Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: You'll be shocked what callers keep in their handbags!

Episode Date: October 9, 2023

Angie Grey talks about her brand new podcast. Jono confesses he is a screen pest. Is it Ben or Bun? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. Ben Boyce, you have returned from your vacation with a cost-saving tip. Word one. Well, there we go. There's some random audio there for you. Thank you very much. That's what I requested there too.

Yeah, so I went to Australia, visited some family, and then we went across to the Gold Coast. And it was great. Australia, we're talking about we're in a cost-saving crisis. We're going to the supermarket and getting some stuff for a few days. It did seem a lot cheaper over there, like fruit and vegetables and stuff like that. We don't need more people going to Australia.

All the teachers and nurses are going over there. Berry strawberries, a couple of bucks if you're buying that. For a punnet, you get back here and it's like, you know, seven, eight dollars, I'm like, jeez, you know. It's a better country.

Yeah. They've got prime drinks. My kids were like, you know, they're excited about the prime, the drinks that the YouTubers have created, the prime drinks.

A great cost-saving tip with that, because we bought some over there, tried some, and then we're like, kids, just use it as your drink bottle

at school. Take it to school and everyone's going to think you're drinking just fill up with you've got like you've got the clout yeah yeah and then you're getting the health on the inside with water or bring it back home and put some raro in it and then sell it off to kids they're not going to know they haven't tried it black market yeah but that's not my cost-saving tip although i did think it's a good thing why don't we. Why don't we start that up? Kids are going to go, oh, that's quite, yeah, it's live. It's live. It's Raro. But hey, you don't know the difference because you never had it.

Great. Scam. That's what I'm thinking. That's one of my cost-saving tips. That's out of the way. Our prime rip-off. Went to the theme parks. Had a lot of fun over there and went to Movie World.

And one of the things that they do when you get off the rides one of the the big rides is they have the the photograph that takes place that happens usually at a bit where you're screaming or you're looking like as you're going down hurtling down a hill in some log flume always a flattering photo till i find you but always funny always funny no matter what it is even if you know it's coming up and someone's pretending to sleep or something like that. That's a great gag. But you always end up with four other randos in your photo. Well, they're ugly faces as well.

Yeah. And so we'd rush off after we did a ride and it would flash up on a screen and you get to look at the screen of your funny face that you're making as you go down the ride. And then, obviously, they want you to purchase that photo. Now here's where the cost-saving tip comes in. And like we said, this is a very specific, there's a cost-of-living crisis, and I couldn't think of anything more important

than scrimping and saving on novelty theme park photos. So what we would do is we would just take a photo of the photo. On the screen. On the screen. So it's on the screen, you take a photo. But they've gone to the trouble now, because obviously a lot of people are thinking that way. They've got big sort of like cameras

with crossed out little graphics all over. No photos. Clearly stipulating, do not take a photo of this. And so... They're all over your photo. What you've come back with is a photo of you in the background, but then a big no camera, no cameras symbol over your face.

It's like I've requested no photos. We've got many of them. We'll just rush up there, take a photo of the no photos. That's good enough for us. What are you doing with those? What are you doing? Put them in an album. We'll do something with it.

If you don't mind, property of movie world splattered across your family's face. Hey, we're saving money. We're at a cost of living crisis. They do get you though, don't mind, property of movie world splattered across your family's face. Hey, we're saving money. We're at a cost of living crisis. They do get you though, don't they, the novelty photos? Particularly when you go to, say, Kelly Tarleton's. Our friend Andy would try and haggle them down because I don't know if they still do it now,

but they would go to the trouble of printing out a whole booklet of you being scared by a giant penguin or a shark. You're in a shark's mouth or something. And Andy will always be like, well, I'll pay you half the price. Yeah, because you're not going to give that away to anyone else. Who else is going to buy this? That is a very good point.

I'd love to think that there is just one person out there who goes around buying just photos of other people. You go, well, that's a better photo than our family. Way better. I'll take that one. They're hotter looking people. I'll take that. Oh, 800 the hits, 4487. We are in the cost of living crisis at the better. I'll take that one. They're hotter looking people. I'll take that. Oh, 800 the hits.

