Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: We Chat To Ben's Hero Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson

Episode Date: October 19, 2022

Today on the Jono and Ben show we chat to The Rock about his new DC movie 'Black Adam'. Jenni Mortimer is on the show to chat about her podcast One Day You'll Thank Me.    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Kia ora, welcome, it's the podcast, Jono and Ben here, and we're coming to you live right now on the 20th of October from Raglan Roast in Hamilton. Do you know this morning, we'll put that on our social media at some stage, you gave me a heck of a fright coming out of the hotel room this morning. Oh yeah, that's because you were in the... What is it, was it five o'clock in the morning? Five o'clock in the morning, yeah, just before five. And I could hear you rustling around next door, and I was like, well, he's about to exit his room.

Because we have rooms next to each other. And I was doing it. We were staying at the Distinction Hotel. Wonderful facilities at the Distinction Hotel. And, Ben, I did a hidden camera sting, you know, like one of those ones you'd see on Netflix, like to catch your best sort of thing. And so I had my phone out, and I was waiting for you to come out of your hotel room door.

Because I know it's five o'clock in the morning. I'm trying to be quiet, you know, in there as well. We're getting up a lot earlier than a lot of the other residents. So I'm getting out there, out of the hotel room, out of my door. And old mate's got a camera and going, what are you doing? Yeah, have a listen to this. I'll play it off my phone. Here we go.

What are you doing? Gave me a heck of a fright at 5 o'clock in the morning. You did get a little fright. I didn't give you much either because I'm half awake. I'm like, oh, you gave me a fright. Did you appreciate the pranking though? No. I'm not trying to pry no off button at all.

Not even like, not even at 5 o'clock in the morning. There is no safe zone. Not even like within, that's what i love about you i don't think i love about your sake at that hotel as well because we got the old school keys the keys not the swipe card they're they're running the key system which i love i did like the distinction was enormous you imagine through the 80s and 90s this would have been like all the new zealand great entertainers would have been there. Sir Howard Morrison, Frankie Stevens. That would have been there.

John Rawls. John Rawls would have been there. Tina Cross would have played there. Takana Wa. I reckon the Cats Away, When the Cats Away. Yeah, that would have been there. The Cats Away would have stayed. When the Cats Away, we like to stay at Distinction Hotels.

Yeah, so massive. That's what I would imagine. I'm not suddenly putting them into an ad. That's my guess. But something you did as well with the key, the room key. You left it in the door. for a long period of time i didn't realize your room was next to mine because we checked in separately i was like oh the person next to me left the key in the door for hours yeah the front door and then you're like later you're like yeah i left the key in the door

yeah did you have a moment you're trying to find the key yes for about 10 minutes and i was on my way to reception to go i've lost the, and then it was in the door. I like to keep an open door policy when I'm staying in motels and hotels. You can all come in and have a chat, have a cup of coffee, one of those little sachet coffees. I'll make you one of those. The door's always open. We head away on the Highland tour.

We're going up to Whangarei today, so we're going to get on the road very shortly for that. But you can enjoy the podcast, huge podcast today, because Dwayne The Rock Johnson. We got the only New Zealand interview. It's an exclusive. Yeah, and you'll hear that in the podcast today. And also...

Well, don't say awesome. I mean, there's also a lot of great stuff, but Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Don't say an awesome. Just say Dwayne The Rock Johnson. I mean, not every day. But if this was like

one of those festival posters, you'd have him in, you know, big font. Yeah. But then there's, you know, the Ariel 12 font. There's other stuff. Do you want me to do the smaller font?

No, no, I just want to go on. The headliner. I'm buying my tickets. I'm going to see Dwayne The Rock Johnson, Black Adam in cinemas today. And this is one heck of a chat you won't want to miss on the podcast. Don't make me look crazy! Two semi-competent dads handing out semi-competent parenting advice. Jono and Ben on the hits.

We're in Hamilton right now, ragg Roast, which is busy, busy. Busy, busy. 6am this morning. I was just saying to everyone in here, a lot of fit people in workout gear. They've been pumping the iron, mate, getting the cardio going. And I said this is the earliest turnout we've had. We've done these all across the country. There's already a line, a line in Hamilton.

6 o'clock this morning, Ben Boyce. There's already a line in Hamilton. Six o'clock this morning, Ben Boyce. It's nice to be in Hamilton. We've also triggered a by-election by being here. Or was that us? It was someone else that did that this week as well in Hamilton. But a lot of big news floating around Hamilton. Great crowbar. Let's just take a moment to acknowledge the crowbarring of a topical political event there,

which kind of made sense. Didn't really work, eh? Didn't really. But I threw it in there. A little bit of sprinkling of local knowledge here this morning. We're on the Heartland tour. We're taking our chips around the country. We've got our Out of This World flavour of chips.

Actually, if you haven't seen the video, head to the Hits Breakfast right now on Facebook and Instagram because we sent our chips into space. It's pretty incredible. The first chips ever in space. 18 kilometres up high above the world. It's incredible. And it was an experience because we sent our chips into space. It's pretty incredible. The first chips ever in space, 18 kilometres up high above the world. It's incredible. And it was an experience because we lost the GoPros, the chips.

We didn't know where they were. They were found by a farmer in Ashburton in their paddock. And hey, all's well that ends well. What a journey that was. It's been a week of drama, though. At the hotel, too, I had a wee bit of drama last night as well. Very large shower area, you know one of those showers that didn't really have a

curtain sort of door situation so I put the shower on and then went to plug in. Oh so it's just a room with a... It was sort of, yeah it seemed like one big sort of room situation and so I sort of put the shower on to go and plug in my phone and a couple of quick

things while the water headed up came in. And, geez, the nozzle had just been spraying out everywhere, all over the room. Oh, you hadn't redirected. You've always got to redirect your nozzle. Yeah. Always do. You're always saying that to me, aren't you? Yeah, just redirect it.

But the problem is with you, you hate wasting water. I know. So what did you end up doing, like rolling around on the floor and have a shower? Yeah, pretty much. What did you end up doing like rolling around on the floor and have a shower yeah pretty much what did you do I turned it into a bath no I had to like mop it up with towels

and you know because I was worried about there's quite a bit of water sort of sitting by the crown there was a lot of water pressure that day you know on that shower

jeez you would have ended up with a mountain of soggy towels the cleaning team would have been like what on earth what has he been up to this is the most reckless shower ever.

This is the Jono and Ben podcast. We're in Hamilton this morning, Raglan Roast, a very, very busy coffee shop. Come and see us. There's free coffee this morning. Someone will play for $5,000 at 7.45 this morning. I honestly think they've already served coffee to the entire population of Hamilton this

morning. There's so many people coming here. It's free. Free coffee, guys. Yay. We told off for yelling. John, I was told off for yelling by our boss, Matt. I could see that you wanted to yell. You wanted to get everyone in. And then it sounded like a very half-hearted yay.

Well, let's do it again. Let's wind up our boss, Matt, with a good old yell. Okay. Without you yelling. What do you reckon, Hamilton? That's it. That's it. That's it. Good stuff.

