Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: We talk to T Swift!

Episode Date: February 18, 2024

Jono gets a talking-to about his email etiquette. Career vs relationship in this week's Dear Megan. Undies... with built in camel toe?! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. Good, thank you Ben. Good, just got accused of some Monday morning mansplain. No, you did, yeah. I came up with the front page of the paper. Spouting off like, oh this news and no, no. The speeding tickets going from the police to the Waka Kotahi.

And they're going to triple the amount of tickets annually to three million. I'll be providing a lot of those. And you explained it to Megan, who had just actually told everyone, told the nation in the news bulletin. Oh, just sitting here, I was like, do I let them have it or do I tell them I literally just said that in the news?

No, well, you let me explain. Thank you for listening. Quite far. I got quite detailed into it. And then finally you said, I've just read this in the news. We all know. Apologies.

So you look lovely. You led leather shirt on today there, Megan. Thank you. Can't imagine not very breathable full leather shirt. I thought it would be fine because it's freezing in here. It is cold in here. It's always cold in here. Air conditioning really cranking in here. Over the weekend, whatever any of us did,

not quite as cool as everyone else that went to Taylor Swift. So many Kiwis went to Taylor Swift. You were seeing it all over your social media over the weekend. I didn't even want to put anything on social media because I was like, it's just not as cool as what everyone else is doing. What did you end up putting on there? You put a photo out, did you? One of your kids? Yeah.

Yeah, that's not as cool. Me kissing my son at a cafe. I was like, wow, cool, exciting. A lot about Taylor Swift. My sister actually went across to Taylor Swift. She was actually in Melbourne, so she went to it. And she sent us this audio of Taylor at the start saying, what's the biggest show on her tour? Like I am losing my mind over the fact that there are 96,000 people here tonight.

This is true. This is the biggest show that we have done on this tour. So her biggest show, 96,000 people, but that was one of three nights she was doing 96,000 people in Melbourne. Not only the biggest show of that tour, it's the biggest show she's ever done. Wow. Ever.

That's the Melbourne Cricket Ground, is it? Yeah, MCG, yeah. So I imagine it would fit over 100,000 because you take the stage out of the play. That's a big stadium. Yeah.

Have you ever been to the Melbourne Cricket, but you're a cricket nerd, Ben? Yeah, I haven't seen cricket at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. That's on the bucket list to do. But yes. Imagine if you got to see

Taylor Swift one night in a test cricket, five days of test cricket. That's your dream week right there. Talking about going over in a couple of years, actually, when Black Caps, you should come with me, Megan. Yeah. For a test or a one-day thing.

I don't mind the one-day things. Five days in the Melbourne Street Garden. But if you thought you had a bad weekend over the weekend, well, it wasn't anything compared to this UK weather presenter who let slip about a wee surprise party live on national TV. So, what have you got up at the weekend?

Anything exciting? Oh, my niece's surprise birthday party. Oh, really? Not a surprise if she's watching this. Oh, goodness me, I've spoiled it. She even said my niece's surprise birthday party. Like, she said the words. I know. I better hope that her niece isn't watching the show.

No one watches TV anyway. You'll be right, mate. That's true. Just teasing before, there's a place for grabs in Queenstown. Hotly contested, isn't it? I imagine in the rental market in Queenstown. Yeah, really tough to find places at the moment. There's a bit of a housing shortage.

So there's a place available. You get to stay with three full-time professionals close to the shops, 30 seconds away from a bus stop. It seems like a great location. The only potential catch is you have to share the room with a double bed with one of the tenants. A clean

man. He says he's a clean man. You always want he's a clean man. You always want to be a clean man, don't you? How much? $195 a week. That's worthwhile. Yeah, sleep next to a clean man. Yeah.

I don't know if there's like a shift working situations where people kind of, because I've heard of that before where people work different hours and so they kind of share the room. But you literally have to share the bed. Yeah, share the bed. It's not illegal to share the bed. Yeah, share the bed. It's not illegal or anything like that. There's no room for like a second bed?

I guess there could be. Yeah, it seems that you could get two single beds. Two singles, you're right. Yeah, there is an alternative. Or bunks, some bunks. Does he specify that he wants a female? I don't think so. No, I think it's open to whoever wants the room.

Whoever wants to pay $195 to sleep next to a clean, clean man. And he says he's very busy with work, too, in the description. So he might not be home much. Right. Would you share a bed with a stranger, Megan? No. Take your current situation aside. Nothing's going on.

Yeah. No, because I feel like there'd be arguments over, like, who changed the sheets And like you can't make the room your own It's a bit weird How about you Ben? Take your current situation You're just a single person

Not a long term Like for a night or something If you're like oh I have to crash here for the night Yeah yeah whatever But yes for a long time you're right It'd be like oh I have to go back to the room. And he's, you know, and I'm snoring and he wants to watch Gossip Girl or something. He wants to watch Gossip Girl.

Oh my God, I'm in. Who is this guy? And I'm like, oh, mate, keep it down. You know, like that. So, yeah, probably not. You should try Gossip Girl. It's very good. I had a friend who went to London

and they had flatted with like 23 people didn't even know the names of everyone that they were living with were they just all in cupboards yeah

my friend used to live in a cupboard as well for a week but like yeah it was quite a big wardrobe but they had like a little bed that he used to put in there

for a while and you don't care at that age do you no now now you're not going to go and live with 23 other people. No.