4487. We are in the, you know, cost of living crisis at the moment. Your best cost saving tip. You've probably got a better one than us. And we'd love to hear from you this morning and we'll give you, we've got some tickets to Uproar.

It's a brand new Kiwi movie starring Rhys Darby and Julian Dennison. It's in theatres right now. So we've got some double passes to give away to that. I've got a great one involving copious amounts of white powder. Washing powder, Ben Boyce.

Next, I'll tell you how you can save it. Don't get your hopes up, mate. Not your stuff you're bringing in from Colombia. Cost of Living, a huge topic of the election, isn't it, Ben? And you came in with a magnificent cost-saving tip there on novelty theme park photos. When they flash up on the screen screen you take a photo of your family enjoying the ride uh with a big no camera graphic with the line through it all over you yeah obviously a lot of people have obviously done what i want to do and so now they're

trying to counter it but you can still keep persisting but you're not letting that stop you you're not there we'll put the can we put the photo up on our social yeah we'll check it up on the story right now as well. You can see me with the big no photo sign on there as well. That would have saved you what? 17 bucks? Yeah, it probably would have been. I didn't actually look at what the costing was.

It was like one of those dad things where you're like, no, we're not getting that. We can take a photo of the screen. But I've got a great alternative. So yeah, your cost saving tip this morning. Some great one I've stumbled across recently. The Mitre 10s and the Bunnings of this country have copious amounts of washing powder. Oh, really?

Just stumbled up big boxes, like a huge 56 kilograms of washing powder. But bulk, just in bulk. Bulk. Wow. And I bought one of those, and I'm pretty sure that is going to be washing the clothes of prior generations to come. My grandkids' kids are going to be washing their clothes with this box of washing powder. I guess it's not going to expire, I wouldn't imagine, right? It keeps on going, though.

Yeah, it's a great hack. That's a good text coming through here, 4487. Hey, I like to save on electricity by sitting in complete darkness. Well, that could kind of work. Not turning the lights on. Oh, you could save on food costs, too too by catching your own food, couldn't you? Yeah. What's for dinner tonight?

Sparrow. Sparrow. The neighbor's cat. You know, stuff like that. Christy, we're going to get you on. Welcome. Hello. Hello.

It's a pleasure. Oh, hi. Good to have you on, Christy. Sorry. I never apologize on this show. Do you hear what we do? We make no apologies, hi. Good to have you on, Christy. Sorry. Don't ever apologize on this show. Do you hear what we do? We make no apologies, mate. Now, you're heading to work in Auckland,

and how are you saving money at the moment? Oh, I do it quite a few ways. Quite cheeky, actually. Like, when I go to the supermarket and stuff, and there's a long queue at the checkout, I'll grab a magazine and read it, and if I like recipes in there, I'll take a camera shot of it.

Beautiful hack. Yes, Christy. Like, there's another one at the takeaways. I can't remember which way around it goes now, because they actually cottoned on to it. Like, if you like chicken and cheeseburgers, you either look at the price from a cheeseburger to a chickenburger, whichever one's the cheapest, and it's always cheaper to do the add-on of the chicken or the add-on of the cheese that way.

Oh, thank you. It's a bit of a... Did Ronald catch on to your little scam, did he? Oh, no, not Ronald, just general takeaway buzz. Yeah, that's a good hack. We're going to send you out to see Uproar for free as well. It's a new movie in cinemas. Enjoy that.

Thank you so much. It's a new movie in cinemas. Enjoy that. Thank you so much. Here's a hack. If you like the movie so much, film it with your phone. No. You can go home and watch it again. They're simply getting into a lot of legalities. We'll get Marcus on in Wellington. Good morning.

How are you? Yeah, g'day. How are you? Yeah, we're good. Your cost-saving tip, Marcus? Mate, it's one for the kids. They're always banging on in summertime for choccy ice cream. Go get the 99-cent coconut cream, melt down some choccy buttons,

bang them in the freezer, and when they start hounding, hey, I've got that for you. Here you go, kiddies. When they start hounding, you start pounding ice cream into holes. Mate, get that in your gob. We're going to send you along to the movies for free as well. Double pass that, boy. Marcus's bootleg chocolate ice cream.

