Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: We Caught Up With Zoi Sadowski-Synnott, NZ's First Gold Medallist In The Winter Olympics!

Episode Date: February 7, 2022

And what were her thoughts on her dad swearing like a sailor on the 6pm news? We also discussed who we reckon the most famous person in the world is. Jono reckons The Queen, Ben reckons The Rock (of course)! Finally, Ben did something extraordinarily embarrassing while out and about, to someone he thought was his friend. Enjoy the show!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Vids with the Jono and Ben podcast. Kia ora, it's the 8th of February. I wish, you know, February's a funny one, isn't it? And for some reason I've never nailed the spelling of February. Yeah. It always trips me up. Just go, Feb. I just go, oh, 10th of Feb, or whatever, you know.

It is a tricky one, isn't it? But thanks for joining us here on the podcast. Got a text through from my mate over the weekend. I thought you'd enjoy this. So he's like, last night I had a crazy dream. So this is what his dream happened. He dreamt that you, me, and John all moved to Japan.

Oh, yeah? Okay. You became like the equivalent of the Briscoe's man for the 100 yen store. I did? No, I did. Oh, you did?

You started a men's lingerie company over there, according to this dream. You both had a radio show. You both learned how to speak Japanese and had a radio show in Japanese, and I was your manager. We lived all together in a small one-bedroom flat with a set of bunks. It was a wild time.

Yeah, where are our families in this situation? That's what I said. I said, what happened to our families? Because he's married with kids. We're all married with kids. I've gone off on some sort of male lingerie-focused mission. He said, these are questions I'm hoping to have answered in tonight's episode. Believe me,

I woke up wanting to know more. So there, yeah. So there, it's a shame with dreams that you can't just pick it up like an episode, you know, some nights and go,

where did I leave that? Yeah. Sometimes like, in like shows, you'd be like, oh, I'm done with that, move on. But other nights,

you're like, really want to go back there. Where was that heading? Yeah. Because I'm like, how am I, you know, we've obviously got jobs

outside of broadcasting. You're hocking off their version of Briscoes and I'm like how am I you know we've obviously got jobs outside of broadcasting you're hocking off their version of Briscoes and I'm for some reason delving into male lingerie

that's going to take up a lot of time you know Rihanna stopped music to focus on her fashion but we're still doing a radio show and we've gone

you know we've learned another language to do it as well we've done a lot so I think maybe our families will like surely we can afford

to live in more than just a one bedroom apartment with bunk beds. Sounds like we'd be creaming it. A radio show in Japan. You're the face of the Briscoes.

My male lingerie line would be blowing up. I'd like to think maybe our families were like, hey, let us, we need to go over there and get things sorted.

You guys will be over soon. Maybe that's the occasion, but who knows. Right, so we're just like a super rugby player who's having a sabbatical. We've gone over to set up all the logistics. you know, maybe that's the occasion, but who knows? Right, so we're just like a super rugby player who's having a sabbatical. We've gone over to set up all the logistics. Yeah, no, hey, they want to come across.

We've got to focus on, you know, this big, we'll get things sorted and we'll all come over. And when you get over here, there'll be a house, there'll be air, you know. But at the start, we're all living together in bunks. It'd be interesting, can I call Jen, my wife, and just see what she would think of, you know, me just pivoting into male laundering? Yeah, sure.

This is going to be an obscure phone call for her. Ben loves phone calls and podcast intros. He's like, why are we putting so much effort into the podcast intro? It's going through his head. Hello? Jimbo Yeah It's just me and Ben here You're just in the podcast intro

I'm doing the intro No, you're part of it I didn't want you to be part of it I thought, but anyway, we're here now Leave her alone, don't waste time But Ben's friend had a dream that Ben, him and myself went over to Japan We were still broadcasting And Ben was the face of their version of Briscoes, and I started a male lingerie company.

Okay. We both questioned where our family's in this situation, and Ben said, we've gone over to set everything up for the family. Yeah. When you come over. It'll be all sorted. That's what I like to think, even though I wasn't part of the stream. But Jono wants to know

how you'd feel about him starting a men's lingerie company. In Japan. I'm sure that would be fine as long as it's high-end lingerie. Okay. Sophisticated stuff. Yeah, okay.

None of the shabby $2 business. Not this time. Yeah, right. So I've got the family's blessing. Oh, yeah. We're moving to Tokyo. It's happening. It's happening.

All right. Love you, darling. Okay, bye. Bye-bye. There we go. So there we go. We've got, I'm sure Amanda will be the same. She'll let you go up and be the face of Briscoes.

Sounds like a fantastic opportunity, really, when you think about it. It does. The podcast today, Zoe Sadowski-Sinnett, our gold medal winning athlete. Our first ever gold at the Winter Olympics. Jeez, what have we been doing up until now? How long have the Winter Olympics been going? Oh, yes. Not traditionally, you know, as good with the Winter Games as we are in the Summer Games.

We've had a few medals, but yeah, it's amazing. Which is interesting, because we do have, you know, a lot of mountains. Yeah, yeah. But maybe this new generation, I mean, Zoe's, what? This is her second Olympics and she's 20 years old. Yeah. You know, she's won a bronze. She's won a gold. She's incredible.

And so maybe there's this new generation that we're going to be like superpowers in the Winter Olympics. I don't think we'll ever be superpowers. Don't do it. No. If you want to get. When has New Zealand ever been a superpower? If you want to get your lingerie into my store, mate, you better start agreeing with a lot more stuff. Have a good day.

The weather wasn't so good over the weekend around the country, wasn't it? Rough, rainy weather? Yeah, it was wild, wet, and windy, wasn't it? And, well, we went away to the Coromandel. And my son, it was his birthday. So he's like, I want to get into surfing. And I said, well, you know, we'll get a surfboard. He's had a few lessons over the last couple of years.

So that was his birthday present. And we thought, well, what better conditions to go out than in the middle of a storm? It seems like great conditions. Look, I haven't really surfed before, but... Yeah, I've got no previous surfing experience To be honest I watched a 3 minute YouTube video Before we went out

I was like oh yeah I've got this And the thing is with surfing They're all so chill Like Kelly said Hey bro I'm just sort of wetting the waves Surfing is stressful as hell Have you tried? They make it look so easy, don't they?

They're all like, hang loose, man. But you're out there. The waves are crashing in on you. I've got like three cuts all over my hands from the fins. Oh, my gosh. Slicing up my fingers. Oh, really? I walked out of there a bloody bleeding mess.

I don't think I stood up once. I was like, we're going to end up on the 6 o'clock news in the middle of the tsunami that we're trying to surf in. But, well, yeah, that was that. So I feel like that's you done. That'll be you. That'll be one and done. That's you.

You'll move on to something else now. How did Oscar go? He stood up. He did well. He stood up a couple of times. Yeah, but I came back with this giant gashy skin hanger. My daughter's like dry reaching on the beach going, ugh, ugh,'t put it away it's my fingers what do you want me to put them it's not the first time people's reacted like that to you on the beach though is it oh sorry

have you surfed before juliet you were a big surfer oh my dad is a big fan of surfing and he tried to get me into it when i was little and i didn't have a bar when i was little but now i've given it a go like a few times as an adult and i whenever i do i'm like i just wish i committed and dad was right like i should have picked it up when i was younger because you can pick up things so much easier when you're younger well look at that like good zoe sadowski yeah i mean she's 16 she was at the first olympics 20 years i mean you know getting in there early as a family start when she she start when she was three years old? I think so, three years old. That is crazy. Yeah, you know, that's the thing.

