Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - May 06 - The Neighbour Of Missing Boy Axle, Spoke To Us About Finding The 3-Year-Old Boy

Episode Date: May 5, 2021

Yesterday it was announced that Togala Bay toddler, Axle, had been found after going missing for 21 hours, to the relief of NZ. We spoke to Axle's neighbour, who owns the dog that Axle went missing with. Such a scary story but such a wonderful outcome! As well as this, we discussed the greatest number of flatmates you've ever lived with, some people have lived with over 15 people under one roof! Finally, Ben's kids are obsessed with earning money at the moment, so will do WHATEVER they can to earn a couple of dollars. But the job Ben got them to do yesterday, was less than satisfactory for the girls! Enjoy the show.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Welcome to the podcast. Jono, you like the date, so the date is May 6th.

That is 2021, May. May, it seems like a bit of a non-month for me, May. Does it do anything for you? No, not a lot, to be honest. No, you're probably right. What are your favourite months of the year? Do love me a Jan, Feb. Yeah, Jan and Feb are nice.

I like December too. I get quite excited about Christmas time. I really enjoy Christmas family times and holidays. Halfway through November I start to like. Yeah. October, for some reason i'm gonna get excited because there's you know the finish line is near oh you do you go you go we've talked about this before you very early on uh towards the end of the year you're like well the year's over my laptop's

shut it's done and we're like no still a couple of months we can't do that now the year's almost over it's not gonna open up till 2022 now yeah uh but you're really in the trenches may june july august september aren't you? Those are the months where you dig deep. Yeah. Yeah. Well, they're true. They are the months, especially when it gets cold in New Zealand as well, right?

Jeez, we were in lockdown this time last year, weren't we? I think so. Or were we coming out? It was in lockdown around about this time. That was an unusual time, wasn't it? Yeah. Yeah. I quite enjoyed that.

Well, yeah, it was quite a novelty, wasn't it, in some ways, having a really nice, you know, like for family time, that aspect of it was really cool and everything kind of slowed down. But then... It was the world saying, don't do anything. Yeah. Like there was no, you couldn't, you couldn't go, oh, I've just got to go to the office or just got to go do this. You couldn't.

No. You were forced. Yeah, but then there was obviously, you know, you counter that with the worry for, you know, know this pandemic which still is raging on around the world as well as all people that have businesses and livelihoods based around stuff like tourism and involving people going to their shops and their restaurants so that was a really worrying time for them 50 million they reckon by mid-june in india 50 million cases of covid 50? That's what they're predicting, the way the trajectory is heading now. Yeah, because it's almost like it's back to normality in New Zealand, almost.

Barring, you know, wearing masks on public transport or scanning into, you know, cafes and places you go. But overseas, it's just like... Yeah, I mean, over here in New Zealand, we led the news last night with the Prime Minister's made a date for her wedding. Didn't say what the date was. No, there was no actual news, no detail. Yeah. But she's thought about a date. There's a date, and no one knows about it, yeah.

That was leading our news. Yeah, whereas overseas, you're right, it's horrible what's going on over there. So hopefully, you kind of got to the end of 2020, and you're like, well, that was a crappy year for the world. Hopefully, there's a vaccine on the horizon, things are going to be better, but still things are not so good overseas. So yeah, hopefully things start working itself out. You're going to get

vaxxed, mate? Yeah, yeah. I mean, I understand that people have some hesitancy about, you know, the way it was sort of produced quite quickly and stuff, but I mean, you're not only doing it for yourself to keep yourself safe, you're doing it for other people, you know, to not spread a virus. So I think, you know, only doing it for yourself to keep yourself safe, you're doing it for other people, you know, to not spread a virus.

So I think, you know, think about the people around you that you are hopefully protecting by doing it. What about the anti-vaxxers? What do you mean? Well, like, so if we all get it and, say, a small percentage of the country doesn't get it, you know, they're hiding away from the 5G towers and wrapped in tinfoil. Yeah. What happens to them?

Like, because the majority have been vaccinated, are they safe by default? You'd have to assume so. I guess if there's no COVID around, they are, but they're not immune from getting the virus, are they? So there's still a chance they could get the virus. And there is, I think I'm right in saying, if you get vaccinated, you can still have the virus,

not really know about it, and pass it on. So the symptoms won't be bad or anything like that. There is that chance that could happen. So you could still pass it on to someone, theoretically. You won't get sick, but someone else could get sick who didn't get vaccinated. What's next, microchips? Hey, buddy, where are you going with this?

Here we go. Now, what's next? Are you going to tell me Google knows everything about me? It does. Yes, be honest. Are you going to tell everyone that my cell phone knows where I am right now? Yeah, it does. Today on the podcast, though, we are on a mission to get the attention of Dwayne the Rock Johnson.

We want to get on his Instagram account. I thought you'd come together with a pretty, sorry to use a pun, rock solid plan. It was a rock solid plan. And today we talked to Kate Roger, entertainment reporter for News Hub, and she goes into a quarry and blows our rock solid plan apart. Yeah, she put a rock through our window, so to speak. And yeah, it was really, yeah, she put in perspective how much his Instagram posts are worth. You're like, oh my goodness.

If we get this, this is a pretty impressive feat. This is going to be more impressive than, you know, New Zealand navigating through COVID. Oh, don't, don't. I'm not, I'm not shooting the mark. Oh, yeah. Enjoy the potty. Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office,

those two. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. A remarkable story yesterday. Three-year-old boy, Axel, who was missing for 22 hours. He wandered away from his home just near Tolaga Bay and they found him the next morning. Survived through the night. Incredible.

And everyone was talking about this story. Even my kids, when they came home, they're like, did they find the little boy? And I was like, they did. And they were so happy. Yeah, it's so awesome. It's an amazing tale of survival. And we're really lucky to be joined right now

by the little man's neighbour, Damon Jeffery, joining us from Tolaga Bay, who actually owns the dog, Bro, the dog's name, that little Axel went for a walk with. Morena, Damon, how are you? I'm all right, thank you. Great to have you on, buddy. Thanks.

Hey, firstly, great name, bro. Great, great name for a dog. Yeah, it's quite fitting too. It suits him. And this dog, you wandered away with Axel. And do they sort of go walking together from time to time? Yeah, I mean, they sort of play around the section. They can't, well, they don't really go too far.

It's a pretty big section, so they don't really have a need to go anywhere else. So you were the last person to see Axel before he went missing. Yeah. I mean it was a nice day and I guess Axel couldn't pass up the opportunity of a nice

walk and decided to stretch his legs and Bro went on his little adventure as well just to supervise I guess. Oh cute. And so Axel in perfect tramping attire, with some shark gumboots, nappies and a T-shirt. Yep. And do you imagine the panic that set in

when you all realised that Axel didn't return? Yeah, well, I mean, I was just up, you know, where I was working hard, but hardly working. I suppose you could know how that is. Exactly, we do. Yes, yes, I know more. A couple of hours later, Axel's mum came up to see me

and see if I had bro with me. I sort of looked around and I couldn't see him and he never goes too far so I didn't really have any concerns at the time until she was like, oh, you know, we can't find Axel and that bro's missing too. I sort of stopped what I was doing and went out to give him a whistle,

under the impression that he'd come running back like he always does. I mean, an hour and a half went by quickly of frantic whistling and searching and calling out to them, just hoping that we'd see them coming back home. The day was getting late, and we wanted them both home before dark set in, so Axel's mum rushed into the Tolliver Police Station, hoping basically that someone had found them and taken them somewhere safe.