That's a great recipe. You go have a good day in Wellington, mate. Thank you. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I already jumped the gun. I wore shorts yesterday

and it was too cold. It was too cold for shorts. My legs regretted it. A lot of people around the office were like, oh, already and i was like no no it's not it's not normally after labor weekend i feel like things start to get summery but who knows who knows these days uh producer joel uh a big short wearer when do you usually because i was wearing shorts yesterday and joel wasn't i'm like well that's that's the gauge for me i could i wear shorts out of work but like i'm just trying to keep a professional standard at the moment.

Just keep a high level around here. I don't need to see the bottom half of your legs, mate. Keep it classy here, San Diego. So, Ben, I want to try a social experiment with you. Now, my son, Oscar, he saw this on TikTok, which is the internet's number one destination for accurate information. Yeah.

TikTok. So it's something i wanted you can try this too in your car okay as well if you're if you're driving to work this morning or whatever you're doing now it's a little trick to do with coke don't get your hopes up mate it's not not stuff you'd like to play around with on a friday and saturday coca-cola okay i'm talking about the drink you're right so he watched a video with some gen z guy who's obviously got way too much time on their hands and you know they figure something out then they say it was such conviction don't they yeah it's like a little trick so can you right now you can try this in

your car as well say the words coca-cola without making your lips touch yeah coca-cola go again Coca-Cola Go again Coca-Cola Now Say Coca-Cola Normally Coca-Cola Normally No you don't have to say normally Right Just say Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola Your lips don't touch anyway So what So what So I went through all that trouble With your lips Coca-Cola Yeah you're right

Yeah Okay And now In terms of a magic trick, where's it sitting with you? Like, if you had paid to go to a magic show and someone was like, who wants to be someone from the audience come up on stage? And they did that. How would you feel about it? Yeah, a little indifferent.

I wouldn't be wowed by it. I mean, yeah, I'm a little like, yeah, I guess everyone's doing it right now. Like it's not, it's not, it's not blowing your brains, is it? It's probably, yeah.

Maybe it's giving you a little mild, your brain a mild bit of concussion. Can you say Coca-Cola with your lips touching? Go on, there's. Yeah, it's quite, okay.

Oh, it's a good one. So out of 10? Let's say a solid four, a four out of 10. We's a good one. So out of 10? Let's say a solid four. A four out of 10. Solid four? A solid four out of 10. Well, you know, as you say.

It's pretty, when Oscar did it to me, he's like, aha. I was like, that was pretty lackluster. The four is very generous. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. It's World Mental Health Day today, and there's a brand new podcast you can get wherever you get your podcasts. It's called Mental Is Anything, and it's hosted by radio broadcaster Angelina Gray, and she joins us in the studio. Good to see you, Angie. How you doing? Good, eh? How are you?

Lovely to have you in. It's the first time I've been in the studio before. It's pink. Yeah. It's very pink. Try a bit of a change from Radio Haraki. Oh, yeah. Welcome to family-friendly radio, mate. Kia ora.

How are you? It's all right. Hey, congratulations. New podcast, Mental Is Anything, which is talking about mental health with various New Zealanders over a six-episode run. Yes. And launches today. Launches today, which is kind of crazy to think because it's been a year in the making

in my mind a tough tough times you know around the country a lot of talk about the cost of living crisis and we're going through covid and that and there's a lot of stats that i was heard the trailer for you your podcast as well you know how many people go into the doctor to talk about mental health and how many mental health you know issues that are happening around the country it's a good thing to talk about well the hard thing is is that i it's so prevalent, but now especially with the cost of living crisis, I was talking to my good friend actually who features on the podcast, therapist Caroline Cranchall.

She said people have to stop spending on something and it often ends up being going to a counsellor or a therapist because it's just too expensive. So it's somewhere maybe that people might better go and either get a few tips on people's clever coping mechanisms or maybe, you know, if you're having that 3am dark night of the soul and you wake up and you kind of want to talk to someone who's going through the same thing,

well, at least maybe you can tune in and have a listen and get an idea. Yeah, now you said you'd talk to therapists. Dai Henwood features in this very first episode. Yeah, great New Zealander. And that was kind of interesting. I thought I'd actually cry during that episode because I've known him die for years and thought it was going to be really tough.

