Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: Why Was Jono In The Girls Bathroom...

Episode Date: July 31, 2023

When have you walked in on something bad Ben Boyce, the activities guy We talk to a listener who has given up vaping and smoking! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. How's it going to fit? You're going to the football tonight. I think it's okay up north at the moment, but later in the week. You know, it always seems like it moves on up the country. Yeah, and I think the further it heads up the country and those people up the country start complaining, a.k.a. me, those down the country are like, harden up. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, a.k.a. me. Yeah. Those down the country are, like, hardened up.

Yeah, exactly. Aren't they? Yeah, they're really getting into the neck. Now, yesterday, Ben, we were going to a meeting, actually. We had to drive along the motorway. And I don't know if you noticed the cop with the speed camera gun. Oh, yeah, yeah. He was parked on the side there.

Bloody sneaky buggers, aren't they? Well, that's... Hiding behind, like, a pole. Well, that's kind of, you know, they're there to keep an eye on and make sure people are, you know, hearing to the law. Back in the day,

we had one speed camera in the town. Everyone knew where it was. You drove around about 80, 90 k's and when you hit that, you slowed down. Slow down, you're right. Speed cameras though. Yeah. People would know about it

and then they would go through that face with the vans and stuff parked in the road With the secret cameras in it We've still got a suspicious van Nothing would wind my dad up more than Oh look Are there people in those vans? I don't know

I always thought a good prank would just be putting a blanket or a sheet over the back window I think he'd get into a lot of trouble So he goes The police officer with the speed gun And I saw he got He got someone So he's. But so he goes, the police officer with the speed gun and I saw he got, he got someone. So I see, bang,

he's put the gun down and he's chasing them down the road. Oh, was he chasing them? Yeah, and it was a sweet elderly lady who was probably doing about 121 or 130,

not really knowing where she is and he's behind her, woo, woo, woo, and she has no idea. She's just driving for eight, like, to a point where you're like, is this now officially an OJ Simpson car chase situation? And I'm just wondering, like, is that a good tactic?

Just pretend. Pretend it's not for you. Yeah. Ignore it. And keep driving to the police office like, oh, too much admin. I don't know if that quite works, but I've never tried it. You're right. It is a good feeling when the lights, you sirens come on you pull over and they go past

you're like because you're like sometimes you're like what did i do what did i do immediately panic yeah you're checking everything are the lights on are the indicators on have i put my beer down oh geez oh god the hits the jonathan ben podcast now as a parent You know you want to give all your kids All the things that they need to be Functioning, great members of society To learn all the things that they need to know And send them off into the world right What do you think is the most important?

I think probably being good people Like at the end of the day Being kind and being good people I think is a big thing to be Also clearing internet history Yeah that's also very very important Particularly in my case as well Being kind and being good people, I think, is a big thing to be. Also clearing internet history. Yeah, that's also very, very important, particularly in my case as well. But in the weekend, I was out with, you know, Daddy Day Care was in full effect over the weekend because my wife was away.

So we went out to an Italian place that my daughters like. So we were like, we'll go out for dinner. You would have been running some pretty heavy activities. Oh, mate. How many activities did you have? Brevies, ice skating, you name it, mate. We had a a lot it was a jam-packed weekend because you didn't have amanda there going hey are we doing too many activities he was just all activities all the time but one they went out for dinner as well and while we're having dinner we were doing some activities as

well we were playing a game that's already an activity though you're already doing one playing i bought some cards along with peg uno The three of us are playing Uno. Oh, you play card games. Yeah, we always go out for dinner. You play some stuff on your way for your meal. Yeah, and so I've always got some carry-on. Yeah, my Toy Story backpack. Mate, it's all ready to go. I had some options.

Do you like activities? I could do any activity. Someone's through for activities. And so we started playing this game, and there was a family behind us. And they, too, decided that they were going to play activities but they hadn't brought cards along but we just hear from behind you're not trying to listen to other people's conversation

but you hear one of the young kids going can we play the Capitals game to the death and we're like ooh you're trying to listen but you're not trying to listen we're like what's this? Are you like, because you pride yourself on your activities are you like I'm being out-activated here? Maybe I am.

Maybe this is an activity off. And geez, this family was impressive. A couple of young kids. And so the dad would just pick a country and the kids knew the capitals of all the, I was like, man, it was impressive. And we slowly sort of went, I'm like, are we, us losers playing Uno?

You're like, Uno. While they're like, and naming, you know, Germany, Berlin, Canada, Ottawa. You know, things I'm like, Ottawa? I didn't know're naming, you know, Germany, Berlin, Canada, Ottawa. You know, things I'm like, Ottawa? I didn't know Ottawa was, you know, like things I'm just going, I didn't know all this was. It's also in the capital of Canada.

