Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: A sexism scandal...

Episode Date: July 29, 2024

ON THE SHOW TODAY: Jono is involved in crimes... Our new favourite karaoke song We get comedian Ed Bryne a free beer! Cute of cringe Boomers on social media... Miracle finds! Meeting Snoop Dog Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono and Ben Instagram: THEHITSBREAKFASTSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. Just in time for one of my daughter's netball games, and they don't never stop netball. Have you got netball tonight too? Oh no, we had it last night. Just as a, just torrential. And all I could find in the car was one of those, you know how you get the small umbrellas, not the big ones?

And I kept going, inside out. Who's ever required a tiny umbrella yeah I guess they fit in a bag is probably the benefit I guess you can put them down and put them in a bag

that's the only rule but then whenever you pull it out you're like the surface area it covers is really say one of those

it was like hurry up and get this game finished yeah the thing about the volunteer like people who aren't actually watching their own kids I know

all those people who volunteer up their time they're like, why am I doing this? And the kids playing as well through the whole thing. I was moaning about my umbrella. My umbrella's a bit small. Going inside out. It's always embarrassing when your umbrella goes inside out.

And there's never a cool way to get it back in position. You're always fighting with it. I kind of had to hold one hand on the umbrella and the other one holding it up just to try and stop it from inside. You've never looked sexier. I know, but real cool. Do you know what? I saw you say this was crazy. And I've seen, well, not seen, but been a part of three crimes in the last five days.

Okay? You've been a part of three crimes. Take that out of context. the last five days. Okay? You've been a part of three crimes. We had the stolen car that was running, windows open, across my driveway. That was last, when was that, Friday? And then I went for a run, saw someone breaking into a car. Oh, jeez. They looked me dead in the eyes, and I looked them dead in the eyes, and I'm like, let's not speak of this.

As you toddled off. Yeah. I didn't have my phone, so I couldn't call police. Hopefully he didn't do it, but you never know. He looked like he was, he looked like, I didn't try to justify it to us. What do you do, though? Do you stop and stand there with your hands on your hips

and be like? No, I was kind of like jogging past him, and he was like, oh, didn't expect to see you. And we didn't say anything to each other. Then I was like, I'll call the police when I got home. And I phoned that 105, but couldn't get a hold of him. And then yesterday, I'm driving home. And this young kid, I reckon would have been 10, 11 max,

sprints across the front of my car. I had to put the brakes on. I'm like, oh, that's odd. Maybe he's late for a bus or something. He was hoofing it. Then about three seconds later, his mate, same thing,

sprinting across and I drove up to the intersection, saw across the road whole kerfuffle outside a dairy. Oh, jeez. People, the owner pointing,

da-da-da-da-da-da. And there was a police car screaming down the road about 100 k's an hour. And I'm having to point, they've run down that way, run down that way. And then all of a sudden

the helicopter's out, four cop cars. So I'm gathering they didn't just shop run down that way, run down that way. And then all of a sudden the helicopter's out, four cop cars. So I'm gathering they didn't just shoplift a pack of M&Ms. No. There must have been something more serious they did inside that shop. Scary though. And I was thinking, what? Sad, A, for the shop owners, because they're going to work every day not knowing what's going to happen.

And B, also sad that people are in a position that they feel they need to do these things to survive. At be also sad that people are in a position that they feel they need to do these things to survive. At 10 years old. Frightening. New Zealand used to feel like it was a relatively safe place but now you hear more and more of these stories every day, no matter where you are

in New Zealand. I'm only one person, three times in five days. Scary, sad. Turning into Gotham City out there, guys. Yeah. Yeah. I don't have any answers or solutions, just thought I'd fill some air time with a bit of banter, but... So it's weird

that you just attract this because I haven't seen any illegal activity before. How much crime have you been involved in the last week, Megan? Oh, none.

Not as much as Jono, that's for sure. You've been a crime-free week. So that's what happens when you're running at like three in the morning and all sorts of stuff. Yeah.

You see stuff. You do see stuff. Put yourself in some weird spots. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Yesterday we discovered what I think is the best karaoke song for people that don't really want to sing karaoke but have to sing it. Want to keep the vibes going.

Want to keep the party humming. We had this call from Daryl. Take a listen. Mate, I was thinking tequila. Well, there's only one word, isn't there? Here I go. Is it going to start singing? Not yet?

No? We'll all tie him at Daryl. Wait for the first tequila, baby. I do like this. It's a Gary song. No, not yet. No? Daryl's still there.

He's still there. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Coming. Tequila. Tequila. Genius, because, you know, I mean, you do have to stand there and sort of awkwardly dance for a long time,

but one word, one word only to sing. Timing critical, though. You do not want to fluff. You've only got one word. And the thing is, when you're singing songs with actual words, is you can, if you fluff a word, you can make it up with the dozens of other words in the lyrics.

