Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: The Board Of Honour Jono Was Left Out Of...

Episode Date: August 3, 2022

Today on the Jono and Ben podcast, Jono talks about being left off the Skycity 25 celebrations even after his record breaking marathon, Ben tries to be the fun Dad but turns out to scare his daughter and all of your latest Commonwealth games action is unpacked in the podcast!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Welcome. It's the podcast, 4th of August. Producer Joel thought that maybe we were reaching for content for the introduction of the podcast intro, and he just said, you know, got any good movies to recommend? Which is actually a good topic of conversation. You're going to recommend one movie out of all the movies that have been made to someone who's never watched a movie.

Oh, so this is just watching at home. You're only going to ever watch one movie. It's so hard. It's like we're doing the best song ever on the hits. It's so hard when you just pick. Because there are songs that are like in different genres, different times. But what's the best? You know, if you want something to go have a laugh, you want something to, you know.

Cry. Yeah. Have a laugh. Chuck on some. But they're a great movie. You know, like I really love watching something like uh happy gilmore or stepbrothers or things like that you know but i wouldn't say oh that's the best movie ever made but it's a movie you know i think something like that you know whereas there is a lot of great art movies made and you're like that's if you want to combine a bit of a laugh

yeah with a bit of movie coolness, Pulp Fiction. Oh, yeah. Wouldn't you go Pulp Fiction maybe? Yeah. Of our generation. I'm sure there's like, Gone with the Wind, the 1960s. What do they say on the internet is the best movie ever?

What is considered the best movie made ever? Okay, there's, I don't know, Shawshank Redemption is up. That's a really good one. Forrest Gump's a bolter. Yeah, Pulp Fiction's on the list here of this one as well. Yeah. Number one movie of all time. Okay.

Avatar. Interesting. And there are more movies coming out of Avatar. I think they've got a whole lot more. Made in New Zealand. Titanic's up there as well. Avengers Endgame. That is a bolter.

Yeah. Yeah. The new Spider-Man's been really good with Tom Holland and stuff. I thought that'd be good. But yeah, it's hard to go the best of all time. We should do it on the radio. The one movie you'd recommend and then we do a viewing with everyone

who hasn't seen that movie in a movie theatre I reckon Top Gun this year is the best movie I've still seen that and I need to go see it yeah

I'm actually I didn't even watch the original I went straight in and watched the second one don't go back and watch the original you went to Elvis last night yeah I went to Elvis last night

it was good but I was saying to you before probably could have been about 45 minutes shorter. I was quite tired. These early starts are getting to me, and I knocked it off. Oh, so hold it, so hold it. Joel's tired.

He's like, Elvis, can we shorten your story, the story about Elvis? Your career, your story. You're like, yeah, just a little bit, because Joel's feeling a little bit tired. There was about 30 minutes where he went on about some Christmas show. Yeah, well, they could have cut that out.

A Christmas show. Don't you want to see about that no no chop it out can you chop that out for me next time Elvis yeah

so how did you compare Elvis to Top Gun because they're probably the two big bangers this year aren't they yeah I think

Elvis could have had a little obviously I'm not a movie maker but I think Elvis could have had a little bit more Elvis songs

they didn't even have Return to Sender Devil in Disguise all my favourite ones when I left Top Gun I was like I want to get into Jep they didn't even have Return to Cinder Devil in Disguise all my favourite ones they didn't even have it all the best

when I left Top Gun I was like I want to get get into jet pilot flying after that I was juiced up they should have people outside from the

New Zealand Air Force recruiting people hey would you like that hey well you can do that for a job we've got one jet we can all fly yeah

come help us out get involved that's a good idea alright let's try and do that. Decide of the best movie. And then we just put it on in a theatre? Oh, people could watch it themselves. But yeah, all right.

We'll put it on there and people can come who have never seen the movie. Okay. That'd be fun. That would be fun. Yeah, well, we could do it now. We can all mix and mingle. We can all share our germs. Maskless.

No one's wearing a mask. That's my only demand. Unless we're watching the mask and then the james jim carrey could wear one what do you reckon the most popular movie like the most movie people in new zealand have seen so have you you just like a king movie or just like any movie like a movie that everyone would have watched it's like yeah so everyone's seen like i don't know the lion king or everyone's seen well that would be that's a good example that's a lot of people would have seen the lion King, the original.

I reckon Titanic. Yeah. It would have to be. Yeah, that's right. Because you go, not... You know, The Lion King was fantastic, but maybe not all generations would have got to it. Original Jurassic Park, any of those?

I'm trying to think. I haven't seen that. You haven't seen that? Okay. You haven't seen the original? I haven't seen... Forrest Gump? You've seen Forrest Gump? I've seen Forrest Gump, that's great. Yeah, that might be another one that a lot. You haven't seen the original? I haven't seen... Forrest Gump? You've seen Forrest Gump? I've seen Forrest Gump. That's great.

That might be another one that a lot of people would have seen. Yeah. Most, I'll say, most watched movie of all time. Titanic. Titanic. Titanic. Thanks, producer Humphrey. Yeah.

I never actually watched the end of the Titanic, though. Oh, as a spoiler, I won't tell you how it ends. Yeah. Things are great on the boat. That's for sure. Although there was a Titanic 2 I think was made But not with their cast I'm like

How did that get The ship returns Yeah But even if There was an actual Titanic 2 That was built I think In real life And you're like

Are we going back for round 2 Yeah Exactly They named the boat Titanic 2 Yeah The other list has Greece Oh Greece Greece

Greece is coming through From producer I never know If anyone can hear Producer B Maybe he bleeds through a bit But yeah Grease is the what

Most watched Yeah That would be Grease I wouldn't say nowadays Like the kids Like my I'm not probably

Going to sit down The kids and watch Grease Would you watch Grease Have you watched Grease I think I've seen bits of it Is that Yeah I've seen parts of it

Yeah definitely Yeah it's probably You know It's enough So What a few bits are enough but a mate watched it the other day and he said there's a whole lot there's these car chase things there's things there's all these things you don't remember because you're so used to the iconic songs and stuff there's a whole like storyline of like i remember they had a drag race and danny zuko the who's the baddie there was a baddie in there and he had sort of swords that

could come out of his wheels and rip the tyres of... It was like Fast and Furious but with a lot more singing and dancing. It was a musical Fast and Furious. You're right. But you know, just given the time and the technology, the car's probably more slow and steady. I'll enjoy the podcast

today. It's a real fun one. We talked to someone who had proposed seven times to someone. How did that end? We'll find out on the podcast. And we thrust someone into the limelight. They are our unofficial reporter for the Commonwealth Games. They didn't even know they were going to be our reporter. We just rang someone at random, and it's very, very good.

