Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Ben's Big Announcement... HE MET DWAYNE THE ROCK JOHNSON!

Episode Date: July 27, 2021

The cat is out of the bag! We surprised Ben with Dwayne The Rock Johnson and Emily Blunt over Zoom, ahead of Disney's Jungle Cruise being released this week. We'll be playing the full interview tomorrow, but FINALLY. AFTER MONTHS. IT HAPPENED. We also talked about the everyman sports that should be in the Olympics. Parallel parking? Carrying all your grocery bags all at once? There are so many, we need an "Everyman's Olympics"! Finally, we caught up with Elaine Lamont, a woman who, along with a bunch of other "grannies", fought off thieves who tried to steal their money while playing bingo! What heroes! Enjoy the show.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John Owen Bean New to your mornings Friends of Skinny New Zealand's most recommended telco Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of John Owen Bean You can have them anywhere, anytime Welcome to the John Owen Bean Podcast Tell you what's going to be good, this podcast

Welcome, 27th of July I've just turned the mics on Yeah, we're fresh out of a sales meeting. What happens on a weekly basis here at the Jono and Ben Enterprises is Tuesday's Harriet, wonderful Harriet from the promotional department comes in and she says, you know, we've got these clients. That we're trying to pitch for, you know. They come up with ideas and we just spout off just rubbish ideas and we're like, well

that will never come back to bite us. Well, hey, sometimes, I will never come back to bite us. Well, hey, sometimes, I would say, I'll stop you there, sometimes we go with ridiculously big ideas too. And we're like, because you're thinking, oh, well, you know, it'll never happen. And sometimes they happen. You're like, oh, geez, how logistically can we pull this off?

Oh, yeah, there was one or two, I think, one that we're like, let's go on top of a mountain. Yeah. Do the radio on top of the mountain. And then she comes back in today, she's like, the mountain idea came through. We're like, oh, God, we overshot the mark there. Yeah, we're radio on top of the mountain. Then she comes back in today, she's like, the mountain idea came through. We're like, oh, God. We overshot the mark there. Yeah, we're like, logistically, how does this work?

Technically, how does it, anyway. Well, that's the sales game, isn't it? You just do whatever you can to get the sale across the line, and you deal with the fallout at the back end. Yeah. You know. Yeah. I mean, Ben, you and me, personally, are not going to have to worry

about how we're going to broadcast the top of the mountain. No. That's the joy of the mountain. No. That's the joy of this job. Yeah. You know, there's people who probably should be recognized far more than we should who have to pull this all together now. I was watching, actually, a show on Netflix about the movies, behind the scenes about some of your favorite movies.

And it was the same with Jurassic Park. That's one of my favorite movies. Yeah. And they were like, some of the people that created the dinosaurs, they were like, yeah, we just said we could do it. And we're like, we had no idea how we could do it. And we're like, we had no idea how we could do it. But we're just like,

yep, we want to do it. We'll make these dinosaurs and we'll make them move on computers. They're like, well, okay. Then they had to go away and practically work out. But it's amazing what the human mind can do when put in that,

it's a do or die situation. Don't just say yes, say you can do it, we'll work it out. We'll sort it out later. Even though it's impossible, they're like, yeah, okay. Like, you know, Jeff Bezos phoned the space rocket company.

He's like, can you make me a space rocket that looks like a penis? And they're like, yes. And then he's like, great. And then they're in the office. Oh, God. Well, how do we do it? We promised a penis rocket. It's really going to fly.

Well, that's what he wanted. That's what I want. And they did. And they delivered. And they delivered. Yeah. They got results. That's right

well you were telling that movie thing you were saying well Forrest Gump you were telling me some interesting stuff oh how many times it got knocked back

and how many changes and how many things Forrest Gump yeah Forrest Gump they just had Tom Hanks attached to it and then it got the budget pulled out of the thing

and they were secretly filming because they really wanted that you know the running scene when he just keeps running and he's like I just want to keep running all around America and they're like well we need to go all around America.

And they're like, oh, I need to cut the things. And so they secretly went off and filmed these things. Oh, him running in the middle of America? And even used his brother, who looked like him as a stunt double, to kind of use him for some of it as well. Just to get these secret running shots all over America. Because they're like, you've got to slash all this money off the budget. Well, I mean, to be fair, if I'm in charge of the budget and you're like, well, we'll just green screen it.

Yeah, we're going to go to such and such and run. Well, don't go to Oklahoma. And run. Yeah. Well, this will take five minutes. Let's do it on a green screen. Yeah, I can see how. But so many things as well from the budget that were like,

we don't want all this shrimp stuff. It's going to cost money on the water. Cut it. And they're like, no, we're going to keep it in. All these things almost got cut. They became iconic parts of that. You know, imagine Forrest Gump without the shrimp storyline. The Bubba Gump sort of. Who's saying you've got to cut it?

The movie execs? Oh, the movie execs and stuff, yeah, because I guess it became quite expensive and then they became. Those Gump projects cost us a fortune. And then Tom Hanks and the director ended up taking money. They were like, well, don't pay us anything. We'll invest our own money in it

and we'll just get a bit of the, we'll get a percentage of the back end. And in the end, that was a very smart decision, because it made a lot of money. But they were like, to get this thing going, they're like, we need this stuff. Put our money towards this, and we'll just take money towards the back end. I was like, jeez. That's a gamble. This is a gamble.

But I guess they really thought they put their Forrest Gumps on the line, and they got it. How much did Forrest Gump make? $683 million. And it was a $50 million project, which was a lot of money at the time. And they were like, oh, we need to slash it under $50 million. But you think, you invest $50 million, you get a lot of money. But to make what? A $681 million profit.

I know. But I imagine there's, you know, you hear a story like that, but there's probably many of the stories where it's like we put 100 mil towards John Old Ben on TV and oh, that's like the second network. You wouldn't have thought we'd spend 100 mil on that show but we did. We spent every last one

of those New Zealand on air dollars. Those 100 million New Zealand dollars. I had something really You tell me. It was semi-important to say. Oh, I don't know. Oh, don't. Now I've lost it. This is the joy of the podcast intro, though.

You can meander in your thoughts while you try and... See if it gets back there. Oh, was it the soundtrack? I know the soundtrack thing was quite interesting about Forrest Gump. Oh, yeah, because they made... I feel like I was recounting a show I watched on Netflix. But the soundtrack, you'll remember, was very iconic. It had everything from Elvis to other bands and artists that I can't remember.

All the leaves of all the numbers and poppers. Yeah, it was Aretha Franklin. It had pretty much, it was like a soundtrack of America over 30 years. And they did the first edit of Forrest Gump with all these actual songs in there. And they were like, we love it. Have you got permission to use these songs? They're like, no, but we can negotiate. And they're like, oh, maybe it'll be expensive.

Let's pull them out. And then they were like, well, it actually sounds a lot better with these songs in there. So they ended up paying for the rights for all these songs, became one of the most successful movie soundtracks ever, and in the end, they made more dollars, you know? They made more dollars. Where do we start with this, and why are we in the here?

So Forrest, yeah, Forrest Gump. Soundtrack was very good. Their soundtrack, it was a banging soundtrack. He had a voice, didn't he? He had a double CD, Forrest Gump soundtrack. There was a few songs that were a bit too modern for him, but he loved some of the other. Cleadence Clearwater, The Revival, I think was one of them.

What songs from the Forrest Gump soundtrack were too modern for him? They were all 60s and 70s. Let me have a look. The latest song. I remember you liked some of these. The latest song came from 1994, and it was an original piece of music that was composed for the soundtrack.

Was that the one with the... Forrest Gump Suite. Yeah, and it had the feather blowing in the wind. Yeah, that was 1994. Yeah, it was too modern. Get your modern ideas out there it actually wasn't to be honest everything was from the 60s maybe 70s i don't know this new hippity hoppity music trying to force down my truth oh is it okay yeah the doobie brothers

probably on the probably on the devil's grass are they they're right you're right i take that back. It might have been my CDs I tried to play. That was probably something you didn't enjoy. Might have been your Cypress Hill cassette, mate. Not Forrest Gump. Don't you dare tell me you keep it posted and enjoy every song on that soundtrack. It's right in a sweet spot.

Look at that side of the car, fucker. He would put that disc on from track one through to 16. There's disc one. He would listen to every song in order. Then he would go to disc two, again, one through to 18. There's disc 1, he'd listen to every song in order. Then he'd go to disc 2 again 1 through to 18 and love every one of those songs. That is a good soundtrack. Anyway,

it's a good show today. This has gone on for 8 minutes. Wow. If you're still with us, enjoy the podcast. If you're not, well, thanks for trying. Are they doing a big bloody Western Spring show? Yeah, I think they are. I think that's coming up very shortly. Doing pulling a 660, eh?

Yeah. Plugging out the springs, is that what you say? I don't know, it seems like. No, I don't know if anyone said that. I'll try and kick that vernacular off. Hey, now the Olympics are on at the moment, and as you suggested, it's been awesome to watch on the TV and awesome to suddenly become an expert in sports

that you're not an expert in, but how cool was it we won our first medal in the triathlon yesterday. Hayden Wilde got bronze, 23 years old from New Zealand and yeah it was awesome. I mean it was such a great performance and awesome to see the emotion and hear the emotion afterwards. Have a listen. Pretty heavy and it's good to get a medal back in triathlon with the men. A lot of inspiration from my coaches. It was definitely for my family and for my dad as well.

He passed away like 12 years ago so he never got to see me race. Oh mate, really special. And that audio brought to you courtesy of Sky Sports. Ben's a little anxious that Sky Sports are going to take us through the high course and do an injunction if we play their audio. But isn't that just the result of probably a tumultuous training period

over the last four years for the guy? Not knowing if the Olympics are on or off or whatever. And all the work that you go into, that you put into it, it just comes down to one race. Yeah. And he came through like a legend. Our first triathlon medal for New Zealand since 2008,

Bevan Docherty in Beijing. So, yeah, congratulations to Hayden Wild. That's pretty awesome. You were saying at the end of the race it was a really unfortunate bit that happened. Well, the guy who came first, and obviously they've just poured every ounce of energy and soul you can put into something. For close to two hours. Two of them just swimming, running, cycling, just going at top speed. You know, it's a bit more than the Weet-Bix Kiwi Kids Triathlon.

