Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - We've got Eminem on the show!

Episode Date: April 2, 2024

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The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. Everyone going to Rome? Going to Rome. It's a fun week's day. We're going to take a peek behind the curtain and say that Jono's on the buttons today. Yeah, prepare for a wild ride. I don't even know if we're on air right now.

I hope so. You look very calm. If anyone's, what can you do, you know? What can we do now? We're here. Yeah. Texas, 4487. Are we actually talking to anyone? It can we do now? We're here. It's Texas, 4487. Are we actually talking to anyone? Be nice to me, huh? That's a cool as well. I'll see if I can operate the phones.

Oh God. Start slow. 24 hours until we begin our marathon, isn't it? 24 hours of handball. Kids Can. We're raising money for Kids Can who provide food, jackets, shoes for kids that have been going without. We're trying to get $350,000 which is

stressing my friend Ben Boyce out. It's a lot of money. It's aged him 10 years. No one's going to be upset with you if you don't hit that target. No, but that's the target they want. He'll be upset with himself. Something is better than nothing. Yeah, that's true. We'll hear more on that throughout the show this morning and why you should hopefully help us out and get involved.

But over the weekend you know it was easter long weekend and i had my mom came down brought down my my nieces my two nieces they hung out with the kids which is nice and mom you know helped out she's great she helps out around the house which is awesome and on thursday night as part of dinner she cooked some chicken drumsticks okay thursday night it was nice added to you know it was we had a couple leftovers because we had some we had prepared some stuff they had prepared some stuff and then it was got to sort of a couple days later so gone past Thursday night Friday night Saturday night and then on Sunday night I was like oh better get rid of these chicken drumsticks they've been sitting in the fridge

for a couple of days that's always the way you know you're like we'll get to that lady you put glad wrap over it and leave it in there for four days and throw it out that's the cycle of leftovers yeah I mean we normally had we had been eating leftovers out the weekend, but the chicken drumsticks had probably, we'd just forgotten about them. They got missing in the fridge. And I'd go, well, they're gone, it's over 48 hours. It's almost, you know.

Yeah, like Thursday, it's Sunday, you're not eating those. Yeah, so I put them in the bin. Mum comes back to me later. Why did you throw those out? I was like, well, because it was like, we had the three-day-old chicken. She was like, I was going to take them back to my stepdad for dinner. And I was like, well, that's day old chicken she was like I was going to take them back to my stepdad

for dinner and I was like well that's not until Sunday night they weren't leaving on Sunday they were leaving the next day I was like that's a whole other 24 hours

and I was like what and a six hour car ride I know and I was like jeez alright I was like

well they're in the bin now mum you can tell mum was like oh do I take them out of the bin was she even contemplating that she was definitely contemplating you never want bin chicken I'll, you could tell Mum was like, oh, do I take them out of the bin? Was she even contemplating that? Oh, she was definitely contemplating that. You never want bin chicken. I'll tell you what, Jenny Boyce,

she must have this iron stomach. We could have ended her in Fairfactor back in the day. Remember that show with Joe Rogan? She would have blitzed the competition, Jenny Boyce. She takes stuff home. Oh, was it nine-year-old sheep's intestines? I'll eat that, Joe, yeah. It kind of is, I mean, a generalisation, but it is a bit of that generation, right?

Yeah. We talked to your parents, actually, when you were away, Jono, and your mum had chocolate from... I think she had it from 2007. She admitted she'd done a clean out, so it's now just 2012 is their oldest chocolate, but she's the same. She was still eating it, though. She was like, I got it out of the fridge in 2007, had white bits on it.

She still ate it. Yeah. And this chocolate's almost 20 years old. She would eat days-old chicken and not even eating it though. She was like, I got it out of the fridge in 2007, had white bits on it. She still ate it. Yeah. It's almost 20 years old. She would eat days old chicken and not even heat it up. They'd just eat it out of the fridge. Cold. Jeez.

Maybe they're built differently. I know. That's a good thing. Yeah. Maybe we've softened the human race, our generation. Well, Jenny had kept her chicken in the cupboard,

didn't she, back in the day? Her flatmate did. Yeah, they had pantry chicken They'd cook a chicken on a Sunday And then throughout the week They'd go to the pantry

And just grab chicken To it for their lunches You know things like that Throughout the week Do you think they just They got sick And then even went to the doctor So they didn't know it was from the chicken?

Maybe They'd had the runs for like three days What? You're the chicken There's always the thing Why'd the chicken cross the road? Well now we know It's to run away from Jenny Boyce

to save her from getting salmonella poisoning. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. As we mentioned a couple of times already, we're doing 24 hours of the sport of handball or foursquare, depending on... I was foursquare at my school. I was foursquare too. Yeah. Really? Handball was a whole other thing where

two people would stand and hit a tennis ball against a wall and it would come back, and you'd kind of play almost like squash with your hands. And when you played four square, did you use a big ball? A bigger ball, yeah. Yeah, same. We used tennis balls. Yeah, it might be the – because I called it Tiggy, and you called it Tag.

Tag, yeah. Yeah, I was Tag. Yeah, we were Tiggy. Where did you grow up? Auckland. Auckland. The Namby Pamby city life, mate. We were Tiggy. Where did you grow up? Auckland. Auckland. The Namby Pamby city life, mate. We played Tiggy.

We played handball with tiny balls. And then we played Tiggy. So whatever you call it, we're calling it handball because it's kids can ball. It works well for the pun. We are playing 24 hours of it starting tomorrow, 8 o'clock. And it will go for 24 hours. If you're in the Auckland area and you want to come along, we need a rotating fourth player,

because there's you, me, and how to dad, right, Jono? Yeah, Jordan Watson. So you're more than welcome to come along. St. John's Netball Courts, we'll be there. We're not going anywhere. No. For 24 hours. So, yeah, come down, play some handball with us,

or what do you call it? Four square? Four square. And we may have a game of tagging in between, or tag as well. And we need some money, too.gy in between or tag as well. And we need some money too. We're trying to get $350,000.

