Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - BONUS: Patrick Gower On Swearing On National TV.

Episode Date: September 21, 2022

We chat to Paddy Gower about his experiences over the last week in London!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, with a bonus podcast from Jono and Ben. The Queen's funeral has been making world news and also making news over there from News Hub, literally making news, reporting for News Hub as Paddy Gower, but also making news for, well, it sounded like he was swearing next to Jacinda Ardern that was caught on microphone and went around the world. And he joins us now from the UK. Good morning, Paddy Gower. Hey guys, hello from London town. You're in Notting Hill at the moment. What a gorgeous movie Notting Hill was.

Yeah, gorgeous movie and a gorgeous pub. Just jumped out of the Prince Bonaparte where I was in there having a pint of water. Now Paddy Gower, because Paddy, your last documentary was Paddy Gower on booze and during the documentary you gave up on booze.

Do you feel a lot of pressure when you walk into a place like a pub? Are all eyes on you? Yeah, listen, especially in London, you know, anybody who's been over here knows how strong the pub culture is, and I was in a pub the other night and I asked for a 0% beer, and the guy had to go down into the basement. The basement of shame. Yeah, disappeared for about six minutes

and came up sort of shaking his head. He couldn't even find one down in the basement. So, yeah, it's pretty tricky, but it's all good, boys. Oh, well, it's good to see you still, Patagawa off booze, but Patagawa on cybercrime. That's coming out next week. Very excited about that, Paddy Gower. Yeah, I'm looking forward to my next one,

and it's been Paddy Gower on the Queen or on the King or Paddy Gower on London. I don't know. Paddy Gower on swearing, some people would say. Well, yeah, Paddy, some footage emerged yesterday. The Prime Minister came out of her hotel and she was greeting the media. You were part of the media scrum.

She walked off and you had this to say. Helped me do that. All right, thank you, everyone. They do know her. That was Jacinda Ardern. You dropped an F-bomb. It went live. The mics were still hot, as they say.

Yeah, yeah. I do honestly think that I said far out. I really do. We'll have a listen back on the replay just to confirm. But what happened before the F-bomb was a big group had gathered outside Jacinda Ardern's hotel and you know because they could see the bodyguards and some cameras

and all of this stuff and I was thinking you know they think it's a royal or something and they're going to be disappointed when they find out that it's the Prime Minister from little old New Zealand and when she did come out to see on that clip they all knew who she was they gave her a massive cheer.

And I was surprised. And I was thinking in my head, oh, they do know who she is. Far out. But actually, I didn't say far out. And I said it on live TV. And I can't think it back. Yeah, no, when you said you were thinking about it, you were definitely saying it out of your mouth.

And we all heard it. I, you were definitely saying it out of your mouth, and we all heard it. I know, I definitely said it. It was very inconvenient for my boss to be the one who informed me that it had happened. She was ringing up to say, what a great job I'd done, and she was ringing up to say, do you realise what you just said?

Well, it's awesome, but it is a great reminder of what an ambassador Jacinda is for New Zealand though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So yeah, she is a great reminder of what an ambassador Jacinda is for New Zealand, though. Yeah, so yeah, she is a great ambassador for New Zealand, and I'm a great ambassador for swearing. And just yesterday, those two things happened to me. Well, I thought you did a marvellous job, F-bombs aside. Something else that we read about as well,

you may have stolen something off the Queen at some stage. Yeah, I'm having a bad run, aren't I, with my bad language. I stole a teacup off the Queen and a saucer. I went to Buckingham Palace when I was a young fella to one of her garden parties. She has a garden party every summer

and, you know, being quite experienced at that point in stealing road cones, you know, I'd stolen sort of good sort of 50 road cones i guess by that stage um you know i just moved on to the queen's cups and saucers and and i stole a plain white without even any insignia on it um and cup and the same with the saucer a pointless theft um much like much like road cone thefts. I've apologised to the Queen for that as well, so it's been a double apology along with a swearing.

Now, because a cup and a saucer, that's not a slide it into your pocket situation. They're going down the front of your trousers, how are you getting them out of the building? Well, the cup went in the jacket pocket because I had a jacket on, but yeah, you're quite right with the saucer, it was just a matter of down the back of the

trousers and don't sit down until you get it home kind of scenario. It was the old down the back of the trousers trick. Did you put this in the dishwasher? Is it hand washed? Do you even drink tea out of it?

I keep it up in my attic. I don't even use it. I don't think I've bothered washing it since the day I had it down the back of my pants, mate. Justin Bieber came into the TV studio

and Ben held on to his half-drunken water bottle for three days and then he pulled himself out of it. That's weird. It was weird.

I was like, why am I doing this? And that's how COVID got into New Zealand. It's like collecting Bieber's DNA or something. why we're doing this. And that's how COVID got into New Zealand. Collecting Bieber's DNA or something. Hey, Paddy Gower, it's great to talk to you, mate. I'm Paddy Gower on Cybercrime.

We can't wait to watch it next week. Yeah, no more swearing in it either, guys. I don't swear.