Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - TV presenter James McOnie met the internet viral Australian breakdancer!

Episode Date: August 11, 2024

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The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. Bonjour mes amis, ça va? Ah, you lost us there, mate. Oui, oui, oui, oui. Au revoir. I was so going to talk to you now. Can I just say, what a wonderful job you've done over the last couple of weeks, as have all the reporters over there for Sky Sport, Crowd Goes Wild.

But what I loved last night on Crowd Goes Wild, a parody song that James McConaughey, you sung a parody song on the Olympics. I was trying to find it before, but you're going to have to sing the chorus acapella right now, James. Oh, right. The old Paris, Paris.

Who's had luck in Paris? Nice, nice. And then you got athletes as well too. You're New Zealand athletes. Who had had luck in Paris? Who won gold medals you've got athletes as well too, your New Zealand athletes. Who had luck in Paris who won gold medals? To Mal the Long as well. I mean, that's high concept. You're never sure if they're going to go,

actually, I don't want to be part of this. Usually they've won a medal, so they're on this high and they don't know what they're agreeing to. Catch them at a weak moment. Paris, Paris, who's had luck in Paris? It's great. It's great. Love it, love it. I felt like we got a lacklustre performance just then, though moment. Paris, Paris. Who's had luck in Paris? It's great. Yeah, that's great. Love it, love it.

I felt like we got a lacklustre performance just then, though, from you, James. Okay. Yeah, you did. You did. It's been a long couple of weeks, the Olympics. I'm actually, I'm really genuinely going to miss it. I've loved watching it.

And it's been our greatest Olympics ever for New Zealand. So many highlights. You've been there to witness them. I mean, it's probably hard to pick one, but pick one or two of your favourite highlights. Look, I actually think for me that one of the big highlights was seeing the skateboard park, the men's final, and got to interview Tony Hawk.

Oh, that's easy. I'll go to him. Yeah, Tony Hawk. There you go. So we're back, Jono. We're back. We're back. Yeah, we're back. What go. So we're back, Jono. We're back. We're back. Yeah, we're back.

What did you ask Tony Hawk? Just the usual shites. Like I sort of just did that thing where he was really supposed to be walking past. He was with his wife. And I sort of dragged and pulled him away, pulled him off in front of his wife. In front of his wife. And said, look, what did you think of the final? And how about skateboarding being in the Olympics

and all that sort of stuff and then gave him the, you're still the GOAT, Tony, I love you so much. Oh, that's nice. It must be hard not to sort of fanboy out in front of some of these people. I know in the past you've had Kobe Bryant in the previous Olympics

and you asked him why there weren't many cats around or something. Yeah, no, I just thought there weren't many. I hadn't seen many. You know, you just notice those things sometimes. Wee-wee. It was probably a waste of a question. Beijing.

I was in Beijing. I was in Beijing. Kobe Bryant, legendary basketballer. Had he noticed the lack of cats? Yeah, he was like, I'm not quite sure, man. Like this. And I went, yeah, same. You know, like, yeah, it's a real mystery to me, Kobe.

And now he's gone I'll never be able to find it you know like give him the second chance of asking him any more questions but I actually I interviewed my biggest interview of the Olympics honestly is interviewing Ray Gunn the Australian breakdancer who she broke the internet as well. She has gone viral after her writhing kind of Kath and Kim-like performance in the women's breakdancing. Yeah, I feel sorry for her, you know, because everyone's sort of piled on, as the internet does, they're piled on.

But she looked like she was having fun out there. She spoke really well, I thought, in her interview with you. Yeah, I mean, she feels like she has a place here and she was legit. I actually thought it might have been a plant, like someone who decided to just come in and take the piss. I mean, you realise when you're laughing at someone's routine that it's probably not what you're

supposed to be, the reaction you're supposed to be getting. She was in a full Aussie track suit. She looked like a lawn bowler and she was kind of... But I know what you're saying. I didn't like the pile on either. No.

