Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Time to get your MIND BLOWN!

Episode Date: March 20, 2024

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The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations. We're slowly getting to the end of the week. As I said before, getting a little bit colder, but at 8 o'clock this morning, we've got someone that came in yesterday. We recorded this after the show, we're going to play it for you after 8 o'clock. His name is Scott Sylvan. He's a mentalist, which he does sort of magic tricks with his mind. And jeez, he blew our minds. It appears like he can read your mind. It's incredible. We're still trying to work out exactly how he did it. He got Jono to come up with a random actor

that he wanted to get on the show, someone we've never had before. He didn't even say actor. He just said to think of... Oh, did he not say actor? No, he just said think of a famous person. So famous person. The scope is so wide.

Didn't he also say dead or alive? Yeah. Dead or alive, anyone. You could have on the show. And then he worked it out slowly what you were. And the person that you came up with, Megan High, we're like, why would Jono come up with this? Because I know he asked you to go obscure.

Yeah. I've never heard you say that you want to interview this person. And then without even, I didn't tell him the name. I didn't give him any clues just looking dead into my eyes and mind effing me non-consensual mind effing i know i did consent to it you did and he figured out who this person was like does it start with an r you're like oh my god yes and then even with r you're like you can list off a whole lot of celebrities as well and i thought was i doing something with my eyes?

So he would ask me a question with my eyes flickering left or right to give away an answer. But I was watching you. You were like trying. You were dead staring. Trying not to blink almost. You weren't moving at all. It was pretty incredible.

Yeah, I always get nervous. And you guys saw me in the moment too, where I feel like I'm going to spoil the trick for the person. Which you did. Well, no, you stuffed up, but you didn't spoil it, which makes it even more amazing, really. Yeah, like, yeah. All Ben had to do was pick a word out of a book

and remember how that word was spelt. And then I shut the book, and the book was 800 pages, and then he went, oh, does it have this letter after this? And I was like, I've forgotten. I don't know. So then you picked another word. Another word. Yeah, I changed it.

And you still didn't throw him. And he got it. So it was pretty – So he gets inside your head. He would have gotten inside your head. He's like, I'm the mental one. It's really, like, amazing how they do that. I mean, obviously there's some sort of trick involved.

Scott Silverman is his name. He's performing at the Auckland Arts Festival at the moment. But yeah, but you're still kind of quick. You're like, how did he, did he, did he, you know? Yeah. It's pretty incredible. That's more impressive than pulling a rabbit out of a hat, isn't it? Yeah.

That mind stuff. Yeah. Because you're involved in it, you know? That's the thing. And I'm like, I could, I almost did. I almost screwed it up for you. And like those magic tricks, often it's just distraction, right? Like distracting your eyes or whatever.

But we were focused on him the whole time and had no idea. Yeah, anyway, we'll play it for you after 8 o'clock. It's pretty incredible. We filmed it as well, so we'll chuck it up on the Hits Breakfast social media channels as well. All the platforms, you name it. TikTok, Insta, Facebook. No, I don't think we got TikTok. OnlyFans.

We got an OnlyFans? I don't think we quite got them. WeFans. We've got an OnlyFans? I don't think we've quite got them. We should start off with OnlyFans. Yeah. We'd have to get each of us to get a niche. Yeah. Okay. I've got webbed toes.

What's yours, Pryor? Just losing hair quicker than anyone else. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Zanita, an ear specialist, has only since 2020, so this is over the last four years, she's been keeping a list of unusual items in her clinic that she's found and recovered from people's ears. Oh, yeah. In Dunedin.

And she's got, it's two A4 pages long of just the things that she has pulled out of people's ears. Now, this is the unusual, not just your wax buildups and, okay. So everything from lead from a pencil, toilet paper, Lego, pet hair, BB gun palette. Oh, my God. She's even got spiders, dead or alive. Mummified fly, popcorn popped and unpopped. Mummified? Is it mummified from the wax?

I don't know. How do you get a piece of Lego in surgery? Some of it might be kids, as you were saying. Sometimes kids are very adventurous. We're just like, I'll stick that there. Wait, mummified fly. How long had it been there? Cigarette filters are in there as well.

Bluetech, grass seed. She's just an amazing list of things. Vodka. I don't even know how vodka ends up in here. It's Dunedin. Yeah, Vodka. We know how vodka ended up in here. We've been to Castle Street. I guess a liquid. Maybe it just doesn't drain. I don't even know how vodka ends up in here. It's Dunedin. Yeah, Vodka. We know how vodka ended up in here. We've been to Castle Street.

I guess a liquid. Maybe it just doesn't drain. I don't know. Maybe they were like, you get more drunk if you put it in your ear. Yeah. You don't. Some people do it through their bottom. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. It's true, don't they? So, yeah. Have you ever seen that act? I know I've never seen it. We used to work with a young guy and he's like, what's this? What's my mate? And when he showed us his mate doing it, I was like,

humans don't need to see other humans doing that. But that's an experimentation process too, isn't it? To get to that point. You're not just going straight. Well, some people might try straight away at a party, but that person was experienced.

Yeah, they were experienced. Yeah, they had the technique down. It was a handstand, one person on either side holding the legs upside down. This is how this works. Fourth party comes in and dispenses. Humanity. I know.

But we're just obsessed with sticking stuff inside of us any way we can. You know, noses. Kids jam stuff up their noses all the time too. Noses, ears, you name it. We have a friend who works in an A&E in Tauranga. Remember, we were talking to her,

and she said, jeez, the amount of times people come in with stuff stuck in there. I remember at a party talking to a radiographer. Is that the one that did the x-rays? Yeah. Yeah, she had some stories. She's seen some stuff. I just remember the one about the kumara.