And all these people just loving the hits. They come in here, they get free, because they're like, free coffee. I know. And we're like,

all you have to do is pretend to like the hits. We've been travelling around the country on our Heartland Chip Tour. We've got our new chips. They're out of this world. Literally,

we sent them into space. Three flavours in one. They shouldn't work on the surface, but they work mixed together. And we think they work and we're travelling around we're flying

you know we're flying places we're driving places as well yesterday we got on the plane and we were sitting in separate seats just because we were allocated

and the lady next to me was like do you guys hate each other that's what she said I was like no no no we just no just the booking system didn't allow us

to sit together yeah she was like oh this is spicy. She was off for a girls' weekend, her and the girls from New Plymouth. Oh, girls' weekend starting on a Wednesday, too. That's what I couldn't... They were getting into it.

She said, we get home by the weekend and then have another weekend. I was like, you are doing it right. She was awesome. So I've heard a rumor about the airline industry. Thank you very much, Producer Joel. It's Conspiracy Corner. Oh, actually, next we're going to be talking some New Zealand conspiracies, aren't we? Yes, with Dylan Reeve, who's got a book out about all of the great New Zealand conspiracies.

Is this one in there? This one? It may or may not be. But I'll tell you, you know the water, you get served glasses of water on the plane? Yeah. Well, allegedly, that's toilet water. No, but you see... No, it's not.

You see them walking around with a bottle. Yesterday, they had a bottle that you'd buy in the thing. Yeah, you see the bottle. No. Who's told you this is rubbish? Apparently, they're filling up their... Look, I think don't drink the airline toilet water would be something I would say, but they wouldn't be... Apparently, when you're on a flight, the stewards are going to the toilet

and filling up those bottles with water. No, Dan. I bet you heard the same thing, John. Thank you. Thank you, Producer Joel. No, Dan, don't encourage him, Producer Joel. No. Yeah, that's just...

The airline industry has been through a lot over the last couple of years. Well, that's why they're scrimping and saving on water. It's toilet water. Tell you what, the toilet, though, the suction in the toilet. Always a frightening experience. even as an adult. Ever since I was a child, and it's never got any less frightening.

Yeah. Have you always wanted to just put your finger down there? Just to see. Your whole arm would go, wouldn't it? Rated M for mildly amusing. Jono and Ben on the hits. There's a brand new book out right now. Dylan Reeves brought it out. It's all

about conspiracy theories. New Zealand conspiracy theories in particular. And there's a lot of them going around. I imagine Dylan, who joins us now, it could have been quite an experience. Yeah, thanks. It was an experience. Well, yeah, because it's all about conspiracy theories. It's called Fake Believe. And you were saying in the

book, people used to love a conspiracy theory. Well, they still do, but it used to be a lot more fun than maybe they are now yeah i reckon it used to be a lot more low stakes i think um like we were just talking about stuff that maybe happened and maybe didn't and it kind of didn't really matter what the reality was um and now we're talking about things that you know impact the way people perceive the world and interact with their friends and maybe take, you know, health precautions or whatever else. Now, I remember growing up as a young child on the schoolyard and the wildest rumour I heard was Mountain Dew shrunk your appendage. Did you hear that one, Dylan, back in

the day? No, I'm pretty sure that's a fact. Yeah. I don't know if it's true of diet Mountain Dew, but definitely the regular stuff. Okay, I'm going to jump on here and say it's not true. Well, that explains a lot, because I have a heavy consumption of Mountain Dew. No, it's not true. But I know what you're saying. They were lighter back in the day. There was no real consequences,

but now they can just borderline on danger. Yeah, and there are people, certainly, and, I mean, we haven't had much of it in New Zealand, but there are people who kind of disappear into these rabbit holes, and actually it ends up sort of, you know, making them take bad actions in the world, I suppose you could say.

I know. I think we've got many of those people in New Zealand. They're in tinfoil hats outside Parliament. Well, because that's the thing. I mean, COVID-19, TikTok, Trump's fake news, they've all kind of brought a lot more conspiracy theories into the world. But you're right, it's happening in New Zealand right now with the vaccines, with the government, protests, 5G.

Where do they start? Who starts these? It's really interesting because a lot of these ideas are not so much, they're not like original. They're just like a sort of template that gets applied to people around the world and you just kind of, someone just finds a local person who it makes sense that this conspiracy theory might apply to and kind of just, you know, sort of applies the template really. Another one that I read in your book that you focus on that I hadn't heard of before but that Jacinda was paid off by big pharmaceutical companies to get the COVID vaccine into New Zealand. Yeah, that comes up a lot.

So, like, I don't know if you've ever, have you ever searched your net worth on the internet? Searched Jono's the other day or something. He's getting a lot more money than I ever thought he was. Yeah, I searched mine just the other day. My net worth is, I think, $4 million, which is a substantial overestimate. So what happened was, yeah,

someone searched Jacinda's and said it was $26 million, and therefore, obviously, that was proof that she'd been paid off by Pfizer, which is absolutely lunacy because the internet is just, like those sites just exist to sell ads, really. You are doing well. I've looked up your net worth, Dylan. Congratulations. Thank you, thank you.

I don't know if it's changed since the book came out, to be honest. I haven't seen it recently. It'll be doubled. You're right. We've got Dylan Reeve with us. Conspiracy theories, thank you. I don't know if it's changed since the book came out, to be honest. It'll be doubled. You're right, we've got to tell it with us. Conspiracy theories, fake belief. Look, conspiracy theories in New Zealand in particular, a lot of them are going around. Do you know, we actually spoke to Jacinda about this and we said, how do you take the rumours? And she actually answered with a beautiful response.

She was like, you know what it's made me do is think back about everything I've heard in the past about people and gone, well, that probably wasn't even true. Yeah. You know, it's very easy to say things about people. And it's very easy for us to use our political or ideological views to kind of project bias onto onto what we hear and i think sometimes it's good to stop and think do i believe this because the evidence is good or do i believe this because it just kind of ticks a box for me we even asked her about a rumor i don't know if you heard this one that she had a full back tattoo i don't think i had heard that but i'd love to see the tattoo well you asked her about that so she's like she said no. But she refused to show us her back, so we'll never know. So maybe we should get that one

out there. Actually, I want to throw out a couple of ones, conspiracy theories that are out there that you haven't delved into on the book. Just off the top of your head, do you think, without investigating, I know you've done thorough investigation in the book, but Elvis, is he still alive or not? What do you think? I think we're getting

to a point where even if he was, it's starting to become mathematically unlikely. Okay, okay. The Ashburton, you know, they had the panther, the cat out and about. Do you think it's out there? That's more cryptozoology than conspiracy theory, but I'm willing to entertain ideas about mysterious animals.

There's a few of them around New Zealand. Jono's theory as well. There's a couple from Jono you've told me. Jono always starts the ones that I know. So FIFA, the football organisation, he says they've got an underground bunker. Will you explain it? Yeah, so what I heard from my credible sources,

you know, FIFA's an evil organisation. We know it. It's not. Yeah, soccer. At the evil HQ, where Zur it. It's not. Yeah, soccer's bad. At the evil HQ, where Zurich or some sort of tax haven, they've got a bunker 10 kilometres under the ground. 10 kilometres, no cell phone coverage.

