Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: This Generation is Ruined..

Episode Date: November 29, 2023

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The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations. I drove past yesterday, Ben, North Island's number three vape store, and it was emblazoned on the sign. They have a sign on a pole out the front. They also have it sprayed across the front window as well, on decal sticker, North Island's number three vape store. I sincerely hope the number one and two vape stores are marketing themselves like that as well. Interesting, eh? It's an interesting, yeah.

I've never gone, you know what? I want to go to the third best version of a particular shop. No, but you're right. But I guess you are in the third. That's great. That's fantastic. But you usually only see the best or number one. You never see second and third place.

Boasting about the- I do remember, because I used to write ads for many years, there was, I can't remember if it was like Avis or Hertz in America. One of them was second. And they decided that their whole campaign would be about, because they were second, they tried harder. And that was their whole thing. It's like, we're not first, but because we're not first,

we're going to do all these other- And I was like, oh, that's quite clever. That is a clever angle. Yeah that was their whole thing. It's like, we're not first, but because we're not first, we're going to do all these other. And I was like, oh, that's quite clever. That is a clever angle. Yeah. But you're right. But normally everyone's like, oh, yeah, you're the first loser. Take me to the number one position. They're clearly a bit more stable.

I love we have a fish and chip shop down the road from our place. And they have, still on the window, New Zealand's Best Chips 2002. Oh. So we're talking, what was that, 21 years ago? Yeah. 2002. That's a hell of a wave to ride. 21 years of that award.

Putting it out there. Yeah. And all that just makes me suspicious about what's happened over the last 21 years where you haven't picked up the gong. Have you gone back into the competition? Are you like, I'm out of it now because of what I once was? Too much of a pain in the ass to remove the sticker from the window. Yeah. Well, we could advertise ourselves, couldn't we?

New Zealand's, where are we sitting? I don't know. It depends. It depends what market it is, you know. Everyone's number one in radio, though, right? Yeah, well, not us. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Went onto a website and it had to clarify if you're over 18 or not.

You know, are you over 18? And it's just a simple, it's an honesty policy, isn't it? Yeah, it's not like one of those robot tests, right? Yes or no. And I imagine and I trust that all teenagers, teenagers are very trustworthy people, that anyone under the age of 18 would be clicking, no, of course I trust that all teenagers, teenagers are very trustworthy people, that anyone under the age of 18 will be clicking, no, of course I'm not over 18.

Imagine if that was what it was like back in the day where you used to try and get something without ID. If it was just that question, are you over, and you're like, yeah. I'm going to take your word for it. Yeah, that's right. Maybe you sort of set up a reconnaissance mission for one of you to go into the dairy and buy something that wasn't age appropriate.

You look the oldest. You've got to go. Yeah, draw a moustache. And then you'd sift out and try and catch adults and be like, hey, mate, can you go in there? Well, I haven't got the thing. And they'd be like, why are you probing me into this? Yeah. But that's right.

If that was the policy in the day, we're like, are you over 18? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Here's the product. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, I don't know what happens

if you if you click yes and then they find out you are under 18 do they send

a they send a video to your mother and then she tells you off

well maybe yeah have you ever clicked honestly have you ever clicked no I'm

actually under 18 when you were surfing the internet what saying I'm under 18

yeah no I've no for no reason I'm not that's a bit weird wouldn't it what saying i'm under 18 yeah no i've no for no reason i'm not that's a bit weird wouldn't it to pretend i was under 18 now what's the sights i'm like guys you know just one of the kids it wasn't it it's not no i don't want i don't want to cover sting or something i don't want to access to this i'm under 18 yeah why else would i do that when you were

under 18 yeah and you're on the internet oh no because i think the internet probably was it was kind of around but not really to this capacity yeah i do remember my stepdad saying to me when i was very young going one day you'll be able to go online and buy all this you know and like and i was like no no and he was right you can't everything you, touch the button. That's what my dude, John Pryor's got. He's deep into the, my dad, deep into the AI hole many years ago. And he's like, one day you'll be sitting at home and you'll do your shopping and you'll have a printer and it'll print out your shopping.

Okay? Yeah, I still don't get my head around that, but it probably will happen. It's going to happen. You have just a printer. All your shopping in one. Tastes a lot like ink cartridge. What's it all? Pictures of the food that I wanted.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. It feels like summer is starting to get here. And last night we'd just finished dinner and we heard the siren, the Mr. Whippy siren in the neighborhood. I mean, you stop, everyone stops, looks at each other, like, it's there, it's out on the street. Mr. Whippy's water blasted out the filth from the winter, and he's back out on the road.

