Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Where is Chris Warner more famous than Justin Timberlake

Episode Date: May 25, 2022

It's the eve of Jono's SkyWalk Marathon. We hear from more well known Kiwis Chris Parker and Art Green with messages of 'support' for Jono and start a prize per km giveaway. Shortland Street royalty Michael Galvin and Ben Barrington join us for the 30th Anniversary plus the cast of the new Bob's Burgers movieSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Welcome to the podcast. Welcome to the podcast today. It's the 26th of May. Ben Humphrey, our producer, what are you listening to there on your phone there? You can play it again. I was listening to the Shortland Street theme song. Oh yeah? Is it yours? Is it me? Now they don't do the lyrics on the Shortland Street theme song anymore, do they?

They've actually recreated it for the 30th anniversary. This isn't the re-recording. Is this not the re-recording. This isn't the re-recording. Is this not the re-recording? This isn't the re-recording, but I got an email about that today. Oh, yeah? Okay, well, play that off your computer. Play it on now. We'll hear the re-recording of the Shortland Street theme with lyrics.

Do they want us to play it? Yeah. Is it you or is it me? They don't do the lyrics recently, do they? They started with lyrics and then stopped doing lyrics. Played it off. It's very like, do-ka-do-ka-do-ka-do-ka-do. Yeah.

Okay, let's do... Marcus Lush was playing this fun game on Talkback the other night. Do the Shortland Street theme with nothing but your mouth. Each of us have a go. What do you mean? I mean like... Make the music. Oh, because it would go...

Is it you or is it me? Let's all see if we can do it as a mouth orchestra. Yeah, we're a little quiet. Okay, ready? Three, two, one. Too low for me. Yeah, I know. Ben wanted to pull out about halfway through that.

I can tell he's like, as soon as he goes, oh, God. What have I put my name to? Anyway, fun day today. Belle Crawford, you got a new podcast? What is this? I saw this on social media. It started again, Bjorn. This was for the 30th birthday, wasn't it?

Was this a scene from the episode of the 30th birthday, or is this a... It was a bit of a jazzy number, wasn't it? I saw the epic scene that this goes into, so yeah. Tina Cross. Yeah. Who did the original? Just a wonderful all-round entertainer, Tina Cross, isn't it? You wouldn't get a more...

I tell you what, you put Frankie Stevens and Tina Cross on a stage, you've got yourself a night of entertainment. Exactly. Christmas in the park, Frankie Stevens. So iconic. I could put that tour on the road and I could retire. What are you doing? You're going to get into promoting after this, are you?

Why would they need you? You can imagine him being like, I was a promoter. What are you doing? Why are you doing it? You're going to get into promoting after this, are you? Why would they need you? You can imagine him being like, I'm the booking agent. I'm the booking agent. I could put that. Why are they going to come with you? Sorry, Live Nation, we're not going to go with you because John O'Prior wants to do it.

Because I came up with the idea. I came up with the show idea. They didn't come up with the idea. They were entertainers. Yeah, you didn't invent the show, mate. Yeah, no, but I've said, 10 across Frankie Stevens, why don't you go on tour?

I've been the linchpin, and I'll buy them the bookie. Mate, I'll get a cut of that. Yeah, anyway, but yeah, you've got a new podcast today. Yeah, I do. It's called Gloss. It's a pop culture and celebrity podcast

I'm recording with my friend Anna, so you can check it out on all podcast apps. It's underneath my podcast network, I guess you'd call it. I've got the Self Love Club, and then now Gloss. Yeah, right, podcasting. It's underneath my podcast network, I guess you'd call it. I've got the Self Love Club and then now Gloss. Yeah, right, podcasting. You're a big podcaster, aren't you? Yeah.

Does it make you a good cash? Could you do a full-time job podcasting? Yeah, I have definitely done some good commercial deals, but it's very hard. There's not many podcasts that weekly make good money. I mean... This makes minus dollars, I think, this podcast being, doesn't it? It depends.

I think this is losing money for NZME, this podcast. Oh, well, we try, you know. But, you know, Joe Rogan, he's doing all right in the podcast game, isn't he? Yeah, well, he's an exception. So before that, he had heaps of sponsors all throughout, and then he signed an exclusive deal with Spotify so he doesn't need sponsors. He got into the game early.

The thing is, you've got to get into this new stuff, these new platforms early. You get in early, you're the leader, right? Yeah. You jump on it. If there's a new social media thing and I mocked you for doing it, being TikTok early in the piece, I mocked you. Look at him now.

Look at him now. He's laughing at you, John. He sends me more videos from TikTok and Instagram. I love TikTok. Constantly. It's like my mum when she had Facebook. Oh, you like this one? Do you like all the videos I send and Instagram. I love TikTok. Constantly. It's like my mum when she had Facebook. Oh, you like this one? Do you like all the videos I see? Oh, some of them are good. I follow an account called

Kids Getting Hurt. Those ones are a bit too full on for me. Are they too much for you? Oh, I don't, yeah. You love it. But they're full of slides and things. No, it's a pain sometimes. As a parent I always go, oh, the kids, you know. I love, I do like when basketballers get hit in the face

with the ball accidentally. Okay, I've seen you loads of it. They chuckle in the fall when they, because players often whip these passes through and, you know,

obviously, yeah, that always makes me chuckle. Shit, basketball to the face. And they look so annoyed right next to the player through the ball.

No one would ever want a basketball to the face because they've got a lot of weight behind them. They're quite heavy, aren't they? Yeah, especially thrown

by an NBA player. Someone's just like, look at the cross. You're like, thanks, mate. You're on my team. We'll have a good day today. We're a day away from running a marathon. Well, I am on top of the Sky Tower that Ben's making me do with zero training. Around the top there, 42 kilometres.

I could have trained yesterday, but I thought, no. It's a better story if there's no training. Rest day. You could have a rest day the day before. You need a rest day. You need to carb load. You don't eat during the day, so I've never seen Jono eat. I only have a food tonight of hell pizza.

Oh, yeah? Yeah, the food of, hey, Josh Thompson outside the window. Yeah, he's here as well. It's always good to see him. He's coming to support you for your big run tomorrow. There you go. He hasn't. He's just seen someone else I notice he's still a mask guy, Josh Thompson

Are you still a mask guy? I am in retail because you've got to But I'm not as much these days I'm thinking about doing it again Because I read some stuff And of course they scare you But I was just like, well, it's spreading a bit more Not to scare anybody

But there has been a bit of a spread around. Yeah, my wife is very on top of all this stuff. I'm probably a bit more the relaxed of the two. Because we've had COVID, so you feel a bit. You can get it again. I think as a nation, as a community, we've ripped the masks off way too quick. Yeah. Anyway, hey, enjoy the podcast.

Have a great day, and we'll catch you tomorrow on Top of the Sky Tower. The annoying ones talking between the podcast. Have a great day, and we'll catch you tomorrow on Top of the Sky Tower. Jono, the other day you were talking about a little game that you were playing in the weekend, the Apple game, which was quite fun. We tried to play that where everyone shuts their eyes and then someone says the word apples, right? You know you said the Apple game and I completely forgot the format. You looked at me like, did I tell you about that? Yeah, now I remember you had the Apple game and I completely forgot the format. You looked at me like,

did I tell you about that? Yeah, now I remember. Yeah, the Apple game. It's a fun little game. Very simple. Someone goes out of the room, they come back in, close their eyes and the group,

the remaining group in the room have to put on funny voices and you decide who says apple and then the person with the eyes closed has to figure it out. It was fun. It was a lot easier when we played it in radio

because obviously we were wearing headphones And you can hear the direction Of people talking Into the microphones Every time we played I was like That's Belle That's Belle

That's Belle Let's play it now Let's play it now I'll shut my eyes I'll shut my eyes Okay I've got my eyes shut It's Ben

Ah damn it I went round my Belle too Shall we do it one more time Okay go Okay That's Belle Damn it Oh, damn it. I went round my bell too. Shall we do it one more time? Okay, go. Okay. That's bell. Damn it. You're very good at this one.

How did you know? Well, again, the headphones. Huge advantage. Huge advantage. You've got to play with nature's headphones, your ears. We played a game over the weekend. We went out for dinner, our family, and we looked kind of weird playing it. It was a long, similar line to one of the girls that heard about this one online.

The restaurant game. It's quite fun to play at the restaurant. So you can put some extra items on the restaurant table, and then you'll shut your eyes, and one person has to remove an item from the table. And when you open your eyes up again, you have to try and work out what item they've taken from the table. Oh, like the tablecloth's gone missing.

