Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: It's An Olympian Special & More!

Episode Date: August 1, 2021

Today we caught up with some more Olympians from the Tokyo Games; Emma Twigg, Hamish Bond, Grace Prendergast, Kerri Gowler & Brooke Donoghue! Ben also has a bone to pick with someone from his household that is getting more TV jobs than him... and no, it's not his daughter! Finally, we got Ben's daughter to call up Chris Mac from Six60 and see if she could convince him to play at her 12th birthday party. Enjoy!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John O' and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of John O' and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the John O' and Ben podcast. Hey guys, Monday, 2nd of August. Just looking out the window here at a wonderful morning tea

that the company's supplied for everybody. Yeah, there's still a little bit on the table there. Because there's a bit of just to, you know, give you the in and goings on, going ons of NZME. We were a multi-level company, weren't we? On various levels throughout the building, but they've amalgamated some levels. And so there's, you know, new people sitting next to new people.

So it was a get-to- we get to know each other morning tea which we didn't take part in because we were doing an interview at the time yeah so no one got to know Ben no one's ever going to peel back those layers

but now I could get to know some of the leftover food there there are some croissants there's some donuts you could get the food now without the small talk this is the one but then you've got

the food that the food that people that is small talk food when you put that food in that the food that people that's a small talk food when you put that food in your mouth it'll taste like guilt what I find though I do

we enjoy chatting to people and stuff but it's always hard to navigate eating and chatting you know you're there for the food that's your main priority

and everyone's there for the food but you're also getting to know people so you're like have that awkward you ask a question someone's just taken

a mouthful oh sorry sorry you finished no I'll go bacon and croissants like ha there's a hard piece of food to navigate in a social setting isn't it yeah if you could design your perfect menu from breakfast to dinner what would ben boyce okay so you'd wake up what would you have for breakfast oh no it depends sometimes i do i do love a good granola sort of with fruit. I'm saying you're perfect. But I do love it. But I always feel good afterwards.

No, you can't start this with granola. Jesus. I do love a good eggs benny with bacon. Okay, that's good. I do love that. You all right? Doing okay? I do love that with a flat white, you know, a small flat white.

That's your starting meal. Maybe a second flat. Or I'll go on another one takeaway at the end. Oh, come on. I've had a second flat. Or just go on another one, take away. At the end. Oh, come on. I've had a coffee and then I'm also like another one, take away. So this is factoring if you eat every meal of the day. Morning tea would be what?

Oh, morning tea. I don't, I don't. Not something you usually eat. Oh, you know, we just eat like I would eat. Well, yeah, normal. Maybe an apple and maybe a muesli bar or something like that would be like a thing. But that's not allowed here. This is dream menu. Can I go smoothie? Can I go smoothie?

Can I go smoothie? What? I don't like smoothie. I'll have a granola and a smoothie. Okay. Just a light salad for lunch. A light salad. No, I would probably.

Just a few almonds or something for our afternoon tea. Just to keep you from scrogging or something. Trail mix. I know this is tough. I don't know. I'm pretty. Yeah. Maybe sushi or something for afternoon tea. Just to keep you from scrogging or something, trail mix. I know this is tough. I don't know. I'm pretty... Yeah. Maybe sushi or something for lunch.

You're factoring in health concerns here. I shouldn't be, eh? I should be just going nuts. You're fictitious. What would you do? What would you do? If you could go all guns blazing. I mean, dinner I'd probably go like...

A burger's always good, you know. I would go to a breakfast buffet. You know, like a hotel breakfast buffet. Yeah, they're good. Yeah, that's how I'd go to a breakfast buffet. You know, like a hotel breakfast buffet. Yeah, they're good. Yeah, that's how I'd like to start the day. Morning tea, you go some pies and sausage rolls. Might even go like a Burger Fuel for lunch. Oh, Burger Fuel is good, yeah.

Afternoon tea, a pizza, and then I'd go to an Italian restaurant for dinner. Oh, nice. And then be in their heart unit by 8pm. You know, speaking of buffets, I saw a really interesting thing, because obviously the Olympics are going on at the moment, and one of the reporters for TV One was showing the buffet,

you know, how the buffet is navigated at the moment. So he would walk up in the hotel, and he'd have to put his hand on this thing that would put basically a glove around him. So everyone had to get gloves on to touch anything for the buffet, and then they'd go to their little, where they'd sit. And even if they were sitting opposite, like the two of us out, there was a glass panel in between.

Is this just in the Olympic Village or Tokyo in general? I guess it would have been in the media. So this would have been in the media, wherever they're staying. I guess it's in the village. But yeah, so you basically put your hand down, and your glove would form around your hand, and off you'd use that glove to use to touch it. So you're not using at any stage.

And they would also have to hand sanitise as well on top of the gloves. I reckon that's going that glove to use to touch it. Wow. So you're not using it at any stage and they would also have to hand sanitise as well on top of the gloves. I reckon that's going to be the new standard though. Yeah. Especially for a buffet situation. When you really drill down

and think about the buffet and the bacteria that's being shared. Yeah. Oh yeah. It's been great all these years that we haven't thought about it. Yeah, it's been great.

When you actually think about it. Yeah. They did one. They did one. I think I was telling you about around and they put some sort of substance, some glow-in-the-dark substance on the buffet as a about it. Yeah, they did one. I think I was telling you about around, and they put some sort of substance, some glow-in-the-dark substance on the buffet as a test thing.

And then they flicked off the lights at the end and just everywhere. Like a CSI episode. What has gone on here? You know, just what has been, you know, because everyone's is. But then I guess if you're going back to your table and you're hand sanitising before you eat and stuff, you'd be fine. But yeah, well, I hope. You could not think too hard about germs, could you?

No. Or else you just couldn't. It would go away. You teeter, but you hold yourself together. I try to, because they always talk about, you know, you want to build up your immune system. You don't want to be two, you know. But nowadays, whew.

Are you still doing it? You would refuse to open doors. I'd have to Open the door handle I get a little good About door handles He'd put his hand Inside a t-shirt And use that

No I do get a bit I don't know I need to Yeah But then I'll hand sanitise If I do I'd rather not Touch the door handles

Why don't you go The very top of the door handle Yeah How do you get out Of a toilet Yeah no That's other Is that a t-shirt

Or if you're In a paper towel sit show You keep the paper towel open with the door handle, and then you dispose of that in the bin. That is a good way to do it. That's all you like. So I dry my hands with that open. It gets in my head a little bit.

And I saw a smart move from someone over the weekend using the EFTPOS card. You know how you punch in your numbers with your finger? Generally, they were just using the corner of the card to push the buttons. And I thought that was a good way to avoid. Yeah, that's quite good. He keeps me bouncing around a lot. I'm going to go get something from the morning tea. He's got full food, no chat.

Oh, there's no granola. Enjoy the potty. Lovely gesture, lovely gesture. All right, he goes straight to the source for his news. And this morning I'm looking at a lovely little Thai sweet chilli number there, Ben. Lovely source. The weekend was full of great Olympic moments and one

of my faves was Dame Valerie Adams winning bronze in the shot put. She's so awesome, Valerie, and this was such an awesome moment for her. She was so stoked and emotional. This means so much more than winning my gold medals. Sorry to be emotional. I worked so hard to be here today. I worked so much more than winning my gold medals. Sorry to be emotional. I worked so hard to be here today.

I worked so hard to put myself in a situation where I had the opportunity to try and win a medal for New Zealand. From the last Olympics to these Olympics, I've had two humans and these two children really inspire me. Throughout the competition, I keep looking up to the stand and keep imagining them there.

Oh, that is just lovely, isn't it? Yeah. And I imagine, yeah, given the previous two golds, she didn't have a family then, did she? No, that's right. Well, she hadn't had children. Yeah. So that being a mother at the same time, whole other layer.

Yeah, very inspiring stuff. So congratulations today, Valerie Adams. She's going to be joining us on the show tomorrow, which is pretty cool. The Black Fern 7 side, I mean, how good was this? Winning gold over the weekend. Such a great game. And at the end of the game, they put on this amazing haka.

It was awesome to see the Black Ferns winning gold there because I think they just got pipped by Australia last Olympics and you can see how emotional again and how much it meant to them, all their training. I think they've been away for two months from their families. Leading into the Olympics. Leading into the Olympics. By the time they get home and see their families again,

it'll be two months away. Just amazing sacrifices there. Oh, yeah, big commitment. If only you'd show that level of commitment to this, whatever we do here. You want me to go away for two months? I can do that. Trampolining, we've got a bronze medal.

Dylan Schmidt, congratulations for him. Producer Juliet used to see him at the trampoline parks. Oh, my gosh, he's my claim to fame. When I found out he won, I was like, well not won, sorry, got bronze. I was like, I know that name, I know that name. And then I remembered that when I was a child, I'd go to this trampoline park after school with my friends and he'd be there and we'd all be like, who's that man?

Who's that boy? And now he's an Olympian. I'm like, he is my claim to fame. Was he doing big flips and stuff? Oh yeah, he was incredible. Even like five, six years ago. Was this a jump? A classic jump scenario. I was trying to figure out where the trampoline

park was. Do he have his own socks? Because you save three bucks if you've got your own socks for the previous time. Really? Oh, that's good. He probably had his own jump socks. Of course you know you can save three bucks. Save three bucks if you bring your own socks. Get your socks, get your socks. Now, trampolining I was watching over the weekend. Jeez, that's on a nice

edge. I saw a guy split his groin into the springs on the side. Really? Yeah. Really? Yeah. I thought they'd be well padded around there. That's what you would think. Yeah, like on the old day when there's no...

They should be doing it old school, eh? They should have best double bouncing. Crack the egg, all the big ones. They don't even have a netting around the trampoline like all the spring free trampolines. No. No, you're right.

Now the good old days of trampolining, you'd end up with a spring inside your bottom. And that built character, didn't it? Back in the day. And then you just had,

because then the matting would eventually rot through the elements of weather. And so then there'd be no matting around the tramp. So it was just raw spring and bar.

