Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Ben's Car Got Stolen... Or Did It?!

Episode Date: May 29, 2022

Jono and Ben reflect on Jono's marathon effort last Friday. Jacinda Ardern sends Jono her message of support. We chat to the winner of Dancing with the Stars and Jono gets confronted about including too many "haha's" in his emails. Enjoy!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. G'day guys, it's the 30th of May today. We're just having a DNM conversation. We're hoping to film something this afternoon. Weather not playing ball, Ben. Well, yeah, and it made us appreciate how lucky we were for amazing weather on Friday when you were running up on the skyscrapers. Oh, you wouldn't want to be out there today.

No. No, you would not. Because of the wind conditions. But raining would have been miserable. Like, you out there in the rain, even though you could do it, would have been horrible. At 60 k's an hour, they shut down the top of the Sky Tower. Any wind above that?

And you know how I know that? Because I was having light banter with everyone on top of the Sky Tower on Friday. Geez, I covered a lot of ground, you know, literally and also conversationally. I could imagine. Because they had two spotters on either end, so 120 metres apart on the top of the Sky Tower. And yeah, my major dilemma was coming up with topics of conversation that you could have in sort of a five-second period.

Because I'd come in, oh, how long have you been working here, mate? Then turn around, oh, you know, a good seven years. Then go back to the other person. Yeah. That's good. Well, I guess it gave you something to think about because you didn't have music or anything keeping you going. So that was good.

Sometimes we would both just be like, high five and then go back. So it wasn't even conversation. Fair enough. Just words. No one was expecting you to come up with words in that situation, were they? It wasn't broadcast anywhere.

That was just you having polite conversation. No, that was a marathon in itself. A marathon of conversation. Short period conversation. Yeah. No, that was a marathon in itself, a marathon of conversation, short period conversation. Yeah, it's a while. But anyway, the weather's shocking today in large parts of the country. I do like days like this, though. Don't you?

Do you like stormy days? I do when you're inside and you don't have anywhere to go. When you have somewhere to go, you're like, oh, that's going to be bleak. But hey, as our mate Goggins says, so? David Goggins, yeah, our inspirational guy. He's on the podcast today for your Motivational Monday. Yeah, aggressive. Has he ever worn a shirt, David Goggins?

Yeah, I think so. He does wear shirts. Yeah, from time to time. I mean, if I had a body like his, I wouldn't wear a shirt. But we do love David Goggins, former Navy SEAL turned, what is he, fitness bully? Yeah, motivation. He's a motivation. He's a motivational guy.

He would have motivated. He would have had you running around that Sky Tower and half-time. Yeah, on my hands or something. Yeah, he would have had me hanging off the side, crawling around with nothing but my hands. But yeah. Do you find much inspiration off Instagram, Ben?

Sometimes. I find my feeds flooded with too much inspiration now. That and you follow kids getting hurt. That's my other favorite Instagram account. There was a funny one on kids getting hurt yesterday. This dad was playing sort of faux rugby with his sons in the lounge. And so he was like, ugh, and he was trying to run through the line of defense that the kids had. He did a beautiful spin turn to sort of break the line of defense. But as he did so,

his backside caught his toddler's face and just wiped out the toddler. There's a lot of joy in kids getting hurt, the Instagram account. I send you a lot of stuff from kids getting hurt. I ignore a lot of it. Do you not even watch it? Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.

Hey, on the podcast today, we reflect on Jono's marathon effort up the Sky Tower with some of our favourite parts of audio as well. Some of the messages that came through, floated through, some really heartfelt messages from the likes of Jacinda Ardern came through today and Kieran Reid, former All Black captain. So you can enjoy those on the podcast.

Kieran Reid was for someone called Jason. Hey, there's still a heartfelt message. That's what counts. Enjoy the podcast. Rise and shine, time to start the... Who are we kidding? We're not the boss of you. Jono and. Enjoy the podcast. Rise and shine. Time to start the, um, who are we kidding? We're not the boss of you. Jono and Ben on the hits. Now on Friday, Jono, you attempted a world first running a marathon,

192 meters on top of the Sky Tower, 42.2 Ks, 352 times around and around at the top of the Sky Tower. I don't know what, it was zero training. Every expert we had on was like, don't do it. You're not going to be able to do it. There were a lot of red flags leading into this event. And a last minute one that really rocked me to the core was the potential bleeding of nipples, which it floored me.

I taped your nipples up. I put some band-aid on them. We had a prestigious nipple taping ceremony where you brought two band-aids in from home. And what had happened, it was because I was quite tired when I got home, is I'd forgotten that you'd taped up my nipples. And then I'd woken up the next morning and I was like, where have my nipples gone? They still haven't taped up.

And they were still taped up. So I had to remove them. It was hard the next day. Real adhesive. We wanted to reflect this morning on the marathon effort, literally the marathon effort from Jono. And if he did do this, there's plenty of prizes to give away

thanks to Sky City and AJ Hacker. And we started the race up there on Friday morning, just after 8 o'clock, and your running style wasn't too confident. Here we go. World first, Jono Pryor. Can he run a marathon at the top of the Sky Tower? Let's count him down. Five, four, three, two, one, go. Okay. He's away. He's away. It's a

slight shuffle. He looks kind of awkward. It's an awkward shuffle. Oh dear God. But we are underway. The marathon has begun. John, can he do it? He's shuffling his way around the sky. Oh dear God, this is frightening. He looks so awkward. Up 100... How many k's to go? 92 metres in the air. Oh dear God, this is frightening. It's a very narrow little runway that you had to run around. Yeah, I mean, it does take a little bit of adjusting when you're running on, you know,

not even a metre wide, great 192 metres in the air. It was, you know, it was an old lady shuffle, water walking shuffle. You got into the rhythm, you got into your pace, but one thing we didn't get quite into the rhythm of was our communication. Because you're out there, outside, running around, I was inside, and sometimes we just hear you talking about things we didn't need to hear you talk about on the radio.

As it's 8.46, Jono is running back and forth, around and around, he's trying to do it over 300 times. Did you go to the toilet? Is that going to be a pain in the ass? Okay, I didn't hear that. Hey, he didn't hear that on radio. Mate, we're trying to do radio here, but he's got to do something. He obviously can't hear us, but he's had

some great messages come through. Is that going to be a pain in the ass? It was for me. That's where I need to go. But then you got into the swing of things. You're out there. You're out there doing it for a couple of hours and i came out and uh how do we look how do we run with you and reflect on how things were going out here doing it well i've come in for the last five minutes johnny we're both out here doing it at the moment ben but you've been running for about 16k

and apart from us stopping you we you haven't really stopped. Can I just say, you've been saying I've run 16km's for about 40 minutes now. Have I progressed any further than 16km's? Keep it up, you're going good. Thanks for the motivation. It's quite blustery around this side. It is. Again, the wind is starting to pick up a little bit. So many messages too from celebrities, from listeners,

from people right around New Zealand, and even some supporters from AJ Hackett came down. And this was lovely, wasn't it? They had some signs, some motivational signs. I could see them through the window. Yeah. So good. We've got some supporters here supporting Jono from AJ Hackett. We've got some signs.

What's your one say? You're almost there. And then you put not. You're not almost there. But it's good. It's supportive. This one's great. I love this one.

What does it say? My one is motivational quote. It just says motivational quote. There's no motivational quote, but he can come up with one. He's got a lot of time. This one's great too. The finish line is just around the corner. Yeah, like 352 times it's just around the corner.