But instead, I walked away really inspired. Just for me, how to live a better life. You know what I mean? Just the enthusiasm and zest he's got for life is incredible. It is incredible. Here's actually a little bit from you, from your podcast, Angelina. When I was first diagnosed with cancer,

I went for a walk and I was crying and then i just looked up and everything was so colorful it was like the diagnosis had crystallized how beautiful the world actually was i mean that kind of sums up di henwood right there you know and i'm sure, you know, there's got to be some times that have been very, very difficult for him, you know, through the last couple of, well, the year or so. But that moment there where he was crying and then he saw the good in the world is pretty heavy but pretty beautiful at the same time.

And that's a hard thing for someone to do, to find the beauty, you know, in that moment. So, yeah, he's got some amazing tips, whether you've been nearly diagnosed with something or just to live a better life in general so is there one common theme that goes across the six episodes that you notice that everyone is going through you know what i notice that everyone's got something to deal with no matter what it is and you think oh god that person's got their life nailed i want to aspire to be like them

but everyone's overcome challenges but i think what i've learned is the more i've spoken to people i don't just maybe be quite open-minded about people's situations in life well you have Everyone's overcome challenges, but I think what I've learned is the more I've spoken to people, I know it's just made me be quite open-minded about people's situations in life. Well, you have perceptions of people and you kind of look to people in whatever industry or whatever, you know, friends, family and that, and you kind of have this perception. But then when you hear the real story sometimes, like on this podcast, these people go through the same things as you and I. Yeah, so I figure it's kind of relatable and it might be just quite a nice thing for people to hear and go, oh, me too.

And oh, that's how you dealt with it. So it's kind of, we can all work through our messy stuff together in real time via a podcast, hopefully. Best tip you got? I think actually one of them from this one with Di is about meditating and I'm not, my mind's too busy to meditate. I'm too busy and whatever but he just took away the admin around it and said you can just do it

Ben Boyce doesn't like he doesn't relax he doesn't like massages no he doesn't like being massaged you know he's like oh boring hurry up

how long do I have to stay here for I've got stuff I need to do you know I find it like just anything it's more it makes me feel more tense because I'm sitting there as well

yeah like I'd rather not be in a massage it's not like I hate it's just more, anything that's more, it makes me feel more tense because I'm sitting there as well. Yeah, like I'd rather not be in a massage. It's not like I hate it. It's just not for me. No, same. Or even like when people go and get facials done and, you know, just hurry up. Okay, so like, so for the whole time, for 60 minutes of a facial or a massage,

you're just going there's other things I should or could be doing. Yeah, or other things I've brought. You know, like if you're paying money to go to a massage, I'm like, I could spend this money on something else I'd rather enjoy, you know? Oh, Angelina Gray. Congratulations. Mental as anything.

Out now on iHeartRadio and wherever you get your podcasts. Indeed. Thanks, guys. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, my wife gives me a lot of grief because I carry around a backpack. And it's not the fact that I carry around currently a Bart Simpson backpack,

but it's all the stuff that I have in it. I do carry around a lot you know she would often go through it while we're away on holiday I like to be organized she'd be like you need force hand sanitizers do you need eight pens do you need sunscreen do you need insect repellent I'm like I know it's all there I've got it all you could survive in a bush for four weeks with that Bart Simpson backpack you get a lot of talk talk about the backpacks that you, you've got a signature, a little signature style of children's backpacks. Yeah. Toy Story backpacks, Bart Simpson's ones.

I had a model old pony one for a while there. I rode with it as well. The good thing about it, I find if you go to the pub, you leave it there, people, no one's going to steal your bag because they always think it's some four-year-old kid's. They're like, I'd be a monster if I stole a child's bag. So it's a good security policy as well. So I don't you know i don't have to hide it away in my car or anything like that you just leave it out you know as long as you're willing to put up with the

credibility damage your bag will never be stolen what good's gonna be in there so my wife does give me grief because i carry too much stuff around but then a couple of days ago uh she pulled out from her handbag two pork dumplings that had been she'd taken from we'd had a meal we'd gone out we'd had some dumplings leftover ones she wrapped them up into a little napkin and then a few days later she went oh these are still in there meaning to me she would put them in the fridge hadn't got forgotten about it nothing tastier than handbag dumplings always been a big fan of those. You never know, three weeks later, you're like, oh, here's a little surprise that I forgot about.