Yeah, or I could just take a fork or a napkin. A salt and pepper shaker. Yeah, it was quite fun. I, at one stage, walked away right up the road. It was a long play you guys can pay dad's done a runner but it was yeah it was quite fun

so I thought you know maybe we could try it now so you shut your eye well have a look around the studio what part of the desk am I focusing on

it's quite a big desk and there's a lot of stuff and then Belle I want you to take an item away from the table okay and then John has to work out what item you're taking

alright shutting my eyes my eyes are shut so Belle she's having a wander around take an item away from the table. Okay. And then John has to work out what item you're taking. All right. Shutting my eyes. My eyes are shut. The bell. She's having to wander around. She's having to look for an item that could be on the table. Okay.

Yep. I don't want to point out this is rather visual. All right, mate. It's 6.00. It's 9.00 in the morning. And we're just filling in time. All right, go. Open your eyes now, right now.

And what has she taken from the table? This is so hard. This is really, was it a big item? Yeah. A substantial, you know? It was a substantial item. Was it on your side of the desk, or was it? It was in your eye line.

It's like 20 questions. It was in my eye line. Yeah, if you had your eyes open. It was a pair of headphones. No. I nearly did those, but I did it. What was it? It was a can of Glen 20.

Glen 20, there you go. Shocking game, Ben. Shock and luck. I mean, listen, can we have a debrief now? It's just because you didn't nail the game. It's kind of hard because there were a lot of things. There's a lot. There's like 300 items.

So it's a lot more fun to play at a restaurant. I just thought that if you go to a restaurant, you're a little bit weird doing it. We didn't realize our whole family had their eyes shut and the sort of waitress had sort of come over at the time and she was like, are you guys praying? What's going on? And we were like, well, no, we're not, but we're just in the middle of a restaurant game.

I like to, being the good Catholic man, I like to sit the family down for a family prayer at a restaurant. People judge. There's nothing wrong with that. I'll tell you there's nothing wrong with it. In this instance, that wasn't what we're doing. If you can't be bothered looking at your phone, here's some easy news. Ben, what's happening?

Well, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is in America right now, as we said before, trying to remind them that New Zealand is a thing. She went on Stephen Colbert's show, one of the late shows in America. She's been on there before. He's been over to New Zealand. She picked him up from the airport. Remember that? That's right.

With Lorde. And then had a barbecue with Lorde. Just so you know, that's not the treatment everyone gets when they come here. But we rolled out the red carpet for Colbert. Now, they covered a wide range of topics. Some more serious for good reason. But there was some light-hearted stuff.

Including Niamh on one of her Mother's Day cards for Jacinda Ardern had put something about fishy kisses. Fishy kisses. And he asked her about that. What is fishy kisses? Is that when you kiss someone with a mouthful of sushi? What is that? I feel like replicating that on television would be a career-defining moment in a bad way.

Possibly not dignified. So keen to do it, to demonstrate. But he did. He sort of had to purse his lips like but he did he sort of had to purse his lips like a little fish and sort of is that what she does

to Neve obviously they do that so she wasn't about to do that to Colbert I can understand her hesitation she wasn't going to do that live on television

in America but he did it to his credit John Key would have done it he would have followed through with a fishy kiss you know yeah

maybe some sort of meme like the hot dog one where he's eating that hot dog. He must regret eating that hot dog. And the way he ate it too was definitely a split second snapshot. He's just taking a bite out of an innocent hot dog. Some rat bag photographer

caught him at that. Have you seen that photo, Bill? It's got the sauce dribbling down the side as well. But they spoke about some serious stuff that's going on in the world right now because there's really tragic news out of America yesterday. 19 children, two teachers were killed in a school shooting in Texas. 18-year-old gunman. It's just, yeah, this is heartbreaking.

Particularly as a parent, you look on there, these kids were just aged between 7 and 10 years old. Just a primary school. Yeah. Oh, my God. At school, you hope your kids are in one of the safest places. And gun reform, the conversation, obviously, and rightfully so, has come back up in America overnight. Because they're always like, oh, you know, the Second Amendment, right to bear arms.

The Second Amendment was signed, I'm just looking here, in 1791. Yeah, and I think there is a lot of people right now that want things to change over there in America. So Jacinda Ardern and Stephen Colbert talked about they've had incidents in America. We have obviously the tragic thing that happened in Christchurch and they talked about that yesterday. You know, when I watch from afar

and see events such as those today, I think of them not as a politician. I see them just as a mother and I'm so sorry for what has happened here. And then I think tōi tōi tōi, tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tōi tō for guns in our country for things like pest control and to protect our biodiversity, but you don't need a military-style semi-automatic weapon to do that. And so we got rid of them. Yeah, that's true. And something else that's going viral yesterday,

there's obviously the NBA finals, the conference finals going on, and the Golden State Warriors were playing, and Steve Kerr, who's the coach of the Warriors, he came out before the press conference, before the game, and he was like, hey, I'm not going to even talk about the game. I just want to. And he was really, really impassionate talking about, really emotional about what's going on in America. Have a quick

listen. I'm not going to talk about basketball. Nothing's happened with our team in the last six hours. We're going to start the same way tonight. Any basketball questions don't matter. Since we left Shootaround, 14 children were killed 400 miles from here. And a teacher. Children murdered at school. When are we going to do something? Yeah. So, yeah.

Real thoughts and feelings going on to everyone over there right now because it's just a horrible tragedy. Yeah, terrible. Stuff like that. Then did they have to go and play basketball after that? Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Wow.

There we go. Our thoughts and prayers with them all. Your essential listening for non-essential banter. Jono and Ben on the hits. Down today, the new Top Gun Maverick, the sequel to the 1986 original. 1986 was that first movie. I was just looking into it. Highest grossing film of 1986.

John Travolta they originally wanted to have as the role of Maverick. Oh, yeah. He would have been good, but Tom Cruise, I think he did an okay job. Yeah. So it's been four years in the making, this latest movie, and they pretty much held it because it was ready to go before the pandemic and they were like no no

we're going to wait we're going to wait we're going to put it in theatres it's a movie that needs to be watched on the big screen and of course

they put it in I heard it took a lot of convincing of Tom Cruise they flew out to the set of Mission Impossible in Paris yeah with Jerry Bruckheimer

Jerry Bruckheimer presents this conversation with Tom Cruise they had 30 minutes in between scenes to talk to Tom Cruise. He's like, talk to me. I don't want to do it. Don't want to do it.

They had 30 minutes. And they're like, but Tom, we're flowing all the way out to Europe. He's like, nah. Surely they could have gone, could we have done a Zoom meeting or something? And at the end of it, though, he was like, yeah, we made a call. He's like, I'm doing it. I'm doing it. So at the end of that meeting, obviously, they got him across the line.

How did they mind being him over a 30-minute period from no to yes? So it seems like a huge, huge movie already it's been released in the states they reckon it's going to be tom cruise's biggest worldwide opening of his career uh this new top gun movie uh the first movie though i was reading the actors did a lot of stuff you know and like this movie they did a lot of stuff in the actual jets um but they didn't go through the rigorous training as they did today and most actors will throw up in the first one because the g-force is up there and they're like they couldn't use the footage because they're either throwing up although they couldn't like see there's vomit in their visor in their helmet so are they flying the planes the actors so no i don't think they are flying the place they've got

someone else flying the planes but then behind them looking like they're gonna but they are there's a two-person cockpit they're actually up there no green screens used in this new one and they put the actors through like a three-month Navy sort of course, like an Air Force course at the Naval Aviation Survival thing. All these wild things get them used to G-forces. They did this thing called the dunker, where they put you in a modified helicopter, strap you to a chair,

submerge you in a tank underwater, blindfolded, and then you have to, without panicking, just get your way out. Just without panicking. Sorry, what then you have to, without panicking, just get your way out. Just without panicking. Sorry, what did they have to do with Top Gun? Well, this is all part of it, yeah. As you're being submerged in water, strapped into a helicopter.

Just not to panic. Is this a scene in the movie? What is this? Are we filming this right now? Because if we're not... Oh, we've got our cell phones on it. So a lot of actors they wanted originally were too scared of flying and didn't want to do the stuff, didn't want to be tucked underwater.

Hey, that's understandable. I don't judge them. And then when the actors were in the play, we talked about this yesterday, so they were up there, the scenes in the new Top Gun movie, they had to remember everything. Their lines, they had to turn the camera on and off because there's not enough space to sort of have anything up there. Was it a GoPro situation?

I think it was, yeah, small cameras. And then apparently the producers were saying that they'd obviously land, then they'd watch the footage, and if they'd screwed up their lines or screwed up the shot, they're like, all right, mate, Becky, go up there and do it again. Yeah, and you'd be annoying because sometimes the GoPro's rolling and then you push the button and you stop it going. And they get back down the review footage.