Much deeper than necessary. No cell phone coverage, nothing. And that's where they have all their evil meetings. Have you heard this? Right, I mean, I've been in like a basement with no self-uncoverage. I think 10 kilometres is much more than necessary. Yeah, that's it. And the other one that Jono was saying for a while,

that Obama, when he was president, he had a button for the internet. So at any stage, he could press a button and the whole internet around the world would shut down. God, I love that idea. But unfortunately, I've worked around the internet long enough down. God, I love that idea, but unfortunately I've worked around the internet long enough that I'm pretty sure it's not real. But Donald Trump apparently had a button that bought him Diet Coke,

so that's kind of similar. Well, maybe he, because the button's under the desk in the Oval Office, obviously. Maybe he transferred it from an internet button to a Diet Coke. I think maybe one's more important than the other. Hey, listen, congratulations on the book, Dylan. It's a great read, and you can go and get it now. I really do appreciate your time. I think maybe one's more important than the other Hey listen Congratulations on the book Dylan

It's a great read and you can go and get it now Really do appreciate your time No worries thanks guys Time now though for some big news Small Town Town Town Town New Zealand's best sausage Town, town, town, town. New Zealand's best sausage has been announced, Jono,

but the sausage was so good that it was tied for first place. They couldn't split. The judges couldn't split the decision. Imagine the mad butcher would love New Zealand's best sausage. That would be like his Academy Awards. It's like his Oscars, you're right. Do they hand out little sausage trophies as well? Well, 530 entries received from 93 butcheries

around the nation. This is big and there was a big awards ceremony last night and we have the joint winners this morning. Joint winners? Yeah. Both coming first but sausage was the winner at the end of the day. The real winner. We've got Mark, welcome, how are you? I'm winner at the end of the day, the real winner. We've got Mark.

Welcome. How are you? I'm good, buddy. Thank you. Yeah, Mark is from Zaroa Meats in Auckland. And who else do we have there? Porsche Davis. Welcome from New World Tarapa.

Welcome. Hey, congratulations to you both. Well done. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. So you both came first, obviously. Is it awkward yeah yeah

not at all actually we do different sausages different flavors so we made the aoraki it is a black origin wagyu beef with farm de venice and salami that we aged and smoked with pahutukawa. It's this beautiful, rich salami. 100% must try. You can find us at the Parnell Farmer's Market every Saturday and you can order offline on our website. So salami winning sausage of the year. Was that controversial, salami? I guess it is all sausage form, but yeah, it sounds

amazingly. Have you ever made sausage sound more boutique and incredible? Yeah, you have smoked by a beautiful salami. You know, there's so many salamis out there, eh, Mark? The one thing I've noticed at the supermarket, every country's running a salami. Italian salami, Russian salami,

all the salamis, British salami. Well, we wanted to create a really beautiful New Zealand salami. Can we all agree, salami is such an enjoyable word to say. The more I say salami, the more I want to say salami. So well done to you. And Porsche, the sausage that you made from New World Tarapa, the coming first, what was it? So we made a pure pork sausage. Not giving you the trade secret as to what we put in it,

but we do use New Zealand pork scotch with anything pretty much, and it goes side by side with our Angus beef sausage that we won in 2018 for Supreme as well. Oh, you're a previous sausage winner. We are, yeah. Sheed, do you feel the pressure? Do you feel the sausage pressure coming on every year? Not really.

I mean, we just do it for fun. If we get an award, that's amazing. If we get Supreme, that's even better. Glad we tied because we do two different species of sausage. So there's at least a salami one and a pork one. Two different sausage species coming together. Hey, well, that's amazing. Well done to the pair of you.

And can we just send a big shout out to all the animals who sacrificed themselves for these great sausages? Hey, congratulations, you two. Well done on winning. Joint winners of New Zealand's Best Sausage. We apologise in advance. Jeez, sorry. Sorry about that.

Sorry you got roped into this. John and Ben. Sorry. On the hit. We're on the Heartland tour. We're taking our chips in collaboration with Heartland around the country. Out of this world flavour. That's what we're saying.

We claimed that they were out of this world because they combined salt and vinegar, maple bacon, the sour cream and chives all in the same packet. We actually sent them literally out of this world. There's a video of our chips. I reckon they must be the first chips in space. They are the first chips in space. Yeah, that's the Hits breakfast. Because no one else would bother sending chips to space, Ben.

No, everyone wants to get William Shatner and other people to space. Send up old Shatner, 95-year-old Shatner. We set up a fresh packet of chips. The footage is incredible. It is incredible. They are like 18 kilometres above the Earth. Yeah, so you can check that out on the Hits Breakfast Instagram if you would like to do so.

Now, Ben, we are travelling around the country, obviously. Chippapalooza, we're calling it. Dotting from one supermarket to the next. Hocking off chips, shifting units. Free samples, free samples. And costing customers. And our loud, very loud space suits. They're not space suits you'd wear to space.

They are like a suit and tie space suits that I ordered off the internet. And you said I've got some space suits off the internet. This is not what I had in my head. And you reluctantly wear them along. I go along with your little costume game, mate. We're getting some great feedback on the suits. Every time I get feedback, I can tell you are like, oh yeah.

Well, you actually do. They're like, those are great suits. Something about unusual clothing that people, it makes you feel good about yourself. People do. Yeah, yeah. One thing I have noticed, though, is we are, you actually do. They're like, these are great suits. Something about unusual clothing that people, it makes you feel good about yourself. People do. Yeah, yeah. One thing I have noticed, though, is we are, you know, catching planes to get from one location to another. You know, getting a big old carbon footprint out there.

That's what we're all about on this show. Oh, I know. But Ben, something happened yesterday. There was a disagreement with you and another passenger on the plane. Now you walked up to a seat. Now the seat that was aligned to your ticket, it was for someone who was sitting inside it. Yeah, because we've been given the aisle seat. We've both been given the aisle seat behind each other on this particular flight. And we're like, oh that's good, we can get up and down. And you sat in your seat and then I went to sit behind

you knowing that I had the aisle seat behind you. And someone was there, and you walked up, and you said, oh, oh. And then you looked up at the overhead compartment where they've got the numbering of the seat, and you look back down, and you're like, oh, I think you might be in my seat. Now, the gentleman there sat there with his arms folded and said, no, it's mine. And then you looked back up, and you're like, oh, okay, are you sure? Because I think it says this is, you know, number D or whatever.

Yeah, because this is a row of three. And, yeah, that was obviously the aisle or the window. The seats you kind of want. And then he came back with, that's not how I read it. And I was sitting in front just smiling. And I was like, how is Ben going to, like, the guy who will avoid any form of conflict or disagreement. I knew, I knew 100% that I was in that seat. Because you were in that seat, that was my seat.

