Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Well That Escalated Quickly - Escalator Injuries

Episode Date: April 29, 2022

We catch up with the kiwi star from NCIS: Hawai'i, Alex Tarrant! We also hear one of the most WILD Cliff Hanger Calls to date!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Welcome to the podcast. I'm doing the intro to the podcast. I don't normally do this. Jono normally does the date, doesn't he, Bell Crawford? Yeah, yeah, he loves doing the dates. It's time check. But he's left. He's left yesterday to do something else today and he's forgotten about the podcast and doing the date, so I can't do the date. We need to call him and get him to do the date. Do you reckon he'll answer? Oh, we'll see.

We'll screen our call. Just watch them walk out. And then we're like, oh, the podcast intro. Yeah, we'll see. No. He won't even answer our calls. Hello, Jonathan Pryor. Oh, Jonathan Pryor.

Hey, I was just about to say the date for the podcast intro, which you've walked out on, and I was like, I can't do the date. It's your job. Yeah, well, it's the 29th of April. Thanks very much, mate. Hang up on him. The 29th? You know, you got it right.

Yeah, oh, was that from memory, was it? Yeah, that was just from, that was cold. Did I nail it? You did, you did, you nailed it.. Yeah, was that from memory, was it? Yeah, that was cold. Did I nail it? You did. You nailed it. There we go. Podcast intro. So that's your contribution to the podcast intro.

What's going on, mate? How was your day? That was all right. How was your day? Obviously busy. You're running a busy operation. You're off. I'm sorry.

It's quite inconvenient. The people need to know this, that when any of us have to shoot off early, it causes the world's biggest ball ache for everyone else on the team. I could have said the date without you, but I thought I'd rope you in to say the date. No, thank you. And I'm sorry for causing you achy balls, Bell,

and also you being boys. All right, okay. It's not really quite right, but anyway. Yeah, look at you moonlighting on your own, right? You're getting your own little career going, eh. Alright, okay. That's not really quite right but anyway, yeah, look at you moonlighting on your own, right? You're getting your own little career going, eh? Yeah, yeah.

To be honest, it's not much of a career. I've turned to prostitution. I've got to go meet my client. Oh, well, good luck with that one, alright? And enjoy the podcast today on the, what date was it?

On the 29th of April. There we go. Enjoy the podcast. Rise and shine, time to start the um, who are we kidding? We're not the boss of you. Jono and Ben, on the hits. It's Rihanna, only girl in the world and it is the hits. She's Harpo,

isn't she? When's she due? She's not too far along. A bit longer to go. Thanks, Belle Crawford, official spy correspondent. I just threw that out of the blue, expecting you to know Rihanna's birth date. I think she's still got a wee while to go. I love it that she's got it all out there too. Every outfit she's wearing.

They had her and ASAP Rocky, I was reading this morning, a rave-themed baby shower. It was kind of an unconventional baby shower, so it looked like a nightclub sort of thing. Oh no, like a baby shower. It was kind of a bit of an unconventional baby shower. So it looked like sort of a nightclub sort of thing. Oh, no, like a baby shower in a nightclub. Kind of thing, yeah. It was like a rave theme.

You ever been to a baby shower? Yeah, but it's, yeah, I've been to a couple. They're usually like on a Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. Yeah, well, that's, I thought it would be ideal for you. It's not going to drag on too late. Yeah, no, but there's nothing, you're just going to have coffee and muffins, don't you? We all sit around watching them open packages of breast pumps and things. No, it was fun.

It was fun. It didn't sound like it was fun. Jeez, we had a shot. Absolute scenes in the prior household last night. Okay, the humble bath. Okay? You know a bath. Yeah.

So probably my daughter's in the bath, And then we just hear like deathly screams. Help! Help! Help! So we run in. Okay. And she has got her hair caught in the plug hole. So the plug, she's pushed the plug to release.

Yeah. But in doing so, somehow the plug has caught her hair and it's sucked into, so her head's caught in the plug hole. Frightening. Yeah. Frightening for the poor nine-year-old. Oh, it would be, yeah. And so we're, I'm having to try and yank it out.

And it's like literally like the suction on it is, I was like, it looks like you're going to be living in the bath for the rest of your life. I don't think we're going to be able to detach you. That's scary. So, you know, next time you're taking a bath. Well, I never, never, you always get out and take the plug out. That's what, because it doesn't feel more like draining. That feels horrible.

And that noise. When you're a kid, that noise, you think something's going to swallow you up. Why'd you have your head down there? I don't know. I don't know. These are questions that I was trying to ask but it was hysterical obviously.

Do you remember when we talked to someone on the Rock Radio station, a guy and he drained it and he got one of his, he's got two things on his body, he got one of those caught in the plug hole. What was that doing down there?

Well, that's what we said. Same situation I guess. But it's the same question. But I guess he was probably hysterical as well. You don't want to ask him, why on earth were they there? It's not a very comfortable place to be. Well, because generally the hole is under the tap.

And you're like, how are you in that position where they're dangling? That would be a frightening situation. That would be. But then you'd walk and go, how on earth? So she's vowed never to take another bath in her life she's a shower girl now poppy although when you get to i can't remember the last time i had a bath yeah you i had one the other night actually just but i hadn't had one for a while just that's not a place i imagine yeah i don't imagine you relaxing in a bath yeah what were you doing in the bath oh you've not for long. It was nice.

I'd go, this is good. Done it. And then away you go. But yeah, some people love a bath. Yeah. It feels like just such a long process, a bath, doesn't it? As opposed to a shower. Yes.

You're in and out. But I think it is for that reason people like it. It's relaxing. It's relaxing. And they can put on a candle. Or you put your favorite episode on. Yeah. People watch TV and stuff in the bath.

Yeah. Off laptops and stuff. Well, not Poppy anymore, mate. Get out and pull out the plug. That's the tactic. I bet that guy got his testicles stuck too. Doing the same thing, that's for sure. Scrolling through your feed.

Listen, if you like the news, then this part of the show is definitely not for you. You should probably be listening to Mike Hosking or something. Well, that's true. If you respect the news. However, if you just want to listen to something while you're driving, then stay with us. Oh, I thought this was really interesting. So the iconic movie, The Wizard of Oz, obviously it's been around for a long, long time, since 1939.

But the dress that Dorothy wore, you know, Judy Garland wore, the iconic blue and white dress from the movie, well, they thought it was lost. It was donated to a drama department after the movie at a university and it's just been discovered. It's just been found in an old box somewhere and now they're going to put it for auction and they reckon it's going to get about 1.2 million New Zealand dollars for the dress. Now, you're a props

guy. You've got a lot of props. He collected all the props when our TV show finished and he's filled up his garage with props. Costumes, ATM machine costumes, banana costumes. You name a costume, Belle Crawford. Hot dog? He's got a hot dog.