My parents and me as well, a long line of cheap arses. The snow is an expensive sport. Generations of tight arses. We're not going to take our family to the snow, are we? But you could have been at the Olympics. Yeah, if we'd gone to the snow. If Kevin Boyce had loosened his butt a bit And shouted you to the snow

He's like we'll wait for the snow to come to us And never quite did It's a frosty morning You're just skating down the street on your snowboard In the Wairarapa Coming up next We've been doing good deeds 28 deeds over 28 days through the month of February

And just because it was a long weekend It doesn't mean that the deeds stopped, Ben. No, that's right. We kept deeding. Yeah, what did we get up to over the weekend? It involved us getting soaking wet, not surfing. It is the hits. You got Jono and Ben.

The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. How was your weekend? Ours was good. We were just changing lives out there, doing good deeds. Don't know what you guys got up to. I don't know if we changed lives Over the weekend But we helped out

It was nice Let's not undersell it We're changing our lives Do you think You know when Jesus Walked across water Do you think he came back He's like

How was your weekend Jesus Just walked across water What It wasn't much Don't worry You've got to talk it up mate Have you seen the UFC fighters They talk themselves up We are doing 28 good deeds In 28 days Throughout the month't worry. You've got to talk it up, mate. Have you seen the UFC fighters? They talk themselves up.

We are doing 28 good Ds in 28 days throughout the month of February. If you've got something that you'd like us to do to help you out, you can hit us up at the hitstock.nz. I won't lie, I'm starting to think we've bitten off more than we can chew with this 28 Ds. Now, I'd like to recap back to the beginning of this journey when you wanted to do it for an entire year. Oh, my God, I am so glad we did not commit to that.

Do you remember that? People were like, let's go an entire year. Holy heck. I've been D today. It's one of those things. I mean, anyone can do it for one month. It's another full-time job. But at the end of the year, it's going, people would talk.

They would talk. That would be changing lives. You would be. Changing our lives. You would be on the fade-out first week of March. Remember the A to Z of New Zealand? What happened to that Yeah we faded out of that one

I'm fading out of this as well No it's been a lot of fun Going out there Helping out people And over the weekend We did just that Would you like us to wash your car And we'll pay for it as well

I want hard Fast Soapy Suddy And messy It's like a love making session Here we go Free soak time

Okay free soak time There that was Emily's car She was a personal trainer At a swimming facility And messy. It's like a lovemaking session. There we go. Free stock time. There you go, free stock time. There, that was Emily's car. She was a personal trainer at a swimming facility, and we washed her car for her and paid for it. It was a pretty shabby job, to be honest. Changing lives. Changing lives.

I think she had to re-wash it. But that was one. That was just one of the things. It was a three-day weekend, and so we had to knock off three good deeds over the weekend. Yeah, the other one was Ganesh Raj, a lovely lady in Christchurch who needed some plans for her meals. Six kids in the whānau. You wanted some help meal planning because you have a family who span the generations.

Yes, I do. So here's what we're going to do today. I read your notes, and they said gluten-free. You want to have more iron in your diet and add more vegetables. Absolutely. Today we're going to make a Pad Thai noodle stir-fry. It was so therapeutic watching Ganesh cook in the kitchen, wasn't it? It was. It was like I was watching a live cooking show.

Yeah, it was incredible. And it was awesome. Thanks to Countdown, we hooked her up with a $500 voucher as well. So there's the two good deeds. Friday, Saturday. Sunday, we shouted McDonald's in the drive-thru. Can we get five apple pies, please? Stop it.

What are you ordering? And four Sundays. Four caramel Sundays, please. Hey, mate, we're going to pay for all that. We'll pay for his. There we go. Just tap and go. Accepted.

Accepted. There we go. Need a receipt. Need a receipt. Can we just get a receipt? So we'll just grab a receipt there. Is there a receipt there mate? He's really focusing a lot more on the receipt Can we grab a receipt?

Hi Okay okay Well there you go So yeah there was a lot of concern surrounding the receipt Because we had to take Because it was an $80 McDonald's purchase we got for this guy Who was going to take all the food home to his family And I had to get the receipt

And bring it back to the accounting department here, and it was a high level of stress. Yeah, from you, basically. The receipt, the receipt. You keep knocking on the window of the drive-thru trying to get the receipt back. Who do I have to sleep with around here to get a receipt? And the last good deed that we did over the weekend was cleaning a dog for Riley. So we're here at the dog wash washing Riley's dog, Maisie.

The dog is soaking wet and currently we have dog shampoo and flea control all over our faces and in our mouths. Maisie's loving it. You've sprayed me three times with the hose. I find there's nothing quite like the aroma of a wet dog. Oh yeah and it lasts. It really lingers. So those were

four deeds all wide and varied. We're not putting a box around these deeds. We can do literally anything. Yeah, if you want to hit us up, head to the hitstockco.nz. Our good deeds continue just for the month. Yeah, no more hose-based deeds, if possible, because neither of us can be trusted

with a hose in our hands, not spray it on one another. Next, Zoe Sadowski-Sinnett. She won our first ever gold medal, but what was her reaction to her dad? Maybe dropping a couple of cheeky F-bombs on the news. We'll find out in a few moments on The Hits. Scrolling through your feed.

That's new. We cross live now to The Hits News Bureau, also known as Ben Boyce and a shabby internet connection. Take it away, Ben Boyce. Well, over the weekend, many of us have been glued to the Winter Olympics. It's happening out of China. Sadly just overnight Alice Robinson from New Zealand missed out on a medal in the Women's

Giant Slalom. But Zoe Sadowski-Sinnett became New Zealand's first Winter Olympic gold medalist at just 20 years old over the weekend. Here was the moment where she on her final run after sort of having a shaky sort of second one would she do enough to nail the gold?

Well, have a listen. And the 92.88 Zoe Sadowski Senate has done it. On the final run of competition, she grabs the gold medal. Julia Marino will grab the silver. Tess Cody with the bronze. Tess Cody with the, they have all got the perfect names for snowboarding. There's a New Zealander also with the name of Cool. The actual name is Cool, snowboarding in the Olympics.

How cool. Literally, how cool was that? You come out of your mother and you're destined to just strap your feet to a snowboard with a name like that. I also thought with Zoe Sadowski-Sinner, she literally has ski in her name. S-K-I is in her name. She was obviously destined to be a snowboarder from a very early age. And it was so awesome. Actually one of the coolest things was not just seeing her win but seeing

the other competitors. One of them had just been knocked off the gold medal position come out and just embrace her. Oh they all jumped on her. It was you know very COVID-y but they all jumped on her and celebrating and I likened it to watching remember they had skateboarding at the Summer Olympics for the first time

just recently. And all the skateboarders were like, hey, bro. And just all supporting each other and hugging each other. I think they forgot they were actually at the Olympics. Yeah. They were just hanging out, having a fun time. That was awesome. New Zealand is so proud of Zoe.

She joins us actually after 8 o'clock. We spoke to her yesterday, but we spoke to her about her dad. Now, her dad, you know, the whole family have been watching, like the country, but they've been having a few drinks, watching, and then afterwards celebrating our first ever win. And then they spoke to him, as always, Dad, live on the news. And here's what happened. I'm pretty f***ing excited, to be honest. The only thing I looked for was Illume's reaction. Who are you getting this from?

She was f***ing crazy she took it off the roof oh I love it he sounds like we're playing him in slow motion I know he is incredible it was such a great

moment on the news and we spoke to Zoe we'll give you a little we spoke to Zoe about this we were like hey you've seen your dad here's what she said

but your dad he wins our gold medal for dropping in F-bombs live on the news have you seen the footage? I've seen the footy. It's pretty crack up.

Seen the footy? Everyone was so proud. I was like, he's New Zealand's dad. It was awesome. Yeah, you can't blame him. It was Waitangi Day. Yeah, and a big risk from the news going live. We'd been watching them get on it for six hours. They kept crossing back to them and then we're like, oh, we'll chuck him live on the news. What was the result going live. We'd been watching them get on it for six hours. They kept crossing back to them, and then we're like,

oh, we'll chuck him live on the news. What was the result going to be? It's like the Olympics. Annie on the snowboarding jump. High risk, high reward. Shall we chuck a man who's been drinking for five hours on the news? I love it. It was so good.