Enjoy it on the podcast. New Zealand's most successful unsuccessful show. Jono and Ben on the hits. Auckland's iconic Sky Tower. 25 25 year birthday. 25 years. Isn't that crazy? I thought it would have been like a 15, 10 year. It's really hard to imagine Auckland without the Skytower. At the time I was looking at it, I forget, but it was quite controversial at the time. A lot of people were like, we don't need it, we don't want it want it it's going to be an eyesore but now it's like one of the

icons of all clubs who said we don't need it we don't want the people like the it's like the stadium debate you remember when they were going to have a stadium and it was like all the money you know but it's awesome cost 85 million dollars uh 328 meters high is the needle and they actually for once they built it ahead of schedule like quicker i mean who does it's the only building project in history that were finished before it was meant to it looks it does look like a giant hypodermic needle though doesn't it it does but yesterday we were there filming outside and they had around the sky tower they had iconic moments of 25 years of the sky tower oh yeah just photos of you know big you big tentpole moments that have happened over the years. You're right.

Now a few months ago you did the world's first marathon up on the Skytower. You ran a marathon around the outside of the Skytower hundreds of times around there, hundreds of metres in the air. This was an iconic moment. Oh, if not the most. So they had pictures along

the way around each. And a timeline. So starting 25 years ago which would have been what, 98, 97? When it was first built, then they had pictures along the way And a timeline Starting 25 years ago Which would have been what, 98, 97 When it was first built Then they had a little picture You go along and you're like Oh there's a picture of Beyonce Beyonce did a sky jump

That's an iconic moment She deserves to make the cut She's Beyonce I'll give her her 15 minutes Go along a bit further There's like Sarah Walker BMX athlete She's cycling around the outside

She's got a photo. Oh, this is good. Again, Sarah deserves to be there. Yeah, exactly. So we're moving up the timeline. We're going through the years. Then we get towards. We hit the 2000s.

Yeah, we get to the 2000s. More stuff going on. You're like, oh, yes, it's iconic. That's a great thing. And then you get to, well, this year. 2022. And there's like, well, this guy, you know, they've got this ride, this virtual, this VR thing. This guy telling you, like, okay, well, you must have this ride, this virtual, this VR thing at the Skytel.

You're like, okay, well, you must have been just before that. But you went on there. You're snubbed. You're not there, mate. You're not one of the Skytel iconic moments of 25 years. Why are you finding so much joy in this? I'm not. You are.

You're smiling as you're saying it. I'm not. You're the one who made me run a bloody marathon on top of the thing. I thought it was an iconic moment. Look at you, you loser. You're not even on the iconic moments. It wasn't. The joy this is bringing him.

He even made a point of it. He's like, come over here, mate. Look, he's got all the... So he had pre-seen the timeline. He knew what was on there. And he was like, let's have a look and see if you're on the iconic moments, mate. And I came over and go, oh, am I on the iconic moments? And I started you way back 25 years ago.

I started in 2001 and we worked our way up and we're like, here it comes. And my face is going to be on here. It's an iconic moment in our hearts. Well, that's nothing. I can't see a photo in your heart, can I? Your heart's not plastered all over the outside of the Sky Tower at the moment. But it was well worthwhile what you did. Well, happy birthday, Sky Tower.

Actually, we park our cars there, so I was walking out there this morning. Lovely gentleman came up to me. Lovely gentleman. Got the three-peat. Like your shoes. Can I have those? I'd prefer not to give you my shoes.

Okay, fair call. Got any change? No, I don't. I've just got Air Force. Hmm, okay. What's in your bag? Well, my work stuff, because I'm going to work. So that was a lovely interaction. No I don't I've just got Air Force Mmm okay What's in your bag? Well my work stuff Because I'm going to work

So that was a lovely interaction Scrolling through your feed Time for a big old bowl of newsily What's going on Ben? Well Commonwealth Games On again this morning And while you were sleeping Sam Gaze and Ben Oliver

Won gold and silver In the mountain biking Which was pretty awesome Unfortunately Joelle King Couldn't complete her bronze medal match In the squash She was upset in the mountain biking, which was pretty awesome. Unfortunately, Joelle King couldn't complete her bronze medal match in the squash. She was upset in the semifinal in the epic match. I saw Gaze and Oliver just pumping towards the finish line there.

And who got gold out of the... Sam Gaze got the gold, yeah. So Sam Gaze, so Oliver was in the lead, and Sam Gaze just boom, over top. Oh, really? Bit of walkies. Hey, mate, we're country. Be like, you running past me for another job.

Oh, hold on, we were doing this together. We've got bronze in the judo as well, Amore de Villiers and Lewis Cleber, the swimmer. Just before, a couple of moments ago, he added bronze to his two Olympic gold medals already. And it's another big morning. We've got David Letty in the weightlifting. There's a squash final, a gold medal final with Paul Cole.

There's a lot of athletics going on this morning, so we'll keep you up to date throughout the morning. Zoe Hobbs in the 100m sprints. Yeah, she's in the semifinals about 6.43 this morning as well, so hopefully she'll be making the final. Look at you with your schedule. 6.43, she's down to the minute. She gets to the finals.

She'll be there at 8.45 this morning, guys. I'll keep you up to speed. I feel like a Commonwealth Games nerd right now. I'm across everything right now. Oh my gosh.

I'll keep you up to speed this morning. What are we sitting at? 29 medals, Producer Joel? I think we're 30 now. 30, yeah,

must be on 30. Yeah, great. Now, we made a wild prediction at the beginning of the year. We did 22 predictions for 2022.

One of them was, New Zealand walks away with 50 medals at the Comm Games. We did it as a gag. We never thought we were going to get 50 medals. Well, you know. There's another week of... Yeah, I think there's another week to go, so hey, we might be right. We might have

picked this one. And in the UK, there was a huge train delay yesterday. The tracks were delayed because of a giant tortoise on the tracks. Thanks for that, Sound Effect. What is that? It's a tortoise, apparently. No for that, Sound Effect. What is that? It's a tortoise, apparently. No one ever would have known.

What is it, Carl? Listen again. It's like almost a round. Now, Clyde is a 50kg African tortoise, and it did a runner from a pet shop. Now, you wouldn't think a tortoise would be able to do a runner, but this was in Norfolk in England.

Maybe it was watching the Commonwealth Games, was inspired, and it did a runner, but this was in Norfolk in England. Maybe it was watching the Commonwealth Games, was inspired. And it did a runner, and it managed to crawl 400 metres before sadly it had a bit of an injury on the way and it ended up on the train tracks, which is not the spot that you really want to just... You don't want a giant tortoise on the train tracks, no. But 400 metres is probably like 400 kilometres for a tortoise. It must have been a long time.

The tortoise was too heavy to lift at first but thankfully they stopped all the trains. They got a vet along. They took it to surgery and it's all good. It's made a full recovery. But they did say, great pun, Clyde's all good if not a little shell-shocked. Oh, that's good. And that's some wonderful filler content.