On the roads, and then you try to work out where it is in the neighborhood, because you hear that. You hear that noise, you're like, it's on the street. And so my daughter Indy and I, last night we decided to go on a Mr. Whippy mission. 6.30 at night, sun is still shining, and we just heard... Mr. Whippy. Okay, and now we're on a mission to find Mr. Whippy mission. 6.30 at night, sun is still shining, and we just heard... Mr. Whippy. Okay, and now we're on a mission to find Mr. Whippy. I can't hear the siren.

No, so you're trying to go out there, you're trying to work out where the siren is, but they don't play the siren the whole time. No, he whips you up into a frenzy. And then you're like, I thought it was on our street, it's clearly not. We were walking because we thought it was on the street, my daughter had her scooter, and then as we've been walking around for five to ten minutes trying to listen for the sound, I thought Indy, my daughter, had a really good business idea. We've been walking around for a while now trying to hear Mr. Whoopie, trying to work

out what streets it is on. And Indy, you just came up with a genius invention. I know. If it hasn't already been done. That's not. Well, that's how I know. Tell us what it is. Well, there should be like a Mr. Whoopie tracking app so you can find out

where the Mr. Whoopies are. Kind of like when you order an Uber and you see the little cartoon car. It's a great business idea. Oh, that's good. I mean, the other option is you go to a dairy and... Oh, yeah, but it's so fun,

Mr. Whoopie. And you know the little thing, you're like, here it is, the GPS of Mr. Whoopie. Yeah. Yeah, tracking app on the Whoopie. Yeah, okay. Yeah, that's good. And you know the little thing, you're like, here it is, the GPS of Mr. Whippy. Yeah. Yeah, tracking app on the Whippy. Yeah, okay. Yeah, that's good.

And then after like 10 minutes, we're like, we need to go home, we need to get in the car. Became like, we need to just get our ice cream. Yes, we could go to the dairy, but no. We're here now.

Petra says she's also got ice cream. We're here now, we're going to find Mr. Whippy. We got in the car, we drove around, and then we saw someone. Okay, we just saw someone. With an ice cream, like Mr. Whippy cone and all. Okay, we just saw someone with an ice cream,

like Mr. Whippy Cone and all. Okay, and they've gone inside their house with flip flops on, so that means it must be somewhere around. Investigations better come. Okay, we're in the car now, by the way. So we're driving around, we saw someone with an ice cream.

You're in too deep. You're in way too deep. We got into it, and then finally, finally, we saw it. We went up, and we got our ice cream from Mr. Whippy. We've been trying to track you down.

We heard it. We've been driving around the streets. Okay. You live here? Oh, we live just around the corner. Oh, the corner. Did you go past our street? Yeah, I last meet her, just stop your corner.

Ah, well, do you know what? Another lady coming, yeah. My daughter says you need a tracking app like an Uber. Oh, okay. You know, like you see the little car go round and round? And then you can log on and find out where you are. What do you think? Okay, yeah, good idea.

You're like, just buy the ice cream. All right, I'll do that. He's like, I'm definitely not going to do that. I was like, a great idea. Then I gave it to Mr. Whippy, and then finally we got in the car and ate our ice cream. Was he like, why is this man recording me? Yeah, I said, I'm from the radio.

And he was kind of like, okay, that's a bit weird. A recording like that. But then he was like, well, you're not filming me. If you're filming me, there's a shocking filming because I'm holding the phone towards him. He looked at the phone like, how's this recording? I said, just audio, mate, just audio. Do you know how this works?

You just buy an ice cream off me, I give it to you. Finally got the ice cream and then disaster struck. Thank you very much. Thank you, thank you, thank you, bye. Here we go. We got it. We got him. We got it. I only took, what, 20 minutes? Driving around the block.

Let's not do the petrol, adding up how much petrol we spent. Let's just say we've got some ice creams and we're heading... Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. What happenedoh. Uh-oh. What happened? I just dropped mine. No, it didn't actually, but we just needed an out for it.

Indy fell for it. I had it, so there we go. A Academy Award winning whiff off. It's there at the end. Uh-oh. Well, we got it. Mr. Whippy, so the tracking app, you want to get in touch?

