Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: We Meet One Of Our Favourite Listeners Yet!

Episode Date: June 15, 2023

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The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations. At field days yesterday, I had a really fun time there. Most people were having a great time, I'd say 99.99% of people were having a great time at field days. Although I bumped into the 0.1%, 0.01% of people who worked. We got a lot of criticism for wearing gumboots. We thought we'd be fitting in, we'll put on some gumboots, we'll look like we know what we're doing. And people were like, mate, you're not wearing gumboots.

No. It wasn't muddy, for one. And two, the people were like, we just wear sneakers and stuff. Yeah, there was a guy who came in and was like, call yourself a cocky. And I was like, no, I've never called myself a cocky. People have called me a part of that word. Without the Y, yeah. Many times. But, yeah. And he was like, mate, we're not wearing gumboots today, this is

the time we don't wear the gumboots. Walk off shaking his head, you called yourself a cocky. Very confusing, the farming world. I met a guy, he was in a bit of a fluster, he was in a flap and he was outside the public pollution block there being. Portaloos I would imagine probably. Yes, you're right. And I said, what's going on, mate? He said, I've just dropped my wallet in there. It fell out of his shirt pocket as he was leaning over. And what do you do? What a hell of a position to be in.

I mean, you can lose a wallet. You can replace cards. You can replace the wallet. So it's not a set of keys that are going to get you home. Yeah. But he was like, what are my options? I was like, we all know what the option is. There's only one option.

No one else is going to do it for you. There's two options. One is grab it, the other is just forget about it. Just, you know, just. Yeah. I mean, if it's your own, Lou, you've got no troubles exploring, do you? You know what's going on there? Well, even that. Yeah, just... Yeah. I mean, if it's your own loo, you've got no troubles exploring, do you? You know what's going on there? Well, even that...

Yeah, you're right, but it's better. Even when it comes to the work toilets, I know my colleagues and what they expel. I trust them. I wouldn't be fishing around in the work toilets, that's for sure. Yeah, but when you're confronted with a big public toilet situation,

that's when times are really tough. I'm not sure what happened. I don't know what the end result. I didn't care enough to hang around, but I was like Well that's some funny radio fodder What you need is one of those big gloves That they

The cow You know The insemination gloves Yeah Put one of those big gloves on I hope they found one of those Dip your thing in there And then

I didn't give that as an option Yeah Hey That is a Ben that's a great If he's still there And he's by chance listening to this Get a long glove.

Yeah, that's a great result. Now, 0800 the hits. We want to chuck this open. 4487 on the text. What have you dropped? Oh. Simple as that. What have you dropped like that?

Have you had stories where you've dropped precious items into places that probably should have ended up in? I've dropped the ball many times on clerical errors, Ben. Yeah. So you can call us. 4487, what have you dropped this Friday morning on New Zealand's Breakfast? We'll get your calls and texts next. Talking about what you've dropped. Ran into a poor gentleman at the field days who wasn't proud of himself.

No, I weren't proud of the boys there. His wallet slipped out of his top pocket and into the port-a-loo. And he was just kind of weighing up his options, basically. But Ben, great suggestion of a long insemination glove would have solved the issue. But 0800 of the hits. What have you dropped? Lee, talk to us. I was a concrete driver and my phone went down the concrete chute into the skip to go up into the building.

I brought it into a column. Do you retrieve it or is that like, oh, it's gone down the toilet scenario, never to be seen again? Never to be seen again. About three days later, the guys actually heard it ringing. Oh, it's after three days? In the column of the building. Oh, so it's sitting in the middle of a building? Yep, in one of the social supports for a building.

So what happens, the phone, it's gone? Like, it's just there now. It's inside a building. Well, that's a fun little Easter egg for the people who live in that building, isn't it? Oh, yeah. That'd be a lot of stuff. A lot of stuff would end up in concrete, wouldn't it? Yeah, a lot of stuff does.

A lot of people put coins in their driveways. How frustrating is it for the concrete industry? You lay a fresh, lovely, smooth piece of concrete. I don't get involved in that part. I'm the one that pours it out, and then the guys come in and smooth it out. Yeah, right. Out of your jurisdiction. Don't worry about that't get involved in that part. I'm the one that pulls it out and then the guys come in and smooth it out. Yeah, right. Out of your jurisdiction.