And a can-do attitude. Well, congratulations to all our athletes so far. Throughout the morning, we're going to catch up with more of our winning athletes. In fact, next on the show, we are, as well as we'll update you on who to look out for today in Tokyo. It is the Hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Ben and Jono call this show jono and ben breakfast on the hips now the olympic games is on at the moment it is so awesome uh to see the athletes from all around

the world uh performing on the world stage and new zealand did so well particularly on friday with a golden week period there in rowing and emma twig in her fourth olympics won the gold medal for the single skulls and it was so awesome coming up to the line after those pair of fourth place finishes the fabulous Fern from New Zealand wins the gold yeah that's from Sky Sport uh that audio and yes she got fourth in the last two Olympics and to win gold was just amazing and Eric Eric Murray, who is a New Zealand rowing legend, he was watching on TV One and he was even emotional. She's got like 100 metres left.

She's got it. She's got it. She'll literally... Go Emma! Go Emma! She's got it. Oh, that's so good. How good is that? Such an emotional moment and such an awesome moment.

And she joins us right now. How awesome is this as well? Emma Twigg, congratulations. Great to have you there. Yeah, I'm feeling pretty good, thanks. I can imagine Congratulations I noticed you haven't asked how we are It's not important how we are

Sorry about that We're not gold medal winners I'm having an okay day It's a bit blasé Traffic was quite busy on the way Anyway Congratulations in all seriousness How does it feel a day or two later?

Yeah, it's pretty special It's sinking in I guess it's a childhood. It's sinking in. I guess it's a childhood dream of mine to be standing in the middle of the podium in an Olympic Games. And, yeah, at the time, I couldn't describe it in words, but it's definitely something special. Yeah, it was unreal. Now, not just you two. I saw some footage today of Eric Murray, who's watching it in the TVNZ studios, and he's tearing up. He doesn't look like a cry-y sort of guy.

So it meant a lot to him as well. Why is that? Yeah, I mean, I think I cracked both Mahe and Eric on national TV, which is probably more of an achievement than whatever the girls guess. It's probably what the medal signifies more than anything. It's been a really long time coming, and those guys have experienced all of the highs and lows with me. And I've been so lucky to have shared in their highs,

and I think maybe that caught up on them, which is kind of cute. It was very cute. It was. It was very cute. Although he did say the S word a couple of times, and it was on the news as well, Eric Murray. I was like, oh, geez, he's really...

He's a bit passionate. They haven't beat that one out. But, I mean, the last Olympics, you finished fourth, and he sort of took some time out from the sport. Why did you decide to come back? I guess it was just this innate feeling inside me that I hadn't achieved what I had set out to do and what I knew I could do.

And also knowing that it was a real privilege to try and inspire others in sport and, you know, limited time in your life to be able to say that you can do that. So, yeah, it's all just, I guess, it's come together and perfect storm. Well, because obviously you got the gold. Would you have had the same feeling if you ended up with silver or bronze?

Yeah, I was reflecting on that yesterday, and I actually think I would have. I think before the race, I just knew that we as a team had done everything that we possibly could, and I was really proud of that and knew whatever the result, I'm super happy with the campaign and what we achieved. You had your wedding ring around your neck. Because your wife, Charlotte, you credit a lot of your attitude and the turnaround to her, right? Yeah, definitely. She's been pretty instrumental in, I guess, changing my perspective of enjoying the day-to-day and enjoying the privilege and just being present in what I'm doing. So, yeah, she's a pretty special person.

Now, I heard through the rumour mill that you almost, well, you did step away from rowing for a while there and got into roller derby. Is that right? I don't know what you've been narrating but that's not the case. Did you start the rumour mill, John? I was trying to get the rumour going. You got into roller derby

I understand. Well it's good that you've come. Maybe you could. Think about it it We're recruiting Did I just make that wrong with everything else? I think you must have The race must have been pretty physically punishing The whole campaign, but what's been more punishing?

The race or talking to like 100,000 Media people afterwards? Nah, I've got to say the race Is definitely the most punishing part This is a pleasure and it's all part of Enjoying the experience Okay, who's is a pleasure and it's all part of enjoying the experience. Okay, who's had a shocker interview with you? You.

Apart from that roller derby question, have we been the worst? I mean, roller derby's up there. I want to say, I love your glasses, your sweet sunglasses when you're rowing. Are they specially designed for rowing and out there on the water, or are they just something you saw at a service station, or you saw something and you're like, yeah, these are what I want to wear? No, they're straight off the rack. My friends at Spoken Cycles in Cambridge just picked them straight off the rack.

Oh, right. I love how Ben's like, you whipped into the BP Connect and picked up some of the sunglasses with flames down the arms. No, they're cool, though. Yeah, they're very good. Now, did you get drug tested? Sure did. Straight after the race?

Yeah, yeah. Every medalist goes in for a drug test. Oh, really? Really. And not without getting into too much detail. What happens? But get into some detail. Oh, no.

She gets drug tested. Is it like you have to go into a room by yourself or someone follows you in? No, you definitely have someone follow you in, and the language barrier sometimes can impede things, but no, they've got to make sure they can see everything. Wow, the pros. And so do you know immediately? Sorry, I'm really interested,

because do you know immediately whether you've passed or failed or that's a matter of weeks once it goes to the lab? Yeah, no, that takes a while. So it's all done and sent off to a lab, I think, in Switzerland somewhere, and then we get a notification a couple of months down the track. And so are you talking with the person while you're at it? Are you like, hey, how's your day going, or is it all very matter-of-fact? It depends who they are.

If it's in New Zealand and we know them, we might have a wee chat while it's all going down, but, yeah, not in Japan. Although it's all going down, literally. How many times would you have been drug tested over, say, the last year? How often does it happen? It really depends. But most regattas we go to, we're tested and then we're subject to random tests. I mean, we've got to be available every single day for an hour of our day to be tested.

So someone can turn up at your house and test you? Yeah, yeah. We have to give an hour and they can show up and if we're not there then that's a missed test. Wow, that's really... And what if you're not in the mood for a test? You're not ready for a test. Do they just wait? Yeah, bad luck basically. Drink, drink, drink and then

wait until... Nature's ready for it. We've covered some ground here. Yeah, much like you and the rowing, we've covered a lot of ground. It's escalated. I know, I apologise. You know, when you weren't sure about your worst interview,

well, this is definitely it. But Emma Twigg, we're so proud of you here in New Zealand. It was so awesome. We're all so emotional to see you take home gold. It was such a special moment for New Zealand, but obviously for you. So congratulations and thank you so much for your time today. Thanks, guys. That is Emma Twigg.

She is awesome. She won gold over the weekend in Tokyo for the Women's Single Skulls Rowing. So great for her to take time to catch up with us. It is The Hits. You got Jono and Ben? It is 6.60. You're on The Hits. Jono and Ben, 10 past 8 Monday morning and speaking of 6.60, you're on the hits, Jono and Ben, 10 past 8, Monday morning. And speaking of 6.60, they're the biggest band in New Zealand,

but we wanted to know if they would play a kid's birthday party. So we've got my daughter Sienna in to make a bit of a call for us. A bit of a call to one of the band members from 6.60. Sienna, you ready to make a call? Yeah, I'm like really ready. The amount of stuff you've done for this show and the amount of nothing money we've given you i know it's like i work more than you guys and i have to go to school she's juggling a lot we're only juggling this i know you're right we struggled with juggle

and now we get you in to do this but anyway today uh we want to plan your birthday party and we thought maybe we could get someone you know like a big musical act to play at your birthday party. Who would you like? If you could pick anyone in the world, who would you like to play at your birthday party? Like a singer or someone like that. Yeah, like a singer, yeah. Maybe like Olivia Rodrigo.

Okay, scrap her. Okay, we'll take a couple of tears down from Olivia Rodrigo. Maybe like Taylor Swift. Or still again, you've gone up. You've gone up. She'd come down. Sorry. Maybe like Taylor Swift. Or still again, you've gone up. You've gone up. I said come down. Maybe Katy Perry. Okay, well, let's go closer.

These are all great options. Let's go closer to home. Okay, let's go New Zealand. But not saying these people aren't great, it's just that we might have their number. Maybe Lorde? No, that's not going to work. Well, that's for New Zealand.

You're back in the Taylor Swift category there. We don't have Lorde's number, but we do have, or we just had to say this from the start, we do have Chris Mack, bass player from 660's number. Do you have Benny's number? No. We just said the only number we've got is bass player. Chris Mack from 660.

But you love 660, right? Yep. Okay. Not as much as she loves Olivia Rodrigo, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Lorde, Benny. But they're in the top seven or eight choices. So we're going to call Chris Mack and with a few demands,

throw in some demands and we want to see if we can book 660 the band to play at your birthday party, okay? Okay. As far as 660, coming to a 12th birthday party would be the absolute worst possible thing I could do as a band member of 660. Yeah, yeah. No disrespect to your party.

I'm sure it'll be fun. I'll be there. But they've probably got better things to do. All right, let's make the call to Chris Mack. Hello, Chris speaking. Is that Chris Mack from 660? It sure is. Let's talk business.

Okay. 660 was the first to play at Eden Park and sold out Western Springs. Well, you've never played at my birthday party. That's very true. I have never played at your birthday party. Think of it. Oh. Eight kids full of sugar, pin the tail on the donkey, pass the parcel and 660.

Yeah, I mean, it sounds fun But are you telling me I'm invited to the party whether I play or not? What about I pay you guys in a goodie bag and a small piece of birthday cake? Ooh, now we get a small piece Yeah, that's better than nothing Well, you're right, that is better than nothing Um, okay, alright, well you're sweetening pot, literally, the band. I'll pass that on. Okay. Tell them this. My favourite song is all she wrote, so you can play that over and over again for an hour.

And you can only bring two band members as I'm only allowed to invite ten kids to the party. Who is not coming from the band? Probably Mutsher. Probably the singer. And if you can get in contact with Lorde, I would also love her to come and play Soul of Power. Right. Does that mean you have to drop another person off the band list to fit her in? Yeah, probably.

Just get Lorde, actually. Can you just do that? Can you just get Lorde? You don't want us anymore? Nah, it's just too hard. Yeah, that makes sense. Right, so I'm just basically... Yes. Okay, I guess I'll sort that out for you. Okay, that makes sense. Right, so I'm just basically... Yes.

Okay, I guess I'll sort that out for you. Okay, thank you. It was your diva demands. Too many diva demands. I was sitting about sex sexy, John. I was like, they're always so diva-ish, aren't they? Just a small piece of birthday cake. I mean...

Look, you know me. You know one thing I love more than anything else is cake. Yep. He does. I was excited, and it almost eclipsed the fact that she said small, but I caught it. You caught it. That sounds a tough negotiator.