But this is, you've only got one chance. Are you a karaoke person, Megan? I do like a bit of karaoke, but I'm married to a singer. Oh, yeah. But nothing more intimidating I find because I don't mind, but I'm honestly not a good singer at all. But when someone gets up there and sings really, really well, it's really hard for anyone else to come up yeah no one wants to go after that no no but it's always that that person's

always the one like about 10 o'clock at night should we go to karaoke okay uh we're having a good time here but i guess and then you're dragged along and you're basically just watching a one person concert yeah they're like no i'm shy wait one next? I'll do this song. Six songs in a row. Yeah, exactly. So we thought, well, we should test Daryl's theory that tequila is the best karaoke song. So after the show today, I was thinking, Megan, what do you reckon?

Jono's probably the best person to test it, right? I think you should test it. I felt like we were leaning that way in the meeting yesterday. I had no say in it. And Megan's like, I'll be really good if Jono got up there. And then Ben's like, so when you're standing up there, there's no open discussion about it. Yeah, Megan and I will watch,

and we'll get people from the office to come down. We've got a little stage area at work, get you up there in front of the office, mid-morning, perfect time for karaoke. No one's had a single drink. Everyone's just wanting to get on with their day. They're impatient, and they're going to have to watch you awkwardly dance

until you get to that bit. It's like 40 seconds until the first tequila. It's a long runway, isn't it? I think it's going to feel like 10 years standing up there. And you want me to do the whole song? I'll do the whole song. The whole song. No matter how many times.

Tequila. I think people are going to walk out. I don't want any more other words. No other singing words. I will only do it if you get me a Mexican hat I'll get you some tequila How's that sound? You might need some afterwards

So we're going to do that After the show today Social experiment To an audience of Unenthusiastic colleagues Yeah Who want to get on With their work day Ben

Ed Byrne Welcome back to New Zealand You're looking very confused At the moment. No, I'm just feeling like an old man. I'm just looking around the studio. I think that's Miley Cyrus. I'm not sure who's next to us.

Pink. It's Pink. Yeah. Okay, fair enough. See, you're up with the play. Okay. We're doing the best song ever at the moment on the station. Yeah, the best song ever.

And Miley Cyrus and Pink are your two poster girls for this. The best song ever. Well, we do love a bit of Pink. Well, in a certain format. Right, okay. So, okay. It's obviously not Miley or Pink for you. What does the best song ever for you, Ian Boone?

I don't know. It's a tricky one, but it would definitely have to be something by Prince. I think Let's Go Crazy was just the perfect fusion of rock and pop. Yeah, I love Purple Rain. Well, Purple Rain's great. I saw a whole documentary on Purple Rain and Dr. Fink, you know, the keyboard player, Prince's keyboard, just sums it up the best. He says, I mean, listen to that song. There's not an ounce of funk in the thing. For Prince's stuff, it was his real crossover. It was the wisest song he ever recorded. It was his free bird, you know.

Okay, what's your favourite Pink or Miley Cyrus song name? Do you know what Miley Cyrus song I hate? It's that one about how she used to be young. It's literally called Used to be Young. I can't do that song because if ever there's a song guaranteed to make me feel old, it's a girl

whose dad was in the charts when I was young singing about how she used to be young. I know, I never thought about that. Do you have any idea how ancient that makes people like me feel? I think she's just turned 30

and she's like, I used to be, everyone's like, shut up. You are still young. Trust me, you are, I wouldn't be able to hold a conversation with you. That's how young you are.

Ed Baird with us. He's touring 13 cities across New Zealand. I didn't even know we had 13 cities. Look, there's a long way to come for me.

Yeah. And once I go, I'm not just going to pop in, do Christchurch, Auckland, Wellington, and out again. Fair enough.

I'm going everywhere. Yeah, good on you. So, you know, maybe some people are going, why isn't he coming? Maybe the people of Blenheim are going, why isn't he coming here? Why is he onlyenheim are going, why isn't he coming here?

Why is he only going to Nelson? I'm going to Nelson. Oh, that's been a choice. Been a choice at the top of the South. Exactly, so, you know, come on, Blenheim. Don't be like that. Drive up the road. Come to Nelson.

Don't make me go everywhere. It's an hour and a half drive. I'm from Nelson. It's not far. I've come all the way from the UK, you know. Yeah, you can come an hour and a half. I did a week to New York. I did a week in New York with this show.

And somebody goes, oh, come to Boston. It's only an hour up the road. You come to me. I've got eight hours to get to here. This is your chance. He's so entitled, eh? Now, we do know a little rumor about you that you like to, whatever town you're in, you like to Whatever town you're in

You like to go to a local pub And have a pint Before the show Before the show Hashtag pre-show pint Now we thought we might be able To get you a free pint If we call the Rutland Arms

And Whanganui And see if we can book The appointment You come in for your pint And we get it free Yeah If we just give them A shout out on air

We'll give them a call now. Does that ring any bells? Have you been to the Rutland? The Rutland Arms. Should it? Is it notorious? Why have you picked the Rutland Arms then? I don't know.