Gotcha. Once we knew that no one had seen them and something was really wrong, so after three hours of searching and calling and all of a sudden, Bro popped out of the bush and came running back to me as if he was being chased by the boogeyman, you know. Once we realised he'd come back alone, police and search and rescue had just arrived and the chopper was on its way, thinking it'll be easier to see Axel from the air. But night set in, bro, myself, others that live on the property

and several dozen police were on the hunt, as well as an overwhelming amount of members of the community. It was amazing to see how supportive the locals were. Something like that really brings everyone together, doesn't it? And so, you know, night sets in and you're just feeling for the parents, aren't you, overnight?

It's unreal. I looked over and you've never seen fear until you localise a parent like that. You know, the kid's missing. But so we searched and searched all night, hoping that we'd find him tucked away somewhere warm, you know, awaiting his rescue. But none of us had just the idea how far out he was.

So the overnight search was unsuccessful. Even using a chopper with thermal imaging, you know. The next day, more and more people heard of his disappearance thanks to social media, and I provided people with the correct information, and people either turned up with their gumboots on and a bottle of water, or they had a hot plate of food

waiting for the people who had already been out searching. Oh, that's lovely. So not long before lunchtime, a local man, Pete, came back with Axel for his ute, and the boy jumped into his mum's arms, and he was clapping and cheering along with tears to see them reunited, you know.

It was just amazing how a three-year-old wearing next to nothing survived a freezing cold night out in the bush. Yeah. And has Axel explained what he did or where he slept or how he slept? I mean, it says that he was four, but he's actually only three, so his vocabulary isn't exactly the greatest. He sort of said that he was sleeping with the rabbits, but other than that, he didn't have too much to say.

So was he rattled? Was he upset? Or was he like, oh, that was a fun night out? Oh, I mean, when he came up the driveway, he had a big smile on his face. And he sort of started to cry when he seen his mum. He was just as happy to be reunited as what they were. He would have been hungry. And through the night, he would have been cold. I mean, it's an incredible tale that he survived through the night.

Well, everyone was beginning to feel the worst, you know. I mean, when he came up that driveway, absolutely everyone around was just shocked and so pleased that he was alive and well. And like honestly, without the community supporting us the way they did, I don't think we could have brought Axel home. And without my boy bro coming back to get

help, you know, we could have ended up looking in all the wrong places. It was just a miracle and I know his parents will be forever grateful for everybody who helped bring their baby boy home. Oh, listen, and your dog as well. Your dog's a little hero too. Just an amazing story. There's so many

times you hear these stories and you think the worst, don't you? So it's great to have a positive outcome. Yeah, I suppose you have to be prepared for the worst, don't you? Yeah. Well, in this case, fortunately, it didn't happen. Thank you so much for your time this morning, Damon. We really appreciate it, and it's so good that such happy news came out of that story.

It is. You look after yourself, buddy. Thanks for your time. Morning. This show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits, with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Sorry, Jono, you were reading me an article Mike Hosking had written. Yeah, I was reading a wonderful article on the back of the Herald, because the radio ratings reading me an article Mike Hosking had written. Yeah, I was reading a wonderful article in the back of the Herald

because the radio ratings came in and Mike Hosking was writing an article about how he's number one again. Just getting that out. Some results never seen before on New Zealand radio. Time of celebrations this week is the Newstalk ZB headquarters. This year the first ratings results were in and I was up. In fact, I had reached an audience the size of which News Talks ZB had never reached before. Oh, that's so good.

I love him. I absolutely love him. And then there's another little quote. He's like, you know, there's a lot of articles written about me, a lot of smackers talking about me, which is not of any consequence. Whatever you say about me, I stopped caring 25 years ago. Oh, good on him. Actually, I might be starting to listen to Hosking shortly

because I feel like I'm fast becoming a boomer. Uh-oh. My dad was over. My dad was over last week. He was staying. And, you know, when your parents are in the house, you sometimes slip into some of their routines. And it got to, you know, he was on holiday too.

So it got to about five o'clock. He's like, should we have a red wine? You're like, okay. And then, should we watch The Chase? And you ended up... The boomers, the boomers, they love a red wine in The Chase, don't they? They're just waiting for that clock

to take over from 4.59 to five so that their family won't judge them for their drinking hours. Yeah. And now he's gone. I'm like, I put the chase on last night. Having a red wine. And I was like, no, I can't.

There's no one else in the house. I can't have a red wine. So I just, but I ended up watching the chase and I was like, what am I doing? They do, they love it. I don't think I've ever watched an entire episode of the chase. Is it good?

Yeah, it is actually really good. But the people are so impressive. The chasers who obviously know just so much and even some people they have on the show, they're all, I'm just so slow with the answers. Even if you do know an answer, it doesn't pop into my brain until about 20 seconds after the person answers.

And you're like, oh, yeah, that's right. I don't understand how the format works. You've got one person who's doing the chasing, but then they sometimes, they get knocked out, but they're still in the background cheering on the team. Oh, yeah, they do. People get knocked out, then they take on a chaser. And then they have another beat the chasers where they have a whole lot of the background cheering on the team. Oh yeah, they do. People get knocked out and they take on a chaser and then they have another beat the chasers where they have a whole lot of

the chasers coming on and there's a whole spin-off within the chasers series but the boomers love it. Yeah, I don't know why though. It's really hit home with their demograph, hasn't it? My parents are the same. It's just a quiz show. Does Dave watch The Chase? No, they don't. I don't even think

I've ever watched an episode of it. I think I only first discovered what it was maybe a year and a half ago. Yeah. Yeah. No, well, you wait till you've had babies and... And retirement home. And retirement home. You're sitting in a Ryman.

Yeah. That's when you're ready for The Chase. You're ready for The Chase. But actually, an interesting quiz question that came out of watching The Chase. The biggest population city is in New Zealand. Now, do you guys know, off the top of your head, my dad was doing this to me afterwards, a question that came out of watching the chase. The biggest population cities in New Zealand. Now, do you guys know off the top of your head, my dad was doing this to me afterwards, what the

biggest cities in New Zealand by population are? Okay, Auckland. Number one. Then I'd go probably Christchurch. I want to say Tauranga. I'd say Wellington. Wellington is number two. Now, obviously you can break down some of the cities,

like Manukau and stuff like that. True. This is just counting Auckland as one big city. But then you've got Lower Hutt, Upper Hutt. They're considered cities too, aren't they? You're part of the Wellington. Yeah, Auckland, Wellington. Wellington, Christchurch.

Yes. Dunners. No. Tauranga. No. Damn. Hamilton. Yes.

Hamilton number four. No. Tauranga. Yes. Dunners no Invercargill Napier and Hastings oh

Dunners yes and rounding up the top 8 oh Whangarei no Invercargill no

oh rounding up the top 8 North Island Whangarei no Parmy yeah Palmerston North

there you go there we go quite interesting when you think of population sizes. You know, and cities like Queenstown, they're quite a small population, but it's such an iconic city to travel to. So there you go. There's some boomer content for you.

