Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: Who TF did I marry?

Episode Date: February 26, 2024

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The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations. Canterbury had overnight a 5.1 earthquake, a magnitude earthquake, just near Methvin. 4,000 people reported feeling it overnight. Do we know how deep it was? Oh, that's, well, I'm sure some... You're not GeoNet. No, mate.

I don't know if you want any more research, then you can go on. You want the magnitude. It's light dusting. We're all experts at earthquakes now. Well, particularly. And if you want any more research, then you can go on. You want the magnitudes. We're all experts at earthquakes now. Well, particularly around that region, right? Yeah. Very scary times when that happens. Imagine as soon as it happens, the old PTSD kicks back in from many people in that region.

So I hope everyone's doing all right. Now, can I just chuck something out there? I'm driving to work most mornings, and I'm pretty sure I'm doing something that is legal, but it could be seen as illegal in the eyes of those that uphold the law. I feel like the laws are pretty black and white. It's either illegal or it's not. Yeah, but this one, okay. There's not too many grey areas.

Yeah, this is the road rules. Now, we haven't worked together long, Megan, but I'm pretty erratic on the roads. You haven't been for a drive. Sorry, 12k is deep. There you go. Oh, thank you. There you go. Sorry, I've just been trying to frantically find that out for you, right?

You just cast your mind back to when Megan asked how deep the earthquake was. There we go. We'll go back to that. 5.1, 12k is deep. There we go. Yes, yeah. So, yeah, I feel like I'm bending the road code every time I'm driving to work. Now, there's an intersection that if I get caught at the red light,

it feels like I'm waiting there for 15 minutes until it turns green. However, there is a left-turning arrow. So if I turn left on the green arrow and then do a U-turn at the other part of the intersection, there's also another left arrow where I can continue on my way. So do you understand what I'm saying? So if I'm driving straight, I basically dogleg left, do a U-turn, and then continue down the road that I was originally on.

All going, not running any reds. No, you're not running any reds. All abiding by the green arrows, but potentially bending the law. Is it illegal? No, but a U-turn's not illegal. Exactly. And I have to put on a great performance for the other motorists and pretend like,

oh, bloody Google Maps is throwing me off the track again, off the beaten track. So I wanted to chuck it out there to the people. 0800 the hits, 4487.

Is this an illegal manoeuvre? Or is it within the realms of the road code? There's obviously some areas you're not allowed to make U-turns, right? Yeah. Sometimes you see those signs saying, no, U-turns,

when you want to turn around and people still do that anyway. I reckon even if you got pulled over doing this, the police officers would be like, oh, good on you. Good on you. At this time of the week. Having a win for the little motorist. I don't know if they ever say good on you is one of the things. I'll give you a ticket infringement for being an awesome driver.

There's a great rule in America where you can turn on the red light if it's safe to go and you're turning basically into that lane. How terrifying is that the first time you're driving with someone who knows the rules and you're like, wait, it's red. But it makes sense. Usually the left turning traffic at an intersection could just sneak around. In New Zealand, yeah. You're right.

And it continues the flow of the traffic over there beautifully. So yeah, I just want to know, 4487, you can call 0800-THE-HITS early morning. Let's get this out of the way until too many people are listening. Is this illegal? Are you allowed to? I'd say no, it's not illegal, depending on how erratic you're doing it. It's pretty chill. Pretty chill, yeah.

I don't know if it's pretty chill for me. He gets annoyed when I cut through the supermarket car park and and wash probably like say you want 10 seconds 15 seconds it feels like 10 minutes or 15 minutes my friend the hits the jonah and ben podcast bradley cooper the actor and also director in hollywood you'll know him from movies such as the hangover and a star is born she spoke about him uh last week was it when he went When he went over to Beyonce and Jay-Z's house to try and get her to be in A Star Is Born. Jay-Z was watching Judge Judy on the couch. Apparently a huge fan of Judge Judy. Did he acknowledge Bradley Cooper or just go, hey man, sorry, you've come at my Judge

Judy time? Can't engage. Very odd time. Well, because he worked with Beyonce, you were saying for like 12 months on the movie about how the character was going to work And then she pulled out And they got Lady Gaga But again Couldn't imagine Lady Gaga

Anyone but Lady Gaga In that role In A Star Is Born Remember we went all feral And we were like Bradley Cooper and Leaston Leave his wife And marry Lady Gaga

I think they both had partners And everyone was like The chemistry's so good They need to hook up But then he did They did break up Him and his wife Yeah but then it was Gaga

No we thought it was We'll go But then they did break up, him and his wife. Yeah, but then it was Gaga. No, we thought it was all go. But then we were giving old Tristan Thompson grief for cheating on Chloe at the same time. And I'm not saying he shouldn't have got grief. But it was like, well, over here you're giving this guy grief for cheating. And then you're saying, well, these two need to cheat. So what's going on? Publicly cheating.

The internet's moral compass is all over the show. Yeah, Bradley Cooper, Cooper Director And he was Doing an interview About his You know Directing techniques And a very interesting Thing he rolls with

On the set Or doesn't roll with Have a listen There's no chairs on sets I've always hated chairs And I feel like Your energy dips The minute you sit down

On the chair So Apple box Is a very nice way To sit So yeah He's the crew Working 10 to 12 hours a day And he's like

No chairs don't sit down no cheers i hate to say i do i get i get his theory in some way i say you shouldn't sit down i know but it does as soon as you stop i find that theory in the afternoon if you stop for any moment you'll be tired and you'll want to go to sleep but if you just keep going you're fine but i would if you stand up and talk he's saying your energy changes like if we close our. If you stand up and talk, he's saying your energy changes. Like if we close our eyes and you stand up and talk and sit down, would you sound any different? Probably not.