Wonderful filler content this time of morning. I thought it was quite interesting. It's a lovely story. You know, you'd slap it on the end of the news bulletin. Yeah, well, that wasn't the end of it. I did all the comprehensive Commonwealth Games stuff. Yeah, you did. To the minute. To the minute Commonwealth Games.

And then I was like, hey, there's a tortoise story you might want to talk about. A little light-hearted stuff. When you get to work this morning, you're like, did you hear there was a tortoise? 400 metres. Oh, yeah. You know? That's what's making news this morning. Well, I look forward to all the news after seven.

Yeah. And we're starting with Tortoise Chat Although it's a big bag It's after 7 o'clock, don't you worry about that Spilling the tea on Hollywood's A-listers Kardashians I have met every single one Exposing scandals

She's not a good person, but either is he Digging the dirt Is she a diva? Yes And finding out what's going on behind the scenes Yelling at cast members Yes It was a script No His identity is a secret But his stories have been proven right Yeah. And finding out what's going on behind the scenes. Yelling at cast members. Yes.

It was a script. No. His identity is a secret. But his stories have been proven right time and time again. This is Enty. Live from Hollywood, Enty, come on down. How are you guys? We're doing all right. How are you?

How's things for you? I'm good. So Amber Heard has sold her house. Now, I looked at these online. It sold for a million dollars. It was in the desert. It was a palatial-looking house for a million US dollars, which I'm thinking is about 1.5 New Zealand.

Are houses, like, are they expensive over there? Because we're paying, mate, we're paying through the roof for a house in New Zealand. Yeah, for the roof. Okay, this house is in the middle of nowhere in a place called the Yucca Valley, which, you know, for the listeners, there's a national park over there

called Joshua Tree National Park. It's in that area. It's probably 30 minutes from Palm Springs and about 30 minutes from where we have Coachella. So it's quite a ways from Los Angeles. It's at least two hours east of Los Angeles. So she paid a half a million for it, sold it for a million. In Los Angeles proper, for a million dollars, you're probably going to get a condo.

Maybe two bedrooms, if you're lucky, depending on where it is. You're certainly not going to get a house. Right, okay. Unless you're willing to be in a very sketchy part of town. I'm willing. I just want to get him there. I want to get there. Put me next to the sex workers and the drug addicts.

So Beyonce, she's got a new album out. Everyone's very excited about that. But then it got leaked a couple of days earlier. Who's leaking this? And do they ever find the person that's leaking movies and albums like that? Well, I think the album one was, I thought I saw somebody in France, like a record store started selling it early, which might have something to do with it.

It gets a buzz going, right? If it's leaked early, then everybody's talking about it because they're talking about the fact that there's a leak rather than just, oh, Beyonce's releasing a new record. Oh my gosh, somebody leaked it.

Oh, we're listening to it early. Oh my gosh, you got to go buy it. Oh, you know, Queen Beyonce, go buy it. You know? And then it gets everybody excited for the two days later and then they get to go buy it. But I think that we're going to find that the record sales for this

are going to be very disappointing. I've never, I've never, I went to a Beyonce concert with my wife once. It was like watching a goddess. You know, have you been in the presence of Beyonce? I have. And I would, I would totally agree with that, that she watching a goddess. You know, have you been in the presence of Beyonce? I have, and I would totally agree with that, that she's a goddess. I think that she's a brilliant live performer. I think that this particular record is not as strong as some of her other ones.

It's not going to do as well as others, but I would encourage anybody, if you ever have the chance, to go see Beyonce live in concert. Yeah, amazing. others but I would encourage anybody if you ever have the chance to go see Beyonce live in concert yeah amazing do you know uh yeah uh there was a lady here in New Zealand wasn't there and uh her hair got caught in the fan didn't she one of the Beyonce's fans up close to the yeah yeah a fan got her hair caught in the fan because she's surrounded by 32 fans which you know exquisitely blow her hair in the right direction and one of. And one of the concert guys got her hair trapped up in the fan. It was a right fandangle.

It's always good to catch up. But one thing I actually want to know, getting a little bit personal right now, I feel like we've become friends over the past few months, talking to you all the time. Obviously, we still don't know your real identity. We'll probably never know.

But who does? Do people in Hollywood know who you are or are you pretty good at keeping a secret? I mean, I'm pretty good at it now, but, I mean, I would say that there's, you know, 10 or 15 maybe. I don't know who I am. Oh, only 10 or 15 people. Yeah.

So if we came to Hollywood, would we stay in the spare room? If you came to Hollywood, I would go out to lunch with you guys. Oh, yeah. Dinner? No, I said, would we stay in the spare room? Yeah, you said dinner. Dinner's fine. I want baby with dinner. Jono wants to lunch with you guys. Oh, yeah. Dinner? No, I said, wouldn't we stay in the spare room? He said, dinner? Dinner's fine. I'm happy with dinner.

Jono wants to stay in your house. NT, love catching up with you. We'll see you. We'll hear from you next week, buddy. You have a great week. Hey, you too. Sounds good. Mature, responsible, and considerate.

Three words we sadly can't use here. Jono and Ben on the hits. He's the host of Dancing with the Stars, the master singer in New Zealand. And next week, a new show coming to three now, Heartbreak Island, a dating show. Clint Randall, good morning. Boys, my favorite duo. How you doing? Nice to talk to you.

I bet you say that to all the duos you talk to. JJ and Fletty's. I saw there's a Masked singer duo We don't know who they are That would be more Favourite than us But that's for sure You're the first duo

I've seen it do this morning Yeah How you going bro? I'm doing well Glad Yeah you guys? Yeah no we're doing well Very excited

A couple of things Well Masked singer's On the telly box The giggle Well they call it The goggle box The giggle The jiggle box

At the moment Which you're doing an amazing job of. I do have a question, like the secrecy around that. Do you, or not honestly, we've known you for a while, we consider ourselves mates, do you have any idea who the celebrities are? No, I was asked season one if I wanted to know, and I stupidly said no, like I wanted to play along. And then this season, they've just decided that they'll continue to not tell me. So I will find out two minutes before the mask comes off so that it's not embarrassing

for me when I go, it's Barry from season two of The Block. I see what's going on. What about the costumes? You get to borrow those afterwards for fancy dress parties and things like that? I think I actually never asked, but I feel like I could because last year's costumes are sitting in Denise who makes them. She said they're all just sitting in her en suite, which she never uses now because she's got 10 season one

Masked Singer costumes just piling up. Who would have thought there's not much market demand for a Pavlova costume? In the very, you know, the very brief experience I had with the show, I did see some people in the hallway, but they cover them over in black sheets. That's because the white sheets obviously had... Yeah, no, hang on. See what I mean.

