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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This Gentleman Ben Podcast brought to you by Hello Fresh,
the Experts and Tastes that Kiwi's laugh.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
We're doing our nineties nineties Friday all week. We've been
putting the nineties against the early naughties, which is the
better error?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
And you decided.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
The people voted in this democracy we live in for
the nineties, and we've all come dressed as ninety characters.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Megan, you've arrived as Britney Spears.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Hit me maybe one more time Britney spears. Yeah, the classics, not.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
The twenty twenty four Instagram Britney Spears, which we all
would have maybe preferred. But Ben Boyce is about to
do his big revealed walking through the studio door. Here
he is, stars in her eyes. He's Vanilla Ice, the
frosted blonde tips. He's got a full colorful nineties tracksuit.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I feel highly flammable right now, I really, I really do. Yeah,
we brought music in myself as well.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Frosted tips too much. I appreciate he's looking. He's got
a blue Vanilla Ice T shirt on. He's got the
cheap bling to the look sharp blingers well like to
see and he is looking sharp, very very flammorable this morning.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Did you buy that track soon or did you own it?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I got the tracks and I owned the T shirt.
I owned the Vanilla Ice T shirt you buy that from?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah you did, write no open flames around that trick.
It doesn't breathe, It melt onto your skin.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
The sunglass sugasses straight away.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
But you're looking good.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
What do you hear as Vanilla Ice?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Well, it kind of works. I have a hear already
like that, so I thought I just had to hear,
and I worked backwards from there.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
We've got Brittany and we've got Vanilla Ice. I'll try
and do my reveal next.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
That's exciting morning. This morning, nothing but nineties music throughout
the morning, celebrating the decade that was the nineties.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
We are really looking forward to it now.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
We had been teaching and doing it like a week
long history lesson with the producer Grace, twenty three year
old producer Grace, And let me just give my computer
because I forgot what we're going to teach her about.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
What was it?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
We're going to talk it, We're going to take it, yeah,
to go back, and we were talking about the things
that a lot of technology by things this week, and
and when it came to the phone book, Now, have
you ever used the phone book produce a gross or
the Yellow Pages?
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Have you seen one a phone book?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
No?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Do you know what we're talking about?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
That was you know how you got all your contacts
in your phone. Well, this was the entire city's contact
and one convenient book their name, their address, their phone number,
all personal detailers. We were fussed about it. We were
openly back then. And it was about that thick and
you get it delivered and check it on your lawn
and plastic bags. Now that was the that was the
(02:35):
personal directory. But then you also had the Yellow Pages
all business related stuff. You want a plumber called Triple
A plumbers front of the Yellow Pages.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
So a big these big, massive books will arrive once
a year, A big burden to having the household. If
you wanted to look up something and you're like, I'll
go look at the Yellow Pages.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
It's wild when you think about it now, that if
you could think of someone's name, you could look up
their address. Where's Ben Boyce?
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Love?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Open book in there? Bite around to megas, ain't being
yeah now?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
And then they kind of just saw there was a
bit of a said slow end to the phone book,
wasn't it. They got started using his door stops and
what's all online now? Booster seats in the cars and things.
But yeah, we found a lot. Yeah, listen, the world
is far more convenient, let's be honest. Yeah, if you
want to get hold of someone's number, now you can
do it in a split second.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
But before you had to flick through probably about i'd
say two thousand pages.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah, then we go a little hark back to something,
some redundant thing that we went.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
He no longer using the hits that John and Ben podcast.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
What's Boys to Me? In the iconic boy group from
the nineties, we've heard about it. Yeah, send us this message.
What's going on?
Speaker 6 (03:43):
John Owen?
Speaker 7 (03:44):
Ben is your boy one year Mars and Boys to Men. Hey,
you guys are in New Zealand and you're having a
nineties party. We'll do me a favor, Do me a
favor and turn up our hit song.
Speaker 8 (03:56):
Oh make a look to you like you want me
you to?