But my energy would be a lot. Oh, you know, like I can see the energy because, you know. Oh, it's electric. Are you standing? I can hear it. I'm like doing squats. You're standing. I get his theory.

It sounds a little bit full onon for a film set mate i'm exhausted what are you mate oh my name is dennis i'm in a wheelchair get out of it no chairs ben boys is going to employ a no-chairs policy in his house now isn't he make a more productive household mate the hits the jonah and ben podcast now yesterday we discovered something after worked at the hits radio station for a number of years now, we're in the same studio, and we just discovered that there's a panic button under the desk. Did they say how long it's been there?

I think the whole time. The whole time, yeah. We've been here four years, haven't we? No one ever said on day one, here's your swipe card and there's a panic button. Under the desk. Things go wrong. Never once have we really felt the need for panic in here.

I mean, once Ben accidentally handed his credit card details to a scammer online, but I don't know if that was need to push the panic button. But yeah, you think, oh, you wouldn't need to use it. But then Megan, you said to us afterwards while we were talking in the office that you had an occasion where someone came into the studio. Yeah, and I absolutely would have loved a panic button. So this obviously didn't happen at this radio station, but a previous radio station. Yeah, so I was doing a panic button. So this obviously didn't happen at this radio station, but a previous radio station. Yeah. So I was doing a weekend.

No, actually I was doing a Monday and our swipe system worked that during the week the doors were open. So there was a glitch in the fact that it was a public holiday. So the doors were open, but no one was there apart from me. Right. So that was a bit of a glitch. No receptionist, nothing like that.

So all the doors were open. And someone walked into the area. They looked like they were an IT person, looked like they knew where they were going, walked around the area, and then came into the studio. And I'd never seen this person before. They started demanding to see our boss at the time, aggressively.

And I was like, I am in trouble here. Was he a race car in the red? This guy angry. Oh yeah. Was he blinking? Yeah. And I don't know what the issue was with our boss,

but he was very upset at him. Scary for you. Yeah. Yeah. Was he up in your grill? Initially he was by the door, which I was behind the desk. There was a distance between us. And I just denied.

I was like, I don't know where he is. I'm just part-time. I wasn't. I don't know how to get hold of him. I don't know where he lives. Just deny, deny, deny to get him out. But he then came around the desk and stood right in front of me. And at that point, I was quite young.

I was like, he was very, he was raging. Wow, scary. And I thought I was going to get attacked. So I had my finger on the microphone, and I was going to go live on the radio and say, someone help me. It was like that bad. And I couldn't get rid of him. So a panic button would have been great in that situation.

It would have been great. It would have been, honestly, I hate to think like this the soulless radio announcer would have made for great radio turn that mic on yeah i wasn't even concerned about like what it would sound like i was just like somebody would have been good that would have won a radio war hey we had one do you remember when we used to make the tv show tv3 we used to work out of that building that was falling apart that they put us in this this old sort of church building stuff that they didn't really want you know it was a derelict church it was upstairs and all sorts of

I guess unsavoury things might have happened there was a dungeon underneath where high powered businessmen would probably pay top dollar to be locked up for a couple of days but there was an apartment upstairs that no one was in the apartment but we were editing the TV show in there and there was in the corner of the room there was just this cord that ran down and it had on a panic button

and i remember and it intrigued me for so long and the editor were like i just wanted to push it and then one day we're like we're gonna push it like after months and months we're gonna push the panic button and it set off an alarm loud alarm but because no one really had access to the building or their codes it just we're gonna know how to their codes, we couldn't know how to turn it off. The alarm just kept going and nothing happened. I don't know how to turn it off. We don't have any security. So this noise just went constantly. Where's the dominatrix?

We've got the code. I know, for like hours until someone had to come technical and like cut some cord or something to make it work. The weird one was the room underneath. It was like the ceiling wasn't high enough. You kind of had to hunch over. And you're like, some people have been chained up in here. Oh, my God.

Done some stuff in here. Should we push the panic button here? I feel like, I mean, there, you tested it. I tested it. It didn't work. It's gone badly for me before. It did work, but no one knew the code. If anyone's going to do it, I think it's Jono,

because you'll get away with it. Well, let's do it after the song. Let's do it after the song. We've talked for four minutes now. Okay. And we'll see what happens, what the end result is. You know what happens?

It goes to a security company. They contact reception. They contact Joe. Yeah, but we need to test it, right? Ben says no. I say yes, but I'm not pushing it. And then Gunjan,

our wonderful security guard, he apparently is meant to come into the studio to check that everything's all right. Now, ironically, we can just see him through the window. He's only 15 metres away, so we'll see how long it takes him to get in there. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, we've just been discussing a panic button that's hidden under the desk here in the studio for any case of emergency, any need for panic.

But now, you know, what justifies panic? Like what? Well, someone coming into the studio really i think it's like if you feel like you're in danger right yeah it's danger but now because we've discovered it joe the wonderful joe riddell who runs a lot of the facilities here around the building uh she was talking to us about it yesterday she said they had to just test them make sure they're still working with like we didn't know about this yeah she's like yeah it's a thing anything goes wrong uh she'll get a text if we push the button.

