Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: What Is Your Most Unusual Hobby?

Episode Date: April 11, 2023

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The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Just announced yesterday, Dwayne The Rock Johnson actually announced, my mate, well mate, Dwayne The Rock Johnson announced they're going to do a live action version of the hit animated movie Moana, which is pretty cool. So what, as in, no anim- Yeah, like real people. Why don't you say a real people movie? I don't know, that's just the way they say it.

It's a live action version, but you're right, it's just a real- Okay, they're going to do a real people movie. That was a big bugbear for my kids growing up too because they loved the animated stuff. Right. And we would turn on real people movies as they were calling them. They'd be like, oh, no, not for me. Oh, they liked the animated.

When you're under five. They can watch a real person movie. I'm guessing The Rock will be Maui. I'm like the character that he played in Moana, but we'll find out. Yeah, he might play Moana. Oh, well, well yeah i don't know anything yeah hey now the chase a huge show 5 30 at night my dad got me into watching the chase and you know it's like you turn the tv on you watch the chase you keep rolling on then you don't touch the remote after that the news seven watching tv one and slowly wait to die and eventually someone else will turn the TV off for you.

That's what happens. So the chase you've become a fan of. I'm a fan of it. I don't watch it too much unless my dad is staying. Because I'm like, hey, that's a slippery slope for the next 40 years of my life, just watching that. There's no boomer out there who doesn't think they'll go well on the chase. Oh, my dad does.

He loves answering before that. Quickly answering the questions out loud. That's one of his favourite things. But I was watching The Chase yesterday, and it must have been an old episode for a couple of weeks ago. But a guy got on there and was talking to Bradley Walsh, the host, about his unusual hobby that he did. Have a listen.

What do you do to switch off? I'm a bit of a collector of hobbies, actually. I'm a licensed amateur radio operator. I play Dungeons and Dragons with my friends and my dad. And at the weekends I like to dress up as a giant rabbit and walk around the city. What are you called when you're a rabbit? So I'm called Chloe when I'm a rabbit.

Chloe? Chloe, yeah. And why may I ask, Conor, do you walk around Stoke-on-Trent? Oh, it's around Manchester. Oh, around Manchester. Not on my own, though. It's with a bunch of friends. A bunch of rabbits? Well, not a bunch of rabbits. We all have our own costumes, different animals.

Some dragons, sharks, wolves, foxes. And here's a $64,000 question. Why? Because it's fun. It's nice to be someone else for a while. Yeah, there you go. Now, hey, as you said before, I've got a whole garage full of costumes. It's a big bugbear in our house.

He just described a Wednesday morning for Ben Boyce. Well, I wish. You remember the producers on The Chase are like, how can we make this guy look like more of a nerd than he is? They've hung him out to dry, haven't they? And then they've clipped it up and put it on the internet. But good on him. He's having fun. He's out there and he's not hurting anyone.

He's doing his thing. And he's got other like-minded people that like dressing up in costumes. It's good on him. It's an interesting hobby, though, isn't it? Yeah, well, I mean, you make your family go around on the weekends dressing. You made them dress up just two weekends ago. I did. What did you dress up as?

We were playing cards because we were doing like an Alice in Wonderland sort of treasure hunt around the city. And so I was like, yeah. So I, you know, I, and we're with like minor people, other people dressed up as, you know, Alice or the White Rabbit or stuff like that. So there you go. It's your happy place.

That's right. So I can do that. So maybe this could be my hobby. You could invite the guy from the chase over to your house because you have an emporium of costumes in your garage. You can't actually park cars in your garage. I know my wife is not happy about that. You're like, well, do you want to dress up as, mate, an ATM machine, a pineapple, the Skytower?

You can dress up as the Skytower. We've got it all. We can put it on. You and him would have a bloody field day. I would. I would. Hobbies. People have unusual hobbies.