You've got creature comforts in the mix nowadays. The sawback. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Like a lot of Kiwis. We're at Taylor Swift over the weekend. She's playing Melbourne this weekend and next weekend she's in Sydney. Seems like one heck of a concert. You could feel a distinct lack of excited teenage

energy in this country because they'd all disappeared across across the Tasman couldn't you a little bit of a interesting story like these people got the

last minute tickets I was reading today because one of their friends couldn't go so they got last minute tickets about 10 minutes beforehand and they didn't know

there were three of them together and they're all big fans and they didn't know which one of them should use the ticket so they hatched a bit of a plan to all use the same ticket and have a third of the concert each. So one of them scanned in, went to watch the third of the concert,

came back out, got a pass out, gave the phone to the other person who went in for the middle part. She watched the middle part, then came back out, scanned out and got the third. So they all got to see some part of the concert. You can do that. Well, yeah, they didn't think. They weren't sure that it was going to work, but it did work.

No, you'd just be the first person and be like, oh, they didn't let me out. Yeah, sorry, guys. It didn't work. Instead of a third, I'm going to have to do the full. Well, we did try and get hold of Taylor Swift, didn't we? And it turns out you can't. She's a bit busy. Yeah.

So the next best thing was going to the epicenter of Swifties in New Zealand. That's Hokitika, the West Coast. The West Coast. Of the South Island. We tracked down a T-Swift. Can you believe it? I know. I don't know if it's a Taylor Swift.

I mean, you know, you don't ask those sort of questions if you've got Taylor Swift on the phone, right? Do we? When did we get the interview of the show? Yeah. T-Swift? Yes. Oh, I thought it was Taylor Yeah. T-Swift? Yes. Oh, I thought it was Taylor Swift.

We've made a terrible mistake. Okay. You sound like you might be a... It's Jono Ben-Omegan from the Hits radio station. You sound like a Taylor Swift fan. Oh, okay. You'll go along with it? I'll go along with it.

What's your favourite song? Oh, The Beatles. Wow, okay. You didn't specify Taylor Swift, did you? That's true. I'm going to zero down on your favourite Taylor Swift song. But The Beatles are good? Yes, they're great.

That's the one, yeah. A bit old for her. Oh, a bit old. Okay, well, this is the closest to Taylor Swift we're going to get. So could you give us A review of the concert Let's pretend you went Fantastic

Great Great outfits Nice and skimpy How does that sit with you Megan? How does that review sit with you? I don't know Nice and skimpy How was her singing? Oh you I don't know I'm just going to lie how was her singing

oh you know that was good too there we go that was the most PC review you'll get of the Taylor Swift show love it yeah thanks for the

call guys and girls it's T Swift there we go in the west coast of the South Island the most hardened Swifties aren't they

I love it the hits the Jono and Ben podcast like to do clickbait headlines on a Monday morning The most hardened Swifties, aren't they? I love it. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. We like to do clickbait headlines on a Monday morning. Megan, you find us three actual headlines from the news, and we can only hear about one of the stories. Yeah, you've tirelessly researched this during that Gavin DeGraw song in a panic.

The problem being, though, is two of the stories, well, they just turn to chopped liver, don't they? We don't hear about them. True. Wasted research. There's absolutely no way of you ever finding out what those stories were about. Definitely don't Google. And we won't be rehashing them after 8 o'clock today.

True. Okay, once they're not chosen, we will not hear them. Quick bang headlines. Okay, what are the three headlines, Megan? All right, number one, who is the father? Did she do it herself or was it a shark? Number two, man arrested for what's in his pants. And number three, woman disgusted after dot, dot, dot fell on her during a flight to Amsterdam.

Ooh, three beauties. Yeah. Okay, so someone or something is pregnant, but they don't know who the impregnator is. Yeah, you reckon you know the story. Is it a stingray? Ding, ding. Yeah, there's a stingray. This is big news on TikTok.

I don't know too much about it, though. I haven't clicked on the headline, but I just heard there was a stingray that they thought maybe a shark had maybe. That's pretty much the gist of it. Is it a shark ray or is it stingray Jesus? Has it not given birth yet? Immaculate conception. Soon.

This week, any moment. So we'll see what comes out. Oh, we don't need to click on that then. Ben, thank you. Thanks for already reading that one. Very exciting. Save the Wi-Fi data on that one. Okay, then the remaining two.

Something fell on a lady on the plane. Yep. Or a man arrested for what's in his pants. He's stolen something, obviously. Has he? Has he? It could be a weapon it could be meat

sirloin steaks from the supermarket but then do you want to hear about that or do you want to hear about something falling on someone let's go the plane let's click on the plane the man didn't steal anything by the way do you reckon we should do you reckon we should go

no you choose whatever watch one you want. Well, then once we choose one, don't give us more teasers. Okay, you're going for the play. We're going for the play. Okay, a woman was on a flight to Amsterdam and she was sitting in her seat when falling from the overhead compartment onto her head. Are we going to go snake?

What are we going? Snake, rat. Snake would have been right for the other story. Oh, I don't know. We can't go back. We haven't heard what's fallen on the lady.

I'll go back. Let's go back to the other story. I don't care what fell on the lady. You don't want to know what fell on her head. No, let's go back to it. Are you actually switching? Yeah, I'm switching last minute.