Then that goes to a security company. Then they call reception. Now we've got the wonderful Gunjan on reception today. He's our security guard here in the building. And then he comes into the studio and says, is everything okay? That is the order of protocol when you push the button. So Jo is a wonderful woman who puts up with a lot of rubbish from everyone in this building yeah uh people cooking bacon in the toasters and all kinds of stupid

stuff yeah so i like i think she'll be awake at 20 to 7 but i don't know that she's going to appreciate the text she'll but she must know it's coming so she was telling us this yesterday and we were she must know she won't know it's coming do we push the button we all want to you push it you push it you got to be pushing where is it yeah it's under the desk they showed us yesterday we showed you no other side yeah you can't do that if someone comes at the studio you can't go where is it but this is my problem okay so you've comes to the studio You can't go Where is it Hang on This is my problem Okay so you've come in the studio

You be aggressive towards me Hold there mate Just hold on a second Hold on a second And you'll be like What are you fiddling around for Under the desk Just like

Blindly Hold there Don't look over here As I'm tapping my hand Under the desk There we go Did you push it Did you push it Did you push it? Did you push it?

Did you push it? I've just pushed it. Did you? I've just pushed it. Did you? Now set the timer for how long it takes Gunja so it's 6.40 in 32 seconds. How long it takes,

so you're still threatening me. We're still in this. I'm sorry, mate. I'm sorry. We didn't play your pink song. I can't swear on the radio. Are you threatening me or are you constipated?

I don't know what's happening. So again, I'm still... Jono! You're bloody... Megan's better with it. I've got up. You're gone. There's a lot of filler content required until Gunjan comes in to check on us.

Well, it's got to go... The text has got to go to Jo first. Yeah. Who might not be awake. I feel like she'll just text one of us and say, stop being bloody stupid. Yeah, so still waiting still filling in time A lot of stuff could have happened Pushing the button and now like I'm still panicking

How long am I threatening you before I just take you out? Yeah, you're holding me at bay for quite a long time Trying to distract me Like I feel like it's bouncing over to Joe who might be asleep He's gotta contact the security company. We could just literally wave a gun down through the window and go, no. He's not even looking up. No.

Okay, we'll come back to that. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, on more important issues, we have a panic button in the radio studio in case if anyone bursts in, any need for panic we could push this but maybe if there's a fire or something too you could push it so we've pushed the button we've pushed the button probably call the fire department but you know you just leave and you know i think there's other protocol for a fire i just like trying to think he will stay here and broadcast as the building burns around him telling everyone the exact time at 7.42.

But we pushed the panic button five minutes ago. Now, Gunjan, who's our wonderful security guard here in the building, has done nothing. He's been down looking at his phone playing Candy Crush. He has not even looked up. I don't know if he's got the message that's come through. No, he mustn't have got the message. We'll call him on reception. Because it's meant to be text.

Did you push the right button? Yeah. There's only one under there Did you push the right button? Yeah. There's only one under there, isn't there? I think so. Just zero. If you just push zero, it should go through there, Grace. There we go. We'll go through to reception, hopefully.

Good general answer. Because, yeah, it's meant to text one of the building managers. They then call the security company. The security company then calls him. He comes in and goes, is everything all right? Now he's not even going to answer this. We're sitting here staring at him. Is he on another call?

Listen, call me. I'll go live. Okay? Okay. All right. You're going to call John. That's fine. You're going to walk over to reception.

I'll take you out to reception. Okay. Maybe it's... Meanwhile, like, we've been panicking for six minutes. Maybe it's a decoy. Maybe it just doesn't work. Maybe it just makes you feel better. What?

It doesn't make me feel better at this point. People have those stickers for alarms. Alarm company. You're like, well, this place is protected by an alarm. And they don't have the alarm. Yeah, yeah. You know, one of those sort of things. All right, we're going live to John who's running across uh to reception right now here i am

reporting live guys good son how are you mate oh yeah yeah i'm live i'm live at reception we pushed the panic button oh everything all right everything Everything's fine. No, I'm panicking because no one's doing anything when we panic. Oh. All right. We pushed the panic button six minutes ago. We could have died in there, could you?

I'm so sorry. I'll make sure it's working, but I'll make sure it's working. All right, well, there we go. Did he get a message from anyone? Did you get a message from anyone? Yeah. Oh, you did get a message. Let me check.

Oh, there we go. Well, there we go. We'll try not to panic. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. The Riddler. Producer Taylor likes to test us with a weekly riddle. Actually, I've got one for you I saw on TikTok yesterday. Oh, yeah?

You guys can play along as well. I saw this on TikTok. Okay, there are 30 cows in the field, 28 chickens. How many didn't? How many didn't what? It's the riddle. What? There are 30 cows in the field, 28 chickens.

How many didn't? He's saying didn't funny. It really stumped me. There's no didn'ts. Yeah. So, okay. So what happens here, I'll break it down for you. There's 30 cows in the field, 20 of them ate chickens.

How many didn't? So there's 10 of them didn't eat chickens. It got me too You should have given that one to me That was a good one Now Taylor, you come in here all high and mighty A little cocky don't you? Because you always know the answers to these

And you're like why aren't you getting them you idiots Yesterday's one with me I was like I still didn't It's hard Alright, kick things off Before Mount Everest Was discovered As the highest mountain

In the world Which mountain Was the highest 0800 the hits If you know the answer To this Mount Everest Was discovered

As the highest mountain In the world Which mountain Can highest be something else Highest mountain Maybe Maybe not Which mountain

Smoked weed 4487 Or 0800 the hits If you think you know Let's go live We've got some calls Coming through Ice Mountain. Maybe. Maybe not. Which mountain smoked weed? 4487 or 0800, the hits, if you think you know. Let's go live. We've got some calls coming through. Mark, you're on for the cargo. Do you know the answer to this mountain riddle? I think I do.