So we've created an emotional montage designed to tug at your heartstrings. And if you don't donate after this, well, then you're a monster. One in six Kiwi kids live in hardship. Each year, Kids Can supply over 70,000 raincoats, over 35,000 pairs of shoes, and feed over 60,000 Kiwi kids in need. Kids Can is facing its biggest waitlist since 2018. Education equals opportunity, so we started the organisation to provide those essentials so kids can just get to school, learn, and get on with the business of being kids. You know, without food in the alleys, kids can't think and they can't necessarily moderate their behaviour.

You were surviving some weeks on like a dollar loaf of bread. Yes, there was a lot of times where we just didn't have enough food. Ruby Toohey joins us to talk Kids Can. I've actually just signed up as an ambassador quite in the last year. Kids Can, I think, just does a really good job of first-hand with family members in their school, you know, giving them breakfast. They really make a difference, both. I'm so glad you guys are doing this.

As soon as we got that partnership with Kids Can, the attendance rate just went right up. The performance rate in terms of the academic, I mean, kids weren't coming to Kura hungry. They were coming to learn. So what happens when Kids Can give the school in you food or they give you some shoes? I mean, how does that change being at school for you? It kind of just makes it a little bit of a safe space, I guess. One of your greatest fears was your classmates hearing your

tummy grumble because you were hungry. Yeah, there's a lot of embarrassment and feeling like you have to hide the fact that you're poor. See, our families, they don't want a handout. They want a hand up. They're a fantastic charity that just delivers year after year basics that many people take for granted. Yeah, so that's why we're doing it. That's the why that we're doing 24 Hours of Handball, to try and help out.

It's one in six Kiwi kids. It's still happening. You know, like all these, we're talking to people that happened 10, 20 years ago that needed help. It's still happening today. More than probably ever because of the cost of living. So if you can give something, you can actually just text kids to 933. That's an instant $3 donation.

But if you want to give more, if you've got $10, $100, you can go to kidscanball.org.nz the hits the jonathan ben podcast daylight savings you like the countdown to that megan pubis uh this sunday it's not on us that's is that the change the uh the fire batteries to the alarm batteries as well is that that one yeah the clock's back so clock's back extra hours sleep extra sleep but obviously we lose the daylight in the evenings. Yeah. Right? So getting up in the dark, sometimes getting home in the dark.

So winter. Winter is coming. Now, Gold Coast, they don't do daylight. So there's a whole bunch of people who don't do it. Yeah. I feel like we copy and paste this conversation every year. No, you're right. There is.

Yeah. And Tiano in the South, they don't do it. Do they? They opt it out. Oh, Tiano time. No, it was a marketing campaign. do they? They opt it out. Oh, Te Ano time. No, it was a marketing campaign. I think it was a marketing campaign. Yeah, I fell for it.

We kind of dug a bit deeper into that one for a change. All right, Te Ano, mate, you've had your time on the New Zealand Herald.co.nz. All right, we're going to do In Sync this morning. We play a wee game that you'd like to throw out a question, Megan, and see if we all answer the same. Yeah, you get points if any of us sync up. I want to see you out that door, baby, bye, bye, bye. I wanted the instant we're out of sync when Justin Timberlake went into his own sync.

Yeah, true. Yeah, kind of left them going, what's your sync now? I see he's back performing with them though, isn't he again? Yeah, they're song and trolls. From time to time. He's got nothing else on. The other guys are waiting there. They're ready to sing bye, bye, bye.

All right, Megan, you threw out a topic. We've got to try and get the same answer. And geez, it brings us an immense amount of joy when we do. Yeah. Doesn't it? All right, question number one. See if you can sync up with us at home. Name a part of the body that everyone only has one of.

I'm meant to get a timer here,'t I Johnno's on the buttons today Nose Nose The thing is with syncing up is we all have to do it at the same time You went way too early It was a false start It was a way for your timer to start

We all said nose but it was quite easy when you said it. We just followed along. You sounded like you were going to say something different, and then you're like, oh, nose. I was just confused. Okay, let's try and do another one. Okay, one body part.

Mouth. Chin. Oh, yeah. Okay, that one counts. You have two shins, though. You have two shins. Chin. Oh, I shins? Chin. Oh, I thought you said shin.

Sorry, there's a lot going on. Is he fat shitting my chin? Is he saying I've got two shins? Some people do, yeah. Some people do. Do you know my father-in-law? Father-in-law, a lovely big consumer of gin. And his one joke is when God was handing out body parts,

I thought he was asking me, did I want a gin? But he said, did I want a chin? And I ordered a double. That's a bit of a boomer humour there. I quite like that. I love it. Boomer humour, I like it.

Okay, next question. Who is the best character in Friends? Monica. Monica. This is something different. I don't know Yeah They all have their place

In terms of character What are you meaning Like the funniest The most likeable I guess it's up to your interpretation Yeah right But they're all likeable right Yeah

In their own way They're kind of likeable But yeah They're all great characters I feel like a lot of Friends are centred around Like Ross And his relationships

With everyone You know Janice Great character Gunther Yeah true Yeah They had a lot of great characters friends are centered around like ross and his relationships with everyone you know janice great character yeah yeah true yeah they had a lot of great characters all right we didn't get that all right next question name a movie that has a dragon in it come on oh uh how to fight a dragon thing wait what johnny the The dragons, you know, the cartoon. I couldn't think of the name of it. How to Slay a Dragon.