Well, according to this, yeah. All these sort of things going on as well. This is a smart family. I was like, man, this is a really smart family. So I feel like as a father, maybe I found my kids next morning on our way to another activity. I was like, guys,

we've got to start playing the capital game. Oh, God. Let's start brushing up on our capitals yeah so we can oppress other families i went and had to like judge i don't know why uh due to my lack of talent but i had to judge like a it was like a speech competition and in between they were like we're gonna have a quick interlude with kevin who's going to play the piano. Kevin's like nine years old. It was like listening to bloody Beethoven. And I was saying the thing, I was like, why aren't my kids playing a concert?

Get out there on the keyboard. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I think everyone is curious to know what is in vapes and very worrying, particularly as parents that so many kids are into it. Yeah, there's a cloud of mystery surrounding it, isn't it? And I feel like 21-year-old me would be looking at 41-year-old me going, shut up old man, right

now. But there was genuine concerns around it. I mean, at least with smoking, we kind of knew what was happening. There was kind of some research first though not at first people there were some pioneers of the game some battlers out there yeah putting their lives at risk definitely were yeah um and producer taylor found this really interesting you were uh in your homeland yep uh australia's favorite daughter returned home over the weekend

yes absolutely and what you said was it was just not there yeah so i went out on saturday for the whole day at a pub nightclub whatever it was and i'm now thinking about it it was a murky evening i cannot think of one person that was vaping so you can't buy it over there i think pharmacies right and chemists yeah you need a prescription which i think they're looking to crack down here in new zealand but so if you want it i'm sure you can still find it and get it but it's not like here where you can walk into a shop and actually buy i was shocked first time i came over here and bought a vape i thought i was doing something illegal here yeah not here in new zealand man lawless society someone's texting actually i just recently came back from europe and california basically can't get it over there

everyone thinks it's worse than smoking. Really? Vaping. And let's go to the phones right now. Sam, how are you? Hey, not bad. How are you? Yeah, doing really well. We wanted to know, is anyone listening

who has given up both smoking and vaping? And you've done the double header. I have, yep. What was harder? They were both equally as hard to give up, but I found vaping more addictive. Oh. Yeah, yeah, and having teenage boys myself is definitely a concern. Um, I smoked for quite a number of years. I think the first time I had a natural cigarette was I was about 11. Jeez. Um, I'm 35 now. I've been five years smoke-free and three years vape-free.

I only actually vaped for two years. But in that two years, I didn't put the vape down. Price comparison, so much cheaper. I could smoke in the car, smoke in the house, smoke in bed, smoke anywhere. Yeah, right. Actual cigarettes, I'd be going outside. So it was, you know, harder, I guess, it's cold outside and you don't want to be doing that constantly. Yeah, it is interesting too because you do mention the smoking

and I suppose you would have moments where the little benchmarks through your day, I'll have one with a coffee, I'll have one after lunch, have one driving to work or have one with a drink or whatever at night. Whereas if you've got this device in your pocket, accessible all the time. Yeah, all the time, all the time. And even if you're in, say I was in hospital for a wee bit, and going into the bathroom because you can't go out to have a vape,

you can do that with a cigarette. No. And on the shower and you're good to go. But the price, I think, for me, is the most concerning thing, because, yeah, again, you know, I smoked for so long, it was so expensive, and that's what limited it for me.

But the vaping, I was able to do it so much because it was so cheap and readily available, and right there in your face, wherever you went. You said you've got teenage boys. Does it really worry you? It really does worry me, yes.

They have a lot of friends who do bait. They're quite clued up and they're not interested at the moment. That's good. But it does worry me. So what made you stop and how did you stop? Did you just go cold turkey? Yes. I tried to give up a bit with the raping, which was quite hard,

but then I ended up getting pregnant. And for me, pregnancy, I'm cold turkey the day I find out. Yeah. So I just kind of stuck to that. So it was a little bit easier in that respect. But the urges were there for a lot longer than what it was for cigarettes. Interesting, isn't it? Now, did you find it an easy tool to get off actual cigarettes too? At first, no.

The more I persevered with it, just because it's a bit harsher on the throat, the more I persevered, the more it was a hell of a lot easier. Are you worried about what it could be doing in 10 or 20 years to the lungs, or are you like, oh, well, it's done now? Absolutely, absolutely. My partner smoked, vaped for a lot longer than I did, and the issues with bronchial-type illnesses have been insane, and there's a lot of disgusting things that are happening. Well, good on you for kicking the habit for both smoking and vaping,

and thank you for sharing this morning. Hopefully your story will help out a whole lot of others. Yeah, I hope so, and I really hope that it's a chance for kids from doing it, because honestly, I've seen eight-year-olds. Oh, no, it's wild, isn't it? It's scary. Hey, you have a great day. We appreciate it.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. If you've got a Google account, the latest news coming out, there's thousands of Google accounts potentially will be deleted at the end of the year if you haven't been using them for two years.