I don't care about the lady. Hopefully, if you're listening, you can keep up with whatever's going on here. So we're going back to the man getting arrested for something in his pants. This would appear on border control, probably. So a man was caught at the border with not one, but multiple pythons in his pants. Literal trouser snakes.

Yeah, so he was, well, he's fined five grand, but yeah, he snuggled up to and smuggled some young adult python snakes. No way. They were in bags, but he'd put them down his pants. That's not a, oh, sorry, I forgot they were there situation, is it? No. So they were, he was going to sell them. They're worth about two and a half grand each.

Not worth it. Not worth it. But they're not going to sell them. They're worth about two and a half grand each. Not worth it. Not worth it. But they're not going to bite you. If I had two and a half thousand dollars, I would say put a python down your pants. Would you do it? Two and a half grand. We'd do it after eight o'clock. Prime time. But they don't bite, right?

Do pythons like strangle? Yeah, I think they do bite and I think they strangle as well, don't they? Do pythons bite? Yeah. Yeah, I think they do bite, and I think they strangle as well, don't they? Yeah, there's a whole lot. Either way, you don't want them strangling or biting what you've got going on down there. They don't typically attack humans, though, the python, but they will bite and constrict if they feel threatened. You don't want a constricting python wrapped around your legs, do you?

The groin area, that's for sure. Oh, there we go. We'll never find out what happened to that lady on the plane. Or what fell on her head, no. But we did find out about the python. There's an American election happening at some stage, and it feels like the same two people were going to be up for it. Again, Biden and Trump.

Is Trump, he's not allowed to run in some states. Some states, but he's still trying to run overall, right? But he's just unveiled over the weekend at sneaker con uh he went to sneaker con in philadelphia with all the the nikes and nikes and all that people that love sneakers he's got his new pair of sneakers the never surrender high tops now these are gold gold high tops they'll set you back uh around about 650 dollars new zealand for these never surrender high tops just under 400 $400 American dollars. Golden trainers.

He said, wow, there's a lot of emotion as he responded to the crowd. Some were butchering, some were booing. He's also got a Victory 47 cologne and perfume as well. Just raising money for his Trump campaign as well. Very gold. They are just literally gold with like around the high top part of the American flag. Never surrender. This is very Trump. And then a big gold T on the side.

We should put them up on the Hitspring for Socials as well. You'd have to be confident to wear those, wouldn't you? I couldn't see even him wearing them. It's a lot of shoe. This is what Biden needs for his campaign. He needs some high tops. He needs some Biden high tops.

He'll just be like old. Slippers. He needs slippers. Biden slippers. Nice cardigan. Yeah. There's a comedian who's like, you've never met a president who's had so much merch. Donald Trump.

Yeah. He's like, Biden's got his merch games, nothing. But Trump's merch, the hats, the Make America Great Again caps. It's true. Shoes now. Yeah. You can get a whole Trump outfit. Yeah, hats, the Make America Great Again caps. It's true. Shoes now. Yeah. You can get a whole Trump outfit. Yeah, well, there we go.

You can get Trump and cologne as well if you want to smell like whatever he's smelling like. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Another fire in the Canterbury region overnight. Fire and emergency crews are working to bring that one under control as more houses are being evacuated. So you really think of everyone around the regions affected by that. Yeah, frightening times. Very frightening, especially if it's next to your house. Now, Megan, you've been fed a certain level of commercial on social media.

Now, for the purposes of mainstream morning radio, I'll see how you navigate your way around this one. Yeah, that's right. So sometimes you click on websites and then they'll feed you things they'll go you may be interested in this based on what i don't know how i've come to this though like genuinely i got fed this this is from timu um and timu is how it's pronounced timo it was a super bowl commercial but i feel like everyone says timu don't they so. And I'm going to say Timu and everyone's like, that's Timu. Yeah.

You know what I'm talking about, that site. I had a little targeted ad come up. I think it was on Facebook. So what has appeared is a half face mask. It's leather. Well, it's probably pleather. So your eyes are still there, but it goes across your nose and mouth. It has a zip at the mouth.

And it also has like a pointy nose. Like a Pinocchio nose. Like a Pinocchio. But that's like soft. Yeah. It's like a soft leather nose. I'd say like three inches. Yeah, you can only assume that the person wearing the mask

is told an abundance of lies her nose is growing yeah uh very unusual what i love what i love is the model the model you can only see her eyes but you can tell the look in her eyes she's like this is a low this is a low point in my career yeah yeah so i don't actually i genuinely don't know how i came to this also the next thing along was like, it looks like a male dummy. There's a guy sleeping and he's got like a dummy in his mouth. I think maybe it's to stop snoring, maybe. I had an instance when we bought some morph suits.

Remember those silver morph suits for something we were doing? We were hosting some awards for a company and we needed some silver morph suits. And I bought them on a website and then I had to send them across to get reimbursed because they were like I'm passed back for it yeah and then they had also on that same thing other things you might like and some of the things I might like were very very dodgy it was it was a big level up from the silver morph suits professionally to these people going please do not look at the other things I might like based on this purchase.

People who bought this morph suit were also interested in it. Yeah, very interesting thing. Tell you what, if you've ended up, what's on Megan's feed, if you've ended up with that on your face, you've reached an adventurous part of your life, haven't you? You've tried some stuff leading up to that point. Yeah, but I haven't.