They probably don't need to get in touch with us. They probably got app people. I couldn't design the app, but a great invention. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, today you might see all over social media people saying this is my Spotify rap, which, you know, if you're streaming music

on the, through Spotify, you get at the end of the year a bit of a wrap-up of your favourite artists and your favourite songs. And over, you know, New Zealand's favourite artists, no surprises, Taylor Swift, the most streamed artist on Spotify, but followed by Drake and The Weeknd, two and three. Thought he'd share and be up there. Yeah, Miley Cyrus' song Flowers was actually the biggest song

streamed on Spotify in New Zealand over the past 12 months. Now, Producer Taylor, you've got a bit of an issue with the younger generations and this whole annual release of their most played songs. What's your problem? Well, I just don't know who told people that we care about what they listen to. Like, I hate to sound negative.

Well, you are. You're coming in, Negi. But who actually cares? Like, if I go on Instagram and I say, oh wow, you listened to Ed Sheeran 50,000 times,

congratulations. I don't care. I mean, it's a fair point. It is a fair point. Yeah. But that's, largely that is social media

when you look at social media. It's putting, a lot of things that people probably could look at it and go, I don't care, but you're putting that out there. I don't care,

but I'm wasting 35 minutes looking at this stuff I don't care about. Yeah, I don't care, but you're putting that out there. I don't care, but I'm wasting 35 minutes looking at this stuff I don't care about. Yeah, I don't care, but oh, jeez, I'm deep in this. I can't get out of it. Yeah. I think they call that an addiction. Yeah. But yeah, that's your issue.

So you were having a go at Producer Joel, saying don't post yours. Mate, you should have seen the first thing he texted in the group chat. It was like, Christmas Day, Spotify raps out. Who cares? I can tell. Like, you know already what you listen to what what is your most listened to song joe uh ed sheeran was my most listened to artist which he's not happy about it's off brand it's off brand for joe yeah he's i mean it's not off brand for the hits we love we love ed sheeran but but you try to pretend you're someone you know someone's hacked my spot it's

the russians right they've hacked it, Dick. The Russians. And your other issue, too, is that too self-obsessed, the early 20s. Well, it's just that this whole Spotify rap is so, like, that's just their entitled mindset. They think, oh, my God, these are my most five listened to artists. You know who needs to see this? Everyone.

Okay, so what are we going to do today? The Generation Blame Gang. Okay. Okay, you can call us on 0800-THE-HITS-4487. It doesn't matter what generation you are, but you can just phone up and say what irks you about another generation. So we're not just, you know, punching down at the younger generation. I'm going to...

Punching up at the older. I'm going to say what, you know, as well. The other day I was in line with my dad somewhere, and there was a text that came through. Now, this was a bit... I felt like it was a bit of a confidential text. Just between me and him i was like could you ever read this text you know like that but because he didn't have his glasses and i get it he had to hold it at arm's length away from himself to see it and there's people around in the line and they're

all look like it was on display for them and they're everyone's peeking over his shoulder it looked like he displayed it for the board i. And I'm like, oh, dear. Do you know? So that's something that happened. And were people reading it? Yeah, they definitely were. Yeah. And I would be too. It looked like it was positioned for them. I'd like to complain about when I talked to Gen Zers.

Oh, yeah? When I have a conversation. And, you know, particularly this time of year, they fire out the, what are you up to for New Year's? And I'm like, oh, probably just, you know, wearing a rash vest on the beach and making sure my kids don't drown. And they're like, oh, you know, I'm off to this festival. We're going to go to this roadie, blah, blah, blah.

Not going to sleep for three days. And then we're just going to have a relaxing week and stuff. And don't ask me. Don't ask old people what they're doing for New Year's because it's only going to make you think less of them can I just say I don't think anyone's

ever asked you what you do for New Year's we all know just to preface that for anyone listening 9 o'clock I imagine you'd be asleep that's another thing

I wouldn't be awake by midnight I don't think anyone's thinking well jeez where's the party hot spot that he's going to be at what do you mean no one's ever asked me what I'm doing for New Year's? You should be safe in that department.

Again, Taylor, can I use? No one cares. No one cares what you're doing for New Year's, bro. No. No, they don't. No. It's very, okay. And your issue, too, is you have a friend's sister and your iPhone.