Like you say, it's whatever makes you happy. I can't I'm a popaholic I can't Not watch videos Of pimples being popped Oh you do like that don't you Oh it's just so satisfying

And then Even as I was thinking about this Yesterday Doing some research I got into a hole of Pimples being popped It's just the most Relieving satisfying thing

To the point where Our colleague Jeremy He would send We would send back and forth Videos of Things I can't watch yeah you know I can't even through my rabbit head I can't I don't even want to look at that yeah it's um through my gravity it really stuffs with my algorithms though because as soon as I click on a few then they're like oh this is what this guy's into and the whole computer's just riddled with them uh so we thought we'd open up this morning our hobby lobby uh come join our Hobby Lobby.

Come hang out. What's your unusual hobby that you like doing? PVA glue, peeling that off your hands. Well, I guess it's probably more about making stuff with glue. That could be like the usual part of the hobby. But I see that's a relieving thing. It's not really a hobby. I like putting glue on my hands.

Well, unless you do it every day. You dip your hands in PVA glue. You're all right. I'm not going to judge. It's not really a hobby. You're not writing, oh, I like putting glue on my hands. Well, unless you do it every day. You dip your hands in PVA glue. You're all right. I'm not going to judge. All right. I'm not going to judge. Is that fair? You're not hurting anyone?

You're like, okay, that's it. Okay, the Hobby Lobby. Oh, Andrew, the hits 4487. Unusual hobbies. Do you take part? We'd love to hear from you next on New Zealand's Breakfast. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Of course, it is a short week.

And as we said before, only eight days of school in April. Eight for April, they're calling it. I know, I told one of my daughters that yesterday, and she was like, oh, I like April. Fast became her favourite month, I'd say. Normally it would be December leading into Christmas, but it was like, oh no, April's pretty good. Yeah, Ben's found a like-minded person on the chase

who likes dressing up as a rabbit on the weekends and traveling around with other friends dressed up as sharks uh dinosaurs dragons whatever and they go around spreading cheer uh in the community just by wandering around in costumes and uh this i mean this sounds like a glorious weekend for you it does we used to have a mascot on an old tv show i used to do and used to dress up on that from time to time and it was one of those things when you were in it, because no one knew it wasn't a mascot associated with anything, but kids would come up and you'd feel obligated to go,

G'day, how's it going? And not take the head off because you didn't want to spoil the illusion to these kids. Yeah, you stayed in character. But then like hours later, you're like, oh, so hot in this thing. A friend of ours we used to work with, he was a mascot for a super rugby team. He said the kids are a nightmare. Yeah. Beating him up, throwing things at him,

attacking him. Don't wish that upon any mascot. Santa's got a good gig though, he just sits. True. The small Santas who fill in for the real Santa, he's got a sweet gig. Let's get Peter on. We're talking hobbies, the Hobby Lobby. You're inside it Peter. Share with no

judgement. Morning with no judgment. Morning, boys. Morning. What's your hobby? What are you into? Okay, so we're playing button football. Button football? Button.

Oh, button football. Button football, yeah. It's invented by Hungarians in the early 1900s. Jesus, I love your voice. So it's like football, but you play in a table. You've got 11 players. They look like little buttons. Little buttons like you... Obviously, you aim for scoring a goal.

Ah, that sounds cool. And you're just using your hands, obviously, with each button. Yeah, what else would you use? I mean, technically, Jonah, that was a good question, because, like, in Hungary, they play with a little stick. A stick, oh, yeah. I mean technically Jono that was a good question because like in Hungary they play with a little stick a stick

on the button and that's how they that's how they kick their little ball but then you said you said technically it was a good question but then you mocked me

you mocked me for a question what else would they use I was thinking their nose or ears elbows that's funny how long have you been playing button football that would fine. How long have you been playing button football?

That would be interesting. How long have you been playing button football there, Peter? Yeah, we started like three, three and a half years ago over here, but I played in my childhood back in Hungary. That sounds really fun. Sounds like a fun game. Can I make a vote to have Peter's voice on the radio every morning? Yeah, I'd rather listen to him than us.