Oh, that was great. Well, thank you, Kevin Boyce, for that. That was a good game. He played with me off the back of the chase, which wasn't to do with the chase, but I still got it wrong, much like watching the chase. Do you stick it out and watch one news afterwards? Oh, yeah. Seven Sharp, and then it gets a bit late after that, but

sometimes slip it into Coro. Yeah, right. Fair go. Can't wait for fair go to come round. We apologise in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. I'm sorry to rope you into this. Sorry you've been dragged into this. Shoto and Penn. Breakfast on the Heads. The Heads. And now, Producer Juliet,

you went to a flat over the weekend. Yes, and it was a very bizarre flat because I turned up, looked very normal-sized, walked in, and I was kind of gobsmacked by the amount of bedrooms that were in this flat because a lot of people lived in this flat. A lot of people. There were two kitchens in this flat to cater

for the amount of people in this flat. She's been taunting us all week saying, oh, the amount of lived in this flat. A lot of people. There were two kitchens in this flat to cater for the amount of people in this flat. She's been taunting us all week saying, oh, the amount of people in this flat. But she hasn't said the number of the amount of people in this flat. No. She's like, you wait. She's going, I'm going to tell you. You won't believe it, she says. You won't believe it.

And now, how did you find out how many people lived in the flat? So we walked through and someone, when we arrived there, they were like, oh, go upstairs and just have a look around. And so we walked upstairs and it was just bedroom after bedroom after bedroom. And I was like, no, that's not even half of it. And so then we went out the back and there was bedroom after bedroom. It was crazy. I love it how everyone who's in a flat is so accommodating. Go upstairs, have a look around.

We were in Dunedin and we were outside the 660 flat. Yeah. And the door was open. It was on Castle Street. The door was open and we were like knock knock knock Ben and me were just wandering around we thought we wanted

to have a look in it knock knock knock and no one was in there and so rudely like Goldilocks we let ourselves we let ourselves in and we started

wandering around didn't we and then when we came out one of the owners came home and we're like sorry we were just in there he's like that's fine

the door's open all the time go inside you can just wander in so what we want to do is a bit of a competition And we're like, sorry, we were just in there. He's like, that's fine. The door's open all the time. That's so cool. Go inside. You can just wander in. So what we want to do is a bit of a competition. You want to throw this out there. The most amount of people that you have flattered with in the past, you can call us on 0800-THE-HITS-4487.

I imagine there's probably a couple of people who went to London and really pushed the boundaries of shared accommodation in their 20s. I remember staying with someone in London and one of the people were living in a bigger wardrobe, but that's where they were sleeping at night, on the bottom under their clothes. In a closet? Yeah, basically in the closet.

Wow. And someone was in the bedroom part? Yeah, someone was in the bedroom part. It was like a sort of separate, you know how sometimes wardrobes have a separate door and they're like, yeah, well, that's where I sleep for a little bit. This is a lovely... I don't think it was like a...

It was a temporary sort of thing, but it'd been going on for like a few months. Julian, how many in your flat now? Currently, there's five of us. But you spend more time at home, don't you? Yeah. Are you still flatting? Yes.

Or you're just paying rent, but you sleep with... To be fair, mum invited me for dinner last night and I was like, yep, I'm coming for a free meal. Thank you. So 0800, that's the most amount of people you have flattered with in the past.

See if you can beat Juliet's magical figure that she refuses to tell us. And for the most impressive number, we've got a Trade Depot $200 credit. So if you want to upgrade your bathroom, kitchen, or laundry appliances, it's easy, just shop online at tradedepot.co.nz. Tradedepot.co.nz. Tradedepot.co.nz. You know the jingle. Give us a call. How many people have you flattered with?

Oh, 100. That's. We'll start with you, Lance. You're in Auckland. Morena, welcome to the show. Good morning. How many people have you flattered with? I had 12 people in a four-bedroom house.

And it was all couples and then two rooms were like bunk beds for extra people. So how did you divide up the people into the four bedrooms? It was just, so the two couples, they're all couples, so they're all just, two couples had to share two rooms. And we only had two bathrooms and one kitchen, so it was a fight

to get anywhere pretty much. That is a busy household. You almost wouldn't want everyone home at the same time. No, luckily we had different shifts. Some people worked night shifts, some days, so it was a lot easier. Oh, well, Liz, we had a friend of ours who, same sort of situation.

She met a guy that moved into her flat and she didn't see him for an entire year until he moved out. Wow. Just thanks to shift work. That's a lot. Wow. So she lived with someone she never even saw. Wow.

It's a good set up. We've got Tom on from Parnell. Morninger, Tom. How are you? Hey, how's it going? Good to have you on. Most amount of flatmates. Juliet, did 12 beat you?

No, the one that I went to had more than 12. More than 12. Tom, what have you got? 16. Oh, surely 16's got to beat that flatmate. No, it doesn't beat it. No, it still doesn't beat 16. Oh, surely 16's got to be there. No, it still doesn't mean 16. Where was 16 happening? I don't know.

Are you living in a 16-person environment now? Yeah, I'm living there now. Oh, my God. How do you handle day to day? It's pretty good. How old are you? 30. 30?

That's quite old To be living with 15 other people Yeah it's nice though It's nice I like having lots of people around I guess you've always got people To hang out with And do things with That's kind of cool

Yeah it's pretty good During the first lockdown Yeah You've got a big bubble Yeah you do You get sick of one person When you've got a whole rugby team's Worth of other people

you can hang out with. Oh, that's awesome. Hey, thanks, Tom. So 16 doesn't beat Juliet. No. Okay, we'll go to Martin. He's in Christchurch. How many people?

How many people, Martin? We're doing well, Marty. Lovely to have you on. How many people have you flattered with? I haven't flattered, but I went to a party with a workmate once, and in his flat they had a six-bedroom house.

The three largest were all separated and the sheets hanging up, so it was effectively nine couples living there and overstayers on the couch every once in a while. So you could say maybe between 18 to 20 people. 18 to 20 people!

Now, Juliet, surely this has beaten you. Yes, it does. The one I went to had 17 people. Which is still way too many people. Yes. That's way too many. You could form a cult with 17 people. I think these were all, you know, like family and cousins and all that

that had come over and they were all living together. But, I mean, there was no room to move. Yeah, right. But I suppose you just get used to where you're living, don't you? Yeah. You work with the environment. Exactly. Incredible.

Martin, 18 people. Juliet, so the 17 people, did you get to know all of them? No, I didn't. But it wasn't a, I don't think it was a couple situation. There were literally probably about, there may be a few couples in there, but at least 15 bedrooms. But you're never all going to sync up.

Like, when one wants to have a party, another one might want a quiet night. You're never all going to be, yeah. My rule of thumb is when you're living with people, try and remember all of their names. I barely remember my family's names.

