Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: What Song Is Playing At Your Funeral

Episode Date: November 6, 2023

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The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations. A funny moment yesterday where I was just pulling into our street and our bin was like full, maximum capacity. You couldn't even fit a lolly wrapper in there. Not that I would anyway because that would go on soft plastics But I caught Our neighbour from Across the road Trying to deposit rubbish into our bin Now It's an awkward moment for them I get that and for me

Because I'm like pulling into the driver going oh hey What's going on here But I didn't because I've been that person I've been a rubbish dumper I know the embarrassment And shame This is obviously pre

The bins getting collected Though right Yeah Yeah So it's not a fresh Empty bin That's a whole other conversation That's a monstrous act

Yeah I mean I kind of I mean some people Get very salty about the fact That You got caught once I did Yeah

And I was really The guy had so much room In his bin You're like The truck's on the way And he yeah and i was really the guy had so much room in his bed you're like and i put it in the way he was like it was all the way up the street looking for somewhere to put some you know rubbish in the bed and you feel like a criminal don't you and he was like did you put stuff in my bed and i went oh yeah because mine's full but uh yeah and he went oh to take it out then i was like really but you said and i and i did and he watched me take it out and i went home just going to my wife.

This guy down the street was making. And she's like, well, did you put the stuff in his bin? I was like, yes. And she's like, did you ask him? I said, no. She said, well, fair enough. So she took his side. And that wowed me out more.

It's a humbling experience. You're like, why are you taking the strange guy's side? It's our rubbish. You should be happy I'm getting rid of it. He had so much room in his bin. Yeah, I've been caught before too. The lady accused me of what I was doing was worse than dumping

animals. And I really, yeah, I chucked some lighter fluid on that flame and I was like, really? Animals? Because I've got a couple of puppies in there too, should I take those out? But yeah, no, so I didn't really hit him up. He just, he saw that look of guilt that you can't, only on the face of a person dumping rubbish

where they shouldn't be. But it should be fine, really, if it's out there. Is it illegal? I wouldn't say. Technically, you probably don't own the bins. No, probably the council. Probably the council's bins. It's like walking into McDonald's with a KFC quarter pack or something

because your friends all want to eat at McDonald's but you've bought a KFC. It's not illegal, but jeez, it feels naughty. Jono and Ben's Great Cheese Roll Trick. Producer Taylor has been in New Zealand from Australia. She's been here just over a year now, and we want to, you know, give her all those things that we need to experience to become Kiwis. And cheese roll is one of those things from Southland, from Invercargill,

and yesterday the Batch Cafe made you a cheese roll, Producer Taylor, but of course you weren't there, so now we have to get that cheese roll to you. And it looked delicious, so I am excited if it does get here. So we have sent a chilli bin and a tracking device with the cheese roll, and it'll be making its way to the Auckland studios. Now this, if you want to know the backstory, the true honest backstory, the hits is about minus $5,000 a budget. We've got no money.

Cost of living. No, we've got $2.50 left in the hits bank account right now. I'm sorry, I went and spent a lot of our budget on fidget spinners, Ben. I thought they were going to make a comeback. They haven't quite come back. And now we're in this position where you have to build. Yeah, we're trying to get your help

in getting this cheese roll to us because we can't get to the cheese roll. And Richard yesterday, he came to our rescue. He was the first person to pick up the cheese roll from the Batch Cafe, wasn't he? Richard, good morning. Good morning, how are you? Yeah, we're doing well. You picked up the cheese roll?

I certainly have. Hey, we got the cheese roll. And where is it right now? It's sitting in the fridge here at work. You put it in the fridge. You'll be pleased to know that, Producer Tata, because she's very worried about the cheese roll going off. It's already in a little cooler bag with some ice around it.

But you put it in the fridge. Richard's put it in the fridge. Great. No signs of salmonella just yet. That's right. Now, Richard, we do have a tracking device on it too, so wherever you go, we can track you, basically. Wherever you go.

It's like we're accusing you of having an affair or something don't worry we know everywhere you have been uh sorry well actually we know where the cheese rolls been this would be fair if you take the cheese roll to any location we will know uh but yeah thank you so much for doing this so you're heading off today yeah to queenstown today yes i'll leave you about 10 and get up there about 1 maybe. Okay. So then what we need you to do too, because we figured that there needs to be a pick-up point at Queenstown International Airport. Yes.