Peter, thank you so much for sharing about button football. Thank you. It's a compliment. Have a great day, my friend. You too, guys. Good on you. So it's a great thing, too, about having hobbies and interests when you have children is you get to do none of those

and you just help them do their hobbies and interests. Some people do. Some people are out golfing. I'm like, how are you golfing? How is this going on? You're out golfing for eight hours. You've got kids. How are you pulling this off? Anyway, some people

are better players than well done. Let's go to New Plymouth. We'll get Karen on. The Hobby Lobby. You're inside it. Karen, what's happening? Oh, morning, guys. How are you? Oh, we're doing well. What do you collect? Well, this is going back a few years now, but I used to have quite a wonderful soap collection as a child,

and it was my pride and joy. Sort of had soaps from everywhere and, you know, little handcrafted ones, and I'm just very proud of it. Did you have soaps with little curly hairs on them? Oh, jeez, no. No, not at that point. You didn't go into public showers and do, oh, there's a good, there's a vintage 93.

So you collected soap, but how long did you collect soap for? Well, it was a very short-lived collection of soap. It may have gone longer, but I had a younger sister, and so she was about four, and she was filthy jealous of my soap collection. So she was never allowed to look at it or touch it. And anyway, one day I went off to school after proudly displaying all of my white

fluffy sheepskin rug in my room and came home after school and it had gone when I opened the door. Anyway, my mother had been furiously busy all day trying to clean up my soap collection and rug because my sister had decided to,

shall we say, defecate all over it. Oh, jeez. My soap collection was quite a bit more dangerous than I... I wasn't expecting that. I guess you weren't either. That came out of nowhere. I may still be collecting soaps to this day if that hadn't happened to me.

Well, at least the clean-up's probably a little easier with a whole lot of soap involved. Oh, my goodness. Oh, that's brilliant, Karen. Thank you very much. Oh, yeah. That was the end of the soap collecting. The hits.

The Jono and Ben podcast. Artificial intelligence when it comes to computers. They're getting smarter and smarter. It's always been a fear of humans, right? Ever since the Terminator days, that robots were going to take over the world. And now there's all chat GPT and stuff. And a whole lot of smart people around the world have kind of said,

hey, things are moving too fast. We need to slow things down. It does feel like the opening scenes of one of those post-apocalyptic movies, doesn't it? At the moment. I was reading an article last night, Facebook, a couple of years ago. They were testing artificial intelligence, and they had two chatbots talking to each other.

And then eventually, over time, the chatbots formed their own language. Wow. And it was purely out of the need for the chatbots to operate quicker and more efficiently. But then they started ending up talking to each other, and the computer scientists had no idea what they were talking about, plotting and planning. And they're like, abort mission! Wow. This is getting out of control, like bloody Jurassic Park, you know, planning and they're like abort mission wow this is getting out of control like bloody jurassic park you know the moment that this was a bad idea so hundreds of experts around the world have signed a letter over the last few weeks saying

we need a six-month pause on developing new things when it comes to artificial intelligence it's moving too quick um so i wanted to put you on the spot right now. See, test your intelligence. Your not artificial intelligence, your actual intelligence. And here is a list of some computer jargon, some things to do with computers. We're going to make a call and see how many of these bits of computer technology, you know, technology and uses and phrases that we use, you can weave into the conversation. Things like data.

Very early in the morning. It is, but we'll find a cafe or something up early. And every time you get one in, we'll ring a bell. So good luck. Hello there, how are you? I'm good. Listen, my name's Jonathan. I'm an outgoing male.

Okay. Hey, listen, where are you based? Is it a hard drive to get to the location? Is it a hard drive? Yeah. Not really. Maybe finding a park's the hardest bit. Yeah, because, listen, I'm just on the east side of town, so would I go... Down Dublin?

That-a-way or Dart-a-way? Which way? So across the bridge, down Dublin, and then you would turn right. Oh, OK. Do you have a website? I have a Facebook page. Good. And a lot of food because I'm down for a megabyte. I'm so hungry today.

Okay. What's in the cabinet? Is this the radio? No. I like to be in control. See, I grew up in a household where I wasn't in control and so I, as an adult, have been quite controlling in my adult years. But I do want to ram home my agenda.