Oh. Use your imagination. She's pushing boundaries with the kumara. Yeah, because you're pushing boundaries with the kumara yeah because they're all there yeah yeah nobly no you're working hard on the crew and not you know kind of all sort of out of shape not just like you know yeah they've done pretty well these days to keep them you know easily peelable some of the cameras like the whole thing yeah well it was stuck they had an x-ray jeez at what point

are you like oh oh that's not coming back out of there you can't tie a safety string around it very well

and you're exploring all options what have I got to hear and then you've got to make that horrible drive to the A&E don't you just in silence

but you couldn't quite sit down properly you just got your seat Sitting on your thighs I fell over in the kitchen Talk to the receptionist You don't want everyone to hear Because everyone knows don't they

No matter how great your backstory Everyone knows what's happening Unfortunately for the person that it did genuinely happen They fell over and something happened Fell over on the crew break Something happened and no one would believe it. Ever. Next, things you can say in the bedroom.

And today, Megan, you suggested this one. Oh, I don't. Yeah, okay. I did. In a classroom. A combination of two settings that you probably couldn't get away with. Which we're going to try to do next. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Let's do this. We do this very early try to do next. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Let's do this.

We do this very early on a Thursday because of obvious reasons. But it's things you can say in the bedroom and dot dot dot. Today. We've banned in 17

different countries this radio segment. Russia and China they're still on board. The communist nations are with us. Yeah. And Megan you

actually came up with the concept for this episode. It is things you can say in the bedroom and in a classroom. And Megan, you actually came up with the concept for this episode It is things you can say in the bedroom and in a classroom Now the classrooms, that was to say you can be adult students, you can be university students It doesn't have to take, you know Yeah, but also when you say it in the classroom, it's very innocent That's right

Correct, yeah, we're not focusing on primary, you know, preschool education centres Just classroom in general, You're right, Ben. Even adults turn up to AUT. Yeah, exactly. So things you can say in the bedroom and in the classroom, as always, we put it on our social media. And as always, you came through with some great suggestions of things you can say in the bedroom and in a classroom.

Megan, kick things off. I'm sorry you came last again. Now, scholastically, that's very disappointing, but in the bedroom. Yeah, true. No apologies. No. This is going to be a long, hard lesson.

If you learnt a bit more about geography, maybe you'd know where to find it. If you used a rubber, mistakes wouldn't happen. You're getting a D. Yay. It's again in the classroom you don't want. No, you don't want a D. And in the bedroom some people don't want.

Anyway, it's over to you. Choices. Everyone can make choices. You don't need to mansplain it. No, I don't need to. I shouldn't mansplain any of these. Because he got himself into an awkward hole. I did, actually.

That's what she said. That's not one I did, actually. That's what she said. That's not one of them, actually. That's not one of them. It's just me just saying stuff. What are we doing? It's your turn. Okay, sorry. He just did one, but he didn't mean to do one.

Now, that wasn't too hard, was it? You better not be cheating back there. This is things you can say in the bedroom and the classroom if you just tuned on. You've been a very naughty boy. Can we grab that? Yes. Why? Don't take that out of context.

Yeah. Don't take my audio out of context. All right, there's still a few more. Are you vaping back there? You're a latecomer. No, you're going to read the next one You've got to do the next one Megan No you do it

No no no It's cancelable Yeah no This period is over And I think this segment's over now Yeah Unless there's any more you want to end on Ben There's more

Get off your phone I wasn't sleeping And this is too hard Megan Puppers She's got her eye on the prize Her eye on the ball I wasn't sleeping. And this is too hard. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Megan Pappas, she's got her eye on the prize, her eye on the ball, her eye on the streaming services. Are your eyes ever on your children? That's what I want to know.

Who's looking after the children? I do. That's most of my time. Hopefully someone is. But what to watch with Megan Pappas. What to watch with Megan. We haven't done this in a while. You are a prolific watcher of stuff, though, aren't you?

Yeah, but do you know what? I'm into Drive to Survive, which I go on about, the Formula One Netflix series, which is six seasons since 2018. So I've got a lot to get through, and it's taking up a lot of my time. I started watching season six. I've really just jumped in deep. And I see why you would enjoy it, because you like relationships and dynamics. And it's less about the racing and more about the social dynamics of a Formula One team.

I'd say it's like 50 to 60% racing, because I'm a bit of a bogan petrolhead from way back, from Nelson. Are you? Yeah, I used to watch V8 supercars. I'd go to Bathurst and Nelson. Are you? So I, yeah, I used to watch like V8 supercars. I'd go to Bathurst and everything. Did you? Because you were saying that there's a Formula 1

in Melbourne coming up very shortly, right? Yeah. And you're like, oh jeez, I wish I was there. Because most of the,

the, what do they call them? Grand Prix's are like all over the world. Your best friend's going across, right? Yeah. She's going.

Ever done a burnout? So. Um, like a little mini one. I call them pearlies. Yeah. Like a little mini one. I call them pearlies. Like a little pearly. Bloody Nelson Bogan. I love it.

Okay, so there's that you're watching. Yeah, so that takes up a lot of my time. Another show that I got you onto, right? Yeah, so this is The Gentleman by Guy Ritchie. Do you know what I admire about the British aristocracy? They're the original gangsters. Should we play or should we talk? Welcome to the jungle.

So, have you seen anything with Guy Ritchie? Like Lock, Sock and Two Smoking Barrels? Is he Snatch? Snatch, yeah. Guy Ritchie is a legend of a director and also a legend for putting up with Madonna for all those years as well. That's right. They were married.

They've got kids. Yeah. I wouldn't be able to, like, maybe if you put him in a lineup, I don't know if I'd be able to pick Guy Ritchie. Oh, really? No. If you say Guy Ritchie putting up with Madonna,

I'd say he'd be pretty hard to put up with. He's very, very clever, though. Yeah. It's very funny. It's very, like, it's kind of full on. There's a bit of violence and stuff in there. A bit of violence. It's kind of full on. There's a bit of violence and stuff in there. A bit of violence. It's quite violent.