I don't think I am. I just got bullied out of my own gig. No, and if anything, you're going out now to try and book Lord. You've become a booking agent. How did this work out? Things have gone downhill for me today. Oh, Chris Mack, thank you for being part of another wonderful Jono and Ben prank production. That was such a surprising phone call.

You walk away, they hang up, and you're like, what just happened? What was I part of? Oh, man. Well, Sienna did a great job, as always. Thank you. Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion. Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB.

In the meantime, here's Jono and Ben. The hits. We're going to be catching up, and we have been catching up all morning with some of our champion athletes from over there in Tokyo. And Grace Prendergast and Kiri Gowler, they won gold in the women's rowing pair. Then they backed it up in the women's eights when they got silver as well. So they've come home with two medals. And this was such a great moment when they won gold.

Kiwis, yeah, they edge on imperiously out to this gold medal. What a performance from the two women. Up to the line then is Prenda Garsengala, the world champions, who now have the Olympic gold medal too. First Olympic gold in the women's pair. We've so got it wrong, haven't we, New Zealand? We're awesome. I'm not.

Well, no. You're looking at me. I've got no experience. We've got to bring the average down a little bit. Yeah, people. But we're catching up right now in Tokyo with Grace and Kerry. Hello. Good morning.

There you go. Hi. Can you hear us? Yeah, we can. Hey, how are you guys? Good. How are you? Good.

Is this a speakerphone situation? Oh, yeah. Do you want me to take it off? No. No, I love it. It's crystal clear. I can't believe it. How many other athletes can hear us barking down the phone right now? We are.

Yeah, just us. You can talk about anyone. Oh, yeah, great. We ought to talk about Hamish Bond. Oh, he's a shocker. No, he's lovely. Well, congratulations. I mean, how do you guys feel?

I mean, obviously, taking home gold together and the eight as well as silver. I mean, what you guys feel I mean obviously taking home gold together And then the eight as well as silver I mean what an Olympic Games for you two Yeah I feel like it's pretty unreal And I'm unsure whether it's still Sunken yet Do you factor this in with your carry on luggage Because obviously the medal is quite weighty aren't they

Yeah I'm genuinely Surprised about the weight of the medal Actually so I think we should definitely get a bit A bit more allowance on our baggages on the way back. Now, you guys had to chase down in your final together. It was the Canadian and the Russian teams from memory. And then it was you, Kerry, on the news. You said after the race, you were like, you weren't sure if you'd won. You were like, well, someone is in front of us.

You didn't even know that you'd won gold. Yeah, I think, like, obviously in the race i was like aware of everyone where everyone was but then when we crossed the finish line i was like in such disbelief that i was like maybe someone was again like i don't want to celebrate maybe someone's gone there's nothing better than confusion at the end of a race do we we what? Did we? That's what you want. No, no, no. Did your coach refuse to watch the race? Yeah, we know he gets pretty nervous, actually. We've never witnessed him watch one of his cruise races, but it sounds like he just hides away

and just can't even bear to watch it, eh? Yeah. We finish and he's like, how did it go? Oh, really? Surely that's... No, definitely not. Surely that's a pivotal part of coaching is actually watching the end result.

Yeah, it hinders the amount of feedback you can give us, but I think it goes back and watches the video. How did it go, guys? You could really prank him and be like, oh, we had a shocker, mate. We came in 10th. Yeah, that's the thing. We could tell him anything happened

because he's probably off hiding in a bush somewhere and has no idea. It was so awesome to see. And even Grace, I think your mum was on the news and she was saying she couldn't sleep the night before. She was so nervous. I mean, was she more nervous than you guys? Yeah, I think she would be more nervous than us, to be honest.

And I think she's found this whole thing a whirlwind as well. She can't stop going on about how much media she's had to do. So I think she's had to do. She's enjoying her limelight. I've hardly even heard from her after the race. She's like, I'm over here. I'm covering all the media. I'm talking to people in the cloud in Auckland.

I'm on TV. Pretty much. Who's the strangest person you've heard from to offer congratulations? Yeah, your phones must be blowing up with texts and all sorts, right? I wouldn't say the strangest, but the one we're probably most stoked about is Jacinda Ardern did put us on her Instagram. Oh, that's pretty cool. You hit the big time. How many more followers did you guys get from that?

I haven't actually looked yet, but quite a few. I didn't come over here with many followers. Thanks, Auntie Cindy, for the bit of the Insta boost. Yeah, watch. Yeah, she's helping out on social media. I'm sure now, I mean, you guys won gold in the rowing. I mean, it must be a lucrative beef and lamb commercial. You must be boogying around on TV at some stage. I mean, surely something like that's on the horizon?

I'm hoping no one ever asks me to dance on TV. We'll see what plays out. Do you, the day after a race, do you have to go and train on the rowing machines or it's actually, it's a day off? It's a day off now. I think we'll have quite a few days off now

actually. I don't want to go to the rowing machine for quite a while. That's probably interesting because you guys obviously won your gold and then how soon afterwards did you have to race again with the eight? So we had that afternoon to recover, and we went for another little training row in the eight, and then it was pretty much exactly 24 hours after,

so the next morning. But yeah, honestly, not a lot of downtime. It's a bit of a whirl, and that probably is good, and it kind of just keeps the adrenaline going. How sick of rowing are you? Just be honest. If you could pick a number of months to take off from rowing, what number would that be?

I would say it would be in single digits. Oh, that's good. I think it's funny leading up to this. I think you get pretty, like, a bit tired, but then as soon as it's over, I'm like, oh, that was all right. Like, we could do that again. And then I was like, oh, God, we were exhausted coming into this. How long at the gym would you do on the rowing machine if you went into train?

Like, I'm maybe 10 minutes, and then I'm like, oh, I'll move on to something else. What about you guys? Oh, I feel like we'd very rarely do under an hour. Wow, an hour's still too long. An hour on a rowing machine. Jeez. Jeez. Between an hour and an hour and a half It's not like, you know, it's not a fun

sport There's no free speed on it No, it's not an enjoyable action and I imagine when you're out there just puffing and blowing, it must be hard. Yeah, we've probably chosen the wrong sport It's the general day-to-day enjoyment.

Yeah, you could have picked an easier, even boxing would be easier. Getting punched in the face would be easier than what you do. I mean, they just got gold, they just got silver. Oh, well, it was so awesome to see you guys, not just once, but twice on the podium. Congratulations. I'm sure this is just a great end to a lot of

very hard work, hitting the gym for an hour and an hour and a half on rowing machines. But New Zealand was so proud of you guys, so it's been so nice to talk to you. Congratulations. Thank you so much. All the support has been incredible. Thank you so much.

Oh, they're so cool. That's Grace Prendergast and Kerry Gowler. They won gold in the women's rowing at the Olympics and also won silver as well in the women's eight. It is the hits. You got Jono and Ben. 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. Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the heads. The heads. You've got a chip on your shoulder this morning. He comes in first thing this morning and he's like I lugged concrete around all day yesterday for nine hours and now something else you were just mentioning

to us that you're out of work someone in your family is putting you out of work taking food out of your mouth yeah and it's not you know uh what you know some of my daughters you know and i you know one of my daughters you know sometimes both my daughters end up doing you know stuff like tv you know it's actually tv stuff but now they're doing that sort of stuff so i'm like okay my favorite thing is when he's like i keep he gets a call from the agent which he's also a part of and he thinks it's going to be a job for him yeah and it's never a job for you no it's a job music it's all audition i'm like yes you tell me more they're like sienna but that's not my name it's my daughter's yeah i can take it to that

so basically you're a stage you're a stage dad yeah uh unpaid uber service who takes uh takes sienna to auditions but there's another one that's been creeping in and someone else a member of our family that's now starting to get getting work bow the dog no it's not by the dog it's not a man to my wife that it's it's look i own don't long story long story let's not get into why, I own a dummy. Like, I own a dummy. Now, this looks like. His name's Jono. He feels responsible for him.

It's kind of like a soft mannequin. You know, it's the same size as a mannequin, and we used to use it for doing all the stunts that we didn't want to do. Oh, gee, gee. I mean, Kevin's his name, isn't it? We used to call him Kevin. Yeah, the size of a fully grown human Kevin is, and he has been run over multiple times, set alight,

thrown off the falls in Whangarei, drowned. You name it. And he's never complained once. We treat him terribly, to be honest. But he keeps getting back up there. He keeps going back for work. He should take us to court, employment relations. So now Kev, as we like to call him, but I have this dummy.

And he lives in my garage. Kev lives in my garage. But now, you know, the word's got around that, because dummies are quite expensive to not only buy and to hire. There's the word's got around the television industry that I own, a dummy. Wild industry rumours. Yeah, boys, he's got a dummy. Yeah, spreading like

wildfire. It's good street talk. You've heard it, eh, Jude? Yeah, I have. Mind you, of all the industry rumours, it's probably one you'd opt for at the moment. Now I'm getting calls from, you know, like, over the last couple of weeks, I get a call from a couple of times, hello, I'm such and such

from this television production company. I'm like, hello, yes. Keep on talking. Keep talking. We're just making a show called da-da-da. You're like, oh, yes, yes. Tell me more. This is going to be like, oh, we'd like you to cut up. Yeah, I understand.

But no, they don't. This is where they go, I understand you own a dummy, a soft dummy. You're like, yeah, I do. I was just wondering if we could borrow the dummy. Yeah, you can. You can come around and pick it up. This dummy's getting so much work. The dummy's been on television more than you and I have over the last 12 months, hasn't it?

I know. And you don't even charge for it. No, no. You hand them out voluntarily. No, no. I feel bad charging for it. You're like, yeah, take the dummy, just bring it back. Here's a great time out.

This is why any business you start is a shocker. Yeah. Oh, don't worry about it. No, just take the, listen, sort it out later. No, no, just take it, have fun with it. Have fun with it oh don't worry about it no just take listen sort it out later no no just take it have fun with it have fun with it

have fun with that meal I just made you yeah that's why you'll never work in business charge for the dummy yeah not only is he getting

run over and said he's not even getting paid for it worst gig ever he's doing it for the love of it anyway the dummy listen if you want

some real dead weight you can just hire Ben and me. Yeah, but no one's going to, are they? Warning, this show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. The Olympics are on, and this next guest who joins us live from Japan

was already an Olympic legend, but before these Olympics, he won gold in the last two Olympics for the rowing, and then as part of the men's eight for the first time ever, Hamish Bond took out gold as well. It's looking like New Zealand, it really is. And their third gold medal in the rowing. First for the men here at Tokyo 2020.

