Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: You'll never believe what these kids are saying!

Episode Date: March 3, 2024

An intense Dear Megan! We have a great first date with an American singer. The first sighting of PINK in New Zealand! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. They're not looking too good. Autumn seems to be here and it looks like a bit of a cold front heading up the country from the south to the north. How's everyone this morning? Yeah, we're doing well. Megan, you warned us all last week.

You said it was coming, didn't you? I did. You sound congested. Are you all right? I'm a little bit under the weather. I've done a COVID test. It's not COVID on the plan. It's COVID on the plan. I know, I can't sense It's not COVID on the plan. It's COVID on the plan.

Like Noah Khan says. Every morning, Ben and I are like, COVID on the plan. I don't know why. I don't think he's actually Irish, Noah Khan, but it sounds a little bit. Oh, no, he's not, is he? No, I don't know, but it just sounds like he's COVID on the plan. We've made him Irish. Tell you what, I learned something over the weekend.

I learned something about the commentator's curse. Now, I did a couple of days commentating ACC, the cricket, the alternate commentary collective. You know, you're basically talking rubbish. We're running around in cricket. It's different to the rubbish we talk in. Yeah. What's that say?

You know about sport. Yeah, I know. But yeah, so it's fun. I did that for a couple of days. But what I discovered is, by doing it um if you talk up someone like if you say and I said Cain Williamson he's our cricketer I was like oh he's the number one batsman in the world he's out there now you talk about him in a good positive sense if he gets out it's your fault like I got abused like shocking I wasn't out there playing but Cain I said oh it's

good to see you he's number one batsman in the world right now then he got out moments after everyone's like commentators curse yeah cursed him who's giving you batsman in the world right now. Then he got out. Moments after, everyone's like, commentators curse. Yeah, cursed. Who's giving you this feedback? Oh, the text machine. Oh, the text machine. Just brutal. Don't read the text machine. Don't read the ACC text machine.

It's brutal. Oh, just abuse. Never had abuse like it. Definitely has nothing to do with what Kane was doing with that bat. No, I was like, oh, is it out there? Oh, is it out there? It was a comical run out. They got run out, and it was all my fault apparently.

Can we read out some of the abuse? Oh, jeez. I could try and find some of that. Yeah, let's log into the text machine. We'll read out some before seven o'clock. It was just like, yeah. We could put that REM song

behind it too. Yeah. Everybody. So apparently that's all my fault. So then I spent the whole rest of the game not wanting to say anything positive. You don't want to say anything positive. You just don't want to say,

oh, he's, look, you're like, oh you're like oh just factual just factual can't say he's looking good he's going all right that man's just bowled a ball yeah that man's just hit the ball yeah uh well geez i had to i was also at a sporting weekend well not really i had to my son late saturday night is said by the way this is nine o'clock at night. By the way, I've volunteered for the Round the Base, the big running race that they have in Auckland annually, 50,000 people. I was like, what do you mean you volunteered for Round the Base? And he's at a school where they make them do service hours,

like community service hours, which is lovely. And what I love about him is he comes home every day signed up to something else. I'm in the debating team. I'm in the bloody orchestra. I'm in the bloody orchestra. I'm in the darts team. I'm like, Jesus. You don't want to knock that out of them because that's great.

But what it does mean is every single day there's activities. Even Sunday morning. I was going, what time do they need you around the base? What are we talking, 9.30, 10? He's like, no, no, no. Quarter to five. Quarter to five. Quarter to five in the morning.

I guess because the race starts really early and he had to set up tables and he was handing out water to runners as they came through that's earlier than what we have to be here i was like mate i do this monday through friday wow yeah his biggest concern though was the instruction from the school was you may be stationed with an elderly person he was telling me in this car the car on the way there you may be stationed if an elderly person is telling you a story you have to listen politely even if they're going on for a while you have to be polite and listen he was like i don't want to be in a position with an elderly person banging on about the war for three hours well now but nowadays what you're doing right now

could be considered listening to an elderly person. I know, it was like he deals with you every day. You go on, you're elderly. We're there now, mate. What you're doing right now is not about the war. It's about what you did

in the weekend. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Over the weekend, Blink 182 played in Auckland playing Christchurch. Christchurch people

were not very happy about how they what it seemed like very jokingly in Australia said F Christchurch as were not very happy about how they what it seemed like very jokingly in Australia said F Christchurch as part of a gag thing they were doing

on stage but when taken out of context they also said screw Sydney as well in the same sentence they said Sydney was the worst

and I think they were joking about that as well they're quite hard case Blink 182 but anyway it's hard to get sarcasm across in a written article though isn't it

a lot of people took it to heart became a news story lots of angry comments from New Zealanders councillors were talking about it at Christchurch Sharon Casey from The Edge

was going Christchurch has been through a lot as well on her thread as well I was like oh jeez we're really doing it it's like

Christchurch has been a lot no one's disputing that but this is they were clearly joking but when that becomes... Yeah, well, I'll tell you what, Cross Church isn't going to be going through a Blink-182 concert. Although Sharon did go to the concert, I saw her the weekend.

So she obviously changed her tune on how hard she was feeling about that. But Kourtney Kardashian, of course, she's in a relationship with Travis Barker, who's the drummer from Blink-182. She was in New Zealand over the weekend as well. Didn't go to Christchurch, though. She was like, if Christchurch, I'm not going there. Yeah, the Kardashians hate Christchurch, I hear.