I think New Zealand will love the family even more. And as I said before, Zoe Sadowski-Sinnick, she joins us at 8.20 this morning. Great chat with her, actually. She's awesome. So tune in this morning. It is the hit. She got Jono and Ben.

Jono and Ben. The Humble Yum Yum podcast. Check it out on iHeartRadio with Ganesh Raj. And he joins us every week to tell us who's on it. Good morning, Ganesh. How's things? Kia ora. More na team.

How are you? Oh, good. Good to hear from the Humble Yum Yum. We'll talk about food that I want to put in my ample tum tum. How's the podcast going this week? Ganesh, how have you got on? Oh, well, today we peel back the layers of the mighty onion that I like to call Simon Bridges.

Oh, Simon Bridges, okay. National Party MP, former National Party leader. Yeah, you know what? I'll tell you what I learned about this man. He's just like us, don't I? He's just like you and me? He's one of us. He's just like you and me.

He's just like you and me. If you poke him, he bleeds. You know, if you call him names, sometimes it hurts his feelings. Now tell me, what's his go-to dish, Simon Bridges? I imagine he's a barbecue guy. Yeah, probably. Check this out, right? You know how at the top of the show I always ask to guess what their death row meal is?

And it took like 12 minutes for him to get through his. Because he went all out, man. I think he took this death row thing real serious. And he's a politician, never giving you a straight answer as well, too. No, it's not like, there were like eight courses, 47,000 things added to it. And was he for the death penalty? Is he back in there?

Hey, we didn't go there, we didn't go there. The Humble Yum Yum podcast with Ganesh Raj and Simon Bridges, National Party MP. It's on iHeartRadio. Now, Ganesh, we get you on every week and you do offer some wonderful advice to people. You can just text in 4487 if you want some help from

Ganesh and thanks to Countdown, we're going to give them a $200 voucher as well. But Kirsten, you're on the air and you're catering for what? A hen's party. A hen's do. Don't you just have every form of phallic-shaped object in food? Yeah.

Ganesh, I'm going to hand this one over to you. No, no, there you go. You nailed it, Jonathan. That's it. All right, Kirsten, I have some critical questions to ask you. Is this happening in your home? It is, yes. All right.

There's a thing that you can do, which is these mini tacos, mini prawn tacos. They look like little starters. Ooh. That sounds good. So you can find all your favorite things, like a little bit of tomato, maybe a little bit of chorizo if you feel it that way. Or you can make it vegetarian. Depends if the girls, you know, have some vegetarian vibes.

And then you serve it with our favorite afternoon or morning snack, the Bloody Mary. Oh, Ganesh, every solution he comes up with, I'm like, yes, I would have a porn taco. I want to be in the hen's do. That sounds amazing. Hey, Kirsten, I love a hen's do. It's just the constant soundtrack of ah.

And don't forget, you've got to have a pony from Genoa playing in the background. Bow! Bow! Bow! Well enjoy your hen's doing. Kirsten, thanks to

Countdown. $200 coming your way. Every day's a fresh day to enjoy Countdown's fresh summer produce head and sore today. Alright?

Awesome. Thank you for that. Jono and Ben on the hits. On the hits. Jono and Ben short week this week, only four

days so hopefully that motivation will get you through it. I feel behind the eight ball for some reason today.

Don't you? You feel flustered. It's only four days to feel behind the eight ball. Yeah, great, great.

Now, Ben, on Friday we were broadcasting from a paint warehouse, the Resine paint warehouse and we were stacking Resine paint tins, one on

top of another, $250 each can and you raised, because Ben was the careful stacking Resin Paint tins, one on top of another, $250 each can, and you raised, because Ben was the careful placer of the tins, you raised over $6,000, and thank God, because we were going to the audience as to whether we should stack another tin or not. Debbie said,

no, pull out at $6,250, the madness needs to cease, and thank goodness Debbie said that, because this is what happened next Oh Debbie Debbie Yeah so luckily we had that money

to give away and we gave it away, it was a nice wee moment all thanks to Rosene Those were the tins falling over by the way I'm literally just going oh Debbie Yeah that was the paint can, we got really high, we had a scissor lift by the roof because we ended up taking it inside Resene because of the wind conditions outside. Things were a bit unstable out on the corner of the car park.

But listen, I think there's an ulterior motive for you wanting to go inside because we were at the beginning sitting on a desk in the middle of the car park next to the world's biggest power pylon. Now, there was this noise emitting from the pylon, which I recorded after the show. Have a listen. Just like a crackling noise. And I think that sound is the noise

of not being able to make any more babies. Because you were very concerned about what it's emitting. I mean, this is a guy who turns off all the plugs in his household. His phone sleeps five kilometres away from him. Yeah, I was like, it's not meant to be like that. It's not meant to be sounding like that. Just your normal, you know, standard thing. It's overloading.

It's making noise. That feels like an audio representation of how I feel after about five coffees. And who knew power would sound so powerful and frightening? You know, full respect to those people who have the big pylons in their backyards. Yeah. Those are good. Those are, they're doing God's work. And full respect to birds too.

I mean, you know, birds that just fly down and land on things. I know you have to have one lead anchor, but if they knew what was, I mean, if they heard what was going through that. Yeah. Potentially. Yeah. I would always want one of those in the backyard, though. Great jungle gym for the kids. Free jungle gym.

Just don't touch the ground at the same time, guys. Hey, two spies next, and a huge TV show's in danger of ending. Yeah, I know. One that you might be a big fan of. We'll touch on this next. And it's the hits. You got John and Ben. The hits.

On a day that petrol prices have crept up to pretty much $3, they were saying in Wellington. $3. Oh, my goodness gracious. Spy. Know what's up. Spy.co.nz. All right, now to producer Juliette,

who's been sticking her nose in where it don't belong. In the work toaster again. We're like, Juliette, get your nose out. It's a communal toaster. But anyway, what's happening in Spy? Some news came out recently about the long-running TV show Neighbours.

Neighbours. And how production of this TV show may cease in a couple of months. And fans are not happy. Basically, the reason why production might cease is a UK network that partners with the Australian, I guess, production company, their partnership is ending and they actually rely heavily on UK viewership.

So without UK viewership or whatever, is viewership even a word? I don't know. Without UK viewership, Neighbours isn't probably going to be as successful. So they're thinking they might not continue making it anymore. Iconic show. Yeah. I mean, back in the day. You say back in the day, but it's still going.

I mean, Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Margot Robbie, Guy Pearce, some of the people that started their careers. Crazy. It's so big. The environment, though, the way people are digesting content has changed nowadays. So, you know, how does a Neighbours go? Where does it sit?

What is the ratings on Neighbours now, just playing on TV? I don't know. I haven't looked into that, but... Don't ask me that. Give me the key demos of Neighbours numbers. You're really that curious, weren't you? Go have a look. I don't care that much, to be honest.

I'm just trying to say some stuff. But they've now started a petition and thousands and thousands of people have signed it basically begging for it to stay on air begging for the UK and Australian partnership

to continue. Yeah they did that for our show as well. They did actually. Did they? The thousands and thousands of people actually it was lovely.

There's only one ending Neighbours. It was close to 10,000 or something I think it was quite a lot. That's so sad. Something like that. A petition doesn't

change anything yeah take it from us guys it is that is so sad I always feel so much better as a human being when you sign on

social media those petitions you're like oh I'm such a good guy change.org baby and you never follow it up though do you

no people aren't now going gotta bring back John to a bed aren't they whatever happened to that dolphin

I was trying to save in the middle of the ocean and now speaking of Joe Rogan over 100 episodes of his podcast have been removed from Spotify in censorship row. Not all of these, obviously some of these are ones with misinformation around COVID, but also he's had, I think he said some racial slurs in the past in his podcast as well. So those have been removed. Joe Rogan has. Yeah.