I mean, no, it's not. No, yeah, I won't talk down the Kiwi Kids Triathlon. I mean, I came fourth in that this year. But the first guy, he sort of collapsed over the line. And a friend of ours was watching it. She's like, he's going to vomit. He's going to vomit. We were all kind of secretly hoping he would vomit.

And then he went all over. Just giving it everything. Giving everything. Poor guy had to get wheelchaired off. Now, he was quite far ahead of the second place competitor. So the second place competitor hadn't really seen what had gone on in the finish line. The second place competitor, obviously in the same state,

exhausted, they cross the finish line, he collapses and starts rolling around and the guys vomit. Oh no. Now this is like Hamilton on a Saturday night. On the finish line of an Olympic triathlon. It was comical to see.

And then when Hayden came through, I was like, please don't, mate. Please don't. And I think second place started vomiting. They all basically get to the finish line and... Just giving it it all. And also making Olympic news over the last 24 hours, the Australian swim coach, Producer Juliet. Now, he was pretty pumped that they had won Australia. They do so well in the pool. Also making Olympic news over the last 24 hours, the Australian swim coach, Producer Juliette.

Now, he was pretty pumped that they had won Australia. They do so well in the pool. Yeah, so this was in the 400-metre medley where Ariane Titmuss from Australia won, and we had our 17-year-old girl from Dunedin. Oh, Erica Fairweather. Erica Fairweather, that's her name, and she placed eighth. But when the Australian won, the coach of this Australian girl,

Dean Boxall, they've described it as he pumped the air, ripped off his mask, and hip-thrusted a railing to become an instant meme among the Tokyo Olympic blokes. He looked like a wrestler from the 80s, like the ultimate warrior, up and down on the railing at the top. He was just so stoked. He was going for it. He was so happy.

It's very funny. You say air-thrusted a railing? Yeah top. He was just so stoked. He was going for it. He was so happy. It's very funny. You say, air thrusted a railing? Yeah. Oh, yeah. He's grabbing the railing and just... Again like Hamilton on a Saturday night. Olympics is just like Hamilton. Checks and more vomit in there. I'll tell you what, that's great. You know, Juliet, I noticed you yesterday. We were in a meeting.

The whole time she was distracted by the Olympics that were playing on the TV outside the room. You know we were once paying attention. Boss Todd was on Zoom, poor guy stuck in Sydney. She was off camera just staring at the triathlon the whole time. Yeah, when the Olympics are on, my productivity goes down

the drain. Jono and Ben, just like family. The family members you're ashamed of. It is that. Jono and Ben. A very exciting week this week. We sort of alluded to this yesterday. There was a pretty...

You were quite aloof yesterday. Yeah, I was a little bit. A huge surprise that happened for me just before we went away on holiday just over a week ago. And you pulled together, with a little bit of help, Jono, something pretty incredible. Yeah. All together, with a little bit of help, Jono, something pretty incredible. Yeah, and in terms of Ben's miserable life, this is the greatest thing that's ever going to happen. I mean, you could walk out of this building today and step outside and a sparrow could fly into your groin

at 200 kilometres an hour. You could slowly bleed out on the street and you'd say, I'm going to die a happy man. Oh, yeah. Bizarre accident to take place. 200 kilometres an hour, you could slowly bleed out on the street and you'd say, I'm going to die a happy man. Bizarre accident to take place. An unusual way to happen but you're right, it was incredible what happened and I think we can

let everyone know what exactly went on, how it came to be. Alright, here we go. Over 58 blockbuster movies. I am the Calvary. Over 200 million Instagram followers. I got the greatest fans in the world. 199! He's one of the world's biggest stars.

Please welcome Dwayne The Rock Johnson! Dwayne Johnson. Dwayne The Rock Johnson. For 10 years, Dwayne The Rock Johnson has been Ben The Pebble Boyce's hero. Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Why do you keep crying during any scene that The Rock and Kevin Hart are in?

He inspires me. And in a shameless act of commitment to get noticed by his hero, Jono made Ben get an I Heart Dwayne The Rock Johnson tattoo on his bottom. Yeah, a little bit bigger than I thought. This is it. This is you on your journey. If he doesn't post this, I mean, you still love Dwayne The Rock Johnson. And that's why I'm doing it.

But, it all hit rock bottom. Okay, so 24 hours down, still nothing from Dwayne the Rock Johnson. Yeah, it's early days,

it's early days, he's a busy man. Four days now, nothing. There's a whole bunch of people on the other post. None of them was me. You said we'd be on there.

You said. Three and a half weeks down Still nothing from Dwayne The Rock Johnson You've given up all hope Can we move on from this? Can we just move on? Now, two months down A little boy waits

He waits with a lonely tattooed butt cheek Which has gone unnoticed by his hero Dream is over Let it go, it's over I don't even know why we keep bringing this up It's over It's over It's over

Until now Jono Pryor presents An inspiring story of hope it goes over i don't know why we keep bringing this up it's over it's over it's over until now jonno prior presents an inspiring story of hope and love i love you guys i love you guys honestly i love you guys so much as ben boyce meets his hero face to face tomorrow all All right, guys, so to Ben, and what's your other name, brother? My name's Jono. It's not important right now. With the most surprising twist yet. Where the heck am I?

I have it. Look. I can't remember. Tomorrow morning on The Hits, brought to you by Jono Pryor. Thanks in some part to Disney's Jungle Cruise out this Thursday. Actually, thanks in all part to Disney's Jungle Cruise out this Thursday. There we go. The dream has come true.

You guys have been listening to this show. You've been part of this journey for many weeks now. Months. Yeah. Months and months. You are the centre of it

and you're like, just stop talking about it. You're like, it's gone. It's dead in the water. But, oh man, it's pretty cool to be here to say we've got The Rock and Emily Blunt on the show tomorrow.

And what? I feel like sometimes you watch these things, you're like, oh, it looks like they allude to something. Is this going to be disappointing when I finally see it? Well, no, it's not. It was actually even exceeded my expectations. Yeah, as this was playing out with him, I was like, this is not.

It's not real. Surely this is. This is not real. It felt like you'd set this other bit up. It's not real. Surely this is. This is not real. It felt like you'd set this other boat up. And he had it. He had it. When he had it on his. Yeah, anyway.

Listen, I tell you what, Dwayne Johnson was doing something to my Johnson that day. And it was doing things that never felt like that. It's a very happy man. Oh, God. Stop talking. Yeah, stop talking. It's a very happy man. Oh, God. Stop talking. Yeah, stop talking. It's incredible. So catch up tomorrow at 8 o'clock.

It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Broadcasting live and mostly awake. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. The Olympics going on right now, the Tokyo Olympics. And awesome New Zealand won their first medal of the games yesterday, a bronze in triathlon, Hayden Wild, 23-year-old, and it was so awesome. I mean, I think he surprised a few to get there, to get the bronze, which is awesome,

and it was so emotional at the end of the race. Pretty happy, and it's good to get a medal back in triathlon with the men. A lot of inspiration from my coaches. It was definitely for my family and for my dad as well. He passed away like 12 years ago, so he never got to see me race. Oh, just raw emotion. You can just tell how much effort the poor guy's put into the racing and the training over the last four years for the Olympics

and that is actually also what Ben sounds like after every show. After a meeting with our boss. I do cry after every show but it's not quite through that sort of emotion. So it's wonderful stuff and I don't know if you did see in that same race, the triathlon, wonderful scenes at the end. So first place.

He loved this. He's told it like five times, even off air. He recounts the story. Sit around, children, I'll recount the great tale. Have I told it too many times? To us, you have. But people listening will want to hear it. How many times have you

guys heard this? I saw the things. We got a message about it last night on the WhatsApp group. And then I've told it off here. You've been five times in total. You're right, Chew. We've been a lot, but it's done with Chew. I'm like a babbling old man who keeps retelling the same story.

Truly, it's like, just tolerating me. You just get infatuated with like yes yes you know the guy so first place comes across the line first place in the triathlon comes across the line he's exhausted and my friend goes he looks like he's about to vomit we're like i hope he does boom it just comes pouring out of he's rolling the ground. And then they have to put him off in a wheelchair. He's so exhausted. And guess what happens next? Well, we know, but you tell us.

Second place comes across the line. They haven't seen all of the mealy that's gone on with first place. Second place comes across the line, equally exhausted. He then starts rolling around on the ground on first place's vomit. Rolling all over it. Covered in it. Have I said that's like Hamilton on a Saturday night? Oh yeah, you did say that.

So that's what's going on in the Olympics right now, but we thought, you know, for I'll regale that story again after. For us, every people listening to the show, we thought, well, they should have the Every Person Olympics. Maybe they should have events that we all do on a daily basis that, you know, if you achieve, you should be in the Every Person Olympics.

These are achievable events that, you know, with a combination of luck and a can-do attitude, every one of us can win a gold. I saw it on ESPN. They posted yesterday about this as well. Things like, you know, whether you try and carry all your groceries into the car without going back again. You know, with all the bags loaded up. I mean, that should be in the every person in the Olympics, right? And I don't know what the psyche is behind that as well.