And I've just realised that calling a pub at this time in the morning. Probably we're on a hiding to nothing, I would have said. Good morning, Rutland Arms. I don't know if I... We're not on a hiding to nothing. We've got an answer. Rutland Arms, Travis speaking. Travis,... We're not on a hiding to nothing. We've got an answer. Rutland Arms, Tavis speaking. Travis, we thought we were on a hiding to nothing

and the pub wasn't going to answer. It's Jono, Ben and Megan here and we are with UK comedian Ed Byrne. How are you? Yeah, good, thanks. You're live on air. Please don't swear. Ed's touring the country.

One of his traditions is pre-show he goes to a pub and has a pint. Would he be welcome at the Rutland Arms? Question one. Always welcome. Question two, could we do it for a free pint? Sweeten the deal here. Sweeten the deal. For free publicity for the Rutland Arms. We can. There will be a free pint here. Sweet. Wow. Right.

Let's just take everyone off the list. This is it. I thought this was a ridiculous idea. I'm now on board. I will see you there, Trevor. We've got another 17 people to call. Yeah, now on board. I will see you there, Trevor. We've got another 17 people to call. Good on you. Cheers, mate.

Nothing more Kiwi than that. Free pint for you, mate. I thought it was a terrible idea at first. I'm not saying it made wonderful radio, but it's worked out very well for me. I think this is a sweet number. I could see it in your eyes. You're like, what is this?

I could pay for my own pint, you know. That's what we're about, Ed. We're about perfectly adequate radio. Yeah, that's what we strive for. That's every day. But free beer does taste sweeter than paid for beer, doesn't it?

You just come off the back, you're like, oh, I can't get any people to the gigs overseas. I was like, we'll get the guy a free beer. Ed Byrne, always love hanging out with you, mate.

Sweet. And if you want to catch Ed, 13 cities across New Zealand, July, August. Tragedy Plus Time is the name of the tour. All the dates will be at thehits.co.nz. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, Megan, before 7 o'clock, I've put a poll up on our social media. And I feel like the ulterior motive is to justify something that you believe is perfectly kosher. Perfectly cute.

You're trying to get the people on you. You're trying to win the people over. I'm testing the waters. Because, yeah, me and my husband are pretty gross. We know this about ourselves. Perfect couple. Don't put that into the universe. It's a perfect couple.

No, no, no, we're not. We're not. Smooching and all. But we don't mind a bit of PDA. We're kind of like, oh, who cares? Would you, are you a publicly passion couple? No, no, no, no, no. Do you peck on the lips?

Yeah. Yeah. Do we peck in public? Hand hold? Yeah. He refuses to hold hands in public. Well, I do. I know I go for it from time to time. Why? No, I go for it from time to time. But why do you generally not want to? No, it's not like I refuse. I'm like, don't you ever tell me.

Don't you show me any affection. Affection only behind closed doors. I don't want a little bit of affection, but I hate it. Did you say infection or affection? No, affection, but people really put on the PDA. I'm like, oh, come on, guys. Would you slip a sly hand down the back jean pocket of Amanda as you're walking along?

I would. Would you? Amanda, you and Amanda would have a great time out there. So what is this cute thing they're doing? So it wasn't us, but we went to Burgerfield, fine establishment. But I feel like it's important because then you know what kind of place it was. So everyone's getting takeaways. Some people sitting down, like having a quick eat and getting on their way this couple uh had turned up and they had kind of reserved an area they had set a little table and it had like a little vase with flowers they had made it their own and they were on like a little date so there was flowers there

was a vase they'd brought their own knife and fork they'd made like plates like a full-on little setting for themselves are you thinking cute i i went in and i was like that's really cute oh my gosh that's so cute and my husband given what you know about us, was like, no, we've never done that. That's cringe. That's no. Wow. I would have thought. If I finally find the line for him, he wouldn't do it. He wouldn't set up a full knife, fork, plate dinner on a takeaway table in a restaurant,

in a burger tool. I probably wouldn't because I feel like everyone would be judging me. But I think, I thought it was cute. I was like, good on them. You know, like they don't care about anyone else do you think they were doing it for a gag like a like a joke like a oh you know judging by the couple I don't think they were no okay I think they were quite now you make me feel bad for wearing a tuxedo to McDonald's making my wife wear her wedding dress yeah having a full plated meal

I thought it was cute but we've put cute or cringe on our Instagram. Most people think it's cringe, 60%. Think that it was cringey. A lot of admin involved in it. What could you have to bring along? Everything, don't you? The cutlery, everything. The romance gone, New Zealand.

Everyone's like, meh. But I do like a dress up. I don't mind making a show. He likes a prank. He loves a social media video. Yeah, so I'm like, oh, this is tickling my fancy. Do you like dressing up as Deadpool to pick up your daughter from school? Yeah, exactly.

Yeah. So I'm like, hey, I can take the kids. To be honest, a plated meal at Burgerfield is the lighter end of the scale for it. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Your parents on social media. It can be a risky game, and it's something that I have campaigned for publicly, to have Instagram,

where you just have the grandos on there. You know, and they can do whatever they want. The old classic up the neck, double chin shot. No one's going to judge them, but they are involved in mainstream social media. Yeah, and I do. I appreciate that my parents are both them. Yeah, they're separate, but they both give a crack.