But Heartbreak Island, which is coming to three now next week, I read last night, Clint, it said Clinton Randall was set to become the David Attenborough of the dating world. Well I suppose you are looking at young Gen Zers in their natural

habitat but also in a wild setting of a five star Fijian resort. Can we even besmirch David Attenborough's good name by linking him to some sex fuelled heartbreak island show? Yeah, exactly. If people haven't seen the show before,

because it's back and now it's on three now, how does this one work? This one is pretty much a bit of a free-for-all in terms of pairing up with somebody who you find attractive based off an online profile. But very quickly, you learn that Tinder and all those different platforms and choosing from a profile

isn't a surefire way to find your perfect match. So they get a chance to sort of jump around and swap partners, but you go through challenges to try and stay on the island, and if you are the last couple standing, you end up taking away $100,000. Yeah, well, Tinder's not your perfect place to find your match, but a soulless reality TV show is. Now, Ben was saying that it was filmed over a three-month period. You were all locked in the resort.

It was like a bubble. Even the resort workers, from what I understand over there in Fiji, they were like, they're committed to the show. They couldn't leave until you guys left. Yeah, we actually got really tight with a lot of the Fijian staff, and they were all crying when we left. And I was like, this is weird. But then I realized, oh, it's because we'd all been hanging out for months.

Some of the Fijian staff had been there pre-Christmas, and were still there when I left at, this is weird. But then I realised, oh, it's because we'd all been hanging out for like months, like some of the Fijian staff had been there pre-Christmas and were still there when I left in the end of March. Wow. So they hadn't seen their families for four or five months. And I imagine, jeez, they would have wanted to hose down that resort after you guys had been there. Oh, yeah, would they?

Hey, Clint, always love catching up with you, mate. Congratulations on all the success and good luck for Heartbreak Island, buddy. Still my favourite duo. That hurts. This is the Jono and Ben podcast. Wall-to-wall talking without the niggly popular songs in between. Ben, one of my hobbies and interests is watching really dark documentaries. Yeah, you do.

You watch a lot of, yeah, you do. I do. So, although, you know. You don't really watch movies as such. Yeah, no, just like, although since we've had kids, I'm watching less and less of, you know, the world's most charismatic serial murderers and things like those sorts of shows.

But I did manage to sneak one in last night, which was on Nat Geo, and it was about scammers. And this reporter, she was really good she actually got into inside the scamming communities now there's two countries who do all the scamming there's jamaica and israel oh they are scamming is everywhere though it is everywhere but uh yeah these are the two hubs and in is Israel, they're more of the sort of financial scams. You invest with us, we'll give you a huge return. And their one is, Ben, how are you going today? Why don't I put some money in your account?

They put a little bit of money in your account and you think it's legit. And then they're like, oh, you need to top up your account. Then boom, you're scammed. That's the Israel version. Oh, right. So they actually give you a little bit. It's a little investment. Yeah.

It's a little carrot and dandruff. You've got to spend money to make money, as they say in business, right? So even scamming as well, too. And you look at it and you're like, well, it's just a sales job, really, scamming. Yeah, you're right. But Jamaica's the ones where they sort of target lonely, elderly people. And they spoke to this one lady. She makes like 238 calls a day.

She gets about three wins per day, $30,000 a month she's making off scamming. Have a listen to her and the type of people she scams. Because they're just so lonely and miserable. Husband divorced, husband is dead, wife is gone, whatever the case may be. So most of them, lonely. Are they all older people? All older people. One elderly lady, I took everything that she's had, right?

And she only had one thing, it was her wedding ring that her husband died. And, you know, she went and she sold her ring. To send you the money? Yeah, to send me the money. People say it's wrong. To me, it's not wrong. You send us money once, you didn't receive anything. You send us money twice, you still haven't received anything.

Are you crazy? These people are stupid. So she's got no guilt. She said they're just stupid people. But she does have guilt because at the end of the documentary, at the end of every day after a hard day scamming, she goes and washes herself in the river, washes her sins away. Oh, really?

I don't know if that's going to do the trick, but whatever makes you sleep at night. It's kind of sad, isn't it? You know, people fall for that. And that's what people are making a career out of in some ways. We're making their money out of just scamming other people. Yeah, there was another interesting moment from the scamming documentary. We have such a huge history of being broke and stuff like that. Things taken from us.

So sometimes we just look at it as taking some back. In other words, reparations. The idea that scamming white people is payback for a brutal history of slavery and colonialism. So that's how they justify it. They're saying we've been oppressed by white people over the years so this is just this is reparation. Gotcha. And they even do songs about scamming. There's smash

hit songs about scamming haven't this one's called Reparation. Listen I I'm no criminal but you know if I've done crimes the first thing I'm no criminal, but if I've done crimes, the first thing I'm doing is not confess. You're not going to a recording booth and release a smash hit song. So what would you suggest now for people after watching that doco? I'm listening, I'm listening to you.

I'm like, I don't want to get scammed. What do I need to do? Don't trust anyone. I don't trust you. I don't trust producer Dole, anyone. Just don't trust anyone. That's the big takeaway. Warning, this show contains jono and orban jono and ben on the hits now what a fact i want to be you know the guy that has a fact when someone goes tell me a fact but the problem is you're

going to get so many facts now you're not going to remember any of them no no that's my problem that's my problem do you remember because we had the same issue with the joke because people would come up to us and go what tell us a joke tell tell us a joke, and we didn't have a joke. But now we do have the show's joke. Remember the nation's joke? Yeah, it was to do with what is a Swedish Navy boats have barcodes on it. Is that right? So you can Scandinavian.

Scandinavian. When they come into shore, they can Scandinavian. Now, that's the show's joke. Feel free to use that. Yeah, that was good. That's right. Yeah, so we want the show's fact. You're right use that. Yeah, that was good. That's right. So we want the show's fact. You're right.

Your Caesar salad one, it received a mild response. Caesar salad wasn't actually invented by Julius Caesar. No, it was invented in Mexico. So there you go. Let's go to the phones on 0800. It hits right now. Jake, what's your fact? Well, so my crazy fact, I was scrolling through the internet,

and I read that a male honeybee reaches off of him, his *** would close, and his *** gets ripped off. Oh, well, this is too early in the morning for this. We've had to beef at least three quarters of your fact. But producer Bee Hubs, what's going on here, mate? Who's led the history? At what stage of the producing process did you think this was a good idea? Are you fact-checking these facts before they come through or not? I mean, it's a wild fact.

We'll never forget it. Yeah, and I feel very sorry for the male bee. Yeah. Oh, that's the one fact I tell everyone. One day I was scrolling through Facebook and I've seen it. But that's the only fact I now know. Well, please don't repeat it. When they talk about the birds and the bees,

is that what actually happens when you go into detail in that conversation? It's a great fact. It's a great fact. Unfortunately, we couldn't hear all of it. But, you know, if you want to go and find out what Jake's fact was, there's always Google. Yeah. Yeah.