Speaker 6 (04:01):
And who would you tay b B.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I'll do the name.
Speaker 7 (04:05):
Turn it up nice and loud to celebrate, but not
too loud that you get a noise complaint, it's no
good thing.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
I have a great nineties party, much love. Wish I
was there.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
That's pretty good. Little put you on the little putchy.
I'm joking. How incredible was his voice? Anyway? So we're
talking about, you know, nineties heroes right now, and have
you ever met a nineties hero? A hero of yours?
On one hundred the heads for Love.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
To Know Megan, Let's have it just recently raw, just
only two weeks ago.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
If you listen to the show, a lot of you
were probably here for it. After the Radio Awards where
I was a little bit of a miss, we had
the amazing I never we are like Sweetpants show, and
I forgot that we had Jeff Wilson coming in studio.
(04:58):
He was like a hero of mine. I was a
burg in to rugby and was it ninety five?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Like the Wall Cup?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
He ever got food ches and Goldie Andrew Murtens. I
was all about it and I've never met him until
that moment.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
In two hours sleep party the night before not ideal
Jeff Wilson conditions.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
He thought it was funny. I did not.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
That's what happened when you met hero.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
I can't believe this is happening.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I reckon even that morning he is looking at all
three of us go looking at like chewed up pieces
of gees. I'm glad I got into sport, but he
didn't care.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
It was it was great with that we got We
got to meet the Vanilla ice and has seen perform
in concept because he came to New Zealand. We actually
helped bring him out lay a twenty minute concert. He
was incredible, played Ice Ice Baby twice, played the Bangers
and he was really cool to hang out with. And
then he was like, because there was a small crew
on stage, just some of the DJs like normally have
two people in clown masks to get out and dance,
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but there's no one else here, would you two do it?
To John O and I And we're like, yeah, there'll
be an honor to dance on stage. But you realize
how bad we are at dancing and how what it was.
After the first I was like, I am done, but.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
How long were you You've never seen two had masks on,
but you've never seen two clowns slowly back out of
a dance route just kind of just each each song
which to move a meter back into the darkness of
the stage.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I lost confidence so much the whole thing as well too,
but it was it was really cool. It was really cool.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
He was the worst hype guys ever really were, so
you don't want unconfident hype men.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
The hits that johnaan Ben podcast Have.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
You ever met a hero of yours from the nineties?
Great texts and calls coming.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Through there are and I just to singly remember too,
we got to very thankful and lucky to interview Arnold Schwarznegan,
who was a hero of mine in the nineties.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I know, it was pretty cool. We Australian interview.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
You will never say, He'll never says last night juste
to be mate.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
It was one of those ones we were lucky that
were really lucky to be with all the other media
to talk to him. But I think we're at the
start they were like, you've got eight minutes with him.
They're like awesome, And then as they went on and
things started roaring behind, they're like, you know you've got
six minutes, okay, cool, Now you got four minutes okay cool.
And we walked in the room and I think they
were like, you've got a minute and a half from
the time you talk and yeah, you could even bend
(07:17):
it what you just had to sit down.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
We wanted to talk about kindergarten cop for about forty
minutes and then Ben Boyce goes, hey, do you know
who my dad will be back? Because the famous line
I'll be back, and Arnie was very very befuddled.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
He was confused, confused by that.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
He's like, I don't know where everyone will be back.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
And then they're like times out.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Yeah, a moment, Narnie, do you know my dad will
be back?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
And you were bring up your daddy issues and then
we pick it in front of him and that was
that was kind of it.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yeah, so we blew it. We blew it with Honey
Kurt welcome. Have you met your nineties hero?
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (07:51):
I have, and actually courtesy of you and Ben.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Who was it?
Speaker 10 (07:58):
Oh the concert our station absolutely fourteen. You brought him
across to New Zealand on a whim and you got
through to him on the phones.
Speaker 9 (08:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (08:08):
And I was there in my empty Hammo pants and
my American flag jackets.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
And so does this mean you saw them dancing on stage?