Oh, really? Yeah. But also Spotify have come out and said that, you know, taking Joe Rogan's podcast off Spotify, silencing Joe Rogan isn't the answer to this. But I'm thinking, Spotify, you just know that he's a big moneymaker for you, so you probably don't want to completely remove him.

Well, it's interesting, isn't it? I mean, you'd probably go back through this show, you'd probably want to delete a few hundred episodes, wouldn't you? Not for racism scandals, just for pure embarrassment. That is living somewhere forever. Yeah, but I'm sure he's probably got probably thousands more episodes, so he'll be fine. But you know what this does in turn is it just promotes it even further.

Exactly. This is money can't buy marketing. This is very true. What is that saying? Publicity something? No, publicity's bad publicity. All publicity's good publicity. There's a saying there.

I don't know if that's always the case. Say that to Cosby, for example. Very true. That is Spy Update for this hour. For more you can head to thehits.co.nz. After seven o'clock on the show, adults sleeping with teddy bears. Apparently it happens quite often, and we've got someone that's got to talk to us about it,

as well as a professor that's going to break down exactly what it means. It is The Hits. You've got Jono and Ben. The Hits. Jono and Ben. Just reading over the weekend that millions of adults around the world still sleep with a soft toy a cuddly toy teddy bear around seven million people in the uk alone uh sleep with a teddy bear at night so and have

done since childhood it seems to be something that they've carried on does that feel like something that people would judge you for but yeah it feels like everyone's got that one item in their household that they have to hide when people come over. But maybe why? I won't tell you what mine is. But I hide it under the stairs. And we've got Imogen with us on 0800 The Hits. Hey, guys. How are you? Oh, we're doing really well.

Fully grown adult who sleeps with a teddy bear. I am, yes. And no bones about it. Not a shame to say either. Not at all. No, no. Everyone sort of in my life knows that I'm the one that has a teddy bear with her everywhere. Listen, I have one thing to say to you, okay?

As a grown adult, that is truly adorable. You thought I was going to go another way there. Yeah. But it's truly adorable. It's actually very common. We've been looking online. A lot of people do it. What's the reason behind you doing it?

When did it start? Well, so I got this teddy bear so his name's bearski um i got him the day i was born um and he i don't know i think just from yeah i think just because he was always with me um i've just always kept it um going i guess so any overnight trips i do um he was he's always in my bag or um any holidays i go on like whether that's overseas and things he always comes with me um and yeah he he he sits on the bed um 24 7 what happens if you what happens if you spend a night without him um that that just doesn't happen this doesn't happen every single night you've slept, this teddy bear's been with you? There was one time, I think I was about seven years old,

when I was in Australia, and I left him in a McDonald's bathroom. Uh-oh. And it took about three months for him to get home to me. So, yeah, that would be the only time I've been without him. He's a well-travelled bear, isn't he? He's been around the world. He's been in toilet stalls and bathrooms. He's been overnight trips.

Yeah. So what happens? What's the reaction when other people notice the teddy bear in the room? What do they normally say? Oh, they just sort of make a comment. Oh, you've got a teddy bear. I'm like, yep. My teddy bear can give them a bit of a backstory.

I've had him since I was born and things. And they're like, oh, that's actually quite cool. He's older than me type thing, you know? So yeah, no, it's not a bad reaction that people give, I guess. Yeah, it's cute. It's cute. And just as cute, Ben, you've still got that doll that you sleep with at night. Have you still got that?

It's adorable as well. I have Simpsons figurines. I have NBA pop vinyl figurines. But I don't have a doll that I sleep with at night, Jono. No, no. I thought you said, oh, no, that's right, you're like, don't say that publicly, that's right, sorry. But it's just as cute, isn't it?

Just as adorable. And so what would your advice be to other people who don't sleep with teddy bears? Should we all get on board this train? I think it's quite soothing, actually. It's just like a little bit of a child, I mean, you grow up with them in your childhood, so I think it's quite soothing actually it's just like a little bit of a child, I mean you grow up with them in your childhood so I think it's just a comfort thing, you know having them with you

is actually quite soothing and relaxing I guess in a way. Oh well when you go back to your childhood with a teddy bear it's cute and adorable, when I turn up to work on my nappies from my childhood it's go to HR please Jono You're wearing nothing else but nappies from my childhood. Go to HR, please, Jono. You're wearing nothing else but nappies.

That was weird. Hey, well, Imogen, thanks so much for sharing that. It's really, really interesting. And good on you. Good on you. And apparently there's many of you, thousands. Oh, that's good. At least I'm not alone.

Have a great week, Imogen. I really appreciate you talking on the show. You too. Cheers, guys. Imogen there, she sleeps with a teddy bear. Next, we've got a professor joining us from the UK. Who's done a study into this. Yeah.

Why are these people doing it? Should we be judging them? No. And is Imogen on hold and can she still hear me? Fascinating findings. Next, stick around. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben.

I've been holding on to pieces. Breakfast with Jono and Ben. Now, we found out that millions of adults go to bed with soft toys and teddy bears. And joining us right now is a professor, Professor Bruce Hood, who's done a study in the UK all about adults taking teddy bears to bed. Professor Bruce Hood. Oh, hello there. How are you? It's radio announcer Jono Fryer and Benjamin Boyce here.

How are you? I'm very good, thank you. I'd love to have a profession and be intelligent enough that my profession is before my name. But you don't get that as a radio host. Does the novelty ever wear off being called a professor? Oh, yeah, but you get to be called DJ, don't you? Yeah.

It's not an endearing term, is it? Think about it, Professor Ed, have you ever used it for evil purposes? Absolutely. I had to get into restaurants, get ahead of the queues. It doesn't work at all, though. I hate to say it. There's too many professors around. We wanted to talk to you.

Really interesting conversation around adults who sleep with teddy bears. Yeah, that's true. There's a lot of them doing it, and it's really quite an interesting phenomenon that I've been looking at in kids originally. So what's your finding saying so far? Well, okay, so we think it's much more common in Western homes where children are separated for sleeping purposes somewhere between the first and the second year. So I think it's part of their nap time routine that they get used to having a blanket or a teddy bear or anything in the crib. That helps them settle themselves down.

And that's why you don't find these objects as common in children who are raised in traditional Eastern homes, in Asia, for example. They sleep with their mother well into middle childhood. So we think it's really just a practice that starts early. But what's really interesting about this is that the kids form really strong emotional attachments to that. And this is certainly true of the children we've looked at.

If you try to take these things away, they get really distressed. So they take on a real kind of value that makes them sort of irreplaceable. Really interesting. Well, my son, Oscar, he had this bunny when he was growing up and we're like dear god if we lose this bunny we are in for you know it's a world of pain yeah so we got a backup bunny and an identical one but he would he would not go the backup one it was always the original one even when we tried to just trick him into it and he knew the difference yeah well they smell a bit disgusting after a while um So they can tell the difference.

But that's kind of interesting because it sort of speaks to the way as adults we kind of really prioritize original works of art or memorabilia or things which are connected to people that we really care about. It's really important. It's the original and not duplicate. So I think it's actually something that doesn't entirely go away. But what's really funny? I was at a party. I was talking about this that was a i was talking about this research and uh there's uh there was this guest there's another woman there and she'd

had a little bit too much to drink and she admitted that she had a teddy bear and what was really funny is that she said that when she brought her boyfriend back she always had to turn the teddy bear to face the wall because she was so embarrassed teddy doesn't need to see this. The shame. Oh, the shame. Professor Bruce Hood, if you've just joined us, has done a study into adults who sleep with teddy bears. Now, Professor Bruce Hood, have you ever come across a fully grown man who sleeps with his grandmother's panties?