So 17's way too many for me. To everyone pulling a sickie today, you're not fooling anyone. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Now at the moment at home, my daughters, Sienna and Indy, they're really oning anyone. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Now at the moment at home, my daughters, Sienna and Indy, they're really on a, like they want to make

money. They want to do jobs for money at the moment. So that's the big thing at the moment. Indy, who's nine, is like, what do you want money for? She's like, I want cushions and a rug for my room. I'm like, what are you, a housewife? Oh my god, she is a 48 year old in an 8 year old's body.

She wants some pillows to put on the bed. I go, you've got pillows, but other ones. And I'm like... She's more sensible than me. I know. But then Sienna wanted some money as well because she's like, well, if he's getting money, then I need some money.

I was like, cool, you can do a job that I was going to do, go around and do poo patrol, which is picking up the dogs. Poo patrol. Poo patrol. See, that's cooler to say poo patrol than, you know, sounds like you're on a mission to pick up, you know. I always find when you issue

jobs for kids to do, it's not, they never do it to satisfaction, you know. They're always going to make you better, it's never done to vacuum the house. I guess for poop patrol you're kind of like, well, has it been picked up, has it been disposed of, that's the one job. But I was

enjoying it yesterday as they were like, oh, what money? And you're like, okay, do this job. Just hearing Sienna walk around with a spade yesterday, I go, uh. It was like 18 minutes of her just going, uh, uh, in the backyard. I was like, oh, this is a great moment as a parent.

I'm like, hey, you're enjoying your two bucks now. Worst thing is he was making them pick it up with their hands. You want to earn this money? It'll work for us. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. We're on a mission

to get the attention of Dwayne the Rock Johnson. He's a hero. He's a hero of mine and I want to get on his social media and so Jono, you've got his tequila. Yeah. And he posts photos and videos of people enjoying the Rock's tequila all around the world so we thought maybe we could put a video of've got his tequila. Yeah. And he posts photos and videos of people enjoying The Rock's tequila

all around the world. So we thought maybe we could put a video of us enjoying the tequila and maybe he would post it. He'd notice us. To be honest, I have an ulterior motive and it's just to put an end to this Dwayne The Rock Johnson madness that I find myself in every day. Ben thinks about Dwayne The Rock Johnson

more than Dwayne The Rock Johnson thinks about Dwayne The Rock Johnson. That's true. It is wild out there. But some great suggestions coming through as to what we can do with the tequila for his Tequila Tuesdays

he does on social media. And you can suggest we're going to land on one tomorrow. We're going to settle on one tomorrow. Do whatever it is on Monday. Post it over to him. Bang, you're on the account Tuesday and we never speak of The Rock again.

Yeah. Joining us on the phone right now to give us some advice is Kate Rogers. She's the entertainment reporter, of course, for News Hub. She's interviewed the world's biggest movie stars and she's interviewed Dwayne The Rock Johnson five times. Five times. Now, Kate, what is one thing you take away from meeting Dwayne Johnson? The biggest and brightest and most stunning smile and set of teeth that I've ever encountered.

I remember I interviewed him in Sydney. It was the first time. It was so many years ago before you guys were born. And I interviewed him for the tooth fairy. So I bet he did floss particularly for that. Do you reckon he regrets the tooth fairy? I don't know if that man believes in regret. Ever since then, honestly, maybe six, seven times, I've had the pleasure of sharing a room with

that guy and he just strikes me as every stepping stone he's such a positive dude so and I think he has an appreciation for how uh how inspiring he is and if you go to any school or secondary school and the rock would have to be on the tip of most people's tongues he's he's huge even here and I think because of his strong connections to New Zealand and how he really embraces his mana and his island culture I think he's really worshipped here as a bit of a god and I tell you what, he's got

a great set of teeth. So what's he like? Does he remember you? You've interviewed him multiple times. Does he remember? Yeah, I have. It's hard to tell with some because they're so comfortable and familiar they kind of have that approach I I suspect, with most journalists. Like the only one person I've ever genuinely believed remembers me every time is Matt Damon. And that's because he specifically brings up something or takes the mickey out of me for something dumb that I've done before in the past.

And also he's a huge rugby fan, so it's always a bit of a go-to for him. So I'm going to say yes to the rock i think the last time we chatted with the hobson shore and his mother had recently spoken here in auckland at st paul's and one of the college students had told me about it uh so we had a really his mother had actually rung him from the school to say what can i say to these boys and when you ask a man even if it's just the rock, about his mum, he just turns into this little boy. He's so proud of his mum, and it was a really lovely kind of conversation.

So I'm going to say, let's just say, yeah, of course he remembers me every time. He loves me. He does. He's like, hey, it's you, the lady with the face. From New Zealand. I love New Zealand. From Reckley's face. I think I remember you.

Mia, I remember, like, Kevin Hart. That was one of the reasons why I'm a Zealand. From Reckless Face. I think I remember you. Mia, I remember like Kevin Hart. That was one of the reasons why I'm a big fan of Kevin Hart as well. For some reason, he remembered Jono and I interviewing him in Australia because when I turned up in another one, he was like, where's the other guy? I was like. Oh, no. And I was like, what?

And he's like, I was like, do you remember? He's like, yeah, you do terrible jokes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, well. It helps to have really bad jokes. If you're going to be remembered for anything, maybe that's our thing. Yeah, it probably is your thing. Kate, well. It helps to have really bad jokes. If you've got to be remembered for anything, maybe that's our thing. Yeah, it probably is your thing.

Kate, we're trying to, it's Ben's dream. It's Ben's dream to be noticed by Dwayne The Rock Johnson. So we're on a mission at the moment to get him featured on Dwayne's Instagram account through the avenue of his tequila. He's peddling tequila. So we've ordered two bottles. Ben's got them.

There's been many great suggestions come through as to what he could do to get his attention. But what are your thoughts? Now, one big thing I thought about is you guys have got to kind of understand and appreciation for how much one single Instagram post from The Rock is worth. I heard a rumour that built into some of his contracts for his films, he has a certain number of Instagram posts he will make about Hobbs & Shaw. He will make about whatever film he's currently in.

And it's worth a million US per Instagram post. Jeez, really? For one post? For one post. So if you get him to do that post, honestly, I will worship at the altar of John Owen Baird until the end of recorded time. Oh wow. It gives you a bit of an idea of the hill that you're climbing

gentlemen, the hill that you're climbing. But I'm here for you. Oh Kate Rodger, you've really put that into perspective. I was feeling confident but now not so much. Kate, thank you so much Kate Rodger, News Hub Entertainment reporter, has met The Rock on a number of occasions and really to be honest, Kate, with that million dollar price figure you put

on there, taking the wind out of my sails. Oh, that wasn't my job. I'm so sorry. It's good to put it into perspective, just to know how hard this mission is. It's not easy, but we'll be the hardest worker in this room right now and try and get The Rock

to at least notice us. Yeah, I'm here for you. I promise. Thanks, Kate. Lovely lady, Kate Rogers. Million bucks. Million bucks. Well, wee.

I tell you what. Well, if this isn't a success, well, then at least we've done some stuff before we die. Yeah, yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. The home of yeah, nah. She'll be right in at the end of the day.

Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hits. We were just having a discussion off air yesterday, all going, I wonder if our parents know what we do for a specific job. Because I know every time I talk to Annie and John in Christchurch, my parents, I tell them a story and they're like, oh, that's lovely, dear. You know, that's kind of, they're disengaged. Their eyes glaze over. Would Jenny Boyce know specifically

what you do every day for a job? Well, I know she knows I'm on the radio, but not exactly what that would entail, I guess, you know. I'd be like, oh, he does radio, talks some stuff and, you know. Juliet, does Dave, your dad, know? They know that I'm a radio show producer, and they know that I press buttons, but they wouldn't know. They wouldn't know

anything. Yeah, because I can imagine if you'd gotten to guess what parts of the job they'd be like, ooh, I don't know. If someone asks, I'm like, I just push the buttons. Like, I'm the button pusher. But you're more than just that. You do a lot of organising behind the scenes. Easy to say, button pusher. You shred all of Ben's tax documents.

Yeah, pick up John O's dry clean. You're more than just a button pusher. Shred all of Ben's tax documents. Yeah, pick up Jono's dry clean. More than just a button pusher. Thank you. You part Ben's car. Yeah. Wash mine. I really work hard, don't I? No, you do a wonderful job, mate.

You really do. Yeah, so my parents have not really been invested in what we've done so far. Although they are a bit more invested now because they got themselves nominated for a radio award. So they're like... They did. The wee prank we played on them got nominated. So they're like, we're radio award nominees. But they're the only nominees who A, don't want to be on radio

and B, don't even want to be nominated. The reluctant radio award nominees. But yeah, I guess if you look at your circle of friends, you know, you might know, oh, my friend's a banker or a sales rep or a builder or something. But you don't know exactly what their job entails, do you? I have, yeah, mates like that. You know, like, oh, I don't know exactly.

I couldn't probably pin down exactly what you do. I know it's some sort of money, financial, you know. But you're like, oh, what is this when it kind of gets down to it? I guess the irony is, you know, the people you love the most, you know the least about what they do every day for the job. And that's the important thing. Like, the job's not the main reason that you are friends with those people. Yeah.

Which is a nice thing. Now, we got talking to Clara in the office yesterday because Clara was like, my dad would have no idea the exact job title that I do. Now, here's Clara's job title. What's your job position? Commercial integration. Now, this is commercial integration.

And also, just to be fair to our parents, back in their day, job titles were very simple. It was, you know, builder, dentist, doctor. Now we've got, like, the assistant regional manager to the account executive managing directing designer. And that's just the intern. Yeah. You know, job titles have become confusing.

So we phoned Clara's dad, Manuel, to see if he knew exactly what she did, what his daughter did for a job every day. What is Clara's job position? What's her position? Oh, f***, I wouldn't know. She told me many times. It's something to do with content.

Content. I feel really bad. Content manager. Content manager. Clara, what is your role? Commercial integrator. Hi, Manuel. Content and manager are nowhere to be seen in a title.

I love it, though. Content manager sounds like a love it, though. Something content, content, content. Content manager sounds like a good title, though. Yeah, and then you said it with such confidence. He's like, content manager. You're managing the content. In a way, she does. I think my dad thinks I'm a plastic surgeon.

I just don't have the heart to tell him. Add these two men together, and somehow you get three quarters worth of a normal man. The hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. That's 7.45 and that means... Five words for 5k on The Hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. It is our game of word association.

We tell you five words, you tell us the five words that pop into your head. If they match with ours, you win $5,000. It's a fun game and I tell you what, like a water blaster. This is a high pressure situation and Helena coming to the middle of the pressure. You're in fielding. Morena. Good morning, guys. Now, Helena

our wonderfully organised and astute producer, producer Humphrey, new dad, baby daddy now. He says you've played the game before. I have, yes. I'm very lucky to get through again. Second, how'd you go the first time round, Helena? I ended up with four out of five.

I think you met, didn't we play together, Helena? We did, yes. Yes, four out of five. I think I remember that one, yeah. What is that suspicious noise in the background? It sounds like a cow suffocating. It's my son. Is he okay?

He's fine. He's just super excited, ready to go to daycare. Oh, good on him. I remember when I was jazzed for daycare too. Well, we won't hold him up any longer. So who do you want to send into the soundproof booth? I'm going to go with Ben.

Oh, you're going to do it again. All right. She's back for round two as he makes his way into the soundproof booth. Helena in Fielding, you've played before. You know how the game works. You match five words. Five words. With Ben's five words, you win

$5,000. Let's hit the music, Jew. Alright, this is where the pressure comes on. Much like the pressure that Michael Hill-Juller puts on rocks to turn them into diamonds. Helena, your first word for the second chance

at $5,000. Nuggets. Chicken. Chicken. Drew, you got chicken? Yeah, and now I'm craving them. Every time I eat chicken nuggets, I'm like, what are these? What's in them?

I enjoy them, but I'm like, what is this made of? Yeah, I know what you mean. What's the percentage of chicken inside this nugget? Word number two, free. F-R-E-E. Oh. Can we come back to that one? Yeah, we can. We can. You can settle on that one.

Third word, airport. Plane. Good choice. Word number four, which has got a few options, I think. Electrician. Tradie. Tradie, yeah, nice. What's another one?

Sparky. True. Potentially. What did you go, nice. What's another one? Sparky. True. Potentially. What did you go, Ju? I was going to say electricity. Similar word, but I mean... Don't chuck electricity in the mix. I don't know.

Helena's already under the pump. The fifth word, Helena, was politics. Politicians? Politicians, yeah. Not bad. Now, we hit pause on word number two, which was free. F-R-E-E. There's a few free things we get in life.

You could have free money today if you match five words. Oh, it's a tricky one, guys. It is. I don't want to put words in your mouth. What do you get? You get free parking. Let's go with money. Free money.

Because, you know, free money. Free money. If we win. All right. Free money. Well, speaking of free, we'll check out the freeloading Ben Boyce from the Soundproof booth. Were they harder words than your first game you played? Yes, they were.

Yeah. Bit tough this morning, boys. Oh, I don't say that. No, it was. Helena says a lot tougher than the first time you two played. They've been some tough words lately, haven't they? Hopefully you still can impress Helena. But, you know, a lot of times you meet Ben,

you're like, he's an impressive guy, second time around. You're like, oh. Yeah, no. He really goes down on you. It's got to be one of those occasions, isn't it? I hope not, though. $5,000 on the line. A lot of pressure.

I keep talking about the pressure of this one. More pressure than when Juliet had to go and explain herself to management after that work party. That was pretty intense, wasn't it, too? It was. Very intense. We got through it, though. Word number one today is nuggets. Chicken.

That ding means you're off the mark. Okay. Word number two, free. Now, it's not me mispronouncing three. There's an F-R-E-E. Things that are free in life. You know, like products you would hock off on Instagram.

A vacuum cleaner or something, I don't know. A bread maker. Oh, okay. But I don't think we're going to go with that one. Oh, I'm going to go parking. Free parking. A monopoly. I played it with the parking. Free parking. Monopoly. I played it with the kids the other day.

It's in my head. Yeah, no, free parking is a good one. What did you lock in, Helena? Money. Money. Free money is good too. Yeah, that's a tough one. Or motor the final three airport.