Yeah, there's a lot going on. It's one of those ones where the violence kind of jumps out at you. But with Guy Ritchie, you know it's coming. So it's a gangster film? Sort of London. So they're kind of like royal. They're kind of royals almost in sort of posh English. Aristocrats.

But caught up in this whole underworld, this seedy underworld of drugs and gangsters and all sorts of stuff as well. So it's very cool. So it is set in the same universe as The Gentleman the Movie, I think from 2019. Same universe, but it's not necessarily a prequel or a sequel, but it's about a guy who inherits his family estate and it's got a huge weed empire underneath.

Yeah, that he didn weed empire underneath. Yeah. That he didn't know about so his dad was obviously keeping before he died. Does Guy use his staples, actors? Vinnie Jones. Oh yeah,

nice. But the guy, the hot guy from Divergent movies, right? Theo James. And also, White Lotus.

White Lotus as well. He's very good. I don't think he's English but he's very, very good. Is he not English? It's a very gritty role't think he's English but he's very, very good. Is he not English? It's a very gritty role for him,

obviously, because it's Guy Ritchie but it's, yeah, he's very attractive. It's on Netflix. It's on Netflix

if you want to check it out. The Gentleman. Alright, you big bogan, how many cans of Cody's out of a dozen do you give that one, Megan? No, don't make that my rating. Yeah.

I'd give it a solid 8 out of 10. It's very good. 8 cans. Do you like, how many cans of 10. It's very good. 8 cans. Okay. Do you like, how many cans of, what would you drink? How many cans of Pals would you give out of a dozen Pals there, Ben? Why am I Cody's and he's Pals?

I'm more of a Pals person. I would give it 11 Pals out of 12 Pals. Yeah. Oh, wow. Very good. Wait, 10 was the measurement. He said out of a dozen Pals. Oh.

It's very confusing. It's very good. It's very good. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Winston Peters, over the last couple of days you would have heard, he's Deputy Prime Minister at the moment and he's been having a little bit of beef with the band Chumbawamba. Chumbawamba were like, great, we're back, baby.

He played Tub Thumping, you know the song, I get knocked down but I get up again, out when he was doing his speech and apparently they got wind of it and they were like, hey, maybe don't do that. And there's a whole lot of questions about whether it's legal or not for him to be doing it. But Winston Peters kind of doubled down yesterday in Parliament.

Have a listen. Just after he said that, Peters barrelled past the media playing Chumbawamba. Mr Peters, are you able to admit that you're wrong? Are you able to say, sorry, I'm wrong? Winston Peters won't let anyone keep him down. So he walked past with his iPhone blaring, playing tub thumping just past the media in Parliament.

Now my question is, who the hell logged him into Spotify? To play this, like, when he will, if he did that all himself, it's very impressive. Nah, he got someone and he's like, Yeah, someone's definitely helping out, right? Yeah. I feel like the same. Christopher Luxon does a lot of stuff on TikTok

and definitely these people as well. There was something yesterday, he was watching Jake Paul videos. Who? Christopher Luxon, yeah. Does he not have stuff to do? It was like, this guy's a fighter

and he was getting played in like a Disney, when Jake Paul was doing stuff for Disney. He was like, this guy's a fighter. He's taking on Mike Tyson. And then, yeah, he's like, this is a fighter. And then he went played at like a Disney, when Jake Paul was doing stuff at Disney. He was like, this guy's a fighter. He's taking on Mike Tyson. And then, yeah, he's like, this is a fighter. And then he went into a like, seamlessly went into, I'll tell you who I am, I'm a fighter because I'm fighting for,

you know, like, I'm fighting inflation. You're like, oh God, we've turned this into a political ad. Oh, office. Then Woody walks past. Knocked out. Those people who are living in Kianga Water houses who aren't respecting them. All right, back to TikTok.

The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. I didn't realise you were going to bring this so close to home. It's a fun little game I want to play. We actually did it just by chance off air after the show during the week. We were like, I wonder how old Mel Gibson is now. We all had a guess and took a look. I thought, let's guess the age of

famous people. And Ben, I thought we should keep it domestic because it adds a little bit more jeopardy to the game. I'll tell you what, front footer, I'm always going to go lower than I think because then you don't offend people. Are you going to try and nail it? I always go lower. If you've got the choice, like Maddie McLean, you said,

I'm not going to go 59. Am I? Let's try and play the game honestly. So, yeah, I'll just name a celebrity. And I mean, it could be a very humbling and sobering experience for the celebrities that the names have mentioned, but I'll chuck some international ones out there as well.

So you can make mocking guesses to bed boys. We can get all facets of the boys act this morning. Okay, the first one. Closer to home. how old do you think new hits drive host and hosts maddie mclean and pj hardinger okay so uh throw your guesses in now maddie mclean pj harding now maddie mLean Because he started on TV So young Don't Google me No I'm not No

I know that I know that PJ's Younger than me But I also know That she's in her 30s Okay So take a guess Went to her 30th

Right Okay so you actually Probably have a good idea of She was I'm going to I'm going to say it publicly She's younger than I thought she was Not

Not dramatically How long ago was her 30th I'm going to say it publicly. She's younger than I thought she was. Not dramatically. Oh, how long ago was her 30th? And again, 34. You think 34? 34, Ben. That's about right, yeah. I feel like I read the story of her about the hero the other day on her wedding, which I think was around the early 30s.

She's 33. Is she? 33 years old. And again, she's just been doing the job for so long. Maddie McLean. It sucks when these people have great success and they're younger than you. Yeah. I know.

Maddie is. 30s, they're in the prime of their life. But he's in his 30s. Yeah, Maddie has been on TV for a long time, right? Since he was 18, 19. Maddie would be older than PJ. Yes, he is. And younger than me again.

A couple of years, what do you reckon? 35, 36? 36. 37, older than PJ. Yes, he is. And younger than me again. A couple of years, what do you reckon? 35, 36? 36. 37, ladies and gentlemen. Oh, okay. Yeah. Good to always go a little bit younger though. That's good.