The double taps. Oh, yeah, I know. So it's got us before bed. Tom Cruise, I was reading too Can hold his breath Underwater That helicopter thing Wouldn't have even been

An issue for him For six minutes Really Six minutes He's never won an Oscar No three time nominated I think But yeah

Maybe this could be it They're not going to Award Top Gun are they That's not an Oscar movie Is it They'll probably win Something like Special effects

Or even They're not special effects They're all legit So they're out of The special effects category Oscar movie is it? And he'll probably win something like you know Special Effects Special Effects or you know more even than not Special Effects they're all legit Yeah so they're out of the Special Effects category Hey we've got some tickets to give away Best drowning of an actor

in a helicopter If you want to win a double pass at the movie we've got something to give away after 7 o'clock but next the messages keep

rolling in John O'Prior doing you know we're putting him through his paces like an actor on Maverick Yeah this could win an Academy Award for man running around in circles on top of tall building. Jono and Ben.

Jono, this year we decided we're going to tick some items off our bucket list and your bucket list as well. So if you've got anything you want us to ever help you with, 4487 is our text number. We're available any time to look at that. Mainly until 9am actually. If you want to put a time frame on it.'m only up until 9am actually yeah you want to put a time frame on it uh but one of the things on your bucket list was to run a marathon um and we've kind of made well we've made it into a bit of a world first for you well yeah you could run a marathon you could join you know one of these competitions and that's great or you could do

something that no one's done before and run a marathon at the top of the sky tower outside on the skywalk you're going to be 192 meters strapped and harnessed in in the air and you have to run around 352 times now i do enjoy running although uh due to a lower back injury uh becoming a 40 year old i had to stop you know six to nine months ago i can't even remember the last time i did it and now on top of the sky tower seems like the ideal time to get back into it ben i think the back's recovered there's been zero training you know i was like oh go to the park yesterday i literally drove home through the park yesterday and watched a lot of people running and they were inspirational i didn't go running

myself but they were running good and it inspired me. Well, if you've done a marathon or if you know what Jono needs to do to prepare, normally it would be a lot more training. We get that. But there are probably some things that you could do within this next 24 hours that may help you out. To be honest, if we pull it off, it's going to be a bloody miracle. There's a lot working against me. And the longer it goes on, and to be fair, it's only been going for two days,

and the more people say to me, eh, what? You'll never do it? Over and over and over, it's starting to cast some doubt in my mind. Oh, it's not inspiring you, though. They're the haters that you need to... Yeah, I haven't had one inspirational message. Oh, well, Kelly rang up yesterday on 800 The Hits.

Now, she had run the New York Marathon, the prestigious New York Marathon. Oh, where do I start? It's the toes that hurt the most. Toes? It's the constant banging of your toes against the front of your shoes. And so that was quite tricky, especially the next day. Chasing-wise, I wasn't so bad, but then I don't have, you know, what you've got going on.

What you've got going on. Yeah, but then I don't have, you know, what you've got going on. What you've got going on. Yeah, again, I don't think. Toilet chafing's not going to be an issue for me either. There's not much going on. And then Rebecca, has she done like over 160 marathons? How incredible is that? This was her advice. To be fair, it's more important to eat and drink the day before.

Ah, okay. So during the marathon, you're probably going to have to be a bit careful what you eat. Because particularly in your location, the toilets are probably not too accessible. True. The only option is an ugly option for the people below. Yeah, you've got to.

So you'd want something quite soft on your tummy. 165 marathons she's run, and she said she wouldn't do this. I know. Yeah, again. But you're going to do it you're going to create a world first and if you need more inspiration Di Henwood, you know him from 7 Days from Lego Masters right now on TVNZ2, well he's got a message

for you, just come through, have a listen Hey John, I hear you're trying to run a marathon around the Sky Tower now I knew you back in your bogan days where you'd probably barely make it out of the casino let alone get right to the top of that tower. But just please don't fall off. And if you do, please film it.

But don't land, like be on a bungee cord or something. I love you, brother. Good luck. That's lovely. Please don't fall off, but if you do, film it. Yeah, that's great. I mean, it'll be good footage. Yeah.

Great footage. Always for the footage. Oh, well, that's great. Has anyone... You can text 4487. This is the inspiration I need. Has anyone ever been told two days before a marathon they're running a marathon and done zero training?

Yeah. And have you pulled it off? A marathon with no training, if you have, or if you know someone, 4487. It is the hits. You got John on, Ben? Spy. Know what's up.

Spy.co.nz. All right, time for us three nattering nannies to do some gossiping. What's happening, Belle? Look, I promise we won't be hopefully talking about the Johnny Depp Amber Heard trial for too much longer. It's meant to wrap up. I have tried to rest it a little bit, but there was an icon of the 90s on the stand, Kate Moss, who testified via video link from England. And she was actually called by Amber's team as a witness. Now, Kate and Johnny dated for four years between 94 and 98. And she

had an accident when they were on holiday in Jamaica. It was raining very wet and she slipped on some wet steps during the storm. She heard her back and she said Johnny helped her out and carried her to her room and got her medication and some help. And then she was asked this. During the course of your relationship, did he ever push you down any stairs? No, he never pushed me, kicked me, or threw me down any stairs.

And she was called by Amber Heard's team. Yeah, so you can call witnesses. It doesn't mean that they support you. It just means that they can... Tell their story. If you've got a... They're thinking, oh, she fell down the stairs, which, you know, in some situations,

that could be a very real thing someone says as an excuse. Domestic incident, yeah. Horrible one. Like, very, you know, obviously a very sensitive issue. So they're using that angle, but she's just basically gone, well, it didn't happen. I just slipped. Did you see the wild guy that the uh team they put up he was like a some sort of medical expert and i don't know how much cocaine he hoovered before taking the stand but his jaw

wasn't connected to the top of his face there was a lot of lip licking going on it was the weird nose thing i wish i could we could show you the video over the face. There was a lot of lip licking going on. It was the weird nose thing. I wish we could show you the video over the radio, but it was just like... He was like, he'd been asked questions like, do I have to answer that question? And the judge is like, yeah, you do. You're a witness.

You have to answer all the questions. And like even Johnny Depp's looking at him going, dear God, who is this man? You could see Johnny Depp's lawyer going, what's wrong with him? Johnny's reaction is the best part of it all. Yeah. So it's all wrapped up now?

About to. Hopefully today or tomorrow will be the last day. Yeah. And the reason this has all been televised is kind of interesting. It's because it's not on the federal court. So because it's in the other court, they can film everything. Oh, like the district's court. So if it was at federal courts, you would never see anything.

Right. Yeah. I see. That makes a lot of sense now. Well, hopefully there's a verdict and they can get on with their lives and we can get on with ours. Exactly. Something a bit more fun.

Rebel Wilson is in a new relationship. A lot of people have been watching her Netflix movie Senior High. Have a listen to this. There were some times where there were some things that I was probably putting up with that I shouldn't have put up with. And so now it feels different to be in such a healthy relationship. Oh, I love it. Who's she with?

Keeping it private. Oh, don't keep it private, Rebel Wilson. Keep it private. Fair enough. No, don't keep it private. What else have we got to talk about in this segment? No, everyone scrutinises her body, everything. What else does she get on with?

Talk about this anonymous person she's dating. We need fodder for Spy god damn it Rebel Wilson and that is Spy you can get more now at thehats.co.nz thanks Belle rise and shine time to start the

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What? It's summer and sex sells, baby. It's very funny. We got to see it the other day, and we got to talk to the cast, the people that do the voices for Bob's Burgers. They're very, very funny comedians. Many of which worked with Flight of the Conchords. Exactly, and I thought we'd be surprised because you're running a marathon

up top of the Sky Tower tomorrow and you need to carb load. That's what everyone said. So I thought, Bob's Burgers, why don't we have Ben's Burgers? And thanks to Burger Geek, Auckland's Burger Geek, we got New Zealand's biggest burger made. This was huge. This was like a 3kg burger. It had the

circumference of two frisbees. And you showed it to the cast over zoom what is that thing it's delicious yes do it eat the whole thing i want to see you take that first bite okay 1.7 kgs of beef in this burger. Wow, 3 kgs. That is disgusting. Look at that body.

You look sexy, mate. You guys can do amazing voices, obviously. That's what you do. But can you do a Kiwi accent? I mean, that's always the challenge. It is a challenge to do a Kiwi accent. My question, what's the fullest you've ever been? I love that question.