What is it? Mount Everest. It's just what we've discovered yet. Correct, Mark. Oh, that's so good. That was so easy. You got us on a technicality. What a mark. We'll put you on hold.

We're going to send you out some hell pizza. Okay, what's your next one? Smart. Yeah. What's black and white and red all over? A newspaper. Oh, good one, Megan. Nice, Megan.

I'm going to have to get another one. All right. What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it? Short. Yeah. Yeah, Megan. I'm on fire today.. Yeah. Yeah, Megan! I'm on fire today! Oh, jeez, Megan,

you've done really well. I'm still like, oh no, yeah, I'm with you now. Here's another one. What's got a mouth like a sailor comes from Cronulla and copies and pastes

riddles from the internet? Um, Taylor? Yeah, well done. Taylor Mordoya. That was a good one, a good sesh from you there, Megan. Yeah, well done, Megan. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Of course, the last week of summer, autumn kicks in on the 1st of March, which is Friday this week. Bit soggy. Soggy conditions at the moment across a lot of the country, isn't it? Really felt like, oh, well, that's done. A series on TikTok has gone viral. It's actually available on YouTube now. It's so big.

It's been watched by millions of people. This is a woman Risa Tisa is her handle. I don't know if that's her name. Is it said with a question mark at the end of her name? I don't think she actually says her name but she's talking about her husband who she's no longer

with. The series is called Who the F Did I Marry? It takes us down a road of her journey with a pathological liar. So it's on TikTok. It's just, from what I've seen, and I've been watching some of it over your shoulder really, it's just her talking the whole time. To camera. There's no visual flair.

It's very much just her doing selfie chats. But she engages in the way she tells the story. There's red flags, red flags, and you're like, how is this going to unravel? For 10 hours she talks about her relationship 10 hours is how long it is but it's huge like yeah and the more you talk about the more i hear other people talk about it i read about it on the herald uh read about on stuff it's it's everywhere yeah and she talks about how at the start of it i was like what is wrong with this guy? He sounds great. And then the red flags start popping up and she ignores them.

And she goes down quite a scary path. And he turns out to be not a very good guy. Does she marry him? She does. She almost had a baby with him. I don't want to give away too much in case you're wanting to dedicate 10 hours of your life to this. What's he done? Can we say that?

Or is that going to be a spoiler? Well, he's a criminal, among other things. Right. But What's he done? Can we say that Or is that going to be a spoiler? Well He's He's a criminal Among other things Right So yeah Don't go by too much Because people

Pants man Pants man I think I think he's trying to be a pants man Yeah right Okay See my thing with pants men Is

Too much admin Like gee Where's I mean The admin that this guy's gone through, not only with multiple women, but just generally keeping up his lies is so intense. I'm pretty sure, poor Jennifer, my wife,

I'm probably disappointing her daily. I couldn't have two on the go. Constantly disappointing two people. Yeah, it's a wild ride. We'll put a link up on our Hits Breakfast story, our Instagram story. So if you want to watch it on TikTok, you can click on that link and you'll be able to sit through.

As you said before, you can kind of treat it like a podcast and just be listening to it as you drive around the car. Everyone's like, why is she talking about this? Why is she airing a dirty laundry? She wants to be somewhat of a cautionary tale for people when you hear the red flags or if you think that something's not quite right. Probably not. Wouldn't it be great at the end of the 10 hours

she was like, that was bought to you by Amazon and you can purchase the book right now for $29.99. And she's the author of a book that she just made up. Surely it's going to be a movie. Oh, you think so? Yeah. So 0800 The Hitch, we checked this out there. If you were going to do a serial about your

marriage or anything to do with your marriage, what would it be? So talking about a serial about your marriage or anything to do with your marriage, what would it be? So talking about a podcast on your relationship. I mean, Megan, haven't you been married twice? Yeah. Do you want me to go into my first marriage? Yeah, do you want to do the who, the if, the did you marry? Well, there was like secret tithing happening in my relationship that I didn't know about.

What's the secret? Like it's the church. Tithing to the church, yeah. What, money going behind your back to? Yeah. Well, it's going to Jesus, mate. That's a bloody. I know.

It could have been more nefarious things. It could have been much worse. Who have you been giving your money to? Jesus. What has he done for you lately? Lately. Lately. I mean, yeah.

That was years ago. He took a pretty big hit a few years ago. That's why I said lately The hits The Jono and Ben podcast It's one of the biggest TikTok things going around That Megan's been watching She's deep in 10 hours of it I've spent hours of my life on this

And so have many people It's a woman telling her story of Marrying a pathological liar And everything that unravels is quite horrendous. But she's great at storytelling. So I clicked on it just being nosy. And what do my wondering astigmatism eyes see? So in his Facebook Messenger is about seven women.

Pants man. Now someone's texting saying, what's a pants man? Pants man is a man who probably doesn't have his pants on a lot of the time, isn't it? What, a womanizer? Likes the company of multiple women at the same time. So this guy, yeah, nefarious pants man, obviously. Among so many things, yeah. Is he going to get the chance to do his own one?

Tell his side of the story? Maybe that'd be the sequel. There's always two sides. There's a reason why maybe he won't, is all I'll say. Okay. There we go.

You can head to the Hits Breakfast on Instagram. We'll put a link up if you want to check out that. Okay, so if you were to make a serial about your marriage, what would it be?

What would it involve? We're going to kick things off with Megan on 0800 The Hits. How are you, Megan? I'm good, thank you. How are you? Yeah, we're doing really well. You know, something you just learnt about your husband.