Speaker 10 (08:19):
I was on stage. We've been wrapping Vanilla Ice with Vanilla.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
I y.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Amazing jacket.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yeah yeah, well listen, you deserve to be out there.
Speaker 10 (08:32):
A middle way to my my Tinder bio.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Oh good, I did it. But did it work well
on Tinder?
Speaker 10 (08:37):
Probably not?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Why do I want to date the guys?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
We're going to hook out with some health. It's lovely
to talk to you here, my friend.
Speaker 10 (08:47):
Amazing, Thank you, guys.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
We'll get Shena on. Welcome Sena. Who have you meet
from the nineties ninety zero?
Speaker 11 (08:54):
Oh yeah, I don't know whether i'd call them a hero,
but from the Vince Marden from both Oh yeah, I
see what.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
You wouldn't call me?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Apologies huge not so. They were iconic adds for many
many years. It was like a lounge singer I think
from America. They used for bo repairs. It was very iconic, right, Yeah.
Speaker 11 (09:13):
He came on ever Christmas and he used to do
a Christmas thing for bow repairs at the end of
the year. But we were in New York and we
just happened to go and have something to eat at
this diner and this way he came up to us
and it was a sinning diner. It was really weird.
He came up to us and we took it took
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out all day and we recognized that he was Australian,
but didn't sort of put two and two together. And
then he came back and he had the s badge
on that the bent and then suddenly we clacked and
we said, you're Vince Marden, and it was Vince Marden.
And what he's.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Working He's working as a waiter singing a diner.
Speaker 11 (09:53):
Yeah, he was working as a waiter, singing singing waiter.
And he was all of a sudden beast in the song.
And he said he used to fly over to musical
that every year to do this wow.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
And then go back to his life as a singing
way so as well.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Blood to meet one of your heroes, it is.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yeah, I say, never meet your heroes that let you down.
But I don't think it's the heroes leading you down.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
It's you leave yourself down into a fumbly, anxious mess.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
What a cool story. Let's take one more quickly.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Hey, Quentin, you meet your hero from the nineties? Who
was it?
Speaker 12 (10:26):
Ah?
Speaker 13 (10:27):
Yeah, Hi, I met Richard Dean Anderson, the guy guy
have the original of the original guy.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Ah, it was, here's a big player.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
It was a great TV show Where'd.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
You meet him?
Speaker 13 (10:39):
I meet him at the one of the arm Gidney
exposed here on his Zealands.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
He came to that's very cool. What what should have
been cool?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
If you're like, we're both locked in a toilet, would.
Speaker 13 (10:49):
Be I mean, would have been?
Speaker 9 (10:49):
Because he said to me, he goes because I said
to myself, I wish i'd meet you sooner. Hea, you
could have come to America. I said, well, at the.
Speaker 13 (10:55):
Time, I couldn't afford it, so you know I would have.
Speaker 9 (10:58):
But yeah, I said, now you actually came here.
Speaker 13 (11:01):
It's you know, it's a bit older when I meet him,
So he's in his like sixties when I meet him.
Speaker 9 (11:06):
But at least I got a chance to meet him
and them.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
And this is why they say.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
The hits that jonaan Ben podcast.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
That's this Morning playing nothing but nineties music, celebrating your
favorite decade. They got a lawsuit from Mattel after that
song came out, So.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
See why Mattel would be a bit rattled.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, they had to write a little thing on the
CD saying Barbie Girls a social comment and not created
or approved by the makers of the doll, just to
try and get around that.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. It feels like
it went a long way down the track before. Did
anyone go did you want to check with Mattel? A
song video recorded it? Yeah. I don't know why we're
going to do this to ourselves because it never makes
for pretty reading. But cost comparisons back to the nineties,
we're doing the nineties show and stuff that costs an
(11:53):
insane amount of money, Like the average house in New Zealand.
