Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Jono Has Been Stealing Data Again..

Episode Date: August 23, 2022

Today on the Jono and Ben podcast, Jono recalls an interesting story about stealing a lady's hotspot whilst sleeping in his car... and we hear a wild story involving a man who cracked the code to USA lotto!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Kia ora, good morning, 24th of August. Jonathan Pryor here, Ben Boyce, Joel Harrison, our producer. This is the podcast intro. Had a really fun show today, spoke to Jerry. Wonderful Jerry, wasn't he adorable in America? 84 years old and he cracked the US lottery system. Yeah, he's like a simple mess, but I don't think it is simple mess.

He just knew odds and he worked it out. To the point where he pulled in $27 million. Legally. Legally. It was all legal. Yeah. And they'd just go. It ended up being him and his wife.

They would travel to the next state and just play. Get tickets nonstop for hours and hours. Essentially, it was the more tickets you bought that increased your chances of, well, almost guaranteed your chances once you got up a threshold of winning. That's how they got their money, but that's how they spent their days. They'd stop at like 7 o'clock in the evening to have dinner, and the rest of the day was just spent printing out tickets. Four people that wanted to come in to get the tickets.

So that's not every day, though, is it? It was only... Maybe it was leading up to the draw or something. Yeah, it must have been. Because every day you'd be like, oh, mate. Well, hey, if you're pulling in $27 million... I know, I know, but I'd be like, mate. Well, if I knew I was going to get $27 million, I'd go,

hey, what are you doing today, buddy? Do you want $50,000 to sit in here? I'd pay someone to do it for me. Right, to get the tickets. Yeah, you got $27 million. But he was great. That's incredible. He hasn't even bought...

He's living in the same house he's lived in for 30 years yeah I was reading online he wants to sort out his grandkids and his great grandkids educations so he's got money put aside for them

so that's amazing what an awesome thing to leave behind materialism not a thing for him I'd be the opposite I'd be in here you know what I'd be wearing

right now what full red leather suit no you wouldn't no you wouldn't you'd be wearing the same clothes you've always worn I've seen you I've seen you wouldn't You'd be wearing the same clothes You've always worn

I've seen you I've seen you get Given free clothes And you're not wearing any of them Yeah true True no you're right You're right What would you

First thing you'd buy? Well you pay You'd want to pay your mortgage off No okay Take all the boring stuff Take the bills out of it Oh like The first extravagant thing

Ben is buying Oh no You've just won 35 million dollars I don't know It's a tough one Producer Joel You got anything? I'd definitely just travel the world The first extravagant thing Ben is buying. You've just won $35 million. I don't know. It's a tough one. Producer Joel, you got anything? I'd definitely just travel the world.

I'd travel the world, probably buy a nice house. Good to know you're with us for the long run. Probably get out of the show as soon as I can. That'd be the first thing. You'd want to see the world, right? That would be a great way to spend. But you could do it in style. Oh, big time

PJs But I think if you go from Obscurity to having that amount of money You'd still have your normal Spending ways Where you haven't lived with millions and millions of dollars Surrounding you your entire life You're probably still like

Can we get a grab a seat deal You're not going in and Rolexes and stuff like that. You could, but you're probably not doing that. Ed Sheeran. He does that. He's a well-renowned tight ass. Yeah. He doesn't like flying private jets.

His rationale was like, if I gave you $100,000 to wait for a plane, you probably would, right? And that's what it is. Basically, instead of spending $100,000 on a private jet, he's like, well, I'll just wait at the airport for a plane. Makes sense when you kind of put it like that. It does, doesn't it?

Yeah, when you like... When you break it down like that. $100,000. But then also you go, okay, well, what's he cheering with? Yeah, exactly. And I think now,

I think now he does fly some private planes, you know, and I'm sure he does for the schedule and stuff and just for the, not being punished in airports around the world.

Yeah, I mean, he's got $200 million. Yeah, yeah. So so he's probably okay but i'm sure at the start spirit 100k for a private he's probably okay yeah yeah that's good so what would you do ben i would uh look i'd i'd probably get i'd probably sponsor like i'd like another radio show and so they'd just go this show brought to you by ben he's awesome just to hear them say it all day long mark hosking upstairs yeah right so i'd hear them say it all day long. Mark Hosking. Mark Hosking upstairs. So I'd spend a sponsorship, say, all day long. Brought to you by Ben Boyce.

He's awesome. You wouldn't sponsor like a kid in Africa or something? Oh, jeez. Okay. Talking about extremist virtues in a fictitious world. All right. Yes, okay, I would. I wouldn't sponsor my Hosking show.

Good to see all your morals live, mate. I was just trying to think of something comical to talk about. In all honesty, I wouldn't sponsor my Hosking show. Good to see all your morals lying out. I was just trying to think of something comical to talk about. In all honesty, I wouldn't sponsor my Cosby show. Sorry, African kids. Okay, have I had the choice? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, yeah. So there you go.

All right, there's the podcast. I enjoy it. An inseparable duo. Unless someone better shows up, he's just going to replace with Lee Hart and or Ford Smith. Jono and Ben on the hits. Join right now. Excited about this amazing true story of a guy in America who has retired.

He cracked the code on the state lottery, won millions of dollars over many years. A movie's been made about him starring Bryan Cranston from Breaking Bad. And he joins us right now. Jerry, good morning. Thank you. Lovely to have you on. Where in abouts in America are you, Jerry? I'm in Michigan.

Michigan. Now, do you know our producer was saying that Jerry picked up Jim Bolger, former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jim Bolger's son, hitchhiking. Really? Yes, Dan. Dan Bolger? Yes. That was years and years ago.

Oh, wow. Well, Jerry, you've got a fascinating story, not just about picking up people from New Zealand, but also, let's go back. You're retired, you're age 64, you're living with your wife in a small town, and you saw a brochure for a new lottery game. Now, how did this lottery game work? It was called Windfall. The jackpot was guaranteed to start at $2 million. And if nobody won, it continued to build until it hit $5 million. At that point, if no one won, all the $5 million rolled down into the smaller tier prizes, like the three-number winners, the four-number winners, and the five-number winners. Right.

