Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Weekend Highlights: Ben Had A Weird Sleep.

Episode Date: April 22, 2023

Cramping in the evening Jono almost helped someone out... The jab! The story that almost happened See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations. Of course, the weather's getting a little bit colder. We're heading into a cold and flu season, and they reckon a fourth wave of COVID is setting in. And the experts, the health experts, remember them? They were like the superstars of the country that were on the news every night to talk to for a while.

They're a little worried that people are pretty complacent about getting the vaccine. And, you know, you kind of see where people are. I got jabbed up yesterday. I got the new shot and the flu shot. It's off to jab it in me, mate. Does it free chuck it in me? I'll take anything.

Take the plague, whatever you want to do. The contraceptive injection, put that in my arm. A lot of people are, you know, like unsure if they're going to do it or not. It's everyone's choice now, right? It's not being forced upon anyone. No, it's not. And what I could feel, and why I needed another one,

is I could feel like the government were losing track of me with my beacon. The signal was starting to fade. So I was like, better juice that up just so they can keep an eye on where I am. But in all honesty, I got vaccinated the first time around and still got COVID. Yeah, yeah. And that's probably not good information to get out there, but I don't know if it 100% protects you.

I don't think, yeah, it definitely doesn't stop you from getting it. They just reckon it lessens the impact. It's what the experts say it lessens the impact. You end up with a cool sore arm, like when a bully dead arms you at school. Definitely not saying that it stops you from getting it right. I think everyone thought that maybe that might have been the case at the start,

but it's definitely not the case now. I was speaking to a doctor over the Easter period there, Ben, and I only said that so I could just brag that I spoke to a doctor outside of the surgery, and she was saying that it's going to be a wild winter for healthcare professionals. So they're strapping themselves,

and not necessarily for COVID, but COVID and everything else as well. Right. But I feel like we're all kind of numb because a couple of weeks ago you were like, got to alert, the Kraken's going to be here, it's going to be everywhere. And then there was an article last week going,

oh, that was milder than we thought. So I feel like every time we say it's going to be wild, everyone goes, oh, will it? Because there's so much of the boy who cried wolf situation going on. Yeah, that's why you should always get your vaccine information from TikTok. That's what I've found. It's never let me down. But I know a lot of it, and everyone's going on about,

why is there still a seven-day stay-at-home isolation period if you get it? Nowhere else in the world is doing it. No, no one else is doing that, right? I think Singapore had some of the strictest rules during the actual thing. They've shut down their COVID website. They're like, just exercise sensible decision making. They're leaving it in the hands of the people. If you're sick, well then don't go out.

Hang on, they're letting adults come up with? I don't know. I don't know. It's too controversial. I can't get my head around it. I can't get adults making their own decisions. But I think from a government point of view, they're doing that in the hope that they can ease pressure on the healthcare system.

So I think that is the overall goal. And so I guess that's a good thing, right? You can't have overstressed out doctors and nurses. They're already running at capacity. That's true, but people are using it to the advantage in workplaces. And again, it's hurting businesses around the country. Okay, Ben Boyce,

I'm going to spray out a hypothetical situation. You get home today, you get a double liner. Okay, Ben Boyce, I'm going to spray out a hypothetical situation. You get home today, you get a double liner. Okay, double liner on your test. Right. I know you're fresh off a holiday and there's a lot of stuff you need to do. There's a lot of stuff you need to do.

Well, I've tested, so I've obviously thought I've got to do what I've got to do. No, but I can't come. No, but I know you as a person, you've got so much stuff you want to get done. You being stuck at home for seven more days? Oh, I wouldn't like it. Jeez, I wouldn't like that at all.

But hey. Are you ploughing on? Talk to me honestly. Not if I've tested. No, not if I've tested positive. I'm not. No, absolutely not. Okay.

Good to know. Publicly anyway. Maybe I'll test and not tell anyone. Yeah. I know. But do what you need to do. Keep safe. Make your own decisions.

Yeah. Make sure they're sensible ones. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Something that happened to me last night. It doesn't happen. In fact, I can't remember the last time it happened, but getting cramp. You had a cramp in the middle of the night. Not for a while, but yeah, when it happens, it happens hard.