Hey, thanks, Jake. You're going to have a great day, mate. Very funny. Jane, welcome to the New Zealand's breakfast. That's right. How are you? Yeah, good. How are you guys? Yeah, we're doing well. Jane, welcome to the New Zealand's breakfast. That's right. How are you? Yeah, good. How are you guys? Yeah, we're doing well. What's going on today, Jane? I'm just getting ready for work, unfortunately. Yeah, right. Well, what you need is a radio

show interrupting your morning schedule. What's your facts, Jane? Well, my fact is, I just read it the other day, actually, that we're all born with two fears. So humans are born with two fears. Yes. And so those are one fear of falling and one fear of loud sounds and everything else you learn afterwards. Oh, really? Okay, so every other fear you develop over your life, whether it be public speaking, flying, spiders, whatever,

that gets developed, but that's the only thing from birth that you have, is to fear. Yes, absolutely But that's the only thing from birth that you have is to fear. Yeah, absolutely. That's the only one. Yeah, well, I suppose fear of flying, it comes into the falling fear, doesn't it? Yeah, and you don't know about flying. Yeah, I guess you just don't know any of it. Yeah, you don't know about flying until you first come out.

You know, that's something you learn. So, Ben, all these fears that you have. I've built those up. You've built them up. A lot of them. Hundreds and hundreds. Oh, jeez. Yeah.

You've done well. Jane, that's a great fact. Awesome. Thanks so much. Have a long list. Hundreds and hundreds. Oh, jeez. Yeah. Well done, well. Jane, that's a great fact. Awesome. Thanks so much. Have a great day. All right, let's go on. 800 of the hits. Let's find if we can get another fact.

Is there a fact? There's a good one so far. One Republic ticket's up for grabs. Sue, you're on. Welcome. How are you? Yeah, good. Thanks.

How are you? Hit us with a fact, Sue. The show's fact. What have we got? Okay. So two of my favourite landmarks in Auckland. One is Lake Popoki on Auckland's North Shore, and one is Rangitoto on the Waitematā Harbour. It is a fact that if you picked up Rangitoto

and tipped it upside down and put it in Lake Popoki, it is the exact same shape. What? Really? Exactly. It's been measured scientifically, yeah? It is exactly that same shape. What? Really? Exactly. It's been measured scientifically, yeah? It is exactly that shape. Science.

Why did science waste their time? Anyway, no. That is a good one. So Sue could tell us this fact right now. That is incredible, Sue. You know what? That's going to get you to One Republic, Sue. Awesome.

I love One Republic. Thank you. The show's fact. It was certainly a lot better than Jake's B1 that we kicked things off with Yeah, well it's one that you can tell in all sorts of settings And it's science, it's fascinating because it's science That's right, it makes the show appear smarter, that's the show's fact, there we go, thank you Scrolling through your feed

Yeah okay, you've woken from a snooze, it's time for the news, Ben Yesterday was the final of Love Island UK, the dating show. Last night in Auckland there was a couple of pubs with hundreds of people watching it,

like a sporting event. Oh, it's huge. Jen, my wife, obsessed with it. She's... It'd be a lot of people's guilty pleasure watching Love Island UK.

56 episodes. So 56 episodes with six episodes a week. They're making a lot. I mean, it's a big commitment of your life. Churning out, you know. There's a lot of person-to-person contact that has to take place over those episodes as well.

And no clothes. They're all just wandering around in shorts and togs and all sorts of stuff. So six nights a week for eight weeks straight. 56 episodes. A lot of episode. A show. I'm not going to say who won because you can go to the hits.co.nz if you want to find out. I don't want to spoil it if no one's seen it yet. But the show is filmed one or

two days prior to broadcasting as well. It's pretty incredible they turn it around. 70 cameras capturing the action with hidden microphones. Because now the series is over, the couples are now released back into the wild. Well, they've probably been in the wild.

Back into the real world. Out into the wild. Well, they've probably been in the wild to be honest. Back into the real world. Out of the villa. They're released back into the world, the real world with another 20,000 Instagram followers each. Yeah, because obviously the money, I haven't watched too much of it, but the money that they're given is based on the people vote. People vote, they're watching the show.

And that opens up comments, good or bad, from people as well. And there has been, unfortunately, a couple of people taking their lives who've been on the show. Yeah, which is interesting. They kind of ploughed on with the format as well. I mean, they must have a huge duty of care situation there. Yeah, I was reading about that now. They do give the contestants a lot of help and support to navigate through going from basically being nobodies to being super famous around the world.

They're paid £250 a week for the show to cover their costs. Medical bills associated with what they caught on the island. A very long audition process and only one to two drinks a night is all they're allowed, apparently. So not that much alcohol intake on the island. Imagine if we did that in New Zealand.

It'd be a nightmare. Oh, yeah. We'd be like ploughing them. Isn't there something coming out next week? Yeah, there is. Oh, yeah. You'd be like ploughing them and then you'd be like, isn't there something coming out next week? Yeah, there is. Heartbreak Island. Yeah.

And Christopher Luxon, he got, well, there's an iconic pub across the road from the Beehive, the Back Bencher Pub, and they make puppet versions of famous politicians

and now he's up there. They put them on the wall, don't they? I feel like they've just taken Rodney Hyde's old puppet and they've put some Air New Zealand cufflinks on Christopher Luxon and made him like Humpty Dumpty sitting on a wall, don't they? I feel like they've just taken Rodney Hyde's old puppet and they've put some Air New Zealand cufflinks on Christopher Lux

and they've made him like Humpty Dumpty sitting on a wall. Well, they've pulled Judith down. Yeah. Judith Collins has been relegated to, where do you put

Judith Collins puppet? Do you send it to her? Maybe send it to her. Surely. Yeah, so he's now been given this great honour and he was talking about what song he wanted

to walk out to when he was getting unveiled as puppet as well and he came with the song song he wanted to walk out to when he was getting unveiled as puppet as well and he came with the song he came to play it and what you love is how awkward the intro is because it's a long intro to the song. Yeah now it's a topical song we're talking about

you know the cost of living and things but you've got a 20 second intro so Christopher Luxon's had to push play on his phone and the cameras are on him and the news reporter's just staring at him and he's like having to do some filler like a radio announcer talking over the intro. Have a listen, have a listen. What's your song going to be? There's a lot of options, there's a lot of options

but I think the one that's right now summing up exactly where we are as a country is this one. It's called Bills by Lunch Money Lewis, one of my favourite songs. You ready for it? So I'm walking onto this, right? Yeah. Good catchy intro, I think.

Too long. And sums up how New Zealanders are feeling across this country. Got bills. I've got to pay. So I'm going to work, work, work every day. Luxon also said when he saw the puppet that he was inspired by the egg. He thought it was very funny, but he was surprised it wasn't wearing a Hawaiian shirt as well after the recent thing.