So you sort of found a bit of a loophole. You say it's simple maths, but for us, we're quite simple. We probably can't do the maths. So what was the loophole? Well, the loophole was, it was simple maths. I looked at the brochure and the brochure listed the odds of getting a three number winner at one in 56 and two thirds. The odds of getting a four number winner was one in 1032. So I just looked at that and I said to myself, well, if I played $1,100, I would mathematically, I would get one four-number winner and 18 three-number winners.

And so I just added those together and that was a $1,900 return on a $1,100 bet. Now, so you've cracked this code to the lottery. And how much money do you win over the years, Jerry? We grossed about $27 million. Oh my gosh. Because the secret was playing more times, having more tickets in the lottery drawer. That's correct, because you narrowed the possibility between the mathematical and the possible. But then they stopped that lottery in your state.

So you and your wife, I understand, drove like 1,600 kilometers to another place. You would basically buy tickets all day for hours and hours on end in another state. Yes, in Massachusetts. That's correct. You're on the run. Well, you're sinking them in your state, so you went to another state. Yes, in Massachusetts. That's correct. You're on the run. Well, you're sinking them in your state, so you went to another one. Yeah, the lottery in our state, they closed down. No wonder.

What you were doing, was it illegal? Absolutely legal. Five federal audits and four state of Massachusetts audits and two Michigan audits and never had a problem. All right, he's clean. He's a clean guy.

You bet. Jerry, why didn't you loop me in on this? I tried to, but you didn't answer the phone. I thought I was Jerry. Jerry, he's up. Incredible. And now it's been made into a movie. Bryan Cranston, for everyone to know, Malcolm in the Middle, Breaking Bad. Great actor. it's been made into a movie. Bryan Cranston, for everyone who will know,

Malcolm in the Middle, Breaking Bad, great actor. He's playing you in a movie. That's correct. He is a very nice person. I guess he came to hang out with you, to get to know you? Yes, he did, for a week. He came to stay. Well, Bryan Cranston stayed at your house for a week.

He didn't stay at our house. He just came to our house. He stayed at a very nice motel. That's incredible. Well, he had to have some free time, too. So Brian Cranston's coming to your house every day for a week to learn how to play you. Do you give him lunch? What do you do?

Yeah, we went to lunch. Oh, yeah, we went to lunch. We went to lunch. Oh, yeah, we went to lunch. We went to dinner. David Frankel, the director of the movie, he came for a couple, three days. Geez, all these people are coming to see you, Jerry. And so now your story's being made into a movie. You're a movie star. I'm not the movie star.

Bryan Cranston is. Well, you're the star. It's a movie about you. What did you think of the movie? I enjoyed it. We originally had a little apprehension, but the way they presented it, it's a good, wholesome, feel-good story.

Jerry and Marge go large. If anyone wants to watch the movie, it looks very good. And, yeah, see more of this amazing tale. And what did you do with the money? You made $27 million or something like that. What did you do with the money? We just saved it. You saved it. Do you live in a mansion? Do you drive a Ferrari? No, live in the same house we've lived in for 37 years. You got $27 million, Jerry. Get a mansion. You weren't materialistic. You didn't want a fancy car. You didn't want a big house. What was the goal? The goal was just to play the game and the satisfaction of doing it and being successful.

Wow, Jerry, what a very special human being you are. And I imagine that lottery's shut down now, has it, Jerry? Oh yes, it shut down in 2012. That was a wise decision on their part. Jerry, it's been so lovely chatting That was a wise decision on their part. Jerry, it's been so lovely chatting to you. Thank you so much for your time, and thank you for sharing with us your amazing story. Oh, my pleasure. Jono and Ben, just like family.

The family members you're ashamed of. Jono and Ben on the hits. Ben, you've got a great theory here, and I'm on board with this theory, and I think we just need to decide on the age at which your idea begins. So I hand it over to you now. Yeah, so you know people have listened to the show over

a number of years. They'll know that I've got a rich history of bringing up the fact that I was never taken to Hollywood on the Gold Coast movie world with my parents separated they both were in new relationships and both of them separately took my sister to movie world on different occasions for a trip. Everyone knows the story now.

Okay, good. And my kids heard me talking about this the other day on the radio, and they were like, oh, you've never taken us to Hollywood on the Gold Coast to Movie World? I said, hang on a second. I've taken you, and I got out because I made my photo albums, and I opened it up, and there you go. Hollywood on the Gold Coast. Sienna, age four, Indy, age two. I'm like, here you go, guys.

You've got your little capes on. You're out there. Dressed well. You're having a photo with Daffy Duck. Yeah. And I was like, there you go. And they're like, oh, we don't remember that. I was like, what?

You don't remember that? You don't remember that? Hollywood on the Gold Coast. Don't remember it. And I was like, well, she's worn that. You know, we went over there and played for fights, accommodation, obviously tickets, had a great time.

But obviously the kids, they don't remember it. This is the thing. And this is where we come to. Ben reckons we don't start paying for fun stuff for kids to do until they're

old enough to remember it and have a memory. So what is the age? So we want to know, I know 100, the hits, 4, 4, 8, 7. What's your earliest memory? So then we can go, you get a to know, oh, no, 100, the hits, four, four, eight, seven. What's your earliest memory? So then we can go, you get a bit of a gauge

to go, oh, okay, if kids are four, if they're five, whatever it is, they'll, you know, that's the time we should start paying for them. But I reckon there's things

that happen probably that are more maybe traumatic or other things that probably kids remember more than the fun stuff. Like going to Hollywood on the Gold Coast. You remember the time that Dad crashed his car in the driveway but you remember that don't you yeah exactly yeah

uh but i was trying to think my earliest memory because i grew up on the air force base in whenua pie where my uh my dad was working for the air force and all i can remember is eating the soldiers nuts because they would have scroggin all right like you know trail mix and they would do training on a big flying fox yeah and they're like here you can have these and so that's the one memory of my memory and there's a lady named viv who cooked me two minute noodles that's that's all i remember maybe that was the beginning of my bogan palette these are great these two minutes exquisite cuisine yeah like I remember like falling over

at about age three and hitting my head I've still got a scar today and that was a lot of blood that I'd taken to Masterton Hospital you know like hitting it on the corner

of the bed in the room and so I remember that because that was quite a big moment obviously there was blood and taking to hospital and stuff so

that's your earliest at age what? three I reckon I remember that yeah I remember that but I don't remember the fun stuff My parents did You know with me

