Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: Why was Megan late to work?!

Episode Date: February 27, 2024

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The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. Megan Puppers, as you would have heard before, not currently with us at the moment. I'm guessing the alarm didn't go off, I'm guessing. I hope she's all good. Yeah, if she's not, this is going to be awkward radio, because we're going to call her now. We'll text her a couple of times. Nothing. Radio silence, as they say in the industry.

I don't think anyone would have noticed when we did the news before. First time us doing the news. But I think it went fine. The audio played. I don't even think you need to put the word first time us doing the news there. People gathered it was our first time doing the news just by the quality of the news. But if we can go through, Grace, to Megan here. Hopefully she'll answer.

Hi. We're waiting for the news, mate. Hey, yeah. What's the news? Leading the news, your alarm didn't go off. Is that what's leading the news? Very funny. I've, like, just woken up.

Oh, yeah. You're like me. You know the show starts at six, eh? just woken up. Oh, yeah. You're like me. You know the show starts at six, eh? What's happening in the weather, Megan? It's going to be mainly fine. How's your outlook? Probably a little frosty, a little upset that the alarm didn't go off? Yeah.

You probably feel a bit rattled. That's always the thing. When the alarm doesn't go off, you feel rattled. You feel behind the eight ball, you know? Oh, my God. Do I have time to put my makeup on? Take your time. Put your wall paint on, mate.

It's all good. Take your time. We don't want to see you without makeup. I know. That's the thing. Take your time. Don't stress, but do stress a little bit. Yeah, that's right.

You're rather late. But that's okay. Don't stress. We'll see you at some That's right You're rather late But that's okay Don't stress Yeah we'll see you at some stage Drive safe It's fine The show finishes at nine So if you're here before then

That would be ideal Yeah that's great But yeah no rush It's all good See you soon That's Megan Pappas Oh there we go It's always one of those things

It rattles you It does It's heaven to everyone And it's just radio It's not trying to catch a flight Or anything You know It's a fun job And we really You know But it's just radio. It's not trying to catch a flight or anything. It's a fun job.

But it's... The worst is too because you look at your clock and then you go through the stages of grief, don't you? Denial at first. A bit of anger at yourself. Then you try and figure out who you can blame for why the alarm didn't go off.

Then eventually you have to realise, this is all on me. I've got no defence here. Hey, next, Grace, who does a wonderful job of pushing the buttons here and a wonderful job of turning up to work on time. Yeah, that's what we love about you, Grace.

You're always here on time. Just here, doing your job. The basics of your job. Even after last night, you went to a concert, Grace. Yes, I did. Jonas Brothers, huge concert. And we're going to talk to Grace because she's here and, you went to a concert, Grace. Yes, I did. Jonas Brothers. Huge concert. And we're going to talk to Grace because she's here.

And she's here to tell us about it. And we'll talk to her next. The Hits. The Jono and Ben Podcast. To produce a Grace's review of the Jonas Brothers in just a moment. But we just wanted to check in with Megan. Yeah, we're tracking Megan's arrival to the radio show. This is more hotly followed than Taylor Swift's private jet.

Remember when she was jetting from Japan to the Super Bowl? Oh, yeah, people were tracking it, right? Where was she? And then it left to pick up Travis. So this is what we're trying to work out right now. Hopefully she's got clothes on and is out the door. Would you be picking out the door by now? I think I reckon she'll frantic rush,

cutting a lot of corners in the house. I reckon going about 145 down the motorway. How fast are you going in the motorway right now? 80. Oh, okay. Good, good. Good, responsible answer. Are you wearing, like, some form of clothing?

I mean, what's going on? Are we getting dressed like kind of Mr. Bean did in his red, oh, so his yellow mini? Luckily, I put my clothes out last night. Otherwise, I'd be wearing my pyjamas 100% So when you put your clothes out Did you also think that you might want to set your alarm? No I thought I might have it at 8 hours actually

Oh how's it feel? How's it feel to get that little bit of extra sleep? Rested Rested yeah I feel rested but a little bit shaky from the adrenaline Yeah You keep coming on Also there's so much traffic.