I feel like they're past their goodness, aren't they? After a good few hours in a handbag, but hey. It's a treasure trove, isn't it, the handbag? Of the world's most random collection of items, I'm sure. And you're right, because it's not a consistent weekly clean-out of the handbag. It just sort of accumulates over time There's probably someone listening right now Wandering around with a leg of lamb

In a handbag A lamb chop at least You might be right So should we find out this morning You put a ham in your backpack I did, I went to the Warriors You got invited to a corporate lounge First time in the corporate lounge I stayed Everyone left and I was still there at the end Chatting to the Warriors. He got invited to a corporate lounge. First time in the corporate lounge I stayed.

Everyone left and I was still there at the end chatting to the guy who was really just wanting to clean up. And I was like, hey, mate, what are you doing with the rest of that? Ham. Like a big Christmas ham. And he said, well, we generally probably just throw it out, I imagine. He kind of went, would you like it? And I went, oh. Oh, that's why I'm hanging around.

And was he like, how are you going to get it out of here? And I went, oh, that's why I'm hanging around. And was he like, how are you going to get it out of here? And then you said, have I got the backpack for you? No one's got a check inside this way. The handbag. Yeah, the handbag.

My little pony handbag that day. And he put it inside and away I walked. I came home. I felt like I've never, never hunted. And it's not really my thing, but I felt like that was the closest

I've ever got to come home and go, here you go, family. Look what the man's bought her a ham and a My Little Pony What is in your handbag? 0800 the hits telephone number Amanda, Ben's wife

storing away what a couple of dumplings dumplings pork dumplings from a couple of nights before that the thing is she's vegetarian too

so she was storing those away for, I guess, people. Other people. Selfless act. That's right, yeah. I always, whenever I put my hand into Jennifer, my wife's handbag, I always feel like something's going to bite me. There's so much stuff in there.

But then whenever you ask for something, oh, do you have this? Oh, yeah, I'll just grab it. Boom, they're straight in, straight out. They know. Blindfolded. They could find any item in their handbag. Yeah, you're probably right. So, 0800, that hits the telephone number.

Kim, welcome. How are you? I'm good, thanks, and you? We're doing all right. Now, we want to know what the most unusual thing you've carried around in your handbag. What was it for you? It was my husband's underpants, clean underpants. Okay.

Okay, you never want the soiled ones carried around, do you, I'm guessing, if you've got the option. But why were you – why? Better in the handbag than on the body being the soiled ones. Why did you carry around your husband's underpants? Well, what happened was one day I was getting my son ready to go meet a friend at the park, and the washing was all folded up on the bed, so I grabbed what I thought was my son's underpants as a spare backup clothing item, and went to the play

park. He didn't need the clothes, so it was good, and then a couple of days later, I was going through my handbag, and I was like, what are these doing in here? I unfolded them, and they were actually my husband's, so it's a good thing my son didn't need them because they would have been too big. It's always nice for the underpants to get out and about. Yeah, they don't probably get out and about without people being attached to a person. So that's probably quite good. Subsequently, I've now learned not to buy the same brand of underpants for my son and my husband.

Oh, well, Kim, well, let's hope he's got his underpants on today, and you go and have a wonderful day. You too. Thank you. See you, mate. Thank you. Michelle with us on 0800 The Hits. What's in the handbag? In the handy there, Michelle?

What's in the handbag? Where should we start? We have the makeup bag, which has all your basic makeup, including tweezers and nail file. So a bag within a bag. Yeah, okay. That's good. You've got all your medications you may need,

painkillers, antihistamine, throat lozenges. Yeah. You've got any feminine products that you may need or anyone else may need. You sound like the chemist's warehouse at the moment. You've got an umbrella, you've got your prescription glasses, you've got your reading glasses. Hold on, how the hell have you got an umbrella and a handbag your prescription glasses, you've got your reading glass Hold on, how the hell have you got an umbrella and a handbag?