Yeah, that's what I was trying to find out. That's what I said. Lord of the Rings. Oh, yeah. Oh, guys. The Game of Thrones is the first one I instantly thought of, but it wasn't obviously a movie. It's not a movie.

Okay, cool. All right, last question. Okay. Who is the most likely in this room to lose their call? Sorry, me, Jono. I thought it was going to be me. Did you both say me? Yeah, I did get the point though.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. It feels like there's a lot of scams always going around, but the ones to do with AI or artificial intelligence are really getting very clever and a bit scary, right? Yeah, Netsaf has said the latest one is using people's voices. So there is an AI voice engine that can use as little as 15 seconds of someone's voice and then pretty much recreate them to say anything at all.

Oh, wow. So the scammers are phoning people and then just getting them to talk for 15 seconds and then they can replicate their voice into a whole conversation. Is that the ones where they call you when there's nothing

and you're like, hello, hello, who's there? Is that it? Mind you, you're a complete idiot if you're saying hello for 15 seconds and no one's responding. Yeah. That's gone past the point.

That's a long time to keep saying hello. So maybe they're having conversations with you. This is just exactly why I don't answer the phone. Don't call me because I won't answer it. I don't use my phone for that. Do you not pick up the...

Not really. All my friends, if I call them, they're like, oh my God, what's happened? So you're purely text only? Yeah. Or voice message just to my mates. Oh, yeah, you're one of those. You're a voice messenger. Yeah, voice member.

Well, that is so, yeah. I mean, it's getting that way, isn't it? Yeah. Where you don't actually trust any email you those. Yeah. You're a voice messenger. Yeah, a voice member. Well, that is so, yeah. I mean, it's getting that way, isn't it? Yeah. Where you don't actually trust any email you receive, any phone call you get, any text message you receive about packages that are just waiting to clear customs. We sound so cynical, but it's better to be that way.

You know what's frightening? I saw an interview with Elon Musk, and he's at some world summit, and he's talking about AI and the future of it. And it's a genuine concern of mine is what does the world look like heading into this new period with AI? Because obviously business is going to use it. Why wouldn't they? It's cost cutting. It'd be silly if they didn't from a financial point of view, but you know, the end result. Now this is Elon Musk. This has got one of the spearheaders of the whole AI movement.

Have a listen. What to do about mass unemployment? This is going to be a massive social challenge. I think ultimately we will have to have some kind of universal basic income. I don't think we're going to have a choice. So it means that unemployed people will be paid across the globe. Yeah. Because there is no job.

There will be fewer and fewer jobs that a robot cannot do better. The harder challenge is how do people then have meaning? Like a lot of people, they derive their meaning from their employment. If you're not needed, if there's not a need for your labor, what's the meaning? Do you have meaning? Do you feel useless? Well, thanks for doing that, Elon. You're the guy. Why don't you pull the? Do you feel useless? Well, thanks for doing that, Elon. Yeah.

You're the guy. Why don't you pull the pin on it, mate? Yeah, he is the guy that took a lot of those. Pump the brakes. Yeah. You forget he's South African too, right? He sounds a lot more South African than that, than he normally does. But yeah, you probably imagine any job in the world could probably be done by a robot eventually. Radio announcers?

Yep. Yeah. Probably announcers? Yep. Probably a far better job. Wouldn't take us off air like I had five times this morning. Crazy, isn't it? You could have an AI newsreader, because newsreaders, they just have to be impartial, deliver the news. Robotic newsreader.

A script that's probably written by anyone. But it's not going to sound robotic because they're copying our voices. Mate, it is wild. But then maybe humans will take on a whole other thing where we're like, oh, we're all naturists and we all make love to each other. We are literally just going to fall apart.

Let's try and be positive. But no one's got any money. How are they going to spend it back into businesses? And we all want time off work but what would you actually do if you just didn't have a purpose

didn't have work I'll tell you one thing's for certain we're certainly not going to solve this problem at 6.42 on a Wednesday morning no we're definitely not the people that are

going to do that The Hits The Jono and Ben Podcast What to Watch with Megan Megan Papas Papas the mamas

and the papas you watch a lot of stuff on streaming services and a show that I haven't watched yet Yeah, Megan Pappas. Pappas. The mamas and the pappas. You watch a lot of stuff on streaming services and a show that I haven't watched yet, but I know it's getting a lot of street talk around the office. Yeah, it's all over social media. It's a four-part documentary called Quiet On Set. It looks at the toxic working environment for child stars on Nickelodeon in the 90s.

In the early 90s, Nickelodeon was kid everything. And you better hope that your house had K-Wall. This is when Dan Schneider arrives. Nickelodeon's golden boy. He created these shows that were hugely successful for them. No one had ever really done sketch comedy starring kids for kids. But that marked one of the darkest chapters. So what's the deal with this?

I understand some naughty nonsense of sexual nature went on with some of these kids. It's centered around the showrunner. His name's Dan Schneider. You might not know him, but you will. So he was kind of in charge of a whole lot of shows. Yeah, so some of the shows, all that. The Amanda Bynes show from back in the day.

She's had her troubles over the years. Poor Amanda Bynes show from back in the day. She's had her troubles over the years, poor Amanda Bynes. Zoe 101, Victoria, Salmon Cat, Drake and Josh. Ariana Grande was Salmon Cat. Yeah, a lot of famous people sort of got their start on Nickelodeon, right? Yeah, and so apparently Dan Schneider and other people on set were responsible for inappropriate behaviour, sexism, bullying, racism and sexual abuse. To start it off, a couple of the female writers on there were made to share a salary. And they kind of thought that that was just what they needed to do at the time.