It's the Kiwis coming up to the line. Yeah, that audio courtesy of Sky Sport, as I like to say. And he joins us now from Japan, a New Zealand rowing legend with a third gold medal, Hamish Bond. How's it going? Thanks so much for your time. Yeah, you too. How are you guys going? We're going good. How are you? Congratulations. Thank you. Yeah, no, pretty unprecedented day. It really was. How wasted did you get last night?

To be honest, it was pretty tame. We're running a pretty tight ship over here in Tokyo, obviously. Yeah, there's options, I guess, if you wanted to get messed up. There's plenty of hand sanitizer around, but I wouldn't recommend it. Hand sanitizer. It's like a prison. Well, there are three gold medals, three straight Olympics for you. I mean, that is such an amazing achievement.

Has it sunk in for you? No, probably not. Probably take a wee while, to be honest. Yeah, look, we ran into that race quietly confident, but also under the realisation that at night there's a lot of moving parts, anything can happen. We could end up first or we could end up last. Is any medal win more special than the other for you?

Well, I just think they're all unique. But I think that's just certainly, well, being fresh, it's obviously pretty cool at the moment. You know, I suppose what elevates what Eric and I did is the fact, you know, how long it was over such a long time and unbeaten. So that sort of makes those two special. But being in the men's eight, which is, I guess,

the blue-ribbon event of any rowing regatta, that event is massive in New Zealand sporting history with the last one in 1972 in Munich. So for us to, I guess, get back out there 49 years later is pretty cool. Now, you have reached legendary status years ago, but now this has just sent you into the stratosphere. There's calls over here for you to be knighted already. Oh, yeah.

We do get swept up, admittedly. Rightly so. I mean, three gold medals, eight world rowing titles. You've even won a bronze in cycling. I mean, yeah, as John has said, you've achieved so many things. Is there more on the agenda, or are you like, oh, I'm done now? I'm certainly going to take a breath. I've got two weeks to steer on things

and mull it over in MIQ, so that's definite downtime. Not much I can do there. But yeah, I think it's best not to make hasty decisions at these junctures in your career. So yeah, I'll just try and enjoy this. Well, you know what? Making a hasty decision on the hits breakfast with Jono and Ben.

That's the way to go. That's the way to go. Make a decision now. Let's do it. So obviously this is your third Olympics, and this one has been quite different, I would imagine, with COVID. How many COVID tests are you athletes getting on a day-to-day basis? Does it happen every day, or what happens?

Yeah, we're just doing daily, but they're only the saliva, so it's not too bad. I generally have overproductive saliva glands, I find, so it's not a big task for me. Well, you're quite dribbly, are you? I'm a little bit dribbly, yeah. What a moist mouth. And how instantly or how quickly does the result come back? I think they turn around pretty quick. It'd be within 24 hours, I'm pretty sure. Because obviously if someone's positive,

they want to get that person out of circulation as quickly as possible. And there's been a number of cases, but I've seen two days. Largely under wraps. But, you know, it's just, I guess, part of the experience this time around. Well, yeah, because I noticed that you guys, when you're on the podium, you have to wear your masks. When you guys were taking photos afterwards, is there protocol set from the Olympics

around having to wear masks as well? Yeah, so basically everyone's masked more or less all the time unless you're sort of in your room with your crewmates, I suppose. I mean, and on the water training, obviously, we're sort of spitting all over each other there. Especially you, with your salivary bowel. Yeah, so there's not much that can be done there. If one of us gets COVID, we'll be all going down with the show.

Yeah. And so do you have to scarper immediately or you can hang around? We're out tomorrow. So we're on a chartered flight home back to New Zealand to start quarantine. So the whole plane full of New Zealand athletes. Yeah, so basically everyone who's finished up to this point in the games and I guess their budget is about a plane load. Yeah, it'll be quite good, I guess.

Yeah, direct flight from Tokyo, North Christchurch, I believe. Yeah, and great. And I tell you what, all the medal winners in business class, baby. Yeah, well, I'm not sure. It depends what sort of plane they've charted. I was mentally thinking that. I was like, yeah, okay, I've won gold. Three times.

That means that I'm up round. And there's no staff. I just won that bid. Anyone, you've got three golds. This is the Olympics. The entrance to business class is you holding up your medal. Well done, mate. We're so proud of you over here.

And you would have seen your former teammate crying. Have you on social media? Yeah, I have seen that video. Yeah, it's pretty cool, obviously. Very cool. Send me a message afterwards congratulating me and the team. And yeah, you can just sort of see what it means. Because I think from his perspective,

he just understands what it takes to get to where the team has been this week and makes you appreciate those moments a little bit more. Well, Hamish Bond, we are so proud of you and the rest of the boys. It was such an amazing thing to witness. So congratulations and all the best for whatever comes next. Cool. Cheers, guys. That is Hamish Bond, third gold medal in three Olympics for rowing,

as well as a bronze for cycling when he took time out of rowing. I mean, how amazing is that guy? I'm going to have a break from rowing to enter another Olympic sport. I think he's like eight-time world rowing champ as well. He's got just incredible. So as I say, there's already been talks about making him a sir. So, yeah, pretty incredible. I have.

I've already made him a sir. Oh, you have? In my heart, he's a sir. All right. It's the hits. You got Jono and Ben? Yeah, yeah, nah. Yeah, nah.

Yeah, nah. The home of yeah, nah. She'll be right. And at the end of the day. Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hits. Hey, we've got the studio here, which we broadcast out of, and the way that it's set up is there's giant sort of floor-to-ceiling windows

that then look out onto a foyer. Quite a busy foyer because upstairs there's a whole bunch of other offices and things. It's like a four- or five-storey building, that's right. Stop bragging about your four- or five-storey building. Sorry. It's a tremendous building. But on Friday, we had to get changed for something. And Ben, we have been getting changed in this room since we started here.

12 months, non-stop getting changed in here. We treat it like a changing room. Yeah, we do. And then I've just realised, well, there's people, you know, respected lawyers and accountants and... Looking in, looking through. Looking directly in here. It's like a fishbowl.

I compare the studio to a fishbowl. You can see through everything. But you do forget about it. It's kind of like, we've talked about this many times, when you're in your car and for some reason you think you can do all sorts of stuff that no one will see and there's windows all around. If anything, there's windows around the whole 360 that can see everything. I drove past a guy the other day.

He was burrowing deep into his nostrils in a van and then he looked me dead in the eye and just dug even harder as if i couldn't see into his vehicle so we wanted to open this uh unusual dressing locations when you've had to do it either in a rush you've been running late uh just out of necessity where and we have, over the years, got changed in many bizarre locations, haven't we? Oh, for the TV show we were running around doing, John, I'll be in the TV show. Put this costume on. Oh, we're in a bus stop. Oh, I don't care.

It's on Queen Street. I don't care. Put it on. You just got used to getting changed at the back of the car. You know, quickly, you're uneasy. You really put the thing on and away you go. We've taken our clothes off in more unusual locations than the cast of The Thunder Down Under. Yeah.

And they've played some gigs with Thunder Down Under. They have, they have. So 0800 the hits are 4487, an unusual location that you've got changed in. Juliet, come on. I think the most bizarre location I've got changed in is probably like behind a tree in a park. That makes it sound really weird.

It does. No more context to that story. I promise it's not weird. I makes it sound really weird. It does. No more context to that story. I promise it's not weird. I promise it's not weird. It definitely is. It's not. It's not. It's weird.

I mean, really, the world is a changing room, isn't it? You can change anywhere you want, as long as it's not inside a mall or else you might get escorted off the property. Yeah, my mum back in the day, too, when the changing rooms were busy, always made me get changed in the shop. I remember as a kid,

I was just going to get changed here. Mum, they're're pants oh it don't matter no one's looking you're like are they are they yeah the worst thing was they were underpants 487 on the text have you got changed in a more unusual location than us we'll find out in a few moments after tay Swift, Love Story. Great tune for your Monday morning, Taylor Swift, Love Story, 8.43. Jono and Ben. Hey, just talking about your unusual dressing location, some wonderful texts going through on 4487,

because we've just realised that we get changed in here probably at least two or three times a week in this room we're here now, and we've only just sort of come to the realisation there's a giant window. I don't know why it took us so long to... Yeah, no, the window's been there the whole time. It has. There's a foyer there, a busy foyer. We wave to people every day out through that window. Yeah, we do, but never connected the two, did we? But there's windows both, anyway. It's like we're

some sort of very specific shop window in Amsterdam that you pay $12 for. But yeah, great text here, 4487. I was travelling to Christchurch for work. I was running late. I got into my hotel room, swiped the card, and there were two people in there getting changed. What? In this hotel room.

They'd given him the wrong car for the wrong room. That's unusual. Kirsten, you're on. Welcome. Hi. This was in Singapore, we're told. It was in Singapore. So my friends and I, we ran a half marathon, and it's very

hot in Singapore, but it ends at Raffles Hotel, which is a very famous glitzy hotel, and it was on a Sunday, and they have this amazing champagne brunch on a Sunday, and there's 20,000 people running, so no time to go home. So we just went straight into the Raffles

toilets, had a quick wipe down, put on our glam dresses, and straight for that champagne brunch. Fantastic. You know, there was time to go and get changed. What were you wiping yourself down with? Well, you know, it's a very nice toilet, so they had beautiful

white fluffy flannels and beautiful soaps and everything. I mean, if you're going to go and get changed in a toilet, you choose raffles. Five star. Five star. I can only dream of wiping myself down in raffles. We're going to send you out some Everblue hair and body care. We've got a wee

package that's going to make you smell good without wiping yourself down in raffles, alright? Thanks so much. I appreciate it. Now, of course, Everblue here and Body Care available at Countdown Supermarkets nationwide. Let's get Briar on. You're on from Hamilton. Morena Briar, where did you get changed?

Unusual dressing location. I got changed in Coletalton Shark Tunnel. Why did you get changed there? What was going on? We had a school trip there, and we slept in the shark tunnel overnight. And then so we got up in the morning and that's just where we got changed. How cool was that? Was it awesome waking up in the morning with all the sharks above you?