Where is everyone going at 6am? Funny, they're going to a place called work. Very congested. Why aren't they in bed? All right, well, we'll see you. How long do you reckon? It says about eight minutes. Oh, okay.

That keeps extending. Yeah, but you have not been going 80km an hour. Definitely not. Eight minutes away. We'll see you soon, alright? Now, of course, we mentioned before the Jonas Brothers last night. Producer Grace, you're a huge Jonas Brothers fan. How was it?

It was, honestly, it was terrific. It was amazing. You've got a big smile on your face. I'm running on four hours of sleep, but, you know, I made it to work. Well, you made it to work. That's the main thing. That's what we keep saying, even with the Jonas Brothers concert. So I heard it was, I'm not saying this in a bad way, but a long concert, comprehensive, like that goes for over three hours. Yeah, it was five albums, but they did do like little clips,

little bits of bit songs. Oh, montages. Yeah, yeah, but five albums. It was their era's tour. Yeah. Yeah, that's what everyone was saying. It's their era's. So Paige, New Zealand artist Paige,

now she kind of went on a bit of a campaign. We talked to her on the radio about trying to sing with the Jonas Brothers and it happened. It did. How was she? She was amazing. As soon as the crowd knew that she was coming on,

we were just screaming. We were so happy for her and she was amazing. Well, she's going to join us on the show later on this morning as well. Hopefully she'll turn up. I don't know. I love this.

This is going to be constant digs all morning from us two. Megan doesn't know what a little gem she's given us by sleeping in this morning. So out of 10, out of 10 graces, how graceful would you say the concert was? Probably 11 graces. Oh, wow. Terrific. They're rock stars. They were actually rock stars.

You see, they're a lot shorter in real life. Yeah, because I was near the barricade, so they'd walk past us. they're rock stars they were actually rock stars you see a lot a lot shorter in real life yeah because i was near the barricade so they'd walk past us and when nick jonas walked past i was like wait a minute because i'm short and he was just a bit taller than me i got to see him from like a meter away i was lucky enough to do these interviews for the tv show where they fly you somewhere and then there's a whole lot of stars there for one or two days and they just go through for different movies and he was one of the movie stars that was there but i wasn't meant to talk to him but just before i was talking to some american guy and the and one of the organizers like to the american guy you're up next for the

nick jonas interview he's like i didn't know about this and they're like well you're up next and so off he went and then i went to the guy can i get a surprise nick jonas interview the guy's like no i was like how come he got one he didn't know about it so yeah so that's how close I got but I saw him walk past short? I didn't think he was overly short but I was sitting down so maybe yeah

yeah so he's about your height then yeah maybe that's right the hits the Jono and Ben podcast oh Ben oh look who it is

well well well well well Megan Louise Pappas morning team lovely of you to join us this morning. I feel well rested. 6.23 the time. Oh, that's...

We normally get to work, I don't know. 23. It's only 23 minutes past six. You did pretty well, actually. Yeah. For someone who was probably asleep like 23 minutes ago. We phoned Megan and woke her up at six o'clock saying, Hey, man, where are you?

The news? We're waiting for the news. Just sitting here. And, jeez, 23 minutes later, dressed, bit of foundy on, bit of lippy. It's rough. Looking good. I did the lippy in the car. I did a bit of it in the car.

I did nearly rear-end someone. You said you travel to 80 k's per hour. I would love to question the, really the consistency of that speed throughout your journey. Yeah, but you're here now. Yeah, no, I definitely did 80 the whole way. Well, don't worry, just take your time.

I mean, yeah, and then I had the radio on and I heard all the jabs on the way. Did you hear the odd news? We're the first time doing the news. Yeah, do you know, what do you call that person who runs a class at university? Starts with P? The professor. Yeah, you were fine. Ben, how do you know what do you call that person who runs a class at university starts with P the professor? Yeah, you find breed been how do you say? Was rough but it got done

So worried about the little audio bits play, but I know that as well If anyone should be throwing stones He would be same well so that was that listen if anyone should be throwing stones right he wouldn't be saying poe wessa yeah if you were here exactly next to no time to know i was going but anyway that's fine we've got some use to you but yeah it's good to have you here lovely to love you in fact let's open up the phone shall we oh 800 the hits four four eight seven on the text whenever you slept in whenever you slept in what did you miss did you miss weddings Did you miss weddings?