They give it a crack. My mum in particular loves a Facebook comment on stuff. No matter what article it is, she'll comment on whatever it is, particularly to do with me or whatever, and I'll be like, oh, God. Now, I won't say her Facebook name because then people will know who it is. But I'll tell you her name, and then you look at all the comments, you're like, oh, you're looking a little tired, Benny. And I'm like, screams mum.

Just like a comment that kind of like, oh, that shirt matches your eyes. So she'll comment on Facebook as well. I'm like, mum, you just text me or something. Sometimes it's the only comment. Oh, please. Mum will get involved like that. And then my dad as well. He's been dabbling in Instagram.

So good on him for giving Instagram a crack. But he's over at the moment, like a lot of boomers. He's on a holiday overseas, going on a cruise ship, all those sorts of things. And I showed you before, he's put one little photo or video of a boat, but it's not the cruise ship boat they're on. I don't know what boat it is, but that's up four times. Four separate posts of exactly the

same thing. One after the other. Yeah, and then he's got a couple of photos of just his face that looks like an accidental selfie, like he's not posing for it whatsoever, and then he's got some writing on top with a song, I can see clearly now the rain has gone. He looks confused. He does look confused.

And again, I mentioned the up the neck, under the chin shot. That's what it is. Have a look at it. So that's up there like three or four times. The same shot multiple times. Is there any caption? Well, I don't know. What's he got under there?

I can see Clearly Now The Rain. No, no caption. No caption. Mysterious. He's just got the song. I can see Clearly Now The Rain Is Gone. With the lyrics, yeah. With the lyrics to that song.

Has he managed to load up the audio of the song or just the lyrics? No, he's got the audio. Let's have a listen to the... Does he like that song? No, no, no. It's not one you've heard him... No, no, I mean, I'm sure he's... He's gone away for six weeks

and the only coverage you've got is four photos of a boat, a boat he's not on, the same photo, and a shot of him looking very confused to the camera. And it's a lot of face in that photo. It is 90% face. I'm like, he definitely didn't know he was taking that photo. His face is taking up a lot of real estate in that picture. He's not smiling, he looks ripped.

How do you accidentally put the photo up and then add the song and lyric? Twice. So parents on social media. Has he not checked his work? I don't know.

I honestly don't know. But what are your parents doing? Are they on social media? Have they made mistakes? Are they giving it a crack? Good on them for giving it a crack. But now we want

the best stories right now. We've got some prizes to grab. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Parents on social media, my dad, Kevin Boyce, giving it a crack. You know, he's giving it a crack. Your parents on social media, Megan? My mum's not on anything, but she is kind of sharing dad's Facebook. But they use it mainly to stalk and like keep up on whatever else is doing

right um rather than that i don't see many posts from them yeah right but i get like updates on all the neighbors and everyone did you see that on facebook i'm like i don't i'm not friends with them on oh it's like a sly gossip uh tool yeah so yeah knowing right oh i don't know railway ray ray well your mom i was spoken to her a handful of times, but I'm like, she would be, she'd be a wild ride on Instagram. I know, it's for the best. Because she would be either really funny, she'd be fire, or she'd be a worry. My dad's, he's got on Facebook, but he's got in a situation with taking down Putin. Mum like looked up, was just like googling something and all the

searches were like, how to end Putin? How to take down Putin? Has anyone thought about taking down Putin? Russia's gonna come for him. Yeah and he set up a Facebook account which I think is indirectly a tool to try and get some espionage on Putin. Because you know, Putin's gonna be taken down down. He's going to be by a retiree sitting in Christchurch. Yeah, how's he going? Liam Neeson had a lot of movies like that. He got some stuff done. He did.

He was always the guy who retired, came back. You know when I'm a retiree with a chip on their shoulder about a world dictator? They'll come for you. They're normally coming for the council or something like that.

Yeah. He's gone. He's leveled up to the boot. About a berm not being cut or something. My bins weren't picked up today. He's going for the big fish. So parents on social media, my dad having a shocker posting the same photo over and over again, multiple times on Instagram.

So right now we want to know, oh, and the hits, 4487 parents on social media. Maybe Kev's a whole other level. Maybe it's a spot the difference photo. Maybe, you're right. Now let's get Kelly on from Hamilton. How are you this morning, Kel? I'm good, how are you? Yeah, we're doing well.

Lovely to have you on. Your parents, they're on social? My mum's quite prolific on Facebook. Prolific. Okay. Love it. What are her regular updates and posts? Oh, lots of things that don't really matter to everybody else.

Things that she finds really important in her life and things that other people will also find important but may not be as important to other people. Yeah, a lot of reposting of news articles. Yeah, yeah. And just like, you know, or like a photo from her backyard or something. I don't know. Oh, what she's getting up to.

Has she made any faux pas on social? Oh, yeah, she has, a big one. She got the phone call from her brother that they were pregnant and she was, of course, very excited about it. And so she posted it onto social media. Congratulations. Oh, my gosh, I'm going to be a grandma. But no one else had been told.