He does, he does. Really? He's got a hot dog costume. Imagine what one of those will be worth in 20 years' time. Probably not quite to the extent of an iconic movie like that. Is that the hot dog costume from episode three, season four of Jono and Ben? Oh my.

We thought that was last. Was that the show, The Wizard of Oz, where they had all sorts of mad things happen on set? Yes. Now, there was a lot of things. We delved into it quite deep. I don't know if you know about this, Bell Crawford, because the movie was, there was a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes. So Judy Garland, poor Judy Garland, young actor.

They had her jacked up on amphetamines, didn't they? Yeah, they did. That's right. They had her on a diet. I was reading this before. She was on a strict diet. Chicken soup, black coffee, and four packets of cigarettes a day. Four packets.

How old was she again? I don't know. She was pretty young. That's what they had her on. They had her on these pills as well. The diet of champions. Yeah, the pills. Pet pills, they call it.

Just give it a bit more pep in a step. But they were getting some stuff out of her. Gee, she was productive. I know. The Munchkins had wild adult parties, apparently. In the hotel, they would all meet up and... They were paid less than the dog. Toto, the Munchkins, apparently.

The dog got more money than the Munchkins. There were so many things wrong with the movie. The Wicked Witch got burnt. She got horribly burnt from that melting scene. She actually was melting. She had to go to hospital. The Tin Man got lead poisoning. What a nightmare.

Oh, that's right. The paint on the Tin Man, it gave him, sort of soaked into his system and gave him lead poisoning. It was wild. And, you know, the snow scene. You're like, oh, beautiful snow. What should we use?

Asbestos. That's what they used. What the? What were they thinking? These are like things, you can Google them. I was looking at them this morning. It sounds like if I was running a movie production. It does.

Incredible. But you get some results out of kids when you put them on amphetamines. I mean, maybe we should do that with our education system. Knock the school years off in about three years. And that is some unusual news from the world this morning. The annoying ones talking between the songs. Jono and Ben on the hits. Ben Boyce, you promised

some explosive It's from my laptop. Explosions from YouTube. It's probably quite fitting the weak sound effect that you just played here. Explosive facts about the Royals because the Queen's 70th Jubilee coming up.

Wonderful milestone. Ed Sheeran performing there. Cliff Richard, Basil Brush. Don't forget about Basil Brush. Basil Brush. He's performing. Is Ed Sheeran going to do I'm in love with the shape of you? Or what song is he going to do?

She's got a great shape. She looks fantastic for 96. So there's a new book. We've been talking a few days this week about this new book. It's called The Palace Papers. It's by a former Vanity Fair editor. It puts a spotlight on almost every royal with some explosive claims.

I'll be a laptop again. William, difficult child, according to this book. Very difficult child. And, yeah, so William used to start sentences, which I reckon every kid would do if they were going to be king he'd say when i'm king i'll make a rule that and he'd carry on with that so oh you know charles is still doing that today yeah uh harry explosive harry was the driving force behind megxit according to this book not megan uh it was prince harry uh who said that

this book mate well he sort of alluded to that during his interview anyway because he saw how terrible things were and didn't want a repeat of history

so fair enough William and Kate's marriage is holding the monarchy together they reckon that's the one marriage that's holding things together according to this book

explosive new book Harry a very angry man after his mother's death which you totally understand. Oh, jeez, what's that sound? That was really explosive. It was glass explosion.

Oh, you know, everyone would be in that situation. Especially at that age, such a tender age to have to download and process what happened, let alone on an international stage.

Took up boxing afterwards, they reckon, which kind of helped him through, which I imagine would have been really good for his mental health as well. Yeah, a lot of frustration, I imagine. Yeah, it's hard to comprehend.

And the media were shocking. It was a shocking era for tabloid journalism back then. And the real reason Harry and William are in a rift, according to this book, is that William hogged all the best royal briefs. And that's not the underpants. That's as far as where they get to go and visit for territories. Harry and William would have a lot of arguments over that, apparently, according to this book.

There's some narc that's put together as well. Some loose-lipped narc from Buckingham Palace. And so Harry has come down here a number of times. Does that mean... Maybe he wasn't as happy about it as we would have been led to believe. As we would like to think. So you're telling me he wasn't as happy about it as we would have been led to believe? As we would like to think. So you're telling me Harry wasn't overly enthusiastic about going to Stewart Island? I don't know.

You're trying to tell me that? And now he's not part of the royal family. Oh, hey, put two and two together, you can put it all together. Are we going to do this again because we did it on Monday? Yeah, I want some explosive claims from you about meeting some royals. Yeah, people listening right now, 0800 the hits, 4487. They've come to New Zealand many times. Many people have travelled all over the world and bumped into royals.

Like the other day, we spoke to someone who had ran into their kids, had run into Prince William on the beach in Kapiti Coast. What was my son and his cousins, actually, all one school holiday. And the kids were always running down the beach and coming back and having a great old time and they came back and they were so excited and they said, we've been shaking hands with Prince William and I'm going, yeah, really?

Yeah, okay guys, you know, and then You're like, shut up kids, you weren't shaking hands Seriously, you know, they just came running back and of course, it wasn't until I actually watched the news that night that I thought, oh my goodness, he wasn't keeping the eye on me So you didn night that I thought, oh my goodness, he was a Kip of the Island. Oh, so you didn't actually believe them? You're like, they didn't do it?

Yeah, who does believe kids? No one. But there you go, her kids met Prince William on the beach in Kapi and he was like, I vow never to come back to New Zealand from this day forward. So 0800, that's telephone number 4487. Yeah, what's your explosive claim? Have you met a royal? I'd love to hear from you.

Now we're talking about the royal family. There's an explosive new book out this morning, and we wanted to know your explosive claims. Can we get a royal flush of calls on the radio of people that met the royals and Tessa's on 0800 The Hits? How are you? Good. We're doing the royal flush, Tessa.

Oh, that's what it was called, royal flush. Yeah, no, we called it Royal Flush. We thought it would be amazing. Ben actually came out there. I did, but then I looked into it and it's actually technically five. There's five cards and five's a lot of callers,

so I'm just going to make our Royal Flush. And who did you meet? Prince Charles. Prince Charles. He's a royal? Yeah. Where was this? This was at Ohake Air Base

in the Manawatu. And so what happened? What did Charles say to you? I don't recall much. I was five at the time, waving my little British flag. We were invited as part of a welcome. So he gets off the plane and you're all there waving flags? Yeah, just to welcome him to New Zealand, I suppose.

Did he feel welcomed? I think so, yeah. Did you shake his hand? I did, yes. Did he say anything to you? I don't think so. I think he was probably a little bit overwhelmed by all these five-year-olds. I can't imagine Charles would have much free-flowing conversation with a five-year-old.