So then Maybe there was no fun stuff Maybe there wasn't Oh we took you to the hospital once mate Remember that? What do you want? Remember that? It was a great day

There was a vending machine there Yeah So I'll add with that It's 4487 What is your earliest memory? We'd love to get your calls and texts Next Baldly going

Where no show has gone before How long is it going to take for Ben to make fun of my bald head? Jono and Ben on the hits. Joined by Annie. We're talking

the earliest memory, Annie. Yes. And it was for you because we're trying to get to the youngest, earliest memory. How old were you? I was probably

about two, maybe two and a half. That is young. That's young. That's very young. So you actually remember this? Yes, I do a half. That is young. That's young. That's very young. So you actually remember this? Yes, I do. Okay.

Very vividly. My father, during the oyster season in Bluff, worked on the boats. And every day at the end of the day, the oystermen were allowed to take oysters home and my earliest memory is climbing onto a kitchen chair scooping oysters out of this billy can and just bubbling them up. Just delightful. Three years old you were

smashing back oysters, were you? Hell yeah. You're like a bluff. What else do you eat? Yeah, you're right actually. I think you breastfeed off an oyster, don't you? Probably. So you actually remember this? Because a lot of people seem to not remember things that early on.

That's probably the only thing that I really remember. So obviously it was a very important part of my life, wasn't it? Yeah, now tell me, how do you know that this event happened, though? How do I know? I don't know, really. I just... Don't question it. Don't question it.

Annie's like, how do I... She's trying to make up a story. That's a really trick question, isn't it? Annie's story wasn't farcical. It wasn't like, what are you not believing about this story? Yeah. Annie. All right.

Well, sorry for the interrogation, Annie. Tell you what, she didn't budge, though, did she? No. Rock tight story. What could one expect from you two? No, I love your work, Annie. You go and have a great day. I will, you too.

See ya. Michelle, can you beat a three-year-old early memory? I could beat a three-year-old. My earliest memory is actually I was about two years old, sitting in the middle of the road screaming because a car was coming. Oh, my God. I didn't move. The driver had to stop and pick me up.

Years later, I worked with that lady. Oh, my goodness. In the middle of the road so you can vividly remember a car coming directly at you as a child as a toddler and screaming and apparently it was something i did on a regular basis what went out to the middle of the road crying did your parents ever think about getting a gate yeah yeah there was eight of us. I think they were the ones that kept rid of some of us. That is, wow. What a, jeez.

And you can remember being picked up by the driver? Yep. And obviously, you know, you ended up working with this person later. And how did you realize that you were the same, that was the same person? Well, we were just talking one day at work about the neighborhood I lived in. And she said, you know, years ago she was driving along there and had to stop and pick up a child that was sitting in the road screaming. So we're just assuming it was me because it wasn't that common a thing.

Yeah, there weren't many babies just mingling in the middle of the road. No. Wow, incredible story. Two years old, that's an early memory. Yeah, that's a very early memory. Now, we've just had a text here. Hold on, Michelle. We've had a text, 4487. Someone can old, that's an early memory. Yeah, it's a very early memory. Now, we've just had a text here. Hold on, Michelle. We've had a text, 4487.

Someone can remember coming out of the birth canal. Oh, what? No, they can't. Yeah, I'm not going to go back with that one. Maybe they've seen the video of their parents videoing that. Well, that's what I think, too, is are these memories, or have they flashed up in photos over the years or stories that you were told as you were younger as well? That's dead right.

Some memories are planted and then you do believe that they're real memories. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Who knows? Who knows? Life, Michelle. Yeah. Who knows? Well, Michelle. Yeah, who knows?

Well, I love you, Michelle. Oh, you have a great day, guys. No, Michelle, the rule is on this show. If I say I love you, you say I love you back. Love you, Michelle. Love you too. There you go. That's all I want.

You know that's what I want. Hey, thank you very much, mate. You have a good one. You too. Okay, bye. John's all I want. You know that's what I want. Hey, thank you very much, mate. You have a good one. You too. Okay, bye. John, we're both dog owners now. You've got a little dog and I've got a dog as well. Your dog could eat my dog.

He's quite a big dog. And, you know, he needs, you know, some good decent walks, you know. And so yesterday I was like, hey, hey well that's a little bit time in the afternoon let's go for a good walk with the dog and i sort of thought i'll go this way it's about three or four k's this walk but sort of had this moment where i kind of reflected on the things you do as a dog owner because about 300 meters from our house he did his business you know this is what happens on a walk to his taxes yeah balance balance the spreadsheets and as a dog owner you're responsible to pick up you know and i had a i had a bag and

all bags i had pick it up and that's that's a degrading task but you do it you've got to do it yeah but i can always tell the dogs like looking at you going you realize where that just came from what are you like what no wonder they're so loyal to us. They probably look at us and go, this person's willing to pick up my business and carry it around with them in a plastic bag. I'm going to be very loyal to this business. Well, true. You know, that's probably where the loyalty comes from. Yeah, so I picked this up, you know,

so I had that in the plastic bag. And that's, as a dog owner, you never feel fully comfortable when you're holding it. You know, you've got the dog holding on one Side of the leash and then you're holding this Plastic bag out. Some people can sort of just Swing it around and they do a bit I want to keep away from the warmth The warmth of the whole thing disturbs me

I always feel kind of awkward with it So I'm sort of holding it out there As I'm walking the dog around I'll look for a bin. Now I'm not a monster That would just look for someone else's Household bin and just put it in there I'm like let's look for a bin That i'm not a monster that would just look for someone else's household bin and just put it in there like i'm like let's look for a bin that's that's that's good that the council deal with this let's look for make it their problem yeah yeah they get enough of your money don't they but you know um there was no there was no bits for the whole 4k walk there was no bits there

was nothing i did not pass a single bin on my walk. So you walked for four kilometers with this package? Yeah, not only walking the dog, but also walking for four kilometers, passing by people, things. I'm like, I've just been carrying this thing awkwardly for such a long time. What do you do if you see someone who wants to come and shake your hand? Because you can't let go of the dog lead. No. So that's the only option. You dangle it around, wave it in the air.