Oh, yeah, that was real cool. Because, yeah, they're all swimming over top of you and that's all you can see, really. Well, do you have hair? Sorry? Do you have hair? Yes. Odd question. We're going to see if you had an ever-blue hair and body care pack, all right?

Yeah, awesome thing. Awesome, sweet. Good on you. So when you say, do you have hair, it's an odd, yeah, it's a strange one. There you go. Kelly Tartan's Shark Tunnel. I love Kelly Tartan's Shark Tunnel. I love Kelly Tartan's Shark Tunnel. It moves around automatically, doesn't it?

You just stay on there like a little travelator sort of thing. Yeah, it moves at a painfully slow pace, but it's wonderful, that travelator. We'll get Tim on from the Waikato unusual dressing location. Tim? Yeah, no, I always get dressed in my car. In your car? Yeah.

Yeah, absolutely. If I'm on running late for something, whether an event or training. But the car's quite hard to get changed in, isn't it? It's not conducive

to changing your clothes though, because you've got knobs, steering wheels. Are you doing it in the back seat or the front?

No, in the front. In the front. The hardest is your shoes, I think. Have you ever done shoes while you're driving? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I can get Yeah. Have you ever done shoes while you're driving? Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. He's a busy man. He's a busy man. Your time is money for Tim. I'm sure I watched the Mr Bean sketch. He did that. We're going to send you out a Neverblue hair and body care kit as well. Enjoy your Monday.

Cheers, mate. Cheers. All right, we'll end on anonymous. Who got changed where? This is the problem when you call someone anonymous They don't know they're anonymous Are you there indicating? Yes I am, sorry

Where did you get changed? On the start line of a cross country race My car was flat and I just played netball So I had to run from a no park over to the Tarapa race course. My friend had my uniform there so I had to get changed and then run the

cross country. Very stressful start to the start of a cross country race. What a busy day. What an active day. Netball in the morning then cross country in the afternoon. It was a regular Saturday back then. Wow, good on you. We're going to send you out some ever blue hair and body care package, alright?

Thank you. I wish they'd do that at the Olympics. Oh God, not fully prepared at the start of the 100 metre race line. I read a great social post over the weekend and go, imagine if the Olympics was like you just got a letter in the mail and go, congratulations John O'Prior, you're now running the triathlon. Imagine if that was the Olympics. You got a letter, almost like a Hogwarts letter. And then suddenly go, congratulations, John and Pariah, you're now running the triathlon for New Zealand. Imagine if that was the Olympics.

You got a letter, almost like a Hogwarts letter. And then suddenly you're like, oh, I've been selected. And then you just had to go out there. So you had no training, no nothing. You just had to represent New Zealand. Oh, just the every person Olympics. Yeah. But they just got a letter in the mail.

Whatever sport it was, it's like being boys high diving. You're like, ooh, okay. Oh, no. I'll give this a crack. Do you have a chance to practice? I don't know. Maybe. I don't know. Maybe, I don't know.

Maybe you get a month out, like a month out. It'd be quite interesting. It'd be a shocking Olympics. But you'd watch, though, wouldn't you? You would watch. It is the Hurts. You've got Jono and Ben. They're proud of New Zealand.

Go New Zealand. If only New Zealand was proud of them. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. On the Hurts. The Olympics has been so good over there in Tokyo, and I mean, we're loving watching that, including our Kiwis. There was a golden couple of, well, almost a couple of days,

but particularly Friday in the rowing for New Zealand, and Brooke Donoghue and Hannah Osborne took out silver in the women's double-scale final. How good was this? To the line, Donoghue and Osborne. It's Romania with a goal. Their first in this event since 1984 New Zealand the world champions are Olympic silver medalists that audio could have said

Sky Sport literally that's the I think that's the time where you meant to say yeah yeah that'll stop Ben getting sued in uh in the high quarter but anyway joining us on the phone silver medalist Brooke Donoghue welcome Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Hello. Welcome. You've got to get that printed on your business cards. I was a little like, who? Who are you talking to?

Hello. It's you. Congratulations. Has it sunk in? Yeah, it's definitely starting to sink in. Yeah, it's a pretty surreal feeling. Sorry, I shouldn't talk about sinking when you're a rower, but it's probably not the right term. But yeah, it's such a surreal moment. Did it feel real? Does it

feel real? It honestly doesn't. The amount of time and effort I put into training for that one day and to come away with that result that we're absolutely stoked with. And now it's over and done. It just kind of feels weird now. Now I have quite

an important question. We're calling you on your cell phone. Do you have roaming turned on, or are we paying for this? Are we both paying for this? You're paying for this. We're happy to take that. That's why I just don't want to charge you as well. Afterwards, you're like, oh, I had to talk to those guys.

We'll just pick up the pace a little bit, though, okay? Like you're rowing. No, bro. Can you mingle with other countries no no two meters apart oh really so you can't really even you couldn't even celebrate i imagine getting a silver medal or to any to any extent no honestly we had um so much media and stuff which was really special really nice to share that moment with home and then hannah and i were wrecked we were ready for an early night. Oh I could see like the end of the race, you just collapse

don't you? You just put everything into it. The problem is the person at the back kind of has to take the head because you lean back and Ben we've done rowing before and I've leaned back into Ben's crotch before just as like oh I'm exhausted. Yeah but then the person at the back doesn't get to lean

back as well right? Yeah thankfully but then the person at the back doesn't get to lean back as well, right? Yeah. Thankfully, I was the person at the back. Yeah, you got to take the, yeah, you kind of. I had a nice embrace. Yeah. My only bugbear with rowing is, and from what I witnessed through high school, was you start rowing at 4 o'clock in the morning or something ludicrous like that.

Don't you know you can row, you know, during daylight hours? You know, you can have a sleep in and sort of get sort of get down there why do you guys train so early to be honest that's only like a school thing because kids have to get to school and then once it's a job we're kind of on the water around 7.30 and it gets a bit more leisurely and you just spend all day training which I don't know whether that's a good sign off on that one. And so what is the coolest free thing you have received over the last week? I think that's going to have to be the Samsung Galaxy we got. So when we arrived to the village, sitting on your bed waiting was brand new phones and AirPods and, yeah. That's awesome. On every bed? Yeah, every athlete.

Through the whole village or is this just New Zealand or everyone? Whole village. Whole village. Samsung, jeez. Oh, coming to the party. That's awesome. Well, you guys deserve it. You worked so hard and it was so, as New Zealanders, we're all so proud to see you guys race and

get up there on the podium. It was such a special moment. That's cool. Thank you. No worries. Now, listen, this call's been... Yeah, it's under the 10-minute mark. It's not going to cost us too much. Too much, yeah.

So that's good. Thank you, Brooke. And thank you to Samsung for crystal clear phone quality too. That was good. Thank you, guys. Nice to talk to you, Brooke. Congratulations. Thank you.

That was Brooke Donoghue from Tokyo. She won silver in the women's double scale alongside Hannah Osborne in the rowing. And we're going to catch up with more rowers throughout the morning and some of our medal winners from Tokyo, which is pretty awesome. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast.

This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Good morning, New Zealand. Welcome along to the show. It is a Monday morning, everyone. Up and at them, but a little bit tired because the Olympic action is so good on TV at the moment. Oh, it really is. It really fills up.

It's a good filler, isn't it? It fills up a day. You put it on, and as we've said so many times, you become experts on, you know, the high diving last time I was watching that. Oh, yeah. And I was like, why did I... Oh, a bit too much of a splash there.

She won't be happy. I'm like, who am I to say any of this stuff? That's my father-in-law, John, was giving Cathy, his wife, my mother-in-law, grief. Because she's like, oh, no, she's fine. Cathy doesn't even swim. She doesn't go in the pool. But she goes in the toilet. Yeah, become an expert.

That's the thing. Oh, no, blow on it. Blow on it. No, lovely. Fun weekend watching the Olympics. Oh, and New Zealand has done so well. I mean, we've talked about this in the past. Normally we go, oh, per capita, but we're not.

Not even, don't worry. Are we 10th overall? 10th overall. It's amazing. Not even having a breakdown population. It's so cool. And this morning we're going to catch up with some of the winners from Tokyo this morning. So I can't wait for that.

Some of the New Zealand champions. It'll be awesome to talk to them. It's Jono and Ben's Olympic special. Yeah. Is it? Brought to you by Sky Sport. That's right. I think we need to say Sky Sport after Olympics. I don't know. I'm worried about getting sued to them. It's Jono and Ben's Olympics special. Yeah. Is it? Brought to you by Sky Sport. I think we need to say Sky Sport after Olympics. I don't know. I'm worried about getting sued by them.

That's why I mention it every time. Constantly in permanent fear of being sued by Sky Sport for some reason. Either that or I'm angling for a job there. I just keep saying it. So look out this morning. We've got plenty of the action. Stay with us. It is The Hits. You've got Jono and Ben. See you, Chandelier. It is the hits. You've got Jono on band. On for tonight. On for tonight.

See you, chandelier. It is the hits. Jono on band. How was your guys' weekends? All right? It was good. I spent the day out at Piha yesterday. Did you?

Hey, bruh. Hey, bruh. How's the surf out there? Oh, you go out there and you're like, this is just the most. You went to the beach. I don't know. Slave to the wave, dude. Dude.

Is this a good time for you to go to the beach because it's not too much sun around well that's the thing it's the only time of year i can get uh my body out and people don't judge whether like well he's so pasty because it's the middle of winter you know in summertime you're really sick out like a sore thumb but it's beautiful it is one of those places where like geez you could live out here yeah i could i could succumb to a life of surfing just for the fact that I can't surf. That's the only thing holding me back. Grow some hair and just live my life at the beach. It is.

We've got wonderful scenery all around New Zealand. When you come down the hill to pay, you're like, why do I not come out here every day? Mainly because it's a pain in the ass to get out there. There's no phone coverage out there. I can't do any work, but it's fine. The weekend I ended up, not quite as exciting as going out to PHA, I ended up wheelbarring cement and concrete.

Do I look like the sort of guy that should be wheelbarring cement and concrete? The way you've just asked that, no. That's some hard labour for a very bit. This morning I'm like, oh, you know, that's, you know. I mean, the Olympic athletes, I don't want to take anything away from them because they're doing a great job, but I'm hurting probably more than most of them today. How many wheelbarrows of concrete do you think you moved?