Yeah, so I was complaining because I've got the iPhone 12, and she was like, oh, I've got the iPhone 14 Pro Max I'm trying to sell for the 15. Why are you trying to sell that for? Why do you want the 15? Oh, you know, I just want to keep up. I want to get the new one. What is wrong with that generation, man?

Just be grateful for what you've got. What's the 15 doing? Jeez, it's been to be folding and washing. Okay, the Jennifer Hetz, the Jono and Ben podcast. And we wanted to know, the generation blame game, is there something about another generation that kind of irks you? Another thing for me is when people say, when you watch social media, is when people say, your boy.

It's your boy or it's your girl. And I'm like, firstly, I'm not cool enough to say that. Give it a go. Give it a go. No, but I'm like, soon as someone says it's your boy and I'm like well you're not you're not my boy

you're not my you know like I've got kids you know I don't need more have a lot of people been asking you about your skin care routine

well that's the other thing when people do say that a lot of people have been asking me about this I've never once asked anyone about their skin care

what is your skin care routine you've got grey skin it's a great way to look like people have asked for something I think on social media A lot of people have been asking about this And so now it's a chance for me to tell you

If I can throw some I threw some shade at the younger generation before Stop asking me what I'm doing for New Year's Because you'll only be disappointed Producer Joel said No one's ever asked you what you're doing for New Year's If I look at my parents Annie and John Pryor

Both very active Very, very capable to be in work. Okay. Yeah. They're not. They're retired. They spend their days going around drinking wine from about 11.30, eating lunch every day, every time I phone them. What are we doing?

Oh, we're having lunch today. What a great way to fill in. What a lifestyle. And it's not a dig. It's just jealousy, probably. Yeah. To be honest. We're going to get Carol on 0800, the hits, the generational blame game.

What happened to all our callers? Do they fall off job? Do they? Carol, you're on. Hi, how are you? Carol, we're doing well. What's the blame you want to put on people? They're not bringing their kids up to show respect.

Oh, here we go. The respect bomb's been, the R bomb's been dropped. Okay, in what way? Well, lots of ways. I brought my kids up that it doesn't matter who it was, that you showed them respect and you said please and thank you, and you treated them as an equal. Well, they're not brought up that way these days.

They're just brought up, oh, well, if you want something, go and get it. Carol's 21. She's having to go at her own generation. Yeah, manners. You're saying manners are gone. Yeah. I like to think that's not the case for everyone at that age. You know, you hope that

you're bringing kids up. But this is the problem when you play the generational blame game. it's really a it's a sweeping generalisation on a group of people we'll go to line number let's go to line number 3

Joel the general oh Zoe yes welcome from Tauranga you're on how are ya hey morning I'm good how are you lovely man oh it's alright

we haven't heard from you in ages Zoe I sent you an Instagram I bought three speeding tickets the other day. Oh, yeah. The speeding tickets keep coming through thick. That's what I'd like to blame about the generation

who keep sending me speeding tickets. I blame that generation. What do you want to have a moan about, Zoe, younger or older? Oh, the boomers. The boomers. Here we go. The boomers. So, my father-in-law, he bought his first house for 35 000 and had to pay

25 interest at some point which still works out as like what two dollars a month and my interest on my house that costs seven times my annual income, I pay 7% interest on. And he loves reminding me that actually, oh, we did 25%. We did it so much harder when we were younger. But actually, it's been shown that that still is substantially less than what we're paying now. So I just hate that. I hate the boomers thinking they did it so hard

when actually they had it super easy. Okay, there we go. Oh, Chuck and Shay towards the boomer. I know they don't like that. But you've come in with cheap, affordable houses, Zoe. And they did get cheap, affordable houses. And, you know. Yeah.

Thank you very much for your call. Really do appreciate it. Privilege, says Wayne. Wayne's throwing shade downwards. They're too privileged. Think the world owes them something, says Wayno. Geez, we've opened up a can of worms here. We put it on the Hits Breakfast Facebook as well.

The old comment section turned a bit feral it did actually the hits the jonah and ben podcast the wheatbix kids triathlons taking part all over the country which a great thing to get involved in and we wanted to give ourselves a bit of a wheatbix challenge well for someone on the show this isn't endorsed by wheatbix no we've just taken it upon ourselves. Because we love Weet-Bix so much, right? Yeah. And we've tracked down a world record holder. His name is Dr. Rob Zammett. He's a vet from Australia.