Yeah, if you run into someone and you'reangle it around, like wave it in the air. This little thing, yeah. If you run into someone and you're having a conversation, it's such a weird thing. You're like, oh, is he carrying around a bag of, oh. Yeah. Very, very unusual situation. Well, it's even more unusual when you don't have a dog with you. True.

People start to ask questions then. Leave the dog. Okay, that's idea. Leave the dog at home. Just carry a bag. Swing it around. Around. You just have the dog. No, don's idea, leave the dog at home, just carry a bag and eat your bag. Swing it around. Around. You just have the

dog, don't have a dog. That's a fun game. Walk four cars around the block doing that. The reason call screening

was invented. Jono and Ben on the hits. Game of Thrones, the prequel Game of Thrones House of Dragon has just dropped

the first episode this week. House of Dragon is what you call the bloody mother-in-law's house, eh? Oh, Jesus. A huge, huge show.

I mean, obviously, Game of Thrones was, you know, the massive show. This was set 200 years before Game of Thrones. There's amazing footage. I don't know if you guys saw that. A Newark apartment, someone had just been filming from the outside, and all these, you can see through the window,

all the people in the apartment block all watching Game of Thrones at the same time with the same lights coming out from the TV. So it's pretty incredible. And it's had some pretty favorable feedback. I've never seen Game of Thrones, but apparently it didn't end to the fans were disappointed with the ending. And a lot of reviews saying, I was a little nervous going back to this

after the way Game of Thrones ended. But they are excited. That's what they're saying on Rotten Tomatoes. Nine out of ten. I know. It cost about $20 million US us an episode which is more than any of the episodes cost for game of thrones put a lot of money in it it looks like an amazing show as game of thrones and it gives us a good excuse for us to bring back game of phones the game we like to play on the phones yeah we did this a couple of years ago obviously the topicality of it wore off in between

between series. If we were still doing it three months ago, you'd be like, guys, let the whole Game of Thrones thing go. But it's a rich radio feature based off a pun, and that's good enough for us. We used to do Game of Bones as well, but then we're like, well, let's just talk about radio. Yeah.

So we give ourselves 30 seconds. You give me a word, and then you get to call a random number, and I have to try and get the person to say that word within 30 seconds. And then you play as well. And given you know the new Game of Thrones House of Dragon is out now we'll keep it sort of based around the content of the show. The word I want you to get

the person on the other end of the phone to say is incest. No. No. I'm not doing. No give me a better one than that. This is your game and you won't even play it. No don't go. You always take it to the places that no. I'm not doing, no, give me a better one than that. This is your game and you won't even play it. No, don't go, you always take it to the places that, no. Okay, well I'll say, if you want to play it, say it's the streaming service that it's on, Neon. Oh, okay. Is that okay?

That's good, I like that, okay. But if you get incest in it, extra points. 30 seconds to try and get someone to say Neon, let's make a call. Good morning, Glamcast Studio. Alice speaking. Oh, hi. Sorry, quick question. This is going to be random, but what are the streaming services?

There's Netflix, there's Disney Plus. I'm trying to think of the other one. Can you help me out here? You can watch the new Game of Thrones on there. I was like, what is it? It's on. It's just like, what is this? I've got neon. Oh, neon.

There you go. Okay, through with 15 seconds to spare. It's Jono and Ben from the Hits radio station. How are you? I'm good, thank you. How are you? Very confused, I understand. I just bowled straight into a conversation

because I had 30 seconds to try and get you to say neon. I was going to describe lights and stuff, bright lights, but you got there. Yes. What's your name? I'm Ella. Ella, she works in the, she's a hairdresser. She's in the hairdressing game. She's got no business dealing with streamers.

No. But you came through in leaps and bounds, Ella. Proud moment? Proudest moment of your life? Proudest moment of your life? Proudest moment of your life? She's very confused, but confused but also proud, right? Yeah. Proudly confused.

You've come through for him. Hey, thank you very much. That is no problem. We'll let Ella download that for the next 15 minutes. I did it. I did it. I'll give you a word. 30 seconds to try and get someone on the phone to say, well, I won't go incest, but I'll go nudity. How's that?

Oh, okay. I don't like them apples. See if you can get someone to say nudity in 30 seconds. Good luck. Good morning, Hair Studio. Mandy speaking. Oh, is that the Hair Studio? Yes, it is.

How are you? Good. How are you? Listen, if I was the opposite of clothed, what would I be? If you were the opposite of clothed? Yeah. You'd be open. Oh, no, as in clothed.

Like if I didn't have... Clothed. Naked. Yay! No, not quite. Oh. Well, yes, but yeah. But then if I was walking around, I'd get done for public...

Indecency. Yes, these are all correct. Public. If you were walking around unclothed, you'd be done for public... Indecency, it has to be. You probably would be, but yeah. Okay, if I was... Nudist.

Public nudist? Public... Public nudity. Yes! There we go. Now we get to explain this very random call. It's Jono and Ben here. Sorry, I was just trying to get Jono to say...

To get someone to say nudity in 30 seconds because of the new Game of Thrones has a bit of it. And did I work? Did it work? No, you're well off the post, mate. Well off the post. That's a lot of public indecency as well. You need better questions.