He also said his election party, if he wins, would be either in Te Puke or Honolulu. He hasn't decided yet. So it's good to see him having a laugh with all that. And well done on remembering all the lyrics to that I Got Bill song as well. He did well. He did well. The Jono and Ben Podcast. The world's number one podcast. Please don't check those stats. More medals added

by the Kiwis in the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. We cross live now to our man on the ground. I think we can claim. Can we claim Mike McRoberts is our man on the ground? He's our man on the ground. Hits correspondent Mike McRoberts. Young intern making his way up through the ranks.

Mike McRoberts, come on in. Oh, hang on a second. Hang on. I mean, is there any merch? We'll get you a pink hits bucket hat, mate. Okay, it's a deal. It looks quite grey and overcast in Birmingham all the time. Yes, it is.

So what have you seen? What's been the highlight for you to see in this year's Commonwealth Games? It's funny because people always question the Commonwealth Games and their relevance. Usain Bolt once infamously called the Commonwealth Games a little bit shit. Back down. But I actually really enjoy them.

You get the opportunity to see some younger competitors who probably wouldn't get onto the international stage, you know, rise. And we've seen that with the New Zealand team, you know, with our swimming and track cycling. It's just been phenomenal. And the friendly games, they're called the friendly games for a reason. You know, people are just here to enjoy themselves.

And it's a really cool vibe. And I know there's a few people saying maybe we should be looking at hosting the games ourselves, perhaps down in Christchurch in 2030. Yeah, I think that would be fantastic. I think it would be great. Yeah, well, because you look at the Olympics, I think there's over 200 countries, 70-odd countries in the Commonwealth.

And you go, gee, it was back in the day, the British Empire, they colonised, they took over a lot of stuff. Didn't they back in the day? They were big spreaders, yeah. The original super spreaders, but in a take over your country kind of way. Because you're over there working, obviously. Do you actually go and get to watch any of the athletes compete?

Yeah, look, I do try and get out to something every day, and we've got a great team here, so I'm always sort of checking in on them and making sure they're doing okay. But they're long hours. It's either end of the day. So I think I'm fronting or contributing just about every show that TV3 has at the moment. And our one, too, for some reason.

I don't know how you got roped into that, Michael Roberts, but we really appreciate it. This is the last thing you need. And, hey, I have a question, too. I noticed this year a lot of the athletes post-race are draping the Kiwi flag over their shoulder. Is that for warmth and insulation, or is that like a directive from the Comm Games team? It probably is for warmth and insulation.

I'm not sure. I think probably there's just a few more of them around. You know, when you look back to Tokyo last year, you couldn't have spectators. You couldn't have people getting anywhere near the athletes. And, you know, unless they packed their own flag, they probably didn't have one to drive over themselves. Oh, so they grabbed them from the crowd.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a lot of Kiwis here too. It's amazing. Yeah, it's just incredible to see how many Kiwis are here. It's fantastic. Jeez, are you getting a punishing over there, mate? How many selfies? What's your selfie count on a daily basis?

Oh, yeah. Mike's winning gold for selfies over there, mate? How many selfies? What's your selfie count on a daily basis? Oh, yeah. Mike's winning gold for selfies over there. I can imagine. All right, one event that you're looking forward to the most coming up, what would it be? I think probably, I mean, I love the track and field, which has just started. So I'm really looking forward to seeing Big Tom Walsh.

I think that's going to be fantastic. And some of the track and field events, we had Zoe Hobbs running the 100 metres heats today and she looked brilliant. So yeah, there's plenty of things to come. Plenty of action still to come in the Commonwealth Games. Thank you so much for your time in Birmingham, Mike McRoberts.

Pleasure. It's the game show that has the Ben with five words for 5k. Stop any time to keep the cash. Thank you. Or play on to win more. It's the game show that has the critics raving. The Chase is a phenomenal show. This one's, it's kind of about its thing, isn't it? Yeah, we're chasing the chase, that's for sure. But it's a fun game to play. I'm too scared to see what the critics think of this.

Yeah. Simple game of word association. You've won a whole lot of cash. It depends how far you want to go. Let's see who wants to play today. We'll head to Team Aru. Chris, you're on. Welcome.

G'day, mate. Good morning. Love it. Are you on to drive a rubbish truck? Yes, I do. Jeez, you must find a lot of gold. No. Well, my wife keeps saying,

what did you bring that home for? I'd be the same. I'd be like, this is great. All right, Chris, who do you want to send into the soundproof booth? Do you want Jono or Ben? Get in the box, Briar. No, get in the same. I'd be like, this is great. All right, Chris, who do you want to send into the soundproof booth? Do you want Jono or Ben? Get in the box, Bri. No, get in the box.

Sentence to solitary confinement. I like it. All right, Chris, you obviously know how the game works. We do, yeah. All right, your first word this morning is Markle. Markle. Markle. Megan Markle.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking as well. I reckon Megan's the way to go. Nemo. Nemo is word number two. Nemo. Fish. Fish, yep. Licorice.

All sorts. All sorts. Good idea. Flip. F-L-I-P. Flip. Flip. Coin.

Flip a coin. Yeah, that's a good option. Baking is the final word. Oh, look, I know Jono loves food too. He's a real foodie. Baking, what would he think? Baking, first thing that comes to mind is tray, a baking tray. Oh, yeah, a baking tray.

Sometimes the first thing that pops into his head is good, but hey. No, cakes. We'll go cakes. Cakes. All right, baking cakes. Got it. All right, let's get him out of the soundproof booth and we'll see how we go. Some tricky words is not what you want to hear when you come out of the sound get him out of the soundproof booth and we'll see how we go. Some tricky words. It's not what you want to hear

when you come out of the soundproof booth, Jono, but hey, we'll see how we go with Chris. What I don't want to hear when I come out of the soundproof booth is you bitching behind my back, so... I try and do that when you're in there before you open the door. How'd you go, Chris?

Oh, yeah, not feeling that confident. We'll see how we get on with the first couple. All right. $5,000. What would you do with it, mate? Timaru. I'm buying a Royal Enfield Himalayan motorcycle, an adventure bike. The only thing I know about Royal Enfield is because our friend owned one Indian brand of motorbikes.

Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Like from the World's Fastest Indian type? No, no. As in, they're from India. Oh, are they? Oh, okay.

So I don't know. See, I tried to check. You knew that. Dunk had one. I tried to chip in on him. Dunk would tell us this every day. Oh, no, but I would. You check, okay. So I don't know. See, I tried to... You know, that Dunk had one. I tried to chip in on... Dunk would tell us this every day. I know, but I would... You check out with...

I don't listen to car stuff. Even though it was motorbike stuff. Yeah, same thing. All right, here we go, Jono. Let's see how we go. Let's go to word one. Word one, $25. Markle.

Megan. Oh, well done. There you go. You got $25, Chris. But do you want to risk it all for $50 for the next word? Yeah. No, we'll press on. Here we go.