Because it's like literally probably maybe a 20-second trip back to the boot. Ripping your arms off. Yeah, but it's something you do. But then you just end up just dumping them on the bench or dumping them on the floor or the groceries spill out. But it's a hell of an achievement. These are some of the things we want to put in the Every Person Olympics. You suggested this one, getting your kids out of a gift shop

without buying anything. We went to Butterfly Creek last week. And you exit out of the butterflies and then boom! Greeted with a giant gift store and navigating children through a gift store without them stopping to purchase anything. That deserves a gold. It's just a

soundtrack of parents going, no! Put it down! No! We're going home! We're going to meet Aunty! Put it down! And I even, I pre-empted it because I knew the gift shop was coming. I was like, don't you even think about picking up anything with those puppy eyes. So that's

a gold medal. That's a gold medal. I reckon untangling iPhone headphones should be in the Olympics. The Every Person Olympics. I mean that's an event. Similarly, jewellery like necklace. When you get a necklace tangled, it is the most frustrating thing. Could go on longer than the triathletes were going yesterday. Yeah, I mean, Hayden Wiles, he's getting a lot of press today, but you know,

there's people out there, battlers out there doing that as we speak and they're getting no credit. Sitting through a YouTube pre-roll? What, the full 30? The full 30 seconds? Has anyone done that? Has anyone gone past the 5 second cut-off zone?

Sometimes they're like, and here's a 15, and you're like, oh, God. Now you have to sit through a whole 15. You can't skip a 15. Yeah. And then sometimes they play another 15 after that, and you're like, oh, for goodness sake. I think we're part of annoying pre-roll ads at the moment. Yeah, I think we are. And one final one for the every person at the Olympics.

Let's go putting two bins out, recycling and your green bin out at the same time, getting them out on the street. I mean, that's a great idea. It's a balancing act. And also, can I put in the same event too? Maybe this could be sort of a triathlon-style event at the airport, managing two trolleys at the same time with their braking systems.

Yes. Which, you know, you're like, I'll go get some trolleys. Can I get one comfortably? Managing both at the same time, having braking systems. Yes. Which, you know, you're like, I'll go get some trolleys. Can I get one comfortably? Managing both at the same time, having the brakes off. Yeah. That is worthy of a medal. And Ben, I'm going to chuck one in for you. Oh, okay. Parallel parking. It's a bugbear of yours.

It's not your favourite event, and the odds are stacked against you with a parallel park, aren't they? They have the parallel bars, don't they? In the Olympics they could have the parallel parking. Parallel parking. You've got the crowd watching on, they're judging, you've got your passenger who's like, you're not going to make it. If you've got one of those cars that makes the beeping noise

beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, that's adding stress. Oh, it'd be a great event. There we go. The every person Olympics, it is the hits. You've got Jono in there. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hits. It's time to look at some big show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the Hets. The Hets. It's time to look at some big news from a small town.

Town, town, town. We usually do that together, don't we? Oh, we do. We do. Oh, God. Too late. This is like, you know, when you try and have a photo and you're like, why don't we all jump at the same time?

You never time it, though. Never time it well. Hey, this is some pretty incredible news out of Gisborne. They're calling them the Hero Nannies. So they were playing a housey, a bingo night, a whole group of them. Some of them are 87 years old. I think the oldest granny was there. A housey and bingo, the same thing.

I think they are. That's the same guy. Why have they got two? Anyway. They're playing that. And then they had some guys, two people in balaclavas came and tried and robbed the money. They had about $700. Yes.

And we have one of the super grands on the phone with us right now. Welcome to the big news. Elaine Lamont. Thank you. This is super granny herself. Yeah. Now, do you wear your underpants on the inside or outside of your trousers? Well, that's what I was just telling my husband last night.

When he was calling me a hero, I said, should I put my knickers on the outside of my pants? Well, that's what I was just telling my husband last night. He was calling me a hero. I said, should I put my knickers on the outside of my pants? Walk around like that. You are a superhero. I mean, amazing story. For anyone that hasn't seen it or read about it, can you tell us what happened? Yeah, our normal Friday night house we have at our Pirates Club rooms.

We have a group of about 30 that was there that night, and we had just got started. about 7.45 got into the house and I noticed the door opened and I noticed two masked men trying to come through the door and they just scooted across the room over to where I was with the money and tried to grab the containers of money off me. So I was tussling. We were going backwards and forwards, pulling the containers.

He was pulling, I was pulling, and then he snatched away. And then one of the ladies on the other side, one of the old ladies, she threw her table, kicked her table towards him, so he fell. And we fell down to the ground, and a couple of other nannies were hitting him with their bags. With their handbags? With their bags that they had on the table and giving them a bit of a kick and whacking him. And he managed to get up and his accomplice tried to come through the door when a couple of other

ladies threw some plastic chairs at him trying to come in the door. So, you know, all of that, yeah, more or less was a group effort to try and stop these two accomplices taking off with our healthy money. Now, this is the bingo. This is your bingo cash. 700 bucks worth of bingo cash you took? Yeah. And what did he... I tried to take. You didn't take it.

He didn't get nothing. He got nothing. Damn, he got his arse kicked. Yeah, yeah. Now, so the money stayed in the club rooms? It sure did, yeah. And when they got out, we got a few other nannies from across the other side of the room

which decided they were going to chase him. They were chasing him? Pouring down with rain and they just got outside and they just, oh, it's raining. So they came back. I can't get my hair wet. Too cold.

Amazing thing you guys did. I can imagine even after was even though you guys came out on the right side of it, it would have been quite a, you would have been a bit shaken up though, right? Yeah, there was a few shakes. I mean, we had one lady end up with a bleeding nose, but so the ambulance was called in case she was hurt. But, you know, she told the ambulance people, no, no, no, I'm fine. I'm ready to carry on playing my healthy.

Thank you. Yeah, we had a little bit of a break, a 10-minute break, until the police came and gave them all the details. And then, yeah, we carried on playing healthy. And who won that night? Who won the bingo? It was a bit of a mixture. In the end, I think we were all winners.

I'd love to be part of the post-analysis meeting amongst the robbers. And they're all sitting down just debriefing on what happened. What went wrong. What went wrong. I thought it was a surefire one, but yeah. They were elderly. They were like, it was right for the taking. How did you?

They would have just been sitting in silence, I imagine, in a van going, well, that one got away on us. Yeah. We've been robbed before I've been in there, and that time they got away with the money. Oh, really? That's sad. We were ready for them this time.

Oh, good on you. Good on you for doing that. It's a shame that you had to do that, but it's awesome that you guys, no one got hurt, and you guys are all good. Yeah, we're all good, ready for next Friday. No, someone got hurt, the robber. Yeah, well, that's right.

He got a bit of a bashing. He was assaulted with handbags. So you've become a bit of a superstar. They're calling you Super Granny and the Super Nanny. Who's been talking to you? Have people from around the world been sharing this story? It has been shared. I've had phone calls from Seven Sharp and AM Breakfast and radio stations

but it's a bit overwhelming. I think I've only really spoken to you at the moment. Okay, so who's been your favourite interview? At the moment. You. Must be yours then. Definitely yours. And we're not going to say that's by default. And who will be your favourite

interview by the end of the day? Probably when you talk to Hilary Barry on Seven Sharp. But until then, we remain the favourite interviewer of Elaine Lamont, the super granny. Thank you. Hey, listen, you keep safe there in Gisborne. Yeah, we will. In fact, you don't have to worry about keeping safe. No. If you're planning any

armed robberies, you keep safe. Thank you very much. Bye. Don't you love stories like that? Oh, that's incredible. Just made for breakfast radio. Just that warms the cockles of my cold commercial radio heart. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Yona, good morning, New Zealand.

Welcome along to the show. Jono and Ben back with you on a Tuesday morning. How's everyone feeling this morning? Tell me honestly how you're feeling, though. Don't just do this, yeah, I'm doing fine, and then move on. Don't do the Kiwi thing. Well, you know, it's our second day back of getting up early again. It's this morning a lot harder.

That's what I was thinking. Yesterday it was kind of like that when your body's in a little bit of shock in some ways. You're like, oh, I'm up. Okay, just keep going. But today I was like, oh, this again. I was just talking to the wonderful Sam Wallace, who's next door to us. They do a show, Tony and Sam, with Jason Reeves on Coast. He was saying, I slept through my alarm this morning.

He's like, I've never slept through an alarm in his whole career. That's always the worry. Do you run a backup alarm system? I'll put one again later on my phone, like 10 minutes later. You've got an emergency one. That I hope I never get to. But I guess if I slept through the first one then I would He looked frazzled. You always look frazzled

don't you? He hadn't showered brushed his hair. It was one of those things where you definitely just got up, blew on some clothes and came fanging down the motorway. When you get a call you're like I'll be there. Your brain's starting to comprehend what's going on. Not a great way to start the day is it? No, you really feel

behind the eight ball in that situation. Ju, how are you feeling? You tell me honestly. Do you know what? I'm exactly the same as Ben. I found it so hard to wake up this morning. I think it's because I was really deep in a dream. And when you wake up mid-dream, you're like, oh my gosh.

And then I lay in bed for five minutes pondering my dream. I was like, that was a really weird dream. And then I was like, okay, I should probably get up. Otherwise I'm going to be late. But I'm okay now. You're not Sam Wallace I was like, that was a really weird dream. And then I was like, okay, I should probably get up. Otherwise, I'm going to be late. But I'm okay now. I'm alive. You're not Sam Wallace late. No.

No, that's right. Listen, no one asked how I was doing, but that's fine. That's fine. No, no, move on with the show. No, you tell me. You tell me honestly. I don't want to know. We've gone too long.

You tell me honestly. It's the top of our, you know we've talked too long. Okay, don't tell me honestly because we have gone on too long. Stick around. We'll find out how Jono's doing as well as $5,000 and a whole lot more surprises. Good morning to you. It is The Hits. It's Maroon 5.

This love, it is The Hits. Jono and Ben, 607. Last week I rented a car and I hadn't done that for a while. It always feels like such a gamble with the rental insurance. I don't know if you've done it or rented a car for a while, but they always make you feel like you're taking a risk. Oh, it's the perfect storm on playing on customers' fears that they may crash the vehicle.

But also in the same breath, the fact that there's a huge possibility that you're not going to do anything to the vehicle. Yeah, that's the thing. It's a gamble. It is a gamble. Even online, I booked it online. I was like, I'll get the insurance. I'll just do it. Because otherwise you get that awkward conversation when you get the thing. It's a gamble. It is a gamble. Even online, I booked it online. I was like, I'll get the insurance.