We need to try and figure out where that's going to be. We're thinking there's the Remarkable Sweet Shop. Yeah, great shop. Yep, yep. So we're wondering if you could drop it off there. We might give them a call later on this morning and find out if it's okay for you to drop it off there. Yeah, no problem at all. Oh, there we go. See, it off there yeah no problem at all oh there we go see it's happening producer taylor slowly it's happening but it's happening the wheels are in motion i'm very impressed so far it's a lot of

people texting going you know you could just buy the ingredients and we could send you a recipe yeah yeah you could yeah a friend of mine who lives in auckland from in bakago she's like i've got ingredients in my freezer that i have at all times to make this. I can make you one. I'm like, yep, where's the fun in that? Exactly. It's going to be made locally anyway, doesn't it? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. The most talked about and most travelled piece of food in New Zealand,

this one cheese roll. What are you thinking right now, Taylor? I'm thinking, I wish I knew that information from Ben earlier, because I would have saved all of us a lot of time. Yeah. But I'm excited. I'm just scared we're going to struggle for someone to pick it up in Queenstown.

We were scared about someone picking it up in Invercargill. Yeah, we would have gone as far as Queenstown. Richard is restoring our faith in humanity. That is true. This is far bigger than a cheese roll. This is becoming bigger. It's becoming something for the country to be proud of, Richard. Will you keep your head up?

And just remember, we know where you are at all times. No problem at all. What's the tracking device like in the fridge? Are we okay with that? It's true. I don't know. We'll see how that goes. It'll be nice and cool anyway.

Richard, thank you so much for your help. We really appreciate you picking it up yesterday and taking it as far as Queenstown Airport today. Yeah, no problem at all. And if you know anyone in Queenstown who can help us out this afternoon, please text 4487. Maybe someone's flying from Queenstown today up north, and

yeah, that would be great, as Jono said, 4487. I'd like to bring someone on the show, a bit of a surprise for Jono. Debs, how are you? Hey, I'm great. How are you guys going? We're doing all right. Now, Debbie, I met you a couple of months ago,

and we talked about a few things, and we discovered that you've got a pretty cool claim to fame. Now, I haven't told Jono what it is. I want to see if Jono can work it out through some yes or no questions, all right? See if you can work it out, okay? Okay, absolutely. Okay, Debbie. I was very unprepared for this.

Okay, okay. Is it celebrity-based? No. No. Is it a food-eating achievement, like you ate an entire buffet or something? No. No.

But I guess to do with the food industry In a way Yeah Related maybe Did you create Or invent something? No Would Jono have Here's a question

Would Jono have heard you before? Yes What on the show? Not on the show But just in life in general In fact I know for a fact you've heard her voice probably weekly, right? Well, because you talk about this quite often. Yeah, and the thing with this is that people swear at me quite a lot.

Are you sort of involved with the council? Not the council. You're giving a lot away here. You're quite an angry person. How often do you swing at the council? Jeez. Okay. I'm stumped.

Okay, I'm stumped. All right, Debbie, can you say something that he might have heard? All right. Unexpected item in the bagging area. Oh, you're the supermarket. Oh, my God. She is the voice of the checkouts. The supermarket checkouts.

This is Debbie. Yeah. Hi, Debbie. At Countdown, are you? It's at Foodstuff. So you would hear me in Pack and Save, New World, and Foursquare as well. He goes to Pack. He talks about going to Pack and Save every week.

Have you sworn at Debbie at pack and save before? Under my, well, not vocally. This is certainly internally. Not like I go at the council, mate. I need to do special prompts for you. So, Jono, please remove your item. Well, that is really, can you say unexpected item in the bagging area again?

I'll go on the spot. Unexpected item in the bagging area. Do you need assistance? My favourite one, they got me to do this a really long time ago so I've been doing this for a long time and I don't do it live. For people who ask the question, it's not live every time.

I don't stand there and do this all the time. What idiot asks you, do you do it live? That was me. I'm sorry about that. Are you doing it live? She's pulling a hell of a shift. All over the country all the time. I know, right?

But one of the prompts they got me to do was, you have zero dollars in your account, which was the saddest thing ever. So I've never heard anyone, I've never heard that one, but yeah. You almost won that in whisper mode. Yeah, yeah. We all know what that's like, getting up to payday. How long ago did you do it?

You said you did it a while ago. Yeah, it was actually 20 years because my daughter had just been born at the time. So I did this 20 years ago, but I didn't know what it was for because we didn't have the self-serve supermarkets back then so suddenly when I was working in radio a while ago one of my friends said hey are you the voice at New World and I was like I have no idea and I was so yeah that's how I heard it for the first time it was weird. So 20 years ago but they've only just come into play haven't they in the last? exactly. So I was being coached by a woman in America,

so it was all under construction, I guess, all the way back then, but I had no idea what it was for. So, yeah, I did all of these prompts and then went away and carried on with my life, and then years later I heard them. Is it weird when you go to the supermarket and you hear yourself? Yeah, I kind of critique myself. I'm like, like you could have done that better yeah i wish i could go back and redo it sometimes but yeah no it's okay it is

kind of weird hey it's a piece it's a it's a really good claim to fame isn't it really is the self-service checkouts producer joel was saying one of his friends i don't know how the self-service uh voice would feel about this one of his friends gets a paper bag that you put all your vegetables in, but then puts other items in that paper bag and scans that through as onions. Yeah, no. No, no.