Don't worry about that. But being in the industry, you know, you've laid a beautiful, soft, fresh, flat piece of concrete. It's really annoying for them. Yeah. But no, if someone comes along

and writes, you know, like, draws... John O. was here or something. Yeah. Depends on where it is. If it's their own driveway, no, I'm not worried about it, but if it's a footpath, that's a different story. Yeah. So you stay off those footpaths. And they on where it is. If it's their own driveway, I'm not worried about it, but if it's a footpath,

that's a different story. So you stay off those footpaths. And they never spell it right. There's always W-A-Z was here. Yeah, thank you very much, Lee. Appreciate it. No worries. Tauranga, we're heading to go to Anna.

Welcome. Hi there. Lovely to have you on, Anna. What happened, mate? Oh, look, I was visiting a primary school before my daughter started school. So it was just a visit. And I wasn't having a great time there. I kind of got to the classroom that I was told to go into,

and the teacher told me to wait outside. So I was standing on the deck, and while I was standing there, my keys just slipped out of my fingers, fell through the cracks in the deck boards. Was there access to the deck underneath? No. The school caretaker had to be called out, and he had to pull up the boards with the nails out of the boards to get my keys out.

You're on debut here. You wanted to make a good impression. This is right, yep. And all I wanted to do was just leave. But you couldn't because all your keys and stuff are down there. Caretakers, shout out to all the caretakers in primary schools across the nation. Absolutely. They're just hustling, doing everything.

There's nothing that they can't do. This is so true, and he was so kind and so nice. Well, thank you very much, Anna. Appreciate it. Thank you. The H and he was so kind and so nice. Well thank you very much and I appreciate it. Thank you. Yeah, now we met a wonderful lady yesterday, Mabel, who left an impact on both of us. She was great. She was really

bringing the big rural energy, Mabel. So much energy, she just bundled over and started chatting to us. She had the enthusiasm of a wild stallion on you know, doping drugs or something. Just really, really a lot of it. And she had quite a nasty injury. Have a listen to Mabel.

They call me Iconic, their favourite person ever. Oh, Iconic. You've been on the radio before. Yes, I went on. Oh, I don't want to talk to you now. You've been on your old news. Oh, old news. Oh, for real. Brother, brother. Come on, brother. Okay, so you went on the radio before and they called you what? They called me iconic and a hot mess. Yeah, you're awesome.

I like you. Looking at you now, I'd say those are great words. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. You know what I mean? You come up with a lot of energy and I like that. Oh, thank you, brother. So you've broken your finger today.

So, brother, I went to use a drop saw, but they didn't tell me I had to hold the bit of wood down. So, it popped back in my finger, and they reckon I've broken it. Eh, pretty sore, but, you know, been through worse. She'll be right. So, they gave me a beanie and some merch for my trouble. And I was just like, what? So, you've been going around now getting free merch

because you've broken your finger? Yeah, so I went to every single store that has power tools and I was like, I will rep you. So what other stuff you got? Alright, let's have a look. There's some Bosch in there, there's some Ryobi. You've got hoodies, you've got hats. We've got this, we've got a drink bottle. That's another hat from, I don't even know, Trade Zone. It just goes on.

To be honest, did you break your finger or is this just being a genius move? from I don't even know trade zone. I got some. Oh yeah. It just goes on. To be honest, did you break your finger or is this just been a genius play? Genuinely, one of those people actually patched me up. I genuinely like it. It sounds like a play

but a great play, yeah. And I'm just like. You're taking it pretty well. You look quite calm there, don't you? Oh, you know, I've got this. Even temperament.

I'll tell you what you've got. It's really painful. I'll tell you what you are. You're iconic and you're a hot man. Oh, hallelujah brother, hallelujah. So that was Mabel.

She was a lot of fun. So many bucket hats. Bucket hats for 10 lifetimes. My favorite moment with her was because she was wearing Warriors league shorts. Stubbies. Stubbies. And you're like, hey, you're Warriors league shorts. And then she was like, how good was that game last week?

The Sean Johnson try. A specific moment in the game when I was like, oh, this is awesome. So I started talking to her about that. And then Jono, you took a moment and you're like, hey, you'll love this. Obviously a huge Warriors fan, you're wearing shorts, you know, specific moments in a Warriors game. Yeah. You're like, you need to meet our producer, Taylor.