Big discoveries. What about your relationship? Well, we've been together for 18 years, and I only found out yesterday that he does, not yesterday, sorry, last year, that he does not like pizza, pineapple on pizza. 17 years he's been hiding this dark secret behind your back. I order it.

All the time? I order Hawaiian pizza all the time and I've never ever noticed him taking it off. So he just picks it off behind your back? Pretty much, yeah. And I imagine it leads you to thinking, what else is he hiding? Yeah, it did. Do you want to do a 10 hour TikTok on

your husband or probably not much more to it than that? No, no, not much more than that. How did you discover it? Did you just notice one day and like, what are you doing? Well, our little boy wanted pizza, so we were making it and then he'd eaten all his and I asked him if he wanted any more of mine, but he asked if I had pineapple on it first, and I was like, of course, why

not? And he was like, I don't like pineapple on pizza. It's taken him 17 years to build up the courage. Yeah, beautiful. Love it. So now it's just ham and cheese, is it? Pretty much. Yeah.

Somehow we bastardized the Hawaiian pizza and put some pineapple on it. We're like, Hawaii, mate. Hawaii. In your mouth. Good on you, Megan. Have a great day. You too you appreciate your time uh if you were to do a serial about your marriage what would it be steph good morning you're uh well we understand this marriage serial of yours took place pre-wedding it did yes so um obviously i was seeing some guy and um it didn't really work out or go very far with him.

And so my now husband and my bridesmaids had got together to plan my hen's night and they had organized the stripper. So who was your husband? It was just a friend of yours at that stage, your now husband. Was he a friend then? Oh no, sorry, yes. I was getting married to him, yes. He wasn't planning it, my girls were, but because they had organised the suit and stripper,

they wanted to check with them to make sure it was okay. I see. So anyway, it came the night and this guy was doing his thing and he whispered in my ear and I pulled his mask up and it ended up being my ex, Squeeze. What? He was a stripper now. Hey, so your ex-boyfriend stripped at your hen's party.

Yeah. Did that take the wind out of the performance when he revealed his identity? Oh, it was a lot. There was so much going on. And then later on in the night, we ended up all kind of turning around into the kitchen and there he was sucking face with my mum. Wow. Wow.

This is wild. Okay. That's weird because obviously he's your ex, so he knew your mum as well. It's not just a random hookup. It didn't get as far as beating her, so no, they hadn't met before or anything like that. Yeah, right. They had a purely sexually charged relationship. Oh, grim.

Were you like, mom, no. Did he know that he was going to be turning up to your, did he know about it? He knew about it. Yeah, he knew. So good on him. I take my hat off for him to actually turn up and do that. Well, take your mask off for him

And he took more than his hat off too That's impressive Absolutely, everything came off So Did you have a conversation with your mum the next day? She'd not Long split up with my dad So I was like, you know what

You just do what you gotta do You're very forgiving Of so many aspects of this. If you want to pash my ex-boyfriend's stripper at the hen's party, you do it, Mum. Oh, that's great, Steph. Well, I hope the marriage is going well now. It is.

Five years just on Friday. Oh, congrats. Thanks, guys. Well, you have a lovely day. Yeah, you too. See you, mate. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Jonas Brothers in town tonight,

actually playing in New Zealand, which will be pretty cool. We've got producer Grace to grab you right now. You're good tonight. Yes, I'm very, very excited. Very excited. Camp Rock fan.

Oh, 100%. All the movies I've watched. I'm a big stance. What other movies were there? Well, there's two Camp Rocks. Camp Rock 2, and then they had their TV show. Get on it. Who's your favourite?

Who's your favourite driver? One of them was in Jumanji. Oh, yeah. Nick Jonas was in Jumanji. I love all of them. I am a Kevin stan, though, because Kevin. Kevin? He's just a cute dad.

He's just nice. Kevin, that's a niche pick. Kevin, apologies if you're listening, mate. Kevin, they're in the country. He might be listening. He might be here. He's definitely listening to us. Sad to Kevin.

We love Kevin. Just got through customs, sitting in the car, and all the first thing he hears is Kevin. Hey, Kevin. I said niche pick is all. Okay. Well, speaking of airports, actually we flew back from Christchurch.

I forgot to bring this up yesterday, Ben. We came back on Jetstar. And, listen, we were lucky enough. I love it when you get situated in the emergency row, you know, because you get the extra leg room. Oh, yeah. And they make you feel important too, don't they? They do.

You get a special little briefing yourself. But, actually actually in all honesty i am probably the single worst person to be put in that position if there were anything ever to go down you know when they're telling you like okay so this is how you open the door and i'm like yeah i'm not i'm not listening i'm not registering any of it i'm just sitting there appreciating the other six inches of leg room i've got. I feel like the same thing about the safety videos. Like I feel like we're all like, oh, this again. Oh, we've seen this a million times.

But I reckon in an emergency, most of us would be like, what was the thing about the weather? Where did I put my oxygen mask? The oxygen mask falls down, you put it on your face and there's a slide. Like, right? I reckon there'd be things that we would have forgotten or not paid attention to. You know, we're sitting there watching it, but it's not registered. Yeah.

And I was saying the same thing when the air steward was telling me exactly what needed to be done. And in case she was like, you need to look out the window. Then she said some other stuff. And she's like, if that's the case, then you need to open the door. I can't remember what the other stuff was. Seems pivotal. And then the handles. Like, I imagine in the moment of panic and stress

if a plane has gone down the handle system i wouldn't be able to open that door you know the side door yeah you'd be able to work it out but yeah just my luck i'd be the only one surviving with you and everyone else i'm like john what did they say because they're the one up the front obviously that you walk in and out of the airline with my friend was sitting right up the front one day and an old guy went to find the bathroom

and was trying to open that door and they're like whoa whoa whoa on the main door on the main door he's like why is this toilet so hard to get into?