Thanksgiving 93, I threw up all these mashed potatoes. It was disgusting. I kept going back for more and more, and I was like, I love mashed potatoes. And then I said, uh-oh. And I ran to the bathroom, and they just all came right back up again. Oh, that's good.

Also the year of my bad acid trip. Oh, god. Long road to recovery, but here I am. Actually, speaking of the show being so successful, Emmy Award winning, do you all get to keep an Emmy? Do you get an Emmy? Or is there one between all, like a player of the day trophy? No.

We get a shitty certificate. We don't get anything. The producers, the producers get it. And there was a producer one year that I'd never seen before in my life. And I said, congratulations. What did you, how did you win? And he said, from your show.

I'd never seen him before. Oh, that hasn't hurt. I'd never seen him before. We're going to sneak into the homes of the producers and take their ideas. While they're distracted by the movie. You got anything you want to add to that? I feel like this is pretty much a one man... Okay, I'll carry on with that.

I can feel my heart crying out for help. Now Dan, you play Tina. You've got a pretty deadpan voice on and off Bob's Burgers as well. What is Dan like excited and what is he like upset? What's the difference? So right now I'm excited. That's my excited voice. Electro.

I'm going to try to, like, bring myself down so I can show you my not excited voice. Yeah, OK. OK, this is my not excited voice. It is a huge range. Now, Kristen, of course, you've worked with many great New Zealand comics over the years, but I understand Brett and Jermaine from Flight of the Conchords, they couldn't really understand you, or you couldn't understand them at the start when you first worked with them?

Yeah, my first meeting with them, I had no idea what they were saying because they're a little bit mumbly anyways. It's a Kiwi thing. Yeah, it's what we do. Because obviously you work with them and then Reece Darby and Taika Waititi as well on Flag Meets Death as well. You know, that's pretty cool.

I mean, we're the only Kiwis that you haven't worked with that are coming to Jua. You're the last two. Let's do something. I would love to come over and see. Where are you? Wellington? Auckland? We're in Auckland

Check your nailing local references And finally, when it's all done We learnt that trying to get Jono to eat New Zealand's biggest burger In a short space of time Was too big a task Well, it's been a pleasure meeting you all The conversation was rich for me We're like Penn and Teller One of us doesn't talk meeting you all? That the conversation was rich from me?

We're like Penn and Teller. One of us doesn't talk. If you vomit that up now it would be a great ending. Yeah, that's the way you should end. But despite that, Kristen would still love to come and work with us in New Zealand. I think she was being polite. You can come, we're going to work together. The hits. Jono tomorrow, as we keep saying, he's running

a world first. He's doing something that's never been done before, a marathon outside the top of the Sky Tower on the Skywalk, 192 metres in the air, 352 times around. It's capturing the imagination of New Zealanders. Yeah, it is. Yeah, aka Ben has bullied some celebrities to say some comments. Hi, it's Jeremy Corbett for the project in seven days.

Jono, your marathon around the Sky Tower is an inspired event. I admire that you're doing it and I respect everything. Sorry, I can't read the script. Everything that you've done. Go, Jono. Go. Perfect. That's great.

I thought they were going to edit me out of that, but okay. Yeah, okay. Thanks for those touching words, Jeremy Corbett. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast it's all happening tomorrow oh

oh oh oh Jono will run a marathon on AJ Hackett's Skywalk love a good oh

oh sorry I don't apologise mate this is our button bar's got weight it's alright

we don't need to hear about our button bar our button bar's a shambles what we's alright we don't need to hear about our button bar our button bar's a shambles what we need to worry about is what you're doing

tomorrow it's all happening as I said before before that awkward whoop whoop because you're going to be out there

like how bad are we at broadcasting that our only option with dead air was whoop whoop whoop

like get better at our job and we'll hear more from that report whoop whoop at least we said something so you knew that we're still here yeah bar me Like, get better at our jobs. Robert Lawrence is not doing that on the news, is he? And we'll hear more from that report. Whoa, whoa, whoa. At least we said something so you knew that we're still here. Yeah, bar me.

We could have said something a bit more meaningful, but anyway. Okay, so here's what's happening. If you missed it, we'll be banging on about it. But it's happening tomorrow. Jono is going to be up the top of the Sky Tower running a marathon outside. He's going to be harnessed 192 metres in the air, running 42.2km. And after 8 o'clock tomorrow, you don't actually know about this. Sorry, after 8 o'clock today, it's a bit of a surprise how people listening right now,

how they can win some pretty cool stuff, depending on how you go tomorrow. But more about that after 8 o'clock. Seems like everyone else is winning and I'm the only one losing out of this whole deal. You get to do a marathon, a world first. You get the accolades. You get the newspaper headlines. You get to do a marathon, a world first. You get the accolades. You get the newspaper headlines. You get, you know, the news. So you get the whoa on the news

and you also get John O'Pride did this thing. I was thinking driving in today was politely declining ever an option. You've never given me the option to go, hey, I'm not,

I don't feel fully prepared for this event. Not on radio, not on radio. So something we need to do. Bully day was last Friday. Something we need to do is, because a lot of people love running to music. We've talked to a lot of people that go, hey, we get inspired by music. So I thought right now, with the help of everyone on 0800 THE HITS or 4487,

we could build the ultimate running playlist for you to be listening to on your phone. Listen, far be it for me to chime in at this mark, but I feel like the project's priorities are all out of sync. Like, in terms of, yeah, a playlist, it probably seems like the least of our worries. Well, mate, we've got health and safety, we've got food, we've got everything. Other people are taking care of that.

Me? What can I do? Well, I'm going to build you a playlist. Yeah, I can tell you what he can do. He's going to get away a few cheap song gags here. No, no. I mean, let's put one on there. You're going to be up high, and let's put Tom Petty. Maybe this song from him, Free Falling, maybe?

Free Falling, Tom Petty? Oh, yeah, I see what we're going to be doing here. Hopefully you're not free falling. That's a radio gag here, isn't it? Hopefully there is a harness attached. But if not, it does add an extraordinary amount of jeopardy to this attempt. So I can put that on your playlist. If you've got some suggestions for us, 4487.

What about Post Malone? I love a bit of Post Malone. He's got a great song. He can be up there on top of the Sky Tower. He's got this song. Run away, I will run in circles. Run away, run away. He's running in circles.

Now, you can go for a quirky song, or you can go for a song that actually inspires you when you're out there running. So 4487 0800, the hits, love to hear from you. We've got some Top Gun Maverick tickets to give away. Double passes if you want to give us a yell right now. I'll tell you what, Scientology and Tom Cruise would inspire me through this.

I might just have the constant soundtrack in my head of going, what are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? The hits. We're building a playlist, the ultimate running playlist for you right now that song's on there have you got have you like organized i just want to double check you've organized everything else that you're at the stage where like all the other boxes are ticked that ben's like now it's time to get to the playlist like where are we at i feel like people other people organizing the important

things and they're like hey you know one of those jobs that don't really matter you go and take the rubbish from that bin and put it in the other bin that'd be great, that's perfect double thumbs you, good playlist mate you don't want me sorting out your harness, do you? that's not my job to do they do a wonderful job of that

I have a request. Is there a song called Help Me Dear God? My friend signed me up to a marathon two days ago and I've had a severe lack of training. Has any artist recorded a song? No, there's an Eminem one that's got this one. It's Around the Outside. And you're going to be Around the Outside.

Around the Outside. You like that song? Put that on your playlist. One sad bald man goes round the outside Round the outside Okay, that's a good request there Someone's got a lot of great song requests coming through As well on 4487

I want to thank everyone for their great running song requests Although none of them are going to help me in this I just want you to know that There's a song we probably don't want to put in there When you're going to be that high But a bit of New Zealand A bit of Crowded, a bit of a crowded house. What about this one?

Like, how long have you spent preparing this? This little sequence here. Do you want more? Yeah, I do. Okay, Afro man. What about this one? Yeah, because I got high. Because I got high.

You might fall off. You don't get actually high, but high as night, Ben, searching these? Yeah, all right. Well, let's throw it over to the phone. Peter, you're on. New Zealand's breakfast. We're creating a running playlist for the Skytower Marathon tomorrow. Your suggestion?

My suggestion is a hallelujah by Leonard Cohen. I've done the Auckland half marathon about eight times. And I did my first marathon last year in Rotorua after COVID delayed it a few times. But when I was doing one of the half marathons, I got to the top of the Harbour Bridge and Hallelujah came on my stereo. And you're here, folks. Yeah.