And because of social media and because she had become friends with all my brother's friends, because that was the thing to do, I spotted it before I got told, so I rang her and I was like, you need to take this down now. And she's like, but I just wanted to congratulate them. And I was like, but no one else knows.

And she's like, oh, I thought I would have been like one of the last ones. And I was like, no, you're the first. You're the very first. You're mum. You're the mum. And she's like, oh. And I was like, take it down. Oh, jeez.

And she's like, I don't know how. Tell me your password right now. And so, yeah, she kind of ruined the first update or the first child for their family. Wow. A proud grandma. And she's like, you know who needs to know about this? The internet. Straight on there. The worst thing too is when you're trying to give instructions

to a parent on how to do something on your computer. You're like, slide your mouse over to the right. There's a little arrow. Where's the arrow? I think kudos needs to be given that they've registered, got an account. Kevin's logging in from a ship in the middle of the ocean. And he's posting.

Let's give kudos. The same thing over and over again. Terrible post, but he's posting. He's doing stuff. Far more competent than I am on there. Great text here, 4487. My mum is on Tinder. She got on Tinder last year.

She goes on many dates and every time she brings someone home, I say, hello, Dad. Which weirds them out a bit and I never see them again. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Dilmar T. Do try.

Great supporters of the show. Trying to make the world a better T. We have the Riddler. Every week, Producer Taylor comes in and tries to stump us with a riddle. If you can solve it, a hot and cold Dilmar tea priced back at $100. And today, Producer Taylor's away, so I have looked online for some riddles to stump you guys. But once you know the answers, I don't know if they're easy or not. Yeah.

You're like, oh, that might be hard. I'm not sure. So I'm in a different position today I think you can be pretty safe That Jono and I Are not going to get it But on the song He's like

I know you're just In the bathroom Megan He's like Okay I'm going to have One riddle for you One riddle for Megan So he's going to single us out And shame us individually

Well I'm going to go one for Jono This one's just for Jono first Okay Okay So three Three different doctors Say that Paul Is their brother

Yet Paul claims He has no brothers Who is lying Jono So three different doctors say that Paul is their brother, yet Paul claims he has no brothers. Who is lying, Jono? Deep in thought. Three different doctors say Paul is their brother. Yet Paul claims he has no brothers. Who is lying? I don't want to put pressure on you, but the phone lines are going.

The phone lines are going. You are putting pressure on me. I don't want to look at the phone lines. This is just me. Everyone stay out of it. Hang up. I know it. Three different doctors say Paul is their brother, but Paul says... There's no brothers.

No brothers. Who's lying? No one's lying. Yeah, no one is lying. Because the three doctors do have a brother named Paul and Paul is not related to the three different doctors. Because the three doctors are women, mate. They're sexist.

They're all sisters. They're all sisters. That's why. Jeez, I tell you. That's why that was for Jono Why did you have Why Why would you do that to me

Geez mate Females can be doctors When did we let them Become doctors When did they start Becoming doctors You know like Why is everybody thinking

Yeah I wouldn't trust them To work on me So there we go Okay well Oh That is a stitcher Okay

No you gotta clip that up and put that on social media. Like, look at this raving sexist. Hey, sexist. Jono thinks women can't be dyslexic. Okay, this one's for you on 0800 The Hits. Okay. Oh, beware though, beware. You might be hung out to dry here.

I have keys, but no locks. I have space, but no rooms. You can enter, but you can't go outside I know what it is what am I oh okay do you reckon you got it no I know I've got it

oh my god I've got one well okay why don't you write your answer down on paper I'm 100% I've got this okay

and then we will cross reference once we have the correct answer come through on our 100 of the hits if you want a Dilmar tea hot and cold prize pack and 100 bucks.

The Riddler this morning. Okay, don't look at it. Okay, all right. I've written it down. I have keys but no locks. I have space but no rooms. You can enter but you can't go outside.

What am I on 0800 The Hats? Here we go. Let's get Esther on. Morning. How are you, Esther? Good. You doing all right this morning, mate?

Not too bad, not too bad. What part of New Zealand are you calling from? Auckland. Oh, okay. I've heard of Auckland. All right. You've heard the riddle. Do you want to recite it again, or do you think you've locked it in?

I think I've locked it in. Okay, keys but no locks, space but no rooms. You can enter, but you can't go outside. What am I? A keyboard. A keyboard. There we go. And Megan. I got it.. A keyboard. There we go. And Megan.

I got it. She wrote keyboard as well. I've never got one, Esther, ever. Well done, Esther. Well done, Megan. Not well done to Jono, who's a raving sexist. We've all learned some stuff. Women can't be doctors, Esther.

Did you hear that from Jono Prime? That's what he's always saying. Don't think you're going to end up being a doctor, Esther. Won't work in my books, mate. Esther, sir. Did you hear that from John O'Brien? That's what he's always saying. Don't think you're going to end up being a Dr. Esther. Won't work in my books, mate. Esther, well done. You're getting $100 in that Dilmar tea, hot and cold tea prize. The Hits, the John O' and Ben podcast. Austin found stories.