Have a guess this is ninety five. I've gone smack
being in the middle.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Okay, so the average house now you're thinking probably around
a million, right, probably average two.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Hundred and twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I can't even buy a cupboard for that now, one
hundred and twenty five grand. The average rent in ninety
ninety five hundred and sixty one dollars a week only
ye sixty wow, I guess you know a fancy economists.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Will go it's all relative and us.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yeah, yeah, well, don't worry about that, mate. That's not
sensationalist radio. Okay, there's not going to ark people up.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Do you have the average wage of a keywek.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
It was thirty nine thousand, dollars, So I guess it's
all relative. Here's a crazy one concert tickets, Big Day Out.
It was basically the Rhythm and Vines backed compact into
one day sixty bucks.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, I was gonna say, and I get annoyed every
time a concerts like two hundred and fifty three hundred
dollars A take what we.
Speaker 14 (12:51):
Use the base sixty dollars get a brand new cast
sixteen thousand dollars in ninety ninety five the All Blacks.
You can see the All Blacks any stadium across New
Zealand for between eight to twelve dollars to twelve bucks.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
What have we done?
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Maybe that's why they were so popular Back then.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Smoking was cool. Guys.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
You could get twenty cancer sticks for four bucks fifty
sheep lung cancer. And finally, I know we're were allying
over time, but finally a big Mac. Oh no, two
more movie tickets four bucks stop, you won't even smuggling
your contra band popcorn.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Almost probably only a couple of hours.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
And finally a big Mac two dollars ninety five.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Some stuff to make you sad about.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
And about the jonaan Ben podcast.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Saying nothing about nineties music. That's from ninety five. It
was a big song thanks to a Levi's Jean's commercial
became number one around the world not long afterwards, and
he's joining us, the man himself, Shaggy on. I could
think I can see him over over on zoom right now.
We're about to you.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
I am and yeah, I'm in Jamaica, my home in Jamaica.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Oh my, so nice to see you. We are big fans,
and New Zealand are big fans of you.
Speaker 15 (14:08):
I have a lot of friends in New Zealand. Man,
one of my favorite places to go. I've played a
concerts there so many times. Big Ragamuffin Festival. There is
always a big festival that used to be down there.
I've been there a couple of times. The thing that
hits me is right as I get off the plane.
Is that so the smell that hit me?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yeah, of course, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
You just go right and it's like, yeah, oh yeah,
I'm here.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
I thought something else would be going up, you know,
strews at Ragamuffin, not the sofa, the smell of something else.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I was reading that you some fans have called themselves
or their kids Shaggy and bombastic after you?
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Is that true?
Speaker 6 (14:48):
You know what, there's a there's a shot.
Speaker 15 (14:51):
There's a woman that actually told me that heard someone
was called that's a cool name, and so that the kid,
the kid was actually conceived mis.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
She said, just so you know, that means you were there.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
I looked at her and I said, it wasn't me.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I'm not paying any charm support for those kids.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Shaggy, You've lived an amazing life, you know, with all
the success in music, the Grammy Awards, the millions of albums,
but you're also in the US Marines for four years.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
I did four years in the Marines.
Speaker 16 (15:22):
I did six and a half months in the First
Golf War. You know, all of that was something that
just kind of shaped me for who I am, you know,
and it really kind of prepared me for music, and
I didn't even think it would.
Speaker 8 (15:33):
But you know, in music, you have to get.
Speaker 16 (15:35):
Up early morning, you do early morning shows, you do
clubs at night, and then you jump on a plane
and you're on another continent doing the same thing over
and over again.
Speaker 8 (15:43):
Takes a lot of discipline to do that. And the
military was.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Were really I'm ski now he could kill us Shaggy
could kill us right now.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Don't ask the wrong question.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Even though he's in Jamaica.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
He could eat us.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Right now over zoo.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Now, the name Shaggy was given to you in high school?
Is that the correct store?
Speaker 10 (16:00):
Sorry?
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Or you know there's a couple of stories.
Speaker 8 (16:02):
You know, Uh, it's really because my hair was shaggy.