Well, no, hang on. This was when I was a kid. My comforter, and I know you're talking about me, my comforter was my grandmother's petticoat. Petticoat, sorry. Yeah, and I like the feel of it, taking it to bed. Now, I don't currently do it. I have it sitting at, you know.

He turns it to the wall. He turns it to the wall to look away every night. But that was my thing when I was little. That was what I was into. Well, each to his own. I'm sure that's what you taught the police officer. But I'll tell you something else that's interesting, because when I was talking about this stuff again to other people, I say, oh, this is a human thing.

It turns out it's not just humans that do it. Actually, certain animals do it, and the ones that do it are domesticated animals. So dogs, in particular. Puppies do it. And I think that's really interesting, because they wouldn't do it in the wild, but they do it when they're raised in households where there are other humans. So I think we domesticate our animals and raising them, they also form

these strong attachments. Fascinating stuff. Well, thank you so much for your time, Professor Bruce. Hopefully we get to do it again. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, that was fun. Hey, good on you, mate. That was a fantastic chat with the professor there. If you've just joined us, we talk to professors now on this show. Watch out, RNZ.

Gold medal winners as well. Watch out, Sky Sport. We're coming for everyone. After 8 o'clock, we chat to our newest gold medal winner, Zoe Sadowski-Sinnett. She joins us at 8.20 this morning on The Hits. The Hits. I like to let the songs completely finish here. I do.

We don't want to talk over the creativity of the artists That's what we do here Ben Boyce Now there's no more frightening sentence as an adult That a child can ask an adult And here it is Hey dad, can we make some slime? Have you heard that? Can we make some bloody slime?

I've been part of that before One and done Terrifying It's, yeah Can we make some bloody slime? I've been part of that before. One and done. Terrifying. It's, yeah, because you know what's coming. You know it's going to be an absolute fiasco, a mess everywhere. We slime over the carpet, slime over the grandmother, slime everywhere. But you do it because you pretend to be a good pill.

So I was Googling, okay, and yesterday to make slime, I Googled, you get corn flour, shampoo, Ben's nodding his head, he knows, glue, Elmer's glue. That's right, yeah. Bloody food colouring, a range of colours of food colouring.

You can even get kits as well in places when you buy the pack, you know, so you can go home and make your own. So much easier. Like a kid's version of sort of Breaking Bad you know like some of them sell it at school too

like Breaking Bad they can sell it in little puddles but the ingredients is basically the combination of road tar and nuclear waste yeah

pretty much so I'm like okay if we're going on this slime journey together then we're doing this 4k's away from anything

resembling carpet so we're doing it in the lawn and we mix it up that's fine my fingers i'm getting involved and i really we only realized like three quarters of the way through gloves would have been a really good addition to this process because if my fingers are all blue it looks like i've been sort of tanning smurfs or something and it stains to food food coloring oh yeah. Yeah. That's not coming out. No.

And anyway, I make the slime with her and her friend, and then we go to her friend's house. And I turn up at the door with a Chinese takeaway container full of blue slime. And I was like, guess what we've been doing? Parents gave me that look of like, you're a monster. Why would you be doing this? They're like, come in anyway. And I don't know what was going through my head but i was like okay well when i walk into the kitchen i just put the slime in the fridge i don't know why i felt like the slime needed to be

refrigerated so you gave this was like it was like a takeaway sort of thing it was a bag of like we can't have all this slime you take some of it home. And so I turn up at the friend's place, the parent's place, and I put the slime in the fridge. We go outside, have a bit of a conversation. And then I hear from inside the kitchen, uh-oh. And I don't like uh-oh because I know it's something to do with the slime. I walk in and the slime has spilt all through the fridge. Uh-oh.

All over every piece of, you know, last night's lasagna, all over their shopping in the fridge. The whole fridge is stained blue, and there's no coming back from that. Oh, Jono. There's no coming back from that. There's just, like, sticky sludge all through their fridge, and I'm like, well, I'll just let myself out.

Yeah, it's probably for the best, right? And you know when there's like an oil spill on the news and there's all the oil over the dolphins and seagulls and stuff? That was like their fridge, except it was blue. It's fine, it's fine, but it's not. Well, I haven't heard from them since. I might be invited back again. Next, Zoe Sadowski-Sinnett.

She's New Zealand's first ever gold medal winner at Winter Olympics. But what was her reaction to her dad on the news? Might have been, you know, a couple of sneaky F-bombs. Have you got the audio of the dad on the news, Juliet? It was so awesome. Such a great moment. I'm pretty f***ing excited

to be honest. The only thing I looked for was Illume's reaction. Who you getting your sister? She was at f***. We'll find out what her reaction was when she speaks to us next. It is the Hits.

You got John on, Ben. Five words for 5K. You're just five words away from $5,000. It is our game of word association. We play it every morning at this time on the Hits match. Five words without five words and you win $5,000. It is our Game of Word Association. We play it every morning at this time on the Hits Match. Five words without five words and you win $5,000. All we want to do, it's our only goal in life,

is to give you $5,000. Karina, welcome from the Waikato. How are you? Good morning, guys. Good morning to you. Are you dropping the kids to school? Yes, I've just done that. I've just dropped my young fella off to his bus stop.

How stoked are you? How stoked are you, Karina? They can't hear that. I've just dropped me young fella off to his bus stop. How stoked are you? How stoked are you, Karina? They can't hear you. I'm really stoked. Okay, give us a woo! Woo! Yeah, there we go. That was a half-hearted woo there.

Felt like I forced Karina into it. But let's see who you're going to force into the soundproof booth to match five words with Karina. Can I go Jono, please? No worries. That was a good segue, too. Did you hear that? It was a wonderful segue. Yeah. All right, Jono, please? No worries. That was a good segue, too. Did you hear that? It was a wonderful segue.

Yeah. All right, Jono, you head off to the soundproof booth, and we'll see if we can match five words with Karina. What would you spend the money on, Karina? I've just got a newborn. He's under two weeks old, so I would love to go and buy him some, treat my baby, and probably save some more,

so save the rest. Well, congratulations on the newborn. Hopefully we can win you the $5,000. Hopefully, fingers crossed. Your first word this morning, what pops into your head when I say Buckingham? Buckingham. Palace. Buckingham Palace, yep.

That's what I was thinking. Project is word number two. Project, P-R-O-J-E-C-T. Project. Runway? Project Runway. Oh, yeah. It was a great show.

Project Runway. Chimney. Chimney. Chimney. Can I come back to that one? Yeah, sure. No worries. Ship is word number four.

S-H-I-P. Not a swear word. Ship. Wreck? Shipwreck. Shipwreck. Ship is word number four, S-H-I-P, not a swear word, ship. Rick. Ship Rick, yeah, nice. And family is word number five, family. Oh, there's so many words for family. Yeah, there is actually.

Cycle Jono. What would Jono say? Family. Friends. Family, friends, oh yeah, family, friends, and friends. Friends? Family, friends. Oh, yeah, family, friends. That's nice. And we're going to circle back to chimney now.

Anything popping into your head? Probably not because you've been thinking about other words, but let's go chimney. Chimney. No, I've got chimney smoke or chimney sweep. Both are good. Yeah. Chimney smoke.

He's on the same page. Hopefully we'll bring him out of the soundproof booth. He hasn't heard everything we've been saying, and we'll see if we can match five words with your five words to get you $5,000. Okay, Karina. What would you spend this money on? Oh, we've done that.

Sorry, you're in the south. She's got a newborn two weeks ago, too. Oh, fresh. Yeah. Fresh out of the oven. Yeah. Well, there we go. Well, this $5,000 would go towards abundance of nappies, no doubt.

Yeah, exactly. All right, Jono, first word we said to Karina this morning was Buckingham. Palace. Oh, he comes in with a little bit of arrogance. Well, I've got a really good feeling about today. I reckon we're about to win Karina $5,000. All right, let's do it. Project, what was word number two?