Yeah. Now producer Taylor is, you're married to? Marcelo Montoya. Plays for the Warriors. Yeah. You're like, yes. Who Taylor is married to, to Mabel? She's like, who? Yeah, you're like, Marcelo Montoya plays for the Warriors yeah you're like guess who Taylor is married to to Mabel

she's like who you're like Marcelo Montoya from the Warriors and she's like I don't know who that is I have no idea who that is she's like I know

Sean Johnson and that's it you know what fair enough no fair enough I wouldn't know him if I wasn't married to him so sorry Taylor

I was trying to use you as a social point scoring someone who was wearing Warriors shorts and knew a specific moment from the game seemed like a huge fan. Yeah, look, I don't have that much street cred just yet.

We'll be trading off it. And excuse me for making that assumption after. Yeah, I know. Same thing. I was very surprised by their reaction. Anyway, so it's just a hard case. I hope the broken finger heals up there, Mabel. Lovely to meet you. But we had a

beautiful Uber experience where we were in a car. And, you know, generally you don't say too much to the Uber driver. Then three quarters into the ride we got into a conversation and said, how's your day been? He said, well, my day as an Uber driver has been, you know, up and down. And he's like, but life is like being an Uber driver. He's like, life is up and down. So he's talking, he's getting quite deep at this point in time.

And he says a message where he's like, if you're lying in hospital and they've got a heart monitor on you, you know, if the monitor's going up and down, it means you're alive and you're living. If the monitor is flat and consistent means you're dead so he's like life is going up and down and so he's firing off this stuff being you're like record record record we're trying to try to get you go I thought about like I did I caught the tail end of it yeah hey guy journey I believe in the every life we just meet so many people, enjoy and go. We should only do the good acts. Do the good acts? Good acts, yes. Good acts and we're on a journey? Yes. And life is up and down?

Yes. Like a heart machine, you don't want to be flat? Yes. Should we stop here? Is it down here? Yeah. He's like, okay. A bit of a? Is it down here? Yeah. So, yeah, he's like, okay. A bit of bad talk. We need to go. He was like, get out of my car now. It was interesting. He was talking about the journey. Everyone wants to get to the destination.

And he was kind of like, well, the journey is, you know, don't enjoy the journey, you know. And I was like, that's actually quite good. And then once you get to the destination. He's like, now you're at the destination, get out. You've had all the free life advice I'm going to give you for the day. And we're like, we want more. He's like, mate, I've got other stuff to do.

But it felt like one of those moments that you'd clip up, put on Instagram to some nice piano music or something. Yeah, it did. So there you go. Life is like a journey, and it's got ups and downs. Enjoy the ups and the downs. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Who's having the best weekend?

We like to put the North versus the South on a Friday to find out where in the country is the best weekend. Which island's going to have the best one? Nothing wrong with a bit of healthy competition, Ben, boys. And we're going to kick things off in the North this morning. Hayley from the Hits in Wellington. Morena. Morena.

How are you, mate? Hello. Oh, good to be here this week. Sorry about that last week. You know what the bloody hell happened, mate? I was waiting diligently by my phone only to realise I got the time wrong. Oh, okay. Did I win?

No, you didn't win. I even tried to step in for you, but unfortunately it didn't happen. So now's your chance to tell us why the North is going to have the best weekend. Well, we've got some cracker things happening. We've got the legendary field days happening in Hamilton, so you can finally get the tractor for the backyard you've always wanted. Yep. We tried to blend in there yesterday.

Shocking. Shocking. Credit a long time low. I'm sorry, Hayley. Yeah, you can put it on the swan dry But you won't fool anyone And then in Whakatane We've got our Friday night walk

To spot kiwi birds But in the disclaimer it says Please be aware, it's very unlikely You will actually see a kiwi Has anyone ever seen a kiwi? I always go to the zoo The lights are off, there's a lot of foliage. They had one in that zoo overseas and that got a bit of controversy, didn't they, in the Miami Zoo.

Oh, we all got wound up because we let... Mate, we need to get the thing out there. Pat it, touch it, throw it in the air, see if it can fly. Has anyone even given that a crack? Anything else going on in the north before we whip to the south? Yeah, we've got the Jurassic World Lego exhibition in Wellington, life-size dinosaurs, huge Lego displays, but it's fair thought for all of the workers that diligently,

at the end of the day, have to break up all of the thousands of Lego creations that all of the punters make, because apparently, I was talking to one last week, their fingers are red and raw by the end of every day. It looks epic, that Jurassic World Lego exhibit that's going on in Wellington. Okay, we've got swollen fingers and kiwis you may or may not see in the north.