Yeah, okay. I feel like I'm going to dig myself a dig myself feels like timu or timu really covers a wide spectrum of goods yeah doesn't it got everything from baby cots to cocaine probably yeah yeah so what uh what are you getting fed like what are you clicking on lots and you get ads youtube happens all the time too when you go onto youtube and suddenly i've got like uh things that shave tennis balls and stuff like that. I don't know why you need to shave your tennis balls,

but apparently you do. A lot of ads for shaving tennis balls on my feed. They must shave them at the tournaments too. Like Wimbledon, they'd have to shave all the tennis balls before they go out and play on the court. I'm guessing so. Maybe they bounce better if they're shaved, Ben. I don't know.

I don't know. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I don't know if the mask that you've been fed on the internet is quite as amazing as a Taylor Swift concert, Megan. No, I've got targeted ads for, it is a half-face pleather mask with a three-inch pointy nose. Yeah, big nose. You look like sort of a superhero

who could bludgeon their enemies to death with a nose. If Pinocchio was a superhero, yeah. Part of me feels like, because Timu Chinese owned, part of me feels like the Chinese government's having a bit of a laugh with us. And you know, the next world war that pops out, they'll be like, well, well, well, look who purchased the leather nose mask in 2024. And they're harvesting all of our purchases and information. Yeah.

That's all they need to do for the world war is release all our nefarious purchases. Oh, God. Yeah. So I went under the Hits telephone number. We've actually put that up on the Hits Breakfast socials, haven't we, Producer Taylor? So you can go and have a look for yourself.

And Judge, as to what Megan might have been looking at to lead up to this. Maybe someone's in the market. Yeah. For one of those. We'll get Nathan on. What are you being fed on the internet, mate? Yeah, I don't know why, but I kept getting the like

old granny undies, but with a built-in camel toe. Built-in? And it was everywhere. You'd go on your Google feed or your YouTube feed and there's just camel toe undies all over the place. Built-in! Why are you building that in? I feel like one of your mates is pranking you,

and they've done a Google search on your computer. Is there any reason why you'd want that built-in? No! I don't know. I don't know. You can get bras these days with, like, built-in nipples. Yeah, you can. Which is a little bit more attractive than maybe a camel toe.

Oh, yeah, okay. I'm looking at them now. Why would you build it up? I don't know. It made for some awkward conversations. You're like, oh, check out this video I saw. And you'd open your Google and then all of a sudden there'll be ads for camel toe.

That's so weird, Nathan. The only way you can make it end is purchasing a pair mate Then they'll stop feeding it to you Good on you Nathan Go and have a wonderful week Heini You're on welcome how are you Hi

What is it Heini Heini sorry my friend What are you getting fed on the internet Well on Facebook I'm getting Haney, yep. Haney, sorry, my friend. What are you getting fed on the internet? Well, on Facebook, I'm getting... Sorry. Just woke it up. That's all right. This is a hell of a teaser.

I think your phone cut out. The crucial moment. Funeral insurance. Oh, funeral insurance. And I'm 32, so it's really strange. 22? I get a lot of Ryman ads. Like Ryman retirement village ads that pop up sometimes.

I mean, you're considerably older than Hayley. And a lot of people in this conversation. Yeah. It's really awkward. I'm like, oh, how is it coming? Well, Hayley, thank you very much. Appreciate that. It's always good to look after your future funeral insurance. Keith Quinn.

Keith Quinn, he was the funeral insurance guy, wasn't he? He was getting us all onto that, wasn't he? Bet he got a free funeral out of that. I hope he hasn't used it yet. Someone won $36 million in Florida, but they had 180 days to claim the prize. Haven't claimed it, and so the money now is no longer theirs. Gone.

Who made up that rule? Oh yeah, I got 180 days to claim the prize, so they still don't know. Well, how long do you want, Jono? You'll be there next day. I really want someone to do this. Should I get my... You got 180 days. clearly they didn't know.

Click my 36 million American dollars? No, I'll do that tomorrow. Yeah, that's all right. I need something to do. I've got some bills to pay, but no, no, I won't get that money. So obviously I had no idea they'd won. I'm guessing. Oh, my God.

Well, I mean, that's a good thing. Yeah. You don't want to know now. No, definitely. That could have been yours, $36 million. Wow. Now, the brand-new drive show on the hits, Maddie and PJ, they discovered something about working with you, Jono,

that they're not happy with. And they rang you, right? Yeah, they did. And it's always a nervous time as a radio host when you get a call from the producer just going, hey, Maddie and PJ want to talk to you. Yeah. Any stage was it stipulated what they want to talk to me about?

Going live in a minute. Yeah, going live. You're like, 10-4. This is what we had to hold. You're like, what's the matter? They never, yeah. No time to prepare. I had no time to prepare a defense.

And then this is what they were complaining about. We had like a lovely email come out from one of the women who work in sales. And she was like, thanks so much for coming to the event the other night. And Jono,o boom couple of minutes straight in thank you such a fantastic event you should be really proud

of yourselves I was like now we have to but I also don't want to make it look really obvious if I come straight out the back of Jono exactly

because what are we going to follow up with yeah what he said accused of electronic brown nosing yeah this is you

am I an email brown nosing Yeah This is you to a T Am I an email brown noser? Yeah definitely You come in real like hard too You're always like That was fantastic Legends Thank you so much

Legends And then I'm like Sometimes Ben will follow up And be like yeah thanks You know it's a token And then I'm like well Now you feel like everyone has to jump in now. You don't want to be the only one that didn't say thanks.