He was in the middle. He was meant to go in the middle seat. It was an argument that could only be solved by an air steward. That wasn't around. No one was around. I looked around and then I did what? He was out for dogging you. He dogged you.

He's like, not how I read it, mate. This is where I, but it's, but it's. And then you kind of went, because if you kept going with it, to the other surrounding passengers, you would have looked petty. You know? Yeah, I would have, I would have. And it would have turned like someone would have secretly filmed you and it would have ended up on the Herald.

It would have been like James Corden all over the place, you know? What radio rage. Watch his radio host mid-air meltdown. You know, headlines like this. That wouldn't have done you. So then you're like, okay. You then said, okay, well, I'll take the middle seat. And then he didn't move.

And then you kind of had to climb over the top of the guy. Great play. I respect that. I respected that from him because he probably knew deep down he was in the wrong. But he just stuck to his guns, and I did the very New Zealand thing of not saying anything and just reluctantly sitting there. The other move too, which is a big alpha move on the plane, is when the person in front of you reclines back and you're like, you've just, literally your face is about three centimetres

away from the screen and you're like, okay, well there's nothing, you can't do anything about it. Sometimes really early on too. And I'm like, is it worth it for the three centimetres of recline that the seat can do? Yeah, you're right. They get rid of the recline function. You should have just said something. I should have, but I didn't.

You should have piped up. I didn't. Okay, this is what we want to open this morning on New Zealand's Breakfast. 0800 THE HITS. You can always text 24487 when you should have piped up and said something. But you didn't. You did the New Zealand thing and kept your lips shut. If you're here for advice on life, you're in big trouble.

Jono and Ben on the hits. So I didn't say something yesterday on a plane. You know, it was a longer plane trip. I had the aisle seat. It was a great seat too. You can stretch your leg out in the middle. I knew what I was looking forward to. You know, and anyway, a guy was sitting in the seat. I said, this is my seat.

It was my seat, but I didn't say anything. He said, it's not how I read it, which is a wonderful play, because it's how everyone else read it. You were in the right, and you should have piped up. But I didn't. You should have said something. I know, I know, I didn't, but I didn't. I was like, I don't want to make a fuss.

He backed the truck up out of a bit of an argument, mid-air argument. It would have been great. I would have filmed it. You know me. Conflict's not my thing. We're going to go viral. Now we're going to go to the phones. When you should have piped up and said something.

Mike, welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. It's good to have you on, buddy. Hey, how's it doing, John? How have you been? Yeah, we're doing well. Geez, you're active. What's going on there? A lot of stuff happening. Yeah, a lot of stuff.

Yeah, yeah. Legit stuff. Legit stuff going on. Now, when should you have said something? What happened? Oh, so one fine saturday morning i was taking my daughter to the pool for a swim uh so she's she's just under one she's let me think uh she's seven months yet seven months uh and went to the pool it was all well and good about

20 minutes in i noticed there's a bit of like a camo green brownie tinge around us and i'm like oh you never want to be surrounded by a camo green tinge in the pool no obviously coming from you from you guys from from your daughter yeah yeah from from i'd say probably within like a meter radius and i'm looking around and i'm picking my daughter. I'm like, oh, I better get her out. This doesn't look right. And behold to me, that same green brown camel tinge is running down her leg from her nappy. Which happens. Which happens.

Yeah, it happens. It happens. I'll tell you what some good swimming nappies are. They don't hold anything in at all. So what did you do? She's pooed herself. Yeah, I think we've got that. We're definitely picking up on that.

She's picking up what I'm putting down. Yeah, I think so. So what did you do in this situation? I'm guessing you didn't say anything. So I have a weaker moment in my life among many. I calmly exited the pool, wrapped my daughter in a towel and went to the family changing room. I showered her. And in the commotion, I hear over the loudspeaker

that the pool has been shut down due to a cold brown or a cold camo green brown. And obviously, I know that it's me and my daughter. Well, my daughter, I didn't poo in the pool, obviously. We didn't get that, but we guessed that. And so I leave the pool, and funnily enough, an hour later, I'm back at the same pool to start work at that pool.

Jeez, you would have heard to Mike. The performance of a lifetime. Someone did what? They did what? No, that's amazing. I appreciate your call. Have a great day, buddy. All right, no worries.

Thank you for having me, guys. No worries. Feedback. The chips, they're. Thank you for having me, guys. No worries. Feedback. The chips, they're out. The Heartland chips, they're out of this world, and we want your raw, honest feedback next. Oh, this is risky. Voted most likely not to be voted for anything.

Jono and Ben on the hits. Now we've been doing a supermarket tour, Chippapalooza bouncing from one supermarket to another, creeping up and down the aisles. You feel like a pest, don't you? I feel like a pest a lot of the time anyway. But when someone sees you approaching them, they're like, oh, what's this? What do they want?

And then when you're like, free chips? Oh, yeah, it changes the tone. It does change the tone. People try it. But then I get quite nervous because people are trying them in front of us. And, you know, the feedback is, I reckon, most of it's very, very good. It's great. There's certainly a demograph that enjoys it, and that demograph is anyone between the

age of five to, say, 80. Above 80, we've chucked a couple of chips. We've chucked a couple of... Stole them in their tracks yesterday, didn't they? It did, yeah. A couple of, yeah. A couple of retirees. Yeah.

They like the ready salted, and they've reached a stage in their life where they like what they like, and they're not going to deviate from what they like. Yeah, you're right. They stopped with a trolley yesterday. They were like, you could tell they were just... It took some convincing for them to try the chip, and they were like, I'm not going to like it, and they did it.

They did it. Yeah, but they're three flavours all in one. So maple bacon, sour cream and chives, and salt and vinegar, they are combined together. Out of this world, we're calling it. And we wanted to open up the phone lines. I don't know why we're doing this, Jono, right now, but some live feedback.

If anyone's tried the chips around the country. All right, we're going to do Tony in Auckland. Shall we kick it off with you? Welcome. Morning, guys. Great to have you on, Tony. Give it to us straight. We don't care.

Feelings? We're putting our feelings aside. I care. I've got feelings. But anyway, honest feedback. I have to be honest. When I first read about it online, I thought, hmm, that's not really going to go together.

But I had a peg and I was pleasantly surprised. And that's honestly, and my boys gave me a couple of nice craft beers for Father's Day. And I decided to sit down the other night and just nibble on them with that. And it was really good. Yeah, different, different, but I like them. Different but good, yeah. It shouldn't work.

Much like the two of us, Jono and Ben, it shouldn't work, but somehow it does. Tony, appreciate your feedback. Yeah. No worries, dear. Thank you. That was good. Let's leave it there. If they're all positive, they can't all be positive or it's going to seem like North

Korea. Jodie, what's happening? The chips, yes or no? Yeah, I have to agree, guys. They are pretty good. You open the bag, the maple bacon hits you, but when you eat them, it's the salt vinegar that comes in. So I was pleasantly surprised.

