Producer Joel, if you keep an eye on the Hits Breakfast Facebook, see who has the last comment as he opens the door. Ben, count us down. Okay, here we go. Here we go. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

Now, Joel, now. Now, Joel, now. Now, who is the name? The name? The name? Michaela Wynyard from New Zealand has won the trip to Rarotonga. Michaela Wynyard, the person to comment as you exited the warden's office. Michaela Wynyard. Let's try.

Are you listening, Michaela? Call us 0800 THE HITS. We need to talk to you. You and your family are off to Rarotonga, and that's not all. It's not just Michaela who wins. We've now got another trip to give away, too. We've unlocked two trips. Yeah, we'll tell you how you could win a family trip to Rarotonga next.

It's THE HITS. THE HITS, the Jono and Ben podcast. If we could do it before the end of the show, we were going to unlock a family trip to Rarotonga, which we just gave away on Facebook. Well done, Tom and Kayla. You're a legend. Thank you very much for commenting.

We had over 8,000, 9,000, 22,000 comments. Yeah, let's say 22,000. Donald Trump-like figures. It was a lot of fun. I really enjoy doing escape rooms, but I found this one the trickiest, trying to do a radio show and also try and think of clues. Because you come back to do radio

and your head's trying to add up things and work out puzzles and looking for clues at the same time. It really was one of those things of great idea in the room, guys. You know, good meeting, good brainstorm, but then executing the reality of it was a whole other ballgame.

And then we added riddles as well to make it even harder that you helped us with throughout the morning. So thank you so much for everyone that helped. We've given away one family trip to Rarotonga Cook Islands for five nights, Edgewater Resort, swimming with turtles, breakfast every day. We've booked the turtles

in. We've actually put that in their calendar. They will make themselves available for an hour of non-stop turtle swimming action. But the great news is, if you missed out on that trip, that we've got another family trip to give away from Monday morning. Yeah, so because we unlocked the padlock

and also unlocked our generosity as well, next week, Monday to Friday, when you hear this song here, Weezer, Island in the Sun. Producer Joel, if you play Island in the Sun, beautiful, beautiful stuff. When you hear that in its entirety, son producer Joel can you play Island of the Sun yeah beautiful beautiful stuff

when you hear that in its entirety so from start to finish I'll mansplain entirety for you yeah no you win the trip so that starts

Monday morning so we have one more family trip to give away Monday morning and this has been a roller coaster of radio it has

I feel like the things were said like I feel like things were said. I feel like at the moment, it feels like 24 hours after our social gathering, we all feel like things got a little tense, things got a bit carried away. We all said stuff in the heat of the moment. Producer Tyler, I don't know, it felt like we had five people here, and then there's only four. I think maybe she will be in actual prison after this.

She will. She almost shanked someone. Ben Boyce used the toilet that wasn't connected up to the plumbing system. Yeah. Yeah, we did some stuff. But hey, the great news is there's been one family trip

given away to Rarotonga Cook Islands and another one Monday morning.