Yeah. And I've read, I mean, I have overused the word legends. It's lost its punch, hasn't it now? Like the Kardashians have turned the word literally into literally not literally. Yeah. Same thing. Well, that was last week that they hit me up about this. And you'll notice I've replied to no email since.

Or have you just replied without taking us off the chain? Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. Premier brown noser over here. But then I looked through, and these are the five of the worst email crimes that are committed in the office every day. And I'm guilty of all of these.

It's embarrassing. I'm ashamed to admit the email enforcer, so someone in the office who's sent an email, then they'll come over to you and go, hey, I just sent you an email. Face to face. I've done that. Oh, my God.

The caps, the all caps, the shouter. Yeah, you do that. Legends! And that's only just because I've been focusing on the keyboard and then you look up and then the final letter's lowercase and you're like, like oh it's too much too much to change so that's another crime

the blank subject liner oh you're sometimes subject you're like what do I put in the subject of these things do you find that sometimes you write the subject

and your parents write the email in the subject you're like well I don't need to see anything it's annoying but then it goes away from the screen so you have to scroll along

there's nothing else I need to say just a reminder about the... And then the one word replier. You send a novel of an email and someone from upper management... Great. Or a K.

No, that's passive-aggressive. Oh, it's K. And the one that I am also guilty of is the automatic replier, which I have set up on the work email basically saying, if you email this, you're not going to get a reply. I don't check this email. I don't check this email.

So all five of those. Yeah. Are you guilty of those, Megan? I don't actually think I'm guilty of any of them. I'm pretty rubbish at texting back and emailing back in general. He's a bloody prolific emailer. He will fire off an email. I hate a fun conversation, but I like an email. You can explain

stuff in an email. Your emails are very detailed. They get long. And Jono's are very excited and thankful. Welcome on board. Pleasure to have you here. We are enjoying all of your energy and personality, mate. Legend.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Taylor Swift in Australia over the weekend playing in Melbourne. 96,000 people each night of the three nights. Then she goes, of course, to Sydney as well this weekend coming up. And continues on in her money printing tour of the world. Yes. Now you just look out into that stadium and go, well, there's my next private plane.

Huge. And they say that tour's going to gross like $4.1 billion. Wow. It just looks incredible. I'm sure everyone would have seen it all over the news, all over your social media over the weekend. Heaps of Kiwis went across there. My sister sent us back this audio.

This was the audio of when Taylor Swift came out the crowd just waiting 96,000 people in Melbourne just counting down waiting for Taylor to come out she's going nuts eh just incredible it looks cool I mean the friendship bracelets they're swapping them. Everyone's outfits as well just look like a really great vibe. Yeah. Surely, because Pink's over there at the moment too, surely she's like, bruh.

Bruh. I'm out here bloody flipping and doing big things. Flipping around stadiums. Flipping around stadiums. You roll into town. With your bloody friendship bracelets. Bruh. Yeah.

Now, we asked some Kiwis that went across there to send us back one word reviews of the concerts. Just one word. We don't want it to go too long and make us feel really jealous. Even more jealous than we already are for not being there. So here's the first one. Hi John and Ben. My one word review of the

Taylor Swift concert is INSANE! Oh, good timing. That was really well done. Just as Taylor sings insane. That was beautiful. Yeah, great timing. Who was that from?

I don't know. I don't know. Kiwis. Just random Kiwis. Okay, well, thank you for posting that. That was a good one. Okay, the next one. My one word review for Taylor Swift, John O'Ban, is amazing. Good. Sticking to the format, the one word review for Taylor Swift, Jono and Ben is amazing.

Good, sticking to the format, the one word format. And almost like a radio announcer in between songs and then Taylor was on, the music started. Oh, that's great. I love that from a radio point of view. All right, next one. Hey, Jono and Ben, my one word review of the Taylor Swift concert is stamina. Holy hecka, my feet are sore.

I don't know how she does that three nights in a row. But you'll see me here tomorrow so I'll let you know how I go. That's the thing about Kiwis and people just going back multiple nights. That was 21 words. I counted all those words. Well, stamina was the word and then they just gave context to why it is.

I think we have one more, do we? Hi, gentlemen. I'm Ben. My one word for Taylor Swift. I don't think I have one. Maybe emotional. Like, you know, you dance, you cry, you laugh. It was everything.

I'm going to say it was very emotional. I don't know how to describe it. It's not even a concert at this point. It was a show, like a full-on performance. It was insane. That felt like after about eight beers but it was good it was good good review yeah no well thank you for i really appreciate those people doing that in the moment because i would have forgotten to do that i know people that went across to do that was pretty cool and the timing of the other one for insane can we hear that again, please, Grace? The first one. Jono and Ben, my one-word review of the Taylor Swift concert is insane! Oh, very, very cool.

The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. And you claim you weren't involved in a shoplifting scandal? No, I was there. I definitely did not do any shoplifting myself. Had a lovely outing to the supermarket. You're just complaining that you feel like a lot of your content you bring is supermarket-themed. When you're a parent, the supermarket is is your lovely

outing when you've got you don't like to go places by yourself you're saying last week but would you go to the supermarket by yourself yeah i actually i would okay yeah okay uh so i went to the supermarket and um there was a guy who had a big duffel bag in his trolley. He had one of those half trolleys. And it was interesting because the duffel bag, we were sort of near the end, looked quite full. And I was like, what is in this duffel bag? He had groceries in his trolley. But I was quite intrigued.