Okay. All right, John Campbell. John Campbell. John Campbell, again, been out and about in the spotlight for decades. I feel like he might look deceptively youthful somehow. I will give you a clue. 50s? He does. he might look deceptively youthful somehow. I will give you a clue. 50s? He does.

He does look deceptively. He has looked the same age since about the age of 40. Good on him. John Campbell. It's his positive outlook on life, you know? 56. Yeah. I'll go 53.

60. Is he? John Campbell's 60. And jeez, he looks incredible. He does look fantastic. Good on you, sister. Yeah. Good on you.

John O'Prior. Okay who's older John O'Prior or Jack Nicholson? Same age. We have the same nursing home together. Now we've got

producer Taylor in the studio this morning with us. You have gotten your head about sleep over the last 48 hours. So my husband, he's studying a course at the moment and the particular subject they were up to this week is sleep and the importance of it. And he was watching a TED talk in the

lounge room while I was watching TV and I was overhearing it. I was like, mate, you need to take that computer elsewhere because this is horrifying to listen to as a shift worker. Yeah, right. Right? So pretty much it went into men need at least seven to nine hours of sleep to function as a normal human being. Wow. And females need at least eight to nine hours.

And who in this room right now is getting that? None of us. No. No. females need at least eight to nine hours. And who in this room right now is getting that? None. None of us. No. No. Well, yeah, that's meant to be every night, right? Every night. And the knock-on effect of not getting those hours is you're incredibly impulsive,

your decision-making is really bad, and you're reactive. And I don't know about you guys, but I think now I'm all those three things. You are. Yeah, you're just 100% all those Imagine how far less disappointing We would all be with more sleep How many hours of sleep Do you think you actually get a night?

Like six Six, you? I'd get six on a good night Benny boy? I don't know yeah Probably five, six Yeah about five or six Yeah

How much is that spent Lying in your bed worrying about You're probably like this Yeah, about five or six. How much is that spent lying in your bed worrying about stuff? You probably like this. Do you do that? That's such a female thing to do. Oh, yeah, like, now and again, sometimes I wake up.

Sometimes I go to sleep and then wake up and then worry about stuff. But that's all right. That's annoying when you do that. You go to sleep and then you wake up for a good little bit

and then you think about stuff for a while. Yeah. But when you're trying to go to sleep, you're like, what did I say on the radio today? Oh God, oh God.

I feel like new producer Grace, she came in on Monday and she's like, oh, I had a little nap yesterday afternoon. Now this is, you know, this is someone who doesn't have children

in their lives. I feel like you retire your sleep as soon as you have kids and it disappears for probably the next 18 years. Producer Grace, how long was your nap

the other day on Monday? It was a three-hour nap. Three-hour nap? That's night time. That's a short nap for me, I just want to say. That's a day. What? That's a daytime coma.

Yeah. Three-hour nap. Oh, my God. I could dream of a three-hour nap. And then you slept at night as well. Yeah, for probably seven hours. Oh. Wow.

So you're getting a good amount of sleep, but just making it up over two things. Yeah, adding it together. We add them together. You're probably getting about right then by what Taylor's saying. No, she's not. This course said if you're going to have a nap, only if you must. Naps aren't good.

Limit it to 20 to 45 minutes max. Oh, the sleep cycle. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You're getting too deep if you hit that 45 minute plus mark. I was looking here. New Zealand, overall, internationally. You're getting too deep if you hit that 45-minute plus mark. I was looking here. New Zealand, overall, internationally, we're bloody good sleepers. We're second, the second highest nation for sleeping.

Wow. The only nation higher than us, the Netherlands, eight hours, five minutes average, and you can pin a lot of that probably of what's happening in Amsterdam. Yeah. Then New Zealand, second. Second. We don't even need to break that ranking stat down per capita like at the Olympics. We're just flat out second.

Eight hours, four minutes a night average in New Zealand. I love that we're good at eating and sleeping. Yeah. Last place, Singapore. Seven hours and 20 minutes. That's because they've got bloody China up in there, you know, busting their chops. What are China, you know, always got to stay awake. What's China doing've got bloody China up in there, you know, busting their chops. What are China, you know,

always got to stay awake. What's China doing? Are they coming for us now? No wonder they're not getting much to say. And Japan, it's culturally accepted, even respectful,

for men, a woman to fall asleep during dinner parties or at work. Oh wow. Geez, I'd be a respectful person in Japan.

The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. About who sleeps the most amount of time. There's an actor, Dakota Johnson, Fifty Shades of Grey. She's also in that Madam Web movie. Now, I'm going to not tell her how much she sleeps at night until the end. I'm going to see if anyone can beat her. Okay.

Is it an impressive figure? It's an impressive amount for someone who obviously works a job that would be long hours as well. You know, acting. I mean, imagine the full long days. Is it consistent sleep or is it pockets? out for someone who obviously works a job that would be long hours yeah as well you know acting i mean imagine their full long days is it consistent sleep or pockets well yeah i think i don't know if it's this is what her idea was when she gets the most so maybe she's not doing it but she's working very hard but no one ever feels no one ever feels like they get enough sleep do they even when you have like an eight hour you wake up and you're like, why am I still tired? I reckon even bloody

Sleeping Beauty, when she woke up from that non-consensual kiss from that priss in that problematic scene I reckon even she woke up that afternoon she was like, you know what, I could do with a bloody nap right now Sleeping Beauty, let's get Avisa on, welcome Avisa, how are you?