And the final sign we've got? Pain is temporary. Race results are online forever. They are, aren't they? You know, right? So think about your race results. Thanks. Let's hear it for Jono.

Jono! There you go. Thank you, Ben, for bullying the crowd into cheering there. Well, and finally, you did it. After six hours and 15 minutes of running around the top of the Sky Tower, you ran, the first person ever, to run a full marathon at the top of the Sky Tower. To be honest, no one thought you could do it. I couldn't think I could do it. My body still

doesn't think I did it or could do it. Yeah, it's been saying to me all weekend, what did I do to deserve this? You did amazingly well and this was a reflection moments after you ran the first marathon at the top of the Skytower. Out here, 192 metres

in the air. Firstly, are you okay with heights? To be honest, I just didn't look down. And what was the question? Well, first of all, it was about the heights. Secondly, how do you feel after over six hours of running? Well, I'm going to throw that one back to you. How do you think I feel? I think it was great.

You feel ready for another run. It was a huge success. You know, no did it but no one had a heart attack no no one in there had a heart attack no one i don't think so so it was a great event but i haven't had a heart attack yes yeah like coming into this did you think you could do this no no you didn't think i could no no definitely because we'd spoken to professionals who said, you can't do this. Yeah. And, you know, about the 18K mark, I was like, those professionals, we should have listened to them. I don't know what happened. Yeah, like you said, Forrest Gupta.

Purely Forrest Gupta. That guy had zero training. I don't think so. And he just kept on going. He grew a big beard and he just kept running. Oh, you did so well. Well done. Proud of you, mate.

Thank you. It was the coaching. It was the coaching. I know. A little bit of coaching. Nicely done. So we did it. The first marathon at the top of you, mate. Thank you. It was the coaching. I know. A little bit coaching. Mostly you. So we did it.

The first marathon at the top of the Sky Tower. And that means we've got plenty of prizes to give away this morning. Stay tuned. Thanks to Sky City and AJ Hackett. Scrolling through your feed. All right. Here to read some stories we stole off the New Zealand Herald website. Ben, what's happening, mate?

Oh, it's Queen's birthday this weekend. Is it this weekend? Yeah. It's a long weekend. Yeah, a long weekend. And over there in the UK, they are celebrating 70 years of the Queen on the throne. A four-day celebration in London is happening later in the week. Is it 70? I thought it was 75.

Oh, well, maybe. Is it her jubilee? I told my daughter she was doing a school project on it, and she was like, 70 years. I was like, no, no, no, 75. Maybe we're ready. Oh, we'll Google that. I need to get a hold of her before she hands that projig did well we'll give it a quick google in a second but there's gonna be four days of celebration there's gonna be uh everyone's

gonna be performing from queen uh appropriately queen's gonna be there with adam lambert uh duran duran uh there's gonna be uh alicia keys george ezra as well taking part of four days extravaganza whole lot of dancers a whole lot of performers, and the Queen, because she's had a few health problems lately, so she'll decide on the day if she feels okay, she'll come along. Four days of... Do you realise the amount of effort that's gone into this? It's quite a lot of effort.

It's not like a, I'll see if I can make it situation. You're dead right, it's 70 years. So I need to get in touch with my daughter quick smart before she hands you a school project. I said it with such confidence as well. She was like, oh, it's 70 years. So I need to get in touch with my daughter quick smart before she hands you a school project. I said it with such confidence as well. She was like, oh, 70 years of the Queen. I was like, no, no, no, 75. Recorrect that.

Oh, no. What a shocking father. I love the fact that you had Google at your fingertips. And she was reading it, but I corrected the information. No, no, no, they'll be wrong. They'll be wrong. What is it? CNN? They'll be wrong. And the was reading it, but I corrected the information. No, no, no, they'll be wrong. They'll be wrong. What is it? CNN? Oh, they'll be wrong. And the bucket fountain in Wellington. Now, there's

a senior British diplomat who is in New Zealand, and she's apologised on Twitter after a Kiwi husband wrote that Cuba Street's iconic bucket fountain was the crappiest fountain ever. Now, she's had to apologise. She doesn't want to cause a big diplomatic incident, a big international incident, but to be honest... It is the most shocking fountain ever. Now, she's had to apologise. She doesn't want to cause a big diplomatic incident, a big international

incident, but to be honest... It is the most shocking fountain ever. Well, like, it's just one giant urinal, isn't it, for all Wellingtonians? Well, didn't Elijah Wood, who was Frodo from Lord of the Rings, I think he might have urinated in it. Yeah, we just use it as a toilet. Let's not get precious about the bucket fountain.

I love the fact that she's come out now and she's put a statement out going, I want to be clear that the views of my husband in no way represent my views or the British government. The Bucket Fountain is well loved part of Wellington's heritage. It's like the Bucket Fountain is highly offended by this. It's not the Mona Lisa. Yeah.

I'm sure the Bucket Fountain will be like, yeah, no, I get it. That's a little bit crappy, but that's part of my charm. A bit shoddy and noisy too. So if you lived in apartments around there, you'd be like, shut up, Bucket Fountain. It's real clunky. Listen, they can say what they want about the Bucket Fountain. We should take no offense.

But people have, I guess that's just the world we live in. The great thing about listening to this show is that the day can only get better from here. Jono and Ben on the hits. A wet and windy start for most of us this morning. The Harbour Bridge in Auckland could be closed later if the winds continue. So we'll keep an eye on that throughout the morning. A motivational Monday. I know that we started this five weeks ago now, Ben.

And it's really taking the world by storm, isn't it? Like Oprah, Alan, they all did their motivational thing, didn't they? Yeah. And basically this is where we steal a 30 or 40 second clip from Instagram and play it on the radio, then claim it as our own piece of motivation. Well, yeah, it motivates everyone. We've found something that we found motivational. We like to motivate people on a Monday because Monday, tough day for a lot of us.

Yeah, this is putting pep in your step. So we shouldn't be Jono and Ben on a Monday. We should be pep and step on the hits. Now, David Goggins, we've spoken about be Jono and Ben on a Monday. We should be Pep and Step on the hits. Now, David Goggins. We've spoken about him a couple of times on the program. He is a former Navy SEAL. And he is quite aggressive. Unnecessarily aggressive about...

Well, that's how he motivates. About fitness and getting out there and doing it. And he feels like he's on the verge of killing a man. Doesn't he? Goggins could snap at any moment. Yeah, no, he does all these videos to motivate people of him running because he used to be a little bigger and now he's in amazing shape and he runs every day no matter what conditions they are.

I was one of the blizzard over the weekend. There's people inside on treadmills. He's like, uh-uh, not Goggins. He's out there doing it. And so this is Goggins. You've got to imagine him like Ben says. He's running along some highway in the middle of nowhere, and he's yelling at the camera.

It's very windy conditions as well, not ideal for filming. And Goggins, a little bit of motivation about where he came from, being a bigger guy, to where he is now. I should be a fat guy to where he is now. the answer is nothing you woke up for days and weeks and months not like what you saw in the mirror going out for a little run feeling your f***ing damn fat jiggling s*** if you want something

everything out there is free to you my diet was breakfast run lunch run dinner run, snack run stay hard stay hard stay hard so there you go Dinner run Snack run Stay hard Stay hard is what he always says Stay hard

So there you go God now If Goggins doesn't get your week started Bullying the fat off you David Goggins I've been going around the house Kind of going Get out

Goggins Get out And the dog does not The dog The dog's not Who's this Yelling aggressively in the house I'm like It's me mate It's me What have you Have you assumed a Goggins persona at home Oh, the dog's not going to go. Who's this yelling aggressively in the house?