And that's when I suddenly noticed that following him around was an employee of the supermarket. And I was like, don't stay too close, but stay close enough to figure out what's going on here. And he got a shoulder tap. And I was like, this guy's put stuff in his duffel bag. So he got a shoulder tap. He was asked to open the bag. To which he did. He said, please don't embarrass me. I will open the bag. He was asked to open the bag, to which he did. He said, please don't embarrass me.

I will open the bag. Did he say that? Yeah. Jeez, you must have been close to hear all this. I know. This is all Mrs. Mangle up here. Like, what date is on this bridge? Oh, yeah, no, just look at this. Really, trying to choose between some bread or something.

And I was like, oh, my gosh, he's definitely stolen stuff. But he hasn't left the shop yet. No. Well, then he hasn't stolen anything. Well, yeah, no. No, he hasn't. Yeah, you're right, actually. That's true.

He could just be using it as a trolley, a trolley of his back. A second trolley. Yeah. It was in the trolley. That's a very good point. So he opened it

and the bag was stuffed full with Whittaker's chocolate. Only Whittaker's chocolate? Only Whittaker's chocolate? Only Whittaker's chocolate. Wow. If you're going to steal anything, that's worthwhile. That's worth a criminal charge. It was a lot.

I was so confused. I was like, oh, we all like it, but how much do you need? And I was like, I'm selling. What happens there? What happens in that situation? They took the bag and told him to leave. Oh, so they let him go? Yeah, no, they let him go.

Because he hadn't done anything. He hadn't stolen it yet. The intention was there. I love it when you go to the supermarkets and then the frustrated owners and the management are so annoyed with people shoplifting. And there's a cost of living crisis. It's very sad that people have to resort to that.

But they have the wall of shame. They do the still images, the shots from the security cameras. I always like to stop and be like, yep, definitely did it. Definitely did it. And I thought it could be good, bordering defamatory, couldn't it?

Because you haven't proved that they've taken anything. You've just got a photo of them saying they've stolen stuff. What if the boss of the supermarket just had a gripe with Jono and was like, I haven't seen this man. Ultimate stitch. If I owned a supermarket and Ben walked in, I'd be like, this guy, thief. Put him up on there. Put him on the thief board.

The wall of shame. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, every now and again, someone slides into your DMs Megan. With a conundrum where they ask me and are quite happy to put it out to the rest of the country too to get your opinion

on things. Obviously we keep the name of the people out of it and change a few little things from time to time. But I'll tell you what is we form a hard line opinion with the minimal information we get in a two minute period. I know a lot of people come with follow up questions. I'm like well this is what we've got. This is what we're working with here.

Okay so this one I was almost going to say their name uh is anonymous hi there i'm hoping i can see my dear megan here yes you can my husband and i found a dream home husband paid more for it than i did but we are both on the title husband wants to move in now but i want to wait and see if i'm asked to stay on for another term at my job. The new house is far away, which means if we move in, I'll have to find a new job, which I'm happy to do when I'm ready, but I still have months left on my current term. When explaining this to my husband, he started saying things like, well, I bought it for us to live in and it's our dream home.

We want to live together there, but he does change his mind and say it's my house and it's our dream home. We want to live together there but he does change his mind and say it's my house and I'm paying for it so I wonder if he actually wants me to live there or not. My question is, is it better if he moves there first and lives there for a while by himself then I can move in at a later time or should I just take a chance and move in immediately, hoping it's all going to work out? So does he want to move to this new house alone? Sounds like it. He wants to move there with or without her, it sounds like.

Regardless, right? And he's saying that's his house, but it sounds like it's their house, obviously, because both names are on the title, right? I think in life, when you're in a relationship, someone's going to end up paying more, essentially. Someone's going to earn more. Getting to the nitty gritty and saying things like, it's my house and I'm paying for it, isn't really what you do in a relationship.

Maybe he didn't Google what marriage meant before they went and got married. So she wants some advice on what to do here. Does she move into the house immediately, leave her job? Leave her job, move in with her husband because that's what he wants. Or do they live separately for a little bit in separate houses and they sound like they're quite far away from each other? Are they quite new to marriage? I don't know.

Sorry, you said all the information you've got. You stipulated that. It seems like an unusual situation. Ben, yes, you said. No follow-up questions. All the information you've got, yeah. You stipulated that. It seems like an unusual situation. Ben, what are you doing? Yeah, well, I don't see any problems in them living in separate places for work reasons. I mean, a lot of relationships carry on in that situation. You can find time to catch up on the weekends and stuff like that. And if you have an end game, like if you know that it's for a set period of time.

I feel like they need to establish that. Go, I'll work here for a year. If that's the way they're going to go. Yeah. If that's the way they're going to go. Or whatever it needs to be. You know, whatever, however long she wants to work on her term. I mean, she doesn't have to give up her career.

Yeah. As well. She says months left on her current term. Yeah. After a few months. A few months, she could do that. But there is a few little worrying things potentially. There was a couple of red flags.

Okay, let's open up the advice line. What do you want to say? Mow on in with your advice for this anonymous writer. It's so much easier when you're not emotionally attached to situations. But there also might be people that have lived in separate houses that it's worked for them. Everyone will be like, leave him!