Highly illegal. We've been making you share a salary since you started here. With the janitor. Is that not working out for you? I thought everyone was on board with that anyway. Drake Bell is the one that everyone's talking about. So from Drake and Josh, he has made

or actually the person he talked about went to jail for sexual abuse when he was 14 and 15. He was his dialogue coach back in the day. Now we knew that this guy went to jail for sexual abuse when he was 14 and 15. He was his dialogue coach back in the day. Now, we knew that this guy went to jail, but we didn't know who had made the allegations. Only now has Drake come out and said, it was me and this is what happened.

And it's harrowing. Yeah. And Amanda Bynes is in this documentary, not in person, just footage from her back in the day because she was one of the biggest stars but now everyone's like well Amanda is

she's not the same person let's put it that way she was in a conservatorship from 2013 to 2022 she's only just kind of come out of it and then they put her in an asylum didn't they? something like that

so last year she stopped a bystander on the street saying I need help I'm having a psychotic episode. So she just stopped someone randomly in the street and had to be taken into care. So she is having a really hard time of it. And now everyone's like, okay, maybe we understand why. This toxic work environment. How do they get away with it though?

For so long. I don't know. And so this Dan Schneider guy has come out and done a pretty surface-level YouTube apology. Everyone's like, it's not enough. An apology being like, oh, I was a bad guy. It's not okay. Wow. So where can we catch this doco?

So this is a four-part doco, and it's on three now to stream. I've always thought, where are the parents through this whole thing? So Drake's dad was with him and was concerned about this guy but they drew a wedge between him and his dad and he pretty much fired his dad and it was after that that the guy got his claws in.

So often the parents are there trying to But there's probably a whole lot the parents don't see and the kids are probably so naive they think well maybe this is part of what... Showbiz. Also, just a side note, this guy that went to prison for his abuse against Drake Bell was also Leonardo DiCaprio's dialogue coach back in the day.

And there is footage of him rubbing and touching Leo's back when he was a child star. Oh, no. Jeez. Oh, she's just terrible. It's terrible. Weinstein, the Epstein, Diddystein. The Diddystein. There's trends developing.

Well, yeah, you just feel so sorry for these poor young people. Yeah. They don't know how to process anything. No. And it affects them later in life. Well, there you go. It's on three now. You can watch that quite on set.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I like to do this once a week, look at our mundane texts and try and make them a little bit more sexy. Yeah. You know, When you send a text to your partner saying, I'll pick up some pork from Pack and Save, it's like the modern day equivalent of a love letter between a couple, isn't it?

So you couldn't love me anymore right now. Okay, what have you got, Megan? Kick things off. You actually almost nailed my one and I did try and make it sexy. My husband texts me, I need 440 grams of ham. It was pork, pork theme. Yeah. I text back and said, ayo.

Yeah. And he said, what? I said, that's what she said. He said, am I the ham or are you the ham? I said, I don't really know at this point. He said, okay, cool. So you're going to get the ham so you tried to make things a little bit more flirtatious and sexy and he's like wait what I bet you went

home and made love for 10 days straight on a bed of roses after that interaction exactly what happened 10 boys I've got one that actually were like out of it does sound sexy in a way it's one of those ones that could sound sexy but it's not. The real backstory is we had some boys toys, some kids toys in our car and a man of my wife was catching up with a friend

and she said to me, do you mind if I give the toys to Joan or do you want to give them to someone else? Now Joan was the mother of the kids but it does sound sexy

when you're like, do you mind if I give the toys to Joan? And I said, happy to give the toys to Joan and then she replied, she loved the toys, thought it was very thoughtful.

Should you be sharing the toys with Joan? Did you give them a dead old work town? They were unused toys, but it does sound like it could be, you know, brand new toys, but anyway. Well, mine actually comes from the bedroom as well. Jen messaged, this came Monday, actually Monday afternoon when I was out.

The dog just vomited on the bed it's all yellow and it looks like vegetable soup and i'm like wow that's an aphrodisiac if i've ever heard one right there uh and i didn't know at this point whether she wanted me to deal with the vomit or she was going to deal with the vomit right so uh i went oh no just left the ball in her airport. Then I get a text back. She's like, I put the sheets in the wash. And I was like, well, couldn't have said anything sexier to me in that moment. Good woman.

Well, there we go. Sexy text for another week. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Tomorrow, it's happening, 8 o'clock. We're going to be playing a handball or four square, whatever you call it, the schoolyard game for 24 hours nonstop. We're doing it with How To Dad, Jordan Watson, raising money for Kids Can, helping out many kids who need to be, need food, need clothing around New Zealand,

right across the country. There's more kids than ever before. If you can help out, head to kidscanball.org.nz and you can make as little as a couple of dollars or a lot more if you can. It would make a huge difference to a lot of Kiwi kids. Yeah, we kick things off tomorrow at 8.m uh broadcasting live from the the netball courts of saint john's but uh not just us raising some money for kids can this month as well uh wonderful guy damo uh damien who's also doing some big stuff and he's with us this morning kia ora kia ora lovely to have you on mate uh welcome to one of new zealand's radio shows i don't know where we're sitting in

there in the rankings we're one of them. We're doing radio. Hey, really happy to talk to you, mate. Now, you actually are going to be doing something very special for Kids Cam, which we'll talk about shortly. But you've experienced firsthand what poverty is like in New Zealand. Yeah, well, me and my whānau faced some tough times and kind of going without meals and struggling to afford the essential clothing such as shoes and whatnot. Yeah, it's pretty incredible what you're doing. You're raising money for KidsCam by doing so. Tell us exactly what you're doing. April, I'm running 22 half marathons, one each weekday, to kind of just raise some awareness and raise funds for kids in need, those who are going without the essentials.