My wife, Jennifer, she lost an earring. So one earring she got, and she just noticed, not an earring wearer, but I imagine, Megan, it's not something you notice immediately. You pick it up hours later. Yeah, because they get caught in things and you don't even notice. Ben, you wore earrings? You tried to dress like LL Cool J and Dennis Rodman back in the day.

Did you lose earrings? The good thing is in some ways that I had one earring. So I'm one ear piece. So I'm one ear's piece. If I lost one, then I always had the second one that I could insert in there as well. It's kind of annoying just having to replace one earring, you know? Yeah, I can imagine it would be. You just have to buy a set a lot of the time. So she was getting into bed that night and she was like, oh, no, I don't know where it is.

Sat on it for a couple of days. Then had this flash of memory that when she was walking, now I don't know if you know New Zealand, it's quite big, you know. She's walking all over the place. She had a flash of memory of a split second of cold brushing on top of her chest. I want to say the left bosom. Some sort of shivery sort of moment

Yeah, shivery moment And she was like Maybe that was the moment the ring fell off The earring Grazed my brassiere And then dropped to the ground So then drove to this particular part in a park Where she was walking

No Guess what she found No It would be very disappointing Disappointing end of the story If I was like And it wasn't there And that's the end of that story No. No. Guess what she found? No. It would be very disappointing. Disappointing end to the story. Wasn't it? And it wasn't there.

And that's the end of that story. It's still missing. It was a can of moss energy drink that someone had thrown out of their car. No, found the earring. Wow. Two days later, crazy. That's incredible. The greatest ring saga since the bloody Lord of the Rings this country's ever seen. Yeah. That's a miracle finding. That really incredible. Greatest ring saga since the bloody Lord of the Rings that this country's ever seen. Yeah.

So that's a miracle finding. That really is. Yeah. Something where you think you've lost something and you found it. It's incredible. Because there was, I think, an Italian athlete that lost his ring in the opening ceremony of the Olympics,

his wedding ring in the River Seine, waving away and lost it, apparently. Well, say goodbye to that. That's going to be catching bloody conjunctivitis or giardia or whatever that thing's got. What's that river called? No one wants to dive in there. No, they can't go swimming in there at the moment because it's under pollution warning.

I see the mayor over there. Well, it's all good, guys. We'll go for a swim. Didn't he drink some of it and go, to prove? They've been seen since. No, I don't think so. What I love about this Italian guy is,

generally, if you lose a wedding ring, you're probably in, you've got some explaining to do to your partner. He wrote, my God, the most romantic Instagram post. I don't know how this legend turned around losing a wedding ring into a romantic gesture. Have a listen to this. Probably all three things the fact remains that I felt my ring slip. I saw it

fly away. I followed it with my gaze until I saw it bounce upon the boat. As I saw the ring bounce again and drop into the murky waters below, it felt like a few moments that lasted forever.

But if I really had to lose it, I couldn't imagine a better place. It will remain forever in the riverbed of the City of Love. Maybe if my beloved wife were to throw her ring into the river as well, we could be together forever and have one more excuse to renew our vows again. What a legend!

Let's be honest, he probably didn't lose it in there. He probably left it somewhere. Well, geez, I need a good story here. He's like, I'm having an affair. I think I left it at the bloody motel. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Just after your miracle lost and found stories this morning on 0800 The Hits. Jackie, good morning to you. Morning, how are you? Great to have you on. The harrowing tale of my wife losing her earring and only finding it 48 hours later on a hunch in the middle of a park incredible lost and found yes i know it would be what happened for yours um so we were diving the rainbow warrior um up north and um we'd finished our dive and we were just sitting around on a fatal boat and um one of the guys decided to be funny and try and get my husband,

push my husband, pull my husband into the water because he only had half his wet suit on to get him wet cold and he had his prescription glasses on so when he went over into the water he lost his prescription glasses and we only had a little bit of, we only had one, somebody had a bit of air left in their tank so somebody went down for a quick dive to see if they could find the glasses and we couldn't. So my husband went to go back to the beach on their inflatable boat and he couldn't see anything because he didn't have his glasses. And we were there for another couple of days. We went back out the next day for a dive and we said, oh, well, we'll go down by the bow of the Rainbow Warrior and then just swim along and see if we can find the glasses.

And they were sitting just in the water on the sand at the bottom by the Rainbow Warrior. then just swim along and see if we can find the glasses. And they were sitting just in the water on the sand at the bottom by the Rainbow Warrior. We couldn't believe it. The glasses and the Rainbow Warrior. And you were more impressed with finding the glasses than seeing the wreckage. Well, I was a bit worried about having to drive the inflatable boat home because I don't like trailers.

So I was more worried about that. So I was quite happy the glasses said that my husband could tow the trailer. Miracle find, Jackie. Miracle find. That is great. Appreciate your call. Have a great day. We'll get Adele on.

Yeah, hi. Your miracle lost and found story, Adele, involves a necklace and a train station. Yeah, so yesterday I got off the train at Bittermart and noticed as I was standing up that one of my pendants was on the floor and the boat can necklace. And I thought, oh my God, it's the train. So I carried on and went to work. It turned the whole day to shit, as it would.