No, no, no. He doesn't seem like the type of adult who could hold a conversation with a kid, does he? No. No, there we go. Okay, shook the type of adult who could hold a conversation with a kid, does he? No. No. There we go. Okay. Shook the hand of Prince Charles.

That's good. That's one in your Royal Flush. Jackie, you are on the Royal Flush line. Yeah, it's not as exciting. No, no. It's not as exciting. It's just the normal fine line. But you have that. How do you react to that?

Yeah. Well, how did you react when you met one of the royals? Who was it? Well, it wasn't actually me. It was my father and also my grandmother. So years ago when I was little, my grandmother was awarded an OBE. So she flew over from Hong Kong and we got to go to Buckingham Palace to see her. You went as well?

Yeah. It was actually funny. My brother, my father, and myself got to go and my mother had to stay home because there wasn't room for her. Who decided who was on the tour party? I think it was my grandmother because it was her son. And then she said, bring the grandkids along. Did that create any tension? I imagine, poor mum.

Yeah, I don't know. She just said, it's okay, you can go. And then a few years ago, my dad also got awarded a CBE. So I got to go again. So I've been to Buckingham Palace twice, but both my grandmother and my dad have touched the Queen. What have they done to deserve this recognition? My grandmother is a celebrity chef in Hong Kong, and she did a lot of charity work.

And my father is a doctor who was leading in his field. What's your grandmother's name? Her name's Maria Lee. Maria Lee. Wow, that's incredible. So do you remember what Buckingham Palace was like inside? Yeah, it was very gold. Oh, really?

Yeah. I just remember walking up a staircase and the walls were just covered in gold and I was touching this gold wall. A gold wall sounds a little tacky to me, but who am I to say? I don't have gold walls. Yeah, gold walls, big staircases, lots of chandeliers, lots of red carpet. And so the queen would have touched both your grandmother and your father. Yeah.

Now, does she hold in that sword, which always looks a little... She doesn't look like she's got the core strength to lift up the sword. Yeah, it's quite heavy looking. She does have people who kind of hand it to her and then take it off her again, so she doesn't fall over with it. Slowly tip over. Whoa, whoa, whoa, she's going. I imagine they're on standby.

They're on alert at all times when she's got the sword in their hands. Just kind of on each elbow waiting. Well, this has been really interesting speaking with you, so thank you so much for your time this morning. No worries. Appreciate that, Jackie. You keep safe and you keep enjoying being on the Royal Flush Line. Now you've got another great story

to tell about the Royals. Yeah, awesome. This one definitely trumps my father touching the Queen. You have a great day. Spy. Know what's up. Spy.co.nz From Lady Gaga to the Briscoe's Lady. We've got them all here in Spy Bell Crawford. What's happening in Hollywood?

Something pretty big happened yesterday where Olivia Wilde, the actress, was served custody papers while she was on stage at a film event. She was presenting her newly directed movie, Don't Worry Darling, at CinemaCom in front of thousands of people. And this woman she didn't know handed her a yellow folder marked personal and confidential. And she actually paused to open it, realised what it was and went on to play the movie's trailer and they were

custody papers over her children with her ex-partner Jason Sudeikis who you might know as Ted Lasso so the lawyer had jacked it up so it happened at this hugely public time it's just horrible. They do that on the movies all the time they'll go, are you Jono Pryor? You'll be like yes and then they'll serve you You know

They'll notice You just got served Sort of thing Which means that You've legally Accepted the document And then proceedings Can go underway

I just denied That I was John O'Prior The whole time You wouldn't know Sometimes Because they do it In a sneaky way They don't come up there

With the Well especially on stage Hey psst Olivia Wilde Take this yellow envelope You're like what Yeah You just been served

Yeah great play She's with old Harry Styles He is Yeah I don't know if he's old Harry Styles No he's young Harry Styles Yeah Bit of an age gap there

Which is nice I like that Yeah Yeah What does it sound like? I'm just Gonna say something problematic It does sound like

You've got a problem with that You're age shaming her I'm not So what do you love about the age gap then? Go on yeah Well I love that That's you know Love of all ages It doesn't matter if you're in love You're age shaming her. So what do you love about the age gap then? Go on, yeah. Well, I love that that's, you know, love of all ages. It doesn't matter if you're in love, you're in love, Ben.

That's good. Okay. Well, she's 38. There's something going on about it, mate. See, you're shaming her. Why am I shaming her? You are shaming her, yeah. How's that shaming her? Would you say if a guy was, like, dating someone young?

Yeah. Scott Disick and his young Leonardo DiCaprio. Oh, we've had miles of content off Leonardo DiCaprio. Yeah. It goes both ways, Bill. Listen, we don't discriminate when we age shame. All right. Apart from the actual age shaming.

The biggest entertainment story at the moment is, of course, the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial, the defamation trial that's going down. Obviously, we cannot cover everything that's happened. There's a lot going on. You can watch it all online. But these are some of the latest things that have happened. Johnny was asked why he stayed in the relationship, and this is what he said. That's a very complicated answer. I'm sure that it's somehow related to my father remaining stoic as my mother would beat him. Also, his mother beat his dad.

I have a really hard time knowing what's real and what's not real because they're both great actors. Yeah. You know? That sounded like a scene from a movie. Especially the music behind it because they're both great actors. Yeah. You know? That sounded like a scene from a movie. Especially the music behind it. With the music behind it. Yeah, it did.

I was like, I'll go watch that movie. Yeah, and you made a good point when we were talking about it before the show actually, Belle, that a lot of people have made up their minds already and are really ready to make up their minds. We don't know all the information. But you haven't heard all the information yet.

You know? So everyone's like, what side are you on? And you're like, well, you can't. You couldn't pick a side until you know all the information. It's know? So everyone's like, what side are you on? And you're like, well, you can't, you know? You couldn't pick a side at the second. Until you know all the information. It's the evidence, yeah. So, yeah. What side are you guys on then?

No. At the moment. I'm too busy age-shaming people, mate. He was a lot older than her, wasn't he? Johnny Depp. Oh, yeah. Why don't we say that, mate? Yeah.

This also, we had Amber's therapist on the stand. This is what she said. One of the primary things i learned was that she had a very sophisticated way of minimizing any personal problems some of the primary characteristics and i'm going to try to condense 25 pages here were essentially externalization of blame tending to have a lot of inner hostility that is attempted to be controlled. Imagine your therapist being on the stand just telling all your information.

Amber's gone, 36-year-old Amber who's going, I'm only winding you up. What's the age gap there, John? I was just trying to do the maths as we continue. But she'll be like, I told you all this in private. Yeah, that should be like a relationship that you'd think would have been confidential.

It's sad, the whole thing. All this information going out there for the world to see. Like, I'm glad I haven't watched any of the live stream. I have no interest in watching the live stream. Honestly, if you're on TikTok, it's just your whole feed. Yeah. You know, it's all these personal details. You're like, I shouldn't know this.