So 22 half marathons every week. We're doing 24 hours of handball, and I'm like, it's going to be hard, but nothing compared to what you're going to go through. Yeah, it'll be a good challenge. I've been training pretty hard for it, so we'll see how we go. Can you do us a favour, mate? Can you do your big marathon thing? Let's give it like six months distance between our little

24 hours just bouncing a ball around. It feels like your marathon thing is far more significant, but that's incredible. Good on you for doing such a thing for charity. You did say you grew up in a household that was pinched by the cost of living. When you were going to school hungry, without warm clothes, what was that like? Yeah, it was tough.

I think you're trying to focus in class or trying to play sports and you're on a bit of an empty stomach. It does make it a lot harder to focus, which is a shame for a kid too, on a spire for more, but this is this extra thing they have to worry about. And sometimes, you know, we're reading about your mum was working really hard to try and provide for your family. Sometimes the parents are doing all they can, but they just can't get there in the end.

Yeah, my mum was amazing throughout it all. At the end of the day, what you expect of a parent is to show you love and show you support, and she was there all the way way through what would you say to kids or families listening now who have who are going through what you did go through when you were growing up so for me what enabled me to change my circumstance was community support and also just making my mind up that i wanted something different once i made my mind up i started walking the path but there was a lot of people in the community paving the path for me so lean into support and just really go for it I guess yeah because we did speak to a school principal who said a lot of the families in whānau a lot of pride is there

and a lot of them don't want to accept the help 100% yeah there is a lot of pride you know one you don't want people to just have pity for you. You'd rather just try and do things as best you can. But I think what I noticed helped a lot was when people tried to help, but they didn't make a deal out of it. They just kind of did it without saying they're going to do it. Oh, so like not making a big deal about going and playing 24 hours of handball? Is that what you're saying?

That's the opposite of what we're doing. No, I see what you're saying. And right now, you know, you work at a pretty awesome business as well. Must be quite a different background from a lot of the other people, I imagine, working there. Yeah, which is actually like another point. You kind of, what I've kind of started to notice over the years is for people from, say, privileged backgrounds. And privilege is great.

Like, we should all aspire for the good things in life. But there's a lack of awareness in some cases. Might not know there's kids out there really struggling. So I want everyone to just be aware, and if they've got the time or they've got the means, then being willing to help out. Well, good on you. That's a really good message,

because you can get caught up in your own community, your own bubble, right? Yeah. And sometimes you don't know what's happening outside of that bubble. And in this instance, there are starving kids who need jackets, they need food, they need shoes, and all donations are welcome. Hey, listen, well done on everything you're doing, Damien. Congratulations on making a real success of life too, mate.

I appreciate that. And if you want to help us and Damien give some money to Kids Can, go to kidscanball.org.nz or you can text KIDS to 933 to make an instant $3 donation. That's KIDS to 933. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Wednesday already, short week. The kids back at school after Easter Tuesday, whatever that was. They're back at school. A long weekend. And one of the cool things about the intermediate school that both my girls have gone through, one's there now, Indy's there now, and Sienna went through as well, is they have every term they have these assignments that the kids have to come up with something that really interests them based on a sort of theme.

That's been really cool. They've done some really cool things, like sort of for a year, made sort of stop-motion movies and all sorts of things like that. I have to, me and my wife, every now and again, I get quite caught up in it. I can imagine you would. You're like, I'm into stop-motion movies. I can make this.

Amanda had to sit me down once, my wife, and go, it's not your assignment. You're very invested in the marks too i'm so scared of when my kids get to assignment level because i'll be like oh do i have to help i'm just gonna be useless but this one uh for this term has been um it's all involving going out and doing an activity outside something that you're interested in learning a bit more and indy was like i'd like to do some snorkeling. And so she'd love to do this. And so I was like,

that's cool. And so we sort of booked it about four weeks ago, but I've been kind of out with the sore arms, so I haven't been able to swim. So we sort of kept putting it off and putting it off, putting it off until it got to the weekend and I still can't swim, but Indy's like, my time is due next week. We need to go snorkeling. So we booked it already. I'm like,

all right, sweet. So we'll drive the family up to Goat Island, which is pretty cool. It's a pretty cool marine sort of thing. Great fishing up there. Yeah. Yeah, a lot of fish up there as well. And so we hired wetsuits for my wife. My wife got on Amanda.

She took the hit on this one because I couldn't swim. You're on the sidelines. Yeah. Offering snorkeling advice. And it was quite a warm day outside. But the water now, we're sort of getting past the summer conditions. Yeah. And we'd hide wetsuits, we'd hide masks, flippers, goggles, you know, for the three of them, for my two daughters and my wife Amanda.

They sort of dive into the water. I'm on the beach and, you know, I'm capturing content for them, for Indy's assignment. They're sitting on the beach and then five minutes later they're back with me on the beach. I'm like, what's with that? And they're like, it's so cold. They're like, I paid for a snorkeling adventure.

Snorkel, goddammit. Right, I'm like, mate. Bury your face in the water. I'm like, come on, guys. And it's so easy when you're the person on the beach that you're not in the water. You're like, guys, come on. We paid $120 for like three lots of snorkels and all

sorts of stuff like we need to get back out there i was trying to give them a motivational pep talk to get back out there and did you bully your family back into the water pretty much one more time they sort of went around about they got some cool footage on a gopro we'd borrowed from a friend and all that sort of stuff so the assignment should look good but then afterwards i'm like i wasn't in the water i had no idea how cold it was but i made my family go back out yeah i know i like snorkeling's kind of the awkward cousin to scuba diving isn't it yeah snorkeling's the scuba diving for pussies i don't really to fully commit to uh acting like a fish yeah but it's pretty cool when you do it like we've done it once in fiji which quite different conditions from from a cold autumn

morning you know in the water. You know, where you see the tropical fish and it's beautiful and you don't need a wetsuit. And then my poor family are making them go out there. And no one ever knows the temperature unless you're in the water. You should have got them like dry suits or something. Isn't that a thing? The two or three times I've been snorkelling, I just can't get over the fact of how many mouths

have been wrapped around this mouthpiece of a snorkel. Oh, yeah. You know, sometimes it's just like, oh, it's just sitting in a saltwater bin over there with all the other stuff. Jam that in your gob. But you're out in the water. You know, you've got to feel like that at a washing house.