Did you miss funerals? We used to do it like, shockingly, as a family growing up, we used to try and catch the bus to school and it was like a 20 minute drive. Mum would take us. We kept missing the bus

and mum's like, tomorrow it's not going to happen. I'm going to wake you all up. We're going to get up early. And so I was waiting. So she woke us up, woke my sister up. We were all sitting around having breakfast

and we're like, man, it's dark. It's real dark. And then someone finally sitting around having breakfast and we're like man it's dark it's real dark and then someone finally looked at the clock and it was like 2.30 in the morning I don't know what mum had done mum had got horribly wrong I'm like mum did you end up missing the bus I did miss it

I think we cut it really fine to get to the bus the hits the Jono and Ben podcast it's approaching the end of February. Normally this would be the last day but of course tomorrow is a leap

or this year is a leap. Yes, so tomorrow is the 29th of February. Something we like to do every week is read out our mundane text in a sexy fashion. This is sexy texties

and we've come to realise you can make anything sexy particularly at four minutes to seven on a Wednesday morning. You've scrolled through your week's worth of texts. So many sexy texts I've been sending back and forth.

It's very confronting when you scroll back through your texts and you're like, oh wow this is my life. Wow. A lot of stuff that just needs to be done too. You also say, hey I'm just popping over here, do you need anything? A of admin stuff yeah yeah this is what life becomes yeah well this this is really a good home truth i think for all of us this one will hit home for all of for you guys

as well so this is a text from my wife amanda yesterday she said chelsea i started to um sexy voice yeah chelsea handler is coming to New Zealand. And I replied, we just talked to her on our radio show. And she replied. Did you do that in a sexy fashion? I said, we just talked to her on our radio show. And she replied, oh. Yeah, there, see you guys. Nice to know you're listening.

Great, she's listening to the show. She's across all the stuff. Just the O-H. Yeah. That was it. So yeah, we did have Chelsea Handler on the show yesterday. Didn't even warrant the text there. Two letters. No, That was it. So, yeah, we did have Chelsea Allen on the show yesterday. Didn't even warrant the text there, did it? Two letters.

No, it was just like, oh. She wasn't like, how did it go? Was she nice? No. Oh, okay. There you go. All right, this is me and my husband, Andrew. I put the washing on, so that'll be done when you get home.

I had to wash IA's sheets. Everything was wet. Thanks, babe. Damn, must have been that extra bottle. Oh, wet with urine. Yeah. Yeah, she peed the bed. Yeah.

Well, that's definitely not that sexy a text, but you made it sound sexy. Yeah. This is from me to Jennifer, my wife. She's going to go to the dump, get rid of the old guttering. There's black gunk starting to seep out of it. She said, gross. And I know that actually means hot. And then I said, the gunk's even dripping on the driveway.

And then I also threw this out there. The toilet also needs cleaning. She came back with, I know. So now we've reached a sail mate on who's going to clean the toilet. Instead of telling me you could have just done it yourself. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast.

You're just telling me that Taylor Swift's dad punched a paparazzi in Australia. Yeah well that's what the paparazzi's claiming. Punched him in the face as he was trying to defend his daughter. Oh so it was quite a full on situation. I'm trying to find a video. It doesn so it was quite a full-on situation. So, yeah, they're... I'm trying to find a video. It doesn't have to be for a punch in the face.

Yeah, he was trying to get all aggressive and get a photo. You know what they're like. And he made a swift exit after the punch in the face. It's all going well, hopefully. He looks like a sweet gentleman. He just looks like everybody's dad. He looks like a teddy bear. A lovely man.

They're the ones you've got to watch out for, though. They'll punch you in the face if you take a photo. Now, the one New Zealand Warriors can't wait for this back on the field. And we want to find the fan, the fan who's the most super passionate and dedicated to the Warriors team. If you can prove it, you can win two season passes and a signed Warriors jersey. And there are so many dedicated fans.