We're like, it's me, mate. It's me. Have you assumed a Goggins persona at home? Oh, just me. The kids know now because we play the thing. So the kids are like, I don't want to. Oh, you don't want to do that? So?

And then the dog goes nuts. Ben's jumping to David Goggins. Oh, you don't want to do the dishes? Okay. Jono and Ben. Friday, you don't want to do the dishes? Okay. Jono and Ben. Friday, Jono attempted a world first to run a marathon at the top of the Sky Tower. 42.2 Ks, 352 times around. And he did it, which means this morning we got a whole lot of amazing prizes on R800 The Hits.

If you want to give us a phone call right now. Thanks to Sky City and Asia Hackett, we got some prizes. But how are you feeling? In all seriousness, no one expected you, including yourself, to do it. You had no training. And you kept going for over six hours. I was in the middle of the night on Friday night, Saturday morning. I woke up paralyzed. It took me like 10 minutes to unparalyze my legs.

They were just like seized up. And then I was hobbling around like the old man that i am on saturday just sort of side to side like i've been riding a horse for three days straight yeah yeah and then on sunday my feet just the bottom of my feet were aching and sore and i couldn't i could barely walk uh and today back at it baby the life of a professional athlete it was like a sort of metal grate you're running around very narrow and you're 192 meters in the air and you could see through to the ground but i imagine the metal grate even though you weren't going up and down it was all flat it was

still a metal grate that you were running across yeah yeah no you're right uh yeah i was just thinking too i wanted to say thank you to New Balance who gave us clothing. Does this officially make me a sponsored athlete? I don't know if they want to sponsor you. A high performance sponsored athlete. Am I going to get a poster, some sort of marketing campaign? When I run, I like to run with New Balance, you know. Well, maybe after your efforts they might do. Thankfully I didn't lose balance up there.

I'm going to put that down to the New Balance. Now, as being mentioned, we've managed to unlock 42 prizes from Sky City for running the 42 kilometres. And you just need to phone up. We've got to give – Ben's stressing out. We've got so many prizes to give away. Well, no one thought we'd have this many prizes. No.

Well, throughout the morning – Not that it's Sky City. They're like, damn it, why don't we go to 42? We're like, well, we'll probably do like 12 prizes, but you've got 42 to give away. Hey, Joe, you're in Whangarei. Welcome. How are you?

Hello. I'm good. We're 42 to give away. Hey, Joe, you're in Whangarei. Welcome. How are you? Hello, I'm good. We're going to give you a prize. Awesome. We're going to give you a $100 voucher towards trying the new menu at the Sugar Club, which is right where Jono was running around, right by the platform up top the Sky Tower. Oh, perfect. Thank you.

Fancy restaurant, 360 views of the city, the Sugar Club. Shocking for diabetics, but I tell you what, it was great. Fantastic. Afterwards, where producer Bee Humps ordered a round of beers and I was like, these beers would be like 38 bucks each, they looked they were tasty, weren't they? This is the best beer I've ever had, but yeah

because you've been running for six hours He's put the company into the red on that one haven't you mate, explain that on the old credit card Jo, well done, enjoy the Sugar Club, okay? Thank you so much. Cherie, you're on from Wellington. We're going to give you a prize from Sky City. I'm in Wellington, so don't.

Don't make this awkward, Cherie. Cherie, just go. Oh, that'd be great. Yeah, it'd be great. You can do a Skywalk voucher so you can walk around, or someone else you know up here in Auckland can walk around the Skywalk where Jono ran around, all right? Okay, well, good morning, Jono and Ben.

I just wanted to tell you, congratulations, Jono. That's awesome. What you did was absolutely amazing. You had absolutely no training, and all you did was, it was all on willpower. It was all mental, wasn't it? Yeah, well, thank you, Cherie. And it was for the kids.

Did it out there for the kids. Yeah. Well done. You're going to receive that Skywalk voucher, right? Okay, thank you. She's like, I don't want it. I'm in Wellington. How many times do I need to tell you?

We'll get Michelle on from Tauranga. We're going to give you a prize from Sky City, Michelle, for the marathon completion. Awesome. Thank you. You get to do a sky jump. We've got our sky jump voucher. All year, if you don't want to do it,

someone else will do the sky jump. That's worth $225. Awesome. Yeah, I'll do it. It's amazing. I got to do it. While John was doing his run, I got to do a sweet jump off the sky tower.

What I appreciate is people's like, look at me, I'm going to have fun doing the jump off the tower. And then when he was hanging over the edge, you were like, dear God, why did I say you used to do this? Yeah, no. But once he was hanging over the edge, you were like, dear God, why did I say yes to doing that? Yeah, no. But once he got over it, it was a lot of fun. Hey, good on you.

You have a great day, Michelle. Appreciate you listening to the program. Win with Jono and Ben and the Warehouse. Proud partner of Lego Masters New Zealand on TVNZ2. We're celebrating the Warehouse's partnership with TVNZ2's Lego Masters New Zealand. And each Monday, we have a $500 warehouse voucher to give away just find out where the little Jono and Ben

Lego characters are. It's what we love doing celebrating partnerships between two companies. It's one of my big things, it's what gets me out of bed in the morning Who's collabed with who? We will celebrate I love celebrating a partnership and you just tell us, head to the Hits Breakfast on Instagram

watch our story and see where the little John Arbyn figurines which warehouse store they're outside and you can help us celebrate the partnerships yeah

that's what we all love Carissa do you like celebrating partnerships between companies yep don't we all don't we all and that's why we are here

now Carissa you've seen our little Lego figurines on the Sosh Med where do you think they might be located? At which warehouse? I think they're at the Dunedin South Warehouse Store. South Dunners.

They are. They're really tripping around, aren't they? I hope they haven't got COVID because they'll be spreading it like wildfire, these little figurines. Congratulations. They are there. And you're going to win a $500 voucher for the warehouse, Carissa. Oh, that's amazing.

Thank you. Enjoy that. Have you been watching Lego Masters? No, I haven't, but the kids have and they really enjoy it. Hey, don't be so brutally honest, mate. Well, you're asking that question, you know. You're rolling the dice on that question, John. You've just won thanks to the show.

Just go, oh, yeah, I love it. Yeah, just take two. Take two. The kids want some more Lego. It's on tonight. It's on tonight. Yeah, you've been watching the show. Just go, oh, yeah, I love it. Yeah, just take two. Take two. The kids want some more Lego. It's on tonight. It's on tonight. Yeah, you been watching the show, Carissa? Oh, the kids might get mad just about watching it.

Oh, there we go. She's not going to lie. She's straight up and down, Carissa. I'll enjoy that warehouse, but you all right? Awesome, thank you. And it's on again tonight, 7.30, TVNZ2, League of Masters New Zealand. Spy. Know what's up.

