Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Jono goes rogue and gives away too many $20 notes

Episode Date: July 5, 2022

We made it to Wellington on our $20 Tour. Hear our adventures and stories from people we met along the way. Someone walked dog poo into the hotel, Producer B Humps is taking on Elvis' evil manager vibes working Jono and Ben hard on this tour and we chat with Emmy Award winning Actress Amy Brenneman about her new movie 'The Old Man' new on Disney+ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Welcome, Kia ora, it's the podcast. 6th of July, it's a Wednesday. We're in the middle of Wellington City as we speak, Ben. Yeah, we're on the $20 tour, taking some money to Karen, $20 Karen. That's our end mission. Because it involves Karen and cafes each day, I thought we could do the Karen speak to the manager segment on the podcast

and speak to the manager of the cafe, as a Karen would do. Now, Emily, welcome. Your role in Dillinger's, this wonderful cafe? Yes, yes, yes, I'm the manager segment on the podcast and speak to the manager of the cafe as a Karen would do. Now, Emily, welcome. Your role in Dillinger's, this wonderful cafe? Yes, yes, yes. I'm the manager here. You're the manager. I'd like to speak to the manager and that's you. That is me.

Do you get like, how do you deal with a complaint? With a smile on your face, really. Kill them with kindness. Yeah. Is it the customer is always right situation? Give and take. It kind of just depends. You make them think sometimes that they're right.

Yeah. I've never complained. No, it's not a very New Zealand thing to do. Oh, you'd be surprised. Really? What is the most tedious complaint you've received working in a cafe? Something like, for example, if they have a really, really complicated order, like half strength, extra foam, coconut milk, all all that stuff i'm sorry about that oh i'm sorry that's just how i like my coffee i told you that i told you that in time but i was too scared to complain and so they all complain about the littlest thing that's not on the not all the time you know once every few weeks or something like that but like oh can i just get a little extra foam a little extra vanilla and you know just little things like that so yeah you're like mate it's you know at the end of the day, it's all just going down to the same place.

I've just got on the Piccolo bandwagon. Oh, so good. That's a good one. But I get mocked for it. I get, like Ben says, I get moccaccinoed for it. Because it just comes in a tiny little child cup. Yeah, especially the takeaway one. The takeaway one comes in a little.

We don't even have lids for those ones here because they're so small. No one wants them. Yeah, it's a pain when I buy them a coffee. Now, this morning, we're very busy here in Wellington. Now, we were a little worried because we got here early, early, and we're like, oh, this, you know, it's centre of town. Maybe people aren't going to come. It was so busy.

Yeah, it definitely picks up because I think a lot of the trains don't even run that early in the morning. So, you know, about 6, 15, 7 o'clock, everyone starts coming into the city and it gets a lot busier. I've been given our receipt. That is about 20 metres long, this receipt. How many coffees did we hand out? That's a big receipt.

We gave a lot of coffees away this morning, didn't we? Yeah, you did. What's the total number of all the coffees there, Ben? What's the price at the bottom there? What does it say? Well, let's not go too much into detail with the price. Let's just say that... Why are you being moody about the price?

The boss won't be super happy with how many hundreds of hundreds of dollars we have spent on coffees this morning. Yeah, he's like, let's not get into details about the price. He's getting all shady about the price. Well, yeah, wasn't it? Yeah. Oh, no, it's just hundreds of dollars. Yeah, but we'll put the receipt on our social media this morning so you can see how long it is.

This is the price of you wanting to be popular, mate. Yeah. Having a paper. If this is what it takes to be popular, I don't know if I want to be popular anymore. Now, Emily, do I detect a wonderful Irish accent? No, I'm not Irish. I am Canadian. Canadian?

How'd you get, like... I was so off the mark. I get that all the time. You couldn't be further off the mark. Now, really, I don't know how I ended up in Ireland, but anyway. You Canadians, wonderful people. Sound a lot like the Irish, don't they? Drake, Bieber, some great Canadians. YouTube, Bono, wonderful people. They sound a lot like the Irish, don't they? Drake, Bieber, some great Canadians.

YouTube, Bono, you know. Wayne Gretzky is a good one as well. Now, are there a lot of similarities, though? Don't they say Canadians and New Zealanders are very similar? Oh, definitely, completely so, yeah. Where are you from in Canada? I'm from British Columbia. Oh, yeah, you've been over there, Ben.