Well, with a 22-year age gap, what were we expecting? How was it going to play out? Tested safe for listing from home. Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, NCIS Hawaii is on TVNZ2. It's a huge international franchise, NCIS. There's lots of versions of the show. And this one stars a Kiwi actor, Alex Tennant.

He was Lincoln on Shortland Street. And here is Alex on NCIS Hawaii. You know what I think? This is a crime scene. Jane Tennant, special agent in charge, NCIS Hawaii. All right, guys, what do we know? The social media went dark a few weeks ago. Were you able to activate it?

Yes. The only lead we have is a name. I got to do this one alone. Look, you're new, but we work as a team. That's very cool. And Alex Tarrant joins us right now. Congrats on such a huge role in an international show. And thank you so much for getting up so early for us.

Oh, dude, it's all good. I've been waiting to talk to you guys. It's an exciting time for me. Ledger, mate. Where are you at the moment? I'm back in New Zealand. I've been here for just over a week now. And we just decided to do this over Zoom.

I don't know why Zealand. I've been here for just over a week now. And we just decided to do this over Zoom. Yeah, I don't know why. Where have you been? I've been in Hawaii. I went to LA for a few days. We did some publicity for NCIS and then, yeah, back home. Oh, geez. Working in Hawaii must be a huge ball lake for you there, Alex. Oh, dude, it's terrible.

I love it there. I miss it already. Well, yeah, because I was reading, because obviously the show is shot there, NCIS Hawaii is shot there in Hawaii, but then you also, you know, your wife Lucy, she's an actor, and your son goes to school in Hawaii, and they've got like a pet turtle at the school.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, a tortoise. He's large. He's of the large variety. What, does he just roam around the playground? Yeah, yeah, eats the food. They feed him every large variety. What, does he just roam around the playground? Yeah, yeah. Eats the food. They feed him every morning. And yeah, he loves it there.

That's very cool. I mean, how is it? Because obviously Kiwis will know you as Bad Boy Lincoln from Shoreland Street. Do you introduce yourself like that? Bad Boy Lincoln. Bad Boy Lincoln. But now you're on NCIS Hawaii, a huge international franchise. Now, no doubt you have had to put on a semi-convincing American accent for this program.

So what I would like to do is all of us, we all conduct. Oh, don't do this. We all conduct just the next. I can't do an American accent. We all conduct. I can't. Yeah, well, how was it? Like, you had to do it over Zoom, the audition.

Ask him an American accent. How was the audition over Zoom? See, I sound so terrible Like, you had to do it over Zoom, the audition. Ask him in American Exit. How was the audition over Zoom? See, I sound so terrible. Go and commit to the role. I don't want this role. Alex wanted this role. I'll ask him. Hey, Alex, how are you?

What's up? Yeah, I'm good. I'm good, thanks, man. How are you doing? Yeah, I'm doing good, man. Hey, how was doing the process, the audition over Zoom? It was a tricky process. I think, honestly, every time that I have to do my accent,

I get so nervous. You do well. You do well. You can stop there. We're not going to make you carry on. But yeah, I imagine it would be one of those things where you probably feel like anyone could call you out at any moment. Oh, dude, massive imposter syndrome. uh the times that we have uh very briefly gone over to

that side of the world for work uh something that ben always comes into like when you go to starbucks and order a coffee they write his name as bin yeah because i'm like my name's bin i got a coffee for ben the new zealand accent doesn't always translate so well over there. But no, who's named Ben? Ben Boyce. But very, very cool. We're so proud of you being in this huge international show, huge franchise.

And as you said before, you went over and did publicity in LA. I saw you getting a photo with LL Cool J. I mean, of course. Yeah, bro. I was shaking. My palms were sweaty. These weak arms were heavy. Yeah, bro. I was shaking. My, my palms were sweaty. How cool was that though? Cause I mean, he's on NCIS LA, so you guys all got together, but I mean, that's pretty awesome. It's a bit surreal for me. I'm still kind of

soaking all of this experience. And so being back home, I get a chance to breathe and have a reflection on what's been going on, but we're going to go back into it in a month's time. And I'm really excited. So this is it. You're on the NCIS train now. You keep on going. Series 2 has been picked up already, we understand. Yeah, yeah, that's right.

So it's, yeah, yeah, keeping on going. And I'm just going to ride the wave for as long as I can. One of the really cool things about you is you're actually dyslexic, which I think is awesome that, you know, you have to obviously read through scripts and stuff. Does that become a bit of a challenge, Alex? Yeah, it does. It does, man.

I have to go through it at least, I would say at least four times until I get a grasp of what's going on. But that's a great message to send out to people who are also dealing with dyslexia as well. You sort of call it your superpower in a lot of ways because it helps you sort of visualize everything yeah yeah i think the reading is the hardest part for me but then once the the imagination aspect of of of dyslexia it really does feel like a superpower i get to um feel scenarios as if i was uh in it for real so it's all right so you can imagine something and you warp yourself there.

Basically, yeah. It feels like a real scenario for me. One of the pills Ben gave me at the last Christmas party. Whatever. It warped me into it. He always slanders my good name. Ben Boyce. You're slandering Ben Boyce's good name again.

He gave me this pill, Alex, and I was like, jeez, I was in another world. Alex doesn't want to be part of this. Hey, Alex, we're so proud of you here in New Zealand. Going from bad boy Lincoln to NCIS Hawaii. Do you know I always, and I say this all the time too, whenever I meet anyone from Shortland Street, I'm such a huge Shortland Street fan, and I loved you on Shortland Street. Oh, dude, I appreciate that, man. Thank you.

It's awesome to see you on NCIS Hawaii and also coming soon to Lord of the Rings, the new Amazon series as well. So, man, you're just kicking goals all around. It's awesome. Appreciate it, man. Exciting times. Yesterday on the show, I shared a story that was called into question by my fellow colleagues,

and it was the underbelly of escalators. It's an issue that no one wants to talk about publicly, but we're at the forefront of escalator injuries. Well, not necessarily injuries, but escalators de-clothing, de-robing people. And I told a story about a friend who had a colleague who was on an escalator and the escalator caught into his chinos, his trousers, and ripped the pants clean off his legs. Now, Bell Crawford, who's with us, you thought this was a story that maybe wasn't true.

Well, if it was, because with trousers, there's two legs, you know, basically one, it'd have to be ripped off at the same time. We saw holes in your story, much like the holes in your friend's fictitious pants. Well, I did say yesterday that the escalator took his trousers and his dignity, and no one would believe me. You two wouldn't believe me. You were scoffing. But then, in your defense, because we threw it out there, anyone had an incident similar to this? And then Claire phoned up and had checked this out. So I was at the airport, so excited to finally be able to fly again,

leave the country, go meet some girlfriends in Sydney for the weekend. I had checked in. I was treating myself to go into the Kauru Lounge, was heading up the escalator, and I was wearing a long maxi skirt, which got caught in the side and started literally tearing off my body. Oh, no.

What have you got on? No, this is not a personal question. Well, it is. What was underneath the skirt? Not very flattering undies. Nothing sexy. A bit of a granny comfort situation. Yeah, comfortable underwear.

Sensible underwear. Well, I was going on a flight flight. I wanted to be comfortable. Trapped in her underpants at the airport. See, this is what the escalator industry is trying to hide, Ben. Stories like this. And it's our job as broadcasters, responsible broadcasters, to get this information out there. I feel like we're like Fox News or something.

We're hyping up something that's not to worry about. Stairs. Take the stairs. They'll never steal your trousers. Will they? They'll take the energy out of your legs. But a lot of people

fall down stairs. There's horrific injuries happening in stairs. True. Maybe the problem is humans front wing to get from one level to another.

Maybe that's the core issue. But that's not the end of it. Okay? Overnight, I've become the poster child for this campaign. I've always wanted to put my name

towards a charity. Maybe this is it. Escalators taking people's clothes off them. Not the only incident, Ben. Really? They've been flooding through, coming across my desk overnight. Would you say the cause of escalated? They have, my friend.

And I'm proud of you that that's the first time you've used that reference. Yeah, all right. So we're going to talk to a couple of people next who have also fell victim to escalators. Okay. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. So we're in the middle of a bit of a public service announcement about escalators, taking people's clothes off them. And a lot of calls flooding through and text 24487 if you've fallen victim to this incident.

We're going to go to the phones right now. Leah, what happened to you? Hey, I was at Westfield ricketing with my 10-year-old son on the escalator and he was ahead of me and we stepped off at the top and he just said, uh-oh. And then I stepped off and tripped

and both of his adidas scuffs were sticking vertically out of the top of the escalator and it come to a sudden halt. And, yeah, I don't think you could do it again if you tried. Both of the toes were wedged right underneath and, yeah. Your son's toes were wedged underneath, or the shoes? The scuffs, yeah.

Oh, yeah, the slides, the scuffs, his shoes. So his shoes basically stopped the escalator. Yeah, I don't even know. You couldn't even get one stuck if you tried. You weren't even being silly or anything. The man came out. The Westfield man came straight out. I don't know where from and was just like asking if he was being silly

or anything on it, and he wasn't. And he was like, you couldn't even get one stuck if you tried. Do you know how long I've been manning this escalator for? I've got photos of it. It's hilarious. And he's in tears because he's so embarrassed because all these ladies and customers are having to walk up the escalator for? I've got photos of it. It's hilarious. And he's in tears because he's so embarrassed because all these ladies and customers

are having to walk up the escalator. And these two things are sticking straight up vertically from the escalator. Can you put the escalator in reverse? No, he just pulled one out

and then he took like quite a while to pull the second one out and they looked like a piranha had eaten his toes off of the jump. When you think about it, and don't you, you shouldn't think about it too much, but when you,

escalators, are they dangerous? Aren't they? Yeah, they are. Yeah, considering, I mean, if you're saying about silly, you couldn't do it if you tried. Honestly. Are they dangerous? Are they dangerous? I worry about so many things in my life. But I don't worry about escalators. Maybe I should be but I don't worry about what escalators.

Maybe I should be. I don't know. Ben, you know in this job you just say stuff sometimes and you just hope that people agree. And Leah from Greymouth was polite enough to agree with what I said and we were just ready to move on. But then you've gone, are they? And to be honest, you're probably right.

I'll tell you what does mess with your brain, getting on an escalator that's not going, but your brain for some reason just can't work out. Like the stairs, what if you get on the escalator that's meant to be going up, but it's not moving? You're like, these are just normal stairs. These are just stairs. I know, but your brain's just like, why is this not moving?

They're harder than normal stairs. Yeah, for some reason they're harder. Do you ever, have you ever been on one with a supermarket trolley that just comes to a grinding halt? Yes. You're like a broken down motorist holding up all the traffic behind you. You can tell everyone's like...

I always love an overtaker on an escalator as well. Like the fast lane of the motorway. All right, Leah. Keep safe on those escalators around there. They're dangerous, a lot more dangerous than you think. Thank you. See you, mate. Have a good day.

Flavia, how's Carpity this morning? It's beautiful, sunny, calm. That's a wonderful weather report from Carpity there. Now, what happened to you on an escalator? So it didn't happen to me, it happened to my mum. We were in London on the underground. It was a really hot day so she was wearing this big flowy skirt

and it got caught in the escalator and it didn't like rip off or anything because I think they've got some mechanism that stops the escalator as soon as it happens

the whole thing just stops but she looks down at it in an absolute fear she looks back at me and at that moment the retina in her eyeball ripped clean off what? what? oh jeez this came out of nowhere what? And at that moment, the retina in her eyeball ripped clean off. What?

What? This came out of nowhere. What? From a look back at you. Yep, exactly. So she had to deal with, like, this, like, sort of very uncomfortable vision with, like, lots of floaters and everything was sort of, like, moving around for the rest of the holiday until she could come back

to New Zealand and have it surgically reattached. Oh, so I popped out of her head. This started as an escalator dress story and ended up with a retina detaching. So it's like all the way at the very back of your eye. So it's not like a literal eyeball was like falling down your face. Like dangling halfway down her cheek.

That's what I'm imagining. Oh, jeez. It was pretty unpleasant for her and they had to cut her out of the escalator as well. So that was not ideal. What an unfortunate series of events. And this is just from, what, turning quickly and looking? Yep.

I can imagine. Tell you what, looking's a lot more dangerous than you think. Oh, yeah, that's dangerous, isn't it? I never thought about that. These are a lot of things I need to worry about. But I imagine in the underground, a busy, busy place too, people would just be wanting to get past your mum. Yeah, it was hectic.

And we're like, oh, mum, did you have to get your dress scored and your retina detached? Well, I was on our way to a theatre show, and I was like, mum, we've just got to go. It's starting soon. We've got to go now. She's like having this absolute idea. She's like, mate, mate.

It was dress scored, and I think I've done something to your eye. You're like, what absolute She's like mate mate. It was really cool and I think I've done something to your eye and you're like what have you done to your eye? Oh poor lady.

Great call. I hope she's okay now. Can she see properly and everything was alright? Yep she's all

good. Had it put back on. It was fine. Jeez there we go. Thank you very much.

Have a great day. You too. Five words for 5k. You're just five words away from

$5,000. Your chance away from $5,000. Your chance to win $5,000. We do it every morning on our show at 7.45. The Game of Word Association. We say five words to you. You tell us what pops into your head. All five match up with ours. You win $5,000.