Spy.co.nz. All right, it's the start of a new week and the start of some more life-changing celebrity news. Now, Belle Crawford, she's away a bit sick, so the Boney Ben boys coming in with some hot fire gossip. Now, Dancing with the Stars, the final was on last night. A series full of controversy and drama. They had early eliminations of Sonia Gray and Eli Matheson who seemed to impress

the judges but for some reason didn't get the public vote. Now we've worked with Eli for a number of years and he's a

wonderful gentleman inside and out and I've never figured out is it Eli Matheson or Eli Matheson. It's always tripped me up and I've

never been too brave to ask him. They had COVID hitting the dance floor dancing with the stars. Reece and Eric Murray were out

with COVID. Saw Vaz and Kerry Whittam eliminated, then brought back again. Even last night, moments before the final, Judge Camilla, she was out with COVID as well. So they had to bring in a new judge at the final. So it came down to the final four last night. Who was the new judge? Someone who'd been on the UK Dancing with the Stars as well,

which was pretty good. And I imagine they came I imagine they were really lovely because you couldn't come in and go, you know, you had to probably be a nice judge. You couldn't come in and go, oh, you're all terrible. Oh, you're shocking. What is this travesty of a program? They were awesome, actually. It came down to the final two in the end,

Jazz Thornton and Brodie Kane. And in the end, it was, the winner was Jazz. It gives me great pleasure to announce the winner of Dancing with the stars new zealand for 2022 is jazz and brad yeah so well done to jazz he's a mental health advocate she's got 1.8 million followers on tiktok 1.8 million she's huge on social media does so many wonderful things and so we're going to catch up with her after 8 30 this morning yeah she's going

to be joining us on the show incredible stuff to actually make their way through that season when you think about all the stuff going on behind the scenes exactly

wild stuff not even murder on the dance floor just the vid and Ellen the end of Ellen her final show ever she broke down in tears as she busted out the final

she busted out some iconic dance moves that would have seen her probably not get the text votes on Dancing with the Stars New Zealand. Did she dance for a final episode? Because she stopped dancing.

She was like, dancing had become the bane of her life about five or ten years ago. She's like, everywhere I go, if I'm in the petrol station, supermarket, they're like, it's Ellen, dance for me! Her wife was there, Portia. She had appearances from Jennifer Aniston, Billie Eilish and Pink. And this is what she had to say

as part of her final wrapping up. And this show has forever changed my life. It is the greatest experience I have ever had beyond my wildest imagination. So Twitch, one last time, dance with me. Imagine if Twitch is like, nah, not in the mood, mate. I'm done. I'm danced out. Jeez, that guy works in the mood, mate. I'm done. I'm danced out.

Jeez, that guy works hard dancing the DJ. He is out there dancing up a storm every 10 minutes at the beginning of every episode. Yeah, he's incredible. And well done, Alan. A really, really great run. I mean, a hugely successful show. I know, Jono, you've said so many mean things about Alan over the years, so I'm not going to throw it over to you.

No. I'll just say well done, Alan, on a remarkable, remarkable show. That is, and it has done a lot of good. No, mate, no, mate, you can't pull it back now. That is Spider Sporting, and it's the hits you got, Jono, I bet. Scrolling through your feed. Listen, if you don't put too much importance on the quality of your news service, then you've come to the right place.

Ben, you tell us what's been happening over the last 24 hours. Well, this is a really interesting story out of Japan. So, Jono, you've got a dog, I've got a dog, but one man in Japan has taken his love for dogs to the extreme. He spent 2 million yen to look like a Border Collie. Now, he's got a realistic Border Collie costume. He enlisted a Japanese company that make costumes for TVs and movies. It took them 40 days to complete, and it looks exactly when he hops inside.

He looks, I'll show you a picture, and we'll put it on the Hits Breakfast Instagram. That's him inside the costume. That's him inside the border collie costume. And he can move about in it. He looks like a border collie inside the costume. Why?

I don't know. Where does he go in it? Does he go to dog parks? What's he doing? I don't know why, but that's what he's doing. An obscene amount of money too. To make a realistic costume

so he looks like a border collie. I mean, it's paid dividends. We're talking about it now. Yeah. I guess. Yeah. Two million yen. I mean, it's a really you wouldn't tell. Like, if you put a border collie next to it, you'd be like, which one do I give Tuck's dog food to? Exactly. Down at the dog park, all sorts of stuff would

be going on. Yeah, because I imagine he'd be like strolling through and be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hey, whoa, whoa. You know what goes on at the dog park. Oh, exactly. Your dog's prolific down there. It's up to all sorts of stuff, isn't it? Keep your legs away from Bo is all I'll say. Exactly.

Yeah, well, we'll put that on our social media, right? On the Hits Breakfast. Yeah, we'll check that on the story this morning on the Instagram. And Travis Barker, speaking of prolific and things that are going on, and Kourtney Kardashian, obviously they got married. They've been in trouble by her kids recently for too much French kissing. Yeah, they're French kissing at the dinner table in front of the whole family. They're on heat, these two.

They should be at the dog park, shouldn't they? So he needs to be neutered, that guy. So they had their wedding photos. They had their big wedding in Italy last week. And one of the wedding photos is him just kissing her foot. Like she's got her foot up and he is just like making out with the foot. I mean, you know, that's what they're doing. Maybe he thought it was her face.

I don't know. There's no part of your body that he won't pash. He has pashed her head to toe, Travis Barker. But yeah, we'll get on with them. I feel like that's going to be around for the ages, that marriage. Oh, you think it's not going to be around for a long time? Yeah, he calls me sassy when I always say that stuff. Yeah, you do.

You do. Why don't you think it's going to be around? Why? They're coming in too hot. It's too hot. Too hot? It's too hot. I mean, the amount of passion they've shown, you could spread over an entire marriage career.

They're getting it done quick and sharp, like Pam and Tommy back in the 90s. All right. We're seeing all the fuck kissing and all this business, all this nonsense. He thinks it's not going to happen. I give it 12 months. Your essential listening for non-essential banter.

Jono and Ben on the hits. I'm getting mocked by my family for something that I'm doing on email. Capitals? Yeah, I do type in capitals. All the time in caps. Well, it's because by the time I realise I'm in caps, you can't then also just one lowercase one at the end. Yeah, gotcha.

I do like caps, you're right. You do. And I like writing an email just in the subject line. Oh, yeah. So just like a big long line. I like doing that too. Sometimes you're like, wow, this is a long subject line, but I can send it through anyway. Hey, mate, how are you?

Just wondering if we could do that. It even goes off the screen. Yeah. That's fun, though. Just use the body of the email. Yeah, yeah. But no, what I'm doing, which is apparently a big no-no, is I'm saying ha-ha in a lot of situations. I say ha-ha in a lot of situations.

I know you say ha-ha. We say ha-ha to each other. Because sometimes people over, you know, on email when it's written down don't get that you're making a joke. Doing a ha-ha. They can go, oh, what does he mean by this? Yeah, but I like to chuck in a ha-ha from time to time. Oh, good. I'm glad I'm not the only one.

But the problem is, Gene says sometimes I will start the email by going, Ha ha! When, you know, it might be, Hey, just so you know, my granddad's got Alzheimer's. Ha ha! Hopefully everything's well, you know. When it's not actually, it's not in context. If it was a real life conversation.

Who's the strange bald man just laughing at odd points of this whole chat? It's kind of like radio in email form, isn't it? We're laughing at all times. Maybe that's where it comes from, yeah. Over the top. But Jen's like back off the ha-has. Oh, really? So I was sending an email over the weekend.

She's like, let me check how many ha-ha-has you choked in there. Half a dozen. Half a dozen ha-ha-has. I love an exclamation mark too. That's one of the things I love is that's my way of going, it's a joke. Before ha-ha's, now I do exclamation mark ha-ha. That double jeez we're funny guys on email are we but then I looked I was like how annoying is this on the list of most annoying things that people do on emails do you know one

to two hours we spend checking our emails a day the average human yeah I could imagine that would one to two hours yeah oh that doesn't surprise you? No. It was meant to be like, wow. Okay, wow. Ha ha. That was funny. But the most annoying things to do on email, and I do all of them, number one, write in capitals. Oh, you do that, yep.