Let's go to the south, the wonderful Connor from the Hits in Canterbury. What up? G'day guys. Let's run through these first three really quickly if that's okay with you. Crystal and Christchurch, that's going to be amazing. It's on for a few weeks. Guy Montgomery

doing stand-up in Dunedin tonight. There's the amazing market in Nelson tomorrow morning. But there's one thing on my mind and I wasn't going to bring it up

because producer Joel then stoked the fire by saying, hey mate, are you ready to watch the Blues lose, sorry, the Blues beat

the Crusaders tonight? Look, I have to do this. The semi-final tonight, Orange Theory Stadium in Christchurch One of the great rivalries If not the greatest in NZ sport

I guarantee you It will be Leon McDonald's last game Coaching the Blues Before he helps our coach To win multiple Rugby World Cups However, it may just be Razor, Mwanga and Fainanuku's last game Home game I should say

Before they, I assume Head to Hamilton to win the seventh title in a row. And with that being said... He's always thinking about winning the final now, isn't he? He's like, let me rattle through these first three quickly. You'll suit yourself. Someone's going to need a bit of a... Now we're giving buddy four minutes of air time

to how the Crusaders are going to win again. Can I just bring up as well, the Chiefs loses. Who the hell wants to be in a stadium in Hamilton listening to a bunch of cowbells being rung by people who have never looked at them? All right, all right. Fade him down, fade him down. Mate, we're in the worst country right now.

Yeah, mate. We do. We want to be there. All right. He didn't mean it. He didn't mean it. Okay, so there's a lot going on. A lot of rugby propaganda going on.

Jono, North-South, who's going to take it out this week? Listen, I'm just going to go for the passion. I'm going to go for the passion. Hayley, I loved all of Hayley's events. The male may not see the Kiwis run or whatever you're doing at night time. But the passion. I'm going to go for the passion. Hayley, I loved all of Hayley's events. The male may not see the Kiwis run or whatever you're doing at night time. But the passion from Connor. The big semi-final tonight

in Canterbury. We're going to give it to the South. Well done, Connor. I think we've still failed. Yeah, we hung him up. It was too much banging on about the Crusaders. Going to get us beaten up in Hamilton. There is a fun fact about Cambridge. It's actually got a bridge. One bridge. We went across it yesterday. One bridge that barely manages to hold two lanes of traffic at the same time.

There's no room for error. No, it was a very narrow bridge, wasn't it? Yeah. But let's go to the phones this morning. We've got some hell pizza up for grabs. Kick it off with Julia in Auckland. Julia, it's lovely to have you on the show. Hi, good morning.

Lovely to have you on, Julia. I already said that. Couldn't say it morning. Lovely to have you on, Julia. I already said that. Couldn't say it enough. What's happening this weekend, Julia? So it's my niece's first birthday party. That's going to be a rager. Okay, what are we talking here? Big cakes, big lollies, high sugar intake.

Yep, everything. And balloon animals, face painting, past parcel, you know, the whole shebang. Oh, that's amazing. Have you got, like, entertainment? Oh, face painting is great entertainment. I was, the whole shebang. Oh, that's amazing. Have you got, like, entertainment? Oh, face painting is great entertainment. I was reminiscing about this with my son, Oscar. We had a magician come to his party,

but the problem is he had already seen the magician's act at another party. And so the magician's trying to do his thing. He's working hard. Bloody Andy Wonder was his name. And Oscar's, like, going, he's going to pull out a rabbit. He's going to pull a handkerchief out of his shirt. Spoiler. He's spoiling it for everybody.

It got to the point where Andy Wonder's like, now some of us may have seen the show already, but don't spoil it for everyone else. Oh, jeez. Julia, we're going to send you out some hell pizzas to enjoy over your weekend as well. Have a great one. Thank you so much.

You too. You're going. You love your work, Julia. Let's go to Nathia. Ben, you're on. Welcome. How are you? My bad, mate. You're going. You love your word, Julia. Let's go to Natia. Ben, you're on. Welcome. How are you? My bad, mate.

Yourself? Yeah, great to have you on. Now, just moments ago, four minutes ago, we had Connor spouting off all sorts of stuff about the Crusaders. Say, defamatory comments about the Chiefs. And the Blues as well, too. Yeah, just, you know, what do they say? Vitriol.