Let's press on. Word two, $50. Nemo. What are you thinking when you say Nemo? I'd say Finding Nemo. What did you go, Chris? Fish. Oh, fish.

Another good option. Yeah, that was a good option. Oh, mate, I let you down. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Chris. Let's see how we would have gone. Licorice. All sorts.

Oh, you got that one. Flip. Flip a coin. Hey, well done. And baking. Cake. Oh, no. You weren't there.

No, you said cakes. Jeez, you were close. All right, guys. Thanks for the effort. Chris is like, I've had enough. I've got rubbish to collect. Yeah, all right. We'll talk some rubbish for you, Chris.

Thanks so much for playing. We appreciate it. Thanks, guys. See you later. See you later. Have a good one. The Hits. Two semi-competent dads handing out semi-competent parenting advice.

Jono and Ben on The Hits. It was actually a couple of weeks ago I thought I was going to have, Jono, a really, one of those sort of moments you have as a parent that you're like, this is a great moment, and you're one of those teachable moments where you think you've clocked out, but it turned out, didn't turn out the way that I planned, so am I even now ready to talk about it? I've had this, I've suffered the same fate before.

Remember I wanted to, Oscar started asking about the homeless community, and I said, well, let's go into town and give some money, do a nice gesture. He gives some money to a homeless person, went up to give money to a homeless person. They weren't homeless. They were just a disheveled-looking university student waiting to catch the bus.

But kindly he said, oh, listen, I'm not, but thank you for the gesture. So that's the sort of moment I had. It happened over the holidays We went to like a Hydra slide park With my family And one of my daughters

You know Me and her That's like a happy place Hydra slides We like Yeah I love it It's fun It's so much fun

You could spend the rest of your life Doing anything It would be hydra sliding In a good climate Yeah right But it was Yeah it was lots of fun What do you think

The hydra sliding would wear You know the novelty of it Would wear off I don't i really love it but it's your happy place you've never told me hydro slides your happy place i do love it uh but one of my my youngest daughter indy you know she's as we were all kids they have things that they kind of go well maybe this is not for me and so she wanted to do it but then she didn't like the idea of how high it was going up there so we're like we walked up there the first time i was, if you want to do it, you hop on a tube. We can do it together. You can ride together on this ride.

She was like, no, I don't want to do it. We're like, okay, that's fine. So have you ever walked down from a high-dose slide? That's a slow pace. It's like there is a faster way down there, and it's fun, but we're taking the stairs down. So that's what we did the first time. And it's also a little humbling, too, when you're walking back down.

I've walked back down before. But I was like, well like well hey we're here for a few hours maybe we should try later on and she's like all right i'm gonna try i'm gonna try before we go it's good so we got all the way up the top there and you could tell she was nervous and i was like you know i was talking to her and i was like whatever you think how bad you think it's going to be in your head it's not going to be bad it's not going to be that bad it's going to be fun you're going to be so proud of yourself when you go and you do this you've conquered something trust me i even put out we pulled out a trust me yeah trust me it's going to be fine it's good i want to go down the slide now even just with this motivational speech trust me it's going to be fine you can tell she was nervous

she was starting to tear up i was like you're going to be fine it's going to be fine it's going to be good nothing's going to happen i'm going to be with you we're going to do this together she's like all right I'll do this. Got on together, got on the tube. First quarter, I hear her go, oh! And I'm like, oh, that's not a happy cry. That's not her happy place. The corner of the first corner. And then it was the longest ride down the slide.

I couldn't see her face because she was sitting in front of me in the tube. And I'm like, she is hating this. The poor thing is just hating this. She got off. I'll give her a big hug. I'm like, I'm so sorry. She goes, that was hating this. She got off. I'll give her a big hug. I'm like, I'm so sorry. She goes, that was the worst thing I have ever done. And you said, trust me.

I said, trust me. I'm like, oh my God, I feel so sorry. I'm so sorry. I felt just awful. You should. What are you telling me? You wanted me to make you feel better? No, I just was like, it was apparent.

I'm just trying to, you know, tell a story that maybe someone can relate to. As a parent, I try to. But the problem, the thing I have with it, it's always the dads. The dads are always making these mistakes. Then you've got explaining to do. I'm sure you had explaining to do down the bottom. I was on the bottom. Everyone's looking at me and I'm like,

Oh, look at this monster dad. Yeah, okay, sorry, guys. Bullying his daughter into the hydro slide. Yeah, so there you go. Mature, responsible, and considerate. Three words we sadly can't use here. Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, I've been watching that Netflix show.

Have you seen the most hated man on the internet? Oh, no, I haven't. I've heard about it. Yeah, he basically just started up a revenge porn website, Hunter Moore. Sounds horrible. He was just into ruining people's lives. And the way he was taken down was through

a relentless mother. Her daughter ended up on the website and she was relentless. I wouldn't let her go. I won't spoil it for you. Right. But no, that's what I'm saying was the inspiration for what I'm about to tell you. This relentless mother, you know. And I was walking through the mall yesterday,

Ben. Yeah. When I go to the supermarket in the mall, I'm a little bit dishevelled, track pants, you know and i was walking through the mall yesterday ben yeah i when i go to the supermarket the more i'm a little bit disheveled track pants you know beanie just weird weird sort of clothings i've dived into a clothing bin and jumped out sort of situation and um i had my first old man telling off where i gave some i was like yeah i thought when you said this earlier today to me i was like oh you got told off no i I did the telling off to a group of delinquent youth. Oh, no. What were they doing? It's not like a sprayer garden hose on them.

We've just had a win, have we? Gold in the squash. Gold in the squash. Well done, Paul Cole. You want to tell them off? I can tell you we're fully invested in my story and you're looking at the screen. Now you're going to tell me off for watching the Commonwealth Games. So then I'm walking out of the supermarket, okay,

and there's a group of young guys and they're walking up and there's a girl in front of me. And they must know the girl. They say, hi, hi, hi, and then they go on their separate ways. But I'm still in earshot. The boys move on and some less than savoury comments were said about the girl. Oh, hi, hi, hi, and then they go on their separate ways. But I'm still in earshot. The boys move on, and some less than savoury comments were said about the girl. Oh, no, really? And I was like, Pryor, this is your time to step up like that Netflix documentary and say something.

Oh, good on you. In this instance, I back you on this. Yeah, you were cringing at first. Well, yeah, I was like, oh, you know, you're going to, yeah. And I said, listen, I know you're just trying to be cool in front of your friends. We've all been there. We've all said things. I'm sure I've said things that I regret.

You know, but imagine if she was your sister or your mother. Imagine how you'd feel then. And they went, looked me up and down. That's good. That's what I said. Good on you for that. Because that's right. Because you've got to think about it.