Type ha ha regularly. Okay, it's you. And hey, starting an email with hey. I with hey it's apparently the worst way to start an email really you can't go hey it's too casual why why not i don't know i'm just reading an internet list mate hey such and such yeah so i must be annoying people and then ending and i get how this would frustrate people when you end in best. Best what? Best of luck? Best wishes? What do we say?

What is best? Yeah, best. I've seen those before. You're right. They do confuse you a little bit. It feels like you haven't finished writing what you're writing. But I know another thing

that really winds you up when it comes to technology and messaging is when I demand to be taken off mute on a group Zoom meeting. You do that all the time. We had a group Zoom meeting

the other day across the nationwide meeting with the Hits Network. We're all all the time. We had a group Zoom meeting the other day across the nationwide meeting with the Hits Network. We're all in the office here watching together and you're like, take me off mute. You're like, oh God, what's Dad got to say now? Like an uncle at a wedding, you're like, oh, he's getting up there. Ben always gets nervous when I'm like,

take me off mute, I've got some stuff to say. And then I get on there and it's as embarrassing as you would imagine. You've got to be a confident person, don't you, to say take me off mute. These 30 people across the country need to hear what I've got to say. And it's never important. It's never decent. Take me off mute.

Tested safe for listing from home. Jono and Ben on the hits. On Friday, Jono attempted a world first. It had never been done before. A marathon at the top of the Sky Tower, 192 metres in the air. He ran 42.2 k's. No one thought he'd do it.

352 times around. And that is a whole lot of prizes to be won this morning, isn't it? Yeah, which we'll talk about very shortly. But there were moments during it where I looked down and I'd go, wow, this could all go horribly wrong. You know, just little pockets throughout the day. Here's some of your reflection moments after you'd run 42.2km

at the top of the Skytower. Out here, 192m in the air. Firstly, are you okay with heights? To be honest, I just didn't look down. And what was the question? Well, first of all, it was about the height. Secondly, how do you feel after over six hours of running? Well, I'm going to throw that one back to you.

How do you think I feel? Greg, you feel ready for another run? It was a huge success. No one died. No one had a heart attack. No one in there had a heart attack? No one? I don't think so.

So it was a great event. But I haven't had a heart attack? No. No one in there had a heart attack? No one? Don't answer. So it was a great event, but I haven't had a heart attack yet. So that's Jono reflecting. You're amazing. You did such an amazing job. And, you know, we got so many wonderful messages through for you from listeners, from people supporting you, people filming you from the bottom of the Skytower running around, and even celebrity messages. We've got so many coming through last week.

Hilary Barry, Jeremy Corbett, Chris Mack from 660. And this one came through late because she's in the States right now. But the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern. Jacinda Ardern! She had a message for you. And I want to play this in bits. And this is her reflecting on, I mean, she said it was a historic moment. Have a listen.

Have a wonderful celebration. And thank you for all that you've contributed to New Zealand and New Zealand's history. New Zealand history? Wow. The Prime Minister is putting what you did up there in the historical. I mean, there's been some great things in New Zealand history. Are we thanking her to Papa Exhibition? Well, maybe.

I mean, this is pretty incredible. I mean, she also reflected, I mean, not just on your effort, but also on watching our show back in the day. Obviously a huge fan of watching the episodes of our show back in the day. Obviously a huge fan of watching the episodes of our show. Your birthday makes me feel incredibly old because, of course, I remember the first episodes. Yeah, might have told her it's your birthday as well. Was it how you got into a message?

But she makes it feel old because she remembers the first episode. She's a big fan from way back there. I told her it's not my birthday. Yeah, yeah. And I think that was all the, apparently one more of Jacinda Ardern talking about you, Jono. Happy 30th birthday to all the cast

and crew of Shortland Street. Oh, okay. No, sorry. Actually, none of that was for you. That was all for Shortland Street. I love how the wheels started falling off when she said happy birthday in the second one. Yeah, yeah. So she didn't actually, maybe she's aware of it. I'm not sure. Oh, there we go. I love how the wheels started falling off when she said happy birthday in the second one yeah yeah

maybe she's aware of it I'm not sure oh there we go touching words there from the Prime Minister couldn't be more thankful for her message you had a hard time I mean your legs were hurting a lot by the end of it and by the next day you were saying how bad they were but it was hard for me and producer Behumps the hardest thing was getting you

to eat and drink something as your coach and trainer jeez that was and producer Behumps. The hardest thing was getting you to eat and drink something. As your coach and trainer, jeez, that was difficult. Like Behumps was like, I've got a toddler who eats better than you. We had to do it on camera because you don't eat during the day normally. But we're like, that's fine. That's your choice. But up there, we're like, everyone's like, you've got to get fluids. He's going to burn out.

He's not going to be able to do it. We're trying to get fluids into you. We're trying to get bananas, anything else. You're like, I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. So we had to do like on camera just to say it was for filming it wasn't for filming just to try and get food into you i know but you know when uh you know you say bolts out there running 100 meters is anyone trying to shove a banana in his mouth no

but people running the marathon are all got drink stations the way through they've got people coming not me mate just a dehydrated of is to bully you into eating food because we're worried about you collapsing. Do you know one of my favourite moments too was right at the end. They were filming for the video and producer B Humps is like, wait here, okay? Round the corner there's going to be a welcoming committee. And I'm like, is it a big committee?

He's like, don't get your hopes up. Don't get your hopes up. And so then you were waiting with me, Ben, and we walked around the corner, and Harriet, who works at the radio station, it's just Harriet and Joel, two people there. Harriet's holding a confetti cannon, and she's trying to fire off the confetti cannon,

but she's pointing it directly at my face. Directly, like six centimetres away from my face. We've had cannon incidents before. These are high-powered things. We could send these cannons over to the Ukraine. They could use them. So I ended up just grabbing it off. We're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

And it turned into a bit of panic stations that, hey, well done on running your marathon, mate. Here's a cannon to the face and a 100-gram tub of Vaseline. That's all I got for my efforts. Thank you for the Vaseline. I've got very waterproof legs. So we didn't fire off the cannon,

but we did manage to unlock a whole heap of prizes. So if you want a prize, every K he ran, we got another prize thanks to Sky City and AJ Hackett. So 0800 the hits right now. 4487 on the text. Got some amazing prizes that could be yours very surely on the hits. On Friday, if you're just tuning in, Jono did it. He ran a marathon at the top of the sky tower 192 meters in the year first time

anyone in the world has ever run a marathon at the top of new zealand's tallest building 352 times around although there was a wee moment where i told you we'd miscalculated and you could see your heart break some devastating news you know how we said 352 times around? Yeah, we kind of miscalculated the mass. It's 452 times. Is that? No, no, that's not it.

No, you did a joke though, but there was a lot of confusion I found in the closing laps about how many laps I had to go. You'd be like, two to go.

Oh no, no, sorry, I got that wrong. 20 to go. Oh no, sorry, we're up to another 80 laps to go. There were be like, two to go. Oh, no, no, sorry, I got that wrong. 20 to go. Oh, no, sorry, my bad. We're up to another 80 laps to go. Well, there's three people taking clickers and stuff, but it was all a bit confusing why what was a lap because you would run there and back,

and it was like, was that one lap or was that two laps or what is that? So it was a lot of confusion. So I think maybe you ran two marathons, maybe you ran half a marathon. No one really knows. Yeah, I was just like, just tell me when I'm finished. That might be the easiest move.

Who are you waving it out the window to? Hello there. Some people taking a photo of us through the studio. But we've got plenty of us. See, this is what happens, mate. You've run a marathon. You've done a world first. People coming in to get their photo with you.