Plane. Electrician. Sparky. What did you go for thatian? Sparky. Ah, what did you go for that one? Tradey. And the fifth and final word was politics. Oh, that's a wide one. It's just under.

Listen, politicians. He's bought your average down when you two play the game, but that's okay. They were really tough words. They were tough words today. Hey, well, hopefully we get a chance to do it again, and we're now five out of five. Third time lucky.

Thanks, guys. And the plus side is your son gets to go to daycare. He sure does. He'll be pumped about that. You go and have a great day, Helena. We love you listening. Thank you very much. Well done.

Broadcasting live and mostly awake. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. Bye. Thanks to HP, who have launched Instant Ink, New Zealand's first at-home ink subscription service. Okay, Juliet, she's addicted to two things beginning with C. One's her cell phone and the other is celebrities.

And right now she's pulled herself away from her cell phone just long enough to bring you this edition of Spy. Absolutely. So an influencer who's posted a TikTok video about an interaction she had with Ben Affleck or maybe not so much interaction. So

apparently there's a dating app that celebrities use or people with, you know, influences can use. People, you know, a better class of human being than us. Yeah, Cinder. Celebrity Tinder. How do you meet the grade for this one? I haven't actually looked that far into it, but...

Not that I'm trying to come up with a way of investigating it. You can qualify. Is that what you want? Yeah, listen, you tried to start A Tinder account for me It was bleak wasn't it mate? Don't get my distraction Oh damn it But this influencer

Matched with Ben Affleck On this dating app But she thought It was a fake account And so decided To unmatch him Then he found her On Instagram

And sent her this video Naveen Why did you unmatch me? It's me To prove That it was in fact the actual Ben Affleck. Now, you'd be kicking yourself. Why does he sound like a piss? I don't know.

Hey, Naveen. I think it's just a close-up. It's a close-up video. Yeah, it's a close-up video. He's very breathy, wasn't he? He sounded like Batman. Well, he was Batman. Well, that makes sense.

Batman's messaging me. But you'd be gutted, wouldn't you? But then at least it's fine because he's DM'd you so you could be like, okay, I can save this. He was obviously doing a little bit of a joke. Yeah. I imagine that would happen a lot with really, really famous people that people would think their dating app accounts would be fake.

Yeah, and you wouldn't probably want to put a fake name out there for the people then because they'll be, oh, he was going under a fake name. But then they'd think it was a fake name by saying Ben Affleck. Yeah. True, that is very true. You remember those days, because they'll be, oh, he was going under a fake name. But then they'd think it was a fake name by saying Ben Affleck. Yeah. True. That is very true.

You remember those days, all these lonely singles wandering around your area. We're like, why are they all just like, are they lost? What are they after? That's so true. And people were going in on them. Yeah, they were. They were kind of saying, oh, it's a bit creepy, like you just did then. Oh, sorry, I take it back.

It's not that creepy, is it? No, I wouldn't say it was. It was, no, because it was him just saying it was me. So, yeah. That was a way of him, I guess, proving take it back. It's not that creepy, is it? Oh, no, I wouldn't say it. It's good stuff. Because it was him just saying it was me. So, yeah. That was a way of him, I guess, proving that it was him. I mean, he's on a dating app. If he wants to go on that, that's fine. But I don't know.

People go on and on everyone these days. I know you made me bad for calling him creepy. It's okay, Jono. And Channing Tatum was on the Kelly Clarkson show and revealed his biggest struggle when, well, not biggest struggle. That's a bit of an exaggeration. But one of the things that he was freaking out about when he first learned he was going to have a daughter

with his ex, Jenna Dewan Tatum, was on how he was going to do her hair. Yeah, I completely panicked when I found out we were having a girl and I literally went to YouTube and started figuring out, like, how, like, I think the first one I saw was a dad vacuuming up his daughter's hair with, like, a hair tie onto the vacuum and I saw was a dad vacuuming up his daughter's hair with a hair tie onto the vacuum. And I was like, that's genius.

And then it doesn't work like the guy did it. I tried it and it didn't work as well. So he attempted the old vacuum ponytail trick on his daughter. Yeah, that does work. Have you tried it as well? Yeah, I've tried that one. I'm sure that one works, yeah. So good.

It's also great for infesting your daughter's hair with dust mites and vacuum cleaner lice. I mean, a ponytail is something I can do, but yeah, it's when you get into the plaiting and stuff like that. That's when you're like, well, you know. That's what he talked about. He said he spent so long trying to learn how to French braid, but then when you get started, that's the most difficult part, but then he'd get down towards the end and see the three different strands were all different lengths

and he really didn't like that so he'd start all over again just to get them all perfectly even. French braid's the insides turn in isn't it? Yes. That's a whole other game.

I can't even do a pony I can't do anything. Barely none of your business isn't it? That's not my jurisdiction. That's out of my zone. Better to stay away and that is Spy

for more you can head to thehits.co.nz Real Kiwi blokes With soy lattes Mmm Shona and Ben Breakfast on the hits Jeez

Have you Have you moved Furniture lately Have you moved A piece of furniture lately Oh not lately I don't really I don't enjoy

Moving furniture Like you know Like I I kind of like We have an agreement Like don't ever ask me to help you and I won't ever ask you. To help move house.

Yeah. Like, I don't really want to do it for, you know, a box of beers or whatever. You know, like, I'd rather. And we've got a sort of a non-present thing as well.

We've never presented each other. We don't need to. No, no, it's good. It works out fine. The lines are clear. Yeah. There's no mincing. Yeah, because if one day

someone does give a present, you'll be like, oh, now you feel obliged. There's no mincing. Yeah, because if one day someone does give a present, you'll be like, oh. Now you feel obliged. Yeah. Yeah, no, I hear you, Ben Boyce. The same stretches out to airport drop-offs and pick-ups as well. Yeah. I don't ask you.

You don't ask me. It's fine, yeah. It's fine. And, Juliet, we've never asked anything of you either, have we? No, and I don't ask anything of you. It's a great way to be. It is so good. You owe no one anything.

Nothing. But obviously you've had to move some furniture. Yes, I did. Sorry, long way around. It was my fault. I had to move a couch yesterday. And it got to the point where I'm like, how on earth did we even get this thing in this room?

Because you're trying to move it out of this small little doorway and it becomes the world's most difficult jigsaw puzzle trying to navigate the couch out. I don't know who designed couches. I don't know who we pinned this on. But there was some monster who were like, I'm going to have a piece of furniture, oddly shaped, all sorts of shapes.

People aren't going to be able to get them in and out of doors correctly. Is it the couch manufacturers fault or the door manufacturers? Like if the doors could be just a little bigger, who's to say doors had to be the size they are? But you go through such a range of emotions, you're like, well, we've got the thing in here. It's like what's changed between, you know, a year and a half ago when we put it in this room?