So if you've got an account that's sort of been sitting there, you maybe have some log in there. Yeah, you basically need to use it. Use it or lose it, as they say. That's the call. Probably good.

What you don't factor in, and it's to do with climate change and energy usage, is that all of this data and all this information has to sit in giant hard drives somewhere, which need to be powered by, I can only imagine, nuclear power stations or something evil. Or whatever the cloud is. Whatever it is. Who knows? Don't think too hard about the cloud. I don't understand that.

I don't understand that. I don't whatever the cloud whatever it is who knows don't think too hard about the cloud i don't understand that i don't understand i don't trust the cloud uh but that's probably clearing up a lot of disk space for them uh we met someone the other day still running a hotmail yeah still having a hotmail account well yeah and that still works you know it's still it does feel like the internet and we've said it before needs a good spring clean it does it does we've been guilty of putting too much stuff out there ourselves. We've clogged it up. There's a lot of stuff of ours. I'm like, oh, God, get rid of that. You know?

And it's... So then you flick through YouTube and you're like, what's the point? It's cleared out. The internet doesn't need this. It's at a minimum number of views. If you haven't received it after like six months and it hasn't got that, then you're like, sorry, that's not for the internet. That is a very smart play.

And you go, if you want to save it, you can download it, keep it on your computer. You can show people from your computer. But it's not for public consumption. Why doesn't Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg focus on that rather than fighting each other in the UFC ring? Yeah, put some energy to spring cleaning the internet. It's a very good point, though.

What's the worst thing you think you've put on the internet? Oh, jeez, many, many things, many, many skits over the years. I'm trying to think of the worst thing you think you've put on the internet? Oh, geez. Many, many things. Many, many skits over the years. Yeah. I'm trying to think of the worst possible. Probably a lot of our like, when they're like, hey, can you just film something here on the fly? Do you remember like there was a few years back and we did it. It was a terrible sketch.

It was School Terminator was the name of the sketch, which was like a play on the movie The Terminator. We wrote it and it was like a Terminator about the school term and stuff like that. And it was something to do with the teacher's pay at the time. They were still banging on about the pay back then as well. And we wrote the sketch, and I think we lost confidence in it. We were like, we shouldn't film this. And then we got so desperate, we ended up filming it. And we managed to rope in Winston Peters as a little cameo in it, which was great.

That probably elevated the sketch, but the rest of it was terrible we were terrible and we didn't play it for ages because we were like it's not a great sketch, finally we're desperate Let's never let this see the light of day and it was a slow week, wait, one week and we needed something to play. And we played it on tally and we're like, oh good, okay, well I guess we've played it, it's out

there now and we didn't realise there was a by-election and by having Winston Peters in there and what he said, because we'd scripted, it kind of got him into some trouble. It broke the laws of the by-election. And then, the worst possible nightmare, it became a news item. Yeah. And they put this sketch out everywhere.

And I was playing the Terminator, if you remember correctly. The Arnie character. I was the Arnie character. And the big line was, because it was a school thing, the big line because it was school thing the big line you remember the big line i'll be book and we're like oh my god and this sketch got put on news sites around the country of like yeah so that's probably one of the worst things we've done the hits the jonathan ben podcast now ben uh over the weekend i forgot to mention this, I was hosting something for my son's school. It was like a first of 15 luncheon.

How'd you go with the rugby chat? With the rugby chat? Yeah, because you're not a huge rugby fan. Well, yeah. No, you're not. When was the last full game of rugby that you watched from start to finish? Well, listen, that would be at least 10 years ago. Yeah, no, because I had to do a live on-stage interview, too, with rugby players.

Fair to say the rugby chat probably wasn't that great. I won't lie. But then after the event, I found myself in the bathroom, as you do, and boom, in walks a lady. And she's like, oh! And I'm like, oh! I'm caught by surprise as well. I'm just as frightened as her deer in the headlights sort of thing.

She's like, you've walked into the wrong room. Uh-oh. Mm. Uh-oh. And she's right. I had my head down, focused on the ground, wasn't really paying attention to which one I was walking into. And it really takes the females by surprise whether they find it.

Oh, I can imagine. It takes everyone. Well, hopefully it was a genuine, I'm sure it was a genuine mistake. But in the back of their mind, they're probably going, what is this guy, what is this pesky individual doing? This guy barely held a rugby conversation together on stage. And now he's in the woman's bathroom. Makes sense.

But in hindsight, looking around the facilities, if I was focusing, there weren't any sort of stand-up locations or anything. There were alarm bells all through it. There were probably many red flags that I could have taken notice of before walking into there.

And then, so I'm walking, this is happening in the door, the doorway of the entrance. Another gentleman comes out of the correct location. An older gentleman, he's like, something you need to tell us. He chimes in. Oh, really? You're like, mate, no, stay out of this.