And now people want prizes. Thanks to you, we've unlocked a whole lot of prizes from Sky City and AJ Hacker. 42 prizes we've got to give away for each kilometre. Russell, we're going to get you. You there, Russell? Yes, I am. We're going to get you... You there, Russell? Yes, I am. We're going to get you a SkyJump voucher valued at $225 recommended retail value.

That's fantastic. And I just want to give a big shout-out to Jono. Congratulations on the marathon. Thank you. It's such a pity you shouldn't have phoned me, man. I would have come and kept you company and been your second and made sure you got your bananas

while Ben was jumping off Skytower. Well, mate, he refused to eat most of the time. We managed to get a few things. Like a disobedient toddler, they're calling me. Just eat something. Just eat something. Hey, Russell, thank you so much and appreciate your kind words, mate. Kim, you're on from two to a...

Do you like Weta Workshop? Have you heard of Weta Workshop, Kim? Yeah. Yeah, well, you're going to be pretty happy with a bundle worth $229. Figurines, paraphernalia. The whole family can go along to a weather workshop unleashed. It's really awesome

actually. I took the kids there a while ago. It's an amazing experience, so enjoy that. Oh, thank you guys, and well done, Jono. Amazing. Oh, listen, as I say, no one is more surprised than me. I think even Sir Richard Taylor comes in that package too. Well done.

That's what you've won there, Kim. Thank you. Thanks to Sky City. Skywalk voucher for you, Nathan and Tokoroa. You're going to be walking up there. It's valued at $150. Hand the voucher over. Boom.

Oh, bloody beauty. Yeah, how good is that? That's awesome. I don't know if you can do a marathon from out there like Jono, but you can at least walk around and see the amazing view. Yeah, I don't know if I'd give that a crack, but good on you anyway. Hey, thank you, Nathan. I appreciate it.

You know, one of the funny things is there was a spotter from AJ Hackett on either end, sort of 125 metres apart, and I felt obliged to have conversation with each of them every lap. So in between laps, I'd be'll be thinking okay what can i ask now hey what time do you knock off work man oh yeah five o'clock and then run back around because i was wondering what because you weren't listening to music i was like what is going through that big bald head of yours and then i go to the other person how long you been working here oh seven years and then i'd run back the other way thinking of a conversation thing jesus bloody good did you

ever get sick of the view up here no no okay how many times have you done the jump? Oh, 100. Okay, perfect. So that was my major driving issue was coming up with conversation with the spotters at either end. And I started high-fiving early on when I completed it. I saw you do that. I'm like, he's got to do that 42 times. Committed to a high-five. For the whole 42Ks. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Five words for 5K. You'reocking morning of weather around the country, so let's try and heat things up by giving someone $5,000 this morning with our simple game of word association match or five words without five words, you can win five grand. Oh, it's the one part of the show everyone comes for. It's the only reason I turn up to this place.

It's not the decor here, Ben. It's for the fact that we could win you five grand, Janelle and Tauranga. Yes, Tau. You sell truck parts. Yes. What is the biggest selling part of a truck that you would sell, Janelle? I don't think there's one. No, there's just everything.

All right. That's all my trucking banter I've got. Ben, you got any truck banter you want to chuck in there? No, I just like doing the thing where you go, we try and make them talk by doing the arm up and down thing. Do you sell truck horns? No, not really, eh? Oh, right.

What parts do you sell for the trucks then? Oh, anything like engine bits, brake parts. Oh, yeah? Brake parts. Oh, there we go. I know, yep. Bit of a vague sweeping across Janelle's profession there. Well, let's see if we can win you $5,000, Janelle. Who are you going to send into the soundproof booth

to match five words with? Go, Ben. All right. Let's imagine what all the despicable things you could do with $5,000, Janelle. What would you spend the money on? I'd like to take my son away for his birthday for a weekend away.

Oh, how old is he turning? Five. Five years old. Well, what a great way to spend that money, Janelle. Let's hit it. First word that comes into your head and you need to match with Ben when I say hubby. Wife. Hubby, wife. Let's go to word number two, Paris. Hilton. Paris Hilton.

Kindergarten is the third word for you this morning, Janelle. Teacher. Stadium. Rugby. And yoga. Pilates. Mate, you played a good game. Those are the first that just came off your dome. We'll release Ben from the soundproof booth. Absolute beautiful game. Speed, precision. All right.

It was wild. Janelle, let's see if we can win you $5,000. Ben Boyce is out of the soundproof booth, aka the compression chamber. Ben, the first word that comes into your head, when I say to you hubby. Husband. Not even on the first one. Get back in the booth.

Back in the booth. You want me to go back in the booth again? I'm going to install a mirror so you can have a good long hard look at yourself. I'm so sorry. Wife. Janelle went wife. Yeah, it look at yourself. I'm so sorry. Wife. Janelle went wife. Yeah, it's good to hear.

I'll be wife. What would you say if I said Paris? France. She said Hilton. Kindergarten. Teacher. There's one. Stadium.

Say a stadium. Sports. Yoga. Pilates. Oh, okay. We pulled it back slightly But we had a shocking start It's all on me

Janelle Two out of five Not bad Not too bad Will you go off And sell truck parts And other vague things To do with that industry

And thank you so much For listening Have a wonderful week Janelle Appreciate it You too Two semi-competent dads Handing out Semi-competent parenting advice

Jono and Ben On the hits Another weekend I parked a car on Saturday for an appointment down a side street and then came back. This is sounding very shady. Well, this is the thing. It does sound a bit shady. An appointment. Parked down a side street.

The shady thing was the car was stolen. My car was stolen. I came back. My car was gone. What? It was just gone. And it was like one of those things where you look around and you're like, you know where i parked um it's not there you're walking up and down the street you're like what do i do you're thinking of all the things that yeah you think of all the things in your

car as well you're like oh my god my sunglasses had a bag in there what's in the bag all these things i bring the police they're like obviously you're like hey if you're finding your stuff in the car just you know it's not mine it's not a one one-one-one situation, but they were like, yeah, cool, we'll send someone down shortly, just wait around by the street, that's fine. And you're sitting there going, oh, God, it's getting you quite down because you're like, I need to get to work on Monday, where's my car? It's just a horrible, horrible feeling. And so then I was like, well, I'll walk up the road while I was waiting for the cops.

They said they'd be a while. I'll walk up the road and I'll get myself a coffee and walk down the next street. And my car was there. Don't have done a police call there. the next street and my car was there. My car was there. Don't have done a police call there. You're like, send the armed offenders. SWAT. Whatever you've got.

We need all the good men on this job and women. What an idiot. And at that moment, I'm like, great, they found my car. Relief. That's such a good feeling. But also that horrible feeling of

now I've got to ring up. Did you phone back up? Yeah, well, I kind of had to. I go, hey. So anyway. You know how I demanded 12 police cars down here immediately. Yeah. Looking on the wrong street.

Like, identical looking streets, my defence. I thought it was. It looked like I'd parked next to these cars. And it was like, oh, totally on the wrong street. Well, thankfully you didn't panic. Remember that stolen car that was outside my house and it was still running? All the windows were down and I went for a fossick through it. Yeah, Joel's with us this morning.

So he grabs a top out of the back of the stolen car. It was a Nike hoodie. Holds it up against himself to go, oh, is that my size? And it was a size larger. And then my son goes, what are you doing? Your fingerprints are going to be my 12-year-old son. He's the one who said, hey, you're now an accomplice. They can pin this on you.