I don't know. You have to be like, you be like Pythagoras or Einstein to figure out the direct angles. Yeah, it's the angles, isn't it? Pivot, pivot, the famous friend scene, but it is. It's all about there. I love it when you do it as a two-person move and you get to this point where, okay,

the couch needs to go through the doorway and tension just slowly starts to... I mean, you approach it with all good will. You're like, we could do this, we can get this through. But then slowly over time, the tension and the anger sort of builds up, doesn't it? To the point where, you know, one of you inevitably ends up sleeping on the couch

and you're trying to move out the door. I had a moment actually the other day that reminded me of, we were going over to a friend's house and there was a guy I could see, one of their neighbours, really struggling with the couch by himself. I was like, oh, do you couch by himself. I was like,

oh, do you want a hand? I was like, hey, there's a nice opportunity for me to do something nice with someone else. Oh, so you offered him a hand? Yeah, I was like,

oh yeah, well, because I was there on the spot. I was like, I'll give you a hand. But always in those situations you want them to say, no, no, I'll be fine. But you look like you've offered.

But I did, but I helped inside and I was like, oh, that's good. I've done my nice thing. And then I stupidly said, is there anything else you need a hand with? Because he's by himself. And he goes, that's the time you want to know. Yeah, and he's like, oh, actually, and I was like, oh, that's good. I've done my nice thing. And then I stupidly said, is there anything else you need a hand with? Because he's by himself.

And he goes, that's the time you want to know. And he's like, oh, actually. And I was like, uh-oh. And there was a trailer on the driveway and I was like, uh-oh. And so for the next 20, 25 minutes, because you can't tap out during that situation.

He's an optimistic mover, isn't he? Hoping he could get all that done on his own. I was like, how did this, maybe he had a hand getting it in there because he was saying it was really hard to get it out of there. But yeah, I was like, oh, well, maybe it's my good day for the day.

But I was like, you know, when you're off phone, you're like, please don't say yes. Yeah. And they're like, yeah, you know. Well, yesterday I got to the end of it. I was like, well, I guess that thing's staying in there for the rest of his life.

I'll just leave it in that room even when we have to move out. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. Now, Jono, we're on a mission right now. Thanks to you to get the attention of quite possibly the world's biggest star. All right, here we go. Over 58 blockbuster movies.

I am the Calvary. Over 200 million Instagram followers. I got the greatest fans in the world's biggest star. Alright, here we go. Over 58 blockbuster movies. I am the Calvary. Over 200 million Instagram followers. I got the greatest fans in the world. Over 900 kilograms of protein powder. 199!

He's one of the world's biggest stars. Please welcome Dwayne The Rock Johnson! Dwayne Johnson. Dwayne The Rock Johnson. For 10 years, Dwayne The Rock Johnson

has been Ben the Pebble Voices hero. Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Dwayne the Rock Johnson. Dwayne the Rock Johnson. Why do you keep crying during any scene that The Rock and Kevin Hart are in? He inspires me. And now, in association with www.johnopriorproductions.co.nz,

Ben will take his unhealthy fascination with Dwayne the Rock Johnson to a whole new level. A level that may result in restraining orders and news articles in the odd news sections of some websites. Yes, it's Ben's dream to be featured on Dwayne The Rock Johnson's Instagram account. And he used to say when he was a wrestler, can you smell what The Rock is cooking? And what I can smell right now is burnt toast. So I may be on the verge of a stroke, but I can also, speaking of strokes, we've got an ego to stroke. It's your ego, Ben,

and getting you on the Instagram account, we've got two bottles of Dwayne's tequila. Yeah, and every Tuesday he posts on his Instagram videos or photos of people enjoying his tequila around the world in some sort of unusual, well, sometimes an unusual way, and other times just enjoying their tequila in a kitchen or something, right, Patricia Juliet?

Yeah, yeah. Some of them are quite normal, but then some of them you see there on a ski field skiing and having some tequila and lots of luxury locations. So, yeah, he's a busy guy, you know. He's filming movies. He's motivating people. He's snorting protein powder or whatever he does.

So we've only got one chance to get his attention. We've got to brainstorm a beautiful stunt for you to be involved in and for some reason the team of 5 million, they're behind you. This is the most popular thing we've ever done. So many texts and suggestions about what you can do came through. Have you caught the flight down to the glaciers

in South Westland or a hot air balloon out of Methan? So I heard someone suggest to get a full back tattoo of Dwayne Rock Johnson. That was John Irma said no. What about just a cute little heart somewhere special on your body that just says Dwayne Johnson?

Whip off one of your shoes, take a knee and do a shooie. The classic Kiwi shooie. So that's what's coming. And a load on the texts as well. Some really good ones. There's a lot about you know sort of showcasing

Aotearoa one also going you know do we get Jacinda involved now that we've you know we got rid of COVID she's got nothing to do

so maybe she wants to get behind this campaign I don't know if she wants to be plugging a tequila drink on the internet for the hits you know

yeah but hey I can't speak for Jacinda Ardern so you know that's true we'll put it out tequila drink on the internet. For the hits. You know? Yeah. But hey, I can't speak for Justin or our dance. No, that's true. We'll put it out to her people. We'll reach out to her people. But anyway,

tomorrow we're going to announce what the stunt's going to be. What you're going to do to get his attention on social media. The hit's Breakfast on Instagram. You can nominate suggestions

there as well. And today, I've got a surprise for you. A lady who has been in the same room as Dwayne The Rock Johnson five times. Five times? Five times. She's sucked in the same oxygen as Dwayne The Rock. She caught a cold off him.

They were that close. She's going to give us some advice on how we could get his attention. Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone. It's New Zealand's Breakfast. Jono and Ben on the hits. Scrolling through your feed. Alright, he's turned up to deliver the news that our newsreader Rachel

Jackson-Lees is far too professional to read. Benjamin Ross Boyce, what's happening? Scrolling. Oh yeah, what have I heard about this. A remarkable story of a three-year-old boy in New Zealand. His name is Axel. He was found alive and well after 22 hours missing.

3.5km from his home near Tolaga Bay. He wandered off Tuesday about 1 o'clock with the neighbour's dog. I think they went for a bit of a walk and he was just wearing shark gumboots, a nappy and a t-shirt. That's my favourite outfit too. Yeah.

And survived overnight. Through the night. Just an incredible, I mean when you hear the beginning of these stories on the news, you're like, oh you think the worst, don't you? Yeah. You really do. I'm sure his parents are in the same mindset, but far out. What a happy ending. What an amazing tale of survival.

What did he do, sleep in a bush or something? Oh, yeah, I think he said he slept in a tree, I think. I think before 7 o'clock, producer Humphries has managed to track down someone involved with the story. So we'll find out some more details before 7. Thank you for that vague tease. Someone involved with the story.

What, like the person who printed the newspaper? Someone involved with the story. Someone, like the person who printed the newspaper? Someone involved with the story. Someone who made the gumboots. No, no, I think it's someone. The shark gumboot manufacturer joins us just before seven. Yeah, so that's before seven o'clock. We've spoken a little bit about this recently, about a couple sleeping in separate beds.

Well, now there's a sleeping expert overseas. We had a debate about this the other night. When I was, not the other night about this the other night. I was, not the other night, like you and me. I was like, you sleep with me. And you're like,

no, no, our relationship's beyond that now. We were talking about the other day on the show. Yeah. There was a couple who were pitching sleeping separately

and I was like, that spells the end of the relationship. All love is lost. UK doctor who's got a big following on social media as well. He reckons that

getting a sleep divorce is not a bad thing. In fact, it's a really good thing for people's sleep because everyone has different sleep cycles, trying to combine people going to sleep at the same time, body heat, snoring, all that sort of stuff. He reckons that forcing two people to share a bed is not great for either one of their sleep. So that's really interesting.