School. Thanks, Jess Al. I don't know what that feeling was I had. Maybe it's indigestion. Project Runway. Oh, the TV show. Yeah, the TV show. Oh, yeah.

Sorry, Karina. I can see how you ended up there. That's quickly ripped through the final three. Chimney. Sweep. Oh, we debated that one. It was smoke or sweep. We went with smoke.

Ship. Shipwreck. Oh, nice. And family. Guy. Yeah. Karina, not quite to be today. I'm so sorry about that.

No, that's all right, guys. Thank you, Jono. Maybe next time. Next time. And I'll tell you what you should go and do today, Karina. Go and raise that baby good and proper, okay? Hard out. Hard out, guys.

Hard out. You have a great day, all right? You too. We've got some spy entertainment news on the way. Yeah, Heidi Klum has confirmed a very bizarre rumor around her teeth, and it's really, Prue. We've got some spy entertainment news on the way. Yeah, Heidi Klum has confirmed a very bizarre rumour around her teeth, and it's really, really weird. I've heard no teeth-based rumours about Heidi. She was Project Runway, wasn't she?

Oh, yeah. A big morning for Project Runway fans. That is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. The hits, Jono and Ben. Now, where the Queen celebrated her 70th Jubilee, we're going to talk more about the Queen and what happened after 8 o'clock this morning.

My favourite thing about watching the Queen celebrate her Jubilee is she can't even be bothered cutting a cake now. She's not fully aged. She just put the knife in, she's like, you guys do the rest. She's at that stage of life. I don't even have the energy to slice a cake. Fair enough. Spy. Know what's up. Spy.co.nz

Alright, this is more damaging to a celebrity than a sex scandal. It's Juliet's spy. What's happening up, mate? What's happening up, mate? What's happening up? So Heidi Klum has confirmed a very bizarre rumour that kind of went about, was going around about something that she used to carry around

with her to her different modelling sort of projects. And that was her teeth. So when she was a little bit younger, Not in her mouth. No, not in her mouth. Teeth, extracted teeth. Always good as a model

to have all of your teeth. Yeah, true. So when she was a bit younger, she had her wisdom teeth taken out and a few extra teeth because of an overbite or something. And she decided she wanted to keep these teeth that had been extracted. And she kept them in a little bag and she took them around with her to all of her modelling shoots

and everything as like a good luck charm. And so she's just confirmed that this was true. But she doesn't know where they are now because it was quite a long time ago. It's like the tooth fairy. You know, wandering around with a handbag full of teeth. Now you actually, speaking of mementos for prosperity, you have a wonderful story about your friend's mother who pulled out a special piece of him at her 21st birthday.

He'd been wearing it around in a locket for many years next to a photo of him. And it was a little bit, they'd say they'd cut off when he was born. And they'd cut off just a little bit. I wonder if they had to dry it before they had to put it in the necklace. A bit of calamari, basically, sitting in a locket. Some dried up biltong. Gross!

So yeah, that was... I mean, people keep all sorts of stuff. Yeah, they do. Is it a good luck? There you go. That's true. And there is an Adele lookalike who is now performing in Vegas. Obviously, Adele was meant to perform for her residency.

She was meant to perform every weekend between January and April. And this Adele lookalike has stepped in, saved the day, and anyone who had a ticket to Adele's original residency gets free entry into watching this Adele lookalike in Vegas. So you might not get the real Adele, but you might get a similar experience. She's really good too. She sounds amazing. She's very good.

She's also getting Adele's $800,000 a night that she left behind. Yeah, I know. So, I mean, it's not quite Adele, but it's a little bit something if you flew all the way over there to see her. It's not much of a consolation. You know, if you wanted to see Adele, well, we've got a lady who kind of looks like her. She's seen pretty well too, you know. Enjoy that. But like, that is so classic Vegas,

right? You know, very classic Vegas. It's a good idea from them, you know, to give away free tickets. Yeah, it's a nice thing to do. I was actually saying before, five years ago today, I got a Snapchat memory. I was in Vegas with my family. Unfortunately, I was too young to partake in any today, I got a Snapchat memory. I was in Vegas with my family. Unfortunately, I was too young to partake in any drinking over there at the time, but I walked past a lot of impersonators.

My favorite one was a Zach Galifianakis impersonator, and it was this dude who had like a baby doll on a front pack. Oh, from The Hangover. Him from The Hangover. Yeah, very good. Anyway, that was a weird story. There's some hustling going on over there, isn't there? Definitely. What is that one guy who kept, he was dressed as a lady

and he kept banging his chest into you, Ben. That's right. And you'd go, bam! Bam! He'd walk into you. Yeah, that was what he was doing for money on this trip. Wow. Interesting.

Interesting times. Vegas is a wonderful place. It's a wild place. What is everyone doing here? Wandering around with drinks at like a metre tall at 10 o'clock in the morning? Yeah, very true. That is Spy Update for this morning. For more you can head to thehits.co.nz

After 8 o'clock she's our first ever gold medal winner at the Winter Olympics. Zoe Sadowski-Sinnett joins us. 8.20 this morning. It is the Hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the Hits. The Queen over theo and Ben. Jono and Ben, breakfast on The Hits. Hey, the Queen over the weekend celebrating her jubilee. Longest running.

What are you pointing at there, mate? You've got some audio. Mate, we've got Shona. Shona's phoned through. Oh, Shona's phoned through. She phoned through. Shona. Before you get to your Queen banter, mate,

you've got to reward Shona with $100 and put her in the drawer. Awesome. You are, thanks to Slingshot, Shona. How cool is that? Yeah, very cool. My kids are excited. You can head to the hits.co.nz to register your name. We can call you out another one at 10 o'clock this morning.

But thanks to Slingshot, whole family could have Chromebooks. $5,000, wouldn't that help out for the school year? Shones? Absolutely. Did it weird you out that I called you Shones? It weirded me out a little bit, but anyway. No, I've been called that before.

Oh, that's good. You have yourself a great day. Good luck getting the kids to school. Cheers. Thank you. You too. Thanks, Shones. There we go.

All right. Now back to the Queen. Back to the Queen. Yes, the Jubilee over the weekend. She's the longest running head of state ever. 70 years she's been on the throne. Since 1952. Which is incredible.

She looks great. As you said before, she stopped cutting a cake all the way through. She's got no energy to cut a cake now. She's like, you do it. But you know you've been kicking around for a long time when there's footage of you in black and white. She was very young when she first started. 25 years old.

What were you doing at 25? I couldn't be running a whole Commonwealth, that's for sure. Juliet, that would be next year for you. Yeah, gosh. I would not trust you to run a Commonwealth. No, neither. Yeah, she didn't put on too many festivals. That's what you would have done.

There's a whole lot of celebrations happening this year. There's going to be a four-day holiday in the UK to mark it. But, you know, she's a very famous lady, the Queen. Yeah, she is. The question I have around the Queen is what happens after, you know, the inevitable that you don't like to even think about being voice? Well, she's talked about Prince Charles over the weekends when he's king. She wants Camilla.

She's given her blessing to be Queen Consulate. So there's a whole plan that goes into effect as soon as she passes. And it's called Operation London Bridge. Really? Now, it's not the sort of Operation London Bridge

I know you like to indulge in from time to time, Ben Boyce. Right. This is a whole different thing which basically kicks into gear as soon as she has passed. Her private secretary passes a message on

to the acting Prime Minister that says, London Bridge is down. That's what they say. Oh, that's so sad. What if the actual London Bridge is down? Well, that's what I was confusing. Surely he'd be like, hey, the Queen's passed away. It would be a better way to communicate that.

But within minutes, all 15 governments outside of the UK, whether Queen's or the head of the state, are informed over a secure line. Then New Zealand will be informed. Charles kicks into gear. The notice. The BBC, the broadcasting station over there, all stop playing on all channels and it will be queen coverage. All the presenters have black suits ready to go.