Janice, welcome from Auckland. How are you? Good, thank you. Oh, very excited. It's wonderful to have you on, Janice. You've got the energy levels of an audience member from Alan. I love it. That's good.

Alan gets that audience jacked up, doesn't she? Hey, Janice, so we understand your son's seventh birthday tomorrow. Yes, his birthday today. Party tomorrow. Happy birthday. What's his name? His name is Axel. Well, great name, Sue.

There's no path in his life that he couldn't take where he's not going to end up cool. Yeah. You know, we'll get Axel on to it. You know, any job. Yeah, right. Any job. Okay, Janice, what would you do with 5K if you won it? Well, he'd get a bit more of a birthday party,

and then I'd spend the rest getting myself to see my niece in Australia. Oh, very nice. A couple of years with the pandemic, obviously. How old's your niece? She has just turned 16. Oh, nice. Yeah, but I haven't seen her for a long time and it's, yeah, I really need to go see her. Why do you really need to go see her. Why do you really need to go see her? At the start of COVID, she had an AVM in her brain and it burst.

So she's had two brain surgeries. Jeez. Yeah, so I haven't seen her since then. So I'd really love to go see her after she made it through all that. Mate, okay. Well, who do you want to send into the soundproof booth? Please don't say me. There's a bit of pressure on one of us, that's for sure.

Who do you want to send in? I'm going to go with Ben. Yes. Geez, I'll try my best. I believe in you. You know what's on the line here, Ben. He thinks Ben. She's saying she thinks Ben.

You think Ben's better. He is. Yeah, Ben is better. I agree. No. My vote's for Ben. My vote's for Ben. She's saying she thinks. You think Ben's better. He is. Yeah, Ben is better. I agree. My vote's for Ben. My vote's for Ben. Janice. Okay, so the first word that comes into your head when I say nostril.

Hair? Nostril, hair. Bluff. Bluff is word number two. Bluff? Yeah. Oh. Um.

I want to say bluff oysters. Bluff oysters. You're thinking hard here. Macintosh is the third word this morning, Janice. Macintosh. Uh. Uh. Is it

Macintosh toffee, the lolly? Toffee, yeah. Or lolly. What do you want to lock in? Macintosh, lolly, or toffee? Toffee. You're going to go toffee. Okay. Wave lolly. What do you want to lock in? Macintosh, lolly, or toffee? Toffee. You're going to go toffee. Okay. Wave is the fourth word. Wade.

Wave. W-A-V-E. Beach. Beach. And the fifth and final word is island. I-S-L-A-N-D. Buddy, what do you think when you think of island? Island.

We're going to have to get an answer there, Janice. I-S-L-A-N-D. Island holiday. Island holiday. Beautiful. answer there Janice I-S-L-A-N-D Island Holiday Beautiful let's get Ben out of the soundproof booth or the scary silent box as we like to call it he's been alone been alone with his dark dark thoughts what have you been thinking about in there buddy? I've been trying to win this money but there's no way to prepare for this

so I just gotta, I'll do my best Now you know what's on the line I know what's on the line Janice do you just want to repeat what's on the line? No we want to make this happen for Janice There's a niece that needs to be seen in Australia Word number one I was going to say an extra birthday party

Yeah an extra birthday Nostril was the first word Ben what comes into your head when I say nostril Nose Cheers I'm going to go on the first one Nose Cheers No I'm not going to run the first one I didn't even get on the board there

No runs What was it? No runs It was nostril hair Yeah Okay Janice I'm sorry you're not going to win today Bluff was the second word

Oysters Well done. That's one from two. Macintosh. Toffee. Two from three. Wave. Sea. Beach was the answer there. And finally, island was the fifth word. Stuart.

No. You played a good game, Janice. Sorry, Janice. I really wanted to win that one for you. That's all right. At least it wasn't one wrong out of five. That's right. I'll tell you what, we're going to send you out some hell pizza for your son's birthday, okay? The party tomorrow.

Oh, thank you. Yeah, they're also delivering beer and wine too, which is great for kids as well. So we'll give that out to you, Janice. Oh, thank you. Have a great day, Janice. All right, thanks for listening. Thanks. Morning Contained Storgy Parenting Advice.

Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, as a parent, you all know, thanks for listening. Morning Contained Storgy Parenting Advice. Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, as a parent, you'll know this, Jono, sometimes it's hard to get the kids to move, to get them to move quickly. Motivate them. And you're a motivated guy too, so you want your kids up and at them, don't you? My kids are pretty good, but I tell you what,

nothing moves them faster than when a bee or a wasp comes near them. Oh, that's the same in our household with Poppy. Yeah, the poor bees and wasps. I imagine they just fly around their whole day just being screamed at. Don't they? They feel like Justin Bieber. Bieber, that's good. That's good for you.

Great pun there. It's great pun. Unintentional. Yeah, because that's the thing. I keep going, relax. They're not out to get you. They're not out to zone in on you. They can fly around you, and if you just chill out, they'll go away.

But as soon as they fly around my kids, they just, oh, my God, there's a bee. They just, you know. I use exactly the same argument with Poppy because they're like, they've got other lists. They've got other priorities. They've got a bossy queen that they're having to go out and get work 23 hours a day. They're only alive for five weeks. Really?

Yeah, stink, because they basically work themselves to death. I told you I'd gone that hole about bees one New Year's. They work themselves to death. They're working so hard, they're done after five weeks. So they're not going to waste their sting, which also eliminates them, on you. Yeah, and I kind of go, at what age are my kids going to be doing their tour?

Are they going to be working somewhere one time? Maybe one of them might be a doctor in the surgery. Ah, there's a bee! And they freak out and run out of the room you know you don't know you're like well what age do you realize that you're like oh that could be cool yeah well i'm the same wasps however i don't understand the point of wasps they're not there for any good of any part of the ecosystem though wouldn't there there would be a point for them i don't know what is it though they don't make us anything. Can we milk them? Can you milk a wasp?

Bell Crawford's researching. Can you milk a wasp? What good are wasps? It's one of my favorite jokes because I've got a B on my, like the letter B on my leg tattooed on because, you know, Ben and Boyce and stuff. Just in case you've forgotten how to spell that. Yeah, so I've got that on my leg. But it's my favorite thing as a dad joke to go,

I've got a B on my leg. And the kids just. I never actually got that on my leg, but it's my favourite thing as a dad joke to go, I've got a bee on my leg, and the kids just... I never actually realised that getting the tattoo, but afterwards I'm like, oh, this is so good. Years of comedy. And once the kids freak out. Do we have a latest wasp update? Yeah, so I've got this article, What's Really the Point of Wasps? Apparently they're massive predators.

I've already read that. Yeah, shocking. Get rid of them. And they cause a lot of damage to the insects. They kill them. Also, like honeydew, they lap it all up. What? Yeah.

Everything's got a reason to be there. Yeah, you're right. Yeah. I don't know what my reason is why I'm here. What are you doing right now? I'm like a wasp. Yeah. It says they're extremely important in the environment and face problems similar to those

of cherished but often less annoying cousins, the bees. But still, year that hasn't said i know you're googling on the fly here so i'm not putting this on you but they haven't really come through they've said that they're important but they haven't they haven't given me a reason and if you don't give me a reason i don't believe you but they just see the giant pain in the ass that's basically what that article said they can be a literal one if or if you get set on that have you been stung by a bee or wasp before oh multiple times yeah yeah you yeah yeah it's one get set on that. Have you been stung by a bee or a wasp before? Oh, multiple times. Yeah. Yeah.

You? Yeah. Yeah, it's one of those. The first time I got stung, my sister got stung. And I remember running out to help her out and getting stung on the way through as well. And I was like, man. Not from the same bee, but two for one. That was a great day in the boy's house.

Yeah. Both screaming. Ah! Mum and dad trying to like. They picked the sting out Yeah Yeah hey well bees I know there's a bit of a decline

In the population of bees Isn't there They need to get out there You know a lot about bees I know You're a beekeeper Oh no I can't That's too much

I don't know I had nothing to do With one New Year's And I saw a bee flying around Rhythm and Vines No no mate I can't come I'm doing some extensive bee research What for You gotta be a beekeeper?

No no no it'll come in handy one day Well this is your moment It's all paid dividends That bleak new years that you had I finally found their purpose I read a big long article On wasps yeah Without them because they kill so many insects

We'd have way more insects And ones that you wouldn't want They're the serial murderers of the insect community. Honestly, I just read like a five-page article and that was the one line. You did look a little disengaged from our conversation. Plunkett Mummy Money. Help support Plunkett this Mother's Day.

Yeah, support Plunkett. Whānau, Afina, Plunkett, they need your support to be able to continue to provide services for health and wellbeing of tamariki and their whānau. And this year we're encouraging you to help Plunkett, they need your support to be able to continue to provide services for health and well-being of Tamariki and their whānau. And this year, we're encouraging you to help Plunkett help mums in the lead-up to Mother's Day, which is Sunday week. You can text MUM to 8595, donate $3, or head to the Plunkett website to donate more. And Harrowways have teamed up with Plunkett, too,

and they're doing a special breakfast in bed situation. And Harrowways and Plunkett have kindly given us some money to give away this week to mums you know mums spend their whole life wasting their money on you, raising you don't they? Why don't you give them something back and we're going to do that with Ashley in the Waikato Morena, how are you? Morning Great to have you on Ash

now your mum, good lady? Yes, yes, very good lady What's the best bit of advice your mum's given you? Oh I couldn't think of any. One bit of advice would be ridiculous. No advice! No, no, just a lot of advice. That's a tough question to put someone on the spot.

What do you mean? What's the best bit of advice your mum's given you? What was that, sorry? I'm talking to Jono right now, putting him on the spot. What's the best advice my mum's ever given me? Yeah, now, you repeated the question, you bought yourself'm talking to Jono right now. What's the best advice Mumma has ever given me? You repeated the question. You bought yourself some more time. Okay, now I'm finally realising

how difficult that question is to answer. So, Ashley, I sympathise with you. And can I apologise, too, for throwing you under the bus with that advice line of questioning. Not appropriate. Okay, Ashley, this game's pretty simple. We're going to phone your mum.

She's got $500. However, the jeopardy, each ring, we lose $100 off the prize pool. Okay. She's pretty good. I mean, mum's always there for you, aren't they, when you ring? They'll always answer your call, but will they answer the call of two soulless radio announcers? Yeah, it's not coming from your number.

Okay, here we go. Good luck. I like to say that this competition is savage, but necessary. Ben likes to say, no, it's all unnecessary. We could just give them 500 bucks. Yeah, okay. Here we go. Buy $100.

Oh, $400. Sayonara 200. Hello, Dan. Ah, she's got $100. Oh, $400. Sayonara 200. Hello, Jan. Ah, she's got $300. It's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. Oh, hi. Jan, best bit of advice you've ever given your daughter. Answer the question, Jan.

We all did. No one could. Hey, Jan, you've got $300 all thanks to Ashley, alright? Okay. Thank you very much. Happy Mother's Day, Jan. Ashley's given you this cash. What do you want to say to her? Thank you, Ashley. No worries, Mum.

How much money have you wasted on Ashley over the years? Jan? Yeah, that could be right. This is going a little way towards paying you back. Will you, Jan, go and have a wonderful Mother's Day. And Ashley, you're a mother yourself. Yes. You too, have a Mother's Day.

Thank you so much, guys. Have a Mother's Day. Why don't we, no, because Ashley's the, Ashley's a mum too, why don't we give you the remaining $200? Oh, that'd be nice. Why don't we do that? Again, this is something I would do to make the competition unnecessary, but you've done it.

Yeah, no, actually, you take $200, your mum takes $300, and we look like bloody legends. Thank you so much, guys. All right, next time think of some advice, though, if Jono asks you. Rated M for mildly amusing. Jono and Ben on the hits. Speaking of on the run, Ben and me, we parked the car three or four blocks away from our cars. Not our car, we don't come to work together.

But I would, I would commute with you. Oh, you'll pick me up on Monday then. Save the environment, you know. Yeah. Or should we start it somewhere later in the year? I can't. But, you know, we were just walking over. So that's two or three blocks away from where the radio studio is

and it's a good time for us to look around shops see which ones we can ram raid and stuff don't talk about that it's very scary times it is very scary times

hey stop ram raiding why would you joke about that there's a guy up the road oh bell you know me just say some flammatory stuff there's a poor guy

up the road he's sleeping in a store up the road a liquor store up from our you know in our area because he's been ram raided and he's worried about people who's sleeping in his store at the road, the liquor store in our area because he's been ramrated and he's worried about people

coming back, living in the store. That's very scary. It is frightening, isn't it? And I know they're saying, oh, you know, the liquor store owners and the dairy owners, they can put up bars outside their dairies. And then they're going, well, and also parents, just make sure

you know where your kids are. how about Cuddles Costner the police commissioner does some hard line policing Ben I know you're telling me to get to Newstalk ZB I want your calls on 0800 80 1080 no but we were walking

we were walking over and I saw a sign on the 24 hour shop which is on the corner there and it was the wonderful sign back in five oh yeah you know back in five as a customer yeah you don't know when the start line for five was it's a great sign yeah i mean you could be in five minutes in reality it buys you 10 doesn't it 10 minutes

buys you 15 to 20 20 minutes buys you three or four hours you know they haven't put a time on when it starts yeah it, it's so confusing. So you have a back and five from, yeah, from what? Yeah. It's like when you text someone, I'll be there in five, where you've kind of given them the start point, because you've texted, even though everyone knows. You're never going to be there in five.