I learned about the world shag.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Oh, shag is the same in New Zealand as in
the UK. Shag means to make love.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Yeah, I didn't know that. In Jamaica it's not that.
And I watched Austin Powers.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Oh yeah, realize.
Speaker 16 (16:19):
That's what it meant. And then I was like, wow,
I always hated my name. All of a sudden, I
think my name.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Is cool a whole new meaning.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
If you could name us after our here John O's
you know, not a lot and I've got a little
bit more. What would you give us?
Speaker 16 (16:37):
You know, you know there's technology to that. Now we're
just naturally. Look at mine, it's working.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
So could my my nickname be technology? Question?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Man, Hey, Shaggy, I feel like we're getting go one.
I feel like we're mates. We want to scoop. I mean,
it's been a lot of years now and you've said
it wasn't you. Can you admit to us that finally
it was.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
That's my story and I'm sticking to than.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I feel like she caught you with their eyes, You're
own security camera.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
She even wolved in the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
It's a lot of evident. Second up, the.
Speaker 16 (17:07):
Big thing about it is denied deny.
Speaker 8 (17:11):
I mean, we've been saying it.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
You know.
Speaker 8 (17:12):
The funniest thing about that song is not even a
cheating song. It's an anti cheating song. Y'all just never
listened down to the end of the song where the guy.
Speaker 16 (17:19):
Actually apologizes and says, Okay, I'm not listening to this idiot.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Right because he's But that was almost not really a single,
that song, right, and it became such a huge international
smash hit.
Speaker 16 (17:31):
You know, in your career going up, you sometimes write
these amazing songs, and there's always some guy in a
record company that thinks he knows what's better than you.
Speaker 8 (17:40):
Over and over again.
Speaker 15 (17:41):
This is a story that has been a part of
many artist lives.
Speaker 8 (17:45):
Times have changed now, and it's great that we're in
charge of her destiny.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
When you break it down, even when it comes to movies,
TV shows, executives.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
It's all just down to one person's opinion.
Speaker 8 (17:56):
Hey, and we're seeing it happen every day.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Bro, Shaggy, before we go, it's been so good catching
up a quick quiz about some New Zealand food for you.
If I said hokey pokey, hokey pokey, what do you
think that would be hokey pokey?
Speaker 6 (18:10):
I'm thinking something naughty?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Oh, ice cream?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
There we go.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
We got some ice cream. Hokey pokey is a flavor
of ice.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
It is naughty for your hips and waistline.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Okay, and the final one ginger nuts. Ginger nuts.
Speaker 16 (18:26):
Yeah, I will figure that your your nuts are gingery.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
There's some biscuits called ginger nut cookies. Yeah, cookies. Yeah,
you got some cookies. But also actually want you there,
knows Hey, Shaggy, what's a huge highlight for us to
talk to you. You're awesome. We love your work. Take
care of yourself, man, all right, my brother, thank you
very much.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
Man, I appreciate you.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
The hits that Jonavan Ben podcast said.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Before it has captured the attention of not just all
New Zealand, but people overseas. Fran Drisher, the Nanny has
sent us this message.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Ever.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Listen, Hey Johanna, I'm going it's me and dresser.
Speaker 16 (19:00):
I hear you're having a fabulous nineties party.
Speaker 8 (19:04):
Am I in bandy.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
I hope you guys have the best time and just
enjoy yourself.
Speaker 11 (19:12):
And if you need anyone to take care of the kids,
do you meet a nanny.
Speaker 12 (19:16):
Much love to you, bro.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
She was standing next to her like like an outdoor fountain.
It wasn't like she was having a shower or.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
For sizzling bacon. Is cooking your bacon this morning time?