All of a sudden. Yeah, like back of the thigh, was it? Yes, it was back of the thigh. Now, I don't know if I was sleeping with a bit more energy or movement or anything. I don't know. Or whether it just kicks in because- You are quite highly strung. I am surprised it doesn't happen more often.

Your muscles must be very tense. And then you kind of get the cramp in the back of your thing. You instantly wake up in a whole lot of pain. Like, what the hell is that? And then you have to- You stand up, bolt her upright. And then you're sort of trying to work your leg back into. But it's a slow build, isn't it?

And you can't stop the process. No. Because it's like it slowly builds up to that point of pain, and you're just kind of locked. You're locked. You're locked. You can't do anything for about 30 to 60 seconds. Yeah, I was trying to get up, but it was like I had,

the leg wasn't my own. It was like it was all sort of like. Possessed. Yeah. And you're sort of standing up in the middle of the night and you're like, well, I just want to go back to sleep, but I'm having to work this through. Pins and needles is the other one as well too.

That's very, you know, when you sleep on your hand or... Or your arm and you just kind of... It doesn't feel like it's attached to your body. You have to lift it up with your other arm and it just kind of slaps on your face and... You've got to work the sort of feeling back into it. You do. That one you can pump the old fists, can't you,

and get the blood flow going. But that's a very confronting way to wake up. I think you reach a stage in life where you're like, you wake up and you get out of bed and you're sore. All I've been doing is lying there for five or six hours. I've been resting. What have I been doing in there that's now my body's hurting

and all of a sudden I'm sore so there you go that was my start to the day did Amanda wake up? no I don't think so no she's pretty she's a pretty heavy sleeper like I said the other day

how I checked her pulse just to make sure that she was actually still alive the other day but this was mid holidays where you'd been making your family do relentless activities every day and you said one morning the other day. But this was mid-holidays where you'd be making your family do it to relentless activities every day. And you said one morning

they were still all in bed at 11 in the morning. Yeah. Locked in their rooms, hiding from the activities master. You're probably right. They're probably pretending to go to sleep. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. New Zealand are interested in the 2034 Commonwealth Games.

The big news this morning, the government sounds like they're putting in a proposal to see if we can host it in 11 years' time. Yep, CoLab, eh? Hashtag CoLab with Australia. That'll be fun. That'll be great for New Zealand. Ben, one of the things that we dream of

is low-level New Zealand crap liberties is looking like good people in public so i was at the supermarket yesterday in line at pack and save and i was behind a lady who the the she couldn't pay for her shopping so first thing you do in this scenario look how many goods are all they could pay about okay so i tallied them up. We're talking $30 or something. So what was the situation? She basically, she couldn't pay at that moment. So I was like, oh, listen, I've logged, I've gone,

this is about $35 worth of goods. I'll pay, I'll pay, I'll pay. Turn on the CCTV cameras, get your phones out. It's me, the guy. Film me, you behind the counter. Film me, film me, film me. I will pay for this lady's shopping. She's looking at me going, oh, no, no, it's okay.

It's okay. I've got money. The card's not working. And I was like, don't worry, I'll pay. I was trying to almost forcing the fact a little too hard to the point where she was just needing to re-swipe her card for a couple of times. Right, so that was the issue.

So I almost, I was almost a step away from going, get the stick man to make an announcement on the loudspeaker. Low-level celebrity trying to pay for someone shopping and check out number four. But it turns out I didn't look like a good guy. So I almost looked like a good guy. So your story is you almost helped out someone. You almost paid for her.

Yeah, see, almost has kind of ruined your story there, hasn't it? It did. If I take almost out of it, legend pays for poor lady in distress crying solo mother of 10 pays for her shopping. I've just added a bit of detail there. I don't know what her personal situation was. Well, you're right. I mean, I don't

know if I'll go that far, but you take the almost out of it, you're like, you paid for someone's shopping. You didn't, because we've got the almost in there but yeah you know and not even the intention of doing it's cool so yeah i'll take almost out of it i look like a great guy so this is what we want to do this morning sometimes the word almost ruins a story doesn't it yeah it can really take the wind out of your sails like Like, I almost won Lotto. Yeah. But I forgot to go and pick up the ticket because all my numbers came up.