A little folding one Oh wow, okay I've got the keys, I've got the keys to my car, I've got the keys to the other car I have the purse, now the purse is another whole thing You've got your cell phone You know, it's only a small bag It doesn't sound only a small bag. It doesn't sound like a small bag. How often are you clearing it out or you just keep adding

more stuff to it? You only clear it out if you're swapping it to another bag. Come on, Ben. Sorry. You never know when you need your umbrellas, your tampons in your hand, your painkillers. Oh, and the hand sanitizer. Of course. Mask. Mask as well.

Everything is covered in there. This has been wonderful. Someone has just texted in as well saying they're wandering around with a full-blown measuring tape. I have a measuring tape in there. When you're furniture shopping, you need to measure the furniture. All at a very close or tense long jump competition as well. Absolutely. Okay.

Pocket knife? You've got a pocket knife in well. Yeah. Absolutely. Okay, pocket knife? You got a pocket knife in there? I'm just throwing. Two. Two? Two pocket knives. Jeez. A small one, one with a corkscrew, because you never know.

You never know. What, when you need to pop a wine or attack someone? Exactly. Oh, my goodness. This is incredible. Thank you for your call, Michelle. Appreciate your time. You're more than welcome.

You and your 50kg handbag have a good day. It's only 48, but thank you. your call Michelle appreciate your time you're more than welcome you and your 50kg handbag have a good day it's only 48 but thank you and you too our mum in the US she's been mocked for a ridiculous demand

for a nannying job she's put an ad on Facebook she's put it online and the demands well see if she's being reasonable or not

okay so it's it's less than minimum wage at first uh so you're getting offering just six dollars an hour the job requires you to look after four kids for six hours a day five days a week with the occasional weekend so quite a lot there's a high intense to what under minimum wage yeah looking after four kids six hours a day five days a week cannot be a high intensity What under minimum wage Yeah Looking after four kids Six hours a day Five days a week Cannot be a smoker

Or a drinker Okay It seems like Even outside of that You know Oh you're not allowed to Like away from the kids Yeah

No tattoos You feel like that's the best thing To get over the four kids Yeah If you have tattoos You'll need to remove them I was like okay Delete all your social media profiles.

All of them. All the kids, everything you've got. Must be a great cook and avid cleaner. Must be over 25 years old. Minimum education, a master's degree as well as well. No drinking, smoking, or even vaping. No tattoos or piercings. And five professional references, which will be background checked,

and you'll be drug tested regularly as well. I don't think you can find anyone under the age of 25 who's going to pass any of those things. She sounds fun. Yeah. I mean, I understand you're looking after the kids, and it is a very important job. You're trusting someone with your kids,

but it does feel like a few things there that you maybe could let slide. My cousin Nicola from Rangi Ora, she went over to the state, Chicago, and she nannied for a family over there and didn't realise their wealth, but enormous wealth, like lived next door to Michael Jordan,

this family. Wow. Still to this day. Like 10 years later, they still fly her and now her family to overseas holidays with them annually. She got tattoos? She got tattoos. She drinks?

She got the social media, the drug testing. I haven't tested her lately. I loved her. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, my name, I'm used to being called Jono. You probably get the same again called Ben whenever you go, and that's fine. You kind of roll with it. But one thing I've noticed is when you go to order a hot drink,

in some places they like to write your name on a cup situation. Cross the road here, we go to a cafe after the show, Ben, and get a coffee, don't we? I think they think my name is One Sugar. They keep writing One Sugar on the cup. But, you know, like in the past, and it particularly happens when you're, I find when I'm overseas in the New Zealand accent,

if I'm travelling for work or something like this, Ben is just something that they can't, some people can't get their heads around. No, and you think, it's so frustrating because you think you're talking normally. You're like, this is how we talk. Back home, no one's got any qualms about understanding what I'm saying. That's what I thought because I went to the States with some family over Christmas time

and I got bin, which was like B-I-N, which is fine. I get that. Bean, B-E-A-N, when I tried to over-announce, my name is Bean. And they'll just write Bean. I got Dean and Ian. They were my options options are you guys even trying even listening to anything that's coming the other thing that really confuses the Americans about us is when we reference anything to do with our decks yeah scrubbing the decks yeah building

the decks erecting the decks yeah that throws them off their game it definitely does with the New Zealand accent so I thought you know this thing only happened overseas but then in the weekend back home i got i had a situation where i ordered a hot drink and they were like what's your name and i said my name and and then i got my my cut back and it was b-u-n bun bun i was like bun well there's a new one are you are you two because you're like, well, I could correct them. But what does it matter? I'm never going to see them again. They're like, drink for bun.