Yeah, I do. I pin it on me. But the clock stopped a long time ago. Okay, all good. You're a champion. You go and have a great day. You too, thanks. See you.

Bye. Game of phones. Wowee. May or may not be back, depending on how we think the relevance of the show is. If you're here for advice on life, you're in big trouble. Jono and Ben on the hits.

We wanted to know this week, what are things that are sort of clogging up your brain space that you know word for word, but maybe, maybe you shouldn't? Yeah, like we, I know all the words to a dog biscuit commercial from 10 or 15 years ago. It's quite impressive, but really why? But it's also impressive. Yeah, Tux, keeps me full of life, fit as a fiddle, sharp as a knife, righty righty rah. Ben, you know all the words to the McDonald's Kiwi Burger song.

Again, it's served me no real purpose in life. I don't know why it's there in my brain. So we wanted to know on 100 The Hits what other people have in their minds. Yeah, now Rachel phoned through. She knows the entire dialogue of Grease 1 and Grease 2, both films. She knows more of the Grease dialogue

than the cast of Grease. And we put her to the test. Quotes from Grease, and you've got to try and finish the line, okay, Rach? Oh, okay, I'll give it a go. This is from Sandy. You're a fake and a phony. And I should never set eyes on you,

Danny Zuko. Bang, bang. Tell me. Tell me about it, Sturd. Yeah, nice, you are on fire. Okay, here's a good one. You are on fire. Okay. You're really good. You just can't walk out. You just can't walk out of a drive-in. Bang.

Three from three. You were so good. Here's another Danny line. I was like, before we got you on here, I was like, we're not going to quiz you. Now look at us. Exactly what you're doing. But you're gnarling it. To be fair, you're gnarling it.

This is great. Here's another Danny line. Jealous? Oh, come on, Sandy. Oh you're gnarling it. To be fair, you're gnarling it. This is great. Here's another Danny line. Jealous? Oh, come on, Sandy. Oh, don't make me laugh. Ha. Ha. She should really release

all that grease dialogue. Set it free from her brain. You know, fill it up with Top Gun dialogue or something more recent. Now, 0800 the hit's telephone number. We're going to do a brain dump,

an early morning brain dump on the phone calling through on 0800 the hit's clear. We're going to do a brain dump An early morning brain dump On the phone calling through on 0800 the hit's clear What do you need to dump from the brain? It's a song I used to sing to my boy in the bath Okay, what's the song? It's called The Tiny Turtle Oh, Ben sings about my tiny turtle When I have a bath, yeah

I know this We know you Johnny's tiny turtle in the bath. You sing along, Ben. I love it. Oh, is this the song? We see a peacock swim. We drank up all the water.

We ate up all the smoke. Now he's lying sticking bad with bubbles in his throat. Oh, the tiny turtle song. I love it. Yeah, and I guess it's just the repetition, isn't it? You know, I was looking into this. You can actually stop it. You can stop the madness with a simple trick of dumping stuff out of your brain.

It's called cognitive behavioral therapy. Basically what you do when you start thinking about that thing, imagine a stop sign. Stop. Yeah. You say, stop that thought. You can even say it out loud. You look a little weird.

A little weird if you're in a food court or something. And then apparently over time that will stop those thoughts coming into your head. Really? Apparently. Okay. Yeah, thank you very much, Claire. You go and have a wonderful bath, you and your turtle. Thank you.

See you, mate. The Jono and Ben Podcast. The world's number one podcast. Please don't check those stats. Just talking about stuff that's clogging up your brain. You need to do a brain dump on. I was thinking just there

during the Pharrell song that maybe at the end of every year, we all take a day as a human race and we can all delete stuff from our brain that we're like,

okay, you know, do I need to know all the words to WAP? Probably not. I could lose that. Do I need to remember all the names of the contestants on Love Island UK? No. They can go. And you can clear your head for the next year.

It'd be nice if you could free up some space. Then you can learn more important stuff. Stuff that can actually further you in life. Stuff you need to remember in life. Yeah, so what do you want to do a brain dump on this morning? Lisa, good morning. How is it? Oh, it's fantastic. How about yourself? Yeah, no, it's, so what do you want to do a brain dump on this morning? Lisa, good morning. How is it? Oh, it's fantastic.

How about yourself? Yeah, no, it's good. What do you do, Lisa? I'm a cafe manager. Oh, I have a fiddly coffee order, a Piccolo. Do you do Piccolos? Yes, we do. Would that annoy you?

No. See, nothing's a problem. It annoys me when I go buy him a coffee and I have to bring it back because there's no lids. You know, they're just little things and it spills all over, hot coffee all over my hands. But I do it, I bring it back, I'm like, why? It's the love he has for me. It's annoying. I don't mind him having a piccolo, but when I have to bring it back across the road, it's, yeah.

To be honest, I don't even like them that much. I just like seeing him having to balance this thimble of coffee. Oh, that's cruel. Lisa, we're just doing a big brain dump this morning. Stuff that you could do without knowing to free up some disk space in your head. What is it for you? The Paw Patrol characters, knowing their names. Okay, so who got you into Paw Patrol?

My son. Yeah, once you're into Paw Patrol, it's hard to get out, isn't it? Yep, because now the second generation's into them as well, so I'm buggered. Okay, so let's go the one with the cop dog. What's the cop dog? Chase. Chase, well done. Okay, the fire department dog.

Marshall. Well done. She's like, come on, try something a bit harder. Okay, the dog's sort of got pink goggles on its head and a little pink outfit. Sky. Sky, yeah, well done. Trucker cap, he's got green and white trucker cap. Oh, rocky.

Yeah, she's good. Sort of a bulldoggy looking one with a sort of yellow hard hat. Rubble. Yeah. This is like a wee game I'm trying to describe. But your enthusiasm for it is like zero. The dog's got orange headgear and an orange outfit, sort of an orange ensemble.