You're right. Everyone's supposed to be cool in front of their mates. You do. And we all do. You know, and you regret it to be cool in front of their mates. You do. And we all do. And you regret it later in life. And they looked me up and down and were like, thanks weird homeless man

for that wonderful... No, they didn't say that. But I could tell they were thinking in their head. They were like looking at what I was wearing and going, why is this weird homeless guy

in a mask giving us advice? And to give them credit too, they're like, you know what? We shouldn't have. Shouldn't have said that or laughed at it and so we all went our separate ways

then I phoned up Newstalk ZB on the way home had a moan about the government what they're up to got home sprayed some skateboarders with a garden hose

what a day got some stuff done got some stuff if you're a guy here for romantic advice you are in serious trouble John Owen Bean on on the hit. Let's do Cliffhanger Calls.

It is Cliffhanger Calls. We get someone's, what they say is their best story. We stop it at a point and then you decide on 4487 if you want to hear the rest of the story. And generally we all do because they're great stories. Yeah, it's not North Korea. It's a democracy here in New Zealand. We give you the chance to vote. If it was North Korea, Kim Jong-un would be like,

you're going to hear the whole story whether you want to or not. Yeah, exactly. Get Robert on the air. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Yeah, hi there. Good to have you on, Robbo. First part of your story. Hey, I was at a party.

I was with a girl. I saw this girl who's now, anyway, I saw her, I thought, she's hot. So I went up and said, hello. Hold on, but you were with another girl? Yeah, yeah. Had a bit of a chat to her, and then anyway, I just sort of passed on through the night.

And about midnight, she came barrelling through the door and said, oh, I've got to kiss you for midnight. Oh, was it New Year's? It was New Year's Eve, yeah. I was going to say, otherwise it's just an interesting tradition. Oh, you're like Cinderella.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. But anyway, we had a brief kiss and she took off. Oh, but you've got another girl there, Robert. Yeah, well, yeah, she was, yeah, anyway. Anyway. Anyway, I went to another party the next night. She was there, and I spoke to her a bit,

and I thought, oh, I'll see if she wants a ride home. A guy got in front of me. I got there just in time to hear him say, oh, I'll give you a ride home, and he said, oh, all right then. Oh, so you missed out on giving her a ride home? Yep. Next night, another party. Jeez, you're a relentless partier.

Even after New Year's, you've got to have some downtime from partying, surely. I saw her again, and I spoke to her a bit longer this time, and I said, oh, I'll see if she wants a ride home. His name was Dirk, and he came in again and said, oh, I'll give you a ride home. She said, oh, all right then. Anyway. Oh, so Dirk came in and cut your, oh, I'll give you a ride home. She said, oh, all right then. Anyway. Oh, so Dirk came in and cut your lunch.

He did, yeah. Anyway. So Dirk's swimmed and he's given her a ride home. Yeah. To cut a long story short, three days and three parties later, we were at a surprise party. Surprise, it's another party. I've been on a party.

I've done no more partying. Well, we've surprised one on you. We were gathered in the car park. At the bottom of the drive, it was a long drive. She turned up and I went straight over here and said, I'll give you a ride home. She's like, you just got there. I don't want to leave.

I'm going to be bloody dork to the chase. Yeah. You're an Uber driver. I took her home and dropped her off and she said, oh, I'm leaving tomorrow. I'm travelling around Australia on a bus. She's like, I've had too much partying. I need a break.

Anyway, I said, oh, we'll see you. I went to see a friend that night. He said to me, we're going down the drive. We're actually going to go and wave to that girl at the bus station? I said, I don't really think about it that much. I don't even know where the bus station is. He says, oh, I do.

So we roared off down the bus station, and he's climbing in and out of the buses trying to find her. Wow. That's like a scene from a movie. I know. He found her. She came out, and she said, hello, how are you? Were you like, do you want to come to another party?

To another party? Anyway, we chatted for a while and she jumped on the bus and met the first. And I thought that'd be that. Six weeks later, I got a call from a lady that I used to work with and said, there's a girl looking for you. She said the airport wants a ride. Who can give me a ride home? The relentless ride offerer. I went and picked her up.

And yeah, I said to her on the way home, I said, oh, we should get married. And she said, no. So that's where we're going to leave it. You've proposed to this lady, and she said no to you, Robert. That's it, yeah. All right. We'll find out if we hear the rest of the story next.

I want to hear it. I do, yeah. If you're looking for marriage advice, you are in the wrong place. Jono and Ben on the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. We're doing a cliffhanger call with Robert. We're talking with Robert in the middle of cliffhanger calls. And might I say, overwhelmingly, everyone wants to hear the rest of the call.

Because it's such a great call. It's a great story, Robert. Many years ago, you met someone at a party. And after a bit of to-ing. It's like you say, Ben. It's a script from a rom party, and after a bit of to-ing, it's like you say, Ben, it's a script from a rom-com movie, a bit of to-ing and fro-ing. You proposed to her, Robert, and she said...

No. No. So that's where it could have ended, or maybe it ended. What happened after that? Well, we went to this party and i told my party she came to my place we lived together for two years and then i started proposing again and she said no that's two notes did she ever give you a reason why? Well, she was already married

Oh, okay, that's a good reason Okay, that's probably a good reason Okay, good reason She was in the process of being divorced Ah, right So you've proposed twice, she's given you two no's We lived together for a couple of years And randomly through that time,

I just kept, you know, I just walk up to her and say, hey, let's get married. And she kept saying no. So how many times did you ask her? In total, seven. Seven times? You got down on your knees,

did you have an engagement ring ready to go? Oh, no. Okay, maybe that's part of it. She was probably like, oh, he seems very unorganised. I didn't get down on my knee, I just throw it at her at the traffic light. Well, no wonder she's saying no. Anyway, well, maybe that's part of it. She was probably like, oh, he seems very unorganised. I didn't get down on my knee. I just throw it at her at the traffic light. Well, no wonder she's saying no.

Anyway, after six times, I said, oh, she might not want to marry me. I said, I'll ask her one more time. And I said, so, come on, let's get married. She said, okay. I was about five. I wasn't expecting a yes. You got it after, and that is the thing, isn't it? Persistence.

18 months between her saying all those no's and the final yes. Wow. So you got married? You ended up getting married? Yeah, we got married. We've got a couple of kids, some grandchildren. Everybody's happy. Oh, good on you, mate. That's Yeah. We've got a couple of kids, some grandchildren. Everybody's happy.

Oh, good on you, mate. That's awesome. What a beautiful story. And, you know, it's a great life lesson. If someone doesn't like you, just keep badgering them. Keep badgering. No, I don't know if it's... If someone doesn't want to do something, just keep badgering. No, no.

I don't know if that's the life lesson. No, I mean, the 80s were, I think, lots of fun. It was a wild time. It was a wild time, the 80s. We don't talk about the 80. It was a wild time. It was a wild time, the 80s. We don't talk about the 80s anymore. Hey, Robert, that was a wonderful story, mate. Really appreciate you being part of the show this morning. Hey, not a problem.

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