I've been to Toronto. I enjoyed some Tim Hortons and some ice hockey in Toronto. I miss Tim Hortons so much. Tim Hortons is like the coffee brand, the iconic coffee brand that's everywhere. And even Justin Bieber does like collabs with them and stuff too, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. It's huge.

It's a huge thing over there. Timmy Hortons. You go for Timmy's and get a coffee? Do you know Justin Bieber? No, no, no. I wish I did. What I found confusing is like because in Toronto, obviously the malls are all underground because it's quite cold. over there in winter and so we went into this mall underground

thinking we'll walk across the road and we'll get there underground because obviously up top it's quite cold we walked around for about 25 30 minutes we came back up in the same place where we were it's just like a rabbit lab right under there we haven't got any further along we're trying to go but some amazing shops all underground. Oh, yeah, it's amazing. And Toronto, I've actually never been to Toronto. But I've stopped, like, on the way there. But I've never been. But I've heard amazing things.

What I love, too, going there as well, because you go from, we drove from America to Toronto. It's all, like, miles, miles on the sign. Get to Toronto, it's back to kilometers, kilometers, such and such. And I'm like, oh, it's like New Zealand. I understand how far that distance is from this distance. So, yeah, it was good. So, yeah, Canadians and New Zealanders both work in kilometres. Yeah, well, and I think, you know, they're very similar in the sense of, like,

I feel like New Zealanders are very much laid back in the same way as Canadians, but New Zealanders take it to a completely different level. Of being laid back? Are we too lazy here? No, not lazy. Just everyone's relaxed. Like, you know, like, even walking down the street in the city, everyone's all la-di-da.

Everyone's relaxed. I'm not. He's not. She just met you. She knows you're a ball of anxious stress. It's me. Maybe he's carrying the whole country's stress. The weight of the nation. I wouldn't even read out

how much we spend on coffee. It's too much. Yeah. Well, thank you so much for having us here. It's an amazing cafe. Incredible food and coffee. So thank you for having us. It was awesome this morning.

Anytime. Happy to have you guys. And you look after those leprechauns, okay? I'll do my best. I try. Yeah. Enjoy the rest of the podcast.

A lot of fun this morning coming to you on the $20 tour from Wellington. Jono and Ben's $20 tour. Two men are on a mission to pay off their outstanding debt. We're on the $20 tour. We've made our way to Wellington today. We're at Dillinger's on Lampton Quay Cafe this morning

where we're giving away free coffee if you want to come down and see us, plus your chance to spin the $20 wheel and give away some cash. Suck back on free caffeine, suck back on a free $20 note, come down to Dillies. Now, what's happened, Ben Boyce, is we're in a little bit of financial strife, which we'll get to shortly, handing out $20 notes.

But in the meantime, we'll just recap day one of the adventure of the $20 tour. Ben, we're in a camper van. Day one. We managed to rip the door here. Was that a fit of rage? He wasn't in a fit of rage. Stopped off in the Waikato.

Wonderful Colin Craig Brown. He was like, this could be the world's biggest potato. When we dragged him out of the ground he was 7.9 kilos and they said it's a choco maracas or something or other else's. We thought it was a big potato. We heard about robot waiters. Yeah, Colin, Colin, do I have to do it? Here I potato. We heard about robot waiters at Covent Co in Rotorua.

Here I am. You're a fearless friend. Anyway, I got talking to the manager of Covent Co afterwards. People come from all over the country to see them. How did the annual performance reviews go? I broke some apparently road trip rules by falling asleep. Sir John Kirwan, welcome. I've got three rules.

No passing of wind. Do not talk to me before 10am. I don't want to see you or look at you. The third thing is, is it a sausage roll or pie? That's the only big decision you need to make for lunch. You know, you look back around to the wind issue at the beginning once you've had those. Someone else has just won $20, spinning a $20 bill. What's your name, mate?

Logan. I'm also not happy for our budget, Logan. We're giving away too much money today. Yeah, I know. A lot of 20 bucks. I know. And throughout the whole country. I know, Logan.

What are we doing? So there we go. Well, thanks to Aaron Watkinson, our production engineer. Hans Zimmer-like audio presentation there. I'm sorry. I don't quite get that reference. Isn't Hans Zimmer like a movie sound guy? Oh, make me.

I was like... I always see Hans Zimmer's name on there. Dolby Digital Surround Sound. Jeez. And that was up there with that. Someone needs to sleep. Hey, the $20 toy, as we said before, we're at Wellington today. Dillinger's, Lantan Key, we're here until 9 o'clock.