I'm good Thanks Lovely to have you on We're talking Most amount of sleep Make us jealous Well I do go to school

And let's just say It has very long days I'm known as the girl Who brings a pillow to school So yeah Oh so you have a nap At school will you? Yeah yeah

Jono's got a You've got a car pillow I can only go to bed at like 7.30ish If I can Go to bed at 7.30 what time do you wake up? About like Sometimes 8 If I sleep in 8.30 So like 12 and a half 13 hours Yeah

13 hours sleep Why are you up early today? Well I have to go to tennis. Bloody tennis. Well, thankfully you are up early today because we had no one else calling for the stopper. Well, no one could beat that. That's pretty impressive. 13 hours.

And do you feel good after 13? Do you feel like you are operating at a better level compared to your fellow students? Definitely. One of my friends just survived off, like, an hour of sleep. So I don't know how she does it. But then also you're taking a pillow to have a nap at school as well, on top of the 30 naps. Yeah.

Are you concerned that narcolepsy might be an issue? There's one thing I say, don't give up on your dreams. Literally. Literally. Literally, you're dreaming quite a lot. Yeah. Well, thank you so much for calling. We're going, you're dreaming quite a lot. Yeah. Well, thank you so much for calling.

We're going to flick you out a double pass to Drax Project when you can see them when they're on their tour very shortly. Okay, thank you so much. I think it's stay awake

to the end of the concert. They woke up late hoping they'll be at the concert. Yeah. So Dakota Johnson I just said at the start there, she's an actor. She's married to Chris Martin.

14 hours. I'm married. 14 hours. I'm not. That the start there, she's an actor. She's married to Chris Martin. 14 hours. They're married. 14 hours. A night. That's what she, yeah, she easily could go 14 hours sleep a night. Mind you, she has to listen to Coldplay music. She easily. Oh, that's putting me to sleep.

Hey, I love Coldplay. She said she could easily go 14 hours. Like, if you left me, I reckon I could. Yeah. We've got alarms and stuff. Yeah, but she's not awake. If she's 14 hours, she'll go. Yeah, most times she'll go 14 hours if she could. But if got alarms and stuff. She's 14 hours. Most times she'll go 14 hours if she could, but if she doesn't set an alarm or have to get up or anything.

So 14 hours is pretty impressive. You're not a successful Hollywood multi-million dollar actor. No. That is wow. Thank you. 14 hours. We should do like a wonderful hotel or something where we have like a sleep-a-thon. Anyone who just wants to get an extended nap.

Yeah. Let's just not set our alarms tomorrow morning and see what time we wake up. I could try that one more. Oh, that's a good experiment. You've already done it once. Yeah, that's right. That was only a couple of weeks ago.

This is so good. Let's do it again. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. There's a $1 house, $1 reserve in South Auckland you can get at the moment. So big risk, isn't it? Is it in a good state?

Yeah, it's been about $70,000 worth of renovations. You can find it right now on one roof, but they're putting it $1 reserve. So huge, huge risk. But hopefully the gamble will pay off. Otherwise, someone could get a house for $1. Yeah, I love those $1 reserves. And you put it on your watch list and then right before it runs out, it's like, million dollars. Yeah, yeah.

Oh, cool. I've never sold anything off Trade Me. Admin. You know me with administration, Ben. Yeah. Like, I've had a 24-year career of not sending out prizes from radio shows that have haunted us, hasn't it? Yeah, true. Remember the towel scandal?

Yeah. I had an abundance of beach towels that I received for Christmas after Christmas and never sent them out. And that followed us over here. Complaints were coming over here saying, I never got my beach towel. Enzied me here to deal with it, tidy up that mess. So yeah, never been on Trade Me. Oh yeah, there's a lot of admin.

What's the time? I'm not even joking. I really don't want my husband to know about this. So if you see him today, please don't tell him. Now, this was a cover-up yesterday. You were telling me about this. It's almost like a murder scene that you had to cover up at home before he got home. So I went to an appointment yesterday that finished early, and I was like, whoopsie,

accidental shopping trip. So I went to the mall. I was just looking. Don't you hate that? I was just looking, and I stumbled upon a really cute pantsuit that I was like oh I need it yeah and uh it's oh let me guess was it on sale no it wasn't even on sale no but it was like it was pretty cheap um and so I was like I'll treat myself haven't bought anything for ages but we are not we're on like a buying ban you know cost

of living like we're not we're not spending money at the moment and i spent money yesterday you needed a pantsuit have you got a pantsuit already no uh yeah no but i don't have a black one i bought a black one right so i was getting home and my husband called me he's like i'm on my way home i'm almost home and i was on my way home and almost home and i was like how am i going to hide the what am i going to do we're going to get home at the same time i've got the shopping bag i was going to hide it under my seat and that's cacking her pantsuit right now and that's when he says to me do we need milk and i was like yes we do he's like no i think there's some of the fruit i was like no we definitely need milk please stop at the dairy

and get some milk I was like buy me five minutes so the race is on I got home and I bolted I put everything away in the wardrobe and I wrapped up the bag chucked it in the wheelie bin I pulled stuff out of the wheelie bin to shove it down to the bottom

and I hid the receipt in case I needed to return them for what it was. Do you think he'll notice when you wear this? Do you think he's observant enough? Because he seems quite observant. Then he'll go, oh, where'd you get that from? I'm just going to leave it a wee while and I won't wear them together. I'll introduce them as separate.

Then I'll wear it together in seven minutes. Is it a one-piece thing? It's like a waistcoat and the pants. So you're just bringing out the waistcoat on one occasion. and the pants and i'll definitely say it was on special yeah you guys always do it don't think that we don't notice a bit yeah yeah what's the one that you bought the waistcoat waistcoat by itself on special it's different to just smashing it out and buying the full set right here we go at ben boyce you what's the line you always get it's versatile you can dress it up or dress it down yeah it's the two options it's classic it's black i'll wear it all the time yeah dress it up dress down okay yeah okay i guess you can

dress anything up or dress anything down really if you want to still how much did it cost let's look at the bank account. Let's dress up and dress down this 00 account and see what we've got going on. Don't think we're falling for your little lingo in your mind, guys. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, Jen, my wife, she's had a crack at me for something that I keep consistently sending her via Instagram. You know, I don't know if you get fed

this in your feed, so to speak. Your algorithm's pretty messed up. No, yours is all over the place. It's quite erratic. Yeah. There's a lot of stuff going on there. But yeah, because the more you kind of watch, the more they kind of feed you stuff along those lines, right? Yeah.