Yeah. It was not great But apparently Ben You're a Chiefs fan Are you going to the game? Yes, yes I am The up and mighty Chiefs I'm hitting along Been a referee of rugby for almost 22 years

So there's a bunch of us referees We're actually making a guard of honour For the players to run down the field Awesome And shout out to all the referees. No matter what level of sport you're refereeing, it's a thankless job. We were talking about that over the weekend, actually. People that give, a lot of volunteers that do it,

and cop a lot of comments and criticism, and it's like, you couldn't have sport going on without the refs. Yeah, it's definitely a massive shortage, so shout out to all the guys and girls that get out there week in, week out and do all the grunt work so kids of all ages and adults can get out there and play the sport they love. Oh, good on you, Ben. Well, congratulations on all the great work you do.

Best bit of abuse you've heard. What are we talking? Let's not say that on radio. Put some glasses on, ref! I've heard it all, but I'm pretty sure my wife gives me worse. Ben, we're going to flick you out some hell pizza. You have a great weekend. Enjoy that special moment on the field.

Thanks, guys. There we go. Palmerston North also text here, 4487. It's the Palmerston North Secondary School's cross-country final. Oh. You couldn't find a more aggravating sport than cross-country, I wouldn't imagine, but good luck to all the finalists in that. Yeah, running in muddy shoes, which is just an inconvenience, isn't it?

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Yeah, the country has been announced it's in recession. Now, that seems really worrying. I mean, obviously, we're cost of living. Things haven't been good for a while. We're like, well, what does that mean? Should we be concerned? How long is this thing going to last for?

And those questions, I don't have answers for. You've been saying it all morning. You just keep saying, we're in a recession. Don't know what it means. With no follow-up. And we're joined right now from Enable.me by Hannah McQueen. Hannah Lightning McQueen. Ka-chow.

Good morning. What's the catchphrase, Hannah? Ka-chow. She only uses that with us. So Hannah McQueen from Enable Me at the moment. Now, Hannah, the big news yesterday, New Zealand is official. We're in a recession. So what does that mean?

Well, it technically means that the economy hasn't grown. It's actually had slightly negative growth. So it's gone backwards or contracted. What does it mean practically for you and me not much to be honest it's sort of a nothing why are we talking to you there and it's like i don't know why you're talking to me either but now hannah do you think that you know like and the media probably has a huge part to play in this as well like you get words like recession that float around and you know the cost of living crisis and there's doom and gloom and

there's more articles and everyone hears those articles and then you stop spending because you're like, geez, I can't spend at the moment. Do you think that becomes worse because we are always talking about these negative things? Yeah, it does. It kind of becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy and they love it. The media love it and politicians love it. But for you and I, I think it's probably good that we are technically in this recession

because we're moving through it. And it doesn't make any difference what title they give it. It's only looking good from here, right? Interest rates have hit their peak. They're starting to stabilise and come down. Well, that's going to relieve most families, right? That's a huge thing. And we probably need to celebrate that rather than something that happened a few months

ago that doesn't impact you and I or affect our job. I love this. Now, let's all cast our mind back. I think two or three years ago, Donald Trump, he said, let's pretend COVID's not a thing. Let's plough on. Ben Boyce saying, let's stop talking about the recession and plough on. He's employed a Trump theory. Oh, don't lump me in with Trump. That's the same thing. I'm not, like, no.

No, I was just saying that it feels like the more you talk about doom and gloom, the more people will, if they've got money, they'll go, oh, hang on, I can't spend it because... Look, I think that some people will be affected by it, but not because they've given a title to something that happened in March, because this is data from March. It's just the compounding impact of it being tough for the last couple

of years, whether it kind of hit this technical recession irrelevant. It's been hard for people for a while, but it is starting to get easier. I guess that the economic predictors are starting to tilt in a more favourable way, so we've just got to hold on. A couple more months, we're out the other side.

So, yeah, I was just about to say, when is that, you know, the light at the end of the tunnel? Some political parties would say that that's in October. I think kind of outside of that, for most householders, it's going to be when interest rates start to come down, and we would expect them to start to come down by the end of the year. So that's just a few more months that would be helpful.

I think some people have got to get through another kind of six months of uncomfortable cutbacks, but we're still employed. I think that's the main thing, that the panic happens if we start all losing our jobs, but we're almost at full employment and so that means that yes some people might move around but most of us have got security with our income so we don't have to have the emotion or the drama that comes from some of the words that we want to use finally some good news hannah i'm going to call you hannah good news mcqueen now oh we appreciate your time this morning.

You're making us actually feel a little better because, yeah, you hear recession, you're like, oh, geez, this doesn't sound good. But, hey, you've put a positive outcome on it, so we appreciate it this morning. Thank you.