Oh, a Zuma. Yeah, Zuma. Well done. And then there's a robot-looking one, which has got the name... Robo-dog. Yeah, yeah. That one's an easy one. Jeez, you are really good.

Okay, dog, it's got sort of a cowboy-y green sort of hat. Looks like it's... Tracker. Tracker, yeah. There you go. Have you done all the core cast now? Do you want to expand out? It looks like there's a cat with a headband.

There's that Mears cat, isn't there? Yeah, that's a sweatband. Yeah, nah. Nah, it's just mainly the dogs I know. The cats I don't pay attention to. Everest, Everest. I don't have to go and buy those toys. Oh, just the dogs, yeah, right.

They're the main players. Well, you know, when the show's called Paw Patrol. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, right. They're the main players. Well, you know, in the show it's called Paw Patrol. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, there's Everest, the snow dog, and then there's Liberty, the new dog. Do you know the theme? My son changed it onto my phone one day. Paw Patrol, Paw Patrol,

be there on the double. I'm not singing. I'm a terrible singer. Well, officially you can now pronounce that information dumped from your brain you've unloaded it oh thank you so much I need that

yeah there we go the cast of Paw Patrol thank you very much Elise appreciate it all good guys take care alright forget Mike Hosking

this is Light Hosking what's going on well Megan Markle her first episode of her podcast her brand new podcast dropped yesterday and in the first episode of her podcast, her brand-new podcast, dropped yesterday. And in the first episode, she chatted to tennis great Serena Williams. Here was the introduction to Megan's podcast.

People should expect the real me in this and probably the me that they've never gotten to know, certainly not in the past few years, where everything is through the lens of the media as opposed to, hey, it's me. I'm just excited to be myself and talk and be unfiltered. And yeah, it's fun. What?

She spoke on the podcast. Did she talk about the Royals? She didn't actually talk about the Royals on the podcast. She trades off the Royals but didn't want to be part of the Royals. Well, this is the thing, I guess, you know, they've taken the bit, of course the bit that becomes clickbait about the Royals. She spoke about where her son Archie narrowly escaped a fire in the room when he was sleeping in South Africa and she's kind of gone said the royals made her when she was in tears

but they made her carry on the tour in her royal engagements at the time you know digging a little bit deeper I mean yeah fortunately Archie wasn't in the room at the time he was downstairs with the nanny when the heater fell over, I think, and caught fire. But I guess, you know, as a new parent, that's a traumatic experience, you know, coming home and going, geez, if my son was in the room at the time, he was in the house, what could have happened? Yeah, right. But it wasn't, so it was upstairs.

It was upstairs. Archie was downstairs. Yeah, but, you know. I can see why the Roars were like, and the Brits as well, they like to suppress emotions. Yeah. And I'm like, you can carry on the tour, mate. Yeah, I'm a bit emotional.

Emotional. I'm going to, I feel sorry for her in that occasion. You know, there's a lot going on. Lack of sleep, all sorts. Yeah, new parent. I know what you're saying. Yeah, so yeah,

so that new podcast is out today where she's talking to Serena Williams. And also out this week, we're very excited about this one, Elton John, Britney Spears. They've got their new single coming out together, which is a remake of one of Elton's old songs.

And Elton's turned up at a French club restaurant yesterday. He's playing the song over the DJ decks. He's wearing like a party suit. He's wearing like, you know, matching shorts. Oh, Elton always looks fabulous, doesn't he? Even on a Sunday morning, Elton would look fabulous. He's turning up and he's playing the song. He's singing a little bit over it.

He's telling everyone where Britney Spears comes in. Have a listen. Britney Spears! It's Britney Spears. You better know! So this is DJ Elton. Yeah, so he played the song. He sung it across some of it.

And then he's doing This is our Friday You know Great marketing They got a sneak peek Of the whole song And there's a video up there now Of you know Around the internet of him

How are the people in the restaurant They're like Turn that music down bud Turn over the conversation over here Well it looked like a restaurant Slash nightclub Sort of situation Yeah that's how it's done

You're not going to go mate Yeah If you had a boomer there I can't hear anything It's too loud Try to talk over here Yeah Oh that's fantastic Yeah Elton John situation. You know, John, you're not going to go, mate. Yeah. Yeah. If you had a boomer there, I can't hear anything. It's too loud. Try to talk over here. Yeah.

Oh, that's fantastic. Yeah. Eldon John got a great collection of tracksuits. He has. Yeah. But they're all like covered in sequins and diamonds and things. I don't know how he's putting them through the wash. Well,

this was like a matching shorts and a t-shirt, sort of like a party suit combo as well. With, you know, with glasses as well. He really put, like he could be at R and V, you know, like just parting suit combo as well, too. With glasses as well. Like he could be at R&V, you know, like just partying it up. He'd look great.

He'd look like, you know, even though I know he's completely sober, he's been sober for decades now. But if you saw him at R&V, you're like, here's an old battler who's been, you know, got caught up in the 80s. Haven't quite left the 80s. And it is what is making news this morning morning To Hollywood producers on the search for future stars Keep searching, there's nothing here

Jono and Ben on the hits Welcome to Jono Pryor's Guessing Game I'm saying it like it's going to come back and it's going to be a regular thing But I'll probably forget that I've done it We'll move on with the radio show as we tend to do, Ben So I have in my hot little hand the top five most spoken languages in the world right okay yeah and i'm gonna hand it over to you and the audience to list them off in order you have 60 seconds to put them in order the top five languages baby now i'll get you you

can have a little think beforehand yeah okay um you know you've got i'll give you some clues you've got your spanish you've got your mandarin can we get all people calling up or not if you want to chime in as well uh we'll start the 60 second timer shortly uh you know if you look at french as well that's a wonderful language is it in the top five yeah well it's a population even you know we just say well english would obviously be up there in the top five but is it in the top couple or is it indian yeah yeah a billion people in china too ben but there's you need to factor in there's the native speakers of the language and then there's the non-native speakers. Oh, so this is people that... So, for example, you know, Mandarin, the different dialects of Chinese language.