And you are the current world record holder for the most amount of Weet-Bix eaten in one sitting. Correct. Now, how's this? Because you're also a vet, right? So how did a vet end up doing this? Oh, well, my daughter had very bad endometriosis, really bad. Since she was 12 years old, she collapsed. And I found there was not much research being done for it.

So I thought, well, the only talent I have is eating. So I decided I'll try and shine some light on the research that we need to do. And it did work. The government's put a lot of money into NMHR's research over here. So it has helped a lot. But yeah, when you're doing this really bad, what do you do? Whatever you can. I thought, that's the only talent I've got.

I can eat. So I thought, see if I could break the record. So what was the record that you broke? It used to be 40 in 40 minutes. 40 in 40 minutes. Now, I imagine, like all all records it's probably gone to like 440 minutes or something? No, I went to 44

in 29 minutes. Right, well producer Joel, he just mentioned in passing the other day that we've got this Weet-Bix Kiwi Kids Triathlon that they do over here in New Zealand and he said I could easily eat 50 Weet-Bix. We've said, oh great, bring him in, let's do it. And for two and a half

weeks now, he hasn't brought in the Weet-Bix. So we thought, well we're going to take the bull by the horns, or the Weet-Bix by the bowl, so to speak, talk to you. He's saying he can do 50 in an hour. Is there any advice, Rob, that you have to help me through this? I hope you've started training, Joel.

Well, he's been eating a lot, but just generally not knowing that this was training for this moment. Well, I actually did train for it. Oh, you did? I did actually train. I was eating big, you know, like every few days to see how far you could go. Not too far, you know, get to 20, 24, no big deal.

That was easy. I remember when I was a kid, you know, I'd smash 12 to 14. So you built your stomach up to this. You're coming in cold, Joel. Did you have them dry? Did you pour a little? Just milk. And I had two bowls going at once.

I had put a whole lot in one bowl and poured the milk, started eating those while someone put some more in the other bowl and kept on going because time was a factor. Yes, I wanted to beat the time and beat the number. Okay, so you reckon it's feasible someone, you know, he's a... In 50 minutes, gosh, in an hour, he could do 50 easily. Easily. He's a strapping lad, Rob, and he does have an appetite. He does eat.

So we're not here to, you know, officially smash your record or anything. I just want to say... Oh, no, he's got to go for it. You've got to go for it. Oh, the record. You think after you finish, you're not allowed to vomit,

not allowed to bring it up, no barfing for at least an hour. I didn't do that at all. But you think it's going to come out the other end. Well, I did this in the morning and it wasn't until about 4.30, 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Oh, thank goodness. Such relief when it comes30, 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Thank goodness, such relief when the stomach comes through. Imagine quite a plug sort of effect.

Rob, you're a doctor, and my mom, I told her I was going to do this. She's a bit worried. Is there any health implications that might affect me from doing this challenge? I just can't see any unless you're going to expand your stomach to a burst, Joel. Be careful of that. And you can do that. So don't overdo it. If you can't do it, give it away.

Walk away. Walk away. No shame in walking away. Well, it's really fascinating. Talk to you, Dr. Rob, this morning. Thank you so much. We'll send Joel off on this mission. We'll keep you up to date with how he goes, all right?

Please. I really want to hear about it. I'll be listening in. I'll get onto the net and listen to your station from now on. Oh, thanks, Rob. You look after yourself over there. Right back at you. If you need anything over here, give me a call.

Oh, isn't it lovely? Anything. Good on you, Rob. Dr. Rob Zammett, he is the current world record holder for the most Weet-Bix eaten in 29 minutes. He ate 44 Weet-Bix. Well, not for much longer. No.

He isn't for much because producer Joel six foot how tall are you six six will go six six is about to eat 50 Weet-Bix they are laid out

in front of us well he is 45 in 44 minutes we'll give you the record the hits the Jono and Ben podcast at the moment we are about to embark

on a world record producer Joel has been bragging that he could eat 50 Weet-Bix in one go. We just spoke to the current world record holder. In front of us, we have five bowls, each filled with 10 Weet-Bix. And you have 29 minutes to eat as many as you can, Producer Joel.