I'll just do it. Because otherwise you get that awkward conversation when you get there. You got the insurance? And so I was like, oh, sweet, I got the insurance. And she was like, oh, I see you got the insurance. I'm like, yes, I have. And she was like, so now you know that with the insurance that you've got, there's a $3,500 excess.

Oh, here we go. Here we go. Bring down the excess, baby. But if you want to pay an extra $30-something, you'll bring the excess down to $500. Pay a little bit more. You'll bring the excess down to nothing. You're like, oh, here's the... It's like you're at the casino.

You're like, where did I put all my chips? My chip's got to go. It's almost like you want to do that, then go and ride off the car immediately after and go, oh, well, zero excess. So I sort of went midway. So I was like, okay, so $500 got hurt a little bit, but not as much as $300. But you sort of, you know, you have to sort of went midway So I was like okay so $500 Got hurt a little bit but not as much But you sort of you know you have to sort of

Negotiate and I know it's their job Did you find with that Safety net that you were more reckless With your driving and parking And opening doors on walls I can imagine you would be That's why I've paid for this I've paid to ram this car into a bus

Do you know we were with a person from work and we weren't driving but they were driving and we were pulling out and it went along the wall. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's right. You were like, maybe it'll be fine. It'll be fine. And we didn't get out of the car and lock

and I was trying to make them feel better. I was like, it'll be fine. It's probably just like we'll knock the dent out. It'll pop out. It'll pop out. One of those ones that'll pop out. I'm on my head. I'm like. But'll be fine. It's probably just like a, we'll knock the dent out. It'll pop out. It'll pop out. One of those ones that'll pop out. I'm on my head, I'm like But how do you even pop it out? Listen, I was doing anything to

make them feel better. Yeah, fair enough. That's good on you. And we got driven to where we needed to go and we got out of the car and we looked back and we're like, you know it's definitely not a pop out situation. It was all the way along the side. Massive scratches and everything. Oh mate. Oh yeah. Oh no, it was not a pop-out situation. It was all the way along. Massive scratches and everything. Oh, mate.

Oh, really? It was not a pop-out situation. That's where you hope you'd pay for the full amount of the... I don't think we had done anything, had we? Oh, for the X's. Yeah. I think we got to the airport because we had the keys and we just threw the keys over the desk.

And they're like, what about that? And we're like, oh, we're just going to catch a fire. We'll start an all-out ladder with the X's. We're like what about that and we're like I'm just going to catch a fire we'll start it all out later with the exes we're like just get in touch with us there's something little thing on the side

yeah Kia ora I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees and this is The B**** News love this part of the show it's actually the most reliable part of the programme

and we bestow the honour and pay it back with the respect of burying it at 6.14am here's Juliet with the news and beeps how does this the respect of burying it at 6.14am.

Here's Juliet with the news and beeps. How does this work? I find some interesting headlines from around the world. You guys have to guess what the full headline is because I've beeped some of the words out. Ready for the first news story? Let's do it. Gold Coast team gets $20,000 for **** after it went viral on TikTok. I'm going to say he had an eggplant and that went viral on TikTok.

You know, because everyone, you always see those things at the shop, like oh it's an eggplant toy and oh an eggplant, everyone I don't know why the eggplant needs to like why is that there? It's an onion and it's resembled, well it doesn't I don't know about yours That's what I was trying to say without saying it

Why does the eggplant resemble the, anyway I was just saying he maybe had an eggplant You definitely need to seek some advice if it does look like an eggplant. Listen, I'm going to say Gold Coast Teen gets $20,000 for being an Australian who actually adheres to lockdown rules after it went viral on TikTok. Gold Coast Teen gets $20,000 for Doritos chip after it went viral on TikTok.

So it's a puffed Doritos chip completely filled with air. So it looks like one of those little pillows. And whenever you, you know, whenever you kind of get a chip out and it's got puff in it, you always think it's like a magical chip, right? So she posted it on TikTok and asked if it was valuable or if she can just eat it. It got so many views. And so she put up an auction for it. Started at $1, reached $20,000.

And then she took the post down and be like, no, it's just an experiment. Like, I won't take anyone's money for this Dorito chip. And then Doritos, the company itself, decided to reward her for being pretty selfless and for her ingenuity and gave her $20,000. Oh, that's great. That's lovely. It kind of looks like a samosa. Yeah, it kind of does. It's a good comparison.

A puffy chip. 13-year-old girl, $20,000. That's so good, eh? Wow. What a dream. What a dream. The next news story. Man labelled a genius for changing his *** so he can date Olympians.

Ooh, I'm going to say he changed his gym regime to include more antibiotic steroids. Now he can date Olympians. So man labelled a genius for changing his career to professional athlete hooker-upperer so he can date Olympians. Man labelled a genius for changing his Tinder location to Tokyo so he can date Olympians. So there's a version of Tinder where if you pay for it

called Tinder Plus, you can choose a location anywhere in the world and swipe as if you're there. So we went and zoomed right in on the Tokyo Village and started swiping. So he's matching with all these Olympians. But then eventually his plan backfired because he shared this on the internet, got like 2 million views, and now everyone else is doing it. So he's like, there's no fun anymore. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's a very smart idea. I was over there with the Olympians because obviously the corona is a bit concerned with the Olympic Games. So do you see the cardboard? The beds are made out of cardboard. Yeah. So they're not to withstand two people in them. So basically the beds, they reckon they will collapse if there's two. Oh, because every four years there's always that wonderful media story.

Hey, listen, I've been guilty. I've run with this story for 20 years of how prolific they are at lovemaking in the Olympic Village. Yeah. And they always hand out the Olympic-themed condoms. That's always the big thing. Oh, really? But this year, actually, Japan are like, yes, we've got those, but keep them. Keep them as a sort of souvenir.

Yeah. That's what they've said. They've honestly said, keep them as a souvenir. Don't use them. Keep them as a souvenir. What a great souvenir to take home. I'm really sending said keep them as a souvenir. Don't use them. Keep them as a souvenir. What a great souvenir to take home. We're just really sending

the wrong message with condoms. Don't use them. Do what you can do but just don't use the condom. No, no, no. I think you don't do anything there

and then just take it. But anyway. Trust us, it's better without one. And the final news story. Bodybuilder with competed for five years before realising.

I'm going to go bodybuilder with a seven day gym trial membership. I thought they'd cancelled the trial and continued for five years before realising. I'm going to go bodybuilder with a seven-day gym trial membership. I thought they'd cancelled the trial and continued for five years without realising. And then went, oh, I'll be paying quite a lot for this. I'm going to go bodybuilder with no building qualifications, competed for five years without realising. Bodybuilder with two broken feet competed for five years before realising. So she suffered two separate injuries while driving and at work

within two days of each other. Thought, didn't realise her feet were broken and she decided to just like put insoles in her shoes. She just thought there was, you know, her legs were tired and it was impacting her feet. She finally went to the doctor five years later and x-rays showed that they were fractured and needed surgery. So she got surgery, was in a wheelchair for ages,

had crutches for a year, finally got back into bodybuilding. What a legend. She's not an Olympian, but that's just crazy. They use an enormous amount of fake tan, don't they, the bodybuilding community? Yes, yeah. An excessive amount. Sort of looked like something from the Geordie Shore, don't they,

at the end of it. We did something. It was wrestling, actually, and we turned up and we were meant to be wrestling and we were in Lycra and stuff, and they're like, guys, where's the fake tan? No one told us we needed a fake tan. I'm looking at myself in the mirror, like out of anyone who needed a fake tan,

I needed to. They spend a lot of money on their fake tan. Yeah, because often we were, we were wrestling in just little pouches, sort of little underwear type things. Even my thighs, you know, they haven't seen the sun for a while. You know, even at the beach, you know, you're wearing board shorts. Yeah, true, true.

You're like, oh, this is not for me. And that is news and beeps. Thanks again for that, Producer Juliet. Next, your chance to win with the Google Games. We'll tell you how in just a few moments on The Hits. The Google Game. Now there's some games going on right now in the world Yeah, they're getting a lot of coverage

But the Google Games There's not getting quite as much coverage But it's just as fun It is the Olympics of radio competitions though To a crowbar in a topical event Yeah, that's what I was trying to do And that was brought to you by Sky Sports Ben's a bit nervous this morning that if we don't keep

Crediting Sky Sports for our Olympic coverage They may go in on us Thanks to Sky Sport for allowing us to say Sky Sport on the radio Sky Sport Sky Sport a lot of coverage this morning too much

but anyway no one is working harder this morning than our fingers at the Google Games it's pretty simple, you phone us up, ask us a question. We've got 10 seconds to Google the answer and if we don't do it in that 10 second time limit you win a prize. What have we got this morning, Behumps? Hell pizza. Oh, nice. Oh, you like pizza.

I do like pizza. Well, you can win hell pizza this morning. 0800 the hits. We can try it now. Juliet, ask us a question. Alright. Oh, gosh. What is the most recent sport to be added to the Olympics? Most recent sport to be added to the Olympics? Tokyo skateboarding, surfing, karate, climbing. Oh, well done.

Of course, you can catch all those sports on Sky Sport right now in the Olympics. But give us a call. That's how it works. The Google Games are under the hits. We've got 10 seconds to Google something in a panic. Was karate not already in the Olympics. But give us a call. That's how it works. The Google Games are under the hits. We've got 10 seconds to Google something in a panic. Was karate not already in the Olympics? Don't know. It must have been like,

maybe it was judo or something in the... Yeah. And then I've seen three-on-three basketball. Yes. As well as basketball with a full team. Yeah, full team. Three-on-three. As in three players playing three players. Then so do the people from the good full team play Yeah, full team, yeah. Three on three. What? As in three players playing three players?

Then so do the people from the good full team play three on three? I don't think so. I think it's a whole different... Yeah. Yeah, I found that one really unusual as well. A whole different discipline. Yeah.