That would be such a funny voice prompt where you're like, no, no. No, no. Don't be that guy. No, I don't. Oh, dear, Debs. Oh, Debs, thank you so much for your time today,

and thank you for surprising Jono. Oh, great. Have a great day, guys. It's my pleasure. And surprise the producer, Joel, as well. He's like, that wasn't my friend. That is not my friend. It's someone I saw on Instagram.

He's putting it out there. Joel, he's doing it. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, I've been accused of something, accused of the love ending in my relationship, something I was doing the other day, and I thought it was a good thing. Now, you know for a while, backstory there, many years I carried a toothbrush around with me, and I'd brush my teeth.

Like a little Paw Patrol one or something, wasn't it? It was a little one, yeah. It was because food gets stuck in my teeth. I know this, and so I'd carry around a toothbrush, and after every meal or snack or something, I used to carry a toothbrush around. And you always give me grief. I would be doing it at the airport. The passenger seat of my car.

You're not afraid of public oral hygiene. No. But I've stopped carrying a toothbrush around because I've found these little flossing sort of pick things that you can buy at the moment. I think I carry one around. Nothing's sexier than someone picking their teeth. Yeah. And well, this is the thing. I went out for dinner with my wife the other night.

And after dinner, we were walking down the street. We're like, let's go for a drink. I'm like, great. And so I was there, and I was deciding, and I thought it was a good, I was like, well, I need to get some food out of my teeth on the way to the bar. We were walking down the street, and she just looked at me like, and I was like, well, I need to get some food out of my teeth on the way to the bar. We were walking down the street and she just looked at me like, and I was like, what? And she goes, the love gone out of our relationship.

I was like, what? Would you have done it on the first date? I think, well, I'm just asking. It's a very good point. Would you have picked your teeth? I think for any reason, this is a good, this is, I'm concerned about how my teeth are looking. I'm doing it for her benefit as well. I don't want to be the guy turning up to the bar with you didn't say first date first time you met her but i tried to impress her would you have been picking you i would have

been picking my teeth maybe not pub maybe not a public picking uh sort of go to the toilets but yeah so you've really you've reached a level of relaxation i don't think it's up there with picking your nose or anything like that what What do you think, Producer Taylor? Producer Taylor. Now, Ben Boyce, public picking of teeth after a date. One of these little flossing things. They're really handy, eh? Like this.

Feral. And by the way, while we're on this note, I find those all over the floor in the studio. Oh, they sometimes fall out of my pocket, eh? All the time. Yeah, and I'm like, damn it, where's this one? And, you know, again, for hygiene purposes, I'm not going to put it back in my mouth. But you're sorry about that. Really?

For hygiene purposes, we could stamp on it on the floor, can we though? Well, you probably can. I'm not going to use it again. I'm sorry about that. for that. Really? Off of hygiene purposes we could stamp on it on the floor can we though? Well you probably can I'm not going to use it again I'm sorry about that sometimes I lose it I have one in my pocket and it's gone. Now was this the anniversary dinner where you were going to use a gifted voucher that you had been given? Oh no I didn't No it wasn't it wasn't that was a catch though I didn't use a voucher and you gave me grief for that as well. Yeah come on it's one night like save the voucher for something else. The voucher was great though we spent more than we normally would spend and i looked like i was great you order what you want the menu is all yours to the value of a hundred dollars anything you want to the value of a hundred dollars maybe not that or maybe anything after that you can pay for it

yeah happy anniversary okay so no no public picking of teeth God no Honestly You've lost it Well you and Marcelo How many years have you been together now? Coming up to nine years this year Oh you're in teeth picking stages You can pick your teeth No and we don't

Well what happens He's got big like lettuce in his teeth or something He actually does pick food out of my teeth Which is actually Oh you're Oh hold on Which is actually Oh, hold on Which is actually really annoying Why are you getting all judgy?

Borrow one of my flosses, they're on the floor over there Offering condolences is a funny act, isn't it? Well, not one that I always nail It's kind of like parallel parking Sometimes you get the condolence in the sweet spot. Sometimes, you know, you scrape your wheels up against the curb.

It's a nightmare. But I bumped into an old friend, actually, and his uncle was a teacher at my school when we were growing up. Right. And he was like, oh, just so you know, so-and-so passed away.