So here you go, Fred, it's just spreading far and wide,
people texting and loving the nineties. Oh, you've just been
harassed here beaten. Sorry, she's being in capitals. You ruined
the end of the spots.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Apologies, sorry, Melie.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
And another one loving all the nineties music guys, except
we've been ruined the end of the spots.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
That was around the kitchen all morning. This is such
a fair show.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
We'll keep on going till nine. Appreciate you guys hanging
out with us this morning. We want to talk about
nineties school yard games or score yard moments. What do
you remember the mist about doing in lunch time or
interval Megan.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
I remember doing Knucklebones. I think they had to like
ban them for a little bit because people were stealing
knucklebones and like, you know, same thing when anything gets
to fadily ball, like kids start arguing and but we
did knucklebones. Did you ever play?
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I remember knucklebones, so I could never get sort of
quite quite hard. After you get you had to throw
one up freeze and then you can get read tricky.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Because the evolution of the marble wasn't at the knucklebone.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yeah, it was a big it was a big one.
I always remember the school yard just just it's burnt
literally burnt into my memory that the slide, the metallic slide,
how hot it was in the playground. And I was
always the idiot that would go for yeah, it's plaintop
got out and you just burn like your thighs and
upper thighs on the mid January day.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
You didn't have a skirt like I would wear a skirt,
and then as you slide down, your undey's got your bum.
So it's just cheek on slide.
Speaker 17 (20:56):
So hot and hot. What should we make the slide
out of the don't know sless? Yeah, the kids will
be sliding down. Yeah, littlesome character. Thankfully they decided at
some point to turn them into plaster. Yeah, yeah, there's
some smart individual. Do you do you remember the wonderful
the key to the school pool was always attached to
a whacking crazy piece of wood.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Piece of wood. We later discovered that was because if
it falls of the poet floats, probably don't lose it either,
because it's no idiot's taking a home in their pocket.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I can just remember ball to well you as to
mock me for this, we called it Tiggy and Auckland.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I know how pretentious does that sound?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Was?
Speaker 3 (21:35):
It was Tiggy? Will you tag tag?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Well we played bull Tiggy.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
While drinking your arm and soy macacinos.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I'll take that mockering.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Driving your four wheel drive.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Sliding down our marble slides far smoother on the butt.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
So that's us revenius thing about our favorite school yard games.
What did you get stuck into? What was banned at
your school? Would love to hear from your necks.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
It's the Jona and Ben podcast and joining us.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
We all dressed like kmart or Ti versions of famous
pot stars.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Your dressed like Vanilla Ice and very highly flammable Polyesta
tract suit. Boy, you're like slash from Tim tell you
what hard to put our headphones on with the top it? Yeah,
really not conducive and Megan's Britney spears this morning, but
I love each.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Of us have tapped into our own characters, like some
of that you own, you probably own that leave the
jacket right and.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Is this my daughter's so thank you to didn't he
as well?
Speaker 1 (22:35):
We want to know this morning on one hundred of
the hats. The scooreyard games that you took part in
are back in the nineties. What were they?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
You were just say knucklebones and then the grim history
of knucklebones.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
I was like, hang on these shaped like knucklebones. So
apparently the ancient Greeks you so literally find bones like
knucklebones and start playing you know how many they can
pick up as they show them in the air with
actual knucklebones.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
I guess they're using, you know, using every part of
the body way to.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Bring the vibes down.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
So yeah, give us a call one hundred of hits,
so roxy will get you on the school yard games
you remember, mate, from the nineties, we used.
Speaker 18 (23:12):
To play kiss and Catch.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
In consent, right.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I used to not cares that.
Speaker 18 (23:24):
I used to just run.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
I was gonna say you run slow, And it was
like a boy you liked. You're like, oh, I'm running
so far?
Speaker 18 (23:30):
Oh you call.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
That one has an age?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Well no, Now you'd be like, are you okay with this?
Can you be signed this for sure?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (23:40):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Can I get you on video?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
So we get a couple of witness you saying.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
You're yeah, please get Sophie on.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Do you call Roxy Sophie? Welcome to the nineties show.
Hope you're enjoying it.