I was just looking for the bathroom I'd love a guy peeing out the door though it's like well you could you could go through there but yeah high velocity

pee that one a lot of splashback through the airline wouldn't it? it would all go back You could go through there, but... High velocity pee, that one. A lot of splashback through the airline. It would all go back. It would all blow back into the cabin. Trenched in the urine. Stop! They put us all back up and they're like, all right, I'm done.

Everyone else's faces are wet. To the airline industry, I want to say I appreciate the extra leg room, love the emergency row, but you couldn't pick a worse person to be in there. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. We're excited about the one New Zealand Warriors. They're going to be playing their first game. The first of the season is rolling around, Megan.

I'm excited. You had news this morning that Sean Johnson, it might not be his final season as well. You see he's open to talks for another year. He's got one year on his contract. I know all about it. I know, and I'll be banging on about it all through the season. Don't you worry about that.

We are very excited. And we've got an amazing prize. If you know the ultimate Warrior fan in your life, they can win tickets to every game as well. So two tickets every game and a signed Warriors jersey, which is a pretty cool prize. You would not get a more loyal fan base, would you? No.

Particularly in New Zealand. I mean, through thick and thin, through good times and bad times, it's been pretty impressive to see. Maybe your hearty Trump supporter, they could give them a run for their money in terms of passion merch. Yeah. New Zealand-wise. They've been through thick and thin, too.

A Destiny Church member, they're pretty loyal. Again, causes they're much better. Anyway, the Warriors, yeah. Let's get today's nominee on. You can head to The Hits Breakfast on Facebook. Nominate anyone in your life that you know who you think could be the ultimate Warrior fan, and they're going to win this amazing prize pack. And one fan right now, Ben, you've just been showing me a photo of their house.

I've been nominated many times, and I've seen him at many games. He goes by the name of Rocker Warrior. Good morning. How you doing? Morning, guys. Morning, morning. Lovely to have you on. Now, for those that haven't seen you visually, aesthetically, you're kind of like the extra member of Kiss, who was really into rugby league and

not so much rock and rolling all day and all night. Yeah, you've got the face paint of the Warriors logo on your face you wear to the, and long hair as well. That's correct, yep, that's me. Do you do the face paint yourself before every game? No, I used to, but it was taking me sort of like an hour or more to do it, and then I thought, hey, I'm going to ask someone to sponsor my face, and then I approached Body Effects in Kingsland,

and they said, yeah, mate, we would love to do that. So they do my face every time I go to the games. It looks so cool. It looks really cool. Even contact lenses I've noticed at the games as well. Yep, got to have those contacts in. That's incredible. A little bit of Zeus to it.

And your house, because you live in Tūrua, which is an hour and a half away from Mount Smart. So do you drive to every game from your home? Pretty much I do, yep. If I'm not going, I normally give my season passes or my tickets that I've got away to a family that may not

have been to a game or something like that, but nine times out of ten, I'm always at those games. So it's a three-hour round trip every time you head to Mount Smart. That's incredible. And your house, like there's photos of your house. You can head to the Hits Breakfast on Facebook.

The only way to describe it is you've got giant billboard skins of the entire team covering your roof and all of the sides of your house. Yep, that's right. I've got a special garage. I call it the Warrior's Garage. And everyone in Tooroo,

around Tooroo, they know me as the rocker from the Warriors house. So do people know your secret identity as your superhero persona? Yeah, last year I had a big write-up in the local newspaper and obviously

it showed who I really was but it did a big write-up of me and why I do what I do and why I am the big Warriors fan. And why is that? Why? I just love the Warriors. The Warriors have always been my passion and to put my passion into something that I enjoy doing,

which obviously is the Warriors, and making people happy and smile and stuff like that, and just all around fun. Oh, it's really cool. I know seeing you at game day, the Mount Smart Joker's another one as well, who's a great Warriors supporter.

Interesting, I was having a big conversation with him, the Mount Smart Joker at a game. He paints his face up like the Joker from Batman and stuff. Had a big conversation. Then I saw him at the airport the next day without the face paint, but I had no idea who it was. And he kept saying into the conversation,

Joker, Joker. And I was like, why does he keep saying Joker? What does he mean? And he was like, yeah. I was like, Joker, Joker. And I was like, why does he keep saying Joker? And he was like, yeah. I was like, man, chat to him. He kept going, Joker, Joker. I'm like, what is he saying? He's like, I'm the bounce about Joker.

I was like, oh. Totally different without the face paint. Yeah, we are normally. I mean, like you say, you wouldn't even know who we are if we didn't tell you, basically. Oh, well, you seem like a wonderful New Zealander and a huge supporter of the club. Do you think it's our year? Definitely our year.

This year is definitely our year. We're going all the way, baby. Oh, well, you're in the draw for that amazing prize. And we're going to give you a couple of tickets to our home game as well. So you can give those away to someone else because it sounds like you've got a season pass. So it sounds like you're giving it away to people with a really good cause as well.

So it's awesome what you do. No, also, I appreciate the offer. So it's awesome what you do. No, awesome. I appreciate the offer. Come on and talk to you guys too. Do we need a test for Up The Wiles? Yeah, we probably do. We're getting up the wiles there. You certainly can.