But, you know, I was kind of thinking, well, thieving from a thief, what do they call it, double jeopardy. You can't get tried for a crime that's already been committed. Stealing from a thief, it's poetic justice. That's Cash in Car. Guess how much cash we've stashed in the Škoda's boot and drive it home along with all that money. It's a brand new Škoda Kamek Monte Carlo car.

It's worth over $45,000. There are thousands of dollars in the back of the car. We know both those things, but we don't know the exact amount of cash in the back. If you can guess to the cent, you win both the cash in the car. By day, she commercially manages property. Let's hope she'll be commercially managing a buttload of cash. Polly, come on down from the Hawke's Bay.

Good morning. How are you, mate? I'm good. I'm good, but nervous, but good. Hey, congratulations on the getting preggers. Oh, thank you. You know a lot about Polly. Yeah.

The first person you told was Jono. It was surprising to me. She texted me. Polly texted me. Just so you know, preggers. Are you about to go on maternity leave? I am. So this cash would go down a tree.

Oh, you could have a new car to put the baby in as well, Polly. Oh, that's the one. Nice. Now, have you been looking at all the clues? I have been, yes. Yeah. I find it's like an escape room. You never know how deep to dive into the clues? I have been, yes. Yeah, I find it's like an escape room. You never know how deep to dive into the clues.

Yeah, you're right. Yeah, yeah. Do you know, Ben, we went into an escape room, and he looked like a bloody legend, and he got us out of there in about five minutes. And he didn't tell me until three months later he had already done the escape room. Because we're like, this guy's a genius.

Put him on CSI. Get him on every clue. He played it well. And I'd done that one before, but jeez, I enjoyed that moment when I looked super smart. Everyone's like, go big. And you're like, oh, I'll actually be the third.

Be the third playing card in the bookshelf, third down. We're like, how does he know this? All right, Polly, we're going to hand you over to the wonderful, fastidious cash keeper, Alex. You can have your guess. That was a great word, Jono. Polly from Hawke's Bay, what is your guess for how much cash is in that car? So my guess is

$18,181.81. So Polly from Hawke's Bay with a guess of $18,181.81. I like the way that number sits. That is incorrect. I'm sorry. No, thank you.

Polly. I would urge you, Polly, there is a clue that came out on Thursday night or Friday night. Take a look at that because I think you may have missed it. No worries. Thank you. Polly, do you want to swear?

Swear. No, don't swear. No, no. Unload, unload. Go loose. No, no. Go loose. Worst word you can think of okay no polly i

enjoy your day thank you so much for listening all right thank you you too your next chance to guess is 11 o'clock download the iheart radio app for you uh to guess and you could be having your guess the hits last night was the final of dancing with the stars a wild season of dancing with the stars yeah and uh she didn't test, but she did test positive for winning. Jazz Thornton, the champion. How are you? Hi. Hey, congratulations.

Thank you so much. Why are you up so early? I would like to know the answer to that question as well. Have you slept? Have you guys slept? Because I imagine the adrenaline after the show, you know, would be like firing for your veins, you know, after the show.

And then having to get up in the morning, have you slept at all? No, no, we rolled straight in. Did you roll straight in? Jeez, how much budget did they blow on all the party goods afterwards? Oh man, it was a good night, it was well celebrated. And well deserved too,

because you guys have done such an amazing effort, everyone on the show has, and it's been a rollercoaster with the vid coming in and out and affecting people and having a new judge in the final as well. You're like, hello, who are you? Yeah, we didn't know that until like kind of halfway through the day. Who was the judge? Was it just some

person doing the janitor work or something? You're going to have to judge dancing. No, it was someone from the UK dancing with the stars, right? I think it was Stratton come dancing over there? Yeah. Yeah, it was someone from the UK dancing with the stars, right? I think it was called String Come Dancing over there? Yeah. Yeah, it was pretty incredible. I don't know where she was hiding in New Zealand but they got her out. It was amazing. I mean, it must have been a real

rollercoaster of experience having to learn all these new dances in such a short space of time, but did you love it? Oh, I loved it so much. I would do it 10 times over after I have a break. Yeah, I loved every moment of it. It was so cool. Yeah, well, Jez, you're a good dancer too, Jez.

We've known you for a while. You've never once said that you could dance. Well, I didn't know I could until about halfway through the show. And I was like, I can kind of pick this up. But, yeah, I still would classify myself as a TikTok dancer, which I think significantly helped me in learning the choreography for this. It's been good because sometimes Brad can't get the TikTok choreography, so I'm like, ha, then you can't be mean to me if I can't get the Latin choreography.

Oh, really? It's a good mixture. Is it different, Brad? 100%, because TikTok dancing, you're using your body the opposite way, and it just doesn't make sense to normal dancing. Really? Yeah, it just doesn't make sense to like normal dancing. Really? Yeah, it just doesn't seem right. I've just been twerking on there.

That definitely doesn't seem right. That's for sure. I've just been working hard, working that ass hard, mate. It's also on my OnlyFans account if you guys want to join. No one wants to join. You guys did such an amazing job. And so amazing for the charities, not just your charity, but for all the charities on the show as well.

Yeah, we're super stoked. And because the money raised gets divided evenly between all of the charities, so all of the charities are going to receive a good amount of money to help them do the work that they do. So we're really stoked with that. Oh, I didn't realize that. So even if you got eliminated first, your charity still gets a good chunk of the change.

Yeah, absolutely. It's completely even, evenly divided. Oh, that's wonderful. Now, how many months is it going to take to wash off all the fake tan? Oh, my gosh. I never had a fake tan before I started this show. And now it's just, I feel like there's about, there'll be six layers of it on there now.

Yeah. Check in with us in nine months' time. We'll let you know. We'll be back to thing else. It's a big commitment. And how many rats tests do you reckon you've had over the course of the show? Oh, too many.

You get so used to it now, you just shove it up there and just throw it in. Just get in there. I imagine it's quite a nervous 15-minute wait. Yes. Oh, very much so. Yeah. You're just kind of standing outside the studio being like,

surely we're okay. And then the medic kind of looks at you and you're like, oh, is she looking at me? Cause she's going to tell me I have COVID. And so it's a scary experience. But every time we passed and we got in there, I was very thankful.

We thought it might just get down to who can just pass the rat test at the end. They take out the whole competition. Honestly, it could have gone that way. And I had COVID right before we started rehearsal. So I was like, I got that in the bag if that happens. I'm immune. I'm immune. Well done.

You guys did such an amazing job, as did everyone on the show. And no, Jono doesn't. He didn't. He was going to ask, but he's a bit shy too. So I'll ask for him. The outfit that Vaz was wearing last night, the top, Jono would like to borrow that. I don't know what's done with that now. Honestly, you could probably

get it from him quite easily. You'd have to pay for it though. I'll use it on my TikTok dancing. He didn't want to ask, he's too shy to do it. Well congratulations Jazz and to everyone on the show, you did so well. Brad and Jazz, winners of Dancing with the Stars

You go and take that glitter ball and put it on the fridge Jono and Ben Sleazy It's Lady Gaga, hold my hand You're on the hits, Jono and Ben 8.29 on your Monday morning Now on Friday you guys would have been listening When Jono attempted the first ever marathon

At the top of the Sky Tower No one's ever run a marathon 192 metres in the year. 42.2km he was trying to do. 352 times around. And when it started off just after 8 o'clock on Friday it was a very nervous shuffle that high in the sky. 5, 4,

3, 2, 1, go! He's away. Okay. He's away. It's a slight shuffle. He looks kind of awkward. It's an awkward shuffle.