Yeah, but she was in Auckland over the weekend, and her and Travis, Kourtney Kardashian and Travis, just wandered into a vegan burger store in Grey Lynn in Auckland. Wise guys. Yeah, wise guys, yeah. Just wandered in, talked about the patties, and then sat down, ate some burgers, posed for selfies with customers,

and apparently were lovely. They were very, very friendly. Yeah, didn't seem like they had a big entourage or anything like that. Concerned about what was in the vegan patties, because he's very vegan, I think, Travis Barker. And so she's very health conscious as well. But did you see beside a stage at their concert,

they had cameras? I was like, they might have been filming for Keeping Up With The Kardashians or whatever it's called now yeah no I didn't see that or maybe something to do with Blink

but yeah I was like well maybe we'll see a bit of New Zealand on that show yeah he's very healthy looking isn't he

you know if you take away it looks like a person who's looked after their body like the opposite of me I would certainly be like the before he's the after shot in that instance.

I mean, probably there was a stage that he wasn't looking after his body so much, but nowadays he looks pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. But I tell you what, he doesn't look like he's going to Christchurch. No, definitely not going to Christchurch.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. So Pink is in New Zealand, ahead of her concert in Dunedin tomorrow night. She's playing her first concert Tuesday and then playing in Auckland on Friday, which is very exciting. I know Grace, who pushes the buttons here on the show, you and your mum going to Pink on Friday. Yes, I'm so excited.

Matching T-shirts. Matching T-shirts. Producer Taylor made them for us. She made some knock-off Pink T-shirts. Pink's not getting her hands on that, you know, colour that one. No. Taylor's got like a T-shirt printing machine or something. It's a cricket. Yeah. Pink's not getting your hands on that, you know, colour that one. No. Taylor's got like a t-shirt printing machine or something.

It's a cricket. Yeah, it's a side hustle. She prints, what's it called? It's a cricket. What does that do? It's like a,

you can make all kinds of things. She can make you like cards, anything, you name it. That sounds fun. That's who we machined. That does sound fun. It feels like something

that you'd go hard and fast when you first got it and then the novelty would wear off pretty quickly. Although you've made a couple of T-shirts over the last couple of months. That's probably a very handy thing to have. We should get Taylor's knock-off merch thing. People phone up and are like,

oh, I need some knock-off merch for this concert, and you go and print them a concert T-shirt. It'd be a great idea. Anyway, being your game that you don't have any faith in. Oh, well, I'm not sure how this is going to go, because I know that the kids, one of their favourite things my kids like to do is to get Siri to repeat back stuff,

say some funny things back and just to hear in a different tone what Siri says. And I thought, well, why don't we get Siri to repeat some song lyrics and then Jono and Megan,

you have to decide if you can work out, well, not decide, you have to work out what the song is. That's a fun game. Based on Siri. Why would you not have faith

in this game? Siri Sings. Well, I just sent Producer Grace some lyrics to her, and I said, can you get Siri to say this? And then you guys can guess. And I haven't heard what it sounds like, so it may be too easy, may be too hard. I'm not sure.

I have no idea. No gauge. So here we go. The first answer, what is the song that Siri sings? Because Siri just speaks. Have a listen. Don't cut the headlights some is a knife i'm always waiting for you just well done well done it feels like

you cheated wait just said yeah how did you get that so quick i haven't i haven't i haven't seen him up with this okay Okay, here we go. Here's the next one. Okay, have a listen. Tommy's got his sixth string in hock. Bon Jovi. Now he's holding in. It's Bon Jovi.

All right, here we go. Megan, you really need to step up this game. Okay, here we go. Have a listen. Reaching for something in the distance so close you can almost taste it. Release your inhibitions my strategy was to talk over you so you couldn't hear your answer just yelling there we go.

Jono takes that one out. Sorry, Sykes. Not sure if it'll be back, but it was a fun game. It was a fun game. Yeah, a really fun game. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. He's blown up huge over the last couple of months. You would have heard this song, Scared to Start, on The Hits.

He's got millions of views on social media for his songs. He's gone from basically no one really knowing who he is to huge artists with millions of views and we wanted to know more about him michael mckay g is his name and he joins us right now where in the world are you i'm in cincinnati ohio right now so this is where you're from i was looking on tripadvisor and it says the number one thing to do in ohio is to visit the national museum of the air force now have you been there? What's that like? I think I have actually been there when I was really young, and I think I was really bored.

It's just like essentially just like in an airport, you know, with like a couple of hangers. I won't lie. It sounds boring. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's sad that that's the best thing to do in my home state. What's the hidden gem? What should we do if we come to Cincinnati?

Go to an American football game. Oh, yeah. Because you love the Bengals? That's your local team? That's my team, yeah. I don't know a lot about football. I've heard of Joe Burrow, the quarterback. He got injured, right?

And then, wasn't it Travis Kelsey's team knocked you guys out this year? Last year. Last year. Last year they knocked us out. But, yeah, everybody loves Joe Burrow. He's, like, super handsome and charismatic. So I'm just Googling that. Googling Joe Burrow. Yeah, he's like, imagine all-American quarterback, you know,

like what you'd think. He's kind of that guy, right? Absolutely. Hey, congratulations on not only having a hot quarterback in your favorite football team, but also on the success of your career like millions and millions of views on social mate it's sort of a happened very quickly yeah it happened so fast and it's still you know doesn't feel real feels overwhelming yeah just put up a tiktok one night when i was just trying to like tease some songs that i had no idea what I was going to do with.

And yeah, I ended up getting millions and millions of views on TikTok and now Spotify. So just grateful that people like the music. I was super lucky. And so that then spawned off into a record deal. Yeah. Yeah. Signed with Warner Records. And it is the definition of surreal.