And it was like, yeah, Hallelujah. I got to the top I mean I'm 50, I did my full marathon 52 years old and it was awesome mate, you get over the finish line I mean I ran, walked and then crawled at the end but when you get over the finishing line it's just unreal

hallelujah John, hallelujah and what a banger, that gets the party started and can I just query, how much training did you do, Peter? Because it got delayed, I did about a year and a half. Just out of interest. Now, Peter, we're going to send you out to Top Gun Maverick, all right, since it was today.

Good on you, Peter. Appreciate that. Shaz, we'll get you on from Christchurch. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast, the running playlist. What's your suggestion, Shaz? So I was thinking we should play Chariot for Fire and the Rocky soundtrack. Oh, yeah, great.

There's a couple of great ones for you. Inspire Jono. This one's running up there, 192 metres in the air. Not a carer in the world. I love it. A lot of carers in the world. Don't tell me there's not going to be a carer in the world. I've already said not a carer in the world.

I've got a world load of cares. Hey, Shaz, we're going to send you the Top Gun Maverick. All right, enjoy that movie. It looks amazing. All right, and we'll go to Penny in the Waikato. All right, we'll take one more song suggestion for the running playlist tomorrow. Penny, what have you got, mate?

Probably 500 miles, but maybe for towards the start of the run. It might not be too inspirational towards the end. As if I didn't despise that song enough. Let's put it on as a soundtrack to the marathon. Penny, you're a champion. We'll send you off to Top Gun, all right? Oh, brilliant.

Thanks so much. Good on you. Appreciate all your calls and texts. Any advice, for Jono I would love to hear from you I've sorted out his playlist

Someone else is going to take care of the rest I've got a question Can I take a day's annual leave tomorrow No it's the hits Hard hitting interviews

and informed opinion Mike Hosking on Newstalks at B In the meantime Jono and Ben on the hits Now we were in a meeting yesterday

after the show with Emily and Matt who work here at the hits and we're all sitting down and we're having a bit yesterday after the show with Emily and Matt, who work here at The Hits. And we're all sitting down and we're having a bit of meeting banter. You cover off COVID. How's that going for everyone? What else did we discuss there before the meeting kicked into gear? I know you don't like pre-show banter at the meeting.

You're a business guy. I can tell you're like, okay, let's get down to it. I do. I love talking to people when the time is time for talking to people. But it's never time for talking to people. Sometimes I'm like, well, you're doing stuff. What's going on? You had a busy day, didn't you? It's like a phone call. Like, I'm like, someone's

called me. I'm like, yep, yep. Like, you've called me. That's an issue. Let's get to it. What is it? A text or an email with the bullet points would be really, I'd be so helpful. One of my favourite things about our meetings is when we just have a name conversation at the beginning and I can just tell Ben is getting so wound up.

Oh, my wife does it to me all the time. She calls up, she's called me and I'm like, yep. And then she'll, and I'm like, what's the thing you want to tell me? What is the purpose of this call? She knows and she just delays it beautifully. How's it going? Oh, lovely day Yep

Yeah He's all business All the time Anyway We were having some Of this banter Trademark banter And Ben had checked out

He was doing emails Or something on his computer I need to watch next time Yeah no do Keep your eye on it It's very funny It brings me a lot of joy And we got talking

About someone That we really enjoy on Instagram This guy David Goggins Now Goggins is like an ex-Navy Marine And he's this fit guy I think he's allergic to wearing shirts Very much And he's kind of out there

He's running every day And he's quite aggressive He's the type of guy who looks like he could snap at any moment and kill a man. He's very motivational, though. He's turned his life around, and he inspires a lot of other people. And he doesn't pull any punches. He's straight up. There'll always be videos of him running through some desert.

He's sprinting along, and he's doing a message. Shirtless. Shirtless, yeah. He's like, what? You didn't get out of bed today? So? Yeah. You got a broken leg?

So? Yeah. Your wife just left you? So? He's like, I don't care about your problems. Just get out there and do what you need to do. He's like me on a phone conversation. He's like, what are you going to talk about?

Yeah. Hey, I'm not quite as full on as him. One of my favorite ones of him is he's like, people email me. They're like, Goggins, how do I lose 30 pounds? I don't effing know. Google it. You call me when you've lost the pounds. Then we'll talk.

And it's almost like, it's abusive, a little bit abusive. It abuses you into losing weight. So this guy Goggins, he brings us an immense amount of joy. He does it as a show, all of us really enjoy him So we were telling Matt and Emily About David Goggins and the meeting And I was like, oh I'll play you a video Of David Goggins

And god damn it It just happens Every time I go and play a video off YouTube to someone I couldn't find the video That I wanted to play And I could tell you, you knew the same thing. Oh, here we go. And everyone, you lose them quickly. This generation,

you've got 15 seconds to get their eyeballs on the video that you're talking about. Otherwise, you've lost them. It's like one of those heart machines. And then the ads. God forbid if the ads pop up at the start. If you get a 15 second ad, they're gone.

And there's no pulling back. And then, because you're like, oh, hold on, let me just find the video that I want to play for you. And you end up playing a less than satisfactory video. You've waited. There's buffering sometimes comes into play as well. No one wants to wait for anything. No, that's why we don't do that during meetings, mate.

We just cut to the meetings. That's what I like to say. No one's got any patience these days. Scrolling through your feed. Now to the only newsreader with a degree in prankology. You and your wild larrikin shenanigans, Ben Boyce. What's happening? Well, the Prime Minister, Justin Ardern, she is in America right now.

She went on Stephen Colbert's Late Show in the USA. And she talked about a few, covered a wide range of topics. She talked about a cute little thing that Neve does. She wrote on her Mother's Day card about fishy kisses and Stephen Colbert was like, what is fishy kisses? And she got, she didn't want to demonstrate because she knows a politician doing that would probably make a lot

of headlines. She knows that'll get a few million views on TikTok. We would have clipped it up and done something where you would have been fishy kissing back or some little cheap edit gag. So you kind of had to pucker up like a fish and here, she explained to Stephen. If you purse your lips and then very quickly

make quick kissy There we go. Thank you. That's a fishy kiss. That's a fishy kiss. It's a rapturous round of applause. I can't see my lips at the moment. But does it resemble another part of the body?

I don't know what you're thinking about that. I don't know what part of the body you mean. Now, also, she talked about... Give me a fishy kiss now. She talked about... She brought some meat. Some meat. She got meat past customs.

No, I think from over there. There was a conference of Silver Fern Farms over there. It was a meat conference. And a chilli bun and she explained what a chilli bun was for Stephen Colbert. What was the American word for it?

Esky? Like an esky, a chilli bun? We call it a chilli bun. A cooler. A cooler. I like chilli bun. It sounds like it's a pot of chilli to me though.

I really feel like the New Zealand word chili bin, it says what it is on the label. It's a cold bin. I've got a cold bin of beef for you. It sounds like people, when I'm cold, they're like, you're chili bun? I am chili bun on New Zealand. I'm a chili bun.

It would have been great if she'd actually just taken over a piece of sirloin in her pocket and be like, hey, mate, I bought this all the Bon on New Zealand. I'm a Chilly Bon. It would have been great if she'd actually just taken over a piece of sirloin in her pocket and be like, hey, mate, I bought this all the way from New Zealand. Now, Jacinda was on the show just hours after some really, really tragic news out of America yesterday. 19 children, two teachers were killed in a school shooting in Texas. 18-year-old gunman. This is the kids. This is so heartbreaking.

This is the kids between 7 and 10 years old at the school where they should be safe. And it's just heartbreaking to see what's going on. And their teachers, yeah. You imagine how many people right now listening to this are dropping their children at school. And those parents would have dropped their kids at school like any other normal day. It's wild, the gun rules over there. This year alone, 27 school shootings in America. Over 140 dead.

And I was reading an article about data about how many people a year die from guns in the united states and the late closest year they've actually got research from is 2020 where in 2020 45,222 people died from guns for a range of reasons but just take them off people it is heartbreaking they talked about that uh jacinda and stephen colby about something i just wanted to play quickly uh this was because the nba finals but just take him off, people. It is heartbreaking. They talked about that, Jacinda and Stephen Colby, about something I just wanted to play quickly. This was because the NBA Finals was going on yesterday, and Steve Kerr is a basketball coach for the Golden State Warriors.

He came out to the press conference just before the game, and he didn't want to talk basketball. Have a listen. I'm not going to talk about basketball. Nothing's happened with our team in the last six hours. We're going to start the same way tonight. Any basketball questions don't matter. Since we left shoot-around, 14 children were killed 400 miles from here.