I was like, oh, he was a bit older. And I was like, oh, you know, that's sad, my condolences. And then I felt like I needed to say he was a good man. So I said, you know, he was a good man. And he came straight back with, to be honest, he was a little bit of an arsehole. And not many people say that about dead people. Especially when they're gone.

When they're gone. Yeah. Like you feel like the obligation to say they were a good person. But sometimes there are, as the world has it, there are people who aren't. Yeah, you're right. It's not everyone's got to be good people. No, and I appreciate that honesty.

I hate to be honest. It was in the back of my mind. I was like, yeah, to be honest, he was a little bit of a... We're all flawed. I mean, let's be honest. But yeah, but sometimes... And only a family member could probably get away with it. Yeah, if you'd just gone,

your uncle, he wasn't a, you know, he held up and was like, what, excuse me? Yeah. He did say he had quite a dark sense of humour though, and his song as he was going under, the Bee Gees, Staying Alive. Quite confronting in a funeral setting. A little bit of a juxtaposition there.

It's really good. I do like that. I appreciate that. I haven't thought about anything to do with my funeral, any plans. We've got a friend, Sharon, who used to work with us. She's got everything mapped out. She's even got eulogies for people to read. I know.

She has got a whole file. She's scripted a word document of everything, all ready to go. Yeah, it's a lot of effort. Because, you know, Matthew Perry sadly passed away over the weekend, or last week, and he had his funeral. And he'd chosen the song, Peter Gabriel's song, Kate Bush, Don't Give Up, which he used to listen to with rehab, when he was going through rehab and stuff.

And I guess it was a great message for him. A lot of tears at the funeral. He went for the, you know, obviously he wanted the song. It's an emotional one to play at a funeral, right? He's not chucking the Bee Gees in the mix there, no. That is a tearjerker. Did people start crying when that came on? Yeah, I think apparently everyone was very upset.

There are some other funny ones I was just looking before. If you want to go down that road, I think it's quite good. Like a little bit of Wham, I think is quite good. Wake me up before you go-go. I think it's good. I like that one. Oh, another one, a bit of Bon Jovi would be nice. Wanted dead or Alive.

Steel Horse, I ride? What is this? If you're a bad boy, you'd be like, I'm wanted, dead or alive. Or Kelly Clarkson, I thought was another one as well from this website. So there's some options. I quite like those. Can you mix a song? If I pass away, can you mix those in like a mega mix?

Oh, so you want a mega mix of Bon Jovi Kelly Clarkson wait now before you go what was the first one Sang Alive all you can have like NSYNC

bye bye bye and then put her like a jingle or something like St Pierre's jingle from the radio something just you know for the radio

so you want me to do I have to edit this mega mix together do I I don't care would you do that for me John's not going to be around anyway. Maybe get the Novus ad in there for you as well.

I'll get my Novus ad. You put that, ah, Novus. It's just going to be a medley of five minutes of amusing audio, so 800 the hits is what we're going to do. Have you got your funeral song sorted? Have you gone down a comedic route? Well, maybe you've got something that's really personable and means a lot to you,

and you want that to be played at the funeral. Should we be thinking in all seriousness about this sort of thing? Or are your family just going to go, I think he liked Pink because he played it every day on the radio. So what? He's still a rock star. Because you leave it in the hands of your family, they're going to make some choices for you. So 800-THE-HITS-4487, what's your funeral song?

It is a morbid topic, but hey, let's make it fun this morning on the hits. The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Have you planned your funeral song? Have you told anyone what the song you want? And do you have a reason behind it? Oh no, 100 of the hits and 4487, lots of texts and calls coming through. Yeah, great

one here from Duncan, who he's told all of his co-workers that when he passes away he would like to have the Windows XP log off sound effect that is good I saw one the other day I was telling you about as well too, great social media

post about someone getting your phone once you pass away and then texting everyone, thanks so much for coming really appreciate it from your number. I thought that was really good. It's good then to follow on deleting everything that was on on the phone too. Yes, yeah.

Two-prong attack there. Let's go to Taylor in Auckland. You've thought about your funeral song already. Yeah, yeah. I've got a couple of them actually. Chuck them out, Taylor. That's what we're here for. What are they?

Absolutely. Happy by Pharrell Williams and then that Green Green Grass one by George Ezra. Oh, George Ezra a bit more emotional, happy a bit more upbeat. Do you want everyone to be happy at your funeral? Exactly. It's a celebration of life.