Floating in fish poo, so you're right. Yeah, exactly. It's best not to overthink these things. Well, you must look terrifying to the fish, staring down on them. Yeah. You probably would, actually. You're right, from that snorkeling thing.

Yeah. Sorry I made that awkward. You did, for some reason. I. Yeah. Sorry I made that awkward. For some reason. I don't know why you made that awkward, but somehow you made that awkward. I was going to say it was less the comment and more the reactions. Yeah, so a friend of mine, I've known her for like 10 years. And I do have her permission to talk about this, but I'm not going to tell you her name. She will remain anonymous.

I don't want to hear any more of the story unless I know names. But I had this revelation from her. She just dropped it in our lounge casually that she was on OnlyFans. And instantly the connotation is, okay, that kind of OnlyFans. And I was like, oh, are you like naked on the internet? Not that there's anything wrong with that. But she was like no uh we're doing something else so she has created an only fans account for people to

subscribe and pay to uh listen to her farts right okay very bespoke content so people subscribe for that yeah so she she's a very funny person and she was just joking about this with her friends initially and they were like, wouldn't that be funny if people paid? Which we've all done. I think we've all had the OnlyFans chat. I'd probably try and do my feet.

That seems like easy content. But she was like, everyone farts, so we should just do it as a joke. And then she made money. The money started piling in. How much is she making? So I think her subscription, if I remember rightly, is like $5 a month,

which doesn't sound like a lot. But if you get a few people doing it. She's got like 75 subscribers. And that's just the people who subscribe for that content. So people could pop in and pop out. Yeah. So she has this whole persona, this whole account. She obviously wouldn't show who she was either.

She doesn't show her face. It's purely, and it's not like nude or anything. She's wearing clothes. She just records her face. Just the audio of it. Well, geez, do you reckon when they- There's a video as well? Yeah.

Yeah, right. 1982, they invented the internet. Do you reckon they were like, you know what? In 40 years time, they're going to be doing this. This is what they wanted when they started it in the 80s. To be honest, it's funny, but I'm so jealous because I'm like, people do these things and you're like, why don't, like, we all fart. Yeah, and you're anonymous too, really.

How do you know it's not a sound effect? Can't she just go to bloody? Well, true, yeah. Well, I guess so. If you're not feeling gassy that day for the content. I feel like you can tell fart sound effects. Yeah. And can I ask how much she's earning?

Well, $5 subscribers, 75 people paying $5. Do they? And that's just the subscribers. So how much is that? 75 times. That's $375 a month. Yeah, from just subscriptions. Subscribers, that's like she's getting $500 a month.

From just being a little bloated from time to time. Yeah. For something that everyone does. Yeah. You know, and she's just like made it into. Amazing, right? Do you put that on the bloody customs declaration card as your profession? Entertainer.

Professional father. Yeah. Oh, so good though. And what's your side hustle? So proud of her. Have you got a side hustle? Well, no one can beat that. I mean, that's a pretty unique side hustle.

But, you know, you might be making a lot more on your side hustle. Sometimes the side hustle turns into your full-time gig. How did Dad help me doing Kids Can With? That was his side hustle, making funny little videos on the internet about being a parent. And now it's his full-time job. I hear stuff like that and I'm like, there's literally nothing you can't get on the internet.

There's nothing the internet won't provide for you. What a tool. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Side hustles, which are side hustles from great texts coming through here. The only problem with these great texts is we probably can't put them on to air during primetime breakfast radio. About people side hustling.

I was expecting like crochet and things like wholesome. Well we started it with farting on OnlyFans and it's gone down OnlyFans. Really has. Babysitting or walking dogs or something. Wholesome content. That's what I want in New Zealand. You're right.

They don't want to hear about that. They want to hear about other stuff. And there's some stuff you can earn money doing. And sometimes I hear these stories and I'm like, why are we getting up first thing in the morning you can just wake up and bloody yeah do anything do anything you think of it you can do it make money out of it people will buy wild stuff yeah there's boundaries coming through so we might move should we move on from that yeah well we could put some of them up on our story on the instagram story if you want to

go to his breakfast okay yeah there is something i'd like to address um it's kind of been the elephant in the room for the past couple of days and we haven't spoken about it on air right um but are we going to talk about ben's hair oh here we go he's gone back to his ellen degenerate era he's been here before he's dyed his hair blonde i have i have it was very impromptu over the weekend at a friend's place. So she did it. And she was like, oh, hey, would you like your hair done? I was like, oh, yeah, we're here for a bit. So I did.

So I've gone blonde. I have a question. I haven't said it, but the words midlife crisis have passed a few people. I mean, we had a guest come into the studio yesterday and went, wow, I've ever seen a midlife crisis. I think I'm staring at it right now. Also, you've got a new bromance with another radio announcer

who likes to dye his hair a lot. And I'm like, are you trying to morph into him a lot? I wish. Is his hair blonde? Well, yeah, this is the thing. We're actually over it. So you're talking about Clint from The Edge. So his wife, Jamie, she did my hair, but she was going to do his pink.

Right. Yeah, but I took so long to get mine done that I don't think they've done pink just yet. So she had some stuff for that. She was like, would you like to get your hair done while I'm here? So I was like, hey, why not? I have a question. Yeah. In 2000, when you released the Marshall Mathers EP, LP,

did you think it was going to be such a roaring success and change the course of white people rap music I didn't you're right I've gone blonde from time to time less these days and every time he's like I'm going to get mocked for it I knew I was going to get mocked for it

as I was sitting there and waiting for it to go through I was like oh no I'm going to get mocked for this good on you why can't you try these things? I didn't say you couldn't. I just don't want you to think you can do these things and just get away with it. Fair enough. I know.