Speaker 12 (23:52):
Oh, Happy Friday, guys. I used to play Space Monkeys
until I got so injured that I ended up in
hospital and it was like banned from school.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
They had like ambling about it.
Speaker 12 (24:06):
So it's like a really not a great game, but
it's you know, at the time, it obviously was a
thing in the nineties because we're a bit crazy, and
it's where you like thinned over and you like hype
of intulate really fast and then you stand up really
quickly and then one of the other persons puts like
a you know, a still sweater or something over your neck,
and then you.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
In shapes.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Yeah, I remember well, I remember that I never did it,
but I saw it happen.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
A bit of strangulation.
Speaker 11 (24:33):
You're pushing strangulation, but I did you that.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Oh wow, that was stupid. That's a good thing that's
not played. Did you end up in hospital or something?
Speaker 11 (24:42):
Yeah, because no.
Speaker 12 (24:43):
One caught me and I like hit my kid on
a middle stillar on the wall, so like ended up
with flouid around my brain and was in hospital for
like a few days. In ochool for a while.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Man, we were dumb.
Speaker 12 (24:55):
Yeah, don't do it kids, And and.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Thanks to you that was into space making.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Can't you give it like.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
A cute name. You're like, I played space mounkys today.
Your mom's like wow, and now.
Speaker 12 (25:05):
I'm probably I'm probably a bit of a space monkey.
Speaker 19 (25:07):
For the hits that johnaan Ben podcast arrived and your costume,
so just to recamp, Megan, you came as Britney Spears,
the school girl outfit from having one between yeah, which
which I think you were wearing.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Well, I was going to say I was trying to
make a joke there, but it wasn't because going to pull.
Speaker 9 (25:25):
Out because.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Very weird.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I was going to themselves. It's probably okay.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
So I'm never all going on.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
You know, what I should have seen was what your
husband was wearing a school out but when you met him.
But then I started say, by the way, started saying
it didn't work for the timeline. I've covered a vanilla ice,
very bright, colorful neon costume.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Looking sharp, and you've just come and Slash and listen,
can I seem to shout out to Slash?
Speaker 3 (26:04):
He had a lot of here to deal with.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
It was the visibility at an all time low, kind
of feel like cousin it from the Adams family.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
And it's weird going from not a lot of hair
to stream.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Amount and he constantly had a singing hanging out of
his mouth, flammable hair cigarettes really took his life in
his own hands.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
But ironically we didn't even communicate with each other. We've
covered the span of genres.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
It was a surprise for all of us as well.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
We covered bases.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Now a lot of people around the world have heard
about the show. Pretty incredible and from an iconic show
of the nineties, The Fresh Prince. We've got a message
from Alfonso who plays Carlton and.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
Ben from New Zealand.
Speaker 20 (26:49):
Alfonsa Robero here I guess some would say, y'all know
me as as Carleton from the Fresh Prince of Beallet.
I understand you guys are having a nineties party. Well
come on, you gotta have an and his party and
you canna be dancing like Carlton all day long. Y'all
hurt a little bit, so have a great nineties party.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
On Jesus capturing the hearts of the world.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
We're reaching the full corners of the earth up until
we played Sunscreen and then we're got to last a
few people. But anyway, I beg it was love of it.
We put the put next. It's a huge weekend right
here in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
It is Super Rugby Final and as coincidentally, the first
Super Rugby competition was nineteen ninety six, which the Blues won,
and now after the what was it twenty year drought,
they're back in the final.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
The hits that jonaan Ben podcast.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
But nineties music all morning, celebrating the nineties. It is
six twenty eight, but we need to jump back to
twenty twenty four because it's a big weekend going on
this week in a sport, particularly on Sky Sport and
joining us from Sky sport as Taylor Curtis, Good morning,
How are you?
Speaker 18 (27:53):
Good morning?
Speaker 10 (27:54):
How's it going?
Speaker 1 (27:54):
We're doing all right today we're celebrating the nineties. Every
song from the nineties. And you were born in the nineties.