And a teacher. Children murdered at school. When are we going to do something? Yeah, and he goes on. A very emotional and passionate speech. Yeah, rightly so. It's heartbreaking. murdered at school. When are we going to do something? Yeah. And he goes on, a very emotional and passionate speech. Oh yeah, rightly so. It's heartbreaking. Yeah, so thoughts and feelings

and a lot of, what can you say? It's just heartbreaking to think of what's happened. It is the hits. You got Jono and Ben. Five words. Five words for 5K.

You're just five words away from $5,000. All right. Game of Word Association, we play it every morning, so let's try and match up five words with your five words to give you five grand. Hey, Cherie, how are you, mate? Oh, good, thank you.

Christchurch looking good this morning, is it? Oh, she has a bit of a cast. Hello. Hello. Hello. A lot going on there. Tommy, is it? Yeah. How are you? Six years old, heading to school, on there. Tommy, is it? Yeah.

How are you? Six years old, heading to school, are we, T-Dog? Yeah. What are you going to learn today, mate? No. I don't know. I don't do the curriculum. I'm not setting a agenda.

Just turn up and eat lunch. Yeah. Exactly. Well, all right. Well, let's see if we can win you guys $5,000. Who do you want to send into the soundproof booth? Ben, please. Ben, he's going in to work hard for Cherie and Tommy.

Match five words with Ben. Soundproof booths had a facelift, did you know, Tommy? It's looking good now. It's got new blue stickers on the outside of it. There's more facelifts than a Kardashian, mate. Okay. He's like, I don't get that reference. Alright, five words.

The first word that comes into your wonderful head, Cherie and Tommy. When I say salt and vinegar. Chips. That's a good answer, Tommy. Headlines is the second word. Newspaper. Good on you, you little legend. You're smart, Tommy. You're on fire. Red coming in at word number three on you, you little legend You're smart, Tommy

You're on fire Red, coming in at word number three for you, Tommy Traffic light Red, traffic light, great answer Game, what would you say if I said game to you? Board game Board game, and fruit Bowl

Fruit bowl. Oh my god. The most adorable game of five words we've ever played. We had a nine year old winner just a couple of weeks ago. This could be trumping our youngest winner by three

years. Ben Boyce has been ejected out of the soundproof booth. He played a solid game, Ben. Oh, I really want to win this for you. Okay. Tommy, you... Did Tommy play the whole game? Tommy played the whole game.

Oh, wow. So smart. Okay, wow, that's awesome. And it was way more adorable than when you do it, okay? Oh, that sounds cute. Yeah. I do like your cute voice when you talk to me in your baby voice. Okay, the first word, Ben, that you need to match with Tommy and Cherie.

Salt and vinegar. Chips. There you go, that was as cute as I can go. Tommy, you're off the start line. All right, chips, all right. Headlines is the second one. Newspaper. Red.

Word number three, red. Light. Oh, Tommy! What? Tommy said red traffic light. We're thinking along the same lines here, aren't we? We are. Okay, we'll go through the remaining two for you, Tommy and Cherie.

Game was the fourth word. Board game. Oh, my God. through the remaining two for you tommy and sheree game was the fourth word board game oh my god and fruit was the fifth word what would you have done for fruit fruit bowl people hate traffic as it is and that was the word that I should have said Oh, you couldn't So sorry, you guys need to ring back We need to play it again, alright? Yeah, so close We'd love to have you back

Have we got some Top Gun tickets? Yeah, send that Yeah, you want to go see Top Gun, Tommy? You probably can't get in But I'll give you the tickets anyway Yeah Yeah, good on you We'll sneak you in

We'll put you on some stilts or something Have a great day at school Thanks so much for playing We're so close See you guys Love you too. Awesome work. Morning.

Contained dodgy parenting advice. Shono and Ben on the hits. It's here without you. It is the hits. 7.57 on your Thursday morning. Having a couple of young kids, I feel like I have a conversation with them, particularly as the weather is changing at the moment

about the temperature. The temperature. Kids don't have a temperature gauge like adults do. They don't seem to feel the cold or the warm, you know. Yeah, I don't know when we start becoming so aware of it and what stage it now lies. But yeah, I mean, you could take any child right now down to the ocean and they would have a ball in there

for 90 minutes. Yeah, exactly. And you'd be like, get out, you're going to catch a cold. We've become all hyper aware of it. They're like, I don't care. They come out, their teeth are chattering, they look kind of blue. YOLO! They're like, whatever, whatever. We've become all hyper aware of it. They're like, I don't care. They come out, their teeth are chattering. They look kind of blue. YOLO.

They're like, whatever, whatever. I've just enjoyed playing in the water. But I find it recently, because now we're moving into the colder months, particularly with my daughter, Andy, because she doesn't have a school uniform. I'm like, maybe shorts, T-shirts. It's not the time.

Is she still doing shorts and T-shirts? Well, she wants to. We're talking about layers. She's like a southern track driver. If you want to bring shorts, okay, then maybe bring tights in your bag or bring a top you know as well layers let's bring a sweatshirt let's bring a jacket and the other couple days i was picked picked up from school and after having this conversation kip rocks on out with a t-shirt i'm like and it's raining i'm like where's your jacket she's like in my bag like we'll put it on

this is why we make you bring it just She's like, ah, you know. And she had a wee theory about the rain. She's got levels of rain. She's goes, it's not rain jacket material. You know, it's not time for that. What justifies rain jacket material? So what are your levels? So this is Indy's levels of how strong the rain is.

Have a listen. So it's raining right now. We're under an umbrella. But what sort of rain is it? What's the levels, Indy? So there is, it starts off with spitting, shower, rain, hard rain, cats and dogs, bucket loads, and then waterfalls. Okay, so waterfalls is the strongest.

Yeah. So right now what is it? Probably like a shower. Right. Spitting. So cats and dogs too, not quite as much as bucket loads. Yeah, yeah. So that's your level. Spitting So cats and dogs too Not quite as much As bucket loads Yeah Yeah

So that's her level So if she We weren't even at Bucket loads of waterfalls So she's not putting A jacket on Until bucket loads No

If it's just lightly spitting Yeah She'll ride it out Yeah but I like that I'd like to see them On the weather Maybe use Indy's system Of what

Yeah Dan the weatherman There's going to be Bucket loads Jacket weather It's cats and dogs It's all happening. And we've got Cash in Car. It is just moments away.

Your chance to win an amazing Skoda and all that cash in the back. It could be yours in three minutes on the hits. That's Cash in Car. Guess how much cash we've stashed in the Skoda's boot and drive it home along with all that money. A whole lot of cash and a whole lot of car. It could be all yours in cash and car thanks to Škoda.

Thousands of dollars in the back of the car. People are playing this game very intently aren't they? They are. Has anyone actually checked recently in the garage if the cash is still in the boot of the car? We've gone weeks without checking. We just assume that no one's touched it or opened the boot. Alex, can you confirm the cash is still sitting in the boot of the

Škoda? Most of it I think. Alex, can you confirm the cash is still sitting in the boot of the Skoda? Most of it, I think. Yeah, good. I did skimp on rent a little bit the other week, so I did have to take a few bucks, but I will replace it. Yeah, good. She's done an IOU. So you're going to win this money, whatever it is,

with a couple of IOU notes in there. You'll get it. We're good for it. Christina, how's Fangada this morning? All right? It's beautiful this morning. Thank you. Good.

What do you do, mate? I'm a curtain consultant. Oh, curtain consultant. I like curtains. What colours of curtains are in at the moment? I'm just curious. Oh, mostly blinds, actually, motorised, if you like technology. Motorised blinds.

What, so you just push a button and the blinds, well, I guess that's probably you've summed it all up there. That's pretty much it, yeah. Wow, what an age we live in, eh? Motorised blinds. I'm still pulling in the blinds? Well, I guess that's probably you've summed it all up there. That's pretty much it, yeah. Wow, what an age we live in, eh? Motorised blinds. I'm still pulling out the blinds with my hands. Nature's motors. Schmuck, mate. Like an idiot.

Hey, Christina, you think you've got a fair idea of how much cash is hidden in the boot of the Škoda? I will give it a go, yes, definitely. This money, it's a huge amount of cash. What are you going to do with it? Well, I haven't visited my mum in Aussie for about five years, so that'll be nice to go and see her. Take her over some motorised curtains?