Which is worrying. I'll get everything from my top G, Andrew Tate, right through to kids who- Don't call him top G. It's his name. He's the top G to me. He'll always be the top G. All right, you're on your own with that one. But another one I get is just people making the most delicious goddamn food in jump cut videos. You just see their finely manicured hands just making the ultimate stoner meal.

It's like I saw a lady make a nachos pie. So she had the pie base and she smashed a bag of Doritos down the bottom, then puts the mints on top, then sour cream, and then tops it again with more cheese and then more crushed Doritos. So I'm like, this is an amazing meal. I just pushed that fun little arrow. You know how you can forward things. Send that on to Jennifer.

And last night, she's like, can you come and look at this? And this was her Instagram. She's like, look at everything you've sent me. She's just scrolling through just food videos, food cooking videos. She's just scrolling through. Just food videos. Food cooking videos. She's like, what's the intention here? Is this a passive-aggressive way of going, you better make these for me? Yeah, it's like a 2024 cook me some eggs scenario.

It does feel like it, doesn't it? Just slightly more passive-aggressive. Not as forward-facing. It's like all these options. This is what I'd like for dinner Anyway You'll be happy to know She refuses to engage in

My eggs haven't been cooked Not once I love it Refuses engaging in any of them And yeah I might just Send them to you guys now Okay

Or make your own nacho pie Yeah Yeah The Hits The Jono and Ben Podcast Sylvan is a mentalist He does illusions Mind tricks And he's doing a performance For the next few days The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Sylvan is a mentalist. He does illusions, mind tricks,

and he's doing a performance for the next few days. You should go along and see him. Yeah, it's Sky City Theatre. Now, Scott, you just arrived this morning from New York. I just arrived a couple of days ago, so I'm still slightly dazed and confused. First time here, but super excited. What do you write on your passport?

You know, you have to write when you come into the country. You have to write what your job is. What's your occupation? What do you write? That's you know you have to write into when you come into the country you have to write what your job is what's your occupation what are you right that's a really good question isn't it yeah disturbing individual or something like that do you write mentalist or do you just write entertainer or something i write i think it's like some um enigma like performance artist yeah it keeps it struggling artists exactly why not totally so people who don't know what is a mentalist when you hear the word mentalist, it sounds pretty scary, doesn't it? Yeah. Really, it's just a branch of illusion.

So a traditional magician might do things with coins and cards. What I use is people's minds, people's emotions, memories, experiences, and I hopefully craft impossible illusions from those things. I find more mind-blowing. Yeah. Because within a card trick, you're like, well, there's obviously a skill to that. But when you get inside people's minds, that's a whole other level.

Cause you studied, uh, hypnosis is, is a youngster. Didn't you? That's right. I was a little kid actually. Did you run away and learn it somewhere?

Oh yeah. You know my story. I'm sorry. This is spread around the media. I tried to hide it from my parents when I was growing up. I was 13 and, I grew up in Scotland and I got a bus from Scotlandotland to milan in italy didn't tell my mom said it was a school trip at 13 13 jesus um and like went away one weekend and came back with

hypnosis skills really was it like a weekend crash course in hypnosis in milan essentially yeah a little like strange don't know who the guy was um sounds a little culty yeah exactly like requested cash to be paid but it seemed to work out in the end which was great so you learned hypnosis over a weekend yeah pretty much and he did a strange thing where like you had to go into the street like once you'd learned the skills you had to go into the streets grab anyone and ask if he wanted to be hypnotized so you were like really put on the spot at 13 13 i know wild so that was the sort of turning point that i came back and was like wow the power of the mind what an amazing so that was the sort of turning point that i came back and was like wow

the power of the mind what an amazing thing and began to sort of transition from traditional magic at that point to uh to mentalism there's no hypnosis in my shows when you mention the power of the mind uh like i see all these really bloody inspirational instagram videos of like goggins david gog you think of anything you can do do it. That stuff is wild. Yeah. That's not my vibe. Are you not going to yell at us like David Goggins? I'm not running a hundred miles a day. Yeah, totally. Can you do anything with that? Because the mind is, like you say, it's an insane tool. If you put your mind to anything, can you actually achieve it? Do you believe that?

I actually think you can. I think this is a really interesting thing. When people ask how I do what I do, they assume it's some gift that I've been given. And really, it's just tapping into a sense of rapport and intuition, which we all have within us. And I think so often in our lives, we shut ourselves off, don't we? We're like on our phone, or we're completely insular and focused. And if we just open ourselves up to the world in a brighter way, yeah, we can connect in a deeper level. You're not going to run a hundred miles. You bring your show here. It's called Wonders as part of the Auckland Arts Festival happening in the moment.

It's really cool to have you here. I'm always worried though, cause you're going to do some stuff with us. I'm overthink stuff and I think, am I going to screw it up for you? That's what I always second guess myself in these situations. You've just got to let go. Well, the good thing is if you do screw it up,'s your fault so okay guys i can't take any responsibility for that which i think is fine okay could you use your powers for evil if you were hypothetically speaking could you mind if someone so badly that they've given you all their passwords and banking details

that's a good question i try not to but i find it interesting like how willing people are to give themselves to an experience and how open they are into sharing secrets and that sort of stuff. So I've received some information before that I probably should never reveal. You could travel the world just skipping thousands. But as you say, if this stops working out for me, maybe I will start a cult one day. We'll see what happens. You guys are welcome to join. We'll be there.

Start a Milan. We'll see what happens. A week into Milan, it's fantastic. Start to Milan. We'll see what happens. A weekend in Milan sounds fantastic. That's wonderful. Completely innocent, of course. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We've got Scott Sylvan with us. He is a mentalist.