It's radio. It's mockery. Draco, I haven't seen you too much since the Harry Potter series. What have you been doing professionally? Moved away from Slytherin. Yeah, yeah, you did. Last time I had this, there was a lot of gags that went around from you about all the different people who had blonde hair legalists has cut his hair looks great how many more you got how many more we need to well we need to get a video up we'll get a video up on the hits breakfast

instagram yeah talking about selling it only how do i look like wrong answers only how's that sound yeah yeah see how many comments Come through But yeah I don't know A prison lesbian I'll take them all I actually think I weaved my pants a little

Yeah There we go So into the hits breakfast We'll put Ben's Image up there You look great Who does he look like I can't wait for the comments

The hits The Jono and Ben podcast. The show brought to you by Dilmar Tea and I've been drinking a lot of tea lately since being sick with my arm.

It's been over a month now. I've gone off coffee. I haven't been able to drink alcohol as well. I'm a very different person. I don't know why it upsets me so much. Yeah.

It's kind of killed our after coffee. I've always loved tea as well but nowadays it's just kind of like, well, I didn't feel like coffee at all. Do you want a coffee today? No, not really. I'll buy.

I'll shout you. No one's happier than the show sponsors Dilma for this tea addiction that he's formed. How many cups a day would you be having? Probably about four, I reckon, across the day. Jeez, that must make you rather leaky. Do you feel like one of those water fountain statues that's constantly flowing water? Probably not too bad.

It feels like you're probably getting some, you know, like trying to, you know, you always feel like you need to drink more water and things like that. So probably it's helping in that regard. Do you dabble in, are you just English breakfast like kombu tea or are you dabbling in other? Now and again, you know, a fruitier variety.

What about an Earl Grey? It's very underrated. Yeah, it really upsets some people, Earl Grey, sometimes. All people love it. I'm partial to an Earl Grey. Dilma, just, you know. Listen to you spilling the tea, you two

gossiping over there. See, I could have four coffees a day, but on that fourth one, I do become a little volatile. And you're all double shots all the way through too. Like, if I used to make a coffee at home, it was always a single, you know. That's eight shots of coffee, Jono. A little jumpy, but unpredictable.

Who knows what can happen. It doesn't eat all day either. So that's all that's going around your system. It's 90% caffeine and 10% human. That's what you're staring at right now. I haven't missed it, to be honest. I thought I would. And I'm actually almost like,

be nice not to have to feel like that. I have to have a coffee. Yeah. Like I can go without tea and go sweet. But yeah, so it's actually quite nice to not have that part of go, I'm addicted to this thing. Generally, I drink more cups of tea a day

than I would coffee. I'm a one coffee a day. His meth usage has gone through the roof though. I've been very sad as I haven't drunk for four weekends Do you feel better not drinking? Well it's hard because I've been on a lot of antibiotics Like a huge dose of antibiotics

Which is still continuing For like 30 something days later So you got rid of caffeine and alcohol? Yeah, not by choice Cold turkey? Yeah, cold turkey, but antibiotics I've been hooked on antibiotics For my elbow infection Which still hasn't gone away, so that's great Okay, I've been hooked on antibiotics for my elbow infection,

which still hasn't gone away. So that's great. Okay, okay. I'll end with this. We'll just open this up. Who's having the most amount of tea or coffee? Your hot drinks. Yeah, listening right now.

What about hot choccies? Yeah, it doesn't matter. Hot drinks. Christopher Luxon, he's a hot chocolate guy. Is he? Yeah. When he comes in here, you're like, hey, would you like a coffee? He's like, oh no, I'll have a fluffy.

Does he not drink? I don't know if it's a fluffy. Maybe it is a fluffy. With two marshmallows. The cutest little drink any world leader is sucking back on. Does he not have a coffee at all? He's not even a mocker. He doesn't drink either.

He doesn't drink, no. Doesn't drink alcohol. He just, yeah. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I don't know who's having the most amount of hot drinks listening right now. No mocking. No mocking required here. Just pure honesty.

Ben Boyce slucking back on four coffees. Slurping? A combination of chugging and slurping. How many coffees have you had so far? I've only had two.

Two this morning. Yeah, yeah. Two this morning? It's 8.30. Before I got to work. Pound them back. Another one at 9.03. Yeah. Before I got to work. Pound of backs. Another one at 9.03. Yeah.

And then we'll see how the day takes us. Well, you used to work in a cafe. What would you do per day? I'd do max. Really? Yeah. And it was free. Yeah.

Otherwise, my heart races. Fair enough. I've also been introducing the old bloody Musashi's into the routine. I as well. Oh, they are high octane. Yeah, tell you what, you feel like you're operating on a whole other level. A few coffees and Musashi's pumping around

the veins. Let's go to the phones. Most amount of hot drinks you're having today, whether it be tea or coffee. What are you doing, Donna? I'm going. I drink between 8 and 12 a day. What, coffee or tea? Both.

So I've already had two cups of tea this morning before I got off work. Yeah. And I have probably five or six cups of coffee at work. Five or six at work? Yeah, and then I'll probably have another three, maybe four at a time. Your phone keeps cutting out. It can't even handle your energy levels. So are these like double shot things or these instant?

Or what are we talking? Well, I'm on my way to work, so I'm going to buy a coffee. Yeah. But normally I drink black coffees. Gotcha. Just straight raw coffee. Some of them are espresso as well. Yeah. Donna.