Like it's just hard to really take in. And it's hard to like even like look at the numbers and believe them. It's all pretty crazy. It's also one of the huge pros of social media now, that you can just upload your song or your talent and see what happens. Yeah, for sure. The reach that social media can give you, just the amount of

like faces and people that that song has been in front of has been amazing it's just like to yeah so many countries i mean i'm talking with you guys looking like there wasn't a lot of information out there about yourself because this has all happened quite fast so what i've done is i've googled the best questions to ask on a first date because this this is essentially like a first date. So I want to throw some of these back at you. These are, these are not ones I've come up with, but I'm nervous. What are you looking for? What am I looking for? Uh, I'm looking to, I'm looking for a good time. Okay. Good. Good. That sounds good. Okay. We want a good time too. Who goes to a first date and first question is what are you looking for apparently that's a question to ask okay next

question what's your work-life balance like michael oh man it hasn't been good lately you know i've been it feels like i've been working a lot i need to do a better job of the old work-life balance okay so you've got no time for us. You're just working all the time, worried about social media, all right. I got pet peeves. What's your pet peeve? You know, what things kind of annoy you a little bit? Oh, man.

I really don't like when people chew with their mouth open. Yes. I think that's the one that gets me the most. Okay, we've got a couple more here. What's the best gift you've ever received? It feels like we've branched into interesting areas but anyway oh man best gift i would say i i got a guitar for christmas when i was in seventh grade and it's still the guitar that i play on stage so that one and final question a good question to ask on a first date what's your what was your first

impression of well i'll say me but us let's say us what was your first impression of, well, I'll say me, but us, let's say us. What's your first impression of us? Well, way funnier and more energetic than 99.9% of the interviews that I've done. Oh, there you go. That's good. I think we feel compatible.

I feel like we're going to have another interview at some stage, so that's good. Yeah, I feel like there's a second date. Thank you guys so much for having me.

The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Our premier house, which is one of the houses, well, the house in Wellington that the prime minister is meant to live in. Well, yeah, it's pretty old, right? The building's pretty old. Very old. And we only know this because every time we spoke to Jacinda,

she would always go on about how the place was riddled with white-tailed spiders. It was leaking. They literally had buckets how the place was riddled with white tail spiders. It was leaking. They literally had buckets because the roof was dripping. She's like, Clark's always running maintenance on it when he wasn't locked up in prison, obviously. That's a joke. Just a joke. Just a joke.

Just clarifying, it's a joke. Yeah. And she said it was a nightmare. But she was too, I was like, bloody get the renovators in there, mate. Give it a lick of paint. She's like, I'm too scared to. Because she's like, if I spend money on it, then the public will be like, why are you renovators in there, mate. Give it a lick of paint. She's like, I'm too scared to. Because she's like, if I spend money on it, then the public will be like, why are you spending money on this?

Yeah. And this is what is at the moment. So Christopher Luxon apparently doesn't stay in it. Oh, he doesn't live in it? No, because it's so bad at the moment. It needs renovations. And so he will stay in his apartment in town in Wellington. So he won't.

They'll still do functions there. They had the Australian cricket team out in the backyard the other day and the New Zealand cricket team. But you were saying, Megan, how much is it going to cost? So yeah, there's like 30-year-old fittings

that need replacing, a lack of insulation, unsealed windows, but $30 million? Because they let it get away on them. Is the quote? But even to buy a place, $30 million.

It seems like you could buy probably that, a mansion. Well, that's why I was... $30 million. It seems like you could buy probably that. A mansion. Well, that's why I... $30 million. Could they not knock it down and build something new? I guess it's a heritage building and they can't do that. That is ludicrous, isn't it?

But $30 million is a lot of money. Not like even $3 million. $3 million, you go, okay, that's still a lot of money. Cost of supplies, through the roof. Jib. We're still banging on about jib. $30 million seems like a lot. It feels like you

need a second quote. That's the first quote. This guy's got 30 million, you're like, okay.

And the next guy will go, oh yeah, $400,000. You go, okay, we'll go. This guy's

having a laugh. Maybe you should find them and go, did you guys get a second quote? It's always good

to just see what's out there. it was 30 million We thought it sounded quite reasonable It probably has just compounded over a number of years Where every Prime Minister has been like I'm too scared to look like I'm spending money on this house Because it would have old drain pipes and everything

It's a bit embarrassing that we're like Yeah we'll put our Prime Minister up in this horrible leaky old barn Listen have you seen the plane that they fly around in as well? That's something. Lucky if it makes it to the destination. 1843 is parts of the property date back to 1843. Good. In a working.

In a workings. One of the prime ministers lived there in the 1870s. In a not workings at the moment. No one's done it up since 1843. God. True. Out of the hits, up since 1843. God. It's rude. Out of the hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. How far would you go for the far north?

Yeah, we're teamed up with Northland Inc. for your chance to win your way there. We've got an all-exclusive family getaway to Northland to be won, including flights, accommodation, and activity for four people. Yeah, how far would you go for the far north, though? That's what we're going to be asking you. Great place, the far north. My mum lives up that way now, up in the Bay of Islands.

Beautiful fishing, beautiful water beaches. Not that she swims in the beaches, though. No, she did for the first time. Did she? Yes. She was like, it was a bit cold. She's left it quite late. She did.

She's been living up there in the far north for about 10 years. Never been for a swim in the beach. Until just about two weeks ago. I love that tale of you going to the beach with your mum and your dad and they are no longer together and they're at opposite ends of the beach and you had to evenly spend time with both parties. Yeah, I did. It was a little awkward, but hey, it was beautiful scenery

because the far north is beautiful. Despite the awkwardness, the scenery was gorgeous. And we want to send you there, as I said before, a flights accommodation activity for four people. It's a great time for your family, and we want to see how far you would go. Each day we're going to set someone a different challenge. Yeah, we'll get Shannon on the air. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast, Shannon.

How are you? Hey, Mike. Good morning. How are you? Yeah, Northland, great destination for Easter too, coming up, four days off. And you could be there with the family, flights, accommodation, and a whole lot of fun. How far would you go for the North today?

I hope you don't have too much planned over the next 60 minutes, Shannon. A little bit, what's that? What am I going to do? You've just got to stay on hold for 60 minutes. And if you're still there in 60 minutes time you're in the drawer good to me now you can go do other stuff we'll just check on you a couple times so you don't have to like stay in the same spot but we want it's like seems like this is uh like you should

win the prize right for this that matter pretty much you're like i was like let's knock it back to this go 30 minutes let's go no 60. what do you want to do shannon 60 or 30. i'll go 60. go to legend that's how far he'll go for the to get to the far north so uh you just we'll just put you on hold we'll keep checking in on you shannon if you're still there in 60 minutes you're in the drawer go to go thank you guys all right mate it does feel like quite an effort just to get him in the draw. Oh, yeah. As you said it, I was like... It does say how far we go.

Yeah, he's got to go quite far. And he opted for 60. You gave him an out. Yeah. Shannon, what are you doing? I gave him half an hour, didn't I? Shannon, what are you doing this morning? Are you getting ready for work?

I'm actually walking from the car to the site. So I'm on... I've got a few minutes to fill in. Okay, he's on site. All right, we'll check in with you shortly, Shannon. Now, big week here in New Zealand. Pink is playing her first concert in Dunedin tomorrow night. I hear there's a lot of the monuments around Dunedin

going to be lit up pink over the next couple of days. And then she heads to Auckland for Friday and Saturday night. Dunedin Park to a couple of days and then she heads to Auckland for Friday and Saturday night, Eden Park to a couple of huge concerts over 30,000 people I think in each one of them Wow, incredible and you were talking about we should light up the bloody Sky Tower pink. I think so

Great idea. I'd love to push the button that'd be a dream How hard can it be? Just put some pink foil over the lights? That's all they do right? Yeah, they've got to look sharp, they put some pink foil over the lights. That's all they do, right? Yeah, they go look sharp. They put some pink foil over the lights. Cellophane? Cellophane.

Exactly. Yeah, I think that's what they do. What does pushing the button involve? Do you know what pushing the button involves to change the lights on a giant building? No, I think it's some sort of iPad system. Oh, is it? It's not like a big sort of lever or switch or something. I think.

Just like an app. But then, you know, it changes. But it's pretty cool. That's good. I might come with pink eye as well. In celebration. Just because she's here this week. So I might try and catch that this week.

Oh, good. You should. All the pink fans will have pink eye this week, I'm sure. She actually flew in last night. I think it was more of a red eye than a pink eye. Yeah, it was a late night flight. And we've had our first pink sighting. P, who hosts the Hits Breakfast Show in Dunedin, Callum and P.

You saw her in the flesh, P. Look, I did. You know, with our job, we do get a few perks. And over the weekend, I was offered the biggest perk of my career. And that was to welcome Pink personally into our city last night. So, her private jet was scheduled to land at 11.45. I got the best text ever. Because when you get up at 4.30, you've got to say yes to these gigs, but then it's like,

oh my gosh, what about my sleep? But anyway, the flight with the tailwind, it was quite windy here last night, meant that her private jet was arriving at 5 past 11 last night. So when I arrived at the airport, the second of a chartered Qantas flight had landed. So in total, she's got 150 crew, and they all landed between 7 and 9 last night. They had to do customs.

There was a bus there to take them away. So when I arrived at the airport, obviously no one was there. We just sort of waited and waited, and then I waited. And then, of course, the beautiful sight of the private jet flying into Dunedin Airport. It was a Crown Casino private jet, so she'd actually hired it, we believe, out of Melbourne. Listen to me. You know that. I know, the entertainment reporter.

I haven't taken a break yet. So keep going, keep going. And then, of course, when you are pink, you clear customs on the plane, it turned out. So they had four customs officers go into the plane, cleared her. They did not have any bloody apples. No apples from Australia. I had all my gifts. I was ready to go.

And then a guy comes up to me. I'm thinking security management and said, no, we're not doing that tonight. And I went, pardon? Oh, look, I get up at 4.30. Give me something here, babe. Give me something. He gave me nothing, though. He took the gifts.

So I'm hoping that she gets the gifts. And then, of course, I stood on the tarmac. So I got a photo of Pink coming off the plane of Willow, of Jameson, Carrie Hart, P2. They had some friends, I believe, traveling with them. They had a wee two-and-a-half-year-old because I got told that from the documentation. So I think there was either eight or nine on the private jet. So she landed. She gave us all a wave.

So I can officially say that Pink is in the city. Oh, that's awesome. Just quickly, what did you give her? What was the gift? Okay, so we went with the whole, you know, the bond because I had this vision that she would meet me and go, Oh, my gosh, you're so cool, P. We need to be friends. So I went with the child thing.

So we got Willow and Jameson's really cool Lego, obviously some lollies in there, a bit of Dunedin stuff. We threw in some Emerson's beer and some wine, jigsaw puzzle, all that sort of thing. So we kind of went down the wee kiddie line, which is kind of cute. There we go. That's P from Dunedin abruptly cut off there. I'm sorry, I hit the wrong button. So that's cute. There we go. That's P from Danina. Abruptly cut off there.

I'm sorry. I hit the wrong button. So that's Pink. She's here. She's arrived. Wait till she sees my gift. Look, I've got Pink on for you. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

We gave Shannon the challenge just before 7 o'clock this morning. How far would you go for Northland for a family trip for four to Northland, including flights, accommodation, and an awesome activity. Yeah, expenses paid. And we said, well, Shannon, how far would you go? You've got to be on hold for 60 minutes. Are you still there, Shannon?

Yeah, I'm still here. Wow, well done. Legend. If you drop off or hang up, we'll put the first caller in the draw. So you stick in there, buddy. Not long to go. No problem.