Hans Zimmer will be popping down. Go grab a free coffee, spin the wheel, win some cash. Someone can play for $5,000 at 7.45 when we play a game, five words for 5K. But if you're listening right now as well, you're like, well, how can I win? We'll use a lot of $20 notes to be won over the phones this morning as well as Harry-style tickets at 8 o'clock. Why don't we give away one now, Ben? I know it's not scheduled.

Oh, 800 of the hits. Oh, 800 of the hits. You call right now. Joel, are you on top of this back in Auckland, mate? All good, mate. All good. I tell you, Han Simmer would be on top of it, wouldn't he? He would.

Just go to a random phone call, Joel, and we're going to give them $20. That's how loose this show is. Is anyone actually calling? Yeah, we've got a caller coming through right now. Yeah, we'll put them on here, mate. Chuck them on. They're live. They're on.

Who's this? Hey, how's it going? How are you, mate? You sound shady AF. Yeah, good. Great to have you on, buddy? Hey, how's it going? How are you, mate? You sound shady, don't you? Yeah, good. Great to have you on, buddy. Hey, what's your name? Andy.

Andy, you just got 20 bucks, mate. Oh, awesome. Thank you. There you go. That's a great way to start your day, isn't it? Yeah, I reckon. What do you do, Andy? Nothing at the moment.

Just at home. I think he's being more ingenious. Anyway, that's fine. $20 coming your way. Have a great Tuesday. Thank you. Scrolling through your feed. All right, he's fuelled on coffee and anxiety.

This has been Boyce with News. Now, I said before the Queen refused to have a photo with her grandchild. What was the reason behind it? Yeah, you led me in to believe that she hates her grandchildren. So it's a wee bit of a clickbait. I got clickbaited this morning. So obviously Harry and Meghan went to the Queen's Jubilee and Queen Elizabeth got to meet her granddaughter, Lilibet, for the first time. And Prince Harry wanted to bring, you know, as you do, every time I want to meet family,

I want to bring my own official photographer to document the occasion. But the official photographer was denied, and everyone was like, oh, I was denied. What was going on? Did the Queen not want the photos used on, say, a Netflix special? Maybe that photographer doesn't hit dem angles that the Queen likes. High angle selfie. You know when you take a photo of your wife or something,

and they're like, put the camera up higher. High angle. Maybe the camera person wasn't doing that. Or maybe one, they go to take a photo, and you're like, oh, it's a video. something they're like put the camera up high angle maybe the camera person wasn't doing that or maybe one they go to take a photo and you're like oh it's a video maybe they're doing yeah they've had a couple of shockers in the past yeah or maybe people were worried as well you know maybe there was still a bit of bad blood between harry and megan and the queen well it seemed like her refusal to have it photographed the queen was because she had a really bad blood shot eye that day like a terrible bloodshot eye and And so she was like, hey, I'm not photo worthy. I can't, you know, maybe I will.

No one wants to see my manky eye. No, maybe an eye patch is not a great look for the queen, you know. Clear eyes? Could have squirted a couple of drops of clear eyes in. Maybe it didn't work. I can't put clear eyes in my eyes. You know I'm an eye guy. Don't like anything to do with eyes.

Well, you're not an eye guy, actually. You hate, yeah, yeah. I hate eyes. Yeah, do you? Yeah, I don't mind it. Do you put clear eyes in? Yeah, well, no, not, oh, here actually. You hate, yeah, yeah. I hate eyes. Yeah, do you? Yeah, I don't mind it. Do you put clear eyes in? Yeah, well, no, not, oh, here we go. No, I don't.

This is going to lead to something that you're going to go, yeah, of course you do, because you go and, you know, smoke the devil's lettuce or something. That's what you're going to do. So, no, I don't. And, no, that's the end of that conversation. Why are you shutting this down? What are you hiding?

Why are you so defensive? Oh, here we go. Hey, this is the 4th of July in the USA. You're paranoid for some reason. Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Champs happens on the 4th of July every year. So this is when men and women just eat an enormous amount of hot dogs and the buns as well over 10 minutes. And if you want to make yourself feel uneasy, watch this tournament.

They kind of dip the bread in water. So they slam soggy bread buns down and then just sort of, like don't even swallow the sausage, like don't even chew the sausage. Just boom, just shove the sausage down their esophagus. It's a hard watch. Tough to watch. