Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: We Were Joined By Olympians Eliza McCartney & Misha Koudinov!

Episode Date: July 14, 2021

Hello everyone! Today we tried another round of our game Six Degrees of Separation, where we get a caller on and we've got 6 questions to ask them to figure out if there's a connection, or if we know the same person. Today we had A GENUINE WINNER for the first time!! Our faith in this game is restored! This week we've also been catching up with former and current Olympians ahead of the games in Tokyo, and it's been super interesting. Today we chatted to pole vaulter Eliza McCartney, and gymnast Misha Koudinov. Enjoy the poddy!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John O' and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of John O' and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the John O' and Ben podcast. Welcome to the podcast, live from the warehouse, Lyle Bay. Been a fun morning in Lyle Bay, hasn't it?

Can I get this, I'm going to see if I can get this noise to work, because I couldn't before. Oh yeah, Ben has been irritating Juliet all morning. Might be loud. Holding a microphone to his headphones, which then results in feedback. Oh, yes, yuck. Why don't you put them right inside the socks? There you go. This is Juliet.

Poor Juliet. Disgusting. Beaming straight into her ears all morning. Sorry, that's really bad. What is the worst noise in the world? Do you reckon it's fingers down a chalkboard? You wouldn't get chalkboards nowadays, would you? But, you know, there's a generation of kids who will never know the pain of fingernails going down a chalkboard.

Yeah, no, I'll tell you what. I hate a ticking clock when you're trying to go to sleep. You know, if you're staying at someone's house and they've got a clock and it ticks. As soon as you can hear it, you can't un-hear it. Yeah, it's like a mosquito, isn't it? Yes. I find that frustrating. I used to fall asleep.

But it's not a loud noise during the day. I used to fall asleep, like as my whole childhood, I had a ticking clock in my room and it literally would put me to sleep. I would feel weird without it. Yeah. But I think it's because I almost trained myself that like it was normal. You got used to it. Yeah.

Yeah. Here we go. The top 10 most annoying sounds, as voted by theinternet.com. Okay. At number one, snoring, sniffing, and loud breathing. I'm not saying anything. He's going to have a go. Well, Juliet, you can have a go at me.

No, I'm not saying anything. God, the sniffs. They say I breathe too loudly. The sniffs. It's like you're a grappler. They don't like the fact that I require oxygen to operate. I don't mind that. It's just that even breathing, you have to make it into something.

Look at me. You do a little exhale like a sort of dragon that would, after you breathe fire, sort of snuff out the life. Just to clear out the banks. Yeah, exactly. Just to make sure there's no flames inside. You never want flames lingering inside your nose, do you? fire, sort of snuff out the last bit. Just to clear out the banks. Yeah, exactly. Just to make sure there's no flames inside. You never want flames lingering inside your nose, do you?

No, no. Hey, mate, how are you? Free rugby ball. Yeah, boy. We're giving away toys to the kids here at the warehouse, but the next most annoying sound was mobile ringtones. I guess if you hear the same one repetitively, there's ones that, you know, they shudder, your alarm ones that when you they go off in the morning. Are we on the list of most annoying things you listen to? I imagine we would be on there.

Clicking pens is up there. Oh yeah, well that's another one of those things once it's in your head you get, yeah my wife doesn't like clicking pens. Polystyrene rubbed together. Oh yeah. I wouldn't say that. But that's quite a lot of, it wouldn't happen that often, would it? Yeah. Dogs barking? Dogs barking, yeah. Yeah, well, yeah. It's like a child crying, isn't it?

Yeah, yeah. And when it's not your kid, you just have no sympathy for it. Yeah. Do you? Juliet, most annoying noise for you? Um, oh. Oh, the radar alarm. I'm going to try find it.

Oh, is it your alarm setting? Oh, is that what you get to wake up to? Um, it's, it's, it's the, dee-dee-dee-dee, dee-dee-dee-dee, dee-dee-dee-dee-dee phone alarm on the iPhone. Oh my goodness. I'm going to try get it. I've got it.

I've got it. Oh no. Do I have it? try and get it. I've got it. I've got it. Oh, no. Do I have it? This is my one. Oh, yep, yep. That is brutal. That is brutal. Here we go.

Here we go. Ben? I'm trying to think of what I run. Oh, radar. He's radar. That's the one. Yeah, that's the default one. That is the worst. Yeah, you're like, oh, yep, yeah. that's the one yeah that's what yeah yeah that's that default one yeah that's yes yeah yeah yeah yeah that is your champagne wake-up alarm isn't it yeah I know it's like the back of the day with the the clock radio they'll go meh meh

meh meh that's a nice listen great where you don't go diving into your ringtone often right by the seaside beauty by the beacon oh beacon's not bad because of chimes oh no

I couldn't wake up to chimes like that it sounds yeah it would be a lot

oh it's not bad I don't know if it would wake me up though no that's the

problem I feel like if they're too nice you might not wake up to it that would

get annoying anyway that's us trawling through some ringtones. Well, anyway, we're on our day three of our tour around New Zealand, thanks to the warehouse. It's at this morning in Lyle Bay Store in Wellington. Then we're off to Tauranga later today. Yeah, we are, we are. And a lot of fun today. We had Eliza McCartney on the show. We're also joined by a New Zealand gymnast, Misha Kudinov,

who has a name in the World Gymnastics Competition. A move named after him. I know. The Kudinov. And he's like, I can't even do the Kudinov. Yeah, he's like, he doesn't do it in competition anymore. He's like, I did it once and then I got a name after me and I can't pull it off again. As well as that, we play a game called Six Degrees of Separation.

A wee gem of a moment happened in that game this morning. It finally worked. It had been weeks in the making. Oh no, you'll find that and more annoying ringtones probably on the podcast. Enjoy. Now the Warehouse is proud to sponsor today's Olympians as well as tomorrow's and we're broadcasting from the Warehouse stores all over New Zealand this week. Yeah, and we're talking to Olympians as well and lovely to have this woman on the phone. Usually I wouldn't let her near us with a 10-foot

pole but on this occasion her and her pole vault can come in and have a chat to us. Kia ora, good morning to Eliza McCartney. Kia ora, thanks for having me. Oh no, it's nice to talk to you now. Obviously we'll start with the really emotional thing that's kind of, I don't really want to bring up but obviously we have to. You really must be gutting to not make Tokyo. Well he doesn't have to bring it up Eliza, but he's deciding It really must be gutting to not make Tokyo. Well, he doesn't have to bring it up, Eliza. He's deciding to anyway. Especially after the bronze in the last Olympics. But obviously injuries, you've had to be suffering with those.

Just a part, a reality of a sport. It is. And, you know, I think lately what I've been kind of surprised about is it just actually made me a whole lot more grateful for what I have achieved so far. And so, you know, it's not all bad. Some days it's bad, but it has brought this gratefulness that I wasn't quite expecting. You're not like us, washed up old hags. You've got plenty of time left in your career.

Eliza, now something I want to know in all seriousness. We've talked to a couple of Olympic athletes this week, and it's been a question we want to know. Where do you keep your medals? Because you won bronze at the Olympics, silver at the Commonwealth Games. We've talked to some other people who put them in sock drawers or sunglass cases. Where's your medal?

I do those as well. Mine's sitting right smack bang in my wardrobe and sometimes in my sock drawer, sometimes in the shelf above it. No one has them on display. It just feels like a safe place, you know? Because, well, you pull them out every now and then. Like, I brought them out yesterday at 4 to go show to people.

So, you know, you want it in a really handy spot. You don't want to have to take it out of a case or something. You guys are so modest. Good on you. Good on you. Now, your partner, Lucas, he's a New Zealand kite porter as well, does kite falling. And we went and filmed with him a couple of months ago And we arrogantly thought we'd be able to kite foil in an afternoon

And that's not possible But he's incredible It's amazing what they can do out there in the water It's so amazing to watch I know, they go so fast on those foils And I tell you what, Eliza You're lucky you've snatched him up Because he's a dish there, boy

And I was making a play But he's like, I'm spoken for Said fair play to Eliza He's a dish, that boy. And I was making a play. But he's like, I'm spoken for. Said fair play to Eliza. He's a lovely man. That was a long, long time ago, when neither of us were very exciting. Actually, speaking of a wee while ago, you used to play netball with Lorde, is that right? Like in primary school?

Yeah, we went through all the same schools together. But that got out there, that rumour that we played together, and I can't deny or accept it actually. You're not sure? Oh, I always, my mum, I don't know why she thinks this, she's like, you played rugby with Ali Williams, the All Black, when you were seven years old. And I can't for the life of me, but she's got it in her head that I did.

And I'm like, well, I don't want to break her dreams. But I'm pretty sure I did. I've gone back on the photos and I'm like, I can't see him in there. Now, I was actually Googling pole vaulting, which is quite a unique sport, I imagine, for kids to take up. But a lot of the Google searches are involved with questions around danger and potentially even death. I mean, a lot of head injuries have sadly happened during pole vaulting.

It must be a pretty nerve-wracking sport to take up at a young age and then to compete in. Well, it's funny. I think because you're at a young age, it's kind of the opposite. You're just a lot more fearless. And so you take it up when you don't care too much about these things. And then a few years later, you're like, oh, shit. This could go wrong. Because it feels like the margin of error to to even get the pole in the you know in the sort of whole sort of area that you need to do that's

hard enough and then to land over on the crash pad there's a lot to maneuver well i should say though i'm being a little bit unfair it is it is a lot more controlled than it looks and it is certainly a lot less dangerous than it looks because we are in control of what's happening and if it's not going right you can pull out quite easily and avoid all of these dramas. I mean most of the sale videos you see on YouTube they're really people who don't quite

know what they're doing. And they always play them at the gym I go to and I can't watch them, like they just the pole ends up poking them in the eye. Snaps or supper goes around. Well Eliza McCartney, they're just, the pole ends up poking them in the eyes. Oh, yeah, or snaps or something goes wrong. Hey, well, Eliza McCartney, you are just a wonderful New Zealander, and I know there's big things coming in your future. I don't know why I know that.

I don't have any experience. Well, thank you, John. What about my future? No, no, you've got a bleak future. But Eliza is bright. She's bright. And I've got no expertise in the world of pole vaulting, but I just know it. When you're back at the Olympics, you'll be like that weird bald man on the radio.

He told me. He told me I'd be here. Wonderful to catch up again, and hopefully we'll do it again soon. Yeah, thanks very much, guys. Lovely to talk to you. Two dads just trying to fill some airtime. Some might say it's pointless, but the main thing is it fills in some air time for us. That is the main thing. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the bench.

It's Jason Derulo. It is the hits. Jono and Ben, 6.32. We're playing Six Degrees of Separation, a game that has not worked, and I regret bringing it to the table, but we're going to persist with it one more time. Do you know, I know this feels like it's a new game for us, Ben, but the game has been around since 1929. Seriously?

Yeah, it was invented in 1929 where a group of people, you know, try and connect to any person in the world with a chain of five others. It's a bit of a fun game they used to play back in the 1920s. Wow! Just to fill in some time. They were filling in time back then. They were filling in time in 2021.

Yeah. Alright, so we've got a caller each that we're going to try and figure out. If there is a connection, we get six questions each. Michael, welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. He's on from New Plymouth. Morena. Hello, how's it going? Oh, God, okay.

It's unusual in this game to embark on a thing that you know is going to fail, but you keep doing it. Yeah, I know, I know. So what questions do you want to throw towards Michael? What's your surname? Riley. Michael Riley. Did you grow up in the heart of New Plymouth, you know, or in a fringe region, you know, sort of Waitara or?

The middle, just the city. Just the middle city. Yeah. Okay. There's the Yarrow's Bread Company there, isn't there? Oh, that's South Taranaki somewhere. That's South Taranaki. That's not helpful.

Did you play rugby, Michael Reilly? Until I was 10. Until you were 10. And how old are you now? 33. 33. Okay. until I was 10. Until you were 10. And how old are you now? 33. 33. Okay.

So you must know Conrad Smith. The All Black. Who also played rugby in Taranaki. Yeah. Do you know him personally? I don't know him personally. You probably could have been

going with a Barrett, maybe. Oh, you know a Barrett. Do you know him personally? I don't know him personally. You'd probably be going with a Barrett, maybe. Oh, you know a Barrett. Do you know him? You don't know a Barrett, Jono. I've seen a Barrett on TV. Do you know a Barrett? Yeah. Oh, he's friends with the Barretts.

Not close friends, but yeah. Acquaintances? Yeah. You're not. I haven't met the Barretts. No, you're rightters no you're right but you're right you do know them would you know the uh the hobson family charlotte hobson she's she's a friend of ours she's a tv producer yeah from new plymouth

charlotte hobson went to New Plymouth Girls High School. Actually, he's dear friends with Conrad Smith, the All Black. My mum was a teacher at Girls High. Oh, we're so close! Guys, your mum there, wake your mum up. Wake your goddamn mum up and ask her if she knows Charlotte Hobson. No, I've known a long time ago. Do you know Tony Street or Matt France?

Yeah, my mum taught Tony Street. Yes! Yes! We know Tony Street! We do! We made a connection! Your mum taught Tony Street, you know Tony Street. Wake your mum up now.

Go wake your mum up. Tell her that I know the lady that she taught and Ben knows her too. Oh, that's so good. Well done. Oh, my God. We've got a hell pizza coming your way. You enjoy it. Well, that felt good.

I think it's got more life in it. For a while there, I was just watching two people listen to them have a call. We're like, what is this? Where is it going? But you pulled through, Michael. Thank you so much. I'll tell you what. We're going to send you out some hell pizza, okay, mate?

Oh, thank you. Six degrees of separation. Well done, Jono. You did it. Experts in semi-accurate, half-remembered information. Vaguely known information. Maybe not correct. Jono and Ben.

New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. In the warehouse store in Lyle Bay in Wellington. Come see us after 8 o'clock this morning. Loads of prizes up for grabs, of course, the warehouse. Proud sponsors of today's Olympians as well as tomorrow's. And we thought with Tokyo a couple of weeks away, the Olympics, we should catch up with

some of the athletes heading over there. Jono and Ben's Torchlight on Tokyo. Hey, my name is Misha Kudinov from Men's Gymnastics and I will be competing in the All AroundAround event. He's an all-rounder. It's nice to have you on the program, Misha.

Thank you very much. Pleasure to be here. When you say you're an all-rounder when it comes to gymnastics, you're doing the bar, you're doing the horse, you're doing the flips, you're doing the running across the thing and the old thing over that thing. You're doing it all. Yeah, so men, we have six events, floor, pommel horse, rings, vault, pibas, and a haiba, which sometimes is called the horizontal bar.

And the girls, they have four. You've got a move named after you in the sport as well. Is that correct? Yeah, and that move is on the haiba. Right, and what's the move? So if I'm to explain it in the simplest possible way. Yeah, do that move is on the high bar. Right, and what's the move? So if I'm to explain it in the simplest possible way... Yeah, do that for us, please. It would be a double front flip with a full twist with a 360 over the bar,

and then you've got to catch the bar on the other side. Oh, my goodness. Is that the Misha? That's the Kudanoff. Oh, the Kudanoff. I love it. It's a meta skill to the official rule book and you perform it successfully at a sanctioned event, then they always name it after your last name.

So in the Olympics, when they'll be like, oh my God, they've just nailed a Kudinov, that'll be your move. Yeah, they would say that. They would say that. Now, this time around, because of the risk of the skill, I'm going to water down slightly to do something stable. So I won't be doing the Kudanoff.

Oh, you're not doing your own move. The Kudanoff's not even doing the Kudanoff. But that's your move. That's the thing. It's my own move and I'm not even that good at it. Yeah. Something that I didn't realize at all, and it seemed like it was a joke to me, but I'm sorry if it comes across that way, but you guys put honey on your hands before competing. Yeah, so

on high bars, it's quite a thin bar, so it's easy to hold. But on the parallel bars, it's quite a thick wooden rail. So it is quite difficult to hold, especially when you're flying around and spinning around. So you try to use different tricks to get that little bit of extra grip. And somehow combining a little bit of honey with that chalk gives you that stick factor. Yeah, you can also rub it on your vogels after the event. Honey's not cheap. My daughter, though, Misha, she's an aspiring gymnast.

She's done a few lessons, but also just watches a lot of YouTube. And at the moment, she's trying to do an aerial without using her hands. I just want to play you a question of YouTube. And at the moment, she's trying to do an aerial without using her hands. I just want to play you a question from her. So I've basically been practicing my aerials, which, as you know, are non-handed cartwheels. But Dad gets really nervous when he sees me practicing. So should I just leave him at home? I'm right here.

I'm trying to talk. And is there also a technique for not putting your hands down when you go into the aerial? So this is like non-hand... Let's say cartwheels without using your hands, and I can't watch it. It just seems like it defies logic and gravity. Well, there's a couple of things I'm thinking.

The first thing is what you can do is start by speeding up your cartwheel, go faster and faster. And before you just full send it over the grass or wherever you're doing it, if you find something a bit higher which you can do the aerial from it'll give you more air time to make the flip around so you'll be actually able to to land it without possibly hurting yourself Wow do you ever get scared oh man every day every Especially on that bar. Yeah, it's never 100%. But, you know, you do get really good at falling.

That's what you want to be good at. You want to be good at falling in that game. What about adults? Because you get to an adult and you're not as flexible as when you were younger. Can you kind of teach yourself to be more flexible if someone started taking up the sport at an older age? Or is it really good to get into young like yourself? Absolutely, you can get into it young. I have a guy that I'm seeing now.

He is 31 years old, and in probably about 10 private lessons or so, he went all the way around the high bar. And he got that done at age 31. No gymnastics experience prior to that. Oh, okay. What about 10 years older than that? Am I out of the game? You know, I'm sure, you know, we all have limitations,

but I'm a firm believer that the human body can do lots more than, you know, what we think we can. Oh, man, you've achieved so much. I was reading last night, you won, obviously, recently the Oceania Champs. You were first New Zealand to make a World Cup final in the vault. You've been to four Commonwealth Games. This will be your second Olympics.

You also speak fluent Japanese, Russian, Chinese. You're a super talented guy. Yeah, thank you very much. Somehow, you know, a lot of things in my life lined up. And, you know, I'm grateful to be able to speak all those languages too. I can barely speak English. You can do that for a job as well. You're coming in here with your muscles and your

back flips and your bilingual and your multilingual. Hang up on him. Hang up on him. You're a bloody legend. Hey, good luck at the Olympics, mate. We're fully backing you, fully behind you. Hope it goes well and you nail that Kudinov. Okay, you show those judges

what Kudinov's about. I got you, man. We'll do our best. It was a pleasure meeting you guys and thanks so much for all the support. All the best. Can't wait to watch you. Awesome.

Jono and Ben's Battery Operator Torch Tour broadcasting live from the warehouse Lyle Bay Store in Wellington. Good morning, New Zealand. Jono and Ben on our world tour. It just keeps rolling on today from the warehouse in Lyle Bay in Wellington. I tell you what, it is so windy in Wellington.

There's even an 80 knot wind inside this warehouse. That's how windy it is here. What you do notice and what you don't factor in, Lyle Bay right by the airport there in Wellington. You told me something before as we arrived and I still haven't fact-checked it with anyone of note. Oh, because the warehouse is in one of those sort of shopping inlets that you... You know, we've seen them before, we'll see them again. Very popular in this day and age. But the car park is the control tower for the airport, not actually on airport grounds.

Now, I've heard this from you, but I haven't had it verified by anyone that I trust. Just look outside, look up at the tower and go, oh, that's the airport tower. Maybe it was the old tower, but I don't know, maybe you're right. Rolling coverage of this will be coming throughout the morning, and we'll get clarification from those in the know before the end of the show, but very excited.

We are with the Battery Operated Torch Warehouse, proud supporters of the New Zealand Olympic team. Come on down. As I always say, bring the whole family. Yeah. Plenty of parking. There's plenty of parking. From 8 o'clock this morning.

You can bring the dead members of your family. Dig them up, bring them down. The doors will be open. If you get a photo with our battery-operated torch we're taking around New Zealand, you can go in the draw for $10,000, which is amazing. Plus, we've got a whole lot of spot prizes, including another great bike we've just been given. They just keep giving us bikes to give. Every other time. You want us bikes to give away.

You want a bike to give away? Yeah, sure. We don't say no. When someone says you want a bike to give away, never turn down that offer. So that's all coming up this morning. Going to catch up with Eliza McCartney as well. Wonderful New Zealander, Eliza McCartney. Sadly, it was devastating when she missed out on qualifying for the Olympics. But she'll be with us at 8.30 this morning.

But next, there's been a bit of fallout over something that's happened on the road. And we're going to get to that next. It is the hits. You got Jono and Ben? Everything means nothing if I can't have you. Now listen, you know, sometimes things on the road, they happen. But usually you like them to stay on the road. Unfortunately, we've got microphones.

Yeah. And three hours of a radio show to do each day. Yeah, there was a lot of stuff to say, a've got microphones. Yeah. And three hours of a radio show to do each day. Yeah, there was a lot of stuff to say, a lot of time to fill. And yesterday, an unsanctioned wedding or proposal took place. Well, yeah, it was from something that happened because I was wearing a jacket. That was one of Hits jackets. You know what? Juliet has prepared a convenient recap of all.

What does it say all this? Pretty much. Have a listen. We're wearing uniforms here at the moment. It's branded puffer jackets. But yesterday I sort of put my hands in the pocket and I was like, oh, there's something in there already. And it was a ring.

And so I went to Harriet, who's on the road with us here, and I was like, hey, Harriet, I found this ring. And I handed it over. And then you guys, as I pulled out a ring and gave it towards Harriet, all went, oh, he's doing it. He's doing it. Another one.

Here we go. Another one. Number nine. Give it up for Harriet and Ben, the happy couple. Lovely stuff. So that took place. And then in the podcast intro, Harriet, who's doing a wonderful job of coordinating this whole tour,

she's like, come on, guys, we're running late on time. We're doing the podcast intro. This is what happened. Your first argument, being your wife, Harriet, standing by. She's, what do you want, Harriet? Do we need to go? We need to go. Oh, really?

Oh, the old ball and chain. I told you. Sorry. Whatever to the lads on tour. Now you bring your wife Oh, sorry. Whatever to the lads on tour. Now you bring your wife along, mate. I regret saying that. Apologies. Now, so there's been a huge fallout.

I'm calling it the red wedding, mainly because we're inside a big red corrugated iron warehouse. But yeah, no, there's Harry. It's been emailed multiple times, haven't you, Harry? Come over here, mate. Come over here mate, come over here How many emails did you receive yesterday? It was a text straight away About the ring and if it was theirs or about people asking me about it Just in general

About five Five email, five congratulatory emails Now Ben Boyce, I hate to say this mate And I hate to break up a happy marriage But I think you two are going to need to get a divorce. I don't think it's going to work out. By the end of the trip, by Friday, it needs to be over. Mainly because you're married.

Yeah. Harry's got a partner. Yeah. Also text through. He's one of the people texting through. Yeah, what did he say, B-Humps? He said he was actually concerned over the weekend. He said when your partner goes away on a work trip, it does sit in the back of your mind

that there might be a workplace hookup. But he said the wedding really caught him by surprise. So apologies to Riley for that blind side. Listen, this has just sent shockwaves through the industry, this wedding. So I'm going to say it's a sham and I'm going to pull pin on it. Yes, thank you. And who do I get to stay with on the weekends? Not me, that's for sure.

Kia ora, I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees and this is the B**** News. Now this is a fun little game that we do most mornings. We're truly against news headlines and beeps out certain words and then we try and figure out what the stories are and then we usually get them wrong and then she tells us what the story is you know some may say say this is pointless much like

pockets on baby clothes why are they putting pockets on baby clothes that's a good point like babies have got wallets and keys they want to store i saw them yesterday in the warehouse it was like seems like an unnecessary addition to a piece of baby clothes. You're very observant, aren't you, Josh? You could put a pacifier or a dummy in there, maybe. Pop a little smoke in there. Katy Perry can get some cash out and put a 20 in her baby pocket. All right, what's the first headline, Drew? People dumped their pets into lakes.

Now f*** are taking over. Oh, look, I'm thinking that girlfriends are doing the same thing with boyfriends. It's a way of literally getting dumped. I'm going to say people are dumping pizza to lakes, and now the zombie dogs are taking over and extracting revenge. That's a plot for a horror movie there. Yeah, it is. People dumped their pets into lakes.

Now football-sized goldfish are taking over. So people are chucking specifically their pet goldfish into the waters, and goldfish supposedly grow to the size kind of of the environment that they're in. So, like, if you've got a pet goldfish, it'll kind of stay small because it's in a tank. But as soon as you put them in the wild, they grow huge. And so in the state of Minnesota in the United States, they've found goldfish that were up to 30 centimetres long. Like you'd catch them like a snapper.

It's crazy. But they're saying people should do it. Oh my gosh. I'm looking at a picture right now. That's incredible. Yeah, but they're actually saying it's a serious warning because they can kind of destroy ecosystems and stuff when they're that big. Isn't it crazy?

You're right, Juliet. You love going fishing. You're right, Juliet. You love going fishing. You're a fisher person. You showed me a photo of a giant snapper you've caught. That's as big as your snapper. It's huge, isn't it? It's crazy. So PSA,

don't put your goldfish in the waterways. It almost makes you want to put a goldfish in an environment. I suggest you go check out my goldfish. That is a beautiful goldfish. Is it good for the goldfish? The goldfish is probably like... Oh, the goldfish are probably loving it, yeah. They probably are loving it, you're right.

But not good for the ecosystems. Can you eat goldfish? I suppose you could. Generally you wouldn't but I guess maybe... When they're small they look, oh you can't eat those, mate. But when they're big you're like, that looks very maybe. When they're small, they look, oh, you can't eat those, mate. But when they're big, you're like, that looks very edible. Yeah, true.

And the next news story. Woman deliberately **** an ex-boyfriend's car to rack up fines after he left her for another woman, report says. Look, I'm not entirely sure what this headline is, but I'm thinking she deliberately drove her ex-boyfriend's car into a mall. Because it's always amazing to me how they get cars into malls. You know, I was like, how did the logistics of like, when does this happen? When this car? Yeah.

It's like, what door did they drive through? How did that happen? I've never seen one do it. I'll tell you what, if that blows your mind, how do they end up in the casino? Yes. There's a car on the casino. I thought it was a guy on the escalator. I know.

It's like, are they transformers? I mean, what are these things? Very good observation there. I'm going to go, woman deliberately drives up and down those stupid bus lanes to rack up fines. You love those, don't you? Ex-boyfriends go, I get a fine.

Anyway, what's the answer, Drew? Woman deliberately runs 49 red lights in ex-boyfriend's car to rack up fines after he left her for another woman, report says. So that's crazy. I was trying to figure out if there were any accidents, but it doesn't say so. So maybe she ran them when it was borderline orange going red,

which you shouldn't do, Jonathan. Shouldn't do, no, no. I run 49 a morning. Oh, jeez. No. No, I don't. It's about 52, to be honest. Oh. No, no. I run 49 a morning. Oh, jeez. No. No, I don't. It's about 52, to be honest. Oh, God, no.

But, yeah, it was a two-day marathon of just committing offences. But I assume that she'll be charged with the fines because the police caught her in the end. You think so, right? Yeah. You'd be saying, well, that clearly wasn't me with the photo, so maybe it backfired. Yeah. And the final news headline. Woman pretends to be a *** so she can sneak an extra bag on board a flight.

Oh, I don't know. I'm saying woman pretends to be a suitcase so she can get on board the flight. I'll lock in that answer too, Eddie. What's the right one? Woman pretends to be pregnant so she can sneak an extra bag on board a flight. Now, this was very controversial. She posted on TikTok and she, you know know those sort of floppy-looking gym bags where it's got the drawstring, and you can kind of put them on your back?

She did that, but over her front, and then put a jumper on. And so people assumed that she put both bags through security, and so put the bag under her shirt after security, pre-boarding, so that security didn't catch her. But this is very controversial because you're really not supposed to do that sort of thing. That is a good play, though. I mean, we're travelling around at the moment and we have way too much luggage, don't we? And luggage has become the burden of this journey.

Bee Harms had to make five trips in an Uber this morning just to transport our luggage. So, listen, maybe we'll try that today. We'll pretend you're pregnant, shove a rectangle suitcase in there, see if that helps us. I don't know if that's going to work. And that is the more unusual news from around the world. Scrolling through your feed. Who would

have thought we can fudge our way through an entire news bulletin after only reading the first three lines of a news story. But somehow we managed to pull it off every morning. That's a lot of truth in that sentence. Now, Rihanna. Ironically, we only read one sentence of this story. Okay, so for $115,000 a month,

so it's quite a lot, obviously, $115,000 a month, Rihanna could be your landlord in Beverly Hills. So right now she's got a five-bedroom, seven-bathroom. Why is there more bathrooms than bedrooms? Seems like too many, right? I guess every part must be en suite. You never want your bathroom ratio to outweigh your bedroom ratio. Yeah, so she's got five bedrooms, seven bathrooms,

modern mansion in the Hollywood Hills. Maybe she's quite leaky. You want one on standby. And for $80,000 a month, standby and for 80,000 US dollars a month or 115 New Zealand thousand

a month Rihanna can be your landlord now would you want Rihanna as as your landlord because then I remind you about

this song pay me what you want me don't act like you forgot bit better have my money oh yeah

she's gonna come knocking she's gonna come rent rent collecting now does she Oh, yeah. She's going to come knocking. She's going to come ranting. Ranting. Now, does she also, you know, if the dishwasher's on the blink or I clog up a drain with hair, does Rihanna come around and sort out these shuttles? Yeah.

I'm not sure if that... What would she think? Maybe she would. Maybe she would. How many houses has Rihanna got? Let's have a look. It's quite a lovely neighbourhood. Next to Sir Paul McCartney as well.

Is he your neighbour? Yeah, so basically in the neighbourhood. High profile neighbours like Sir Paul McCartney. You can stay there. Very, very expensive. We always wanted to live. You've got that much money. It's a shocking investment to pour it into Rihanna's account.

Buy your own mansion. Yeah. Or at least stay in a house owned by Lord, just so you can say my landlord is Lord. Lord is the landlord. So she's got dwellings well over $100 million. 11 properties

Rihanna owns. Oh, she's diversified her property portfolio as well. She's a mogul of sorts, which makes a lot of sense because you can't live in all 11 houses at the same time. So renting them out is a very sensible financial option for Brianna. Yes, that's very good. And just quickly, hey. It's much like when you were talking about that rapper who mows his own lawns.

He realised how much. Oh, yes. In Atlanta. It was Rick Ross. Yeah, in Atlanta. Rick Ross. And he mows his own lawn because he figured he was going to spend a million dollars a year on lawn mowing costs.

That's right. So former boxer Evander Holyfield used to own the property. And everyone who was in the neighborhood was like, oh, he spends a million dollars on paying someone to mow the lawns. And Rick Ross is like, man, I'm going down to Bunnings. I'm picking up a ride on lawn mower. And he just smokes weed and mows his lawn. Yeah. It's a happy place.

It takes him hours because it's obviously quite a big lawn. And he's a big rig too, Rick Ross. But he's saving himself a million dollars a year by buying basically a little trick. And that's good. The fiscally responsible rapper. Yeah. That's what we like.

And that is scrolling to your feet this morning. It is the... You got Jono and Ben. They're proud of New Zealand. Go New Zealand! If only New Zealand was proud of them. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast.

On the hits. Now the Warehouse, proud to sponsor today's Olympians as well as tomorrow's. And we've been spending the week travelling around Warehouse to the Warehouse stores all around New Zealand and taking our battery-operated torch along. And if you get a photo with the torch, you go on the draw to win $10,000 as well as plenty of great spot prizes while we've been on our journey. And it's also great if there's an emergency too. We've got a torch on standby, which I've really been enjoying.

A lot of responsibility lugging this torch up and down the country. But we'll see you from 8 o'clock this morning. And it has always been a dream of ours to broadcast inside a giant empty department store. You think I'm joking? We've always said that. We wanted to live in one for a few days. Is it everything that you had imagined? I'm enjoying it.

It's exactly what I had imagined. Yeah. Yeah. It's great. It's fun. We've had a lot of fun over the last few days traveling around. And here's some of the highlights. I think we need to, like, officially launch this.

Oh, I see what you've got a chance for. Over to you, Abby, with the official launch speech that you've previously prepared. Or we told you to previously prepare it? He's down to the warehouse in Vicargill this morning for the warehouse Olympic torch tour. Both of you felt very underprepared. I came with the music. Oh, so what was your answer? Well, it gives me great honour.

To launch. To launch the battery-operated torch tour. Now we are going to be talking to some athletes who are heading to Tokyo and some athletes who have been to previous Olympic Games. And Caroline Evers-Windell joins us right now. Now that no one has Caroline Meyer, does your child know that mummy was a double Olympic gold medalist?

He was told at school that he came home and said, Mum, do you know who won a gold medal? My name is David Litty and I am a weightlifter representing New Zealand. With weightlifting, anything can happen on the day. So we'll just see what we can do. We were recording a good luck message with some kids, like this one. What are you going to say? Good luck!

Jono's also leaving work as well. He's lost his job. What do you want to say to him? Good luck! Hi, guys. I'm Maddie Davidson and I'm a trampoliner. We're looking at a gold, Maddie. I try not to put too much pressure onto places.

I want a gold. Because it's pressure onto places. I want a gold. Because it's my first. I want a gold. Ben wants a gold from you. Definitely be nice. New Zealand's behind you. We're backing you. Hopefully you bring home gold because I demanded one.

No. Just been given an amazing spot price to give away. We've been given the Huffy Nighthawk, which is a top of the range bicycle. Ken, if you come down to the warehouse in Nelson and say, hi, John or Ben, can I please have that free bike you're giving away? Then we'll give you the bike. Okay, the first person to come down to us. But they need to be those specific words.

Paige has just turned up. The pressure's on. She knows what she needs to do. Hey, John or Ben, can I please have that free bike you're giving away? Yes, you can, Paige! That is all yours. Well done, Paige. What a thrilling competition. Jeez, I should come up with more fun formats like that.

We have got also another free bike to give away today. After 8 o'clock this morning, come on down and see us at the warehouse in Lyle Bay in Wellington, and Jonah will come up with another unique way of giving that away as well. Oh, he's putting more pressure on me to come up with these extravagant

formats for competitions. Hey, Chew, we've got some spy next. Oh, am I there now? Oh, sadly he's back. He was so happy. He was so happy when my mic was off for two seconds. Chew, we've got spy next. What's happening? So a jackass star has been attacked by

a shark in a stunt gone wrong. I'll tell you more about this next. I saw this. This is wild. Or is it a stunt gone right given it's jackass? It is a hit. It's Benny, Super Lonely. You're on the hits.

Do you want to know what Ben's? Spy. No, what's up? Spy.co.nz. All right, Juliet is ready to publicly name and shame the world's most popular celebrities. What's happening, Ju? So the Emmy Award nominations have come out, and Emmys celebrate the best of television.

And we all know we're addicted to Netflix and Neon and everything like that, and addicted to free trials, as Ben might be. But the leading TV shows this year are The Crown and Disney's Star Wars spin-off The Mandalorian. They had 24 nominations each, and The Crown has already won 10 Emmys before, so it's a bit of a monster. A new TV show on Apple TV, it's called Ted Lasso,

and it's a comedy featuring Jason Sudeikis as the unlikely new soccer coach of a soccer club. And in its first year, it's received 20 nominations at the Emmys. So it's a comedy.

So if that's, you know, anything to go by in its first year, it's done pretty well. Did Dog Almighty get any nominations? No. The critically acclaimed Dog Almighty.

Yes, it got... Are you having a look through the list? Yeah, I think that was the most... Best performance by a dog in a reality TV show. But the Young Rock got a few as well. The Dwayne Johnson sitcom, which stars a lot of Kiwi actors as well. Oh, yeah. You'll be happy about that, Ben.

The Boys as well, which has Carl Urban and Anthony Starr and another couple of Kiwi actors as well. Oh, yeah. You'll be happy about that, Ben. The Boys as well, which has Carl Urban and Anthony Starr and another couple of Kiwi actors as well. They got nominated for some stuff. Yes, Kiwis. Yes. And then you do have your classics like Handmaid's Tale, Bridgerton, WandaVision as well got a lot. It seems like there were a lot of nominations.

It's like 24, 23, 21, 12. It's like how many bloody categories are there? Anyway. Yeah, it's probably because the judges couldn't be bothered watching everything. Oh, 27 for them. You know what it's like, binging shows. Yeah, totally. And in other news, a Jackass star has been attacked by a shark

and a stunt gone wrong. So if you know Jackass, they're known to do crazy stunts, like ones that literally could kill them like super super dangerous and that's kind of why people love watching the show because you're like holy crap are they gonna die but the latest one was a collaboration with discovery for shark week and so a new addition to the jackass team he wakeboarded over shark infested waters it was all going well, all smooth sailing. He kind of knew there was a risk of falling in the water.

But then they introduced a jump in the water. So he wakeboarded over a jump, went into the water. As soon as he landed in the water, the sharks pounced. And they, I'm not even kidding. And he got attacked on his arm and he got artery and tendon damage to his arm. As soon as he fell in the water, the safety crew literally just like grabbed him and they reckon that if he was in the water for much longer,

they would have just kept on going. Oh, look, his name is Poopies, is the new cast member, and his hand has just been mauled. Yeah. It looks like it's just hanging on with the stitches. It's crazy. Gruesome. It's a horrible photo. Fortunately it was

just the baby shark. But if the whole shark family had really got involved it would have been a different story. But he did say I don't blame the sharks at all. I mean it was their living room and it was dinner time Yeah no he shouldn't

he should blame himself He was the one he was the idiot on the way I love it how he's the new guy on Jackass he's like hey mate we got something for you

you're like oh yeah Why aren't you out there Steve-O Oh no this is good this is good for you mate Oh we've all done our we've done our stuff I don't know

how they would do that at their age now, too. Oh, yeah, they'll be in their 40s and 50s now, you'd say, the Jackass does. And Steve-O's sober now. Yeah. Like, when he was doing it, he was being aided along by many narcotics. Oh, no. Which enabled him to do the stunts.

I mean, Johnny Knox has got a whole lot of injuries to himself, permanent injuries from doing stuff over the years. And I saw a picture the other day of him getting flipped up as though down by a bull filming this Jackass. Oh, and he's got a catheter now. He can't pee. Really?

I know. So they're putting their bodies on the line for another round. There we go. Wow. But it's not the

sort of thing you're like, should we get the gang back together in your 40s? He's probably 50 now, Johnny Knoxville. Yeah. Maybe he wants to

put a deck out on his house or something like that or a pole wind or something. All right, run me over with a Formula One car.

Oh, God. And that is Spy. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. New Zealand, this is your breakfast. With Jono and Ben's battery-operated torch tour, broadcasting live from the Warehouse Lyle Bay Store in Wellington. Yes, this morning we are in Wellington at the Warehouse Store, Lyle Bay. Come on, see us from 8 o'clock.

Get a photo with the battery-operated torch we're taking around New Zealand. You go in the draw to win $10,000, as well as some great spot prizes to give away. And what we're doing, it's one of my favourite hobbies, is actually bullying innocent Kiwis into saying supportive messages for the New Zealand Olympic team. You know, they're just coming in to get a pair of track pants or something from the warehouse, and we're like, mate, say something about the New Zealand Olympic team.

And we're getting them to chant, go Kiwi. Oh, no. We're getting them to say congratulations. It helps you get into the Olympic spirit. It's like we've kidnapped these people and put them on camera and we're holding them ransom until they say something positive. The warehouse are proud supporters of the New Zealand Olympic team, and they've been so awesome the last few days

we've been travelling around the country. They even let me get on the loudspeaker. Oh, now this happened in between songs yesterday on the radio show. Now, I'd like to front foot it and say I have a somewhat unusual coffee order. Quite an award, I've seen you've lost touch with the common person. He's been things I've lost touch with the common man. Well, if you think that, you can talk to my people and they'll pass that on to me, okay? They'll pass that information on to you. You can book a time and repeat.

I like, yeah. Anyway, I feel like you've lost touch and the other thing you've lost touch with is you're now ordering a coconut milk in your lattes. Because the full fat doesn't agree with my sensitive stomach. I prefer a coconut milk.

It's like, there's no real reason why you don't have it. And so in the South Island, I was like, I said on the plane on the way down, I was like, hey, let's just keep this coconut milk order. Just keep that on the hush, okay? I'll try not to order one in the South Island, I was like, I said on the plane on the way down, I was like, hey, let's just keep this coconut milk order. Just keep that on the hush, OK?

I'll try not to order one in the South Island because I just know what the South Island will do. They'll judge. Well, I thought maybe we'll get the word out there. And I did over the PA system in the South Island store of the warehouse yesterday. A kitchen shop was here at the warehouse in an announcement. Just an announcement. And John is back from Auckland and he's offering his coconut milk in his lase. Shoppers here at the warehouse in an announcement, just an announcement that John McFarland enjoys a coconut milk

in his lattes. John McFarland, the guy over there enjoys coconut milk in his lattes. Hasn't been doing it in his outlaws but definitely has it back home. Just want to make it known. Enjoy your shopping at the warehouse. Thank you. Listen, you don't see me jumping

on there and talking about your rampant pornography addiction, do you? So I'd like you to keep my embarrassing coffee order. So much so that the one this morning, I'm like, oh, I'll just get a milk one. Just get a milk one. Oh, mate, this is Wellington. We'll deal with the fallout of it. They're judging you for having full fat milk. They're like, not alternative enough here.

Why aren't you having a milk of a llama? Yeah, too mainstream. Hipster milk. Hey, next, thanks to the warehouse, we've got some prizes up for grabs. If you want to win some, oh, 800 The Hits will tell you how next. Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone.

It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben on The Hits. We're travelling around New Zealand this week visiting the warehouse stores over the country because the warehouse is a proud sponsor of today's Olympians as well as tomorrow's. They've got great sports gear here too at the warehouse. And I've got a bike that we're going to be giving away after 8 o'clock. Every warehouse we turn up to, they just keep recklessly giving us a bike.

They're like, you want a bike to give away? And we're like, yes, every time. We'll be giving that bike away after 8 o'clock this morning if you come down and see us at the Loyal Bay warehouse. But we've been doing this too. It's been very fun. It's our warehouse snatch and grab. Usually a snatch and grab would land you in front of a judge in the district court.

But not on this. All of a sudden, if you're holding microphones, everything's fine. You know? It's part of a radio. It's like a lawless society radio, isn't it? You can do anything. So 0800 the hits. You call us up.

Basically, you'll have 30 seconds to direct Ben around the store, and he'll grab as much as he can in that 30-second period. And today, with a bit of an advantage, Ben. Oh, yes, I'm on the bike that we're going to be giving away after 8 o'clock this morning. Yeah, so you'll have pace, you'll be able to get distance, you'll be able to go way down the back into electronics. Oh, yeah. You can even head over to the stationary section.

Oh yeah, because I can head direct straight or left. There's two options. You've got furniture way down the back wall. You could pick up someone a lovely lounge suite. Leather lounge suite. Oh, there we go. Who have we got on the phone and who wants to win? Hey Marie, welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. How are you? Good, thank you.

Oh Marie, whereabouts in New Zealand are you? Hamilton. Oh, the Tron. The mighty Tron. We're actually, whereabouts in New Zealand are you? Hamilton. Oh, the Tron, the mighty Tron. We're actually going to be there tomorrow afternoon, all right? Come down and see us at the warehouse. In the meantime, you have 30 seconds to direct Ben around the warehouse on his bike. Basically, you just tell him when to stop. He'll put the brakes on and grab whatever he sees, okay?

Okay. Start the timer, Jude. Want me to go straight? Down the back, okay. Straight. You just tell him when the timer, Jude. Want me to go straight? Down the back? Okay. Straight? Yep. You just tell them when to stop, Marie.

She wants to go down where the furniture is, Ben. Oh, okay. I'm going down there. It's a long way away. We're sucking up valuable seconds here, Marie. Still going? Stop. Oh, stop.

Oh. You've won a lot of laundry powder. There's a huge lot of laundry powder. Keep going, keep going, keep going. Oh, there. Oh, you've won a lot of laundry powder. There's a huge lot of laundry powder. Keep going, keep going, keep going. Oh, there's some kids' puffer jacket. Okay, I'm going to grab one of those. Oh, and what's this? We've got some polar flannel warm fleece sheet set as well.

So, yeah, we did all right. I think we did all right. Yeah, no, but it's not the couch you wanted, though, is it? Yeah, it's just only halfway to the couches. It's like the Tour de France coming around the warehouse here. Hey, well done, Marie. Some washing powder, some jackets, some sheets. What more do you want?

Well, a couch, as it turns out. But you didn't get that. You go and have a lovely day, though. Thank you very much. Good on you, Drew. Have we got anyone else on the phone, mate? We have Darren from Opua. Dazza!

How's it going? Good, mate. Ben's on his bike. I told him to get on a bike and win some stuff for you. You just tell him when to stop. He'll keep biking around, okay? The snatch and grab and the whatty-futty. Take it away.

Waiting for instructions. Okay. Get going. Thank you for those for instructions. Okay, get going. Thank you for those wonderful instructions. It was really helpful. Up until now, I didn't know what to do. Left, can you hit a left? Oh, I can hit a left.

Oh, I can lift. Yes, I can. I'm here by Operation, the board game. Would you like Operation? Yeah. Family board game. Well, I've got it for you. I'm going to see if I can grab something else.

What can we get over here? Keep moving. Keep going, keep going, keep going. The timer is ticking. It's out. And a flannelette shirt as well. A lovely flannelette shirt here. Two for 20.

Let's grab two of those. There you go. Two flannelette shirts and a game of Operation. Well done, Dazza. Thank you very much. Jeez, we've given away some stuff, haven't we? Leopard print blouses, 26-inch bike tyres, frozen scooters, 20 kilograms of dog biscuits. We've given away a bizarre collection of items.

And I don't think once we've paid for them. No. Has anyone paid for the stuff at the back end? No, I'm not sure how this is all working out. But thanks so much to the warehouse. Can I say that again? Yeah. To hope that we'll get these items to give away.

Oh, now he's sucking. After he's stolen everything from the shop. Well done. You don't factor in how heavy 20 kilograms of dog biscuits are either. Yesterday we had to send those out. That's a lot. Yeah. Not great for the carry-on, is it?

Well, as it turns out, it's 20 kilograms. So maybe I could have factored it in. They've factored it in. Yeah, they have. They've got that. It's on the packet. Hey, the winning doesn't stop there. We've got $5,000 up for grabs.

Five words, 5K. That's happening this morning. You can win on 0800THEHITS in about 12 to 30 minutes' time. You're on The Hits. Jono and Ben broadcasting this morning out of the Lyle Bay, the warehouse store here. And you can come down after 8 o'clock and get a photo with our torch and go on the draw to win $10,000.

Now, producer Humphrey B. Humps, he is on the road with us and we just discovered something about his phone. You know your screensaver on your phone. You can have a picture of whatever on there. And he has this picture of this adorable little, is it a Labrador? It is a chocolate lab. Cute. Cute little dog.

Cute little, Charlie Brown's his name. Charlie Brown. So it's an adorable little puppy. I've seen this many times on your phone and I haven't really thought about questioning it before. I was just like oh that must be, you know, your dog. Yeah, no, it's actually one of my friend's mum's dog

and he put that screensaver on my phone about 15 years ago and I've always had iPhones and it just always appears on the new phone. I get a new phone and it just appears. So I've left it there. So he's left it there. Now here is where the conundrum takes place. Ben is now a father of a baby. You just had a baby recently, a couple of months ago. And traditionally, I don't know if you understand

this in parenting babies tend to take preference over dogs especially in screensaver situations and especially dogs you have no affiliation with have you met the dog i haven't met the dog i mean it was 15 years ago so i mean it's it's oh yeah the dog that's that's on his last legs let's be real yeah um but um no the thing is that my friend, every time we catch up, if my phone is on the table, he'll click my phone to make sure the screensaver is still there. But even he would forgive you if you're like, oh, it's a fair call, you put your baby on there.

I'm not sure he would. That's the thing. Does he have a screensaver of that dog on his? I don't think he does, no. On his phone? He might have a screensaver of that dog on his? I don't think he does, no. On his phone? He might have a photo of my baby, actually. So we want to chat this out there. Ben is refusing to change the screensaver.

That's very unusual. I find it very unusual. Like, I love your commitment to the joke, but now you're like, 15 years is more than enough. So 0800 the hits, 4487. It's a snap poll. Do we change Bee Humps' screensaver from a random dog to maybe

his baby that he has more of a connection to? Because you can tell a lot by someone's screensaver. What's your screensaver, Ben? I've just got my daughter Poppy. She's demanded that I take a photo of her posing like a model in a tree. So she's sort of straddling a branch there.

I've got one from the Space Jam premiere the other night, which has got my kids and me on it. But it's also got a nice little LeBron James and the Looney Tunes at the bottom of it. So, yeah. Oh, yeah. You change the screensaver quite a lot. Yeah, the kids often will change it for me. Yeah.

I'm slipping into Burma territory now. You don't know how to change it. He's stuck with one of them but they decide So they're like oh we'll change that round We'll do this thing It's like you with your font You're like oh my mate changed the font It's the big size font

I don't know how to change it back Same thing it was about 10 or 15 years ago On my phone he's put it onto geriatric font I could hold this up right now They could be reading this in Sydney. Richard Branson, when he was in the space rocket, he was like,

oh, Johnny's got a text. I'm pointing it towards the sky now and there is a NASA astronaut right now reading my emails because my font is so big. It is very big. You get one letter per phone,

per phone screen. If any smaller though, I wouldn't be able to read it now. You know, I'd be like one of those ones where you, the old people, they hold their phone away from them, they sort of squint.

Oh, like a boomer at a restaurant is always good, but the lights are a little dim. Okay, I won't know if that's 4487. Snap poll, does Ben Humphrey remove this dog from his phone and replace it with his baby? You can text us too, 4487. And as well as that, one of the stars from the New Zealand Olympic team are joining

us before 8 o'clock. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes. Mmm. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. It is 7.28 on your Wednesday morning. Having a laugh this morning, there was a little photo in the paper,

a guy overseas had sent a text to his mom, his mom, who's American, and he said, Mom, I'm thinking about getting a tattoo. What should I get? And his mom replied in text form, if you don't have a need for one, don't get it. Tattoos are for something important. It's a lovely mom message. It's a very mom reply.

So he got that message put on as a tattoo. So his tattoo now reads, if you don't have a need for one, don't get it. Tattoos are for something important underneath mom. So there's this message. I guess he, in a way, he did say, mom, what should I get? And that's what she replied with. So that's what he's got.

Hey, the results too from the poll, the Colmar Brunton poll. Does producer B Humps remove a dog, a picture of a random dog on his screensaver, a puppy from 15 years ago that he has no connection to whatsoever, and does he replace that with his child, you know, his baby, his two-month-old baby?

Yeah, so is Dotty going to make the cut, or teach the old dog new tricks, how to put a new photo up there? Well, listen, the results have come in, and they've swayed against our opinion, Ben Boyce. They're saying, leave the dog all here. Oh, leave the dog! Who's saying that? You've known that dog longer than you've known your baby. A lot of text pouring through 4487 to the dog lives on.

I would not have expected that outcome, especially on the hits. On the hits? I thought you people were lovely. Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. It's our Game of Word Association. We give you five words. You say the first thing that pops into your head.

If your words match up with ours, you win $5. Listen, it's been a long, dry spell, hasn't it? It has. Since we had a winner. You know a camel can last for 14 days without water. Well, we've killed five camels. That's how long it's been since we've had a win. And I'm sorry, camels are perishing

thanks to this competition, Ben Boyce. No camels have been harmed. I want you to answer this. No camels have been harmed. Now, who's playing today? Five words for 5k. Let's bring to New Zealand's breakfast the one and the only, Ashley from Tauranga. How are you? Hey, guys. Good morning.

Ashley doesn't want to see another camel perish. Okay, you want to win money, don't you, Ash? Oh, I'll give my best chance, definitely. Alright, it's like word bumble. We need our words to match and you need to decide who you're going to send into the soundproof booth.

Look, I'm going to give Jono a go. Alright, well, Jono, you can make your way over to... You don't have to make it sound like a charity. Look, I'm going to give Jono a go. All right. Well, Jono, you can make your way over to... You don't have to make it sound like a charity. Look, I'll give him a chance. All right. Take your headphones off. You're going to make your way. We haven't got a soundproof booth.

You can go to Woman's Fashion today. Have a wander around to Woman's Fashion. I'll pick something up for Ashley. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Well, that sounds good. All right, Ashley.

I think he's far enough away right now. The first word this morning, I want to see what pops into your head when I say tonic. Oh, you there? Am I there? Ashley? Hello? Hello? Tonic. Oh, I'm thinking like a... Gonna need an answer, sorry. I'm thinking like a... A joint? Going to need an answer, sorry.

Gin and tonic? Yeah, well, that's good. You going to lock in gin? Yeah, we'll lock in gin. All right, we'll lock in gin. Okay, gin. Ashley, okay, the next word this morning is torch. Light. Light.

Light or lights, sorry? Light, L-I-G-H-T. That's right. So it's hard to hear for our broadcast unit. Tablet is word number three. So what I can hear is Jono bantering away to the warehouse employees. Word number three is tablet. That's like a broad one, isn't it?

Let's go... What have you got? Yeah, I've got two in my mind. I've got, like, you know, I'm thinking of Canada. Oh, yeah? That comes in tablet form? Yeah, definitely. Yeah, like, you know, it's like a board one.

But then I'm also thinking, because I have a son, I'm thinking of, like, his iPad that he plays with tablets. Yeah, well, iPad's another one. it's like a board one. But then I'm also thinking, because I have a son, I'm thinking of like his iPad that he plays with tablets. Yeah, well, iPad's another one. It's a tablet as well. I'm going to go with... Going to have to get you to lock in one, I'm sorry. I'll go with iPad. Okay, iPad for that one.

Okay, quickly now, we're running out of time. Hair is the next word. Hair, H-A-I-R, hair. Brush. Brush, nice. And the final word this morning, Ashley, is Parliament. Parliament. Yeah, I'm thinking the beehive or maybe Jacinda.

Oh, yeah, both good options. Beehive. All right. We're going to bring Jono back from Woman's Fashion. We're waving down for him. Here he comes. I got Ashley a top. It's a signet that says, good vibes only.

Oh, hopefully some good vibes right now to see if you can match the words. All right, John. Jeez, that took ages. I had to survive Bear Grylls style out there. Oh, you're bantering away to all the staff over there, mate. It was coming through on radio. I met Donna. Donna and Mandy, they're lovely.

We can hear you. We can hear it all. You've got a microphone in your hand. Are you calling me an idiot? Because I am. All right, here we go. Let's run into it. First word this morning, Jono.

Tonic. Water. What did you go? Gin. Gin and tonic. Well, what about tonic water? Oh, yeah, you do drink a lot of tonic water, don't you? Yeah.

All right. It's an unusual beverage, but I'm so sorry. The vibes, the good vibes. Your singlet may say good vibes only, but there's only bad vibes here. Oh, Ashley, I'm so sorry. It's okay. The vibes, the good vibes. Your singlet may say good vibes only, but there's only bad vibes here. Oh, Ashley, I'm so sorry about that. We'll just quickly put the rest of the words. Torch.

Light. Nice. Tablet. iPad. Hair. Brush. It's actually rematched really well, apart from that first one.

And Parliament. We go Beehive. Are you kidding me? Oh, my God. You're so close. If you're in here, it's just water. Oh, my God. I'm sorry.

Oh, Ashley. Don't say, oh, my gosh. Put her on a hold. I don't need to hear the devastation, of course. Ashley, I'm sorry. That's okay. We're so close to $5,000. Another chance tomorrow.

We've got some spy entertainment news on the way. Yeah, a TV show, a Kiwi TV show, has hit the screens in the United States. The reviews have come out, and they're all very confused by New Zealand's sense of humour. I'll tell you more next. It is a hit. She got Jono and Ben.

Spy. The What's Up Spy.co.nz. All right, Juliet. She may never be able to afford a house, but if knowing everything about Harry Styles' personal life bought you a house, she'd be living in a goddamn mansion. Producer Juliet, what's happening in spy celebrity entertainment news? So the Kiwi TV show Wellington

Paranormal has debuted in the United States. And if you haven't seen If you haven't seen Wellington Paranormal, Taika Waititi and Jermaine Clement are its creators. It's very funny, deadpan humour, like it's as Kiwi as you can get. And it's New Zealand police

investigating sort of supernatural events. And it's gone to the US, and I think with high anticipation because of Taika Waititi being one of its creators. And Rolling Stone magazine has said, it's the kind of comedy that demands your full attention because the best jokes often involve things happening in the background. So that's a very good review from Rolling Stone magazine. But one review has said, in the background. So that's a very good review from Rolling Stone magazine.

But one review has said, Americans will soon learn that there are more creatures in New Zealand than hobbits. And someone also said, it had me laughing, but the budget looks cheap enough that it might have been bankrolled entirely in Marmite. Now, I don't really know what that sort of means, and I don't think anyone really knows what that sort of means. I don't even think the writer knows what it means.

I need to reference something New Zealand. Marmite. Yeah, yeah. But it's kind of come with a lot of, some people are being confused because, you know, the Americans, they've got a very different sense of humour to us in New Zealand. But then, like the Rolling Stone review said, they said, you know, you've got to have your full attention on it to actually sort of understand it. Sometimes it's hard for comedy to translate, isn't it?

I mean, comedy for us hasn't even translated into English in New Zealand, so let alone overseas. No, that's true. But, you know, well done on getting over there. It's a wonderful show. It's a very clever show. It is very good. We spoke to Johnny Brach on that show,

and, you know, he does the famous darts. You know, the darts that went viral on the internet? Yeah, from what we do in the Shadows of the Movie. Yeah. Which is not the Wellington Paranormal Show, but it's inspired by that. What am I referencing? No, but it is all in the same field. The darts was from the movie, what we do in the Shadows.

Was he in the TV show? No, I don't think he is in the TV show. He's in the movie, which is very, very good. Maybe they should from the movie, what we do at the show. Was he in the TV show? No, I don't think he is in the TV show. He's in the movie, which is very, very good. Maybe they should watch the movie. The movie's great. I need to get my references. Marmite. Oh, God.

Marmite. This must be Marmite something. Do they even have Marmite in the United States? Probably not. They've got everything else. They come over here. One of our favourite things to do in media is get celebrities from America

over here and then feed them like spoon, like soup spoons full of Marmite. They're like, try this Marmite, we eat it. But no one eats it like that in New Zealand. You've just assaulted my mouth. God knows what this is. We just lightly spread it on toast, but for some reason

we're like, hey, Drew Barrymore, put this bloody spoon load of Marmite in your gob. And we'll continue to do that till they're alive.

Remember the guy from Suits? He's one of the main stars of Suits. He came over and we're like, have you tried Marmite? He's like, yes,

every interview I've done in New Zealand made me eat it. Or pineapple once. And we're like, oh, we'll put it away.

Hide the Marmite. And that is a quick spy update for you. For more, you can head to the hits.co.nz. After 8 o'clock on the show, we catch up with Eliza McCartney as our tour of the warehouse stores of New Zealand continues. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. New Zealand, this is your breakfast.

With Jono and Ben's battery-operated torch tour, broadcasting live from the warehouse Lyle Bay store in Wellington. And we're here this morning at the warehouse in Lyle Bay, Wellington. Let me hear your warehouse, Lyle Bay! It's always producer Humphrey who's sitting next to you. And he tries his hardest. You sound not like him, but it's always him going, Woof! Woof!

He's trying hard and that's what I appreciate but when you yell out to an empty warehouse. Oh it's such a big store too it's just opened this morning so if you want to come down and see us in Lyle Bay

we've got plenty of spot prizes as well as get a photo with our torch our battery operated torch and you can go on the draw for 10 grand. And fun for the whole family and if your family

doesn't come down and have fun well then Ben will give you some of his medication. You'll be guaranteed to having fun when you leave. Now, Charlie, how old are you, mate? I'm 12. Charlie has come from the hut to visit the warehouse today. Charlie, say something inspirational to the fine people of New Zealand.

Hello, New Zealand. Let's go go the Olympic team Touching words That was good ad-libbing Charlie That was really good I really put him on the spot there Did you? I couldn't say anything inspirational on the spot

Hey Charlie We really like you And we've only just met you That's good We want to solidify our friendship By giving you a free bike bro That sounds pretty nice guys It does sound pretty nice.

Let's be honest here. Let's be honest. Don't lie. Ben, show them his new bike. This bike here sitting beside it. Would you like that bike? Yes, please. Yeah, it's all yours.

It's all yours. Give it up for Charlie. Here we go, Charlie. Here we go. Oh, now you make noise. Now they're screaming and yelling. No, it wasn't Ben Humphries at all, our producer. It was everyone else.

Well done, Charlie. Charlie's got a bike, and he's going to actually ride it straight out of the store. There we go. Now, it wasn't Ben Humphries at all, our producer. It was everyone else. Well done, Charlie. Charlie's got a bike and he's going to actually ride it straight out of the store. There we go. Now, what do you want to say? What do you want to say about your heroes, Jono and Ben? Just say, you guys are my heroes. Don't overcook it. Heroes.

They are truly inspirational. Put them on the $10 notes or maybe the $5. We're not a good look to knock Kate Sheppard off, you know, in this day and age. Even Hillary is. Yeah. No, knock it off. They'll give you a $7 note or off, you know, in this day and age. Even Hillary is. Yeah, no, knock it off. They'll get you a $7 note or something, you know, like this is a new amount. Charlie's taken off and he's riding around the store.

The health and safety team will be a little anxious right now, a little apprehensive. Plenty more of this out, plenty more spot prizes and lots of giveaways. So come on down and see us here at Lyle Bay, the warehouse. It is John O'Byrne. Good on you. lots of giveaways, so come on down and see us here at Lyle Bay, the warehouse. It is Jono and Ben. Do it all again. It is a hit. So you've got Jono and Ben. Now we're making our way

around New Zealand, travelling away thanks to the warehouse, and I saw someone yesterday doing something in Wellington that I used to do when the kids were little. As you know, those coin-operated sort of, that you can get in a plane or a car. They're often in the malls and stuff like that. You put coins in and they go for a little like a ride for one minute or two minutes.

It's like a frantic jolt, isn't it, for 90 seconds or so. Yeah, well, I saw someone doing it yesterday. What I used to do with the kids is you just put the kids in, and the kids are little. You just shake it a little bit. You shake it. They sort of have the steering wheel. They sort of drive it. But you don't even put the dollar or the $2 in. Oh, and the kids are little. You just shake it a little bit. You shake it. They sort of have the steering wheel. They sort of drive it.

But you don't even put the dollar or the $2 in. Oh, God, you're cheap. You're so cheap you don't even pay attention. That's how tight you are. Did you used to do that? Yeah, well, often I wouldn't have a dollar or a $2 coin. But if not, I was like, well, the kids, they're not going to know any different. You just shake it around a little bit.

There you go, guys. It's a very turbulent plane ride. It would be one of those plane rides that the oxygen mask would fall from a glove and there would be a loss in cabin air pressure. A little bit of turbulence, guys. I want to buckle up. But I was like, oh, that's a pretty thing. It was a cheap thing I used to do as a parent.

And I thought, well, why don't we open up the phone lines? Oh, under the hits, 4487. My parents were so cheap that dot, dot, dot. And you tell us the cheap thing that your parents used to do uh i don't know if it falls in the the cheap category but it was certainly them trying to save or keep up the quality of something they had purchased and it was the good couch i wasn't allowed anywhere near the good couch and i think every new zealand home yeah had a good couch uh and you're not like the kids aren't even allowed to think about sitting on it.

They would sit, me and my friends and my cousins, on the floor. Not the good couch? Not the good couch. It was the favourite sun, the good couch. I had a mate of mine who used to take his kids when they were little. He would often go, I'm taking the kids to the zoo. And his wife would go, oh, that's great. He'd just take them to the pet store.

He's like, it's the free zoo. The pet store is the free zoo. He's like, I'll come back. The animals are great. You know? They don't know what a zoo is. Yeah. Yeah, there's a sweet little sweet spot, isn't there, from probably ages three to seven

where you can just blatantly lie to kids. I was like, this is a good play. This is a good play. It catches up with them later in life, though. It causes many deep-seated issues. But why were your parents so cheap? We'd love to hear from you this morning. Oh, my mum went to America and all I wanted her

to get me was a pair of Jordans. Michael Jordan shoes. I was like, oh, that would be great. Can you just give me a pair of Jordans? And she came home with a pair of shoes. She's like, these are better. The guy told me these are better than Jordans. I'm like, oh my god, how good are these shoes? These are British Knights. I'm like, I haven't heard of British Knights.

I don't know. I mean, maybe they are, maybe they're great, but I... I remember British Knights. They certainly went in the same category. You must have... The guy at the store said they were better than Jordans. I remember, I had a similar scenario, and I remember I had to go to

school, and you had to kind of defend your shoes. British Knights! The guy at the store in America said they were better than Jordans. You wait, you wait. You just wait. Yeah, let's say in 20 years, are Jordans still going to be around? Maybe. Where are British Knights? I don't know, you vaguely remember them.

Apparently, these. Do you reckon that day he was employee of the month? He, he would have been. I sold a pair, guys. She was from New Zealand. I mean, yeah. She came in for Jordans. I sold a British Knight.

They would have been high-fiving up a storm in the tea room. So why were your parents so cheap? We'd love to hear from you this morning. 0800 the hits is the phone number. Let's get involved in New Zealand's breakfast. That's all she wrote. That's all she wrote. That's all she wrote. It's 6.60.

That's all she wrote. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. We're broadcasting from the warehouse here in Lyle Bay. Ben Boyce, you discovered something that you could do with the microphone and headphones, and it has been driving poor producer Juliet up the wall all morning. Can you just do that? Now, we just must send a warning out.

It's going to upset people's This is what he's like off air Just an obnoxious That's not to go on the radio This might be a loud noise though On the radio for people So he puts his microphone up to his headphones And it's meant to feedback

It doesn't do it when you're on the radio Off air, poor Juliet's been going Oh my goodness It sounds like one of those high pitched noise It's like that theory that only dogs can hear It doesn't do it when you're on the radio. Off air, poor Juliet's been going... Oh, my goodness. It sounds like one of those high-pitched noise that it's like that theory that only dogs can hear or only people who are below the age of 25 can hear or something like that. It's painful. Oh, maybe dogs are going bonkers right now. Maybe they heard it.

Maybe the dogs. Anyway, we're on the hunt for New Zealand's cheapest parent. Ben Boyce just openly admitted that he would put his children in those mall planes and cars and then just violently shake the apparatus back and forth so they thought that you'd put a coin in and it was manoeuvrable. The coin-operated machines. Yeah, I didn't need a coin to operate them. Well, you did. You probably did, to be honest.

Yeah, well, it clearly says put in one or two dollars for full operation. So we're after New Zealand's cheapest parents on 0800. You can text us to 4487. Let's welcome to the program this morning, Sarah. How are you? I'm good. How are you? Yeah, doing well, Sarah. Your parents, though, cheap, were they?

What were they doing? Well, my mum used to make me bring a glad wrap home from school so that she could reuse it for a week. Oh, bring the glad wrap home from school? Yeah, yeah. That's what I told you. Nowadays, it the Gladware home from school? Yeah, yeah. It's like, don't you figure. Nowadays, it's the worst thing you can take to school. Well, yeah, and can I just say the same method

as a public service announcement, the same method does not apply to condoms. Okay, thank you, John. Just a one-use-only policy. Oh, dear. Just in case you thought. I tried to wrap my kids' sandwiches in one and the teachers frowned upon it.

But Gladware, she's saving the environment. They say you're killing turtles every time you wrap a sandwich. Well, that's going to make it reusable, isn't it? How gunky and greasy was it by the end of the week? Oh, quite. Quite, yeah, quite. It would have lost its wrapping part of the Glad Wrap then, wouldn't it? Hey, thank you very much for your call.

Really appreciate it. Sorry, my Wi-Fi's gone out here. Oh, here wi-fi melissa have we got melissa hey melissa welcome oh good morning good morning to you mel uh your parents though cheap well actually it wasn't my parents it was me as a parent oh what did you do what did you do confess we'd love to hear from you well well whenever you go into a grocery store in America, before you get into the store, there would be these massive banks of gumball machines. And my kids would all be like, oh, what's that? What's that? Can I have money? And I used to tell them it was seeds for the garden and that they wouldn't want any of that because you just take the seeds and take it home and put it in the garden.

And that kept them away. The people that say that Mr. Whippy, the noise for the ice cream truck only plays noise when they've run out of ice cream. I've heard their parents saying that. I was going to tell you that too because I have a friend who used to tell her kids that the song's playing that means they've run out of ice cream. They're out, guys. They're out.

I love it. The tormenting of childhood. Someone's actually just texted in going, my dad They're out, guys. They're out. I love it. The tormenting of childhoods. Someone's actually just texted in going, my dad, without a word of a lie, we lived on a busy street, and my dad would charge my uncle to park on our driveway. No. For driveway parking.

Now, I can see a glint in your eyes. You're like, hold on. You can charge for driveway parking. Even you could keep them at your house and you could clamp their wheels. You'd be like, sorry, nothing I can do. It's a $150 release fee. I imagine like Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, the owners of Wilson Parking, they'd be charging top dollar in their driveway, wouldn't they?

You'd go around and visit them for a barbecue and be like, oh, mate, you didn't pay for parking. It's after hours now. We're going to have to call someone in to open up the gate. Thanks for your calls. Really appreciate it, guys. We've got L have to call someone in to open up the gate. Hey, thanks for your calls. Really appreciate it, guys. We've got Liza McCartney joining us not too far away as our Warehouse Tour of New Zealand continues. It is the hits you've got, John.

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Live free. Live free. Live free. Live free. Live free. Live free. Live that live for free. The travel edition, thanks to South Australian Tourism, a $5,000 travel voucher up for grabs every Friday. Yeah, that's right. Stace, Mike and Anika, they're going to be doing the draw. It feels like Thursday. It feels like a day ahead every day this week, but it's only Wednesday. So in a couple of days' time, well, you know how the week works. You can figure that out yourself.

Let's welcome to the program. Joining us is a lovely person whose name is not written in the sheets. Maybe I accidentally deleted it. Juliette. Sarah from Wellington. Gently remind me. Thank you, Sarah from Wellington. How are you, mate?

I'm good, thanks. We're in Wellington too. This is crazy. You're a bit farther where I am, though, so I can't come down. Traffic would be crazy. Oh, yeah, it is crazy out there. Tell me about it, Wellington, eh? But we're having a fun time in Lyle Bay.

And Sarah, you are in the draw for $5,000 worth of travel thanks to South Australia Tourism. Awesome, thank you. That's great. Where would you go? Oh man, we've got friends in both Sydney and Brisbane, so somewhere around there Hopefully, you know, when lockdown restrictions are gone Yeah, well I hear Sydney's an absolute riot at the moment

So if you want to pop along there And probably sit in the same room for two weeks So listen, you're in the draw, Sarah Well done And do you know what? I'm going to give you another gift here We are at the warehouse I didn't even realise

I look at Producer Humphrey As soon as you stand up, he's like Eye roll Oh, what's the old mate going to do right now? The admin, mate. You going to start doing the admin of sending these out or not? Listen, I didn't realise this. In the Pringles range, Pringles chips, they've got a seaweed flavour.

Yeah. Seaweed. So I'll send you out some seaweed Pringles. I'm going to make sure you send out, OK? Yeah, OK. Not the producer, Humphreys. All right, I'll send them out. And also the chicken souvlaki ones as well.

There you go. Which always confused me because I thought I was getting salt and vinegar. They do look like salt and vinegar. Yeah, and then when you eat them you're like what is this? Okay, well there you go. Those aren't thanks to South Australian Tourism, but you can visit SouthAustralia.co.nz. Those are thanks to Japan and Greece actually. For holiday

deals and packages to plan your Adelaide getaway. Well done, and I'll be sending those out. You might get them before 2052. Okay, Sarah? That's a good job, Ben. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from 6 on The Hits and via the iHeartRadio app.

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