You were surprised. Do you know what? Yeah, with the maple bacon, salt vinegar, sour cream, we kind of thought, do you need to shake the pack up a bit? Just get the flavours, mix them around. We tried to mix the sour cream. We kind of thought, do you need to shake the pack up a bit? Just get the flavours, mix them around. We tried to mix the sour cream. That was the one flavour I didn't get, but it was a good combination.

Hey, lovely. Lovely feedback in Levin there from Jodie. And we're going to go to Leanne. Give it to us raw, Leanne. They are the bomb. Best chips I've had. Honestly, I was listening to you guys all last week, and I was thinking, oh, my God, they sound so disgusting

that I have to try them. And as soon as I bought a packet, and I love them. Went back to work, everybody else ate them, so I had to go back and buy two more packets, and we have bought a packet every day since. Oh, this is great. Shifting unit. This is what I want. Listen, I made some wild deals with Heartland.

I've even offered up my body to them to do this payment. They don't want that. They just want me to sell chips. Well, that's great. That is fantastic. The chips are freaking awesome. I think that's good. I hope that they actually keep that flavour because they rock. This is great. I was nervous about this feedback, live feedback,

but I really appreciate your call. It's good. A great marketing hook as well. Just going, they sound so disgusting, I had to try them. That is a good little quote. I was thinking there's no way that's going to work, but they did. Oh, lovely to talk to you, Leanne. Have a great day in Masterton.

You too, guys. See you. If you lovely to talk to you, Leanne. Have a great day, Master. You too, guys. See ya. If you want to see the video of us sending the chips, the out of this world flavour, and literally out of this world into space, head to Facebook or Instagram,

The Hits Breakfast, and that video is incredible. The footage is so good. An inseparable duo. Unless someone better shows up, he's just going to replace with Lee Hart and or Ford Smith.

Jono and Ben on The Hits. Now, there's a new podcast called You'll Thank Me One Day and the host of it joins us right now, Jenny Mortimer. How are you? I'm good, I'm good. How are you guys?

Now this isn't Jenny from the block, this is Jenny from the Herald. Yeah, also Jenny from the block works. I'm totally fine with that. But you don't want to be Jenny from the block, the TV show, because they didn't win a lot of money this year. Yeah, true. So Jenny, you're from the Herald, the New Zealand Herald, and you've got a podcast as well. Yes, we've got a parenting podcast called One Day You'll Thank Me,

where we kind of just talk about all things parenting that parents don't really talk about, but that's happening to all of us, so we should be talking about it. That's awesome. I remember seeing what you were talking about, why getting a divorce can be a good thing. Yes, yes. So not from personal experience, but yes, it was along the lines of the fact that, you know, if parents aren't happy together,

then sometimes they're better parents when they take that factor away and they just focus on their kids. So, yep, that was one of our episodes that we really delved into why divorce can be a good thing. But of course, you know, it was a good headline that pulled everyone in. Who's going to argue in front of the kids, though, if the parents are happy?

I know, right? That's like key building blocks of childhood, listening to your parents argue. Kids, they need to see this. They need to see the passive hatred we have for each other. You've got a really, really awesome podcast this week. Explain what's going on. Yeah, so this week we were talking about postpartum, basically after you have your baby and society's expectation that mums should be bouncing back. So, you know, you see it everywhere,

the stories about, you know, how to bounce back fast. And when you've had a kid, you know, it's not just bouncing back physically that you're expected it, it a kid, you know, it's not just bouncing back physically that you're expected. It's mentally, you know, people expect you to be back on top of your game when you go back to work and in all aspects of your social life and things like that, too. But that's not actually the reality for mums and even dads. You know, it's not just your body that changes. It's your whole life, your priorities, everything. So that's kind of what we wanted to chat about this week. And we had an amazing guest, Steph Clare-Smith, who talked about the expectations on her as an ex-model

and somebody who works in that industry. But it's everyday mums and dads who are going, I'm not the person I was before, and society can't expect me to be that person. Do you think also that you see in celebrities sometimes there's articles out there going, oh, they're back to the figure, they're doing their thing again. Do you think that sends sort of unrealistic messages out there to a lot of people

when that sort of narrative's out there in the world? Totally. And I guess we have to think, too, about the pressure on these celebrities. Quite often, you know, it's external pressures on them, whether it's, you know, they've got a movie, or you look back to the Victoria's Secret fashion shows, it was like, oh, my gosh, she had a baby four weeks ago. And then women who were sitting there, like literally like in diapers themselves are going,

why don't I look like that? You know, like there is this massive pressure from all these external places. But I guess we can't blame celebrities entirely because the pressure's on them more than anyone, right? Yeah. What can, you know, partners of people, you know, have gone through a childbirth what can their partners do to help one of the biggest things that we talked about this this week is actually remembering to do the you know say compliments like you used to like I think a lot of time people go oh you're such an

amazing mother you're such an amazing parent and you're doing so well and baby's so healthy but to actually remember to focus on who they were before they were a parent too like you look beautiful like your skin is glowing great outfit like you know focus on the bits of about them that are you know the compliments you used to give somebody because you know for me it was like all of a sudden people forgot you were a person and they were just really focused on the fact that, oh, well done, you're raising a baby. That's great. And I'm like, but I'm still here too. Someone say I'm pretty, please.

I know when a lot of the girls come back from maternity in the office, Ben, you're like, you're looking hot as. Oh, yes. He does it. He's just always slandering. Jennifer, I'm sorry that you get involved in this. He's always slandering me. I don't agree with it, Jenny, but it's confidence building.

But the other thing I noticed as well, to be serious, is that you often say to someone, oh, you'll be such a good mother or you'll be such a good father. But I don't know what I'm basing that on as well. That's another thing that people say. Yeah, I know, right? Like a lot of people say, you know, to parents, oh, you're such a good mom and, you know,

you're doing such an amazing job with him. And you're like, there's other things going on in my life outside of him. Like compliment me on my great work ethic or something. Like I am a person outside of this. And people say that to us. So you're going to be a great dad. I'm a shocking dad. I'll admit it.

I have no idea what I'm doing. Forget the kids are at school sometimes to put them up. Hey, Jenny, thank you very much for joining us. Really awesome. If people want to hear the podcast, where can they head to?

iHeartRadio or wherever they get their podcast. And it's called One Day You'll Thank Me. And it's great. And everyone should go listen. A-grade celebrity chat with c-grade celebrity hosts jonathan on the hits it's lizzo 808 about damn time about damn time for dwayne the rock johnson he's my hero we we keep banging on about the fact he's my hero but he plays a superhero in the comic book movie black adam it's smashing into cinemas today

and about a year and a half ago this is was in the middle of the pandemic, we talked to him over Zoom for an interview. I showed him my I love Dwayne the Rock Johnson heart tattoo on my behind, but we didn't think that he would remember us when we went to LA about a week ago. We were walking into a fancy hotel room to sit down with Dwayne the Rock Johnson. He'd done four days

of interviews. You walk in, there's like about 32 people in the room, aren't they? And they all look very busy, very important. They've all got things in their ears and they talk to each other. They look like high-end security. So we walked into the room, the two of us, to talk to Dwayne the Rock Johnson. Here's what happened in LA.