It was always going to happen when you saw what she was doing. There were a couple of kangaroo moves. She looked to be like mopping the floor with her head. Yeah, it was just stuff where she almost got stuck on the ground for a bit as well. I was thinking the same thing. This is like a genius Borat moment where someone has gone through the qualifying stages to get to the Olympics, and they're going to reveal their prank video. Well, apparently she won the Oceania Championship,

so she deserved a place there as well. Yeah, as I say, I don't know if she deserved the pylon, but anyway. Yeah, the pylon's not good. And she qualified, right? What was New Zealand doing? Why didn't we send Reza? I mean, there's lots of reasons.

We could have sent Scott Robinson. You're right. Yeah. What were we thinking? Send Razor. So New Zealand's best Olympics overall. It felt like we started slow, James, and then in the end we really brought home a lot of medals.

Yeah, we came home strong. And I think this week, just looking at, obviously the goat in the boat, Dame Lisa Carrington, that's huge. Lids to the co, just dropping the mic and saying, that's my last Olympics. I've won gold. You can have this. I mean, golf shouldn't really be at the Olympics, right? They've already got, you know, four majors a year, five in women's golf. So they've, but the fact that Lids...

Now's not the time to be saying that, James. We just won gold. Leave, keep it there. No, she's finishing now. So we can, we women's golf. So they've, but the fact that now's not the time to be saying that James, we just want gold. Leave, keep it there. No, she's finishing now. So we can, we can cancel golf.

You can have golf back. Yeah, you can have it back now. We don't need that. So, um, there was lids. And then,

I mean, Hamish Kerr, freakish to win that high jump gold medal. We've never seen, I mean, athletics gold is really hard to come by unless you're Jamaican or something. But for New Zealand, it's just,

you just don't often see it. I mean, we've had horses that have jumped really high at the Olympics in one gold, but never humans. So, and how do you rank your Olympics? Was this James McConey's best Olympics ever? Oh no, it remains to be seen. I think that like, there's one of those Olympics where you just, you look back at the others

and I think, when I was purely with Crowd Goes Wild, we just basically went wherever we wanted to and went oh, Mahe's rowing today, let's go see what Mahe's doing. Whereas this year I was more part of the Sky broadcast and doing a lot of sort of live crosses and

having to be pretty sensible. So maybe is it my most sensible Olympics? I like that. He was weighed down by the shackles of proper presenting. Yeah, yeah. You've got to do the proper thing. Do what you've got to do to get the trip, Jono. Well, well done till you got the trip.

Okay, away from the Olympics, James Bocconi's highlight. Was it a meal? Was it seeing something else? What did you see? Okay, I shouldn the Olympics, James Bocconi's highlight. Was it a meal? Was it seeing something else? What did you see? Okay, I shouldn't even share this, but my mate, who's done reasonably well, he said to me, do you want to come out for dinner? And I said, oh, yeah, cool. He goes, it's a Michelin star restaurant, and the meal, the set menu,

is €680 per person. Jesus. So it was at €1,200. And I said, nah, I'm good, mate. 180 euros per person. Jesus. So it was that 1,200 euros. And I said, nah, I'm good, mate. I'll just go down to the canal and have a pizza like I normally do. So he goes, nah, I'll mosh out. So I went to this degustation dinner at this fancy, fancy restaurant.

We're eating weird stuff. Obviously, this is the caviar sort of thing. But nettle, just bizarre foods. Nettle, like stinging plant. Yeah, I think so. But I mean, I don't know. There was just all sorts of stuff going on. Aloe vera, we were eating.

It's just bizarre. It feels like the more you pay, the more strange the food combos. It is, yeah. So we're just eating all these weird plants that you're putting in much weeds and stuff. But you have to say that you like it. It was a €2,000 meal just of weeds. Hopefully the roundup wasn't still on the weeds. They'd walk a little. James McCartney, so good to catch up.

Well done to you and the rest of the team. Amazing coverage over the last couple of weeks. It's going to be the Olympic comedown for all of us after such a great event, and we'll catch up with you soon. I'd love that. Thank you for having me on your show for the first time in probably seven years.