What are you juggling this morning as well as winning radio competitions? Me? I'm about to do my press up for my boys, get them up and running, and get my sight up and running for the day. So I'm doing quite a few things. He's running his sight. Sorry about this. No, do not make any apologies

Ben, boys. Well, thank you, Shannon. We'll chuck you back on hold. No problem. Yeah, good work. Now, one of the joys about working in this job, first thing in the morning, too, is we park in the central city. And you get to enjoy the sights and sounds of the city. And we bump into all of your favourite inner city cast members, don't we? Drunk people asking for smokes, drunk people asking for beers,

drunk people asking for a lift. I had a guy once ask me for a lift. I was walking. I was like, what do you want me to piggy people asking for a lift. I had a guy once ask me for a lift. I was walking. I was like, what do you want me to piggyback you? Literally lift you up. Last week we saw uni students, didn't we, Taylor, stumbling around and they were going to get a kebab and you're like, that's the life, isn't it? They were probably going to go home, fall asleep by seven, wake up at three.

That's a late night kebab for them, but that's like breakfast for us. I know. Do it all again. Do it all again and not put an ounce of fat on them. Not one. True. In the prime of their lives. But anyway, we walk this little strip.

It's about three blocks from where we park to work. Some days I'm like, it's probably safer taking a stroll through the guards, a strip, to be honest, isn't it? Pretty full on. And this morning, a couple of, I'd say a couple of crackheads on a lime scooter with sunglasses on. No one looks busier than a couple of crackheads on a lime scooter with sunglasses on. They've got places to go.

And so they Zoom pass. That's dark. So what are they seeing with sunglasses on? Don't ask questions. Very dangerous. It's rock and roll though isn't it it's rock and roll

Bono and all the rock stars do it all the time Bono if Bono was riding a lime scooter at four in the morning he'd be sunglasses on

yeah exactly anyway they turn around and they stopped their mission wherever they were heading to and they're like hey

pointing at me as I dare God Ben and Jerry Ben and! That was the driver of the lion scooper, Scooter. And I was like, hmm. And then the one on the back was like, mm-mm, that didn't sit well. No, no, no, it's not Ben and Jerry. They're the ice cream place, right? Yeah. Yeah. Then it was Ben and Johnson. No, not Ben and Johnson either. They were sort of debating between themselves the whole time. I was like, oh, it's just Jono and Ben. It's

just Jono. And they weren't really paying much attention. So they didn't settle the argument and then went on their way. Continued on with their mission. Ben and Geoffrey,

Jason, they just kept going as they were driving off down the road. Big fans. Big fans, always good to have big fans. The Hits,

the Jono and Ben podcast Now we've got a man on hold To win a trip to Northland All expenses paid To get in the draw How far would you go For the far north Shannon

Has to be on hold For 60 minutes And it sounds like You're still there Yeah I'm still here Come on You've got about Another 15 minutes

Or so to go So it's pretty good so far Have you done the briefing For work No not yet I'm just studying Waiting to try and Get this done In Benintor So it's pretty good so far. Have you done the briefing for work? No, not yet. I'm just waiting to try and get this done in Berlin. Oh, really holding it in.

On a Monday morning as well. Oh, Shannon, thank you so much. We'll chuck you back on hold. I'm waiting. Sorry, mate. He sounds like he's regretting it now. He's trying to brief the boys. Now, Ben, you mentioned before that one of the team members here at the Hits had a bit of a scandal at primary school.

We'll bring Hayley on from the Hits in Wellington. Lovely to have you on, Hayley. Hello. Good to be with you guys. Now, Hayley, what happened? This was a bit of a talk to the kids about what their parents do morning? Yeah, so this was at school, and it was for Father's Day, and it was, what do you love about your dad?

He wrote her a lovely picture of their dads and then the teacher asked what they love about their dad and wrote it word by word. And they displayed it on a wall and all these kids had really lovely things about their fathers. And I took my time, didn't look at it the first day or the second day, third day went and read up and my child had written, my dad is in prison, and nothing else.

I kind of had these strange looks, and someone had kind of sympathetically patted my shoulder the day before, saying, you're doing really well. And your partner is not in prison. No, I should clarify, he's not in prison. He's a wonderful, upstanding citizen. But for some reason, her imagination had kind of taken hold. And even the photo of her father had little prison stripes on it.

I love it. Unless prison's like a metaphor for the relationship with you. Yeah, at home. Be careful, mate. your daughter's carefully mate your daughter's overheard him saying jeez i feel like i'm bloody locked in prison here maybe i don't know i just want to get out that sort of thing you're like okay did you ask her about it what did she say oh she just shrugged her shoulders and went yeah it was sad i think it was real but the funny thing is the play dates dried up too. Oh.

I had a similar sort of thing, not quite prison, but when we were doing the TV show, we used to have to wear a lot of Hellenstein Brothers clothing. So I'd wear a lot of clothing with their brand, which was called Absinthe. They had their thing. But my daughter Indy drew a big family picture and just had across my, she went to the detail of my T-shirt just writing,

Absinthe over dad. It was like Absinthe father. Oh, I've got an Absinthe father. I was like, absent father. Oh, I've got an absent father. I was like, oh, I'm actually around in her life. But anyway, it looked like I was speaking to the father's absent. To be fair, you taught her a big word. Yeah. And so any fallout from the prison scandal, Hayley?

No, just a few playdates and a sympathetic pat on the shoulder. But otherwise, I'm slowly trying to work my way back up into the mum group. Yeah, right. Well, at least it sounds like you're married to the school community, to a bad boy. Yeah, next time you bring him to a function,

everyone's going to be talking about you. Well, no, that's the thing. He's this lovely, jolly, smiling British man. He wouldn't last a week in a prison. Yeah, it's always the ones you least expect isn't it eh yeah

good on you Hayley thank you so much Ben on the Big Weekend of Sports someone's text in Ben did you watch the Rugby League

in America and what did you think of it oh I saw bits of it I didn't actually watch the full games but it looked really cool all the highlights

looked incredible the US stadium as well 40,000 people which is a pretty great crowd for a doubleheader in America and Las Vegas. Looked wild. So it was round one of the NRL. Someone thought it was a great idea to send NRL players to Vegas.