You guys, how you doing? How are you? Good to see you. Gotta get around the whole way. Let's go ahead and start rolling. Last time we connected was, remind me again. Jungle Cruise. It was last year, right?

Yeah, it was. And it was a surprise. It was a surprise on me, yeah. That's right. It was. Do you remember what he's got on his... The tattoo. Sorry.

Yeah. We're gonna show it. Hey, so nice to see you. We've come all the way from New Zealand. New Zealand's very excited about the movie. I love it. Good. And we've got questions from Kiwis to play for you on the iPad. It's going to be like Black Adam, full of action, fast-paced. Hold on, Liz. Wait a second. Let's acknowledge what we got to acknowledge

before the interview ends. There's an elephant in the room. And I love it. We'll show everybody when we're done. Okay, we'll get to that, the last thing, when we get told to wrap up. All right, all right. I could tell you were kind of looking at him going, is he that weird guy? I know you.

Have we got history? Great for me. I don't know about you. Dwayne, if there's people around here that can enforce restraining orders, use them. I got you. There's many. We call them my logistics team. But obviously, Black Adam, putting on that suit for the first time must have been pretty surreal

because you've wanted to do this for a while. This has been a 10-plus year project of pushing this project along, man, and fighting for this one. And this is my passion project. So by the time I put the suit on, it was a real moment. Black suit. Speaking of people in was a real moment. Black suits. Speaking of people in black suits, the All Blacks. Yeah.

Famous New Zealand team, Dan Carter, legendary All Black. Here's a question for you. Okay. Here we go. The All Blacks could use a little bit of your size and strength right now. So when Ian Foster, the head coach of the All Blacks, gives you a call next year to get you into the team for the Rugby World Cup. We'd love to know what rugby position you'd play. Oh, man.

Give me an idea. You played as a kid a little bit, didn't you? When I lived in New Zealand, we lived in Auckland, Grey Lynn, in that area, and I played a little bit, yeah. Got my ass kicked all over the place. You'd be probably like a number eight, I reckon, a strong number eight. Well, give me an idea of what number eight, remind me of what number eight is. Big, muscly, handsome.

Yeah. Big, muscly, handsome, fast? Seems like you. Fast, yeah. Are you fast? Of course I'm fast. Just dwindle. Come on.

I'm everything. Sorry, sorry. Jeez, I'm really offending him again, haven't I? So, I'd be a number eight. Yeah, I reckon number eight would be good for you. Does number eight win the games?

Well, yeah. Yeah, sure, why not? Yeah. Yes, yes, you do. You do, absolutely. Okay, I'll be a number eight. Does number eight win the games? Well, yeah. Yeah, sure. Why not? Yeah. Yes. Yes, you do. You do. Absolutely. Okay, I'll be a number eight.

Tell Dan I appreciate the question. I'll be a number eight. Music, obviously Black Adam. Great soundtrack. Saw you working out in the gym. Yeah, man. Toured the other day. We've got 660, the New Zealand's biggest band.

They've got a question for you. All right. What's up, Rock? 660 here. Now, look, we know you love songs like Smackdown Hotel and It Doesn't Matter. But we want to know what your go-to karaoke songs are. Yeah, and how do we get our songs on that list? Karaoke.

It would be, let's see. Are you lonesome tonight? Do you miss me tonight? No, no, no. It's not teen karaoke. It's my karaoke. Should I go? Okay, so you grew up in New Zealand. Tell those guys thank you

for asking that. That's awesome. Obviously in New Zealand you talked about going to Richmond Road School in Grey Lynn. We've got the principal, Jackie. She's got a question for you. Okay. Tā lofa. Kia ora. Tā lofa. Dwayne, The Rock. Jackie Tutavake, Tumawaki Principal here at Richmond Road School, Te Kura O Ritimana. My question for you is, tell us about a memory while you were here in New Zealand

and hopefully while you were here at Richmond Road School. Oh, many memories, yeah, absolutely. Family. I mean, they would come down to family because I, only child, but when we went to New Zealand, we were living with my grandfather's family, Hai Chi Peter Maivia. And that was for the first time I was really exposed to like a large Samoan family where we were just, we live, we all live together in this house and in Grey Lynn. And it was really beautiful.

So I would say family. And then we say in Samoan, ainga. Awesome. No, we need to go through this last bit quick. Okay, you're a superhero in the moment. How much time do we have? Well, let's double it. Oh, shit.

Oh, wow. No, I'm only kidding. No, we'll double it. We'll double it. I was like, these people are like, you're kidding me, Dwayne. No, we're good. I'm having fun. There we go, Dwayne Johnson.

Extending the time. Ruining the schedule of the hard-working movie people. But how awesome is that? That means we've got more of Dwayne the Rock Johnson next, including an idea that you had that I didn't know about. Yes, it was to get your buttock signed by Dwayne himself and then get it tattooed. Will he do it?

Will we get kicked out? And how tight is Ben's bottom? We'll find out next. After Maroon 5, more of Dwayne The Rock Johnson on the hits. To Hollywood producers on the search for future stars. Keep searching, there's nothing here. Jono and Ben on the hits. It is Maroon 5 on The Hits. Jono and Ben, 8.17.

It's in cinemas today. The Rock, Dwayne Johnson, his new movie Black Adam. It's awesome. And we were lucky enough to have New Zealand's only interview. The two of us, we travelled over to America, sat down in the room with Dwayne Johnson. Because we're a New Zealand's only interview, we thought we'd get questions from Kiwis to play to him over an iPad. People like Dan Carter, 660, a whole lot of famous and other Kiwis as well.

Yeah, you're a superhero in this movie, learning to be a superhero and you are a superhero in real life to many people. Yeah, Angelo wrote you a letter last year on behalf of his father's movement and you wrote back to them and he's got a question, you probably recognise him. it's me angelo and my dad yeah we just want to say thank you for supporting our she is not your rehab campaign i have a question though we know you are playing a superhero in black adam but we wanted to know who your superhero is who's's your hero? My hero is my mom. She's my mom. She's been the rock of the family forever and been through it, ups and downs.

And I think, if I'm not mistaken, I think his mom passed away. His dad's mom, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so fortunately my mom's still with us and she's still the rock. But yeah, man, she's my hero. Well, speaking of family, we tracked down your cousin, Crit.

Yeah. Who's your cousin. And we did some pretty intense stalking. Stuff we don't want to talk about anymore. Probably not on camera. But he's got a question that relates to your family. Hey, what's up, Dwayne? So our question is, what is one of your favorite things about your mom and one of your favorite things about your dad?

Oh, see? Yeah, so he brought up my mom. My favorite thing about my mom is, well, let me start with my dad first. My favorite thing about my dad, my dad passed away two years ago, but my favorite thing about my dad is his ability to come into any situation, any room. My dad was a pro wrestler who used to wrestle in, by the way, New Zealand for Steve Ricard. And my dad's ability to come into a room and take over the room with this big personality and make everybody feel really, make everybody feel great and make everybody feel important. My dad did that. He also did some other shit, too.