Yeah. But there might be many people who weren't born in China who can also speak Mandarin. What do they equal? So that's the total number. This is... You're throwing this on the spot. No, that's the guess, but I said no preparation.

That's the key. Okay. All right, no Googling. I'll wait 100 of the hits if you want to join in, and I want them in order. You have 60 seconds. What do you want in the order? In order.

Top five in order from number one through to five. Okay. Are we getting anyone through on the text machine so far, or is this all? You're out by yourself. Producer Joel, you can chime in as well. Okay. I'll start the timer.

Yeah, start the timer now. First language. Number one. Can I? I'm going to go. Yeah, start the timer now. First language. Number one. Can I... I'm going to go... English or Mandarin? One or... It's one of those.

Okay. If I was you, I reckon Mandarin. Okay. Joel's saying Mandarin. I'm saying English. One. There you go. There's one.

So then I'm saying Mandarin. Two. Okay. You've got the Portuguese, Spanish. Yeah, well, Spanish would be top five, you'd think. Yeah, think about population, too. Indian, maybe, if you said that. Yeah, Indian.

Is it Hindi? Hindi. Yeah, Hindi. That's number three. Okay, yeah. You're doing well. Okay, how much time left? We said Spanish.

We said Spanish. Can we lock in Spanish? That's at number four. Okay. Now you've got five. You've got a whole bunch of great languages. But what could slide in at number five? I'll give you a clue. The fifth most spoken language.

203 million non-native speakers can talk this language. We're only 77. Is it Portuguese? Native. Arabic? No. French? French.

French. He's done it. He's done it. He got there. So what's the order? So let's go through the order just so everyone knows. English, Mandarin, Hindi, Spanish, French. I found it really interesting.

Only 77 million native speakers of French, but 203 non-native. Well, you can imagine for a time there, it was like everyone... You had to learn it at school. School. Yeah, now they've really wired things out for good reason. Mandarin's the big player now. Yeah. Yeah, there you go.

The top five most spoken languages. You did well on the guessing game. Oh, jeez. You're a little stressed. I can tell you're a little stressed. I was a little. You're like, oh, dear God. Can I name five languages, firstly?

Oh, we got there in the end. Scrolling through your feed. All right, he's got his microfiber cloth out. We're ready for a light dusting of the news. What's happening? Well, just a quick one here before we get into this Rita Ora story. Now, a lady in the US is unfortunately making a bit of news

across social media. She drove away from the petrol station and then seemed to be driven, drove quite far away from the petrol station and then they pulled over the car and realised that she had, well, the whole nozzle is still attached to her car,

was still stuck inside her car as she drove away. And she'd been driving for quite a long way. With the tubing attached? Yeah, the tubing had obviously broken off, but there was like the petrol bowser and a whole lot of tube attached to the back of the car. She had to go back in and tell them it was a bit of a problem. Mom, get back in the car. We had a major problem. We drove a woman.

We hadn't set our gates. I mean, is that putting people in danger right now? We have a major problem. Yeah. She's like, no, no, no. You have, she's basically saying, petrol station, I've created a major problem for you. Yeah. And I'm really sorry.

You can see how it's done? Yeah, you can. You can? Because you're just an autopilot at the petrol station, I've created a major problem for you. Yeah. And I'm really sorry. You can see how it's done? Yeah, you can. You can, because you're just an autopilot at the petrol station, aren't you? Yeah, well, you probably went in and paid for it, didn't you? Yeah. And then you take the nozzle back out and then just drove off. Yeah. Filling up your car, it's already expensive nowadays, but I dare say it became a lot more

expensive when you ripped the boughs off. A lot of people put diesel in, too, by accident. Yeah. When you're not concentrating. I've done that before. Yeah, it has happened on a work trip, right? Oh, it was terrible. And we thought it was so clever. We're like, why is this thing not fitting in the tank? And so then we got

just like a little screwdriver and we opened up the flap of the tank and then we just went poured it all in. And we're like, jeez, we're genius. Because we're at like a truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Yeah. And then we had to go back and go, we have a major problem. Yeah, major problem. We did have a major problem.

Rita Ora was in New Zealand for a few days with her partner Taika Waititi, and her last stop in New Zealand, she stopped off at Deadly Ponies in Britomart, the store of amazing handbags. Made out of ponies. Dead ponies. No, not made out of ponies as well, but she stopped off and then afterwards posted on social media with a new jacket that was worth about $2,500.

Posted with a new bag as well and Deadly Ponies people said their social media was blowing up afterwards after Rita Ora posted about the fact that she came on in. She didn't close down the store for her or anything like that. She just came on in. Just walked in? They must have given them to her. Yeah, they think, yeah, they did.

Yeah, they did. Because then you're like, if you do that, the revenue you make from her posting on her social media. Exactly. She has millions of followers, Ben. She does. More than you and me, mate. Oh, totally, totally, absolutely.

Have a huge impact for the business. Yeah, that's pretty cool as well. So she's obviously loving the stuff. My wife, that was one. Of course she's loving it. She got it for free. I'd be loving it too. Yeah. My wife has that was... Of course she's loving it. She got it for free. I'd be loving it too. Yeah.

My wife has a handbag from there for one of her big birthdays that everyone chipped in on and that's the one that can't touch the ground, their handbag. It's like,

constantly plays the floor as lava game because you're not allowed to put it on the ground. It's so precious to her. Where does it go? It goes on things. It goes on...

I'm like, I'll just drag it on the ground when she's not home. It's the first thing he does when I get home. I do a lap of the house, just dragging the handbag along the floor. I walk the dog on the leash and I walk that handbag around the block as well. No, I don't. I'm very careful of that.

Very respectful of the handbag. Yeah, it's very nice. The handbag gets treated better than you do. Exactly. Do you have to go on the ground? If there was one seat, it was like the handbag of me, the handbag would get the seat, that's for sure. What's the raise of the plug submitting?