Speaker 18 (28:01):
Yes, I was ninety six. Actually vague memories like may
I don't even know if that any of them were real.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I always wonder what age your very first memory is.
We spoke to a lady I reckon she could remember
being inside the wood.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
I know it was weird.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
You definitely want to forget about that memory. Yeah, and
coming through.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
The Yeah, I probably don't want to know about that one. Right.
So it is a big weekend of a sport here
in twenty twenty four. But we also got to know,
pay reflection to the nineties, pay respects. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Because ironically ninety six was the first year you were
born and the first year of the Super Rugby competition,
which the Blues won.
Speaker 18 (28:38):
Yeah, that's insane, A like, what a good year.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
The amazing team. When you look back at that team
from the Blues, can I check out some names and
see if they Okay, it was saum Fitzpatrick still playing.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Yes, John Kirwin was he in.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
The team nor your wingers on that occasion, John Olmo
and Joel Eevandevanderia?
Speaker 9 (28:56):
Yeah wrong?
Speaker 3 (28:57):
What about Gary Wetton, Alan Whiston?
Speaker 1 (29:01):
No, no Wittons in the and Yeasenz and Brock was there?
Michael Jones, Carlos Spence a pretty amazing line.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Yes, sacks the team and the Blues this weekend as well,
Patrick Torpolo to back. I thought it was out for
six or seven weeks.
Speaker 18 (29:18):
Yeah, that's remarkable. Look at knee injury too, right, Like
he's the Blues man.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
Isn't he?
Speaker 1 (29:23):
He is at big legs like he came down as
you did, came down to our handball and played handball
and hiss his one legs like the size of two
of mine together.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
It's just just big legs, gorgeous gorgeous legs.
Speaker 10 (29:35):
Yes, he's just leg.
Speaker 18 (29:36):
He's just all lended leg. But it's all leg such
a big leg.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
I've made this weird, haven't I've made this really weird rug?
The crowd, sold out crowd, awesome to see the Chiefs Blues.
It's going to be a hick of a game.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Who are you putting your good name behind? Taylor I'm
going to.
Speaker 6 (29:53):
Go chi.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Ch upset one.
Speaker 18 (29:58):
Yeah, I know, especially because no one really has upset
the Blues Crusaders and they've got a real good home
streak there. But I just think the Chiefs they've got
final experience and they just very unpredictable, whereas Blues you
could kind of see the game plan.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Kind of like our career.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
You see what they're going to say they're going to
do next. But then you would imagine the crowd be
pretty split, given Hamilton's only down the road.
Speaker 18 (30:24):
Yeah, you're right, Yeah, I can imagine there'll be a
lot of Chief supporters there as well.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Yes, sold out, which is incredible. But you can watch
live coverage of the Super Rugla Pacific final Blues Chief
Skysport one, stream it now on skysport now and sky
Open free to air delay coverage. It's pretty cool from
nine o'clock, all right. The Warriors, they had a tough
loss last week. They look good against the Storm and
then things kind of fell away at the end of
this week. They've they've kind of got to start winning
those close games, right, Yeah.
Speaker 18 (30:50):
Absolutely, And because it's real tight contest between making that
top eight, there's a lot of other teams that are
putting their hand up there. I went to a Warrior's
media fish earlier this week and I were just saying
how cud they were with their complaincy, and so hopefully
they just need to be a little bit more disciplined
because a little bit of a redemption against Titans throwing.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
It back to the nineties, which are doing today. The
Warrior started ninety five too, well.
Speaker 18 (31:11):
I was born a year after.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Do you know what's said? As I distinctly remember that
opening game you were even existing. They came nothing but
a thought running out of the tunnel with.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
The the drums. I was very excited about that. It
was very exciting.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
But we can remember that, so yeah, I remember.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
That's fine.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
You can go back and watch old footage. It wasn't
color back then too. You know, Thank you, Taylor. Always
appreciate you coming on and updating us on what's happening
in the weekend with sport.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Have a good weekend, Yeah you too, all right, So