And you're like, bun? I guess that's a cute little name. As long as the message is getting through, the coffee's getting in the right hands. Yeah. So bun. I think I'll go with bun right now. Jono and bun in the mornings.

Yeah, I like Jono and bun. Yeah. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. All Blacks taking I like Jono and Bun. Yeah, yeah. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. All Blacks taking on Ireland Sunday morning, 8 o'clock. Of course, the Wallabies out of the World Cup. Now, I think many New Zealand fans don't want to gloat just yet. The Wallabies out.

It doesn't feel like a gloaty World Cup for us, does it? No, but who knows? Who knows? It feels like a, whew, let's just get through it World Cup. Yeah. The Sunday morning against Ireland, who are on fire at the moment. Yeah, they haven't lost for like 17, 18 games or something. I didn't want to hear that.

But then we win this one, the semifinals is not, anyway, let's not look ahead. They always say one game at a time, don't they? This is why they say it. This is why they say it. Because radio hosts start giving. I was going to look at the semi going, oh, that's a bit easier.

Radio hosts start looking at semis and finals, start looking to the 2025 schedule. That's why I'm not coaching. Ben, I said before I might have to hand myself in to police. And it's something that I've realised I've been doing for years. I'm a screen pest. Right. So if there is a screen in my vicinity that I'm not in charge of,

cell phone screen, laptop screen, there is nothing I can do to stop myself from looking at it. Just look at it. I can't help it. My prime location is when you're on an airplane and you can see through the cracks in the seats in front of you and someone's on their phone. You can see what's being texted or what they're looking at.

You're like, oh, jeez, seat three season, a bit of hot water with the missus there, I see, on the make good mission. Yeah, I've seen you do this many times before, looking through at other. We never watch the screen. If we've been on flights with you, you know, and there's a TV screen, you never put anything on. You watch mine, you watch other things.

You're like, just watch your own screen. I know. It really winds you up. Like, watch the movie then. You're like, what's happening in the movie? I'm like, I don't want to watch it. And then he has to pull his headphones out and tell me. What's happening?

Oh, yeah. So I always do it to producer Taylor, who's next door, because we sit next to her. It's quite close when I'm having to edit. She's got her emails open. I'm sitting there reading all the emails. And I'm like going, I'm replying to her, like vocally going, oh, hey, you should say this to them or that or something like that.

Did she ask for your opinion? No, no. It must be the most frustrating exercise. It really, but I can't help but not do it, even though I know it affects my life in no way whatsoever. If some stranger who's sitting in front of me on a plane is texting their partner, I don't know why I need to know that information,

but I can't help. Am I the only person who's a screen person? Sure, not the only person, but it's, yeah. So if someone said, oh, could you pass me can you pass my phone and there was a text like oh I'd be going back

oh I wouldn't I'd be going deep oh okay well you got a text you need to answer can't help it if like Seven Sharp

or Fair Go ever do like an undercover sting on Screen Pest you know when they kind of entrapment when they've got hidden cameras and things

I'd be looking over the shoulder I'd be that person the whole. I'd be that person. The whole time. This strange, bald, white man. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I know. When you're on the show, you'll give me grief about something that I did

when we were holidaying in Australia with the family. We visited some of our family and then went to, you know, took the kids to the Gold Coast and went to a couple of theme parks. And you were giving me grief because I took photos of the no-photo thing where you come off a ride and you've got your face and you're screaming and stuff. Where the theme park, battling away, just trying to turn a dollar, trying to make a profit, wants to sell those photos to you, and so then they're just a teaser one on a screen with,