I've got a mate who also wants, if I pass before him, he wants me to play the My Neck, My Back song. Oh, my back. He's going down just to see everyone's songbases. Oh, yeah, that's a great song A little bit inappropriate But hey I love it Your problem is you don't have to deal with the awkwardness

No That's the joy of it You can set the standard Good on you Taylor Lovely that you thought about that We'll go to Tauranga Sam you're on your funeral song Yeah

Nice and easy really I'm going to stick with tradition And go with the same song my mum was lowered down to, which was Another One Bites the Dust by Queen. Oh, really? Did she? Become a family tradition. Another One Bites the Dust. That is, I mean, I imagine very emotional times,

but also you'd find the funny side of it at the time as well. Absolutely. She had a great sense of humour and loved Queen as well so I always had a smile across my face when I hear the song play. You could also do the follow-up song to My Neck, My Back as well. That's a great

popular one coming through. My Neck. Keep it in the back pocket. I think that's where the song says you've got to keep it, isn't it? Good on you, Sam. Have a good one. We'll get to Destiny. We're talking funeral songs, Destiny.

Welcome to the show, mate. What's yours? Back in the day, I used to really like the Banana Nuts song. Oh, the Muppets one? Yeah, I thought it would be a good joke to have my staff bring me and my coffin out with the Muppets. Yeah, Banana Nuts. Yeah, the Muppets. That good joke to have my staff bring my coffin out with that song. Yeah, Banana. That's a great song. That's a great song. Not the

Minions one, but which is also a great song. Producer Joel likes that one. Mana, mana. Mana, mana. Finish it, Destiny. Beautiful. I like it. That's great. Simon, Your funeral song What is it?

It's not for me guys It's my partner She wants to get cremated So she wants This girl is on fire I mean that's So dark It's very dark

But hey Oh yeah But wouldn't that be a laugh? It is It's a dark, dark laugh I Oh, yeah, but wouldn't that be a laugh? It is. It's a dark, dark laugh. I don't think when Alicia Keys wrote that song, she would have been like, this is what it was designed for, but hey.

Oh, I love it. I love it. Great sense of humor, Simon. You're going to have a great day. Appreciate you listening this morning. Hey, no worries. Thanks, guys. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Michael Jordan, NBA legend. There's a crazy story going on involving his son and Scottie Pippen, who Michael played basketball with for many years, Scottie Pippen's ex-wife. So Michael Jordan's son, Marcus, is going to marry Scottie Pippen's ex-wife. Tight. Keeping it tight.

But I don't know if everyone all gets along. No. No. I don't know if everyone all gets along No No I don't think Michael Jordan wants to go to the wedding No because he's been asked for best man or something hasn't he We want 0800 the hits 4487 Awkward weddings Yeah That you've attended over the years

We'd love to get those calls on very shortly But first we've got Enty With us our Hollywood reporter This is wild Enty It is wild I'm And I think he said that he wanted Michael Jordan to be his best man or something

I don't think Michael Jordan wants any part of this this is crazy stuff this is like, this is Larsa going you know what, I want my own reality show instead of being part of a reality show with you know five other women so what I'm going to do, what show is she on?

I think she's on Real Housewives of Miami. And so I won my own show. And here we go. I'm going to marry Michael Jordan's, you know, son. It is extremely bizarre because, I don't know, she's always been very, very thirsty and always, you know, wants that fame. And you're about to get married to this guy.

And then she started talking this week about Scottie Pippen and saying that they used to have sex four times a day. A day? Every single day. Yeah. And then Cardi B called her out on it and said, come on. But you're still, you're talking about your ex and the sex life. And meanwhile, hey, honey, let's get married, okay?

Can your dad come? I don't know. Jeez, Marcus has got a lot to live up to if she's used to four times a day. There's over 300 million people in the country. Surely Michael Jordan's out of everyone. You really had to land here, Marcus. I know. I know.

And is this something you really want to get yourself disinherited about? He's worth $1.6 billion, Michael Jordan. $1.6 billion. Marcus is worth nothing other than what his dad gives him. So he's asked obviously his dad to be a best man

at the wedding. Do you think Michael Jordan will do that and how awkward will that be? I don't think he will do it because it would be super awkward. But you know, sometimes the thing about weirdness is things become less weird over time you know as people get used to a situation i don't know if people will get used to this situation because when you think about michael jordan playing for the bulls you always think about scotty pippen too 40 years removed fromen too. 40 years removed from that, or 30-something years removed from that, you know, okay, Scottie Pippen's wife is going to marry the son of Michael Jordan.