And had some lovely stories come through. We had a meeting with Craig, our Australian consultant yesterday. He's like, loving hearing all the Warriors fans. That's great, hey. He won't be loving it when the Warriors win the NRL this year, will he? That's right. Being Australian. But yeah, some wonderful stories.

And then what they mean to so many people across the country. And the dedication from some people. We spoke to Maddy. Her dad bought a house next to Go Media Stadium. Just so he was closer to the Warriors Warriors home ground. I love it. Which is a huge commitment. Now, Anel, welcome to the show. How are you? Good. How are you? We're good. Are we saying your

name correctly? Anel, yeah. Oh, beautiful. Now, Anel, you've got not one but two Warriors tattoos. I do. I do. So you've got the logo. That was how what, 13 years ago? Yeah, I got the logo 13 years ago for my 18th birthday. And then I got that amazing saying, Up the Waz, tattooed on me last year.

Where did you get the Up the Waz tattoo, if you don't mind me asking? It's just above my wrist, on my arm. Because my friend's trying to get me, if they win, to get Up the Waz across my knuckles. Because it fits perfectly. That's what they're trying to say. If they win the premiership da waz across my knuckles because it fits perfectly. That's what they try to say if they win the premiership. Would you get it? I'm like, oh, that's quite funny. It's quite a commitment.

It's funny. You don't scream knuckle tattoos. No, I don't. But that's probably why it's funny. It's usually up da waz. Yeah, but how funny is it going to be? Da waz. Because it couldn't fit da.

So anyway, you've done it at your wrist. That's more sensible. Not that we need to focus on the negative, but 13 years ago when you got the tattoo, geez, you would have been through the rollercoaster of emotions with the team. Had there been moments where you're like, why did I get this tattoo? No, everyone always said to me it was going to be a hard one to cover up,

but they're just my everything, so it's never bothered me. I know that there are downs, but there are such massive highs like last year. So it's never been an issue for me. It's always been my favorite titter and I'm very proud of it. You haven't missed a game. No, no, I never miss a game.

Never miss a game. I went to a lot of games last year by myself. My son is still a little bit young and struggles to sit still. I have mates that come with me and stuff like that definitely, but I don't

like to miss the games. So a lot of the games I did actually have to go to by myself, which is absolutely fine. Good on you for going along. You've said here in your message that you're a favourite team in the entire world and Go Media Stadium is your happiest place, which is really fine. Good on you for going along. You've said here in your message that you're a favourite team in the entire world and Go Media Stadium is your happiest place, which is really cool to hear. Yeah, yeah.

I am the happiest I have ever been when I am there. It is just, yeah, makes me so happy being there. The boys make me so happy. Yeah, they're definitely my biggest love in life. What do you think it is? Sorry, Megan, you go. I was just going to say, do you have a favourite player? Because obviously over the years they come and go,

but do you have someone at the moment who is your favourite? I love the team as a whole in general. Obviously there are players that kind of stand out, like Dallin Martini's Zalizniak stood out last year so he he was pretty incredible obviously everyone loves Sean Johnson um Chance um Adam she got to name the whole team yeah I could literally go on and on and on yeah I don't want to leave anyone out you're like no I love them all equally yeah it's so cool that's why you said I just love the team this year I went on some players.

You're like, well, there's a whole squad. You're going to get through the whole 30 players. All right, well, we're going to give you a double pass to go along to one of the One New Zealand Warriors home games. And you're in the draw for the two season passes and that signed Warriors jersey. And you sound pretty deserving. So all the very best.

Thank you. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, as a dad I enjoy making You know making bad jokes The bad jokes go to dad jokes As soon as you become a dad So it's quite a good thing

And I enjoy the You know getting the From your kids Or an eye roll Or something like that You know just And it's quite fun You know like

Not getting a huge reaction Particularly the older they get Up until now in his career Bad jokes have just ended in Sketchy reviews In newspapers From critics Now the critics are the kids Yeah they'll give you particularly the older they get. Up until now in his career, bad jokes have just ended in sketchy reviews in newspapers from critics. Now the critics are the kids. Yeah, they'll give you a laugh

or an eye roll as they get older. But now one of my daughters, Indy, has now said something and it cuts me deep actually. She just looks at me and goes, what a knee slapper. That's all she says. I don't know what it is about it now.