The current record is 44 Weet-Bix in 29 minutes. You're actually taking this quite seriously, aren't you? This is probably my, it could be my big break. Do you know, this is honestly the most serious or most organised we've ever seen you take anything on this show. He's like, I'm going to go home. He knew he was going to do it last night. He's like, I'm not going to eat. But then he did send us a photo of some pizza that he

had, so. I broke, I gave it at 9 o'clock last night. I had a full pizza, but besides that I'm feeling good. I'm ready to go. Okay, so Ben's got the 29 minute timer. You are just lightly drizzling the first bowl with milk. Are you ready? I'm going good. I'm ready to go. Okay, so Ben's got the 29-minute timer. You are just lightly drizzling the first bowl with milk. Are you ready? I'm going to actually officially start, okay, the timer. Let's do it.

Okay, here we go. At 8.20, 40 seconds, we're going now. Okay, good luck. It is a mountain of wheat. There's so much wheat, mate. So much wheat. But when you look at it all laid out like that, it's, yeah. We'll put it up on the Hits Breakfast so you can actually see for yourself the evidence

of what 50 Wheat Bakes looks like in one session. But, yeah. We'll put it up on the Hits Breakfast so you can actually see for yourself the evidence of what 50 Wheatbooks looks like in one session. But yeah, this is, the closest thing we've come to doing this is there's a road called Lincoln Road. West Auckland. It's full of all of the takeaway restaurants you could think of. It's like a strip, about a three kilometre strip. Pizza, burger, sushi, you name it, it is there. The cuisine of the universe. It travels around the world, doesn't it?

It spans the world. And we set ourselves the task of one day eating at every single one of those establishments. There's a journalist, Steve Brawnius, who works for the New Zealand Herald, and weekly he would do a different restaurant. Once a week he'd go and he'd try and he'd work to do it. It was a book. And eating his way along Lincoln Road to every place. and it took him you know over a year and stuff like that i like to call it heart attack highway yeah but we were like well let's do it let's not do it over a

year we haven't got time for that let's just do it on one day so we'll go to every place and we'll eat something whether it's a piece of sushi whether it's a burger whether some fries we'll have something and oh jeez hundreds of jeez. A hundred to places. Yeah. The last, we started at 8 in the morning and ended at 8 o'clock at night at Genghis Khan. Yeah. Jeez, I haven't been back to Genghis. And there's no slide on Genghis Khan's menu.

But I haven't wanted to revisit Genghis Khan ever since then. When you're full and you're like, oh. Jeez, and Genghis Khan is a wonderful buffet where they cook the meat in front of you and you're just going, once you've been eating all day, obviously you're just going, oh. And I just remember us lying on the footpath of Lincoln Road on the boulevard of blocked arteries just going, this is a low. Even for us.

But we don't do that stuff nowadays. No, I'm pretty sure Joel does. The 27 minutes, 11 seconds. He finished his first bowl. He finished his first bowl. What's that equal to 10? 10 down already. Wow.

10 down in under two minutes. Here we go. Under two minutes. All right, well, don't. Keep going. Keep going, Joel. Get Dennis on the line. Carry on.

Carry on. 26 minutes to go. Can he eat 45 wheat bakes? Maybe he can. It's the hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Bringing you live coverage of Producer Joel trying to break a world record this morning of eating 45

Weet-Bix in 29 minutes is the current world record he's trying to break. Not endorsed by Sanitarium. No. So tell you what makes you beautiful Joel, you with a mouth full of Weet-Bix, you are really doing a fantastic job capturing the hearts and imaginations of the nation this morning. How many down? 23 down.

23 down. Yeah down. 23 down. Yeah, you slowed up just a little bit. There's 12 minutes, 46 seconds on the 29-minute timer. We're at text here, 4487. This is coming through from Kelly. She says, Producer Joel, we didn't win the Rugby World Cup, but this could be the time for redemption. Okay.

Just pacing the room. This is for New Zealand. This is for New Zealand right now. Another text here Your time to shine Joel That comes from Ben Another Ben listening to the show Joel

You're inspiring children across the nation Reads another text on 4487 Did you make that one up? I made the children one up Yeah but you know Take it I'm sure there's a kid somewhere Slightly inspired by this

Yesterday I had a very shocking incident Where the phone kept going off I'm sure there's a kid somewhere who's slightly inspired by this. Yesterday, I had a very shocking incident where the phone kept going off and an important meeting. It was about the will. You know when you sign on to your will? Oh, yeah. That's a fun, cheery meeting, isn't it? Yeah, it is.