I just, no. That one's a little tough. She's 49, he's 32. A little bit of an age gap there. Not that that really matters or comes into play. I just wanted to show off that I'd read an article. Ben, are we going to say your famous famous line if they're happy yeah well yeah if they're happy great i love a happily ever after i love a fairy tale i just don't think it's going to turn out to be a fairy tale it'd be like oscar marrying your wife amanda your son marrying yeah it would be

you're right that's how. That is weird. Yeah. It's odd. But then it's always weird for us. But then when you're celebrities, it feels like, I don't know, some of those things. There's other rules. Yeah, some of those things aren't as weird when it's celebrities. But then you have to think about, okay, I think that she's like, I found this guy. I really think that she's in it for some kind of fame and reality show i don't think that she's in it for life uh-huh well they were they used to talk about scotty pippen um the basketball being very tight no tipping pippen was his nickname as he wouldn't

tip apparently i don't know if that was true or not so i guess he's not he's not contributing to the wedding at all why would he is his ex-wife yes exactly. So I don't think that there's a lot of good blood going on there. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Just hearing about Michael Jordan. Basketball, a very awkward wedding situation with his ex-teammate, Scotty Pippen, his ex-wife, who's now married his son, and he's been asked to be the best man. Very awkward.

You know it's awkward too when we can't even explain what the situation is easily. No, you're right. We get to listen to what's going on. Exactly. But yeah, we're just talking awkward weddings. It reminds us we spoke to a wedding planner in the UK and what she walked in on just as they were about to head

down the aisle. Try and guess what she saw the groom doing. Was he canoodling with a bridesmaid? Yeah, sounds like it could be a canoodle. He was being breastfed by his mother. No! No! No!

No! How old? No. No, this is not... Old enough to not be being breastfed by his mother. Really took the wind out of the sails of the wedding, the old breastfeeding scandal. Yeah.

Puts them in a very awkward situation, right? So awkward weddings, that's what we're talking about on 800 The Hits. Megan, what happened? Well, we were invited to the wedding, but we didn't know the groom or the bride. Okay, so you went, so did you go? Yes. Had you met them before or was it the first time meeting them on the wedding?

It was, I hadn't, no, we hadn't met them at all. Good on you for going. We had met, well, my husband had met the father of the bride. He had worked with him overseas, and the couple were getting married in New Zealand, and we'd come back to New Zealand. So they said, oh, why don't you come to the wedding? So we did.

So what was it like? Obviously at the start, probably a little bit awkward, turning up, not knowing anyone, but what was it like later in the night? Oh, they were absolutely brilliant. They just embraced us as if we were part of the family. You're like, I don't even know you, but I feel like I'm part of the family. Yeah, exactly.

Oh, we had a wonderful time. Then we were invited back to barbecues and things the next day as if we were just part of the family. Oh, jeez, you really made an impact. You really went from complete strangers to follow-up barbecues. Yeah, exactly. Do you know, my wife and I were on our honeymoon

and we met another couple who were from America and they would plan to elope the following day. We met them the night before and they said, would you like to come to our wedding? And we're like, oh, okay, who else is going? And they're like, well, no one else, just you two. You can witness our wedding. So we're like, oh, okay. Was it is going? They're like, well, no one else. Just you two. You can witness our wedding. So we're like, oh, okay.

Was it as awkward as it sounds like it was going to be? They were actually lovely, but I always think looking back on their photos now, they must be like, who are these? I think we did eventually see them one time when we went to America to visit friends and family. We went over there and caught up with them, and it was fine, but at the same time.

What were their names again? She was Brittany. Brittany. Brittany? He was, oh, he was A great guy. I was going to say Justin but it wasn't Justin, that was Justin and Brittany someone else, but yeah, they were lovely people but Reed, Reed was their name There you go

I can't remember their names You can't remember their names? No, I can Oh well I don't blame you well, I don't blame you. This was a long time ago. Yeah, I don't blame you. Hey, Megan, appreciate your call. Okay.

Cheers. See, when people, they've paid for the wedding, and they're like, they don't even remember our names. We had a great time, though. That's what she's saying. Oh, no. Stop. Jessie Taylor tries her darndest to convince us

that she's speaking the truth. If a man has married a chimney or a monkey's completed a psychology degree, you'll hear about it in these headlines. One's fake, two are real. Yep. Okay, I'll kick things off. Jennifer Aniston admits to having salmon sperm

injected into her face as part of a new facial. Salmon. Sperm, yes. Okay, salmon, okay. Okay, number two. How do you... Anyway, we'll get to that. Scientists discover people who experience deja vus have in fact time travelled at some

point in their lives. Okay. I'm feeling like that's the fake one at the moment. Well, listen to the third one. Police officer mistaken for stripper as he breaks up wild party as he claims everyone just started twerking on me. Oh, that's gold. That could happen.

Yeah. That could happen. Okay, so one of those is fake. Two of them are true. You can text 4487, which one you think is fake, for some help he's this morning now delivering this lifetime. And also 0800, that's two if you want to call. Yeah.

So we want to go back to the first one. So Jennifer Aniston's getting what? Salmon sperm injected into her face. How do you get the salmons? How do you extract it? And how did we land on this? That this was a miracle cure for your face? Yeah.