It just really gets me. It really cuts me down. Is she doing a deadpan as well? Yeah just deadpan Not slapping her knee Or laughing She's meaning the opposite Yeah I'm just like oh

It's the equivalent of when you did say something a while back And people would say oh cool story bro When you're in the middle of something And that makes you just go oh You lose a lot of confidence in your story then don't you? Even if you were Martin Luther King Saying his big iconic I Have a Dream speech and some Kiwi yelled out, cool story, bro, he would have gone, oh, I don't know.

You know, you would have lost confidence. You've gone from getting a token to what a knee slapper. What a knee slapper. What was the joke? I can't even remember it, but it just keeps popping up from time to time. You'll just say something and you'll be like, that's good. And then you'll just go, oh, what a knee slapper really does cut you down she's my spirit animal really gets here as well she always used to give me the best burn she actually she ever gave me was

a few years after the you know not long after the tv show ended uh we were walking the dog in the park and she was quite young at the time and someone came up and said excuse me can i get a photo of the dog because we've got a cute big fluffy dog i'm like yeah it's fine and so i held the dog lisa i tried to get out of the photo because obviously just a bit still holding the lead and you know and the lady took a photo with the dog and it's fine and indy just looked at me she must have been about five or six at the time and she goes put my put her hand on my shoulder and go remember when people used to get photos with you, Dad? Oh, wow. Yeah. And it's the unintentional ones that really do, yeah.

Oh, yeah. Thanks for that. I sit with you. Cried a little inside. So there we go. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Because tomorrow is a leap year and then that is the end of summer. Autumn kicks in on Friday.

You can feel it. It's not a feeling. You can see it getting darker at night. Can't you? Earlier. That's depressing. Yeah, I looked out last feeling. You can see it getting darker at night, can't you? Earlier. Yeah, that's depressing. Yeah, I looked at it last night, 8 o'clock. I was like, what the hell?

Well, remember I gave you an update. It's less than six weeks now until Daylight Savings. Oh, you love a Daylight Savings countdown, don't you? Oh, count you down. And we have started a long runway six weeks out. We will be committing to that. Every time, too. I'm like, is it forward, back? What is it? You know, like, every time I have that conversation. We're going back to the first one time too, I'm like, is it forward, back? What is it?

Every time I have that conversation. We're going back to the first one, right? Yeah, fall back. Now, I want to know, am I a bad parent? And the question I'm going to ask you is, am I a bad parent for swearing in front of my children? Because I have done so since the day they were born. They came out and I went, holy.

And from that day forward, it's just been a consistent, like Megan's Daylight Savings Countdown. Does that make you a terrible parent? I think people would be mixed on that one. You know, there's a lot of kids that do grow up around people that do use language, and I think a lot of kids understand the difference when to use it and the occasions when to use it. And this is the thing, it's kind of like, you know,

if you lay it on them like a tornado of blasphemy, they become numb to it. I do notice that whenever I bring in, you know, one of my kids will come into work that I feel that other people will use the language and then they'll go, oh, oh, you know, realizing how much they probably, like, will say bad words around the workplace. Yeah. Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Yeah, it's like the very colourful language, it's like the Razine colour chart of language in the radio studio, isn't it? Off-air. Off-air. Off-air, yeah. And then everyone immediately apologises for it, and just some of the words we say. Well, do you find that your kids, they're older than mine,

but do you find that they're using them casually in conversation, or do they know the difference? No, they do know the difference. And the reason where it just came to my attention last night is Poppy was watching something on YouTube and there was a bad word. And I was like, turn that off. I will not have you listening to that language. And so she clapped back with, do you realize how you speak? I have spoken since the day I was born.