So there you go. That's what Ben thought of the league. Responding to your text. Now, kids, loose lips of the children. What have they said? How's it got you in trouble? Hayley from the Hits in Wellington. Her child, her daughter, told her teacher and drew a picture as well. An artistic impression of her father in prison.

And he's not in prison. No, he's not a prisoner. He's a hardworking builder from all accounts. So yes, but at that age you can make anything up. And they just, the kids believe you, don't you? There's no questions asked yeah and to that audience to say oh my mum's a chocolate tester at day and an astronaut at night is far more appealing to that demographic than my mum's a chartered accountant yeah true so you can

see how the lies come about yeah can't you get gb on uh the loose lips of the children, GB, what happened? Good morning, mate. It actually wasn't my child, but a friend of ours, they had a their son was about five or six years old, and they had friends that came over, and they had this very, very beautiful 18-year-old daughter.

And anyway, at some point, this boy couldn't take it anymore, and he walked up to her and he says, You are very pretty. You'll make a real good prostitute one day. Also one day, like work your way up to it. His mother was furious. I think she locked him up in the bathroom for the rest of her life. Locked him up in the bathroom for the rest of her life. Locked him up in the bathroom! If you stick to it, you know, you can work your way, you'll make a good prostitute one day.

Yeah. Oh my gosh! There was another incident with this little chap. There was this pizzeria we went to and they had a little kid's corner and the kids would get play dough, not play dough, real pizza dough and they would then make something, a car or something. Anyway, he was very interested in the female body so he decided to make a doll. And let's just say the upper half of the doll was very well... Very graphic, very detailed. Anyway, when he got to the bottom half, he thought that oh this is very lame you'll make the bottom half a male

so obviously the the bottom hole was very excited about the top off and then this little doll went into the pizza oven and came out and everything obviously looked bigger when it came out. And the waitress had to bring this to our table and serve it to him

and she didn't know where to look. It was hilarious. I love this kid. This kid. Oh, GB, that was a great call. Really appreciate your time.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. She is in the country ahead of her first concert tomorrow night in Dunedin and then two more in Auckland on Friday and Saturday night. Megan, you've got some amazing facts about how many people Pink played to or was going to play to in a whole Australasian tour. Yeah, because everyone was going on about Taylor Swift, right, and everyone was trying to get tickets. She played to 600,000 people. Yeah, because everyone was going on about Taylor Swift, right? And everyone was trying to get tickets.

She played to 600,000 people. Hey, we were part of that problem. We were spinning the Taylor propaganda. And it was huge. I mean, that was over, like, what, seven concerts or something? Yeah. And to be fair, had she done more, she probably would have sold out more. Yeah, yeah.

But Pink has, over her whole Australasian tour, she will play to 900,000 people. Almost a million people. Almost a million people will see P. You were saying she had like 20 gigs in Australia? 20 shows in Australia, three in New Zealand, and 900,000 people. Spoke from P in the Hits in Dunedin. She waited for her on the tarmac yesterday as her plane arrived in late last night,

11 o'clock or so. She charters an entire Qantas plane for her team 150 people crazy cost huge setup isn't it but it's going to be an awesome concert awesome few concerts in New Zealand now over the weekend I was heading to the mall my wife was like hey can you if you can stop by the store she wanted to get these pajamas that she wanted I'm like yeah fine I can get those for you was that Peter Alexander it wasn't actually you know the pajamas she's been wanting these pyjamas. So it's like, fine.

So you go there and you go into the section, which is, you know, I'd say the female section of pyjamas. I'm having a look, looking for the sizes. And the lady comes up to help me. And she's like, do you want some help? And I said, oh, yeah, I'm just looking for some pyjamas. She's like, you've come to the right place? Yeah, you've come to the right place.

And then she asked me a question that bamboozled me. She said, I'm just looking at the sizes. And she said, well, how old is she? The person you're buying the pajamas for. And I was like, how old is she? And I was like, well, this is a bamboozling question. I was like, I'm kind of putting you on the spot here. I was like, I'm buying it for my wife.

Do you want to know how old she is? She goes, oh, I'm so sorry. I thought you were buying for a child. I said, I never would ask that question for an adult yeah how old is she can you get someone's size from how old they are yeah well i guess when you're an a when you're a kid that sort of happens when you get to i was like she's a fully grown adult i just thought maybe it was more to do with the prints because they have like all different themes and stuff like maybe what she was into depending on the age and then afterwards she's like oh that really threw her as well but she was actually very very helpful and we got the pajamas we wanted but it's always kind of

an awkward sort of moment i find you know sometimes when you're shopping as a guy some particularly some stores or areas in some stores you can kind of like getting the sizes i thought she was gonna i thought you're looking at nighties and she was gonna be like what size are you you know unassuming you could wear a nightie tried those on i was all good to go he went and bought a top for her when we're overseas working for amanda and he walked into the shop and uh he said to the shop assistant because i was trying to work out the size again yeah yeah she's the shop assistant, oh, actually, my wife's about your size. Could you try this on? I thought that was a smart idea to go,

and then afterwards, and she did, but then afterwards I was like, oh, that seems like a bad pickup line or something. That's so creepy. Yeah, it did. It didn't sit right. And how do you deny it to the customer?

You're like, oh. And also, my wife, it's about you. And I was like. And also then when she puts it on, you're like, oh, no, I don't like that. You don't buy it. Yeah. And she was also. And also then when she puts it on, you're like, oh, no, I don't like that. You don't buy it. Yeah. She was also looking at these hot pads, mate.