Yeah, so I'll be pumping by the end of today. You will be, yeah. You will be pumping. Do you crash at night? No, not really. That's probably why I have too much during the day. Well, the thing is, you would always have caffeine pumping around your system and it would just dip a little at night and then you'd top them back up.

You'd do that classic thing that my dad does and have an after-dinner coffee. The boomers do do at the restaurant. Just have a coffee. And usually a couple of cups of tea in the evening before I go to bed. Yeah, that's nice. Are you drinking water, Donna? Yeah, I usually drink water during the day as well. She must be sloshing around in there.

She's dehydrated. You're going well. Some days. Just a little bit. A couple of litres of water. Oh, good on you, Donna. You keep it up and get on to that 13th coffee, all right? Have a great day.

Will do. Yep, good day, mate. Yeah, appreciate that. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Fiona, how are you? Fiona, all right? I'm good, thank you. How are you?

Yeah, good. Most amount of coffees or tea? What can you beat? I'm probably around about 10 to 12 as well. I'm on number five already. Number five already? Five coffees? Yeah. Yeah. Are they instant jobs? as well. I'm on number five already. Number five already? Yeah.

Are they instant jobs? Three have been instant and I've got a coffee machine at home so I have and then I've had three at work already. So your instant ones, they're kind of just your little runway into your hardcore ones. Yeah. Have you ever been a day without and

do you get a headache or anything? Yeah, I get headaches. If I don't have caffeine, I get headaches. Yeah, right. I think they call that an addiction. Hey, there's worse things. There are worse things. Yeah.

If you're going to have a vice, coffee's certainly the lighter end of the scale, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. I mean, I do send coffees back if they don't taste right as well. Good. That's good. Megan likes that, though. You like that as having run a cafe that people will send it back

rather than just like writing a nasty comment. Yeah, you should always tell someone if the service isn't up to date. It's not the New Zealand way. Give them the chance to rectify it, to fix it. Yeah, I mean,

my husband doesn't like it when I do it. Yeah, he just goes, coffee's coffee, but it's not. No, it's not. I agree. Do you always feel like you're on the verge of quite a serious cardiac incident? No, never. No, your heart's not going brrrr?

No. Tell you what. Do you ever delve into it? My kids know not to come near me until I've had two coffees. Yeah, right. If you really want to mix things up, chuck a Musashi in there as well. I might have to give that one a whirl. Yeah.

Peak Fiona. Good on you, mate. You're going to have a wonderful Wednesday. Appreciate you calling through, Fiona. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. And we're only going to be not everywhere, just one location from tomorrow, playing handball four square for Kids Can. Kids Can ball, trying to raise $350,000 for the wonderful organisation

Kids Can that feeds and clothes kids who have been going without at schools right across New Zealand. And we're joined by a Kids Can kid, if you will, Verity. Good morning. Good morning. Lovely to have you on the show. A Kids Can kid, if you will, a product of the Kids Can program. Exactly.

I'm very lucky. Oh, that's awesome. You're now at university. Yes, I'm in my fourth year of study at the moment. I'm doing political science and international relations. Oh, wow. I'll pretend I know what those are. So tell us about your experience with Kids Can growing up. So when I was pretty young, yeah, I was very not well off, I guess.

And we would get wheat bits and like muesli bars and stuff from them. And yeah, we got shoes and rain jackets and stuff. Yeah, it was really great. Because you were surviving sort of some weeks on like a dollar loaf of bread. Yes, yeah. There was a lot of times where we just didn't have enough food. So what was it like as a kid going to school hungry? It's really distracting.

You haven't really got time or energy to focus on anything but food really and you kind of go in survival mode I think well yeah and so what happens when you know when kids can give you you know give the school and you food or they give you some shoes I mean how does that change uh being at school for you it kind of just makes it a little bit of a safe space i guess yeah it just makes you feel like people actually know you right do you kind of feel a bit invisible before that in some ways yeah definitely i don't know as a kid kind of feel a little bit invisible anyway let alone having to quietly suffer yeah yeah because one of your greatest fears was your classmates hearing your tummy grumble because you were hungry.

Yeah, there's a lot of embarrassment and feeling like you have to hide the fact that you're poor. I don't know, kind of like a rational fear that people can tell. But yeah. Yeah, and kids would have changed their life

or helped immensely anyway. Yes. It's the reason why I'm so supportive of them. There should be a lot of things that I don't remember from my childhood, but Kids Can is one of them that's always stuck out. Oh, good on you. And what was it, you know, just explain, because we're obviously asking for donations and stuff, the feeling that you have when you've got the breakfast and then your jacket's given to you and your shoes are given to you,

what's that like? Yeah, it's amazing. And I can only imagine people need it so much more these days. Yeah, you feel safe and you feel seen. It just makes such a big impact on your life, being able to be fed and warm. Yeah, I don't know if I can explain no you haven't done a great job yeah yeah and i mean it's it's it's still heartbreaking that's still so many as you say so many kids out there that need this there's waiting lists of schools and you know children that you know for kids can to help out so and so you obviously

you're studying political science uh sciences are you wanting to end up at the Beehive? Yes, eventually. Yeah, doing what? Well, I'd like to eventually be something like the Prime Minister or something like that. Oh, the Prime Minister. Hey, go for the big job. Definitely.

Exactly. Very, very high goals. I'm sure you can achieve that, Anna, and I'm dead sure if you do become Prime Minister that the kids' wellbeing will be high up on your priority list. Very much so. It's one of the reasons why I decided to go into politics because in New Zealand it's the

best way to make real change so yeah. Good on you Verity. Well we will hold on to this recording forever and then hold it against you that you once appeared on our show when you were Prime Minister. Oh I love talking to you Verity. Thank you for giving us an insight into what kids can do and as we say it doesn't take much they can give as little as just a couple of dollars or you can give more uh if you can you can go to kidscanball.org.nz to help out