That's not good. But my mom, what I love most about my mom is she's just always so kind and literally the happiest person. And she could be, even at the times we were really going through it and having some hard times, she was always just, she has this light and this mana about her, man. Well, everyone we've spoken to today, things you've mentioned, they're the traits, they're the things that make people talk about you.

You make everyone feel important, special. Opposite of what we make anyone feel like. I'm the complete opposite, yeah. But you're doing great. That's nice. You look great in the suit, obviously Black Adam. Now, Shana is New Zealand's strongest woman. She's got a question Obviously, Black Adam. Now, Shana is New Zealand's strongest woman. She's got a question for you.

Wow. This is Shana, New Zealand's strongest woman here. I wanted to show you how I lift the rock at home. I wanted to ask you, how often do you train? I love that question. Tell Shana I train six days a week. Six days a week. Monday through, well, six days a week. Sometimes they switch on what days I train, what body parts, but six days a week. Six days a week. Monday through, well, six days a week.

Sometimes they switch on what days I train, what body parts, but six days a week. Well, because Black Adam slept for 5,000 years and then he woke up. We've got a question from Mike McRoberts. He hosts the news in New Zealand. Mike McRoberts here from News Hub. Listen, I want the inside scoop.

How do you manage to fit it all in? That's what she said. How many hours sleep do you normally get? Now listen. how do you manage to fit it all in? That's what she said. How many hours sleep do you normally get? You've never seen that to me. You're like, is there more? See the opposite. We're the opposite of you.

I'm like, I'm going. I'm going. It's hard. This is why I couldn't fill out the blackout. How often are you sleeping? You must be right. I don't even remember. How many hours a night do you sleep? How often do you sleep? I don't sleep enough.

So I sleep maybe, on average, maybe four or five hours. Wow. I think it's important. As busy as we are, and I'm sure you guys know the same thing, it's like you've got to surround yourself with people who are aligned with what you want to accomplish and what your goals are. And what has helped me do as much as I'm able to do is really finding people who are a lot smarter than I am and surrounding myself with them.

And I have a good ability to be able to say, I like that, go there. Let's not do that, do this. I could come in and close decisions pretty good. And you made this decision to talk to us. Was that on you? It was on me. Well, thank you so much. Actually, we've got one more quick question. Yeah, let's see. Hi, Dwayne Johnson. It's me, Jono. You might recognize me from sitting opposite you right now. The handsome guy. Yeah, that's me. Hey, quick question. Does it weird you out that my friend Ben over there has a tattoo of your name

and a love heart on his buttock? And how uncomfortable does it make you feel that he's in the room with you right now? Thanks. Look at that. It all depends. We're going to have to show it, Ben. We're going to have to show the tattoo. Here we go. The cameras are all moving. Here we go. What does that say?

Dwayne the Rock Johnson. Dwayne the Rock Johnson. Do I tense? Do I clench? What am I? How is it looking? Well, you don't have to do anything. I think you did enough.

Now, I had a dream that, imagine if your signature was nearby. Oh, you want me to sign that? Is that okay? I feel like this is a prostate exam or something. How many of those have you gone through? Not enough. Keep going. Is that okay? I feel like this is a prostate exam or something. How many of those have you gone through? Not enough. Is he actually signing your name or something else?

Yeah, no, it's big. It's big too. Is it big? Is it big? It is. Like, could you have bought one? You could have gone with like an aerial. Size six, mate, or something.

It's right across the back. Perfect. Oh, mate, you are an absolute legend. That was a lot of fun. Thank you, brother. I appreciate it. Thank you, guys. That was a lot of fun.

Thank you. How amazing was that? And I got the tattoo as well. You can see the full chat. Actually, if you text Adam to 4487, we'll send you a link to the full interview. You can see it all. And we'll put you in the draw to win a double pass

to Black Adam smashing into cinemas today. Never met you here, as they say, but not on this occasion. And if you want to hear us fangirling for 10 minutes over the rock, you can do so. If you want to hear it again, you can do so at the podcast. We're out too on iHeartRadio. Black Adam in cinemas today. What a legend. Back up.

Just shh, shh, shh. Enough, enough. Okay, A23, the hits. And not afraid to use the F word. Be family, friendly, enough. Okay, A23, the hits. The. And not afraid to use the F word. Be family, friendly, fun. Jono and Ben on the hits. Best of my heart. Love the rest in peace.

That is the hits, Jono and Ben. That is Benson Boone in the stars. Now, Benson Boone, he's cool. Yeah, he's genzy, you know. Like, he's got lots of cool young fans. He does backflips. He's cool. He's gen Z, you know. Like, he's got lots of cool young fans. He does backflips. He's ripped. Like, he's, you know, like, and he was in New Zealand a while ago.

Much like myself. Yeah. He said he was a happy guy that sings sad songs. You agreed with that. Oh, man. Thank you. Nothing like you, actually. Don't come to think of it.

You just got me in a weak moment when I was trying to think of what his quote was. And I just agreed with that. You're right. Nothing like you. And I took my, a couple weeks ago in our holiday just agreed with that you're right, nothing like you, and I took my a couple weeks ago in our holiday break, he was in the country Benson Boone, and I took my kids along my two little girls along to see it

Benson Boone little showcase, he was performing some of his songs How was Bernie? He was really good, really chatty too, like everyone wants him to do the be real when he was on stage, but he's talking to the crowd and he's really good, an amazing singer Be reals must be the burden of celebrities' lives. Yeah, yeah.

He's like, if I do one, I'm going to have to do everyone's B-Real. And you're like, you're right, you are. No, he was awesome, actually. He was really cool, an incredible voice. And just beforehand, he came out, and there was a little meet and greet that we were lucky enough to go to. And there I am, coming along, cool dad. Ready to meet and greet.

Yeah, taking my kids along. I'm like, this is cool. This is going to get to do something I am coming along cool dad ready to meet and greet yeah taking my kids along you know I'm like this is cool this is gonna get to do something really cool with the kids I've never been to a meet and all greet what do you do oh yes I stand around he goes well he goes around and sort of talks to people but as he came over this was a moment I was like this is great he was like oh hey and they were sort of introducing the Jono and Benny he goes I remember because we talked to him over zoom he's like you guys made me do a backflip, which you nailed over Zoom. We talked about a little game that we played. Everyone's looking around going, oh, this guy, Benson Boone, remembers us.

At that moment, I'm cool, Dad. I'm cool, Dad. I'm like, eh, great. I'm hanging out with the GNC. See that, kids? See that? This is great. And then I was like, oh, hey.

Keep me young at heart, Benson Boone. So I'm feeling cool, you know, at that moment. And then I was like, oh, to Benson Boone. I'm like, oh, can my kids. Do we have to keep calling him Benson Boone, or do you just call him Benson? When did you start using first and last name? I don't know. I don't know. But then I said to Benson, I said, can I get a photo with my kids and you?