At least 100, probably 100. Really? Yeah, throughout the thing. And not a huge distance, but just like. You know, people do that every day for a job. I know, I know. We just come in here and say words. I was thinking that across the day, and I was just like,

I'm not cut out for that. Were you happy for moving concrete? No. But it was on my property, and I was really grateful to having it done. But it was just like, it's not for me. It's definitely not for me. Everyone talks about taking a couple of concrete pills and hard, blah, blah. I wanted to moan all day.

I actually ate the concrete pill to see if it made me feel better about the whole thing. Juliet, you went to a masquerade ball. Yeah, I did. I did on Saturday night. I was at the Civic in Auckland, a very regal-looking event for a ball. Hold on, how regal was it? Because you started your evening at 11am.

With a bottomless brush. A bottomless brush. So let's just... How did you turn up to this sophisticated ball? I turned up with an absolute bang. I was ready to go. But the good thing, the good thing about starting and drinking early is that you finish early. So I was knackered by midnight and home in bed by midnight.

Yeah, I mean, but still that's 13 hours non-stop. Yeah, I know. Now that's an Olympic event. Thank you. Thank you, Gold, for me over here. Listen, if I'm going to go to the Mr. Minute shop in the Westfield Mall and get you both trophies and medals. Thank you. Thank you, Gold, for me over here. Listen, if I'm going to go to the Mr. Minute shop in the Westfield Mall and get you both trophies and medals for your weekends. Thank you.

You deserve them, both of you. Well, next on the show, someone who actually got a proper medal from the Olympics. We're going to catch up with some of our winners over the weekends. One of our champion rowers who joins us in a few moments' time. It is the hits. You've got John on, Ben. I've been dreaming because it was a net safe safety week and keep people safe on the internet a week that we're passionate about

right john well we didn't know about it and then we had the lovely martin crock on from uh from uh net safe and he said oh this is net safety we can we were caught by surprise yeah that's why we're calling he assumed that's why we had him on uh but you were talking about, you know, in your household, same as mine, it's like what, you know, you've got kids, they're getting a little bit older. Now, when do you allow them to be on social media? Yeah. Sort of things. Yeah.

One of the things I've enjoyed lately is because my daughter Sienna just started Intermediate. She's got my old phone for safety reasons. But we've got it set up for like a, it's basically like a parental thing. So every time she wants to get an app, it's got to come through me. I'm like the gatekeeper. Oh, and you would love this power play. No matter where I am.

Just a little drip of power. He's going to take full use of this. Yeah, yeah. Sienna wants Flappy Bird or Crossy Roads or something like that. And it's quite funny. Would you accept or do you say not now is one of the things I'll say. And I love one of my favorite games at the moment. It's clicking not now, but then texting you back the message, not now.

So she knows that I've seen it and I've disapproved it. Not now is just so cold and callous as well. Okay, not now. But I like messaging back, I've said it, and I've said not now. She's like, oh, come on, Dan, come on, not now. The time is not right. So it's one of my little things. When have you ever accepted them?

Oh, now and again I will. At the start I would go through and go, oh, is that one all right? Is that one okay? Yeah, that's fine. But by the time I'm like, oh, this is my little bit of power. And I quite like lording it over.

It's quite fun. This is when we try and have a meeting with him after the show and he's like, not now. Not now. Not now. We're just sitting there waiting with bated breath. Taking over all your favourite song intros, Jono and Ben, the Heads.

There's a new poll, a political poll out over the weekend from News Hub Read Research, and it's got preferred Prime Minister, and the number, well, Jacinda Ardern, number one, but David Seymour for the party, number two. He's blown over... Judith Collins. Yeah.

So, yeah, David Seymour in at number two. Yeah, for preferred Prime Minister in New Zealand right now. David Seymour's probably like two Yeah, preferred Prime Minister in New Zealand right now David Seymour's probably like Well I'm not, I don't even prefer myself to be Prime Minister But pretty cool I mean he's a lovely chap And he's always up for a bit of a laugh at himself And putting himself out there as well

Yeah, so David Seymour's so good on him CR Dern's down 2.6 in this poll as well Oh down, but she's still like She's sky high right She's like 45.5 Yeah this poll as well. Oh, down. But she's still, like, she's sky high, right? She's still, like, she's up 45.5. Yeah, I mean, yeah, she's pretty much, like, Labour can pretty much govern alone, right, according to a lot of the polls. She could have a shocking scandal, you know, and still be preferred Prime Minister by about

30 points. So Collins will be interesting, though. What's your pick on Collins? What are they going to do? When are they going to roll Luxon in there, boys? Do you think that ever? Do you even think now? Would they go, hey, David Seymour, why don't you come across?

Come across, smirch the party. Or patch him over. What do you reckon? What do you reckon? Would that ever happen? Why are we having this conversation? We know nothing about politics. And we're trying to have a serious informed discussion and we've

got nothing. Juliet, your thoughts? Wasn't that quite good? I was just sitting there thinking, how deep are they going to go? I was too. And as it turns out, too deep for us. We've got some smiley entertainment news. That's our wheelhouse. We can play in that one.

That's coming up next. Lorde has been praised for her achievements in something that has nothing to do with... I've heard it, Lord. I've got an opinion on it. Yes. More on that next. That is the hits. You've got some 660 for your Monday. That is 660 White Lines. You're on the hits, John and Ben. You caught

up with some of the 660 guys over the weekend, didn't you? Well, I make it sound like you caught up with them. You ran into them at a store. I bumped into them and they probably felt obliged to say hello. Yeah. We went to the store. It's a new store that had opened up in the mall. And they were there shopping.

I think they were there on promotion. Yeah, they've got their own merch that's in the 660 merch at Culture Kings. Yeah. So they were there doing that sort of thing. And I was there with my son. And this wonderful guy, he's like, hey, can I take you into the secret room? And I was like, what's the secret room?

Did you think in that moment you're like, oh, I'm going to be handed all sorts of products? All sorts of stuff. Jono Pryor from The Hits Breakfast is going to walk out of there with boxes and boxes of stuff. And basically the secret room is double the price of everything else in the rest of the store. So it's all the stuff, all high-end stuff.

High-end stuff, great stuff. Something like yourself, mate, can be buying. Great stuff. None of which I could afford. But it was a pleasure to go into the secret room. Very cool, very lucky. Let's do some Spy. Juliet's been living in the Olympic fan village

down at the waterfront for the last two weeks. At the end of the game, she's going to have to wait another four years for more accommodation, but until then... I'll figure it out, you know. So, Lorde featured on Hot Ones. Now, Hot Ones is a YouTube series that a bunch of celebrities go on where they get interviewed, and throughout the interview,

they have to eat chicken wings that slowly get hotter and hotter and hotter. And then there's an array of hot sauces as well that you can try and add to your chicken wings. Ed Sheeran's done it, Billie Eilish, Gordon Ramsay, Ricky Gervais. What happens when a vegetarian comes on? Ooh, that's a good question. Maybe they'd have some sort of, yeah, like alternate sort of, yeah.

A meat-free alternative. I imagine they would. Yeah, yeah. So Lorde went on it, and she was an absolute champ. She made it through without flinching basically. Mmm, delicious wine. Mmm, I like it, I like it. Really different to the last one.

And a little bit spicier even. A little spicier. But nothing Lorde can't handle. I'm like, do I keep double biting or do I save the Scovilles? Is it unwise to double bite at this point? This is a really delicious lunch, I'm not, do I keep double biting or do I save the Scovilles? Is it unwise to double bite at this point? This is a really delicious lunch. I'm not going to lie.

And people are like, grown men have cried on this show. Like, I would like to get through life like Lorde does through hot ones, unfazed and just happy as Larry. So it didn't affect her in any way. It's always interesting listening to someone eat though, isn't it? So she made it through what? The whole thing. Does it get increasingly hotter as the show goes on?

Yeah, and like Ricky Gervais cried, Billie Eilish couldn't do it. Like, it's crazy. Now, just googling what you asked the question before, there's 19 celebrities that have eaten vegan wings on the hot ones as well, including Billie Eilish, Ricky Gervais and stuff as well. So there's been at least 19 celebrities that have,

according to this article, there's Sir Hutchins, Paul Rudd, Russell Brand, some of the celebrities that have been on the hot ones but not eaten chicken. Well done for that on-the-spot research as well, Ben Boyce. Nice, love that. Yeah, good stuff.

Hey, Lord, taking it like a champ. That's what you said at the top of this, wasn't it? Yeah, absolutely. Although it doesn't make for an interesting hot ones, though, does it? No. You're just watching someone have an adequate lunch. Yeah, and then I'm kind of starting to crave chicken wings

as well now and it's only like 7 o'clock in the morning and I probably shouldn't be craving chicken wings this early. And Taika Waititi, he is going to be writing a script for a live action film which is based on the 1930s comic strip Flash Gordon and it's about an adventure in outer space and

this is probably far out. He's taking on jobs after jobs. He initially proposed the film to be just an animated film, but then when development started, he was like, let's do this live action, baby. And so, yeah, that's going to be out. I don't know when, but hopefully soon. We've got a guy, Flash Gordon, who lives in the park

down the road from work, don't we? He's always being a bit of a bit, a little bit pesky. He's not enough that's from the same storyline as Flash Gordon but that's the guy must be so busy yeah

because he'll be editing Thor at the moment too wouldn't he yeah and he'll be like oh god I've got to write this Flash bloody Gordon thing and doing some

Star Wars stuff as well I think as well oh that's nice yeah he's doing a bunch busy guy I know and making bank

go tiger I guess that's what you've got to do. You've got to keep kind of doing it and moving forward. You can't just go, well, I've done Thor, I'll put my feet up for a couple of years. I definitely would put my feet up for a couple of years. Yeah, totally. That is five and more. You can enter the hits.co.nz.

He could go into the secret room. He could buy stuff. He could actually walk in. Just go, oh, that's a nice tree. Thank you very much for this. This is wonderful. Hey, after seven on the show, catching up with more of our winners from Tokyo over the weekend. New Zealand are doing so well in the Olympics,

and we've got more of our medal winners for you after 7. New Zealand's Breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Kia ora, good morning. Just gone 7 o'clock here with Jono and Ben on the hits. Lovely to have you with us on New Zealand's Breakfast. So keep getting fed ads for Sir Richard Branson

who wants to give away a trip to space. He's got his virgins, you know, everyone's swinging their knobs around. They're trying to get to space if you're a billionaire. And Richard Branson's giving away a trip for two to space. I'm Richard Branson and I have a once in a lifetime invitation for you. Would you like to travel

to space? Would you like to travel to space? Would you like to travel to space? How do you get the golden ticket? It's like Willie Walker sort of situation, isn't it? And he is dressed in this future suit. It's like a suit from 2060. And he looks like something from Star Trek. It's happening, mate. You know your kids.