But anyway, you can catch it all on Sky Sport. Here's the hits. You got Jono and Ben. Because baby, now we got bad blood. Hey! Taylor Swift, Bad Blood. It is the hits. Jono Jono and Ben. Taylor Swift, Bad Blood. It is the hits. Jono and Ben.

The most important games that you'll see anywhere in the world right now is this. The Google Game. Yes. You phone us up. You ask us a question. We've got 10 seconds to Google the answer if we don't nail it. You win a prize. Hell pizza this morning.

Juliet, you just gave a wonderful demonstration of how the game works. And you asked. I asked, what is the most recent sport to be added to the Olympic Games? There's a bunch of them this year. Karate was one, which I would have thought was already in the Olympics, but apparently karate has been a candidate for inclusion since the 70s.

It's just organisers have never found it compelling enough. Which seems odd. But then they thought, well, it's in Japan, the homeland. Well, then it's a good year to start. I definitely would have thought judo would have been in there before, so yeah. Skateboarding, which features competitors aged 12 to 47. That's crazy.

Is there no, like, you can't, there's no limit to how young you can be to be in the Olympics? I imagine not. Okay, well, here's Google Games there's no limit to how young you can be to be in the Olympics? I imagine not. Okay, well, here's Google Games. What is the youngest ever Olympian? How old were they? It would be that 10-year-old we were talking about yesterday, surely. Oh, yeah. Who won the rowing in the 1900s.

Dimitrios Loundras. How old? He was a 10-year-old Greek gymnast. Oh, gymnast. Who won bronze in the 1896 Athens Summer Games. How many Greeks getting them out there young? Wow. Amazing.

Oh, there you go. Yeah, good. So skateboarding was included to attract younger audiences, apparently, to the Olympics. That's pretty cool. That seems like such a boomer thing to do. What do we do to get the kids? I don't know, put some skateboards in. Can we do TikTok, the Olympics of TikTok?

Yeah, I think we could. All right, we'll get Jane on from Wellington. Morena, Jane, how are you? Good, morena. Great to have you on. It's a simple game. You ask us a question. Ben, you can do the Googling.

Oh, OK. Ten seconds to find the answer. What have you got, Jane-o? How do snakes hear? Ooh, snakes hear? Ooh. Snakes hear. Because, of course, would they have ears? Do they have little cute ears?

Snakes do not have eardrums. It'll be like through their anus or something, won't it? They're able to hear by feeling the vibrations alongside their jaws when they slither on the ground. So I didn't quite get there in the 10 seconds, but there you go. Through their jaws. That is weird. Okay, well, well done, Jane. Just their jaws. That is weird. Okay, well well done, Jane. Just like that, you're going to take home

some hell pizza because I wasn't quite quick enough. Well, thanks, right? What I like about this part of the program is because you actually learn something. The other 99% of this show is just mindless dribble. It actually probably scientifically makes you 70% dumber. But not this part. We can hold our heads high.

Spy. No what's up? Spy.co.nz. Yeah, she's 70% dumber. But not this part. We can hold our heads high. Spy. The what's up. Spy.co.nz Yeah, she's here to tell us all about the people who are hotter than the rest of us, our goes. Juliet, what's happening in Spy? So, Pink has offered to pay the fines

for the Norwegian woman's beach handball over rules. Basically, for women, they have to wear sort of bikini bottoms and a sports bra. And then for the men in the same sport, to wear sort of bikini bottoms and a sports bra, and then for the men in the same sport, they wear sort of kind of like basketball-looking shorts and a singlet. And so the Norwegian women's beach handball team showed up to a game wearing kind of just like tight little spank shorts instead of bikini bottoms, and they were fined $2,500 for it.

And so Pink tweeted, I'm very proud of the Norwegian female handball team for protesting the very sexist rules about their uniform. The European Handball Federation should be fined for sexism. Good on you ladies. I'll be happy to pay for your fines. Keep it up. That's wonderful. I think they are looking now since that

to change the rules. Because they're very strict. Yeah, and it doesn't really matter what you're wearing as long as it's comfortable for the players involved, you know? Well, it doesn't matter what I'm wearing on the beach. Like, they look great, don't get me wrong, but I couldn't go out there and wear that.

It would be, please, we'll pay you $2,000 to put it back on. Put the clothing back on. Yeah, Pink would be like, ugh. Please put all these clothes on. Put back three layers of clothing. Beach handball. Now, this is not handball as we know it in primary school. No.

I'm gathering, on the beach, because that wouldn't work. No, I think it's almost like a combination of volleyball and... Soccer, it looks like. Beach handball. So they're running around... Oh, yeah, they've got goals as well They've got goals So they run around the beach And they have to throw with their hand

The ball into Yeah Almost And almost like a On land version of Water polo Water polo Yeah I was thinking that

Yeah Oh it was quite fun That looks really cool Fun wee game Let's get involved It's one of those ones that looks fun But then you'd play it for three minutes And be exhausted

It would be quite hard on the sand though too. You'd just be slipping around the place. You'd be all sweaty and covered in sand. Get down your trowel. The beach can be, it looks great in picture form but it's an inconvenient location. Yeah, totally. And an update on Megan

and Harry's daughter Lilibet. She's been officially added to the line of succession on the Royal Family website. She's two months old, and there were some murmurs going around on the internet being like, she hasn't been put on there when she's eighth in line to the throne. So they've just updated it,

and she's officially bumped her great uncle, Prince Andrew, down to ninth. Oh, Andy. Oh, really? He's still in line, isn't he? He's still in line. He's still on the benches. Wow.

You wouldn't want to sub it. Like, if you're having to sub Andy and you're like, should we just cancel the royals? Yeah, I know. Should we end royals? No, I know. We want the actors from The Crown. Let's put them on.

Yeah, yeah. I'm sure they can do the job. And that is five more. You can head to the hits.co.nz. Hey, after seven o'clock, as well as five grand up for grabs at 7.45, producer Humphries, B. Humps, he's come to the show with a huge accusation, a huge

claim. It's a huge claim, yeah, involving his lovely little daughter, lovely little baby Dottie. Now, when he said this yesterday, we both went, oh. Yeah. It's cute, but it's... We'll get to it in 10 minutes. Okay, so you've got Jono and Ben.

New Zealand's Breakfast. This is Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben. It has just gone 7 o'clock on your Tuesday morning. Jono and Ben with you. The Olympics on at the moment. Plenty of Kiwis in action today. We've got triathlon, we've got rugby, we've got more swimming, hockey, sailing, kayaking, football as well. So plenty of Kiwis to enjoy throughout the day.

Boxing. Yeah. Boxing with David Nika? Yeah. Jeez, have you seen David? Juliet? No. Oh, my God.

Yeah. Tell you what, future husband, babes. Future husband, have a goog. Have a goog at David Nika. Let's have a look. Yeah, live Googling. What did I tell you, girlfriend? Guys, guys, guys.

Guys, he's not a piece of meat. Yeah, exactly. Lovely, lovely guy. But damn. Damn. His eyes. Have a gook and see if he's taken. Let's have another gook.

In relationships. Guys, guys, guys. This is very superficial. Let's have a gook and see what's in his heart. Have a gook and see what's in his heart. Doesn't look like he's got a missus. Oh, there we go. Hey, it's 7.45 this morning.

I'm moving on from this. It's very shallow for you guys. 7.45 this morning. Five grand up for grabs when we play five words for 5K. But next on the show, Petrusa Humphries. He's a new dad and he's come in yesterday with a big claim. A big claim. It's very cute. It's beautiful. It's a new dad and he's he's come in yesterday with a with a big claim a big claim it's very cute

it's beautiful it's a claim from a proud doting parent and I love it and I think I probably made the same claims when I had babies

being you probably the same and I think everyone listening will relate to this very shortly yeah we'll find out what it is in just a few moments

it is the hits you got Jono and Ben it's One Direction it's your mates Jono and Ben hanging out. It is the hits. You got Jono and Ben. It's One Direction. It's your mates Jono and Ben hanging out with you on the hits. Now we're bringing in producer B Humps. Lovely producer Humps. Check him out.

Morning. You always look a little bit nervous, like you want to be on another radio show when you come here. He just does it. He's not a front of house guy. He's a behind the scenes guy. He's at the coalface. He's got his sleeves up getting his hands dirty.

Oh, right. So he would be like. That's why he looks nervous when he comes in. Okay. Would he be like in the situation, if this was a restaurant, would he be like, can I talk to the manager? Would he come out then?

Would he be that sort of person? Yeah, he's a fix it guy. Okay. I don't like confrontation. He's cowering in the kitchen. Gotcha. He came into work yesterday and you played us an adorable bit of audio from your um your baby dot yeah it's amazing she's 12 weeks old and um we obviously spent a week on the road um with our warehouse store visits um a couple of

weeks ago so i was away for a week and when i I returned, my gosh, she's so advanced. It's unbelievable. So he's played us this footage off his phone. Cute, cute audio. It's very cute. He's like, listen, she's having a conversation. She's talking. Now, we'll play this to you.

What do you think? Now, I want to go on record. Can I go on record here and say, this might be the first official recording of a baby making a noise like that. I think. Ben, I don't know. What do you think? Never heard one before. I've never understood political science,

but she explained fiscal policy like nothing else. I thought she was reciting Shakespeare from his tragic period in the 1900s. I do feel like she's definitely trying to communicate with you. Absolutely. It's like she's having a conversation, but it's a two-way. She's just making noises. It's beautiful. It sounds like you just got that off YouTube, baby SFX.

She was having a full conversation. It's beautiful. It sounds like you just got that off of YouTube. Baby SFX. She was having a full conversation. So adorable. You know, you do end up... Interest rates are low, guys. That's the time to borrow. I don't know if they should have gone ahead with the Tokyo Olympics. That's the vaccine rollout. But you do...

You really do have an over-inflated opinion of your own children, don't you? And 0800 the hits. we want to open this up. You can brag about your children, young or old, and we won't make any judgment. It might even be in the case where you were the child that was being bragged about. You had a similar situation with your parents.