Up The Wiles and Up The Rocker Warrior. I love it. I didn't know where that second one was going. It was like risky, risky. I'm glad you kept it family friendly. I will see you out at Go Media Stadium sometime this year

The Hits The Jono and Ben Podcast Doing a daycare pick up yesterday and I went a little bit earlier so I actually went

when there was heaps of parents so everyone was doing pick up at the same time Do you talk to them or you're like keep to yourself

Some of them I know everyone's just trying to get their kids out the door to be honest there's no worse banter than light banter at a children's birthday party

is there with parents who don't really know each other your only connection is you might have your bum dug leaves around

about the same time yeah true it's a good stage in your parenting life when you I think you said the other day when you're at

the drop off stage you're like cool alright see ya have a good time at the parenting life. I think you said the other day, Jonah, when you're at the drop-off stage, you're like, cool, all right, see you, have a good time at the party. Car just keeps rolling, you open the door, bye, we'll catch you tomorrow morning. Now my kids are like, I'll take the bus and go, you don't even have to leave the house. Dream come true. I was doing pick-up, trying to wrangle my three-year-old out of daycare. He is at the point where he really loves it there

and he doesn't want to come home with me, so that's nice. But he also, at the moment, if he gets like a little bit of dirt or a little bit like of water on him, he's like, right, I have to get changed. And so he'd be playing out in the water and he was like, I need to get changed. I was like, no, no, you're okay, mate. It's fine. It's just water. It'll dry. No, absolutely not. so in the middle of his classroom in front of all of these parents he gets naked legend completely takes off everything and i'm like okay i don't want to shame him because he's naked because we come from that no i got there and he started taking off his clothes so i was like oh okay mate um but i don't want to shame him because i come from a naturist family i was like there's nothing wrong with being naked well there isn't a kindergarten yeah crowded i mean

so he's like naked i'm like come on mate i didn't want to be like you gotta wear clothes i was like it's cold so you know you should put clothes on uh so he ends up running around the whole daycare waving to everyone and like doing a shimmy dance he's just started doing a body roll he's like look what my stomach can do he's like magic mike and i was like honestly i don't know where he gets it from like when this isn't out what we do at home andrew's a performer when you're naked you got the eyes on, you perform. You deliver for that audience. I don't know. But I did manage to get clothes on him eventually.

But you know what parents are like? Bit of a side eye going round. I was like, he's okay. He's okay. You're now the mum with the nude child. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I don't know what it is about New Zealanders, but we all seem to love it when people from overseas

talk favourably about our country. Or just mention us. Your ears prick up and you're like, oh it is about New Zealanders, but we all seem to love it when people from overseas talk favorably about our country. Or just mention us. Your ears prick up and you're like, oh, they say New Zealand. I always wonder if it's general New Zealand or just us in the media. Oh, maybe it is. The media certainly froth it.

We did. Do you see on the chase, everyone's always like, I want to go to New Zealand. Yeah, New Zealand, we live there. Ah, that's us. I want to hear more of that British accent. I don't know where I was from.

But yeah, so now and again, I listen to hear more of that British accent I don't know where I was from but yeah so now and again I listen to a little bit geeky I listen to some basketball podcasts but there was a guy that I listened to from time to time

and he did a podcast not about basketball but about coming to New Zealand over Christmas time whole podcast and it's like his day to day of every place he went to and I was like

oh this will be fascinating and firstly he was like I love the place I'm like yes yes so he goes through actually all the observations i'm like yes yes yes uh yeah so he goes through actually all the observations i'm about halfway through really interesting as he's traveling he's in auckland and queenstown and waheke island a little ropey on the pronunciation

every now and again of you know some places but you know he talks about learning about how people from the south island call aucklanders jaffas that's something he learned everyone's got a mullet he's got got the haircut of a mullet. These are some of his observations. But obviously he's trying. It's a lot to take in when you go to a country to learn stuff like that because there's so many local colloquialisms. And he was saying that the New Zealand accent, which we know,

we speak quite fast, and he was saying he has a lot of struggles having conversations with people as he goes. Even though we're speaking English, this guy Ryan Rossello, he's like he couldn't quite get a lot of the time what people were saying. And he had a conversation with someone. He went to the Breakers basketball game because he's a basketball podcaster.

Went along, loved the Breakers. He said it was really cool. So it was really cool to see someone that goes to the NBA game, see how cool it was to go to a Breakers game. But he had a conversation about New Zealand's most popular sports with a random guy at the Breakers.

And this is the conversation. Have a listen. So back to this other New Zealand's most popular sports with a random guy at the breakers. And this is the conversation. Have a listen. So back to this other New Zealand dude said, hey, like how popular is basketball now in New Zealand? Well, you know, basketball, we don't have it at the club level. He goes, what's really, it's really popular is Nick Ball.

I was like, what? I thought he said Dick Ball. What sport? He's like, Nick Ball. I went, he sounds like he's saying dickball i'm like there's no way there's a sport named dickball like we would have made fun of dickball the sport at some point in my life i would have been aware of a sport called dickball and would have made fun and i was like just say it one more time he's like nickball and then i was like maybe he's saying

nickball it turned out it's netball you guys heard go. You learn about, yeah. Dick ball's a great name for a sport, though, isn't it? I don't know what that would entail. The rules. Yeah. But it's funny, you know, like just the New Zealand accent, how it comes across. Kind of makes it sound a little bit Australian, a little bit. Yeah, netball.