You know you have kids. I know my kids, yes. Yeah, they're going to just travel to space. Radio stations, if they're still around. I don't know why they're around, but they'll be giving away trips to space. I was actually saying, because you were saying this the other day, you were saying you were talking to your kids about the fact that they'd probably head to space in their lifetime.

So I said it to my kids that day, you know, you'd probably head to space. And my daughter was like, the cell phone coverage would be awesome out there because you're right by the satellites. Like, she was just thinking about it. That's what she's thinking about. It's a rock solid 5G network up in space. It's a very fun actually. Hey, this hour we'll catch it up with more of the winners. TikTok would be amazing in space.

It's all clear. Justine, can you imagine it? It is the hits. John, I'm on BN708 Monday morning. And now over the weekend I did something with the hits. John, I'm being a 708 Monday morning. And now over the weekend, I did something with the family. And boy, did it test the limits of our family. Wasn't you having to move 900 kgs of concrete yesterday? I tested my limits the day before.

We did a maze. Now, I don't know if you've ever gone inside a maze when you go in and you have to find your way out of a thing. But geez, it does test the family environment. Because you go in with you have to find your way out of a thing but geez it does it does test the family environment because you go in with so much like this is awesome this is like a team building exercise yeah and then you get to a couple of dead ends and you're still kind of positive yeah we can do this and then honestly that five minutes later it just like turns and you're like i hate these people i'm with i'm never gonna find out you feel like breaking down and

crying and the thing it was a cold day but we're all sweating off layers of clothing. We're like, we're never going to find our way out of there. It's amazing how quickly you just give up. You start talking to an imaginary camera. I vote my wife Amanda off the island. They're like, you know it's not a reality show. It did feel like we were a part of a reality TV show. And it was funny because the kids, you know,

they don't remember too much about things. You're like, we took you there. We did this thing. And they're like, oh, too much about things. You're like, we took you there. We did this thing. And they're like, oh, I don't remember. You're like, we spent money on this thing. Like, we took them on. Like, we went and met up with family overseas. We went on like a Disney cruise with all the Disney characters and all these things.

It was like free ice cream, all this stuff. They're like, they don't remember that. They don't remember that. They don't remember that. Like, oh, did we? Oh, that sounds cool. But they remember the time we went to a maze, the time before we went to this corn maze once. They're like, oh, I remember the maze. And I was like, you were younger then when we went to a maze, the time before we went to this corn maze once. They're like, oh, I remember the maze.

And I was like, you were younger then when we went to this maze than this other thing. But they remember the maze. Like, the maze stuck with us. You don't remember Mickey Mouse himself pounding my bank account? Yeah. On a cruise ship. You remember the maze he went to that we couldn't find our way out of

and we had to get, you know, I remember I raised a flag and someone had to help us out of this maze. Was it the maze maze? That was the time before they remember that. Jeez, you guys love mazes. Yeah. How many mazes have you been in? Oh, many.

Two mazes. You've been in more mazes than I'll ever go in my entire life. I think it's amazing. We always go in with so much. You're like, yeah, we can do this. But you don't learn, though. Yeah, but it is fun. It is actually quite fun.

When you do succeed, it's such a nice feeling. We didn't succeed on that corn maze that time. It was a letdown for the family. I tell you, we did a team building exercise for a show we were working on. And they locked us in an escape room. And I tell you what, nothing breaks a team and separates a team instead of building a team than an escape room. That's right.

So we're doing it with the wonderful Athena from Flavor. Yeah. And it was the three of us in there. Yeah. And then he didn't tell me,

but he had been in the escape room before. And then comes, he's like looking like an absolute legend. He's like, like a beautiful mind. He's like,

and he's doing it very whimsically as well. He's like, why don't we look up on the left there? I have a sense there might be a key to a lock up there. And he's like, what ifimsically why don't we look up on the left there I have a sense there might be a key to a lock up there

and he's like what if we take this combination on the clock and if I push this button on the computer I'm like this guy is a genius and then afterwards he's like oh yeah I've been in it before I went in with my family it was another time we went in there and started yelling at each other yeah because I did go in there

I was like oh because there's a place that was many different like different themed escape rooms so I was like oh I've been to this place before but surely I wouldn't have

gone to that particular room walked in there I was like oh yeah no this is the room in my head but then I was no you didn't say it out loud no I didn't want to ruin

everyone's vibe I've done this one before Athena's like this guy should be a scientist or something thank you very much yeah so I look like an absolute hero.

Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone. It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben on the hits. Something that actually, I don't know if you've noticed this at all, but when we're away, because we were away the week before last, when you see people out of town that you know, but you

don't even know that well you feel an urge to go out there and say hello and to see them yeah oh these are people that i probably wouldn't say hello not because you know like when around the city that you live in but because you're away on holiday you're like hey how's it going we should catch up and then we should catch up so we never catch up when we're at home yeah but we should catch up here because we're away from home we saw a lady because, because one of my, my daughter, Andy, like her favorite place to go to for dinner is like this pasta place. If she's, you know, her own birthday, she's like,

I want to go to this pasta place in Auckland. And so we saw a lady that used to work at the pasta place down there. And we're like, we're going, oh, she works there. We went over and said hello. And then we're like, why are we, why are we doing this? She was like, oh, I vaguely remember you guys coming once or twice into the pasta place. You know, we're like, what are we doing?

Why are we doing it? I mean, she was lovely. But she's like, thanks very much for coming over and staying high. You're like, you're welcome. But afterwards, I was like, that's a bit weird, eh? Do you know, the thing you always have a go at me at is I always try and catch the eye of complete strangers and smile. You do? Yeah.

I just wander around town like weirdly smiling at everybody. You do? Like some sort of psychopath I remember walking into a restaurant with you When we were away from town working And you were like, it's like you're a politician You're looking at everyone's table, you're smiling And they're smiling at the same time

Waiting for like shaking hands I'm like, Jono, just keep walking to the table Keep walking to the table, you're like smiling at them Prolific smiler Why is this weird bald guy smiling at me? But smiling in public, you do look like a lunatic, don't you? Especially if you're just smiling by yourself. Yeah. Or, you know,

if I'm walking through town by myself, I'll end up smiling at complete strangers. And you look like a villain from Batman. No one trusts a smiler. That's the thing. Your chance to win $15,000. Oh, jeez, that's really escalated. $5,000 in just a few moments.

It is a hit. You've got Jono and Ben. Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. This is fun. Do you know we do this the same time every morning? And I was wondering, for some people travelling to work, this must be all they hear.

Does it get repetitive? Do you reckon it gets repetitive if this is all you hear? Oh, no. I still love doing it every morning. I love doing it too. Someone a chance to win $5,000. People don't complain about Eddie Maguire's millionaire hot seat. It's on the same time every day, do they?

The chase is always on just before the news. True. Do you remember we were doing Dog Almighty, critically acclaimed Dog Almighty? Yeah. We had lovely Wendy on, speaking of hot seats, and we were like, you're in the hot seat, Wendy, and it was meant to

like eliminate her or whatever. And her major bugbear with the hot seat was that the temperature wasn't warm. She was like,

it's not hot. No, but it's the hot seat that you're up for elimination. She was like, yeah, but it's not warm. Temperature's here. Anyway, let's turn things up a notch

with $5,000 up for grabs as that game of word association. Let's find out who's playing this morning. Paula, you're on from the Tron. Morena, how are you? Hey, not too bad.

How are you guys? Yeah, good. You're on your way to work in Hamilton as an office administrator. Yes, yes. How exciting. I know. You sound like you're dying inside. A little bit.

Well, let's hopefully win you $5,000. It's Monday morning. I'm sure you'll get into the week and you'll be like, that was a fun week, but Monday's always hard to get going, so let's try and hopefully win you $5,000. It is Monday morning, you know. I'm sure you'll get into the week and you'll be like, that was a fun week, but Monday's always hard to get going, so let's try and start up with $5,000. Who do you want to send into the booth, Paula? Jono, it's you today. Oh, again.

I've been in there a lot lately. Oh, I know. Everyone just wants to get rid of you from the show. Want me to stop talking? Yeah, I think so. Oh, it's nice when he goes in there, isn't it? Let's just take a moment. Oh, that was a good.

All right, Paula. Okay, here is your first word this morning. Five words, 5K. It is Tokyo. Tokyo. Olympics. Olympics, yeah. I was thinking Olympics.

Nice. It kind of popped into my head. Same. Petrol is your second word this morning. Petrol. Fuel. Fuel. Millennial is your second word this morning. Petrol. Fuel. Fuel. Millennial is number three.

Oh, gosh. Producer Julia, what are you going to come through with this one? What's popping into your millennial head? Oh, gosh. Millennial, millennial. Can I come back to that one, please? Yes, sure can. Licorice is number four.

Licorice. Aside from disgusting. All sorts. All sorts. You're not a fan of licorice, all right. And cook is the last one. Cook, C-O-O-K. Cook.

Chef. Chef. A few options for that one. All right, we're going to go back to millennial. Anything popping into your head now? Millennial, millennial. Oh, honestly, it's been a complete loss. What do you think of when you think of millennials?

I just think of Producer Juliet and what she enjoys is eating every morning for breakfast, but that's maybe not what I am. Yeah, true. But I'm not trying to lead you at all because there's lots of other options for millennials. It's what Jono's got to think as well. I, true. But I'm not trying to lead you at all because there's lots of other options for millennials. It's what Jono's going to think as well. I don't know.

Oh, yes, but what's he going to say? What's he going to say? Millennial, millennial. Okay.

Let's do the avocado and toast thing. Yeah, let's go. Is that what you have every morning? She does have, yeah.

Do you want to just go avocado or avocado on toast? Avocado. Avocado. Avocado. Okay, here we go. All right, we're going to bring Jono out of the soundproof booth

to burden you all with his voice again, and we'll get back into it. I was just talking to myself in there. Just keep the talking continuing. Just keep it going. Otherwise, you're full of sleep. We're down, eh? Apparently, you'll be talking. How'd you go, Paula?