It's probably like, I've just got out of bed, I've totally forgotten about what we're doing, but I'll be there in five. So I've compiled a list of, you know, the back and five sign or the back and 10 sign. I've compiled a list of, you know, the back in five sign or the back in ten sign. I've compiled a list of the most aggravating signs for human beings. Number one on the list,

the countdown to the most annoying signs, delays up ahead. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's annoying. You don't seem too faced by it. No. Like, if I'm doing the list of the most annoying signs, can you at least sound annoyed when I bring them up? Oh, yeah.

Does that wind you up, Bell Crawford? Well, it's just the reality. Delays up here. It's a reality of life, especially living in a big city, isn't it? Yeah, I'm hoping that I'm turning off before the delays. That's what I'm hoping. Okay, all right. So maybe that's not the most annoying sign.

Okay. Take your shoes off. I don't mind taking shoes off. Okay, guys. We kind of don't Wear shoes inside When we can at home More comfortable

And less germs Okay so not annoying Car park full Oh yeah Super annoying That can be really annoying Yeah that's a good one Please wear your mask

No that's a hell of a That's not a word Okay Please scan them If I was an anti-vaxxer Maybe I wouldn't Wouldn't be happy about that It's kind of a part of our life

Scanning instant doesn't really matter so much anymore But yeah, time is probably one of those things Road works ahead They take like 10 years in New Zealand Okay, well that was my list of You said 10 too I don't forget to 10 Did we fade out on that one?

I definitely faded out Because I was quickly realising that my list of annoying signs Were just mildly inconvenient signs You said 10 too. I don't know if we get to 10. Did we fade out on that one? Did I say it was 10? I would definitely fade it out. Maybe not. Because I was quickly realising that my list of annoying signs were just mildly inconvenient signs. Scrolling through your feed. Listen, if you like the news, then this part of the show is definitely not for you. You should probably be listening to Mike Hosking or something. Well, that's true. If you respect the news.

However, if you just want to listen to something while you're driving, then stay with us. Oh, I thought this was really interesting. So the iconic movie, The Wizard of Oz, obviously it's been around for a long, long time, since 1939. But the dress that Dorothy wore, you know, Judy Garland wore, the iconic blue and white dress from the movie, well, they thought it was lost. It was donated to a drama department after the movie at a university,

and it's just been discovered. It's just been found in an old box somewhere, and now they're going to put it for auction, and they reckon it's going to get about $1.2 million New Zealand dollars for the dress. Now, you're a props guy. You've got a lot of props. He collected all the props when our TV show finished,

and he's filled up his garage with props. Costumes, ATM machine costumes, banana costumes. You name a costume, Bell Crawford. Hot dog? He's got a hot dog. He does. Really? He's got a hot dog costume He does. He does. Really?

He's got a hot dog costume. Imagine what one of those would be worth in 20 years time. Probably not quite to the extent of an iconic movie like that. Is that the hot dog costume from episode three, season four of Jono and Ben? Oh my.

We thought that was last. Was that the show, The Wizard of Oz, where they had all sorts of mad things happen on set? Yes. Now, there was a lot of things. We delved into it quite deep. I don't know if you know about this, Bell Crawford,

because the movie was, there was a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes. So Judy Garland, poor Judy Garland, young actor. They had her jacked up on amphetamines, didn't they? Yeah, they did. That's right. They had her on a diet. I was reading this before. She was on a strict diet,

chicken soup, black coffee, and four packets of cigarettes a day. Four packets. How old was she again? I don't know. She was pretty young.

That's what they had her on. They had her on these pills as well. The diet of champions. Yeah, the pills. Pet pills, they call it. Just give her a bit more pep in a step.

But they were getting some stuff out of her. Jeez, she was productive. I know. The Munchkins had wild adult parties, apparently. In the hotel, they would all meet up. They were getting some stuff out of her. Jeez, she was productive. I know. The Munchkins had wild adult parties, apparently. In the hotel, they would all meet up. They were paid less than the dog.

Toto, the Munchkins, apparently. The dog got more money than the Munchkins. There's so many things wrong with the movie. The Wicked Witch got burnt. She got horribly burnt from that melting thing. She actually was melting. She had to go to hospital. The Tin Man got lead poisoning.

What a nightmare. Oh, that's right. The paint on the Tin Man, it gave him, sort of soaked into his system and gave him lead poisoning. It was wild. And, you know, the snow scene. You're like, oh, beautiful snow. What should we use? Asbestos.

That's what they used. I love that. What were they thinking? These are like things, you can Google them. I was looking at them this morning. It sounds like if I was running a movie production. It does. Yeah.

Incredible. But, you know, you get some results out of kids when you put them on amphetamines. I mean, maybe we should do that with our education system. Knock the school years off in about three years. And that is some unusual news from the world this morning. Thank you, Ben. You're essential listening for non-essential banter. Jono and Ben on the hits.

If you want to catch the video of me up the top of the Sky Tower trying Dwayne Johnson's energy drinks. Sounding very confident. I don't think that's from the top of the Sky Tower. Actually, that's from some other audio. We can pull that down. Sorry, Belle. You can head to the Hits Breakfast on Instagram and Facebook. Belle, you see the celebrity's been accused of Photoshopping.

Yeah, the Kardashians are not shy of a sneaky wee Photoshop, even Photoshop their kids sometimes. But Kim this time. How do they Photoshop their kids? Oh, they have been. They've definitely done it. And they often Photoshop one of the heads onto the other one's body. It's just.

What are the kids' bodies? Yeah, there was a story that came out this week. Anyway, this one's about. I am going to freak my kids out with Photoshop now. You've just got to learn it first. So Kim Kardashian posted a photo, and people have said that she photoshopped out her belly button and she's taken a screenshot posted on her

instagram story going come on guys seriously this is so dumb claiming i photoshopped out my belly button honestly but the thing is her under is high so i reckon her belly button's underneath it well thankfully there's not a war going on in the Ukraine. Oh, Jono. Oh, don't do the whole bloody, you know. And it is horrible what's going on. I know. What a troll. Hey, very exciting on Monday, too.

We're back with Hundy Mundy, thanks to Employment Hero. So every caller that calls our radio show on Monday gets $100, which is good because it's going to be our first full week in a while. That's right. What a great start to the week. And also, don't forget Cash and cars starting on the hits Monday too, thanks to Škoda. Thousands in cash, thousands in cars.

We've got it all Monday. It's all to look forward to next week. You have yourself a great weekend. We'll catch you Monday from 6. Jono and Ben, brought to you by Resene, New Zealand's most trusted paint, Kiwi-made since 1946.