You take those off. Yeah, around about the same size. These heels. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We have a $10,000 business startup package up for grabs. So thanks to Square One. Now, Square One is an app that gives your kids the financial head start they need. You can get it at the App Store on Google Play. And we're doing a little thing called a Dragon's Bend thanks to Square One, Square One is an app that gives your kids the financial head start they need. You can get it at the App Store or on Google Play.

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have to be relationships any kind of issue that you want to medical issues can i send you photos just want to know the boundaries but if you want some external um assistance i mean the country's going to weigh in so you never know what you're going to get, but this is a message we've got today. Hi Megan, Jono and Ben. I have a dear Megan. Please keep me anonymous. We always do. I've been married to my husband for 15 years now and everything is

fine. We are each other's best friend and I couldn't imagine life without him. However, lately I've been noticing every time we get intimate, he quickly gets up to make sure the lights are turned off. It's even gotten to the point now that if I'm getting changed out of

my clothes into my pyjamas, he'll either step out of the room or tell me to go to the bathroom to get changed. I don't know if I'm overthinking things, but it's starting to make me really upset. I'm beginning to feel quite anxious about my appearance. Do I bring this up with him? How do I even confront him about it?

Ooh, that's a spicy. This is... It is. I was like, oh, maybe you could justify it until the bathroom, going to the bathroom, you get changed. Maybe he's just power conscious. Yes, power's expensive.

Electricity bills, turn the lights off. Oh, right. Save some money. I'm just trying to think of options Maybe there's neighbours That have been around the area Peeping in windows He's like We should turn the lights off

In case they're I just When she says Everything is fine I'm like Well No but I'm like Maybe it must be

Like you There's no indication Anywhere else That you guys aren't okay Call me crazy Okay She's connecting dots here Yeah Spiralling out of control In her head There's no indication anywhere else that you guys aren't okay. Call me crazy, okay? She's connecting dots here.

Yeah. Spiraling out of control in her head. How about just going to ask him? Yeah, well, true. You know? Yeah. Say, hey, mate. What's the issue with the lights?

Why don't you want to see my baps? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the thing. Like, in my relationship, I always catastrophize. You go to the worst possible scenario and you're like, oh, my gosh, he thinks this, especially if it's happening over and over like he's turning the lights off but could it be that he's self-conscious maybe well yeah you're right he's trying to turn the lights off and he's like maybe i'm a bit i've got a dad bod or something and i'm feeling self-conscious yeah true yeah it's a very good thought if he's anything like me every time i stare in the bathroom mirror a single tear drips

down my cheek so he might not be happy with his body yeah you're right okay so yeah well let's get some help from the hits uh family right now very very helpful in these situations are you lights on or lights off is that too personal it's not always thumbs up or thumbs down no she's like what are you? Are you lights on, lights off, producer Taylor? Thumbs up or thumbs down? No, she's like, I'm not answering. Thumbs up, lights on.

Lights on. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Definitely in autumn time now, it feels like in New Zealand, some rough weather heading from south to north today. Dear Megan, someone slid into my DMs. This is really nice that people trust us with these very personal topics, especially today. These people have been married for 15 years.

She says everything is fine. We're best friends, but lately she's been noticing that every time they get intimate, he gets up to turn the lights off and asks her to go into the bathroom when she's getting changed. He's put in their lovemaking on Stevie Wonder mode.

Now, I guess as another thing, maybe when the lights are on, if you're looking around the bedroom, you can see all the chores that need to be done. You know, it can get distracting. Do you think he's thinking about that in that moment? I'm trying to come up with an excuse. No. Yeah, I'm reaching.

I'm like, oh, there's some clothes that need to be folded over there, you know, stuff like that. Because the clincher is he's making her go to the bathroom. So it's not a hidden problem. But I still think, how many times did that happen? Was it once or twice? And was it for another reason? Yeah, well, that's the thing.

Yeah. I don't know. Maybe he's laying out rose petals on the bed or something. Not a nice situation for her, especially with her, you know, what it's doing to her mind, obviously, thinking about it lots. Yeah. Yeah, so people are saying, look, how long has this been happening? Is it a new thing?

It sounds as though he's just started doing it even though they've been married 15 years. Tell the hubby to do the same and then ask him what his problem is. Yeah, I wonder what would happen if she was like, no, go get changed in the bathroom. Oh, reversing it. Yeah.

Back on that. Back on him. Getting a dimmer. Yeah. Turning down the light. Like 5 a.m. mode or something. Yeah. Back on that. Back on him. Getting a dimmer. Yeah. Turning down the light. He's like 5 a.m. mode or something. Yeah. Yeah.

Let's get Claire on. What do you want to say to our listener there, Claire? Well, yeah. As I text him, I've been with my partner for eight years, and I've never seen him naked apart from when he's walking around the house drunk, and that's maybe been twice this whole time. But it's mainly because he's self-conscious. There's absolutely nothing wrong with his body at all,

but he's just that self-conscious that even during broad daylight, even at night time, he will prefer to be alone. And so I've never had a problem with my body, but the longer I've been with him, I'm now, I'm not self-conscious, but because I respect his privacy um he respects mine as well so he doesn't walk in when I'm in the bathroom if I'm getting dressed he'll get you know walk out um but also we have children and at the moment we have a nine month old so we have the monitor on so when we are being intimate I feel like I'm

being watched even though he's asleep we drop, I see. We could drop that down. Or our cat sleeps in our room, so sometimes we're, yeah. It's weird that cats sleep. Yeah, it is weird. But it's whether it is a new thing that is very odd. Maybe he went and got a tat. I don't know. Yeah, well, hey, thank you, Claire, for being so open.