He's having an affair! We don't know any of this information. No, we don't hear that. We'll come out with it regardless. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Dear Megan today, someone slid into my DMs with a conundrum. This is about a dream house that her and her husband bought.

So they both paid for it, but he paid more. He wants to move in now. She wants to wait and do the term on her contract at her work. Then he says things like it's my house and I'm paying for it. So she's wondering if he actually wants her to live there or not. So she wants to know

if she should move, try her luck, lose her job, find another one, or whether it would be okay them both living separately in separate houses. What do you think? I think there's some serious conversations that need to be had about their future because it doesn't really sound like they're a team at the moment. Yeah, gotcha. So if she's concerned about whether he wants her to move there or not,

you have the conversation. It's be like, do we want to live together? Do you want me to live here? Because this is the fear that I have is that you don't. You've just got to be honest about it. A tsunami of feedback and opinion pouring in, particularly to the Facebook page. Go live in your dream house with your husband.

Enjoy it while you can. Don't put your job first. Oh, okay. That's what Fleur says. Should have run all the scenarios and plans in place for each one before looking, says David Bain. There is that. David Bain. There is. David Bain.

Thanks for chiming in, David. Appreciate that, mate. Good to have you tuned in. Don't know if we're going to take household advice from David Bain, but we have. Another text here from Sharon Wallace. Why buy a house in another town if you're not ready to move? It is a concern. Someone said the fact that he said I paid for it is a red flag.

Yeah, that's a little concerning, right? It's a little bit aggressive. Camille McLean agrees. Red flag city, she says. Yeah. But you can still do that. You can still, you know,

work out your job. She doesn't have to give up her career at the moment, particularly to, you know. No, but set a time frame, I think. Say, okay,

well, I'm going to work out this many months and then we're going to move in together or whatever. All right, let's get Emma on. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. I think we've work out it's this many months and then we're going to move in together or whatever. Alright let's get Emma on. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast I think we've all learned some stuff this morning namely I should probably read the names before reading out the feedback from Facebook

Emma what's your thoughts on this? Not really anything overly helpful but this is way too late to be having this conversation and what you guys have missed over as well is you keep talking about how it's only a couple of months left on her contract. She said that she was waiting for another contract.

So we could be talking years. So some people have commented on Facebook saying this sounds like she's looking for an out. Oh, yeah. You know, your relationship has got to come first, right? Even before a job. Emma, there's relationship has got to come first, right? Emma. Even before a job. There's no repercussions in your decision, okay?

What are you telling her to do? I think she needs to seriously consider if she needs to be in this relationship. Ooh, spicy. That sounds like a Jerry Springer moment, doesn't it? Yeah. Yeah, that's what you would tell your best friend if you were talking to her? 100% over wine, but yeah, definitely. Definitely have to drink about four wines before offering that advice.

29 on a Monday morning, all right. Thank you so much. Hey, Sandy's just messaged as well. She says, we're about to do the same. My husband's not ready to leave Auckland, but I want to live in the Coromandel. He wants to stay in Auckland with his elderly mother, and I'm actively looking for jobs and a house in the Coromandel. You can't do it. I don't think they

can do it, but you're right. They just need to have the conversations. And they need to have an end game. So what are you telling her? Yeah, let's sum it up. Are we getting a divorce? Have a serious conversation about your future together and what you both want. And if you've got concerns about whether he wants you to live with him, then ask him.

Ask him, not us. Don't come to a commercial radio show. I just great we all enjoyed it don't don't get us wrong we love the eight minutes of radio provided but uh probably talk to him the hits the jonah and ben podcast yesterday busy day of admin like i had a lot of admin stuff yesterday i bet when you're in admin mode nothing's getting in your way yeah and I had a frustrating moment that caused me extra admin that didn't need to happen. It was a really stupid moment that I had happen. So on Saturday night, just give you a bit of a backstory. Went out to dinner.

My wife and I, one of our daughters, went to a little Italian place that we went to. And we've been to this place a few times. And usually the go-to for this place is, this is about three or four k's from our house. We drive the car, leave it down a side street, and the next day I'm like, I'll walk the dog, give the dog a walk to the car, and then drive it home. And that was the... Also, Dad's having some vinos.

Yeah, we have some vinos. We're doing that. We have some vinos. And that was the plan going in. My wife and I talked about it. And then after we had dinner, my wife was like, well, I've only had one glass of wine, so we'll drive the car home.

I'm like, oh, great. But Sunday morning, I'm an admin moan. I'm up and about. I'm an admin moan. We left the car. The Italian place. You see what's happening. I'm going to walk the dogs.

My wife is here. Go, you. Take my car keys. Don't forget. Pick the car. Got the car keys. Don't you worry about that. Walked out the driveway past my wife's car.

This is the car that I thought we'd left three or four cakes from the house and did not realize until about 40 45 minutes later when i went to the road where the car was i'm like where's the car i mean oh we drove it home last night you idiot really added a whole nother you know and then my wife it was out and i was trying to call her i'm like oh now oh, now I'm just going to walk home with the dog. 45 minutes back again. This whole thing. Not a happy chap yesterday, that's for sure. Not a happy chappy.