Have you done that? I have, yeah. It's the conversations. And they even front-footed it, I think, when we did it. They were like, this is the conversations you don't want to have and hopefully these are conversations that won't ever take place,

but you've got to have them. Yeah. And they're not set in the most lively of environments, are they? Sort of a kind of a bleak, stark boardroom situation. But I swear my phone was on prank mode yesterday, because to find the location, it took me around the block four times. Oh, really? And then eventually said, no, here's the place you want to go.

I hadn't changed the address. So then I get into the meeting as we're talking about, you know, what happens if the unfortunate circumstances that we both go, what belongs to the children and what goes to what. You know, your text message sound. Yeah, very obnoxious text message sound. So then I cleared the text. Obviously, you're not going to get a reminder text after you check one.

And then I'd forgotten, too, that I was setting off. I had to put a timer reminder in. You know when it fires off the reminder. And I thought I kept pushing stop, but I kept pushing snooze. So every time we're talking about a bleak series of events of us disappearing and having to sign everything over to loved ones, the reminder keeps going off. And I could tell the guy, he's like, can we keep it professional?

He's giving me that look of, you're a growing, functioning adult. Yeah. Yeah. So 0800 the hits. It's what we want on 4487. When the phone's gone off at the unfortunate time. Love to hear from you this morning.

0800 the hits 4487. Imagine funerals. A lot of funeral phones. The phones. We take them everywhere and

sometimes we don't switch them to silent when we should. When have they gone off at the wrong time? We'd love to hear

from you next. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Producer Joel has been trying to break a Weet-Bix world record right now, trying to eat 45 Weet-Bix in 29 minutes.

He started strongly, Jono, but things... He did. He polished off probably about 15 or 16 in under nine minutes, which was an incredible start. Wow, a world record pace. You know, ahead of world record pace. But right now we're at weekbook number 30. Just finished

weekbook number 30 and look guys. Are we waving the white flag are we? The wheat flag. We're not going to do it guys. We're not going to do it. Three,

two, one. There we go. There's the 29 minutes. There's the timer. Hey, I'm proud of you. That's a lot of weekbooks.

I mean, you did it for nothing now because you didn't break the world record, but you did really well. I just feel bad for the child that was inspired listening to me. I've let them down. They text through, 4487. 30's a great effort. You did 30 and 30, basically.

And under 30. Wee Bigs are bites, the little ones. I reckon I could do 50 of those. Children in Africa, children in Africa who are inspired by that, they're like, actually, have you got a spare couple of Wee Bigs you can give to me, mate? Thanks. Well done, though, Joel. Your dad texted

in saying Joel's always eaten a lot since he was four years old. So there we go. No 800 hits, though, right now. When your phone's gone off at the wrong time, we've got Kerry with us this morning on the hits. Kerry, what happened? So we were in the middle of saying

our wedding vows when my husband's work phone went off. Oh, that is not good. What were the looks there? Well, it was funny because it was his stepdad that was holding on to the phone. He didn't know that it was my husband's phone that was going off. So he looked a bit shocked. He was a bit like, what is happening?

Well, and always in those circumstances, too, it takes you, if it is you, it takes you, you know, just five or so seconds to fumble into your pockets and grab the phone. And everyone turns around and looks at you, and you're like,

looking's not helping the situation. You're like, yes, we know I'm here. Just don't look. Did your husband stop the wedding vows to take the call or not? To be honest, I can't actually remember. He's like, yeah, get a Greek. Oh, you got a problem with that?

No, I can talk. Yeah, I can talk. It was definitely a work-related call. Oh, that's brilliant. Hey, I love your call. Love your work. Keep it up and have a great day. Thank you.

You too. Cheers. Appreciate it. Denise, you're on. The phone went off. Yeah, flying into Aussie. And as we're starting to descend, you too. Cheers, appreciate it. Denise, you're on. The phone went off. Yeah, flying into Aussie and as we're starting to descend, of course, all those text messages started ping, ping, ping, ping, ping

and I'm just like going, it's not my phone. I'm just going to ignore that. Oh, where was it? In my bag, in the overhead locker. Oh, and it was binging all over the plane and they're like,

we've got one simple instruction. One simple instruction at the beginning of the flight. Put your seatbelt on, turn the phone off. Flight mode. Yeah, that's all we need you to do. I love it, Denise.

You're going to have a great day.