Netball. Netball, yeah. But he learns about a sport called netball. Because I guess it's not everywhere. It's quite a Commonwealth sport, isn't it, netball? Every time we go to the States you know visit family or work

I always find when you order a coffee and you say your name it's a weird thing especially yours bin bin and they write your name

on a cup I've had bin and then I over pronounce it and they get Dean or N or Bean Bean and I'm like

oh Bean's interesting so then logically surely the person behind the counter's like no one's calling their son bean. Surely. That's a Mr. Bean as well. But you politely pick up the cup every time.

The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Of course, it's the leap year this week, this year. So it'll be cool to talk to someone, actually. 4487 on the text. If you have a birthday on the leap year. And what do you do the other three years? You don't have it.

Isn't that the one day where women are allowed allowed to propose to men i mean you do it whenever you want but no no that's the one day we stick with tradition now megan you mentioned this yesterday uh how you put on a something very interesting on your face a face mask it was a sheet mask and i don't know why i put them on a million times but I looked at the ingredients on the back and it literally said snail secretion and you're like how the hell did we end up here? You actually researched it afterwards. I was like how are they getting the

slime and I was worried that they were killing snails but apparently they put them in a dark room they get a bunch of snails and they crawl over mesh and they collect it and then they put them out to graze free range snails-range snails? Free-range. So no snails were harmed, supposedly.

Do you know the history of it? It's ancient Greek times. Is it? Hippocrates was the father of medicine. I don't know if he was a hypocrite at the same time, but he discovered that snail farmers had beautifully smooth hands. Really? So added one plus one, rubbed some snails on some faces,

and that's when you get that, the snail gunk. I don't know if they're fancy snails or whether you could get one from the garden and let it crawl over your face. I don't know. I feel like you're risking a few things potentially. I don't know. I don't know. Some health risks there.

The skin looks great, though. Thank you. It looks flawless. I could do with a family load of snails crawling over whatever this is on my face. So I went under the hits 4487 and we wanted to know this morning

the strangest most unusual thing you've had on your face like that. I can say it wasn't unusual but I remember falling asleep

when my kids were little and falling asleep in the lounge and I didn't realise they'd put make-up on me and I walked to the dairy afterwards and had a very interesting

conversation with the dairy guy. He was like, oh. As I had smudged lipstick and sort of eyeliner and all sorts of stuff. Yeah, so that's probably the weirdest thing I've had on my face. And it was just makeup. I thought you were going to say something grim when you woke up. Because my cousin woke up. She lives in Australia.

She had a, what are those spiders there? Oh, like the huntsman or whatever it is? Sleeping on her face. Oh my goodness. Alright, so 800 the hits 4487. You put a tarantula on my face before? That's right. That's what friends do. It was tied into Spider-Man, didn't it? Yeah, that's right.

There was multiple tarantulas. That's right. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Megan put snails secretion on her face, which was part of a facial mask that you were doing. Yeah, and it smelled okay. Yeah, it seemed to do a good job, right?

We want to know the strangest thing that you've ever had on your face. Never seen a wrinkly snail, have you? No. All the snails you've looked at in life, have any of them looked like they've aged poorly? All snails are very youthful. Did kids ever play that game Cake Splat or Pie Face or whatever it was? Oh, yeah, yeah.

And you put your face up to the circle and then at one point you push the button and at some stage a little plastic hand flings back. It's like a comical version of Russian roulette. Yeah. With less casualties. Like cream pie to the face. Were you about to say the cream pie felt nice on your face? No, well, you put the cream in when you first play it, which is fine.

You get your face and it's hilarious. But when it seeps into your pores. Oh, the air. The dairy of it. The dairy smell later. We had to move to shaving cream later because I was like, oh, this all day you'll be like, I smell it off milk. Apparently when we, because we have such high dairy intake when

here in New Zealand, when we go overseas to some cultures, we smell like cheese and milk. Well, if it tasted as good, then, you know, like, no wonder. What's that smell of rotten cheese? It's a New Zealander. Yeah, so 0800, what have you had on your face? Ty, good morning.

Good morning. Good morning. How are you? Okay, thank you. Now, what have you had on your face? Something took place at Rainbow's End. What was happening? Yes, so we were on the stratosphere.

Oh, the stratosphere. Yeah, we've been on that. Yeah, that's the one that goes fully round upside down. It's a wild ride, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I felt something wet on my face, and I thought it was raining. Oh, no. Uh-oh.

Yeah, I went to wipe it off, and it was raining. Oh, no. Uh-oh. I went to wipe it off and it was slimy. It was slimy? It was slimy. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Yeah, I looked over and it was just the person next to me and he threw up. Oh, something.

He threw up. Oh, no. Listen, we have, as Ben mentioned, been on that. And boy, oh, boy, that's a ride and a half. It's fun. It's really fun. But they made us do. And boy, oh boy, that's a ride and a half. It's fun. It's really fun. But they made us do it multiple times for TV. So that was a problem.

We did it 12 times, I think, in a row. Did you throw up? No, but I felt like I had brain damage. It's probably responsible for a lot of what I do now, a lot of actions I do now. But Ty, so you then had to wipe the other person's vomit off your face. Yes. It was just my brother, so. Oh, it was family.

It was family, not too bad. It's not, okay. Family vomit. Yeah, it's okay. Yeah, it's fine. A lot of your DNA's in there. Yeah, yeah. DNA.

Hey, good on you, Ty. Have a good one. Thank you. It actually reminded me, talking to Ty, that in the middle of the night, my dog, Milo, when he needs to go outside and tend to nature, he is no other way of waking me up apart from just lying on my face.

Oh really? So waking up with a face load of fur, I feel like he's on the way to suffocating me at some point. That's your punishment if you don't wake up.