Hopefully really well. Hopefully. Hopefully. Hopefully really well. Yeah, well, let's hope so. All right, Jono, here? Hopefully really well. Hopefully. Hopefully. Hopefully really well. Yeah, well, let's hope so. All right, Jono, here we go. First word we said to Paula this morning to see if you match up was Tokyo. Tokyo.

Olympics? Yes. Paula, let's get some administration on that one. What do you think? Yeah, well done. Let's just carry that on with the next one. All right, get ahead of yourself. Come on, Jono.

I'm going to jump into this one because this is the one that we really, we struggled a little bit on. So this may be a good omen if you get this correct. Millennial. Millennial. Yeah, millennial. A couple of things. Here we go.

They'll never own a house. I knew there was going to be something to do with you when it came to millennial. Not owning a house was not the... That wasn't an option. I'm probably going to go avo, cardo. Avo, cardo. I was like, what was he going to go? Avo, was it avo, cardo? Avo, cardo. Avocado? Oh! Avocado. I was like, what was he going to go? Avocado?

Avocado? Avocado? It was what he wanted? A bit of drama there in the middle. Unnecessary pause between the syllables. Oh, we got that one. All right, Paula, that's good. All right, let's go licorice.

Licorice. Yeah, licorice. Jeez. I hate licorice. That's what Paula said. Do you? Yeah, the black licorice. I'd licorice. That's what Paula said. Do you? Yeah, the black licorice. I'd rather eat a rope.

My mum loves it. Good for your digestive system. Licorice. I don't know. Licorice. Jeez. Red? Licorice?

Oh, sorry. What did you go? Bullshot. Licorice. Of course. Yeah, it's funny how these things just Ball short. Liquor short. Of course. Yeah, it's funny how these things just pop into your head and then they do later. Well, let's carry on. He was going to say well done, then he was like, no, you didn't do well.

I let you down. Petrol. Prices. And cook is the final one. C-O-O-K. Food. Oh, we got a couple there, Paula, but we didn't quite manage to get all five out of five.

But you have a great day in the China, right? Will do. You guys too. Thank you. Love your work, Paula. Spies next, Jew. Why Scarlett Johansson is suing Disney. It's very dramatic in this dramatic music matches.

What next? We'll find out. There's the hats. You got John on bed? Spy. No, what's up? Spy.co.nz. Lovely Juliet.

She's got her whole life ahead of her, but she's chosen to waste a large part of it sitting in this soundproof room with us every morning. We appreciate it, Ju. Not a problem at all. So there's a bit of drama in the Disney world at the moment. So Scarlett Johansson, the lead star of Black Widow, has decided she's going to sue Disney

over the release of Black Widow on Disney+, their streaming service, as well as in cinemas. So basically a contract only specified that it would be released in cinemas, which means she's essentially been deprived of potential earnings. Because if you watch it on Disney+, you can rent it for $30.

Now that's obviously all done because of the pandemic around the world and people not going to the movies right yeah yeah being released uh simulcast released in theaters and on disney plus at the same time yeah and so um having it on disney plus basically means that it reduces the potential earnings in cinemas which affects her earnings which is so she's gets her money from how many tickets are sold in the theaters yes right not from streams no so that's what her contract stated and so Disney responded

basically saying there's no merit to this filing whatsoever they also disclosed that she's already earned $20 million for the role as Black Widow that's just her first salary right? Is that Disney passively going what are you complaining about? That literally is because then her agent

came out and says the company included her salary in their press statement in an attempt to weaponise her success as an artist and a businesswoman. So there's a bit of drama there. And now that this has come out, Emma Stone... Plus Donald Duck doesn't wear pants. It's just drama going from... Why is Pluto the dog on all fours, but Goofy walks on two legs? It's just drama.

Surely a percentage will be given to her as part of the Disney Plus, you know? Well, yeah, hopefully that's rectified, you know, fixed. But now Emma Stone is also weighing her options because Cruella was also released in the same way in cinemas and available on Disney Plus. So people just reckon this is just going to be the beginning of all these things that will come out and people will be looking at their contracts being like,

hey, that's not right. I don't know. Who knows? But some people think that this is be the beginning of all these things that'll come out and people will be looking at their contracts being like hey that's not right i don't know who knows but some people think that this is just the beginning um probably get built into contracts from here on in because that's the way the world is now yeah you know we're not everyone is lucky enough like new zealand to be able to go along and see movies in the theaters yeah totally why don't they give her a 12 month disney plus subscription yeah it's great yeah i mean it's so good we've been banging on about how good it is. You've got the Simpsons back catalogue on there,

Scar Joes. Yeah, that should fix it, right? Name a Marvel movie. They're all on there. Even you are. You are on there.

Yeah, it's so good. And TikTokers Charlie and Dixie D'Amelio, they are one of the original famous, most famous TikTokers. They're getting their

own reality TV show. Oh, hello. It's going to be called the d'amelio show and it's basically following their family life at home so a bit like keeping up with the kardashians it's going to be out in september so if your kids love charlie d'amelio then they'll be loving this reality i was talking to a little girl over the weekend i was like what do you want to do when you're old she's like i want to be charlie d'amelio so it's not that's not a job

can't be charlie d'amelio no you can be a tiktok star like her yeah yeah so um yeah that's not a job. Can't be Charli D'Amelio. No, you could be a TikTok star like her. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, that's going to be, people are comparing it to the Kardashians and they're like, that's great, but it's also a lot of pressure. And there's probably not going to be as much petty fighting on our show compared to the Kardashians.

No, but a lot of them are just breaking off into the dance. Yeah. Sort of thinking, did we get that one correct? No, we'll do it again. We'll do it again. You know? Totally. Yeah.

Just sort of spasming into dance moves at a moment's notice. Do her parents dance? I don't know Actually I think I've seen her mum dance I think the mum dances a bit Not sure about the dad Now I'm intrigued

He's just quietly sitting in the background Probably holding a camera For a while And then a spy from all weekend Here to the hits.co.nz After 8 o'clock on the show we want to put

660, the biggest band in New Zealand to the test. We want to see if they'd play at a kid's birthday party. We'll surprise them

with their prank call after eight o'clock. Stick around, it is the hits. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Monday morning

hanging out with Jono and Ben it is the hits. Now the Olympics have been going on over the weekend. So many great results from New Zealand over the last couple of days, including Dame Valerie Adams, including the Blackburn Sevens side, which was awesome over the weekend. And a lot of rowers, particularly on Friday, we're going to catch up with Hamish Bond,

who's won three gold medals over the last three Olympics. Incredible. Many great wins on the water, but none greater than them pulling off those Lycra suits, the rowing suits. You've really got to be confident in your body, don't you? Yeah, I'm trying to wear those. I've got too many lumpy bits, so it wouldn't quite... It'd be like, oh, what's that sausage packed into that Lycra suit? We're going to talk to Hamish in the next 20 minutes.

Sausage? No. Nothing. Cheerio. I knew that was coming. It was a Chipotle sausage, if you're needing to know. I was like, sorry, overrate yourself. Half a Cheerio, to be honest.

Many great athletes are taking the world stage for New Zealand today. Lisa Carrington is going to be out there in a kayak today. Peter Burling and Blair Chuuk in the yachting. We've got our diver, Anthony Down Jenkins. There's a hoggy black sticks. Track cycling, equestrian and weightlifting all happening today for New Zealand. All right, next. We've been told, you know, prank calls, they're immature.

You're too adult to be doing prank calls. We've found a loophole. We get a kitten to do them for us. So Ben Boyce's daughter, Sienna, is going to come up next. Going to try and book New Zealand's biggest band for her 12th birthday. Yeah, will 660 play a kid's party? How will they go with a surprise phone call from a kid? We'll find out after 660 on the hits.

Oh my gosh. OMG. OMG, 0 one is back. Now you should know this. It's got all the stuff that you really want in life and we're giving one of those away each day and you'll get it by this afternoon. Someone will get it. And today's

prize is a hair and beauty voucher from your local salon valued at $300. That's pretty awesome. I can tell he's thinking it. Or anything, you know, you mentioned hair, and he just looks at me with a glint in his eye. I'm sure they'd find stuff for you to pad out the $300. I'm sure they would.

If you went in there, you're like, hey, even if it was like, hey, look, we feel bad. Like, come back for the next 20 years. Can we have some filler time here? Is there anything we can do? Do you want to cut someone's hair just to, you know, like whatever? Should we cut someone's hair off their head and put it on yours and then cut it off? I wasn't even going to go there.

You looked at me with a smile on your face like, go on, go on, go on. Anyway, that's a wonderful prize. If you want to enter, text OMG to 4487. They could be all yours this afternoon. Ben, we were off air and we're like, oh, we're going to do OMG. He said, that old chestnut. What does that old chestnut even mean? I don't know.

What does it mean? We say it a lot. That old chestnut, yeah. Where is that saying come from? I don't think I've ever even eaten a chestnut. Have you heard of chestnut? No, they always saw it in America. It was like chestnuts roasting on the open fire.

It was like a Christmas thing. But I don't really know what that means either. So I'll look up that old chestnut now. And I'll have that for you in just a few moments. But right now, if you want to enter OMG, text OMG to 4487, and you could be getting some of your hair did this afternoon. It is the hits.

Broadcasting live and mostly awake. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. Jono and Ben, we're having a bow show. Of course, the Olympics are on, and good luck to all the New Zealanders competing today. But end on a really lovely moment. It happened overnight in the high jump.

There was a guy from Qatar and a guy from Italy. They both cleared in the high jump, 237 metres without missing. But then they both went up a little bit, and they couldn't manage to, neither of them could get the jump. So they went into a bit of a meeting, and they came to a bit of a conclusion to share the gold medal. Have a listen. No, no. I think they've agreed.

They've agreed to share the gold medal and that is what it means. No, that's great. Isn't that lovely? Now, do they both get two golds or did some official make some wild promises that some poor stressed out member of the Olympic Committee is trying to get another gold medal in the back end. Is it like the play of the day for my daughter's netball team? You get it for one week, and then you have to give it back. I'll draw up a spreadsheet.

I'll share you in on the Google Sheets. Hey, join us tomorrow on the program. Geez, we're going to have Valerie Adams. Yeah. Dame Val joining us. Oh, I can't wait for that. You have yourself a great Monday, New Zealand. What more Jono and Ben?

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