And he's like, yeah, great. So again, cool dad. My kids are getting a photo of Benson Boone. I took the photo at the moment, and everyone's watching around it. Took the photo. I thought it was fine. But that's when everyone comments they're like i'll put the flash on put the flash force the flash put the flash you don't want spectators do you this isn't an open forum for everyone to dictate or commentate on your photography skills yeah so as a dad i'm like

all right here we go the photo might have been in pitch black darkness but i'd taken the photo anyway it was textbook as i say at that moment, I look cool. So I was like, okay, I'll try and put the flash on. Now, I thought I'd put the flash on. I thought, well, I'm fine. Got the flash on. Went to take a photo. Took another photo.

The flash didn't work. And everyone's standing around going, he hasn't put the flash on. He's had a boomer move. He's had a Benson Boomer sort of moment. And then Benson Boone went from posing in the photo to coming over to me. And within a matter of three to four seconds, he'd swiped up on my phone, got the flash,

and he said, there you go. And at that moment, I went from cool dad to sort of like... And when you're feeling that stress from the lookers on, it's only probably 20 seconds, but it feels like 20 minutes. You're fumbling around your phone. Yeah, and I thought I'd nailed it, and I hadn't nailed it. And then he went back, and I didn't realize this until later, but he went back and sort of posed with my daughters.

And then he sort of said to one of my daughters, he went, Dad things. That's what he said. And I'd gone, as I say, from being, hey, I'm cool, I'm still with it, you know, to being like, oh, I'm now a dad thing. I mean, it was awesome, and the kids laughed. It was so lovely to meet, but I was like, oh, for me now a dad thing. I mean, it was awesome, and the kids laughed. It was so, you know, lovely to meet, but I was like, oh, for me, it was a crushing blow.

It was a crushing, crushing blow. You should have just run out. Just gone, hey, I've got the photo. Everyone shut up. Looking back at the photo, I'll show you the photos later. My first photo was fine. It would have been fine. It was fine. You can kind of see silhouettes of bodies. There was enough light in the room. It did not require, are you sure

the one with the flash was better? But there was enough light in the room. It did not require... Are you sure the one with the flash was better? But there was enough light in the room. So anyway, yeah, yeah. So that was for me going from cool to, you know, to my place in the world. Hey, next on the show. We're in the middle of our Heartland tour. Of course, we're heading to Whangarei after Hamilton today. And Ben Boyce, Ben Boyce, some scrolling through your feed.

Big news today. The farmers are going to be out protesting in their tractors. We'll bring you up to speed with that. And celebrities are under fire for what they're doing in restaurants right now. There's a whole lot more celebrities being brought to attention. Well, I did find it a little disrespectful when you threw the bolognese in the waiter's face last night. If they were the internet, you'd want to clear this history. Jono and Ben on the hits.

Scrolling through your feed. You can almost smell the disorganisation and desperation in these news bulletins. Ben Boyce, what's going on? Well, James Corden, the late show host, you know him from Carpool Karaoke, banned from a restaurant and then quickly unbanned over the last couple of days. Yeah, he was the owner

of the restaurant, called him a little cretin, said he abuses stuff. That's my cute nickname for you. Little cretin, I love it. And since then, Corden phoned him, profusely apologized for being a little cretin. And now he's welcome back in the restaurant. He's welcome back as well. So that's led to a whole lot more celebrities.

Being out there as well, people commenting whether good or bad about celebrities in restaurants. I saw an airline also banned James Corden as well. But he'd never even flown on the airline. I don't think so. They're just like, we don't want him. It's like us going, we've banned James Corden as well, but he'd never even flown on the airline. I don't think so. They're just like, we don't want him. It's like us going, we've banned James Corden from our radio show. No, we have.

He's not welcome to appear on here. He probably doesn't want to. But I'm going to focus on some of the good experiences because that's what I like to do, a bit of positivity. Oh, you're such a loser with your positive vibes. Yes, I like these ones. I served Snoop Dogg once about 10 years ago.

He tried to order Dom Perignon champagne. We didn't have it, so he settled for Sprite. He was there with two girls. I couldn't understand most of what he was saying. He ordered two meals for himself. They had to translate. Overall, it was polite and nice, and he took lots of photos, and he was great. Geez, you really downgraded from Dom Perignon to Sprite, didn't you?

I thought that as well. This is a great one. Reese Witherspoon drank a bottle of wine by herself at our restaurant, got a little tipsy, came out of the bathroom singing Hard to Handle by the Black Crows. High-fived everyone. She was adorable. A great experience.

She sounds lonely. She was there by herself. Beyonce and Jay-Z went to a restaurant, tipped 100% of their bill, which is incredible, and Gordon Ramsay came to this person's restaurant. He was lovely, shook hands with everyone, tipped us over 100 pounds, and did not abuse anyone in the process. How cool is that?

Well done, Gordon Ramsay. And Ben Boyce, I witnessed Ben Boyce last night at the EF POS terminal and you know when it comes up, would you like to tip? He pushed no. I do do that. And I'm like, oh, whoops. I didn't mean to do that, but I definitely meant to do that. Before 9 o'clock, which is in 20 minutes' time,

how you can win $5,000 if you've got New Zealand's best voice, we'll tell you next on The Hits. The reason call screening was invented. Jono and Ben on The Hits. Now, something we've noticed travelling around the country as well, these are really cool, actually. Everywhere there's skinny ads basically looking for people to voice their ads.

So you call up a number, you might see them on posters, they're in bakery bags. Coffee cups, I saw them in coffee cups. And you can just call the number So you call up a number that you might see them on posters, they're in bakery bags, coffee cups, and you can just call the number and you can leave a message like Brogan has here now. Please record your Skinny radio ad after the beep. To keep prices low, Skinny has printed

this radio script on the side of a local dairy in the hope that someone like me will call the number provided and record it on their mobile for free, saving Skinny thousands of dollars that would have otherwise been paid to a global megastar. Why pay big bucks for a celebrity voice when you can have my incredible voice for nothing? Brogan sounds good, eh? Yeah, he sounds good. I see why he rung up.

Brogan went through puberty six times. That's amazing. So you can do that. If you see those around the place, you can ring up and lend your voice to Skinny's campaign. But it's something else you can do because we were meant to voice. No, you didn't know about this. We were meant to voice an ad for Skinny that's going to plan the show. And there was quite a fee.

I didn't realize the fee was so good. We made $5,000 and Ben's like, no, we don't want it. I didn't know it was $5,000 at the time. Well, next time, talk to me before you say no thanks. I'm just like, oh, no, we won't. Next time when someone goes, hey, we want to give you and Jono some money, talk to me before you say no. I'm like, we're friends with Skinny, we'll do it. It's what mates do. But then I realise later it's $5,000. So if you

want that $5,000 that we would have got, I don't know, it seems wildly, a lot of money for us. You're an idiot, boys. Yeah. Then you can nominate yourself if you think, or you've got New Zealand's best voice, or maybe someone you know, head to the hitstockcode.nz and you could be voicing our ads for Skinny

and getting $5,000. We can expect multiple nominations for myself and from myself. That's happening next week. You can head to thehits.co.nz for more. The Hits. For more podcasts from The Hits Network, check out