Even the dog was like, oh, this is double the walk. This is a long way. You'd be dragging my ass back for 45 minutes. I know. One of those things is like, how did I manage that? When you're just not quite thinking about stuff. I'd say alcohol probably played a factor. Yeah, actually, you're probably right.

If you're wondering how you managed it. Yeah, but the next morning walking past the car with the keys and then just getting 45 minutes down the road. But you're right, it was probably just an alcohol situation. What about the rest of the admin? What else did you have to get done yesterday? There was the supermarkets, there was social media stuff, there was cleaning houses, there was all sorts.

I was on a mission just now. Did you not say you had to pretend he was going to Taylor Swift on social media? It's a great video. I've done that on Saturday, but I had to edit it. It was all. Stuff to do. Including getting to walk the car that I'd left at home. Have you got a to-do list now on your phone?

How much is on your to-do list? Show us your to-do list. I have it on my my phone but then i also have little whiteboards at home i have little things as well yeah like it's it's not too you want to list ongoing to-do list oh like yeah i do like kind of stuff like that yeah but then i i transferred yesterday's one you see walk the dog there you go i did that one. We've done that, but that's also on the whiteboard at home. It's like, well, the gentleman did that yesterday as well. You've got that on your checklist.

Edit the video. Yeah, it's quite nice to be able to tick stuff off, isn't it? So there you go. It's all on my checklist as well. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Lenny Rowan from the New Zealand Herald Entertainment Reporter. You've been to Taylor Swift. You're back here at the office.

The highs and the lows, literally. Thanks for coming in this morning. No worries at all. How are you guys? We're good. How are you? Was it everything that you thought it was going to be, the concert? It was insane.

Like, I cannot even tell you how crazy it was. So you get there. And I think the biggest thing is you're expecting Taylor Swift to be incredible right and she is of course she is but the fans it is next level they are in their beautiful outfits that they have spent hours and hours and hours planning making these like friendship bracelets they're all just like chatting away it was I actually think the fan vibe was maybe better than the concert wow wow okay so why'd you waste all the money to see taylor swift when you could have just had a stadium of fans exactly no i think that's the thing though right like all these amazing fans and they're just

lovely people and there's just this atmosphere that that makes you feel like you're part of this family oh that's cool it was beautiful beautiful. So 96,000 people per night. Does it feel like 96,000 people? Not when you're there, but when you're getting out. Absolutely. It took us an hour to get home. Oh, really? Yeah, just getting out of the stadium.

Oh, wow. Was there any kind of acknowledgement from Taylor about anything New Zealand? No New Zealand, unfortunately. I just wanted her to be like, hey, Kiwi fans as well. She's not going to stop the concert and go, guys, we had some scheduling issues. Stadiums were big enough over there. It was a nightmare.

How devastating that she isn't coming here, though. I know. Not for you, because you saw it. Would you go again? No, I wouldn't. Oh, you wouldn't go? Oh, I'm sorry, Swifties. Please don't come for me.

No, I wouldn't. Three and a half hours massive show massive show i got to the end of it and i was very ready for bed right so you're like i've seen it now i wouldn't see it again no best concert you've been to i look i am not a huge swifty okay so i think if if taylor swift is your bread and butter, if you're like, she is my top listen to artist on Spotify every year, absolutely, it would definitely be the best concert. I think she is an incredible performer. Incredible. No one matches her.

But probably not my favorite concert. How does it compare to, let's say, Christmas in the Park? Frankie Stevens coming out there doing Christmas in the Park. Well, I haven't been to Christmas in the Park, but I did recently go to Symphony. Oh, there you go. That was insane. Oh, that's incredible, eh?

That was so good. I think it's just a completely different vibe. So Symphony for you was better than Taylor Swift? Yeah. Wow. Diehard Swifties. Diehard Swifties, hands down, incredible. Best moment of the concert?

What would be your thought that was the best moment? The best song, the best moment? Do you know what? The Red era was incredible. The vibes were immaculate. Like she was jumping around that stage. Everybody was jumping in the crowd. You could just see it going like up and down and up and down.

So I would say Red. Oh, so she plays like the album and then that's that period. She does go through the eras. Not the whole album because obviously that would be longer for Lily. Just four or five songs. Yeah, yeah. We school them up.

Right here. He's in his boomer era. Don't worry about it. So then after the concert, so you went over there. That finished at what time? New Zealand time? It finished at 1am New Zealand time.

And then you've got to what? Go back, walk for an hour, and then you've got to write an article, which is in the Herald the next day. Yeah. It was a 4am finish for me. It was a really big, big stint. Yeah, it is a big stint. But so worth it.

Why don't you just get ChatGPT to do it for you? Can you imagine? I'd do that. I'd be like, oh, I'm too tired. Should we try it? Should we actually get ChatGPT to write the review and compare it to mine

and see how it goes? See how it goes Went to it thought it was good not as good as Christmas in the park He'd fill in the rest Thank you so much for joining us this morning

you must be very very tired Very tired but so worth it Yeah we're very jealous of seeing everyone's like your footage everyone's footage over there it does look incredible

and more Kiwis are going to go this weekend in Sydney. More shows. Four more shows. Unbelievable. Have you got a tip for anyone going? Hydrate. Oh, yeah?

Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. And don't go to the toilet until she's playing an era that you're not a big fan of. Because the lines are huge before the show and after the show. So just slip them. Pick your least liked era and then that's your toilet time. Thank you so much, Lily. Thanks, guys.