Wow. In honour and mourning. And then it'll go on for 10 to 12 days. That's going to be so sad. That will be really sad, yeah. Wow. And the same day Charles immediately becomes king and he does a bit of a tour around the place. I'll be really sad, yeah. Wow. And the same day, Charles immediately becomes king, and he does a bit of a tour around the place.

I don't know what happens to the money, you know? She's done some good branding for herself over the years, having her face on the money. Yeah, on the money. Probably have to start printing Charles' face on some coins and cash. Priceless marketing, isn't it? Having your chops on money. Well, yeah, and same before the show,

we want to bring this to you right now and i 100 the hits um is she the most famous person in the world the queen because you're saying she is hands down you show that you show that face to anyone anywhere on the planet and they'll they'll be able to tell you who it is now you disagree and who he disagrees with will make you smile because it made me happy and ben boys you think who else is who else who's more famous than the queen dwayne the rock johnson because the queen is huge in the uk and stuff but in these countries that don't so they don't back the queen they don't have the queen but they they still go to the movies

they still go to the movies and watch dwayne the rock johnson he's not more famous than the queen now we want to chuck this poll out there do you think dwayne the rock johnson's more famous than the queen there's 295 million followers on instagram dwayne the rock johnson that's you know she's so famous she doesn't even have to be on instagram does she yeah well yeah no i reckon she's more famous she doesn't even have to be on Instagram, does she? Yeah. No, I reckon she's more famous than the Queen. Okay, if you think Dwayne The Rock Johnson is more famous than the Queen, 0800 the hits 4487, or you can chuck another name in there who you think would be more well-known than the Queen. 0800 the hits or 4487 standard SMS text charges will apply for those texts.

Well, that's new. Yeah. Thanks for telling me about that. We'll be back next. The most famous person in the world. Is it the Queen or is it The Rock? We'll find out. Jono and Ben. Yeah, Jono telling me about that. We'll be back next. The most famous person in the world. Is it the Queen or is it The Rock? We'll find out. Jono and Ben.

Yeah, Jono and Ben with you. Now, the Queen celebrating 70 years in charge over the weekend. And, Jono, you think she's the most famous person in the world. Hands down. Generations upon generations know that face. Like I say, she's plastered. Her chops are plastered all over our money. You see her face every day.

But in the Commonwealth. But this is not, not you know we're not talking about you know the americas uh a very asian country you know there's so many other countries out there that i'm like hey maybe she's not the most famous person in the world and so you would like to nominate duane the rock job so now you google it google it who is the most famous person in the world google it i want to see if you get exactly what i got because i was the most famous person in the world, Google it. Do it. I want to see if you get exactly what I got. Who's the most famous person in the world? And you see if it does, because I reckon it is, if you want to give us a text.

Who'd you get? Who'd you get? Who'd you get on that one? Yeah. But there's still a lot of other great names coming through on the text machine and calls. Yeah, but most of the Queen's fans don't even know how to get onto Google,

so that doesn't count. Don't chalk that up as a win, boys. So is The Rock more famous than The Queen? And if not, who is? If there is anyone. Kate, you want to nominate someone? Yeah, I think The Rock's pretty good in the eyebrow and everything, but I think Taylor Swift might have the Queen beat.

What about the Queen B? Beyonce. Yeah. She could be up there. Kim Kardashian's come through on 4487 on the text. More famous than the Queen. Oh, yeah. What about someone like, dare I say, Donald Trump?

Like people young and old all over the world would know surely who he is. Good or bad. Can I nominate David Attenborough? I feel like he's quite famous. Oh, yeah. He's 90 years old, so a lot of generations would know him. Yeah, more true. David Attenborough.

Barry, you're on from Auckland. How are you? Yes, I'm good. A lot of conversation today, this morning. Is Dwayne The Rock Johnson more famous than the Queen? Barry, you're nominating for what? Yeah, no, definitely not at the moment. He's still too young for that.

Okay, so who are you saying is the most famous person in the world? Well, at the moment, you're looking at somebody like Sylvester Stallone. Sylvester Stallone! Stallone, get him off the phone! I'll swap your rock out with a Stallone. Oh, you vaguely remember him. Rocky Rambo.

I mean, he's a huge star. Stallone. Love it, Barry. Thank you very much for your call, mate. Now, Ben, I'm going to give you an opportunity to prove your stance. Yeah, because I'm saying throughout Europe and obviously the Commonwealth, the Queen, you know, she tops the rock. But I'm saying...

That's her wheelhouse. That's her market. Look, there's places in America, they wouldn't even have Commonwealth, the Queen, you know, she tops the rock, but I'm saying... That's her wheelhouse, that's her market. Look, there's places in America, they wouldn't even have heard of the Queen. Okay, so I've got a number here of a cafe called Cafe Goddamn USA. This doesn't have to go on there, but it's just called USA. And it's in the middle of Arkansas.

Okay. We're going to call here, and if anyone won't know the Queen, you would imagine it would be this place. If they don't, you win this debate. All right. Let's go through. Cafe USA, Bollivista.

Hello, Cafe USA. Oh, say can you see. It's Jono and Ben calling from New Zealand. Sorry to bother you. Hi. Hi. You're politely bother you. Hi. Hi. You're politely laughing along. We love it.

That's what we do every morning on the radio. Now, the Queen. Have you heard of Queen Elizabeth? We're just running a quick question. Have you heard of Queen Elizabeth? I've heard of her, yes. What does she do? Where is she from?

Just the main one. Oh, okay. So would she be more famous than Dwayne the Rock Johnson? Yeah, probably. That's not what I wanted to hear. He reckons Dwayne the Rock Johnson is more famous than the Queen. No, no way. No way, Ben.

No way. No way. No way. Okay. I'm looking at your menu, and can I just say Cafe USA looks incredible. I'm having a heart attack just looking at the pictures of the food.

Oh, nice. We'll have to come over. It's a long trip but we'll have to come over and visit sometime. Oh, okay. Should we come and stay with you? Sure.

You're too agreeable. Far too agreeable. Alright, so Queen Elizabeth more famous than The Rock. Wasn't quite what I wanted but anyway, alright. Nice talking to you.

Yeah, you too. God bless the USA. God bless New... Where'd you say you're from? It doesn't matter. It's not important. You'll forget quickly. We've got Zoe Zdowski-Sinnett.

She won gold, our first ever gold at the Winter Olympics. She joins us next. It is the hits. Breakfast with Jono and Ben. Jono and Ben hanging out with you on The Hits. It was the most incredible moment over the weekend. A very emotional moment for all of us watching. A 20-year-old

snowboarder from New Zealand, Zoe Sadowski Sinnott, became our first ever Winter Olympic gold medalist. And a 92.88, Zoe Sadowski Sinnott has done it on the final run of competition. She grabs the gold medal. It was so cool. She joins us done it on the final run of competition. She grabs the gold medal. It was so cool.

She joins us right now on the phone. Good morning, Zoe. How's it going? Hello. How are you, Zoe Sadowski Sinit? How are you? I'm not too bad. How are you guys?

Can I say this is a bloody crystal clear line through to China. Yeah, you sound like you're right next to us. Anyway, that's not important. What is important? You won our first ever gold medal. It was so incredible. Has it sunk in yet for you? Honestly, not really.

Yeah, we can't really celebrate over here. So I think once I really get to celebrate it, it might sink in. Is it illegal to show happiness in China? Who knows? No, no, no, no. We're just not allowed drinks in the villa. Since we're in this COVID bubble,

we can't really go out to get on the purse. Well, you've got another event coming up as well, I understand, later in the week too. Yeah, for sure. I got bigger in like a few days, but practice doesn't start for a few days. Yeah, and now listen, Zoe, I know you were dropping in on ramps over the weekend, which was very impressive.