So I hated it. So angry with myself. There were special ones from my kids. Hawaii, never going to be able to get them again. Got off the train

back at Papakura and thought, what's the chances? Up over the bridge to the other platform, walked down the platform where I got on the train. As I turned around

to come back, it was there. No! No! And they're small. About the size of a pea, bigger than a pea, and they're small. It is not the first time

that chain's broken. I'm not wearing it again until I go buy a new necklace. Well done. Jewellery had stayed there all day and no one had swiped it. If I'd seen it, I would have taken it down to the gold house. Thankfully, no one like me dided it. If I'd seen it, I would have taken it down to the gold house. Thankfully, no one like me did see it.

Congratulations. That's a great find. Maybe not many people catching the train. That's true. Was the train even going? I'm surprised it was working. That's an incredible story. I'm on my way there again.

Well, thank you for sharing it with us. We really do appreciate it. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. I've had... I don't even want to share this story. This is quite, quite embarrassing.

Quite embarrassing. You're among friends. Well, yeah, I know. And I'm desperate. Is everyone listening as friends? Or are they?

Yeah, probably not. It's just us. What do you mean? And this, you know, just to say, you know,

that I'm, you know, I'm quite a clean, like I like to be a clean sort of person when it comes to, you know, bodily functions and all that sort of thing. I'm very clean, a lot of hand sanitizer, things like this.

So I only say that because what happened to me kind of mortified me in this situation. So I had some friends over for a Saturday night and we're sitting around the dinner table. It was a nice occasion, all very good. And I took just a drink, just a drink of water. And as I went to take the drink of water, I needed to cough. And I was in one of those positions where you've got the water in your mouth. You don't want to cough, but you can't swallow.

I couldn't swallow and I couldn't cough. And I was just having a moment. And it all probably only happened in like a split second, like an Olympic athlete, you know, from between first and second. But for me, it felt like ages. What do I do? And I tried to hold on and I tried to suppress the cough without obviously spitting out the water and everything just came out from my mouth from my nose like a whole lot of stuff like i don't know where snot and mucus came from

you think of it it's a nice dinner occasion it's like my body just like i don't know what it it did. And you were a big mucusy, dribbling mess. Yeah, but not normally. But this occasion, I just came and like in my hand, I caught it. And everyone looked at me like, what is he doing? Stringy? Have you got stringy bits? Yeah, it's like, and he was like, oh my God, I am so sorry.

And I had to go off to the bathroom. I had to compose myself. I didn't want to come back. But people were still there. I'm like, oh my God, how did I come back from this? Were you doing yourself in the mirror? Yeah, I'm like oh my god how did I come back from this were you doing yourself in the mirror yeah

I was like maybe when I stay there people will leave and then I won't have to deal with it so I had to clean myself up did you spray on anyone no fortunately I didn't

but I sprayed on my and I don't know if it got someone got to the table or anything like that because when I came back they cleaned it up when I came back

everyone like kind of ignored it like I was like sorry guys sorry about that and everyone's like yeah I guess no one knew what to say and I really put a dampener on the whole evening you know they were definitely talking about you when you're in the toilet I was like what just happened like how did this happen you inhale the water yeah and it all just came out through my nose so I love it when you are in those situations you do assess your options when you're alone. Like in the bar, okay, what have we got here?

I know. Were you at your house? Yeah, I'm at my own house. You could burn down the house. Burn down the house so there's an emergency. Something bigger than what you've done. Maybe I could go to sleep, and they'd be like, oh, he fell asleep.

He didn't have to deal with this. That's worse. You're like, we did this weird snot everywhere, and then you went to the room and fell asleep. You'd be like, is he okay? God, I was mortified. That was just the most... Other officers, you walk out the front door and never return. That would have been a far better

experience coming back and going, hey guys, sorry about that. Don't know what happened there. Everyone's like, yeah, cool. No one knew what to say. So really, yeah, really destroyed the night. It's been an exciting few days, hasn't it? It's been really incredible.

Obviously, we're still waiting for our first medal at the Olympics, but a great win this morning from the New Zealand Rugby Sevens, Wahine. They are through to the semifinals as well. There's a few things happening over the next 24 hours will hopefully bring us our first medal. Yeah, we're off to Paddy now with Courtney Taieri from Sky Sport. Great to have you on again, Courtney. Now, it's not just amazing athletes out there competing.

There's some amazing celebrities I've seen as well. Ariana Grande, Tom Cruise as well. They're all over the place. They are. They're here. It's quite amazing. Even our cameraman just yesterday bumped into Snoop Dogg at the swimming. Jason Kelsey was just behind us last night for the seven.

So they're all turning out. And I think now everyone's just really keeping their eyes open because usually it's head down just, you know, trying to get through the crowds. But now we're all looking like, is there anyone here? Is anyone famous here? You're talking about Travis Kelsey's brother. Did you ask him what he thought it was like watching American football

without the cushy pads? I didn't. But I will say they were very impressed and they actually couldn't believe there were no helmets, there were no pads. Mind you, they were watching out Waihinne I will say they were very impressed and they actually couldn't believe there were no helmets, there were no pads. Mind you, they were watching out Waihinne too, so they were very, very impressed with what they were seeing out there on the field. What did your cameraman say to Snoop Dogg? He just whipped his camera out and was like, Snoop, Snoop, and Snoop was like, hey, as he just sort of wandered on through, you know, as Snoop does. You mentioned how everyone's loving it.