You shared wonderful sharing there, Claire. I feel like a teacher at primary school. Good sharing, Claire. And yes, it is weirder for cats staring you in the eyeballs when you're doing that. Yeah, yeah. I know what you're doing. So, well, thank you. That's Claire's thoughts on it.

We've got Suze on the phone. What do you want to say? Well, I was just thinking, Megan said that she thought it could be him being self-conscious with his body. But honestly, the fact that he's asking her to move into the bathroom when she's getting changed does sound like it's a him problem. But it also sounds like it's a him problem that she should approach him about. I feel like it's something they definitely should discuss because otherwise she's just going to, it's going to fester

and she's going to think more and more into it and it's going to get worse and worse for her in her head. Yeah. And I just, I'm hoping that she's going to the worst case scenario. I'm kind of hoping there's another reason why he's asking her to go. And like, how many times did it happen? Did it happen once? And maybe he was like, I don't want the light on.

I'm trying to do something, you know? Yeah, another reason for it. I'm trying to give him the benefit of the doubt because that would be horrible if he was actually doing that. Yeah, no, I agree. So let's all hope for the best. But I definitely think it's something that she needs to discuss with him. Wonderful call, Susie.

Well spoken. Now, the Jono Pryor side poll. Lights on, lights off. Which you don't have to answer. Lights on. Okay. Yeah, good. Lights on.

Lights on. Okay, 70% on leading the poll at the moment. Keep that rolling on, rolling coverage. So what would you say? Yeah, on Facebook, a lot of correspondence coming through. And I guess probably the message that's coming through most, everyone feeling for this particular person, but most people saying no point overthinking it.

Go talk to them. Yeah. Talk to them. That seems to be the main thing that everyone's saying because you don't know until you've actually had that conversation. You can catastrophize it in your head. It might be something really innocent. And if it's not, you need to address it anyway.

Because it's going to affect your mental health. They call them having courageous conversations. When you're climbing up the corporate ladder in middle management, have a courageous conversation. That's what they say. It sucks being an adult, though. It does. Well, thank you for sharing too

And if people want to message Megan DM Dear Megan You can do so Megan Louise Pappas on Instagram Why'd you chuck your middle name in there That's just really confusing Well Megan Pappas wasn't a baby

The hits The Jono and Ben podcast My husband and I went out At the weekend And we were like When was the last time this happened Haven't been out at night Without the kids

Since at least before October. Lay the hammer down? A little bit. Oh, no, it wasn't late. We just went to a friend's house but there was drinks and stuff happening and we didn't end up

going to bed till like 2am. 2am? I know, that's really late. I can't remember. It's really late for me. We've got to do it every now and again though. It's all part of fun.

Part of life. Yeah. We've got a one-year-old and a three-year-old and a three-year-old. That's not the fun part. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No. He was up at six, which isn't too bad.

Could have been worse. But I tried to go in there because I'm actually a little bit unwell. And I had the after effects of the drinks. And so I lay down in his bed and I was like, come and read a book with me. Come and read. That didn't work. How old's Bessie? Three. Can he read

books to you? Nah. No. It was on me, but I thought at least lying down reading to him would have been less strenuous. But he's like, come on, mummy, I want breakfast. I was like, oh my god. And you know, I made a devastating choice like last weekend. I made him bluey

toast. I saw that last weekend on your social media. It looked very, very cool, very flash. Yeah, idiot. So toast that looked him bluey toast I saw that last weekend on your social media it looked very very like cool very flash yeah idiot so toast that looked like bluey the dog yeah

what was I thinking because now he wants it all the time so we get out to the kitchen at 6am and he's like mummy bluey toast I was like

mummy wants to die actually I know I have to feed you I was like what about riceys because I want to do cereal milk situation it was a real day of trying times.

And we decided we'll go for a drive. I went to get some free COVID tests to check. I don't have COVID, by the way. But we were like, we'll go for a drive. It'll kill some time. He's probably not at that age yet to our kids. And you're like, let's go out for breakfast. Yeah.

You know, like, and you don't have to cook. Oh, you trash the place. You don't have to worry about that. It's not great. She'll have some Macca's hash browns in their gob. Yeah. Yeah. You know, like, and you don't have to worry about that. She'll have some Macca's hash browns in their gob. Yeah. But then he thought he was going to the shops. And whenever he goes to the shops, he goes to the supermarket and he gets a free banana from countdown or whatever.

So then he's devoured and has a massive meltdown in the car about not stopping at the shops. He's like going to get a COVID test sucks, mum. So it was just like a real day. Well, to be fair, that's not a great highlight for him. For anyone, really.

Just trying to kill some time by getting him in the car. Even Dr. Michael Baker would be like, even for him, that's a lot. And that's his jam. That's what he loves, COVID stuff. And you know, I was like, oh my God. So there was yelling and screaming all day. And then I was like, it couldn't get worse.

But I was like, go outside and play. It was like a little bit drizzly. But anyway, we went outside. It was nine o'clock at night. It was like a little bit drizzly. But anyway, we went outside. It was nine o'clock at night. It was like a cat or he comes back in. They can sense it. I think they can sense weakness. Yeah.

They really know. He comes back in with a present for me that he's found outside. He's like, here's some Leo poo. I was like, oh, and he's holding it in his hands. Oh, wow. He's like, I am not in a state. What's Leo poo? Is it a cat dog?

It's a dog. Oh, I thought it was the neighbour. Not in a state to deal with this today. He's done it again, wow. I was like, I am not in a state. What's Leo? Is it a cat dog? It's a dog. Oh, I thought it was the neighbour. I'm not in a state to deal with this today. He's done it again, mum. Bloody Leo, over the fence. So yeah, I mean, lucky it was a good night. You literally said it's so easy coming in here and just sitting here. That's the best.

When we're the preference over hanging with your family, that's a bleak Monday.