We don't need any passersby. Spread like wildfire. Spread like the fires over in Europe at the moment. Oh, jeez. Throughout the event. Have you walked in on anything or anyone? I think, well, I've told you the story. Many years ago, I was studying radio at broadcasting school,

and you could work throughout the night on projects, particularly if you left at the last minute. So I was downstairs in the studio there working on a radio project, waiting for my mate, who I was flating with, to come down and pick me up because we were going home together. Did you fail the radio project? No, I actually passed, but I shouldn't have after this moment because the light flicked off in the hallway

and I thought it was my mate because we're the only ones there playing a little game, turning all the lights in the dark on me. So I was like, I'll get him. I'll wait for him to come around the corner and I'll jump out and give him a fright. And so I did.

And I made a stupid noise. I went, woo, woo, woo, woo, like that, waved my arms around like one of those inflatable people outside a car place. It turned out to be the security guard from the Polytech.

He got a fright. Jeez, he got a fright. Very rattled. What demographic is he? I was probably 40, 50. Yeah. Just in the middle, you know, and it was just like, he grabbed his chest at one stage.

Well, grabbed his heart. He's having a heart moment. I was like, I'm so sorry, and I'm trying to apologize, and he was a bit rattled and didn't know why I'd done this. That's where the love of pranking began. No, that's where it should have stopped, that's for sure. This is what we want to open up this morning. 0800 The Hits.

You can text 4487. What you've walked in on. Have you busted someone doing something they shouldn't have been doing? Maybe you've ended up in the wrong place and someone's walked in on you. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Have you ever walked in on, what's the strangest thing you've walked in on as Jono Pryor got into the wrong bathroom over the weekend? Yeah, not intentional, but then you found yourself in a,

just an everyone bathroom, didn't you, the other day? I did, yeah. Come one, come all. I've been to an everyone bathroom before. I like calling it everyone bathroom in a bar that really throws you because you feel like you're in the wrong place yeah i think there were three door entries into the bathroom but then you all end up in the same location and you're like and everyone's kind of like looking at each other going am i in the wrong or are you in the hey it's all it's all the way of the future so you run all everyone bathrooms yeah it is the way of the future. Everyone bathrooms.

It is the way of the future. But yeah, I did get busted. And you don't know what to say as well. You kind of just sort of make some noises of, you know. Yeah. Yeah. And it ended up spreading right throughout. But the rumour, vicious rumours spread right throughout the function.

But some great texts here coming through. A lot of people not wanting to come on air, understandably. Yeah, no, I've seen that. Lady here, she's like, just two weeks ago, I busted my brother-in-law and his girlfriend bumping uglies on our kitchen bench. Oh, really? They were looking after the house for the weekend

and I popped back to get something. On the kitchen bench, too. Yeah, that's where we cut carrots and stuff. Get the dead old wipes out, guys. Spray some Glen 20 on that one. I bet they don't afterwards. They're not, you know. That's not the first thing you'll do.

Oh, we better dead old wipe this down. Put any jiff. And another great text here, here too from a wedding photographer. A wedding photographer who, again, doesn't want to come on air, walked in on the groom hooking up with one of the bridesmaids. Oh, really? Pre-wedding. Oh, that's an interesting predicament.

Why do these people want to come on the bloody radio? I mean, it's not as fun as me just reading out the text, is it? It's still very scandalous, though, isn't it? Have we got someone on the phone? Have we produced a tailor? Okay, one of them's going to come on the radio Alright Are you the photographer who walked in on the group?

I am And? He was making out with a bridegroom. I've just said that. I said that pretty well. Yeah, so I imagine that's an interesting position for everyone involved in that situation. What did you pretend you didn't see?

I mean, did they know you saw? Well, I pretended like I didn't see. Did you take a photo? Because you're a photographer. You guys want a cheese? I'll put that part of the wedding. Now do a silly one. Break the news to the bride through the photo album.

Yeah, sure. I mean, it's really not your place to say, though, is it? You had no connection to the bride? No. So, yeah, I feel like I had no place to say, but I also feel like she should know. And did you, like, obviously you have to do the official photos afterwards. You must have been feeling a bit sick inside.

Of course. I mean, it's not a good situation. No, not for anyone. What? How does that? I don't know. You said the wedding day was a good one, Ben. Yeah, well, I said the wedding was great.

The photos you took were wonderful, so thank you for that. The marriage is going great guns. Both those relationships go great guns. Oh, thank you so much for your call. Appreciate it. All good. No worries. And you'll like this one, Ben. You'll never guess who I walked in on. Wrestling legend Batista

sitting with Dwayne The Rock Johnson in a restaurant. Really? Wow. What would you do there? Big day. I'd be one of those people where you're just staring. You're just staring and it's so obvious.