Possibly, yep. All right, we're going to hand you over to cashkeeper Alex. You can make your guess with her. Good luck. Thank you. Let's get you to Aussie, Christina. What was your guess for how much cash is in the car? So it's $18,349.21

$18,349.21 Christina was a guess of $18,349.21 $18,349.21 That is incorrect. I'm so sorry. That's okay. No problem. I will keep trying. Yes, please do because if things don't

go at 11 or 3pm today, I'm going to give out another clue. And I think it's a good one. Okay, hey, well, good one, Alex. We all could have got free motorised curtains. But you were going to give her the cash. But anyway, another chance to play at 11 o'clock, eh, Benny Boy? Yeah, that's right. Just jump on the iHeart

Radio app right now, and you can work out how you can send through. You can make your guess through that, and Alex, Cash Keeper Alex, could be calling you back at 11 o'clock for your next guest. Breakfast with Jono and Ben. Last night, Shortland Street. How cool is this? Celebrated 30 years, the iconic show.

It's a wonderful achievement. We've got two of the stars from Shortland Street in the studio right now, which is very cool. Ben Barrington, Dr. Drew McCaskill, and obviously Michael Galvin, Dr. Chris Warner. Thanks so much for coming in. Good to see you guys. Thank you very much for having us. Good morning, everybody. Honoured to be here. Now, there was a bit

of behind the scenes, a bit of angst that's just gone on before the interview started. There was some wild coffee demands from Michael Galvin for producer Bee Hunts. Well, you know, you don't do 30 years service on New Zealand's top rated medical drama without being entitled to make a few valid requests for when you do media appearances. He asks for very little.

But one thing that he insists on. Is a coffee with the right amount of milk. Not no milk. Not a lot of milk. A small amount of milk. Which is not the same amount of milk. Not no milk, not a lot of milk, a small amount of milk, which is not the same as no milk. Exactly. It's called a piccolo. So it's like a straight shot with just not no milk.

Not no milk. Now, Ben, you're also saying as well that you, because you and Jono look, you know, similar-ish, and you get a lot of feedback in the street about our radio show because people think maybe you are Jono. Yeah, so what happens is Colmar Brunton get me in at the end of every month and I sit down and I say, well, this is how many positive comments I've got when I'm at the supermarket.

I just feel sorry for Jono being mistaken for you. I mean, that's got to hurt. People come up to me and they're like, Ben Barrington's let himself go. So I'm doing bad things for your body, but you're doing great things for mine out there and i shot on the street what an amazing achievement 30 years now there was an article i don't know if you guys have read it a few days ago it was like 30 facts on short in the street i saw it and now i want to see how many of these we won't go through obviously the whole 30 but see if you know some of the answers to these facts now ben you've got a great advantage because you've read the article.

The first question I wanted to ask is, Dr. Chris Warner, how many years has he been on the show was one of the facts. Well, I started in 92, but I had four years off. So it could either be 30 years or 20, depending on how anal you are about it. What did you do for those four years? I lived overseas. I was in England for a couple of years and Australia for a year and that's only three years, isn't it?

I figured one a year somewhere. Found out what a piccolo coffee was for a year. So, okay, the first episode, there was a word that was considered risque. Too risque for 7pm to do with birthing. Do you remember? Placenta. That's right. Oh my god.

We weren't allowed to say placenta. Isn't that terrible? It was a birthing. Do you remember? Placenta. That's right. Oh my God. That's right. We weren't allowed to say placenta. Isn't that terrible? It was a birthing story. There was a story, obviously a storyline. I know, some dickhead man

of TVNZ went, ooh, that's placenta. What is this, what is this mess that has come out? And then many years later you said another P word.

Please tell me that's not your... Penis. That was fine today. Penis, penis, penis. It's fine to say penis. Dancing around the word placenta, you would look like very uneducated doctors. Exactly.

What is this? You're like, ooh. The, um, you know, the bit, you know. It's a bit that come out at the end. The bit that's not baby. Interesting. Okay, the IV, what is used for alcohol? Now, you guys probably know this.

What are the little tips and tricks? Well, we use alcohol. Michael and I use. Once you've been there for 10 years, well, the white wine is apple juice and the whiskey is iced tea. Ginger ale. Oh, no, it's iced tea.

And the champagne is... L&P. L&P. How long, well, you're both on the show still, obviously, but how long before a character finds out that they're no longer going to be on? When do the producers say, hey, listen, it's...

They'll tell you that morning. Surely there's some employment laws around that. You're reading the script, you're like, it ends here for me. Yeah, that's how you find out. And then a bus comes around the corner. We get our scripts a few weeks in advance, but usually they...

That's a few months. They give you... If you're a core cast character they'll give you a few months. If you're a guest character you may read it in that days. You can easily discover when you read it. Yeah, but if you've been there a while that's four months. It's sort of the joke

there that they want to see you downstairs in the office for a chat. You never want that at the four month mark. You never want to get called down to the office for a chat it's never for a good thing final question i think you'll know this one michael uh a very it's very popular in which pacific island country sure fiji yeah and we've talked to you about this before who was there were celebrities there when you were in fiji and they paled in comparison the um the taxi driver picked up me and me Hill, who played Tony Warner.

He picked us up from the airport and he said, oh, yeah, we had Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake. We had them here last week, but everyone's way more excited about you guys. That's incredible. So do you get mobbed in Fiji? In a gentle way. They don't rush you, but yeah. Approached.

Like constantly. Constantly. Really? You can't walk a few metres without someone coming up. About four years ago, I went to Fiji with my now wife. And it wasn't like the abuse, like the torrid of abuse I get for my morning, for my work on the hits. But like Michael said, they were very gracious and very respectful. But there was quite a bit. Well, it's so nice to see you both.

What a great surprise. Likewise. Always a pleasure, guys. Always a pleasure. The great thing about listening to this show is that the day can only get better from here. Jono and Ben on the hits. Tomorrow, Jono's doing a world first, trying to run a marathon outside, harnessed up at the top of the Sky Tower on the Skywalk, 192 metres in the air.

And Jono, we've got a wee surprise for you. Another reason, a big reason to do this thing, to win something for the Hits audience. And to explain more, we're joined by the CEO of SkyCity, Michael Ahern. Good morning, how are you? I'm really good. Nice to speak to you, Jono and Ben. Lovely to talk to you too, Michael. Now, I understand the big boss, the big boss of Sky City. It wasn't that novelty Sky Tower toy that you got me from the shop, Ben. That's not the boss. That's not the boss.

The Sky Tower mascot. Scotty, the Sky Tower is not the boss of Sky City. Is Mickey Mouse the boss of Disneyland? Not quite. Michael, you are the boss of Sky City. Is Mickey Mouse the boss of Disneyland? Not quite. Michael, you are the boss of Sky City, the CEO. That's right. I'm the real boss of Sky City. That's right.

Scotty's a run below you. Well, thank you for having us there on Friday. Jono's going to be running around, as you know. What did you think of the idea when you were told that Jono was going to do a marathon out on the AJ Hackett Skywalk? I just think it's bloody madness. You're gone bloody bananas. I actually thought you were only going to do it in the observation deck,

but then they told me you were going to do it on Skywalk. That's unbelievable. Yeah, outside. Well, Michael, you know, it's a lot for me to take on as well because I've known nothing about it. I've only been told about it on Tuesday. Well, I've heard you're an unbelievably fit guy. You're going to run

42 kilometres around Skywalk, which is 192 metres up in the sky. I think I might actually come out and check it all out. Michael, we've got a bit of a surprise for Jono we've been cooking up. Just to add a bit more pressure onto Jono, for every

kilometre that you run, Jono, Sky City have given us a prize that someone can win from the hits. And there are some amazing prizes you've got up for grabs of some of the things you've got at Sky City. That's exactly right. Every kilometre there's a prize. So, you know, it goes from the vouchers in our restaurants, Orbit, the Sugar Club here, family passes for Sky Tower,

there's passes to Weather Workshop, passes to All Blacks Experiences, and even Skywalk. There's some vouchers for Skywalk and Sky Jump in there. So, you know, every kilometer equals a prize. So a lot of motivation there to keep going. It's pretty incredible, Sam. Thank you so much for all the stuff. You've given us 42 prizes,

including things like all the things you mentioned before, $100 voucher for the new menu at Orbit, the Sugar Club, the restaurants, but even an all-black jersey signed by Orbit legends

Tana Umanga, Jeff Wilson, Stephen Donald, Josh Comfort, and more. I mean, these are some of the prizes, Jono,

you could unlock for the audience. Well, Michael, I didn't need... This is where you go, thank you. Michael, firstly, you and your adorable Irish Michael, I didn't need... This is where you go, thank you. Michael, firstly, you and your adorable Irish accent,

I want to say, thank you very much, but also I didn't need more pressure on the fact that the further I go, the more prizes get unlocked. Why did you put this unlocking prizes thing into the mix, Ben? Well, because it sounded good. This is a great way for everyone to get in behind

you. They are already, but this is a great way for everyone to really cheer you on to that next kilometre. We just want to keep you motivated. Yeah, well, you're doing a good job of that. I didn't realise there was so much you could do at Sky City. Oh, it's all happening here. No, we're looking forward to Friday. Yeah, no, good.