You're right. You're trying a lot of things before you go, ooh. Ooh, let's give that a go. Because if it is, I need it. Spray it all over me mate we can we can work that out for you i imagine there's a decoy like a like a good looking salmon is a bit of a decoy you know and then does it sort out fine lines and wrinkles does it yes i'm sure it would do all of that but boost collagen i keep saying i said to Ben every Christmas I keep getting given

anti-aging creams and products do you really yeah can you tell it's really it's really working hard this stuff I think you need to get

more expensive stuff trying to pump the brakes on the aging process okay so what are we thinking we're thinking that one might be legit what's the next one was the scientist discovers

people who experience deja vus have in fact time travels no okay so you're thinking that's the fake one and finally one more time, the final one. Police officer mistaken for

stripper as he breaks up wild party as he claims. Well, as you said, that could happen. That's probably happened on Police 10-7. I've seen police officers getting twerked on. Oh, it's like the entertainment's here and you're like, no, no, I'm here just to take it off. Oh, now I'm getting tasered. Yeah, that can happen.

So, alright, a lot of texts. First one's saying the Jennifer Aniston one's fake. Another back up there saying the first one's fake. I'm going to stick to my guns. Say it's the middle one. Alright, I'll go with the other one. The Deja Vu. Yes, you guys are correct. We haven't

really got many of these before. Do you know why I think I've cracked the code on this? Oh, here we go. It's the middle one. No, it's not! Are you doing the middle one? Nine times out of ten, it's the middle one. Is it really? Switch up the algorithms, mate.

Yeah, yeah. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, there's footage of a very angry lady going viral at the moment She was the person on a plane that reclined her seat Put her seat back And obviously the person behind her Wasn't particularly happy the fact that she'd been reclining her seat the whole flight And it seemed like they landed and had a bit of a stash

The whole trip she pushed my seat oh a little reese witherspoon there buddy it does sound a little bit it wasn't reese witherspoon doesn't make that clip sound so much more adorable when you're, I'm allowed to recline my seat? Technically, yes, I guess she is allowed to recline your seat. But for me, I don't even know what the function's there.

It doesn't offer enough recline to give you any comfort. You get back to like an 88 degree angle and you basically just keep pushing it further and further back into the person behind you,

their personal space. You know what's happening. Anyone who reclines their seat asserting dominance on the plane, they know what they're doing. Sometimes people do it straight away. They know the repercussions of their actions. And then you end up with the screen, basically kissing the screen. I'm not going to say anything.

You know that for a fact. Remember that flight that we took for work purposes? And we both requested that we'd wandered. It was a long flight. We got the aisle seat each, a row behind each each other so we knew we're the same number and when i went to get to mine there was a guy sitting there and i was like oh sorry mate i think i've got the seat because uh you know you've got the middle seat you came in you came in very meek and he's like i can he said like he's and i was showing him the thing he goes that's not how i read it is what he said

and i was like oh no but i think it's i think and he said goes, that's not how I read it, is what he said. And I was like, oh, no, but I think it's, and he said it again, that's not how I read it. And then I went, doing my New Zealand thing and not wanting to make confrontation, I hopped over him and sat in the middle seat, knowing for a fact that I had. And he didn't even get out of the seat. No. Remember, you had to clamber over him.

I know. So he was definitely a plain required a seat person, wasn't he? He was a power play guy. That's not how I read it. That's not how I read it. That's not how I read it. I was thinking, I didn't say anything, I thought being the polite New Zealand thing, I was thinking, well, it's how everyone else reads it.

Yeah, great way to do it, a great thing to do. I mean, maybe you get pulled over for speeding. That's not how I read it. Yeah, 120 k's, that's not how I read it. You maybe get too adept at it. I didn't read it like that. Producer Taylor used to work for Qantas for many years. Virgin.

Oh, sorry. But yes, she is right. You definitely are allowed to do it except when you take off and land. But yeah, I'm with you guys. I don't know why people

do bother because it literally makes no difference. Does it wind up a lot of people on the plane? Yes. Oh my God, absolutely. And that's why, this is

why she's so angry because the person behind kept kicking her chair on purpose. Good play. You know, especially how annoying is it when you get served food and the person in front still hasn't gone all the way back up and then you're eating in your lap. It feels like they're going to get rid of this function because it just would cause so many problems.

Yeah, I feel like it's probably one of the main causes of why people go off at each other on flights. Now, there was a there any before on the plane when you were there i didn't have many um that i experienced that i didn't cause actually so you would be a full plane rager because you're one of these people you're like i know my rights i know you're not that's how so what happens my situation and there's a guy going, that's not how I read it, what are you saying? Mate, just hearing that story made me feel sick for you, because if that happened to me, no one's taking off on that plane until I get my bloody seat. Twelve hours I sat in the middle seat when I knew, I knew that that wasn't my seat.