We got a gold medal. But your dad, he wins our gold medal for dropping in F-bombs live on the news. Have you seen the footage? I'm pretty f***ing excited, to be honest. The only thing I looked for was Illume's reaction. Her younger sister, she was f***ing crazy. She just went off the roof. I've seen the footy.

It's pretty crack up. Seen the footy? Everyone was so proud. I was like, he's New Zealand's dad. It was awesome. Yeah, you can't blame him. It was Waitangi Day. To be honest, Zoe, I thought it was a gamble from the news

because they were following your family from about 1 o'clock in the afternoon, live rolling coverage of the celebrations and the supporting. And I don't know what else they were expecting five hours later. Yeah, exactly. Now, actually, I noticed on your Wikipedia page, three hours after you won, it had already been updated. Was that the first thing you did after winning? No, I think someone else does it, but I did check it out,

and it made me pretty. It would make you pretty happy. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And something else that was pretty awesome, I don't know, hopefully you can hear us right now because the line's breaking up, was your fellow competitors. I mean, how awesome was that?

They were just as stoked for you as you were. I wish you couldn't hear that. It was a really good question too. It was a well worded thing. Yeah, it was one of the beauties. I went for it and I kept going. Zoe, oh, it says cool muted. Zoe, have you muted yourself?

Did you mute yourself? No, that's not me. Now you're back? You're back. Wait, say that again. I was just saying how cool it was, your other competitors who came second and third. Oh, yeah, for sure.

Oh, my goodness. Yeah, I've been competing with those girls for so long. as your other competitors who came second and third. Oh, yeah, for sure. Oh, my goodness, yeah. I've been competing with those girls for so long. We're all really great friends. And, yeah, to have that moment was – Yeah, we're really – You there, Zoe? You keep saying cool muters. Zoe, my mask muted you.

So it's your fault. It's your fault. We're coming across like the incompetent interviewers. You're doing a boomer mute with your face. The other thing too, we know presenting the medals, you didn't actually get a physical medal, I noticed. What was up with that? Oh, yeah, they have the medal ceremony the evening of the event,

like in this plaza. So I do have the medal. I'm actually wearing it right now. Oh, you get that later on, right. What's the reason for that? Is that COVID or is it just the usual protocol? Yeah, I don't think the medals are given out at the Winter Olympics on course. So we all go to this venue and get presented with them,

which was pretty sick because we had some mogul skiers who did super well as well and got to watch them get medals. So it was pretty sick. I don't blame them because they cut to the crowd, the audience, and they look miserable. They're in minus 19 degrees. In masks and social distance, aren't they? Yeah, not going to lie.

It's pretty cold out here. Oh, well, someone in New Zealand, we are so proud of you. Congratulations. We'll let you go. But I have been doing just quickly looking at some of the terms, some of the jargon. So I just want to see if this sentence makes sense. Hey, Zoe.

Hey, Zoe, sick move out there, brah. I thought you got a switch backside 900, but you shredded the nah and nailed the wildcat. Did any of that make sense? The words made sense, but not together. Yeah. Good try, though. And the delivery sounded shaky.

I thought that was good. Yeah, the delivery was not on point. You're not blending in, brah. Okay, okay, okay. Well, good work shredding the nah. And we'll catch up with you for some more sick conversations soon, all right? Sweeties, thank you very much. Hey, well done.

So we'll talk to you guys. We're so proud of you. Well done. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Lower COVID numbers over the weekend, but then they're saying that's probably because everyone was kind of on holiday and no one got tested. Listen, I'm going to ask you an honest

question, okay? If you got it, would you tell anyone? You'd have to. Everything you've stayed at home. I can see there's probably that dilemma for a few people. A lot of people aren't scanning in. They don't want to be tied to a location of interest. That's the worrying thing, isn't it?

Something else I found really interesting in this whole new COVID world that we live in is everyone obviously wearing masks. There's a lot of talk about what mask you should be wearing. I always respect an N95. They look like some sort of fighter pilot. Oh, you've got an N95. I'm like, jeez, you look like

straight out of Top Gun with that mask. But what I find difficult, and I found difficult, is you can't see people smiling, and you can't also recognize people. If you know them or not, there's people around work. The other day, because we go through the window, you could see they were kind of happily sort of waving behind their mask.

I'm like, waving back, I'm like, who's that? I don't know who that is. It's a really weird sort of time where you see people, and you're like, do I know this person? Someone recognized you at the supermarket, but they didn't know who that is Yeah You know Like it's a really weird Sort of time Where you kind of You know you see people And you're like Do I know this person Someone recognised you At the supermarket But they didn't know it was you

Until they saw your trolley Right Yeah Fipsy We used to work at Fipsy Another radio station And he said He texted me afterwards He's like

Was that you at the supermarket I was like yeah He said I just saw you He said I didn't know If it was you though But then I looked in the trolley And there was Two boxes of 24 Heineken That's definitely johnny but i find it through this period because

you know three quarters of your face is covered up really working your eyes you gotta work those eyes hard don't you yeah smiling with your eyes wide eyes raised eyebrows just so you appear more friendly and approachable that's right well i had an occasion over the weekend where i was walking and uh down and i saw what i thought was one of our mates coming towards me now a good mate of mine and i was wearing exactly the same hat that my mate wears he's wearing a mask and i'm wearing a mask i'm like g'day mate how's it going and he sort of looked he was hey mate back and i was There's my mate. As we got closer and closer, I put my arms out for a hug. And it wasn't until I was just about there, I was like, oh, hang on. This isn't my mate.

It's just as I, but I was overcommitted. I mean, maybe I shouldn't in this COVID world. Did you follow through? But I thought it was too late to pull out. Because he would have been like, what's wrong with me? He didn't hug me. Yeah, I know. Did he embrace around you?

I was very half-hearted from him, to be honest. I really didn't commit to it. He was like, who is this man? Strange man hugging me. And so did you have a follow-on conversation? I got that awkward moment. I was like, oh, that was so good. Yeah, I kind of went to carry on.

Oh, that's so awkward. I thought, well, let's just pretend I'm. Oh, not being there. Maybe he's forgotten who I am. I was like, so good to see you, mate. We'll catch up soon. He's like, we won't because we've never met each other. But anyway.

Yeah, but it's all because of the mask. Like if the mask wasn't there, I would have known it wasn't my friend. Worst nightmare. Was that that guy from the radio? Jesus, I'll tell you what. They talk about the golden handshake in this game, I would have known it wasn't my friend. Worst nightmare. Was that that guy from the radio? Why is he hugging me? Jesus, tell you what. They talk about the golden handshake in this game, but Ben Boyce, he's out there hugging listeners one at a time.

Good on you. Coming up before 9 o'clock, we did some good deeds over the weekend because we're doing 28 days of good deeds. Throughout the month of February, if you've got something for us, if you need a job done. Maybe you need a hug. Yeah, we can give you a hug. Hit us up with a hitstockcode on NZ.

Scrolling through your feed. No matter what the traffic light system, this guy is always on green for the news. And sometimes orange when he's not sure what he's talking about. Well, the kids in New Zealand are all back to school today. It seems like it was a staggered start for many kids around the country. But today is the final day that all kids are back. Yeah, and Julie, you were just saying that you can study something over in America now. It's an official course.

Yes, at the New York University Clive Davis Institute, you can study Taylor Swift and basically her influence on pop culture, female empowerment. You study sort of the appeal and the aversions to her and basically how she's had such a big influence on the music industry. They've done that in the past for Miley Cyrus and Beyonce as well. So it's not like the whole course is on Taylor Swift?

It's just part of the course? Well, it seems like it is, but it might not be a permanent course. Like it might run for a year. Well, it seems like they would do you well in all facets of life. That sounds more useless than my six-month radio course. I've got a degree in Taylor Swift.

Hey, thank you so much for tuning in. We really do appreciate it. Back tomorrow morning. Five words, 5k. It's up for grabs. We'll catch you then.