It was that sort of thing. Mates and I, when we were in high school, we got on these tractor tubes and went down the river in the rapids, and we died. Well, no, we almost died. But we got close. We got taken under, and it was quite traumatic and uh yeah so thankfully i'm around now but i could have if we would have been a cooler story if you died yeah yeah yeah yeah again almost has ruined the story but at the same time i'm quite glad to chuck it almost in that story uh this is what we want to

do now 800 that's four four eight seven you You phone us up when something almost happened to you. Maybe you almost met a famous person. Yeah, you're like, I met Leonardo DiCaprio. Almost. Yeah, oh, he was in the toilet 10 minutes before me sort of thing with a 21-year-old model. Yeah. So that's the deal.

0800, that's 4487. You almost became prime minister. Yeah. Then you forgot to fill out the paperwork to enrol in the election but you can take Almost out of your story next we'd love to hear from you, we've got some hell pizza up for grabs so give us a call 0800 THE HITS

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast just doing the Almost story ruiners when the word Almost does ruin your story they almost had Ed Sheeran in that song, did you know that? oh did they? yeah, we'd call her if they said they had Ed Sheeran in that song. Absolutely. Yeah.

Because then we could shout out to him appropriately. 0800-4487 is the text as well. You tell us your story, but take the word almost out of it. It's ruining your story. Yeah. Richard, you're in Greymouth. Good morning. Good morning.

How are you guys? Oh, we're doing well. How's Greymouth? How's the mouth? Oh, it's actually very, very foggy at the moment. Love it there on the wild, wild West Coast, isn't it? Exactly. It's a bit like that year sometimes.

Okay, take the word almost out of your story, Richard, and tell it. Okay, I won Lotto. Yeah, boy. Yeah, boy. What division are we talking? Well, actually, well, without the almost, I won first division. Okay. How many millions are we talking, Richard?

It was about three million at the time and no one got it. Oh, wow. Okay, so now we need to put the almost back in to ruin the story. So what actually happened? You were so close, I imagine. Yeah, I had five numbers, and the sixth number I had was number 36, and number 35 came out.

Oh, jeez. So you still would have got a reasonable amount of money, I would imagine, but not the $3 million. Yeah, $800 for third division. That's not quite $3 million, is it? No. That's how old was Aaron B it? No. Is that all it was? 800 bucks?

Jeez. Hey, Richard. It really drops off from first to third division, doesn't it? You're like, I've got five out of the six number.

I would have thought maybe 800,000 or something. Jesus, it's a drop off. Hey, Richard, I love you. You love your work.

You look after Greymouth for us, okay, mate? Well, thanks very much, guys. Now it's our mate Zoe from Tauranga on the phone, the almost story ruiner. Okay.

So what's all... You go, Ben. You go. I made this really awkward for some reason. All right, take almost out of it. Tell us what happened. Okay, so take almost out of it. us what what happened okay so take almost out of it okay so what happened about 30 years ago in little welsh town called aberystwyth and the queen was coming to open a new part of the national library of wales

um so my school um little five-year-old me, we got picked to sing for her. And we were like super excited. My friend was going to give her flowers at the end of the singing. We had like weeks and weeks of rehearsals. And then you met the queen. Yeah, and then I met the queen because I was singing for her. Wow. Now, I'm guessing there's an almost in this story.

So did you almost meet the Queen? Yeah, almost, almost met the Queen. Because then after all this careful preparation, we're all lined up. It's like heaps of people everywhere. And there's a Welsh nationalist party called Cum De Festa Iau who are very anti-monarchy. And they egged her car and did some bad things. called Come Day Fester Yow, who are very anti-monarchy. And they egged her car and did some bad things.

And so her security cancelled the trip. Never actually came to the library to open it because it was deemed like a security risk. Oh, just because... Little five-year-olds, like literally in floods of tears because we all thought we were going to be in between, but we didn't.

Friends were holding this posy of flowers because she had been chosen to give the flowers and we were all just like, can you imagine like the disappointment on all these little five-year-old faces? Oh, the flowers are ready to go and everything. And the bloody nationalists firing off eggs in her car. What a night.

They didn't think about the repercussions, did they? They didn't think about the kids that are going to be pract practicing their choral recital. So you almost met the Queen, Zoe. Almost met her. Thank you very much for your call. It's all right. Have a good day.

You too, buddy.