I'm watching Snoop Dogg on his social media. The guy is dripping in America merch. He's like a Trump supporter. If there's an American flag, something Snoop Dogg is wearing it at the moment. So the vibe there must be absolutely outstanding. Oh, it is. And I think everyone's on Snoop alert as well.

When we saw him the other day, he had like a big American flag, but as a scarf over his head, and he was saying he was channeling the Mona Lisa. Now you spent a bit of time inside the Athletes Village. I saw it on your social media. It looked really incredible. Like you don't even think what's inside there, things like a supermarket and a tourist shop and banks with uh your bank tellers yeah it has absolutely everything you can eat i was like what if i just stay here guys and i can do all the content from here there's supermarkets there's banks uh anything that you could ever think or want or need there's even samsung stores so there's literally athletes just walking in and getting phones i feel like it must

be part of their deal where they can get free samsung a free samsung phone so they just all walk in there and just do as they please and i'm just standing there going oh my gosh i picked the wrong sport playing netball samsung are regretting setting up that shop they're like the boss of samsung how many sales did you make at the village mate he's like oh i thought oh sorry i thought we were just giving them away for free. Got rid of thousands of them. And, like, what about the food? Because we've heard that there's Michelin star chefs in the village.

Have you tried some of that? Yeah, it was incredible. Every day there's a different Michelin star chef. So, you know, there's no McDonald's in there this year, but the athletes are absolutely treating themselves and they're trying. I think the coaches are more worried saying, please, look, let's just stay away from that. Eat the team food in the team room. But, I mean, when you've got a different chef there each day,

everyone's going to try what they're cooking up. So all the, if you just look at the New Zealand team, all of the athletes are there now, and they all hang for the next couple of weeks. Once you have finished, you do have to vacate the village within a certain amount of time. So, um, our men's sevens will be leaving, uh, very soon. If not, some have already left on their travels. So you stay, uh, obviously while you're competing and then you just have a little bit of time before you really have to get out. But I was thinking no one else is coming in

to take your room. So I mean, I'll try and stay as I'll try and stay as long as I could have a holiday. It's like salt in the wound, isn't it? You don't do very well and they're like, out, out, get out. Check out time's 11 o'clock. Obviously, you know, amazing atmosphere, athletes there, you're working. But I read, is it true that no beers, no beers for the supporters? Is that right in the stadiums and stuff? Oh, that's a good question. I actually don't know that one because, I mean, we are very blessed.

We're down right by the field and we don't get much of a break at all so I haven't ventured up that was the test for you that was the test for you to see if you've been drinking on your job yeah I read that you read that at the games at this uh at or you know all the events you're not allowed there's alcohol-free beers but there's no actual beers but I guess it's fair enough oh I'm yeah how are you mean to have a good time well everyone is well behaved because I've seen footage too of the whole city kind of on a lockdown or high security alert. Is it impossible to get anywhere?

It is. Probably every 20 metres there's about six police, and then the next 20 metres there's probably six army. They all have big machine guns. I don't know what kind of guns they are, but they're all just standing there. And I tell you what, if someone wanted to do a hot man in a uniform TikTok, this is the place to do it because they're all just standing around with their big guns.

Maybe you should set up an Instagram account, hot men in uniforms. I'm there. I'm there. I mean, maybe I should start getting some footage of that. Hot men in uniforms holding guns and a fish. There's just something I'd like to point out before we go today, Jono. One of us on the show, a bit of a sexist today. Oh, yeah.

Sexism scandal. Sexism rife. Now, it started with a, I know what you're talking about. It started with a riddle that I said about three different doctors said that Paul was their brother, yet Paul claims he has no brothers. Who's lying? And then, Jono, you came up with this. Paul is not related to the three different doctors.

Because the three doctors are women, mate. They're sexist. They're all sisters. They're Paul's sisters. First example. Women can be doctors. Yeah. Strike one.

Oh, are you doing that thing when you montage stuff together? It never looks good when you montage things together. It's all for one show. Okay. One particular show. this last three hours. Also, there was a comment where we were talking about the mayor of

Paris and how the mayor had gone for a swim in the water. I see the mayor over there. It's all good, guys. We're going for a swim. Didn't he drink some of it and go to prove? Strike two. Didn't he drink some of it? The, to prove? Strike two. Didn't he drink some of it? The mayor of Paris is a woman.

Annie. Annie. That's her name. And here's strike three, apparently. Hey, Megan, you were saying it's the first Olympics ever where gender equality is split across the board. Yeah, right across all athletes from all nations, there's an equal split between men and women.

I'm not happy about it but it's the world we live in. Okay, again, when you montage stuff together it doesn't sound good, does it? Bad time to make a joke about that.