The guy knew it wasn't my seat, everyone knew. You know what you do next time, you take it up with the flight attendant because it's so, like it's actually illegal to not sit in your assigned seat. But he didn't want to be a nap i don't want to go excuse me this guy is and i have to sit next to this guy for 12 hours everyone in the vicinity felt we could feel the pain but he wasn't budget no it's not how i read it for that long great line great line from him okay well four four eight seven on the text let's do a little bit of a snap poll this morning uh reclining seats yes or no yeah are you a recliner the hits the jonah and ben podcast Well, 4487 on the text. Let's do a little bit of a snap poll this morning. Reclining seats.

Yes or no? Yeah. Are you a recliner? The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Melbourne Cup today, for those that are interested in it, it's always a bit of a polarising thing, isn't it? What's polar?

The horses love it, mate. The horses love it. Well, you know, some people don't agree with that sentiment. They're smiling when they're running around that track. Yeah, but very popular. It's the race that stops the nation. You know, huge in Australia, right? Yeah, productivity, geez, definitely dips.

And I always love it. Every year, it's like copy and paste on the news. They've got people stumbling out of Flemington with bits of carrot jammed in their fascinator, broken high heels, like rolling around in the gardens. Yeah, people go very early. And a Tuesday, too. Really, they should be bringing rolling around in the gardens. Yeah, people go very early. And a Tuesday too. Really, they should be bringing it later in the week.

Well, imagine if it was later in the week. This is a Tuesday. You'd have some outstanding news footage if it was like a Thursday or Friday. You're right. People would be like, geez. Anyway, so the Melbourne Cup. Enjoy it if it's your thing this afternoon. You're like, that's your respected lawyer there rolling around in vomit in a flower bed outside Flemington.

Putting her all over the news. They do, eh? They put them all over the news. Okay, so you've really touched on a hot button here this morning, Ben. The reclining button on the plane. There's been some plane rage in the States. A lady reclined her chair and the gentleman behind her repeatedly, passive-aggressively kicking it, and it kicked off. The whole trip she pushed my seat americans aren't afraid of a stale show though no no very different from new zealanders as we

said before i just told a story of meekly um standing over a guy and just hopping over the cross even though i knew he was in my seat and then i remember halfway through the fight you're like i need to go can i just go to the toilet he's like yep and he didn't move to climb over a power play it was a wonderful power play and i was very meek and mild i've climbed over you before too you were sitting on the aisle seat and i was in the middle and uh you're asleep you're asleep and i climbed over you and i it's like when you go into the movies, do you go face first to the person that you're walking past the aisle or do you sort of go bum first? And I decided to go, let's go face to face.

And you woke up with a very confronting scene, didn't you, of my mid-region directly in your face because I had both feet on either one of your armrests, not wanting to interrupt you. It's very, well, I thought it was very considerate, but I woke up to a face full of crotch. You were traumatised. Yeah, anyway.

The crotch pit. All right, James, we'll get you on. Welcome. Hello. We just got talking about reclining. You're a recliner, a proud recliner. Yeah, yeah, look, you know, like traveling long-haul flights back to the UK. Yeah, any extra bit of room when you're six foot three is kind of like, you know, yeah, I'm taking it, thanks.

Do people confront you? I've once had someone ask me why I was reclining my seat, but not really, no. Like, literally, he said, do you have to recline your seat? I said, yes, and that was the end of it. Oh, you're like this guy. Not how I read it. That kind of ends the conversation. It's funny.

I mean, never when the food's out. Always have the seat up when the food's out. But other than that, like, if you're flying and, you know, you're meant to be trying to get to sleep, what's wrong with doing, what's wrong with reclining? I guess the function's there for it, right? But some people get very upset. Proud.

Sticking up for the recliners amongst us, James. Thank you for your call, Ray. Appreciate it. No problem. Appreciate listening. We're heading to the Mount. Shelley, you're on. Anti-recliner.

Morning, guys. How are you? We're doing well. Not a fan. I don't mind, but I have tapped people, I have stood up and tapped people on the shoulder and asked them to put their seat up when the food comes around.

Oh, have you? You don't mind confrontation? No. So, Ben, you wouldn't want to fly with me. I tell you, you'd have to see. You'd be all right, Karen, would you, Shelley? I would be, yes, at least. I guess when you're reclining, you've got to go,

hey, well, I've got to be ready for a battle here I mean I don't mind it but within reason Today I've chosen violence I'm in the mood Well you go look after the mountain for us, it's all on you Thank you, it's raining so yeah, beautiful day