He does amazing mind tricks. He's here at Sky City at the moment. Now, you asked us some questions off air. Yeah, so what I wanted it to be first of all was completely innocent so i asked you to think in your head to focus on a celebrity someone that you've maybe not had on the show someone that you would want on the show and just to confirm i didn't ask you to write anything down on a piece of paper or anything like that or show it to any of these guys i haven't seen it you're just thinking of it correct yeah you have that thing now inside your head now as you now look at me you're just thinking of it. Correct. You have that thing now inside your head.

Now, as you now look at me, you're just going to focus whether that person is male or female. Don't say it out loud. Notice the eyes going up. This is a male that you're focused on, yes? What?

Where did my eyes go? Did my eyes move? And this is slightly sinister, but if you can, you're just going to focus whether that person is living or dead. Yeah?

Yeah, they're living. Fantastic. How are you doing this? No, no, he didn't do anything. I'm just trying to steer dead into Scott's eyes. You have that person in your mind, and it is a dead steer, I will say. That's really intense.

Oh, my goodness. He's getting close. I think he's hypnotizing me. He's trying to make it hard for me. Are we going to hook up, Scott? What's going on here? Okay, I'm going to take a hit on this. This person, if you can, you're going to focus whether they're an actor or they're a musician.

This is an actor, okay? What? And you're going to focus whether this is a native to New Zealand. How is he doing this? Someone who's American, someone who's British. You have that inside your head, so it's American, British, New Zealand. This is an American. Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. Okay. Like, to me, Jono's not moving. I'm trying not to. inside your head so it's american british new zealand this is an american oh my god oh my god okay like to me john is not moving i'm trying not to i'm just looking directly at scott yeah i'm going to show you guys this first of all so you okay so this is interesting because you've just come i'm originally from scotland i've been in america you've just come off a long haul flight into new zealand so also celebrities are different in different countries as well we are but as i said that's why i whittled down that you're focused on americans so i think i may get this i think it's um it's one of two people first of all can you just focus on the first one of two people what could be one of a thousand people letter of their name right just the first letter of their name yeah okay don't

say it out loud just the first letter um what's the first letter of their name ah no scott has No! Scott has written R on a piece of... Okay, fantastic. Okay. So this is a male American celebrity. I can't even think of someone. I'm going to take a hit in this. It was an obscure celebrity too. Yeah. Oh my God.

I'm hoping it's this. Okay. I've already committed myself. Wow. Okay, I've seen what you've locked in. You've written the person's name down on a piece of paper. So this was a celebrity you said we've never had on the show and I'd really like to talk to.

Yeah. It was Robert De Niro. Bullshit. Oh, my. What the? No. No. No.

Why would you? Robert De Niro, really? Why Robert De Niro? I mean, great. Scott was like, think of someone You've never had on the show And Ben wouldn't think of No I wouldn't I would have thought

Off the top of your head Yeah because he loves Rock music Axl Rose I know that's what I thought Yeah I was like Oh my god How

I've never That is wild But that's not someone That Jono ever talks about No That's why Because I was trying to go So obscure

Well not so obscure But just something That they wouldn't think of That you wouldn't be able To connect with. Well, thank you so much for connecting with me. Scott. These are some of the strange things you might experience and wonder if you come to the show.

Wow. Amazing. Please, definitely go along and see Scott. That was incredible, mate. Lovely to meet you. So good to meet you guys. That was amazing. Thank you so much.

Wow, Scott Sylvan. We'll have a video of that today coming out on the Hits Breakfast Instagram and Facebook. Pretty incredible. I just don't want to. How did he? I know. Were you in cahoots with him? No.

I thought you were because you went out of the studio. He's more dynamic than Dynamo. He's more angelic than Criss Angel there, guys. So definitely go see him. The Hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Now people say that sorry, guys, is the hardest word to say. There's songs about it too.

Too late now to say sorry. Hard for me to say I'm sorry. Sorry seems to be the hardest word. But apparently I say it too much. I've been told. My wife will say it's lost meaning. It's probably like when you say legions, everyone, Jono. It loses its meaning.

It does, yeah. It's just a filler word for you now. She's like when there's a genuine apology I don't know I'm not saying I wasn't genuine when I say oh sorry about that but I just say it quite often that if it's a bigger apology it feels like I've already it's not the same because I've already said sorry you do say sorry a lot even the nurse the other day because I've been obviously banging on about my arm as well and I kept saying to her and I didn't realize I'm like oh sorry it's a bit messy sorry I have to clean it just sorry and she's like would you stop saying sorry it's my job all this stuff is my job yeah I was like oh sorry I apologize to say sorry too much you say it all the time we've been talking about something you're like oh sorry I didn't mean to

sorry yeah it's like, it's okay. I know, yeah. It's okay, mate. One of my favorite sorry moments was when we were filming for the TV show. Remember that, Johnna? And we were doing something on the street and we had to go up and sort of, we were bugging people briefly

and then we were coming back and sort of revealing why we were sort of doing it. And you had a, there was a charity worker. Oh, yeah, a pesky charity worker in Hamilton. And he was in a and he was in a he was in sales mode and he had a customer there and he was

he had them on the hook by the looks of it and I went I can't remember what the game was no I can't remember we were doing some sort of game it was like hold this thing

while I'm doing something else or whatever it was essentially interrupting the transaction right and then he came over afterwards he's like

well I hope you're proud of yourself and you went sorry about that we're just taking it and he goes no you're proud of yourself. And you went sorry about that. We're just taking it. And he goes, no, you're not sorry. He did that exactly what he wanted to do on purpose. He called out the sorry. He said, you don't mean, you're not sorry at all.