Oh, well, the advantage of being an only child is your parents have got nothing else to compare you to. With your... Your siblings, right? Yeah to with your uh your siblings right yeah with your advancements through life so i would uh i would start playing tennis and mum's like he's andre agassi he's gonna be at wimbledon by the time he's 20 little did she know she dropped me off to the tennis tournament in the school holidays i would lose in the first round then i go to the plate round losing the first round of the plate round. Then I'd go to the plate round, lose in the first round of the plate round.

There's a very special mongi round, which is like, I don't even know what the round is. It's just all going to keep me here for the school holiday round. And then I spend the rest of the two weeks

eating toasted sandwiches. But that was my tennis career and swimming as well. Dad's like, you're a very advanced, advanced swimmer. Really? I don't think I've, I've haven't heard that in a long time.

I don't think I've ever seen you swim. Do I not scream advanced swimmer? I could barely keep afloat. But yeah, for some reason he thought I was heading to the Olympics for the New Zealand swimming team. So I went under the hood. This is how we want to do it. Whether it was you as the child or you as the parent.

And you made a claim. And looking back on it, you're like, much like Ben Huffrey will in five years, he'll be like, yeah, no, she wasn't talking to me. Yeah, but that's fine. Maybe your child is advanced. You can wow us. I would love to hear from you right now. Give us a call. 0800 The Hudson. But just humbly, you managed to get us some Everblue

hair care as well, if I wanted to call it. Yes, awesome. $50 prize packs, thanks to Everblue. And a one-on-one conversation about philosophy with Baby Dot as well. Money can't buy. Oh, hang on, she's calling through. Hang on, let me get a card. How did you do that?

It is the hits. It's 6.60, all she wrote, it is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben who just played an adorable bit of audio From producer Bee Humphs, his baby girl Dot 12 weeks old and he thought, he's very cute But he thought she was having a full on conversation Like an actual conversation What do you think?

Now, I have a very special place in my heart for baby Dottie. You know, I love that baby. Like, it's a baby I saw once in the office when he brought her in. Jeez, I love that baby. I reckon you couldn't pick out baby Dot from a line-up of babies, eh? We should do that. We should do that as a video. Yes, I could Ben But if I brought a lot of babies

You'd be like I would get baby dot You bring me some babies I want a dozen babies A dozen babies Twelve babies You bring me a twelve babies And I'll pick baby dot up

Out of a line out Out of babies Which is the baby that broke into your house? You'll be like, whoa. Not like that baby. But everyone thinks that their child is special and talented. But to be honest, I can dribble and get diaper rash as well

because no one's given me any awards. So what we're opening up is brag about your kids line. Have you got an advanced child? An incredibly advanced child. B Hump reckons that his baby daughter's having a conversation. Full conversations. How old, mate? 12 weeks?

12 weeks old. Full-blown conversations. Advanced. Olivia, you're on from Tauranga. How are you? Good, thanks. You've got an advanced child. Yes, so my three-year-old son has come out to be the most incredible painter.

No one is painting with their fingers. No, you're a three-year-old. It's honestly the most incredible thing. It's like this, okay, sure, yeah, a few scribbles here and there, but it's like this abstract painting, and all of my friends just can't believe how amazing he is. Yeah, no, there we go. We've got a young Michaelangelo.

In Tauranga. Who would have thought? Olivia, I appreciate it. Really do. Speaking of art, you know, children's art and things like that. Give it up to the kids. They are prolific, aren't they? They are.

Their productivity when it comes to tuning out art. I thought Baxi was really, you know, he was out there doing a lot of stuff. Oh, the kids, they're knocking off half a dozen pieces a day. There's another one. Boom, boom, boom. And, you know, the fridge becomes the destination of all artworks. And certificates, too. You know, certificates of merit, certificates of this, certificates of that. And now our fridge has just kind of turned into an extra storage facility

that if there's something in the household you don't know where to put it, we just magnetise it to the fridge door. And it's got so much that, you know, some of these poor magnets, they're holding on for dear life, holding like five documents, five dossiers of information on the fridge door. Have you done the double magnet? Sometimes I do that one as well. Yeah, we got five or six, but you're like,

oh, this is a two-magnet job, guys. This one's barely holding on. It's too much information on the fridge door, and I offered to do a clean-out of the fridge. Everyone's like, no, you can't get rid of all the information, leftover pamphlets from the mailbox as well for the Jehovah's Witness. Plug it on the fridge door.

But you don't know where it goes. Find's Witness, plug it on the fridge door. But you don't know where it goes. Find a magnet and jab it to the fridge door. That's the problem, isn't it? You don't know when to take down the artworks too. That's true. Because they do increasingly get slightly better at art. You're like, well, I've still got this, you know, this finger painting of your feces at age two on the fridge door.

When does that go down? We've got five words, $5,000 up for grabs in 25 minutes time. You'd hopefully win five grand today on The Hits. Coffee breath. Jono and Ben, The Hits. And it's The Hits on a Tuesday morning.

Now we announced this earlier this morning that the wee surprise, well the wee surprise, the big surprise that happened to me just before we went away on holiday was getting face to face with my hero, Dwayne The Rock Johnson Now this is after many months of just trying to get his

attention to the point where I made you guess a shameless radio tattoo on your left bottom cheek of I heart Dwayne The Rock Johnson so you got his name and a big love heart there So I get to show it to him, and you'll hear it tomorrow just after 8 o'clock on the show. And his reaction really surprised me.

He was surprised, but then we got doubly surprised with his surprise. I know, because he had a wee surprise for us. He even surprised, yeah. On the tattoo. I was too much surprised. But what you kind of, we'll explain more how it happened tomorrow, but I thought I was going to go along and watch the Jungle Cruise movie,

which is out this week. And in the end, it turned out to be a massive... On the movie screen, it was them on Zoom. And it really confused me because I just thought it was a pre-recorded message and it bamboozled me. Is this... What is this? I don't know.

Are you there? Holy s***! Are you there? Seriously? is this a business what what is this there's emily blunt and duane the rock johnson right in front of his face not expecting it tell you what and you took this uh with the excitement of um just exactly how i thought you would take it uh yeah i don't want to say you let it get away on you. Oh, yeah, it did. But for 12 minutes, it was a love fest. Yeah, have a listen. I love you guys. I love you guys. I love you guys. Honestly, I love you guys so much.

Love you guys. I love you guys too. All right. Wow. Love you guys. Now, who hangs up on this? Oh, they do. I was even loving the body.

You got involved. It was like talking to your parents on Skype. You're like, I love you guys. Emily Blunt even said she loved it. It was great to see a big smile on my friend's face. You know, there's some pillars throughout my career. Pillars throughout the building that is my career. Now, it's not a great building.

It's more like a derelict building where homeless people would half glue. But, you know, this will be one. It's got further than all the Kiwi builds, so yeah know, this will be one of the pillars, won't it? This is one of the pillars. This will be a moment. This will be when I look back in the retirement village of old age, probably in about six months, when I'm sitting in there, you know, slowly remembering my life, sitting in my own waste,

waiting to be changed, I'll go, oh, that was a moment. Yeah, it's pretty awesome. And then I'll start babbling onto the nurses, like, shut up, old man. We can't wait to play it for you tomorrow, and the video was awesome. It's all thanks to Jungle Cruise, which is in cinemas and on Disney Plus Premiere.

From the end of this week, it is the hits. You got John on bed. Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. It's a very simple game of word association. If you match all five words, we'll give you $5,000.

And to crowbar and topical eventers like the Olympics of radio. I keep saying that about everything we're doing. Brought to you by Sky Sport. Ben's been a bit nervous all morning that if we say anything about the Olympics and play any audio that we need to credit Sky Sport for some reason. He's got it in his head. I don't know. Courtesy of Sky Sports. Brought to you by Sky. Ben's been a bit nervous all morning that if we say anything about the Olympics and play any audio that we need to credit Sky Sports for some reason.

He's got it in his head. I don't know. Courtesy of Sky Sports. But yeah, we also drug test, don't we, with five words. We've been drug testing Ben

for performance enhancing drugs for weeks now. He hasn't tested positive, so maybe you should think about taking them given your performance. Right, it's been lacking. Stacey, you're on

from Mungum 5 this morning. Morena. Hi, how are you this Right, it's been lacking. Stacey, you're on from Mungerfy this morning. Morena. Hi, how are you this morning? We're doing well. Stacey, dropping the kids off at school? Just about. In the nick of time. Oh, you have got an adorable accent first off. Stacey, you've got to choose

who to send into the soundproof booth. One of us, and to match five words with, who's it going to be? We thought it was going to be Jono this morning. All right. Jono, I think he's a safe pair of hands. I feel good about this one. We're sending him to the soundproof booth. He's inside there now, and here is your first word this morning, Stacey.

It's mozzarella. Mozzarella. Cheese. Cheese. Yum. Yes, that does sound delicious, Producer Juliet. Multiply is your second word, Stacey. Multiply.

Multiply. Ooh. Math. Math. Math or maths? Math. Math with no S? Okay, yeah, sorry, we just have to be exactly correct.

Oh, probably math. Can we come back to that one? Come back to that one, yeah, sure. Rose is the third word this morning. Rose, R-O-S-E, Rose. Flower. Flower, nice. Gold is number four. What pops into your head when I say gold? Ring. Gold ring. Garage. Garage is number four. Ah, sorry, my five, sorry. Garage sale. Garage. Garage is number four. Sorry, number five. Sorry.

Garage sale. Garage sale. Ah, nice. And we'll go back to multiply. Should we do times table? Multiply times table. Times table. All right.

Hey, nice work. Some tricky ones there with some options. It's very hard when you get put on the spot. I always feel for the people that play this game. Jono, you're out of the soundproof booth. You're running around. Bursting out. Yeah.