And I was like, damn it. We're of an ancient age. We're debating. This is what you're going to look forward to, debating. and have spoken since the day I was born. And I was like, damn it, we've reached an age where debating, this is what you've got to look forward to, debating, where for many years you just get away with saying, because I said so. I know. And that worked for, jeez, a good 10 years. But now they're debating back, making rock solid points.

She'd be proud of her, that's her. She's got some brains in there. Stomping dad. I didn't have children so i would end up having to explain myself i had children so i could bully little human beings around and get them to do stuff i didn't want to do that's all the reason we have kids so you have to defend yourself it turns like you say yeah you know and it's it's it turns pretty quickly doesn't it yeah they become smarter than you they know stuff they get out of google things

they know all those sorts of things. You can't just say something and then they'll come back and they'll go, oh, no, I've just looked that up. That's totally wrong. You're like, damn it. Tell you what, Megan, you've been my hero for a very long time. I thought you were going to say, what's it like working with your heroes? I'll let you know when I get there.

Don't just create a bird that I didn't even offer up. There wasn't even any low-hanging fruit to be had there. Don't just create a burn that I didn't even offer up. There wasn't even any low hanging fruit to be had there. Sorry. You've just created a fictitious situation and you're dealing with one at the moment about complaining. Yeah, so my husband, he's very forthcoming when he's

not happy with something. So like he's the person when he's at a cafe or whatever he will tell them when they come over and they're like, is everything okay? He will say, oh, this isn't quite right. He'll complain. We used to own a cafe.

So we always find it quite helpful if you're honest and you say you're not happy with something. Right. Rather than writing a nasty Google review or something. Yeah, Kiwis generally don't say anything. They're like, it's great, it's great. And then you're right. And then sometimes people go to the lengths of writing a review

and go, it was awful. We'll just say it in the moment. I guess if you've got a complaint or don't say anything. But it does make you want to like crawl into a hole and die when someone else is doing it. Does he do it with a smile? Does he deliver? Oh, he's so nice about it.

Oh, okay. So nice about it. But still you're like, dear God, don't say anything. Yeah. I was like, just leave it. Just leave it. It's fine. Not full Karen, but.

No, half Karen. Now. Kazza. At home. it's fine um not full karen but no half karen uh now at home we've got a packet of wraps just like what do you call them tortilla yeah um and they've gone moldy before the best before date quite a bit before um and so he's up in arms about it. And he's like, well, we paid for them and they're moldy. And I was like, we can literally just scrape it off. Let's just scrape it off. Who cares? And he was like, well, no, you should tell them. There might be something.

Last time we complained about some bacon, we rang the company and there was a problem with their machine. So we'd gotten bacon that was really skinny. And when you cooked it, it all broke up. Did you complain about that? He did. Your skinny bacon. They got back to us and said, thank you, the machine was set wrong and it was

cutting all the bacon too fine. And he was like, see? Did you bring home the bacon then? Get some free bacon? We did get free bacon. This is the thing, because when you complain about stuff, they're just like, oh God, how do I get rid of this pain in the ass? Have 12 months worth of bacon. And he likes to think he's a hero, you know,

by telling them something they've learnt about a fault. And I was like, well, I don't know what the fault is. The rap went mouldy. I'm sure there's a lot in the delivery too, isn't there? Yeah. So he's wanting you to do the complaining. Yeah. I don't know if this is some weird lesson he's trying to teach me,

but he's like, here's the number you need to call. Oh, phone number. I don't want to call them and tell them that their raps are moldy. I'll just sound like a Karen. Why don't we do it on the radio? See how you do it. Oh, no. Yeah, we might do that after the show.

We'll do it after 9 o'clock. Yeah, we'll call them. We'll play the results tomorrow. Yeah. It's not a fun, you know, because they're just going to go, oh, yeah, thanks. I'm sorry to hear about that. But sometimes you do get free. They'll send you a voucher or they'll send you some wraps or whatever.