across all of the photos, a picture of an animated camera with a line through it. Sort of signifying, I think, the international symbol of please don't take a photo of the photos is a picture of an animated camera with a line through it. Sort of signifying, I think, the international symbol of, please don't take a photo of the screen. I saw the camera thing, take a photo, saving us some money as well. But, you know, I love a theme park. Some people love them, some people are really not into it. It's kind of even split. My family will all go along, but one of my daughters, Sienna, and I,

it's kind of our thing. You know, we love it more. But then you've got the collateral of your wife in India yeah it'll come along as well and they'll do bits and pieces

but it's not it's you know it's not their thing the thrill rides are not their thing like Sienna and I you know we'll go along

we bought the thing because it ended up being cheaper to buy a seven day pass so we were there and we just Sienna and I went like we went probably

four or five times even on the way driving to the airport she's like we've got time for one more ride we're like addicts I'm like yeah I think like, we went probably four or five times. Even on the way driving to the airport, she's like, we've got time for one more ride. We're like addicts. I'm like, yeah, I think we could. We could call in on the way. I was like, jeez, we are... We are making the most out of this seven-day plan. I bet you would have, if you had the chance,

would have gone all seven days. Yeah, definitely. I just spaced it out by sitting there and going around Sephora and other shops like that and Sports Girl and things like that and sitting in chairs. Some comfortable chairs around shopping malls and stuff while my wife looked at some shops. So there were three days scattered throughout the seven-day ticket? Yeah, but I just really wanted to go back.

It's give and take in a family. Sienna and I would just go by ourselves. I'm saving money. Sienna's like, it's girl maths, Dad. It's a new thing. It's girl maths. You're saving money. And I'm like, great, I'll jump on board with this as well.

But I was like, with my wife, I had a moment where I was like, probably the worst thing anyone could say to you just before you're about to take off for a ride. Because I was like, hey, you're at a theme park. I know you don't like the big thrill rides, but you should give it a go. Because maybe you'll enjoy it. To my wife. So she said something to you.

The worst thing you can hear is you're about to go off on a roller coaster. Yeah. Is it, I'm having an affair? Well, yeah. No, I'm not going to enjoy this. Damn it. No, I love people. You can tell me now.

Okay, well, maybe it's not the worst thing that someone can say. There's probably something better, but it's up there as well. So I said to my wife, I was like, you should give this a go. There's this ride ago. It's a Superman ride, if any Kiwis have done it. Lots of Kiwis in the Gold Coast. And it goes really fast at the start into this roller coaster. And when my daughter Sienna and I were doing it, Indy, my youngest daughter,

was like, nah, not for me, mate. I'll just read my book and wait for you guys to line up and do your thing. I was like, okay, that's cool. So you can wait out for us. Did you pay for her to come in and read a book? Oh, yeah. Just for this ride. She was like, I'm not going on this it looks too too full on so my wife was like oh i'll give

it a go reluctantly but she started the closer she got to the ride the more sort of anxious and worried she got she started asking me questions is it like it's like going in a fast car i'm like i don't know maybe you know all these questions i didn't really know how to answer and as she was buckled in about to take off the roller coaster's about to go, she turned to me and my other daughter, Sienna, and said, what if Indy's an orphan after this ride? I'm like, oh, geez. And just like that, the ride took off.

I'm like, well, now. I'd rather you told me you have an affair. Can't think about that. I'm not worried about orphaning my child. Yeah, I was like, well, that's a very good point. All three of us are on this one ride. Do you do that thing where you get on any sort of thrill-seeking ride and they've got the thing that goes over your shoulders

and there's always just that little bit of give and you're like, this isn't locked. This isn't locked. And you test it and you keep testing it. You're like, it doesn't feel like it's locked. And you go through that in your mind. Yeah, definitely. I think everyone does that, right?

Yeah. Anyway, it reminds me, we went to the Stratosphere, Rainbow's End. Just this big claw that sort of swings you around 360 degrees. And it was for some promotional thing we were doing with KFC, and we were trying to eat KFC on it. And they wouldn't, our crew, this wasn't the Rainbow's End team, wouldn't let us off it. We're like, we're done.

We've lost all the things we're meant to be holding on to. But we just keep going around and around. Many of the things I now say and do in life, I place on the brain damage caused from that exact moment. You're probably right.