Do you bake cookies? Not here, I don't. Would you play some Adele for me? Right now? Just when I come in. And how much food have you got in stock right now? Because I can control, alt, delete, all of that. Lots.

Listen, when I walk in, I'm rather fetching, and you might be looking at me googly-eyed Okay Oh, can I stop him there? It's Jono and Ben from the radio station Yeah, I bloody knew it Jono and Ben from the radio Oh, bloody hell

She said radio, you lied to her I blatantly lied to you You blatantly lied to her Just so I could milk another minute out of you Well done, Jono, You did really, really well. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Married at First Sight. It's reaching the end of its explosive series.

Now, I haven't watched too much of it, but Jono, you've been filling me in on the pockets you've been watching. I know it's a huge show right now. How are my recollections? Do you feel like you're across stuff? Am I giving you enough? Too little? What's going on?

I probably don't know the characters' names as such, but I do know, oh, this happened. There was a butt dial. There was a thing. There was a lot of stuff going on. And even last night, there was a guy. I just call him fame-hungry contestant number one, number two, number three.

So Cameron, which we've looked into, he was someone that seemed through the relationship, he wasn't probably that into it. He was less than enthusiastic. And yeah, his partner was like, what's going to happen beyond the experiment? And he's like, well, I work. And she's like, okay.

And he's like, I work for 12, I'm away for 12 months of the year. That's tough. That's a whole year. There's a way. It's a lot of work. But last night she decided she didn't want to continue a relationship

and he was so upset he threw his vows down on the ground. I just feel like no matter what you say today, it's only going to disappoint me again. I think I'm just done. So long. I figured you could have that then. Threw it down on the ground He said you didn't have those vowels there that he'd written on

Shout out to the 57 piece orchestra too Playing live at the nuptials The hits The Jono and Ben podcast Hey yesterday I had a bit of a run-in with the law. You know, I was at the intersection, Ben, and a police car pulled up next to me. Yeah.

And I tell you what, I had done absolutely nothing wrong. But boy, I felt, you feel a little bit naughty, don't you? Just when there's a police car in the vicinity. Well, yeah, when you're driving and the lights go on behind you and you're like, oh, is this for me or is this not for me? And the times if you have pulled over and they keep going past,

you're like, oh, that's good. That happened to a very well-known New Zealander. They, I think they'd had some drinks or something and there was a police car behind them. They just pulled over and then the cop's like, why is this person pulling over? And the celebrity was like, oh, you got me, you got me.

I've had a few drinks that weren't even on your tail. Just pure honesty. Got to respect that, don't you, on the road. Is this you? I was like, you know a lot of details about a story I've never heard of. Is this what happened yesterday? I'm referring to myself as a celebrity. A very well-known New Zealander.

In fact, a very well-known. Very well. Loved, much loved. Philanthropic. Hero of the people. Man of the people, as some would call him. But yeah,

that stuff comes out in the media. You know what's happened. No, no. But I find that when there are police, you kind of sit upright, hands directly, both hands on the steering wheel, and you kind of overplay it.

Yes, I know. It's those times you want to play it cool, but you don't. Do you remember the police just drive around all day just being suspicious of absolutely everyone? Because you're just dealing with, you know, people are always trying to pull the wool over your eyes. That's the majority of their job. I'd just be driving around thinking everyone's carrying bloody bootloads of methamphetamine Yeah, you're right. That's the majority of their job. I'd just be driving around thinking,

everyone's carrying bloody bootloads of methamphetamine around, you know? In fact, I'd text 4487, you don't have to come on air. Do you work in law enforcement? And you driving around just side-eyeing every other motorist? Well, you would be. Probably part of the job is always having a look out, isn't it, for something going on. Yeah, but you do feel like such the bad the bad boy

don't you when there's the police around it's like when you go to the petrol station you fill your car up with petrol and you drive off without paying

and you're like what do I feel so bad right now who's doing that you're doing that or is this a well-known New Zealander that's doing that

respected respected well-known New Zealander much loved man of the people