I'm nervous. I tell you what. Now I take photos of the handbrake on in my car. Don't even get me started on whether I left the iron on or not. I turn my phone off at night. I just don't know what it's doing. It makes me nervous. Yeah, but what if we run out of hand sanitizer?

I'm nervous. So nervous. He is a nervous guy, Ben Boyce. He's more nervous than Jacinda waiting for Gurav's next Instagram post. Yeah, true. What's getting you on edge today, buddy? Because you know when we had different alert levels for the country? Yeah.

Ben, before then and post then, has always been operating at alert level 4 Hasn't changed My alert level hasn't changed I tell you what this happened to me yesterday And I reckon it's not just me Because I often get nervous about things Particularly driving You know that I'm not the greatest at parallel parking

But you're a good driver You haven't had many accidents Apart from the one you rode off a car and you drove And then the other car you didn't put the handbrake on It rolled down and you went across two. Yeah, I'm not fine. You haven't had many accidents apart from the one you rode off a car and you drove away and then the other car, you didn't put the handbrake on it, it rolled down and you went across two lanes of traffic. I'm not super confident.

Like, you know, I'm fine but I'm not super confident, you know. But one thing, I got nervous yesterday and this has happened to you. When you're driving along and there's a police car and then the police car does a U-turn

and goes behind you and it's travelling behind you. That is a nerve-wracking experience. Not just for me, because you're starting to go, is he there for me? Was I speeding? Well, I wasn't speeding. What's in the car?

Yeah. I don't know why you start thinking what's in the car, because, you know, you never got anything in the car, but you're like, geez, what have I got hidden in the car? Yeah, you go through the whole thing. Am I speeding? No. Did I do something wrong?

I don't think so, but he's just pulled over. You turn behind me. I'm looking in the back and you're driving slow. You don don't want to creep over the 50k you go really slow behind and then the lights and sirens come on you're like oh god you do get little butterflies just above your belly button there don't you there you go exactly this noise right there and then you still start pulling over and you're like oh god oh god oh god and then he went straight zooming past i'm like oh jesus a nerve-wracking experience. But for that sort of five minutes, you're like, what the hell is going on here?

Why is he tailing me? Yeah. Yeah. But I can mention, if you were a police person, you'd be doing that all the time. Oh, that's the thing. Like I saw one the other day, traffic was heavy, and then I just heard, boop, boop, and just went through a red light and then turn the lights off and then just continue on their way and i was like that is gee and i said nothing makes you feel like more of a badass than overtaking a police officer on on the motorway

have you done that no no i'd be too scared to no but you're going the speed limit they're going slow no you wouldn't you would never do that no I did that the other day and I was like oh boy you're a bad boy and I was sticking to the speed limit they were just going in the slow lane

right and I was like I just overtook a cop that's right I'd be like I'd be like worried that it was like an 80 that I hadn't seen

or something like that I'd be like you know that was a little ploy that is a thrill if you do anything today overtake a cop oh no don't

don't overtake a cop even if it means you have to get a you know a cheeky 10 or do anything today, overtake a cop. Oh, no, don't. Don't overtake a cop. Even if it means you have to get a, you know, cheeky 10 or 20 over the limit. That's a terrible, terrible advice. So that's what's making me nervous today. Well, that's fair enough. Yeah, and I feel like that's what's justified. Police do make people nervous.

Yeah. Police make guilty people nervous. Yeah, well, true. I don't know why you're trying to hide. Yeah. Look out! Scary dinosaurs. Not Jurassic Park.

It's these guys. Jono and Ben on the heads. I'm looking at our sheets, and we put little notes in about what we're going to talk about, and it sounds like you handed some ass over to some girls at netball, mate. Well, no. Taught them a lesson, did you? Played some kids in netball. Oh, yeah, because my daughter, much like your son Oscar, is playing in the Aims games in

a few weeks' time,. She's doing netball. Your son's doing basketball. And so they went along to their netball game last night, and unfortunately the other team didn't have enough numbers. They didn't turn up. So they were like, well, let's get the parents to take on. Did you step up? Oh, yeah.

I had no choice. I went from watching the game to playing a full game of netball. This is good. I like these moments because this is where you can dominate. You can assert your dominance. Like, you've got it over kids every time. Your reach, your height, your age, your ability.

Fitness, though. That's the key. That's the key. Like, the parents, geez, they started – we all started well, but by the end of the game – Oh, was it adults versus kids? Yeah. The whole team was adults?

Yeah, it was the parents taking on the kids Oh you should have pantsed them Yeah well you know hey as my daughter Sienna said to me as we went off

she went hey thanks for letting us win and I went yeah you're welcome we definitely definitely let you win Yeah Maybe not

It's a hard it is you are in fiddly territory when you're playing kids as an adult because you want to you do want to assert dominance you do want to

you go this is where you're placed on the ladder just so you know when you want to assert dominance. You do want to go, this is where you're placed on the ladder, just so you know. When you get to our age, you can do the same to the kids. But then you don't want to be the people going too hard at you. You're like, come on guys,

they're 12 years old. You're like, in your face. You want to work hard, but don't look like you're working too hard to do it. I remember playing tennis against my dad as a kid. And I'd get confident if i'd you know oh great i'd do a great shot and i'll be all you know i'll be playing with my bandana trying to look like andre agassi you know and we go yeah you know doing a good shot and then the

next serve from dad would be like a you know super fast and just a little reminder yeah just a little like oh i could do this all the time but i'm not not doing it. I was like, oh yeah, I appreciate that. But it's also what parents do, and every parent is guilty of it too, is giving your kids a false sense of how good they are. You know? Sometimes if you take it too easy on them when you're playing them, they go out into the real world. With the confidence that they probably shouldn't have, right? Exactly.

And that's how they end up getting scolded by Simon Cowell on X Factor. Parenting such as that. It's a delicate balance last night, but let's just say we definitely let the kids win. Okay, they were actually a lot better than us. The Hits. For more podcasts from The Hits Network, check out