You can even run marathons there. Is there anything you can't do? We'll find out if you can do a marathon on Friday. Michael, thank you so much for having us there at Sky City on Friday. We can't wait to's there. Is there anything you can't do? We'll find out if you can do a marathon on Friday. Michael, thank you so much for having us there at Sky City on Friday. We can't wait to be there and give away a lot of these amazing prizes you've given us. No problem. Actually, why don't we give away some now? Jono, you're going to run some Ks, so give us a call.

I'll enter the hits and tell us what kilometre that you think Jono will definitely get to, and I'll give away that prize allocated that kilometre now. Just give away a couple, Jono. So does that mean I have to actually get to that kilometre? Well, yeah, someone says, I want prize, kilometre number seven. I'll look at that, and I'll go, oh, you'll win this. And then, yeah, we won't give it away tomorrow. We'll give away a few more today.

Why not? You're going to get there. Let's have some confidence. He's chipper, isn't he? He is chipper. No, he's kind of, what he's going to do here because then someone's going to call up and go, I'll take kilometre 42,

and then that means we're going to have to get to the end of it. If they want to win their prize, oh, under the hits, let's give away some of these prizes next. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Tomorrow, Jono competes his first marathon. Let's be positive he's going to be doing it. It's a world first out the top of the Sky Tower,

running 352 times around outside, harnessed on around the Sky Tower, 42Ks. It's always been part of my bucket list to do a marathon, but I had imagined, you call me a bad person, a bit more training, preparation, and a little bit more fitness. Life's too short. Let's just get out there and do it.

Yeah. Actually, I texted Jacinda. I was like, I know you're overseas in the States, but can you put us in another lockdown, mate? Two or three weeks or something, just so everyone forgets about this thing. So adding a little bit more pressure on you right now, that for every kilometre you run tomorrow,

Sky City have given us some amazing prizes. You'll unlock another prize that we'll give away through our social media, The Hits Breakfast on Instagram and Facebook, and also on air tomorrow on 0800 The Hits. But I thought, why not right now? Let's get the ball rolling. Let's give away a couple of prizes, because you're going to get to a few Ks.

People pick a K. Today on 0800 The Hits, whatever K that corresponds to the prize, we'll give that away to them right now. Okay. Kylie, you're on. Welcome. You just need to name a kilometer between zero and 42. Is that how it works, Ben?

And you will assign a prize. Yeah, that's how it works. Go Kylie. I have full faith that you're going to finish this, Jono. I've been walking 100km in 30 days for the month of May for breast cancer and I reckon you'll nail it. You've been doing 100km for 30 days.

How's that going? I'm currently at 143. I thought I would be a lot further forward. I did have a goal of only 150Ks, but, yeah, I was hoping to double it. You're smashing it. I'm running out of time. No, don't you worry about that. You've done a great job so far, and you're doing it for charity.

What are we doing this for, Ben? Well, we're doing this to unlock these amazing prizes from Sky City. We've got everything from Sky Tower vouchers, hotel vouchers, weather workshops, all that. So what kilometre would you like? And I will allocate that price. I reckon number 27. 27.

Well, that's a lot of kilometres too. It is all in your head, remember, John, like you said the other day. It's a mind over matter. 27. Guess what? You've got a voucher For a night stay At Sky City Hotel

Valued at $250 $259 There you go Oh sure Jono So Jono gets The 27km tomorrow You unloved that Oh yeah

Thank you That's wicked That's Can I Can I See Jono Just say thank you Jono

Can I suggest A slight change To proceedings Why don't we just Sit in here all day tomorrow and just give prizes away to people? It's all on you, so get the 27Ks tomorrow. Thanks, Kyle.

Enjoy the stay at Sky City. Good on you, Kylie, and good luck with your maid challenge for breast cancer as well. This is great. So these sorts of prizes are available tomorrow. Yeah, they're amazing right now. Melissa, pick a K. You win a prize from Sky City.

What is it? In West Auckland. Yeah, I think 9Ks, you can easily do it. It's a walk in a park, pick a K. You win a prize from Sky City. What is it in West Auckland? Yeah, I think 9K you can easily do. It's a walk in a park. Well, it's not a walk in a park. It's a walk on top of a giant 192 metre building. Sky Tower double pass. Don't think about that. Double pass to go

up the Sky Tower Valley at $64 each. So there you go. Awesome. Thank you. Enjoy that. Come up tomorrow. I'll be there for a while. And let's do one more. Let's do one more. Go to Greymouth. Jenny, you're on New Zealand's Breakfast.

Pick a car. You win a prize. Jenny in Greymouth. What are you going to pick? I reckon 32. 32. Jesus, that's a long way into the run. Number 32.

I have to scroll down. Hey, you've won. Just like Jono, you can do the Skywalk. You've got a Skywalk voucher valued at $150. I don't think you'll catch me up there. I'm scared of heights. Oh, okay. Well, we couldn't have you handed out a more appropriate prize.

I'm sure there'd be someone that would love the thrill of being up there, because it's incredible being up there. Jono, you get to experience it for $42.2k. Thanks, Jenny. Appreciate you listening in grey mouth, mate. A lot of logistics are running through my head, like the harness. How do I answer the call of

nature with a harness? Have you thought about this stuff? I'm on playlists and I'm on prizes. Playlists and prizes. Thanks so much to Sky City and AJ Hackett. It's all happening tomorrow. Tune in. There's plenty more prizes, hotel vouchers. We've got amazing experiences.

We've got restaurant vouchers, all that to be won, all thanks to Jono and his amazing effort tomorrow on the hits. Tested safe for listing from home. Jono and Ben on the hits. There was a Hollywood actor who almost died in New Zealand.

Yeah, Tom Cruise, Top Gun's out today. And jeez, I've been for three hours being deep in Tom Cruise facts. And he was filming The Last Samurai here, remember? So in Taranaki, yeah. Yeah, and another actor during one of the fight scenes, one of the

mechanical horses malfunctioned. The actor came off the horse and the sword went straight towards Tom Cruise's neck and he caught the sword with his hand. Tom Cruise could have been he caught the sword with his hand. Tom Cruise could have been decapitated in Taranaki in New Plymouth. Now you think of anywhere that you'd want to be decapitated.

I wouldn't want to be anywhere. New Plymouth. I mean, I do love New Plymouth, but yeah, I just, anyway. Yeah, that's pretty incredible. Yeah, next fact about Tom Cruise. Church of Scientology. Yeah, you know, he's a passionate member Cruise. Church of Scientology. Yeah.

You know, he's a passionate member of the Church of Scientology. He is, yeah. That's why, yeah. He joined there in the late 80s. Up until then, he couldn't read, thanks to dyslexia. Oh, really? So he wouldn't be doing a lot of movies. Yeah.

He said, well, risky business and stuff was in the 80s. Yeah. Dyslexia. So he couldn't read until, I don't know what Scientology, I don't know how that taught him how to read, but they fixed everything in the late 80s. Oh, wow. And also fixed the fact that he doesn't talk to any of his kids now.

Yeah, that's a little sad. Oh, you know, sometimes when you talk to kids, you're like, oh, mate, so much talking, kids. He doesn't see Siri, does he? He doesn't see his daughter Siri that he had with Katie Holmes. He was also meant to be Tony Stark. Oh, why? He was meant to be Tony Stark over Robert Downey Jr.

Really? Because we heard earlier this morning that John Travolta was who they wanted originally for the role of Maverick back in the first movie in 1986. No, he declined the role. He declined the role. In Mission Impossible, Tom Cruise... I'm just reading out facts from the internet. Are these interesting or should I stop reading out facts from the internet, Ben?

No, you keep going. Yeah, okay, all right. You seem a little disengaged. Next one. Tom Cruise learned to hold his breath for six minutes underwater when he was filming Mission Impossible. Wow. They're like, we need to film a six-minute underwater scene, Tom Cruise,

and we've got no other option apart from you holding your breath. He was also single-handedly praised with saving the Ray-Ban Sunglasses Company. They were gone in the early 1980s. Oh, you saw it because we were in them in Top Gun. Top Gun, risky business. Tom Cruise bought them back out of the doldrums through the 80s, and now the biggest sunglass company in the world. And it is the biggest movie right now.

It seems to be in cinemas, Top Gun. It's out today. All of his ex-wives, he's had three of them, divorced them all at age 33. Really? Do the maths on that. Well, there you have. I have, you don't have to. No mathematics required from you. The Hits. For more podcasts from The Hits Network, check out