A lot of energy, like a superhero who's just been called to duty. Yeah. What do they do when superheroes change? You know, you're Clark Kent's of the world. Oh, change in the phone booth. What do they do with the suit? Well, nowadays, where does he change? What's a phone booth?

Yeah, you can't change it and be like, who's this? Mate, can you put some clothes on? Mate, there's kids around. And then you've got to get changed into your underpants and they're on the outside.

It's just like... Yeah. Anyway, let's worry about that later. We'll sort out Superman's changing woes. We just want to worry about winning Stacey $5,000.

Is that what we're here to do, is it, Stace? Yeah. Okay, mate, listen, good luck. I hope we do. I hope we do. All right, mozzarella is the first word this morning. Well, the cheese.

Well, you'd be correct. If you had said another word, I would have been very surprised. Jumping around, I'll jump around on the board this morning. Rose is the word I'm going to chuck to you next. R-O-s-e rose go flower oh nice i thought you might get that one stacy and mangafai all right talk to me about what's going on oh it's the maths one either the multiply one i think okay yeah well i can look forward to that coming up. We'll go gold.

Gold for you now, Jono. We've got two. You've got, obviously, medal at the moment. Yeah, that's... Or ring. What was it, Stacey? Do you like the Olympics, Stacey? Oh, hey, hey, hey, hey.

Hey, hey, hey. What's this? Hey, hey, hey. The reading of the witness. This is not 20 questions, John. All right, we're not getting a background check on her. I'm going to go gold ring. Oh, Stacey.

Stacey. It's not the first thing that pops into her head when you say gold. There you go. That's an Olympic watch. She didn't sound Olympic-y. Okay, we're going to go garage. Ooh. Again, got two.

Got sail and door. What do you reckon? I don't know your life story, mate. When do you want to hear my life story? Because I've tried to tell it to you a few times now, and every time you're like, oh, here we go. So day one, I was bored. He's like, oh, here we go, the life story again.

Am I going to go garage sale? Yes! Oh! Jeez! Oh, here we go. Staceyacey four down One word away Oh my god

Okay I'm going to put Stacey on hold Right now Do we want to do the Come back after the song drama Or are we going to Oh no you're on a roll Okay

We're going to Right now Multiply Multiply is the word I don't want to hear your options I don't want your life story No you made that clear Maths I don't want to hear your options. I don't want your life story. No, you made that clear.

Maths. Stacey, what did you go? Stacey. What did you do? She went times table, but she was thinking about math and maths. Oh, you're kidding. Oh, my goodness. My little boy is very devastated.

Oh, so close. You monster drummer. You monster. You put that latest chapter in his life story. The time he disappointed Stacey and family. So close. Oh, so close. It can be done. Four out of five, Stacey.

I'm so sorry. Another chance for someone like Stacey to play tomorrow. It is the hits. You've got John O'Byrne. Spy. The What's Up. Spy.co.nz. Listen, Juliet is in training for a full marathon,

but no matter how hard she tries, she still can't seem to run away from us. She's been giving it a good crack, hasn't she, Ben? Yes. No, I haven't. We've been chasing her down. No, we're saving it in spite. So Kanye West, he's a bit of an interesting character, isn't he?

And he's reportedly moved into and currently living in a stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. So he held a listening party there for his new album that's coming out shortly. Donder, isn't it named after his late mother? Yeah. And so he loved it so much. There was a crowd of, I think, over 40,000 that listened to this new album.

That's crazy, isn't it? It's amazing. Yeah. So they essentially just came to, what, listen to him stream 12 songs. Yeah, to play the songs. He didn't perform. No, I think he just played the songs. And I was very surprised, you know, or a good surprise, Jay-Z's in one of the songs as well.

So it looks like they're no longer feuding, I guess. And I heard that Jay-Z only put his lyrics on the album two hours before the listening party. Yeah. Really? It was crazy. He was like, hey, I'll chuck something down, I guess. Imagine being that casual. And that I'll chuck something down, I guess, will probably get him about $50 million.

I know. What if it's one of those things like an assignment, you're like, you know, that thing is three months away, I'll get to that later. And then Kanye's like on the day. Hey, man, you got that thing? Oh, yeah, no. Just, did you not get it?

I sent you the... Yeah, I did. Oh, it's quite a big... I'll resend the email. It's a big attachment maybe it didn't get through. He's currently in the studio. But he loved the listening party so much and the crowds there that he wants to stay there

at the stadium in Atlanta, live there and create music. So his team have created a living space, a studio space, and they've even got him a personal chef to prepare his meals at the stadium. They had a football game there the other day, and we were just talking about this off air, and he was in the middle of the crowd, still in the same clothing, sort of a red leather outfit,

and he's wearing like a stocking over his head at the moment. Yeah, yeah. Just a well-dressed, aggravated robber. He was wearing a stocking over his head. I mean, that's the niggle though of living in a stadium is you're going to have the odd football game come in. But you're sitting there with the crowd and stuff and yeah, they're having a great time.

He, I would just love, he's obviously got some troubles. Yeah, yeah. But he's also a genius as well. A genius. You know, I think it's going to be like imagine Vincent van Gogh. Back in the day, like, Vincent, mate, you're cutting off your ears. What are you doing? You're mad.

But now he's past ruler. Oh, Vincent van Gogh. It's going to be the same with Kanye. Yeah. Yeah, seems alright. It was good to see Kim Kardashian was there as well with the kids. Oh, cool. Which would have been awkward because a lot of the songs would be about their breakup,

wouldn't they? Yeah, probably. Probably. And if he did a bit of a Jay-Z, he would have changed it all last minute with the divorce and be like, right, I'm releasing this. Yeah. And then a spy from where you can head to the hits.co.nz.

After 8 o'clock, if you missed it earlier, we revealed what the huge surprise is. We've been teasing all week. It happened to me just before we went away on holiday. People are always like, I'm not going to be there tomorrow. Can you put it on the internet? Oh, don't worry. We'll be putting it on the internet.

We're going to hold a 40,000 listening party for it as well. We'll tell you what it is in just a few moments. It is the hits. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Kia ora, good morning. It's just gone 8 o'clock. You're with Jono and Ben on the hits.

We've got a big hour for you this hour, so stick around. There was a robbery stopped by a group of grannies in Gisborne. They were playing bingo. It was a robbery stopped by a group of grannies in Gisborne. They were playing bingo. It was a bingo night. The eldest was about 87 years old but they stopped a couple of balaclava robbers who tried to rob their bingo money and we're talking to one of the hero grannies

before 8.30. Elaine Lamont will get her on very shortly and also we have been teasing for the last 48 hours. A huge surprise that happened to one member of the radio show in particular Ben Boyce we're going to play it tomorrow and we're going to reveal what

the exact surprise was next but let's just say it's an unadulterated love fest I love you guys I love you guys I love you guys I love you guys

I love you guys. I love you guys. I love you guys. Honestly, I love you guys so much. Love you guys. I love you guys too. All right. Wow. Love you guys. There you go. Who hangs up on this?

Oh, they do. It was the biggest radio blindside for Ben since they told him, Jono and Ben, you're going to be doing breakfast on the hits. They blindsided him. But this got him even more. Yeah. I listened back and I'm like, oh, God, I really got quite carried away, didn't I? But that's great.

That's the emotion. That's the enormity of this event and what it meant to you. We'll tell you exactly what it is next, so stick around. It is the hits. Jono and Ben. It's Sam Smith. It is the hits. Jono and Ben, 809.

Now, we've been talking about this all week, quite cryptically, but a big surprise happened to me. And you guys have been on a journey with us over the last couple of months. And so we can let you in on what exactly happened now. Yes. Ben Boyce, you got a tattoo, didn't you, of your hero. And it was an order. Well, I made you get it in order to get the attention of your hero dwayne the rock johnson i got a love heart on my uh bottom this is i heart dwayne the rock johnson yeah well there's been further developments on this event

all right here we go over 58 blockbuster movies i am the calvary over 200 million instagram followers i got the greatest fans in the world. Over 900 kilograms of protein powder. 199! He's one of the world's biggest stars. Please welcome Dwayne The Rock Johnson! Dwayne Johnson. Dwayne The Rock Johnson. For 10 years, Dwayne The Rock Johnson has been Ben The Pebble Boyce's hero.

Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Why do you keep crying during any scene that The Rock and Kevin Harder are in? He inspires me. And in a shameless act of commitment to get noticed by his hero, Jono made Ben get an I Heart Dwayne The Rock Johnson tattoo

on his bottom. Yeah, a little bit bigger than I thought. But this is it. This is you on your journey. If he doesn't post this, I mean, you still love Dwayne The Rock Johnson. And that's why I'm doing it. But it all hit rock bottom.

Okay, so 24 hours down, still nothing from Dwayne the Rock Johnson. Yeah, two early days, yeah, those early days. He's a busy man. Four days now, nothing. There's a whole bunch of people on the other post. None of them was me. You said we'd be on there. You said.

Three and a half weeks down, still nothing from Dwayne the Rock Johnson. You've given up all hope. Can we move on from this? Can we just move on? Now, two months down, a little boy waits. He waits with a lonely tattooed butt cheek, which has gone unnoticed by his hero. Dream is over. Let it go, it's over.

I don't even know why we keep bringing this up. It's over. It's over. It's over. Until now. John O'Prior presents an inspiring story of hope. No! Holy s***!

Are you here? And love. I love you guys. I love you guys. Honestly, I love you guys so much. As Ben Boyce meets his hero face-to-face tomorrow. Alright guys, so to Ben. And what's your other name, brother? My name's Jono. It's not important right now.

With the most surprising twist yet. Wait a second, I have it. Look. I can't remember. Tomorrow morning on The Hits, brought to you by Jono Pryor. Thanks in some part to Disney's Jungle Cruise out this Thursday. Actually, thanks in all part to Disney's Jungle Cruise out this Thursday.

Yeah, it's pretty epic. It was an amazing thing. You catch it tomorrow, 8 o'clock tomorrow. We're going to play the full interview with Emily Blunt and Dwayne The Rock Johnson, and the video will go up tomorrow. But, you know, the tattoo. Oh, there's a moment with the tattoo, yeah, that... I think all of us are still like, really, did that happen?