But, I mean, do I want to go to the effort to get some free wraps? I don't complain. But the only time that I ever have, when my sister and I were very young, we got some chocolate bars and we came in like a 12-pack. Mum used to occasionally put our lunches. And one came with a wrapper, nothing inside. And Mum's like, you should write in. And so we did. And then they sent us back like a box and we're like this is the greatest thing ever and so the next time we wrote it again going this and made up the complaint and they replied

back go maybe you should maybe not buy our products if you've got like two complaints in a row it was basically they called our bluff they knew that we were writing back for more chocolate. Well, my ex-husband complained about a chocolate that was double wrapped with foil. He told them it made it more difficult for him to get to his chocolate. Did he get more chocolate? He did get more chocolate, but he lost his wife. Why we got divorced. Did you complain about the same thing twice?

Did you go, oh, there was another thing with no chocolate? Yeah. You're just trying your luck. We definitely were. Are we really here? The. Yeah, I think we might, yeah. They'll be like, mate. You're just trying your luck. No, we definitely were. Are we really here? Yeah. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Complaining.

What have you got out of complaining? Being a full-blown Karen, Megan, on teetering on the edge of complaining about some mouldy raps she's received. Yeah. I don't want to, but, you know, they're mouldy before the best before date, and I paid for them. Do you know, I used to work, when I first started in radio, it was like a sort of a department that would send out calendars from a talkback radio station. And there is no more complaining demographic than the over 80-year-old handing over a credit card.

And they would naively hand over their credit card details over the phone to me, expiry date and all. And so, without a word of a lie, I would take, say, a lady's order in the morning. She had ordered her Radio Pacific calendar. I got her credit card details. She would phone me that afternoon and go, where's the calendar? She's waiting. I was like, mate, you've just spoken to me this morning, Deirdre. And then sometimes I'd be like, oh. And I'd just process another calendar.

And then they would phone up and complain and go, you've sent me two calendars. What do you want me to do with two calendars? She just wanted to have a yarn with you. Two calendars don't miss any important events. That's what I want you to do. All right. What have you complained about and got free stuff from? We'll go to Ranga.

Welcome. How are you? Hi. Hi, guys. Lovely to have you on. What was it you complained about? I went to a particular supermarket and I bought myself a packet of generic brand wraps. And when I opened them the following day, there was a huge whiff of vinegar that just popped out and hit me.

And then when I inspected the wraps, I did notice a little bit of a moldy circle on the first few ones. Here we go. Because times are tough now. Before, I would have just let it go. But I've spent a bit of money on this. And I did call up the shop and they said to come in I brought in the wraps and they gave me the option to get another new fresh pack or to get my money back I got my money back because I was a bit not interested in wraps at

that stage sometimes they kind of they they drown you in free products though don't they 24 months of free wraps. I mean, I probably would have liked that option better to be honest. But you'd be a nice complainer. You don't sound like you'd get all nasty. No, I mean, I brought the evidence with me as well, you know. So they were nice enough about it and

just gave me the option. I love those stories that you see in the news. You're like, oh, this gentleman found a cell phone in his burger from the fast food restaurant. You're like, this guy, there was a pair of shoes in my chips. Sometimes people are definitely trying to angle to get free stuff, aren't they? Yeah, we're going to go to Andy.

Did you do the complaining, and what did you get for free, Andy? I didn't do the complaining. I was working at Centre Parcs in the UK and there was a customer that was just complaining about everything and they ended up offering him a free week stay or to come back and stay again. Free holiday? And on work experience at the time I questioned them and said, why are you getting free stuff or a free week back to a customer you don't want to come back rather than reward

the customers that are having fun and you want to get back again. That's a very good point. And what did they say to that? They said, good point, but it's the old story

of one unhappy customer is going to tell all their friends and they just want to keep them happy. They're like, I hear you Andy, I hear you,

but this person's a giant pain in the ass, and we need to get rid of them. It's been a week, too. Appreciate your call this morning. Remember that call we had a couple of years ago here on the Hits radio station? Megan, you weren't here at the time, where a lady was, she may have to be 18, 19 years old. She had been having some time with her boyfriend at her parents' house,