Tell you what it's not great for. You're washing. You're washing two sets of bed sheets every time you need to wash those. And making two lots of beds, where do you go? If I want a passionate embrace, okay, with Ben, where do we go?

Do we have a neutral ground? I don't know. I guess that's all part of the thing. People might... The pantry? Oh, God. Yeah, but he said that the couples that he has talked to that have followed this are loving it.

So, yeah, so there you go. Oh, no, listen, if it works for you, it works for you. I mean, we spoke before, too. We know a dear friend of ours who's got completely separate bank account to her partner and they like she'll be like oh I want to go on holiday

and he's like well I can't afford it she's like we'll see you later then we'll go off on holiday on her own wow and they're happy

they're happy they can buy what they want and they can do what they want and are they just flatmates who knows they're proud of New Zealand

go New Zealand if only New Zealand was proud of them Jono and of New Zealand. Go New Zealand! If only New Zealand was proud of them. Chano and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Bye.

Thanks to HP who have launched Instant Ink, New Zealand's first at-home ink subscription service. Okay, Julie, it's ready to deep dive into the sloppy trough

of mess that the celebrities have left behind from their shambolic highfalutin lives. What's happening, Ju? So Kim Kardashian is voicing a character in the Paw Patrol movie. Now this was announced a while

ago, but the first images of the dog that she's going to be voicing have been released. It's a little dog called Dolores. Is it the Kim Kardashian dash hound? Oh, that is genius! What sort of dog is it? It's a white poodle with a very fluffy sort of head, if that makes sense. Very Kim Kardashian-like.

Like, you'd expect her dog to look like that. But the voice of a dog, when you think of Kim Kardashian's voice, this is what I think of. My earring's gone! Oh, my God, I'm going to cry if I open it. So imagine her, that voicing a little poodle. Is it an entire season? Is it one episode? Is it a cameo? It's a movie.

So this is the Paw Patrol movie, yeah. So this is the first one. And so she's been cast as a little poodle pup, which is quite cool. Listen, if you were to play any animated character, what would you go? Ben, you already do. What's that? You've got pack and save ads. You did the Stickman commercial.

It's actually not a cartoon. It's actually just Ben. I'm the actual, yeah, that's me on screen, but it's not the voice, so I didn't get to the voicing part. Mr Burns from The Simpsons for me. Oh, yeah. I'd probably go Patrick from SpongeBob.

I think he's quite funny. You know the starfish? Oh, yeah. Yes, yes. The pink starfish. Yeah. He's quite a character. We met a guy the other day

who, he voices for commercial characters, doesn't he? Yeah. All over here in Australia. Yeah. Just does it from his bedroom. I know.

It'd be fun, wouldn't it, to be animated as an animated character? Yeah. Hey, Kim Kardashian, she's definitely, like I was saying before,

definitely doing that for brownie points with the kids. Yeah, totally. They're like, I could probably get on that show. They're like, whatever, mum. They've made a whole feature-length movie for her. And after Bill Gates' divorce, it's been very quickly

have parody fake Tinder accounts for Bill Gates come up on the dating app. I love it that the world is getting so much joy out of Bill Gates' marriage breakdown. Honestly, people are sliding into the DMs, making fake Tinder accounts. People are saying in some of the bios for these fake Tinder accounts, I can give you an exclusive third dose of the COVID vaccine. And then someone saying, I'm still rich, likes Office 365, vaccines,

boring girls without personalities, like just a bunch of amusing things on Tinder under Bill Gates' name. Do you wonder if he's going to date again? How old is he? Oh, is he 65, I think? 65. He's 65. Get back in the dating game.

He's got plenty more years ahead of him. Yeah. Where do you start dating at age 65? They need a boomer Tinder. Like a Tinder for boomers. Yeah, they do. There's probably something out there, isn't there? I was just trying to think there, bro.

You hear a lot of couples meeting online, so I wonder what, yeah. But also, at that age maybe, there's probably a smaller pool of single people. So people who know single people who are of the older demographic might be like, oh, I know this lady who's a friend of a friend who might be into you, so it could be set up like that. Or he might go DiCaprio

on it. Might take it back a few decades. True. Sort of settle around there. I always think it's a bit odd when there's like your dad or your friend's parents who are, you know, they're single but they end up dating

people younger than, you know, I've got a mate whose dad is dating someone younger than him. It happens. Wow, that is bizarre. Yeah, it's their own.

I mean, you know, I just think, why should I judge that situation? Yeah. You know, they're happy. Not hurting anyone. Totally.

It's all good. Totally. And that is Spy. For more, you can head to thehitstruckco.nz. What if they are hurting people and they accidentally open the door on someone? Well, yeah, in that situation, maybe I'm judging.

Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the Hits. The Hits. Before we wrap up the show, an amazing story just reading out of Morocco. A lady gave birth to nine babies. Oh, my God. This was made for commercial radio fodder. Nine

baby. All at once. They all came out at once. Yeah, so it's the first time on record that a woman has given birth to... Is this lady a dog and are they puppies? No, she's a lady. Nine babies surviving all good and the mother's all good at the moment. Birthed by C-section and beaten the world

record, which was eight previously. It's like a litter of children. They thought they had seven babies. They were going to have seven babies, and then they obviously, oh, there's two more in here. That's crazy. Literally, the car that you arrived at the hospital in, you'd have to buy a new vehicle to leave the hospital.

You're right. Five girls, four boys, and their mother all doing really well. So that's wonderful news, but jeez, nine babies all at once. Do you know my only one of the few facts I know, Ben, is that, you know, when you... The margarita pizza? Oh, that's a wonderful fact.

Do you want me to tell the margarita pizza fact? Oh, if you have to. I have to now. The margarita pizza, you got your red tomato sauce, you got your white cheese, and you got your green leaves on top. And the person who invented the pizza at the time was Italian, and he made it for the Queen of Italy. That was one fact.

And my other fact I know, my other fact I know is that, you know when you call things like triplets or quintuplets for five, I know what a group of nine is. Do you know what a group of nine is? Well, how did you know? It's like you were ready for this story. I don't know why. I don't know why I know this. This of nine is Do you know what a group of nine is? Well how do you know? It's like you were ready for this story I don't know why

I don't know why I know this This has never been done before No No nads No Why would I make that up? No Why would I come on here?

Juliet, Google it No It's a group of no nads No it's not What an odd line of comedy to go down No If I was making this up No It's a no dad No It's no nuplets Oh thank you What an odd line of comedy to go down if I was making this up. No.

It's a no, Dad. No, it's no nuplets. Oh, thank you. So there you go. You just want to get your smutty comedy on the radio. It's no, Dad. And we're better than that on the radio station. Hold on, Groot. No, mate.

You've got 10 seconds. You better Google fast. No, Dad. No. It's not. All right. We'll catch you guys tomorrow. We've got some seconds, all right? You'd better Google fast. No, Ned. No. It's not. All right, we'll catch you guys tomorrow. We've got some debating to do. Have a great day, New Zealand.

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