Including Dwayne, I think. Yeah, it was a moment. You know, I've had a few celebrity encounters over my time. A few celebrity encounters. You know, once the Briscoes lady gave me some free Manchester from Briscoes. I mean, but I tell you what, what happened yesterday, what happened with Dwayne The Rock Johnson and Emily Blunt was probably a career highlight, Ben.

It was many great surprises over our time together. Remember when I surprised you by putting a digger through your house? Remember when I surprised you when we woke you up at three in the morning with the rock band and we got your carpet covered in confetti with a mix of water and you had to get new carpet? This was a good surprise. This was a good surprise. And even a better one. A very surreal surprise.

All thanks to Jungle Cruise. It's out this week in cinemas and on Disney Plus Premiere. And we'll play the full thing. Can't wait to play it to you tomorrow. So tune in. Eight o'clock. It is The Hits. You've got Jono and Ben. It's Just Dance.

It is The Hits. Jono and Ben. 8.16 and we were away on holiday last week and one of the meals went to Lone Star. Now Lone Star was massively, massive meals enormous there's no there's no part of the plate you can see is there i once went double chickens i know i was recounting regaling that tale to the to my family i was like do you know once uh the guy came

in came with the guy and he went double chicken double meals were big enough as it is but what's the chicken meal called it's the uh it's like the uhky tonk chicken honky tonk chicken yeah so uh they said uh i said how many chickens does it come with he said one but you can't have double i said he said i've never seen a double i said give me a double yeah i know it was wow i think that double's still coming out of me years later but the kids were doing a coloring in and the coloring in that night was elvis You know, the legendary musician Elvis was in. The kids were like, oh, who's Elvis? I think I've seen him before. And I was like, oh, you know, he was one of the biggest,

you know, if not, one of the biggest movie, sorry, singers of all time. Yeah, listen, if you don't, if anyone listening doesn't know who Elvis is, well, go and ask your parents, and then they'll say, go and talk to my parents, and they'll tell you who elvis is yeah well but the next day the rental car was like well should i try and put some elvis on and to show the

kids who elvis is and i was like elvis guys he's a romantic he's a real you know romantic he's a heartthrob and i was like oh this song always on my mind i mean the elvis you know there's nothing nothing screams love by this song always on my mind and as i started playing it i want to play something now i was like oh oh is this is quite as not quite as romantic as i as i remember it being hold on okay so 44 years after the man's death ben boyce is now going to give elvis a roasting i'm not giving you a roasting a 2021 legendary i'm not giving you a roast don't make me back out of this don't make me second guess. You know what I do in people's feelings.

No, don't. Well, listen, it's fair to say Elvis is going to be fine with it. Yeah, yeah. Okay, so Elvis, he started off with this. Maybe I didn't treat you quite as good as I should have. Okay, so maybe he didn't treat you as good as he should have. I said, oh, okay, maybe, you know, I think he hasn't been as romantic as you think he is, you know,

but surely it gets better. I mean, Elvis, you know, he's romantic. I mean, what else has he been doing in the relationship? Maybe I didn't love you quite as often as I could have. Okay, so he hasn't loved his partner as often as he should. He hasn't treated them as well. Did he just have periods of maybe liking them? Yeah, I was like, oh, but surely things get better.

We're building up towards the chorus here. I mean, come on, Elvis. Little things I should have said and done. I just never took the time. Okay, stop it there. So he's little things should have done, he hasn't treated them, but what's the big thing? What's the one redeeming thing that he's come through on? Elvis, tell me.

You were always on my mind. Through all that other stuff. I was thinking of you. I was thinking of you. I was thinking of you, even though I wasn't. And you can't prove that I wasn't. That's the thing. It's a good play, right? It's like, yeah, I didn't treat you. So his partner's like, mate, you treated me

like an absolute shocker. I was thinking about you. As I was treating you badly, I was thinking how badly I am treating you. Did I do anything to rectify it treating you. Yeah, but you never... Did I do anything to rectify it? No. Yeah.

He was quite a pelvisy guy, Elvis, wasn't he? Yeah. He was kind of like Cardi B before Cardi B. Really worked them hips. He did, actually. Yeah. So, you're a legendary singer, you know? And, you know, to be fair, he's had it too good for too long.

And that roasting... Wasn't it roasting? It was a long time coming. All right? Suck on that, Elvis. Suck on that. No, roasting wasn't a roasting was a long time coming alright suck on that Elvis suck on that no it wasn't a roasting I shouldn't have done it now

the headline in the Herald is going to send that up to the Herald beums no Ben Boyce roasts Elvis 44 years up

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And the more he talks about Mac Pack jackets, the more I think he's trying to get hold of Bruce McIntyre, Mac Pack founder, to get a free jacket. Well, I love a family power. I've got two adults and two kids in my family. But if I want one, maybe I'll have to text OMG. Size 10, size 12? Yeah.

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Yeah, no. She'll be right. And at the end of the day. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. The Olympics are on at the moment. And geez, it'll be fun to watch, won't it? It'll be fun to watch. What's on the menu today?

You did a lovely menu at 7 o'clock. And I'd like you to repeat that so that. Oh, there's plenty of Kiwis in action today. Triathlon, women's triathlon, there's rugby, sevens going on, more swimming, hockey, sailing, as well as some boxing and football. Yeah, so plenty of Kiwis in action today.

Yeah, great. So I saw you playing me audio of one of the sevens players scoring a try and they had the mics on the field and he went... Oh, if yeah! If yeah! I was like, yeah. It was loud. It was really loud. It sounded like someone filming it from their couch

supporting the team but it was the player in the team. It was the player who scored. And there's some more stuff that we need to teach you about the Olympics. Jono's Internet Wormhole.

These Olympic facts are so good that you'll want to ban them for steroid abuse, honestly. 53 clicks it took me to get this information on the internet. Oh, good. In the wormhole. Did you know the first black athlete to win a medal was a marathon event?

And it was the 1960 Olympics. And did so, a marathon in bare feet. In bare feet? Bare feet. Oh, my goodness. Like a primary school athletics day. Yeah. Yeah. Wow.

That's impressive. You were talking, I think we did an internet wormhole a couple weeks ago. Some of the old events back in Greece, they were doing them with no clothes. Yes. Gymnastics means, the ancient Greek words, gymnastic means physical activity in the naked. In the naked. In the naked.

That's how the Greeks said it back in the day, in the Coliseum. And, yeah, so just imagine gymnastics, but without the lycra. And that's how it was played out in the olden days. The 1900 Olympics. Now, this is, bear in mind, this was after, you know, many years of Olympics.

They started in 1896 in Greece, naked gymnastics. And the 1900 Olympics. So there had been a few Olympics before this one, but it was notoriously disorganized. It was held in Paris in 1900. And it was also the first Olympics to feature women in the 1900s. But most of the athletes didn't even know they were competing in the Olympics. And it was so disorganized that some countries,

they thought didn't have enough athletes, that they would take athletes from other countries in the Olympics. And it was so disorganised that some countries, they thought didn't have enough athletes, that they would take athletes from other countries and make them compete for... Oh, just to, like, make up the numbers? Yeah, you're like, oh, who are you here for? I'm South Africa. Well, you're playing for Namibia. And so then Namibia would get your victory.

Oh, my goodness. Wow. And then the best thing was there was a Dutch rowing team and they didn't have enough rowers and they didn't have a coxswain. And so they were like, hey, you, 10-year-old boy, a random 10-year-old boy who was just there. They're like, jump on the boat.

You're going to be the coxswain. And they won gold. But they don't, to this day, don't know who that 10-year-old boy was. He just got off the boat. He's like, I don't know what that was. He's an old team. You're like, oh, they made me do this thing. I didn't want to do it.

The row race took forever. I can't say row that was I'll tell you all that Oh they made me do this thing I didn't want to do it I can't say row row row So yeah I found that quite interesting as well And the first Olympic drug suspension Didn't happen until 1968 So it was a few years of the Olympics The first race And it was for a Swedish pentathlete Who turned up drunk

He'd had six beers And it was for a Swedish pentathlete who turned up drunk. He'd had six beers before turning up to his pentathlon, which is, and I looked further into it, the pentathlon does involve a gun as well. So I don't know if you want a guy who's four to six beers deep wandering around the stadium with a gun. Sounds like you before a radio show. Well, not the gun part of the four to six beers. It's my good zone.

We apologise in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. I'm sorry to rope you into this. Sorry you've been dragged into this. Shono and Penn. Breakfast on the heads. The heads.

The heads. Now, that is almost our show. Now, tomorrow, 8 o'clock, make sure you tune in. We revealed this morning. You managed to get me face-to-face with my hero, Dwayne the Rock Johnson. We're going to play that for you tomorrow. Yeah yeah and it was a complete blind side a complete surprise ben couldn't have been more underprepared for this interaction and all he could say the whole time was i love you i love you like a like an excited seven-year-old meeting their hero

emily blunt was there as well she's awesome uh they're in the new movie the jungle cruise and i was just you're right have a listen to this to this. I love you guys. I love you guys. I love you guys. Honestly, I love you guys so much. Love you guys. I love you guys too. Love you guys. Who hangs up on this? Oh, they do. I feel like I'm the drunk guy that goes, I love you, man. But then I came in with an I love you guys, and then you added in a, I love you guys more. Honestly, honestly.

It would have been me when I was like the fourth time. I love you guys. But I do, I love them. Yeah. Well, you just showcased that love. And I show him the tattoo that you made me get, the I Heart Dwayne Johnson tattoo, and you'll see his reaction to that and hear that tomorrow. On the bottom.

And was it appropriate for a Disney movie junket? We'll find out. Getting your bottom out. I don't know. We'll find out tomorrow on the Hits. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from 6 on the Hits and via the iHeartRadio app.

Jono and Ben on the Hits Breakfast. Friends of Skinny.