And he was dead right, I wasn't. But when someone says you're not sorry, it packs some punch too. Because nine times out of 10, no, you're not sorry. You're not sorry. If anything, I probably saved that customer signing up to a lifetime of monthly direct debit payments to some obscure animal charity that he was trying to get hooked into. We find we do it a little bit for the radio after the show

when we call up people, right? We call up people to try and get them on. We're like, sorry for this call. We're like, why are we sorry for this call? We intended to make this call directly to this person. Yeah. Or like, I often find when you're asking for something on email, I'm like, hey, sorry to bother you.

But it's like, well, I'm not actually sorry because I need it done. Okay, from now on, no sorries. I think it's probably a hangover from when we were filming that TV show. We were constantly 15 minutes late for everything. So you'd enter every room going sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry let's not say it unapologetic

from now on we don't apologise at all we're like Mark Hosking from now on we don't apologise for anything we say or do

New Zealand have fallen out of the top 10 of happiest countries in the world we were in there last year not this year

apparently Finland the number one happiest country in the world. I would say that. I feel there's a bit of tension out there sometimes, don't you? In New Zealand?

Yeah. Oh, yeah. We're pretty grumpy. There's a lot of road rage. Yeah, definitely. Wouldn't we be in the top 100? I'm not sure at the moment. We want you to be the hero, Paramas.

Jono and Ben's Mascot Race. We are racing halftime at the Warriors game, Easter Sunday, Go Media Stadium. And we've done it before and we'll do it again. It's a mascot race and we're trying to get a whole lot of mascots to take on our hit-opotamus, hippopotamus mascot. It's Easter Sunday at the Warriors and, jeez, you won't find a mascot for love nor money on Easter Sunday. Even the Easter Bunny, I think, is taking a day's annual leave. And he only works one day a year to run in the mascot race. And if you'd like to put your company's mascot forward,

we'd love to have you involved. Text 4487. And also we're looking for someone to run in our mascot, the hippo, the hits hippo, the hitopotamus as well. You can text 4487. But we've got Andy on the phone. What business are you from? Counties Manukau Rugby Football Union.

Oh, we had you in the race last year, I think. Yeah, we're back again to win it this time. Steely Dan is the Counties mascot. That's the one. That's right. Where did Steely Dan come last year? Oh, a bit controversial. Fourth or fifth.

We didn't get an official finishing position. Yeah, didn't make the podium. No. All that mattered in that propaganda race was that the hippopotamus won. There you go. Do you know what? I was showing my daughters the race of that last night, of last year, because you can see it on our Instagram and Facebook and stuff,

and she was like, the hippopotamus might have gone a little early. Oh. Might have gone a little early. Oh. Might have gone a little early. And I was like. It's been like higher or something to sit on the roof this year. Yeah. I was like, oh, dear God, don't say that. They might have got a bit of cheating involved.

When you look at it, Ben, with hindsight, did the hippopotamus go early? Because you saw the same video. I was like, oh, it could be the angle of the video as I was trying to say to my daughter. Yeah. i do i do love steely dan though uh steely dan looks like the tin man from the wizard of oz on steroids yeah well we've got a new steely dan after his performance i'm in the race and um his head coming off we decided decided to invest in a new head. So he's got straps and all and he

or she is good to go. Awesome. I can't wait to have you a part of the race again. We really, really appreciate it. So we'll see you next Easter Sunday at Go Media Stadium. Yeah, we'll look forward to that. We're fizzing and we can't wait to be there. Awesome, Andy. We'll see you there on

Easter Sunday and Kelvin joins us. Kelvin, Andy. We'll see you there on Easter Sunday. And Kelvin joins us. Kelvin, what's the name of your business? It's Life Education Trust, Counties Manukau. Oh, Harold the giraffe. Harold the giraffe. Yeah, Harold. You know Harold?

Harold. Everyone loves Harold. Harold was in the race last year. But Harold, not quite designed for running. Oh, listen. He was so disappointed. He was gut the race last year, but Harold not quite designed for running. Oh, listen, he was so disappointed. He was gutted. Absolutely gutted. But he's at the training now. He's got his hoodie up.

He's running around. Hey, Timor-Lax, get on with it! He's still training. But what you guys all forget, he may be 37 years old, but in giraffe years that's 82. He needs a head start. He says he's New Zealand's most recognised mascot.

He needs a bit of help there. He does, although he could just run with his head, you know, the photo finish where they all put their heads forward. Harold could do that from a long way out, so maybe he's got an advantage. But he would nose-knife. He's all neck and head, Harold, isn't he? He is, he is. A big heart as well, though. And a big heart. It's awesome to have head, Harold, isn't he? He is, he is. A big heart as well, though. And a big heart.

It's awesome to have you back again, Life Education, now counties Monaco as well. People don't know exactly what you do. What does Life Education do? Basically, we are invited by schools to go and educate their students on the key issues which young kids are going to face. Bullying, obesity, mental health and well-being, and substance use. Now, the biggest problem at the moment that all the schools are facing is vaping.

When you've got kids who are seven years old, vaping three or four times a week is not good. Whoa. I know. It's terrible. And it's the flavours, right, that hook the kids in. I'll ask you a question. How many flavours are there? Jeez, I would say... Hundreds.

Yeah, I don't know, 20 or so? You Google it and you'll find there's between 17,000 and 20,000 different flavours available. What? No way. It is not doing these little youngs any good at all.

Yeah, especially when you're seven years old. Yeah. Crazy. It's lollies. I mean, kids will say, no, we're not going to smoke. Smoking's bad for your health. They don't see it as smoking. It's lollies. I mean, kids will say, no, we're not going to smoke. Smoking's bad for your health. They don't see you smoking.

It's lollies. Yeah, wow. Well, it's great to have you part of the race and great to hear what you do for the community. It's awesome work. Sunday, we'll see Harold on the field at Go Media Stadium, Easter Sunday. Run, Harold, run!

Thanks, Kelvin. And if you want your mascot to take part if you're a business with a mascot, love to hear from you. 4487 on the text.