Because he's harnessed it. Oh, dear God. But we are underway. The marathon has begun. Jono, can he do it? He's shuffling his legs around the sky. Oh, dear God. This is frightening.

It's pretty high. It was a shuffling like you had an accident and you were pretending that you just needed to rush home but not cause an issue and raise alarm bells. But yeah, that's kind of shuffled for probably about 10 minutes, then slowly started to get a stride on. Bill set a little bit of a confidence up, didn't you? But you were talking about going to the bathroom and the problem was the communications was tough for me inside

and you outside to hear what was going on. And sometimes you said things on air that maybe you shouldn't have said. As it's 8.46, Jono is running back and forth, around and around. He's trying to do it over 300 times. Why don't you go to the toilet? Is that going to be a pain in the ass? Okay, I didn't hear that. Hey, he didn't hear that on radio. Mate, we're trying to do radio here, but he's got to do something.

He honestly can't hear us, but he's had some great messages come through. When did you cut the feed on that, just out of interest? I was trying to cut him off, cut him off. You don't know what he's going to say. But you got into a really... How long did that coverage last? You got into a great routine up there, a great rhythm up there. 192 metres in the air, and after

about 16km's I came out and joined you on a very, very narrow platform. Out here doing it. Well, I've come in for the last 5 minutes, Jonny. We're both out here doing it at the moment Ben. You've been running for about 16km's and apart from us stopping you, you haven't really stopped. Can I just say, you've been saying I've run 16km's for about 40 minutes now. Have I progressed any further than 16Ks? Keep it up.

You're going good. Thanks for the motivation. It's quite blustery around this side. It is. Again, the wind is starting to pick up a little bit. Because there's no handrails. It's just sort of a metre-wide grate that sort of circles around the Sky Tower. And every now and then I look down and go,

oh, jeez, this could go bad. This could go terribly wrong. I had a lot of supporters, great support from Sky City and AJ Hackett. And some of the AJ Hackett people came down to watch you potentially plummet, but no, you didn't. And they had some great signs as well.

We've got some supporters here supporting Jono from AJ Hackett. We've got some signs. What's your one say? You're almost there. And then you put not. You're not almost there. But it's good. Support of this one's great. I love this one. What your one say? You're almost there. And then you put not. You're not almost there. But it's good. It's supportive.

This one's great. I love this one. What's it say? My one is motivational quote. It just says motivational quote. There's no motivational quote, but he can come up with one. He's got a lot of time. And the final sign we've got? Pain is temporary. Race results are online forever. They are, aren't they? So think about your race results. Thanks. Let's hear it for

Jono. Jono! Wonderful collection of clichés there. Thank you. Yeah, and finally, you did it. After six hours, you did it. It was an amazing, amazing achievement. The first person to ever run a marathon outside on the Sky Tower,

and this was your reflection after doing it. How do you feel after over six hours of running? Well, I'm going to throw that one back to you. How do you think I felt? I think it was great. You feel ready for another run. It was a huge success. You know,

no one died. No one had a heart attack. No. No one in there had a heart attack. No one. I don't think so. So it was a great event. No.

But I haven't had a heart attack. No. Yet. I was going to say yet. Like coming into this, did you think you could do this? No. No.

You didn't think I could do this? No. No, definitely not. Because we'd spoken to professionals who said you can't do this yeah and you know about the 18k mark i was like those professionals we should listen to him i don't know what happened yeah like you said forrest gumden it was an amazing achievement so well done john i don't all stress this it was incredible it wasn't listen it wasn't easier than i expected it was harder i won't lie and i won't do it again run and done no more but we got a sweepstake and your last chance to enter if you

think you know how long jono went for you can win big next hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion mike hosking on news talks at b in the meantime jono and ben on the hits jono the first person to run a marathon he did it with no training. Amazing effort. 42.2 Ks. Six hours 15 was how long it took you to run a marathon. Joel, who's with us today, you'll say the fastest ever walking marathon is how much? Five hours and 30 minutes it was back in the 90s. So just put that in perspective. Okay, so Sir Edmund Hillary came back from climbing Everest.

When he came back, he came back to New Zealand. Hey, Ed, just so you know, someone climbed the Himalayas quicker than you. It would be like someone getting up there faster than him. Sorry, I was trying to give an example. And halfway through, I was like, oh, I've got nothing to finish this. But we were running a sweepstake. Many people thought you wouldn't finish, including myself. But you did an amazing job.

I shouldn't have finished. Nature says I should not have finished. And the sweepstake, the illegal sweepstake Ben was running, black market sweepstake, you could have texted or messaged how long you thought it was going to take me. And Paula. Hi. Hi, Paula.

How are you? Ultra marathon runner Jono Pryor speaking. You may have heard of. Ultra marathon runner John O'Prior speaking. You may have heard of... Successful coach Ben Boyce, who trained his athlete without training to run his foot. Anyway. Can I rephrase that? Underprepared marathon runner John O'Prior speaking.

How are you, Paula? I'm great. How are you? How's the legs? Must be an agony. Just terrible. My body is like, what did I do to you? What did I do to you to deserve this?

All weekend it was saying, you're going to have to replace me. That's what the legs were telling me. Have you got some legs? Can I borrow your legs, Paula? You got good legs? No, mine aren't too flashy. They'll be flasher than my legs. They're due a wax.

So is Jono's. Now, we were running a sweepstake for how long we thought Jono would take to do the marathon, and you were the closest guess. Woohoo, awesome. Which is great, because six hours, 15 minutes is what he took, but that also meant that you had very little faith in Jono doing it quickly. I felt a bit mean. I was like, oh, I was thinking eight, thinking 8 and I thought no I'll be nice

and put 6 hours on me hold on hold on is 6 hours 15 a shocking time well no it's good for your first

ever no training is it a shocking time yeah it's a brilliant time for running up there in this guy no don't you patronise me Paula

you tell me coach coach is this a shocking marathon time well you know without training I mean the fastest marathon ever run

is 2 hours oh so I'm 4 hours 15 minutes behind yeah but that without training, I mean, the fastest marathon ever run is two hours. Oh, so I'm four hours, 15 minutes behind. Yeah, but that's the fastest. I mean, that's people that have trained. They're packing up everything. They've packed up the finish line by the time I'm crossing. I still would have been running and got electrocuted in the thunderstorm, so don't you worry. You did well. Hey, well, Paula, up until now, the only

thing I had finished in my life was a dozen Heinekens. So now it's a marathon. A very slow novelty marathon. So, Paula, you got an amazing prize put together from AJ Hackett and Sky City. You've got a Sky Tower Family Pass, a night stay at Sky City Hotel valued at $259, Weta Workshop Unleashed Family Pass, All Black Experience Family Pass, and an All Black jersey signed by a whole lot of All Black legends as well. Oh, my God.

Thank you. That is God. Thank you. That is amazing. Thank you so much. We had a shocking weekend, and that's really going to make everybody happy. What happened on your weekend, Paula? Oh, my God. My 10-year-old son has fractured his back. Jeez.

We were in middle for most of it, but he's okay. He's okay. And, yep, he's doing a lot better now. Oh my gosh. Well deserved. Yeah, he'll be really happy that we've won an amazing prize. Oh yeah, there's plenty of great things to do when he's up in Adam again. Well, thank you

so much for listening, and thank you for having little to no faith in Jono. They paid dividends. Thanks, guys. That's brilliant. Well done. Well done. The Hits. For more podcasts from The Hits Network, check out iHeartRadio.co.nz.