Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Ben's At-Home Roller Skating Restaurant

Episode Date: October 10, 2021

Lockdown in Auckland has reached new levels in the Boyce household. Ben's daughters went to the lengths of creating an at-home roller skating restaurant. Were there injuries? Have a listen to find out!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Heads with Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. Well over the weekend I was getting involved in more wholesome activities, so that's what I do, better person of the show. Actually over the weekend, yeah, because we're over 50 days now of lockdown in Auckland, and yeah, sure we've got picnics. A lot of picnics. Gee whiz, driving around you can sort of see that, you know, when they said all go for picnics, people went all go for picnics.

Never seen so much picnicking in my life. Even when the weather was very changeable, people were like, we're going to picnic because we can. It's the only thing we're allowed to do. Sit on a blanket. At home over the weekend, my daughters, Sienna and Indy, they were like, hey, we want to put on like a hotel and a restaurant for my wife and I, for Amanda and I. I was like, oh, that's a nice thing. So they wanted to do this. So even got to the role play of us having to get bags and go outside and come back in

and knock on your own front door, which was weird. Did you have to pack your suitcases? Well, they were empty suitcases. You never know what to pack when you go away. So you would have... But you see people walking down the street going, they can't be turning up at someone else's house. The narc line would have been open.

Bursting their bubble. But the girls, as we opened the door, what I didn't realise for the hotel and restaurant that my daughters were putting on was they decided to put it on, which is lovely. It was an awesome thing, but they were doing it on roller skates. That was the gimmick of the hotel and also restaurant.

All the staff were on roller skates. She's insurance premiums for this place must be through the roof. In theory, not a good idea because very nerve wracking like having them serve food, having them like prepare food. I'm like, this is just, yeah, it's a very bad business model, but

they persisted with it. She's, they must have an ACC case manager and an entire team just for this hotel and the injury claims they get from the roller skating hotel slash restaurant. Were there injuries? It was very close. I mean, they're very good on roller skates but carrying putting food and then i'm you know i was getting drinks as a patron of the hotel you were concerned i was getting involved i was like why is this guy so concerned about our cutlery and glassware well are you gonna smash that

he's just a guest he's a guest. It means nothing to him. So I kind of stopped the role play after a while. But it did remind me of you and I, Jono. We actually were in America when we went there once for filming. Remember we went to an actual, it was like a roller skating diner. Diner, yeah. Yeah, it was one of those old scores. And we got to be servers for the night on roller skates.

Oh, you were on the roller skates? Yeah, they let us be servers for a teamy thing. Oh, my goodness. And to join in the team, you're like, oh skates yeah we got to yeah they let they let us be servers for a team oh my goodness and and to join in the team you're like oh we're spilling food yeah that lady yeah and she was like it's all right it's all right and i was just yeah it wasn't all right it was an entire milkshake over her lap oh my goodness and it wasn't i could did not do it on purpose because i could tell you didn't do it on purpose for tv, my gosh. I can tell you didn't do it on purpose for TV. You know, like, I'm like, oh, he didn't mean to do that. Yeah. And...

Shit. And... It was like you were transported back in time to Grease Lightning, the movie, weren't you? That place. Even the people were like... Yeah. That's who they were. Right.

The sun was like, hey, how you been? How you going? And this Italian guy with a just swerving, tight black T-shirt and all his babes. He had a harem of ladies with him. It was just one guy. He was outnumbered eight to one. And they were all sitting in a booth and he was kind of like the owner's son.

Hey, hey. He had the guns. And she was a hardworking Italian lady. The mother, she was wonderful, wasn't she? She was. She was like, hey, sugar, come here. Give me a kiss on the cheek and sort of slap you on the tush. But you could tell after you spilled that milkshake on the people. Things turned. They were like, uh-oh, come here, and give me a kiss on the cheek and sort of slap you on the tush. But you could tell after you spilt that milkshake on the people.

Things turned. They were like, uh-oh, we shouldn't have let these guys come in the roller skating restaurant. And it reminded me of that over the weekend. Well, to be fair, you shouldn't have a roller skating restaurant. More importantly. And then idiots from TV shows in New Zealand wouldn't call you trying to be part of it.

That's what I told the kids too. I was like, hey, you shouldn't be doing this. A lot of ACC claims. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from sex on The Hits and via the iHeartRadio app. Jono and Ben on The Hits Breakfast. Friends of Skinny.