and her mum came home suddenly, and she disposed of something and put it in the dog food. Just got rid home suddenly and she disposed of something and put it in the dog food just got got rid of something afterwards dispose of something with the rubbish bin i don't know it was just in a flat that's the best thing and then her mum found it in the dog food thought it was the dog food company had come from a prank and she like got in touch with them they were mortified so sorry they got a limousine to take them on like this thing they got put up with this amazing experience the whole time we're going they took her out to the factory they're like so we've done an intense investigation we feel like it could have been little stevie here on the production line this poor little guy got blamed for putting a condom in the dog oh my god meanwhile the

daughter's just like didn't say anything they got laid on this amazing experience all thanks to this thing that they found that wasn't even... 12 months worth of dog food? Wow. Yeah, got a lot. Never said anything to her mum. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Kiwi artist Paige is awesome, man.

She went on a bit of a mission. She's big fans of the Jonas Brothers. They're here last night in New Zealand. She wanted to perform with the Jonas Brothers and through a lot

of determination, she finally got them to agree and last night it happened. Here's Paige on stage with the JoBros. How cool is that? Such a special moment. And she joins us right now after probably little to no sleep.

Good morning, Paige. Morning. How are you? We're doing all right. How are you? I mean, last night was the Jonas Brothers feat page in concert in New Zealand. Oh, yeah, it was good, eh? I'm running on like zero

sleep. I bet, I bet. Beforehand, we were messaging and you were nervous, but I feel like you were playing it down. How nervous were you sitting waiting to go on stage with the JoBros? I'll be honest, I don't even remember it.

Oh, really? No, I just don't remember it. I think I was just so, the adrenaline. I just can't remember it. Okay, well thankfully we have audio recordings which might refresh your memory. This is you as you're being brought out on stage by your heroes to sing with them.

Can you remember that bit now? on stage by your heroes to sing with them? Brazil's own page. Can you remember that bit now? Is that bringing back any memories for your page? It's bringing some back. Huge reaction. Huge reaction. I presume that's the crowd screaming, not you screaming after they introduced you on stage. What was it like to be up there and singing with the Jonas Brothers

in front of thousands of people here in Auckland? I guess, honestly, I didn't even think about the people there. I just thought about the three of them and just how exciting it was to look at them and be like, wow. Yeah, I'm still trying to find the words for it. After you've met them now, do you have a favourite brother or do you like their parents and love them all equally? Well, I said my favourite brother on your guys

so last week and I've copped the flack for it. So now I won't say ever again. I've forgotten which one you said actually. I wasn't sure. She's a Kev fan. Did you get to hang out with them much backstage? I mean, we got to meet them

and I gave them greenstones and stuff. Oh, amazing. Yeah, so I'm super grateful. And when you got up on stage with them, you were cracking out the harmonies. It looked like you guys had been performing together forever. Did you do a sound check? No, I did. I ran through the song with the music director and just kind of like,

because I know the song so well, because it's, you know, it's the first song that I learned how to perform. The tour director, the music director was like, just look at Nick. He'll give you a sign. Okay. Okay, I'll just look at Nick Jonas.

Jeez, you went out there and bloody raw dogged it. Wow, that was amazing. Incredible. And everyone was singing along with the song. It was a whole crowd full of people singing along as you're singing. What was that like? Honestly, I really didn't notice anybody except for just like Joe, Nick and Kevin.

Honestly. And did you get full backstage access? Could you nibble on their fresh fruits, their backstage cheese boards? I went and raided their dressing room. That's such a surreal thing I can imagine that happened to you and so cool that it did. I know how hard you worked to make this happen and it would have been pretty cool to be there.

Congratulations and who's next? Who next are you going to pester and try and get up on stage with? Yeah, I don't know. You've got Pink, you've got Coldplay, McNamara, there's a few coming. I think I've done my share of being with my idols. I probably need to do my own thing. All right, you've done enough celebrity harassing for one year. I think so.

You're picking up. Well, congratulations. As Ben said, fantastic stuff. Overwhelming and surreal thing that you got to do. Well done for smashing it too. And and you're in this the greatest moment you you you did not fail you didn't crumble at all it was awesome so well done we're so stoked for you nice nice chatting this morning page oh thank you guys so much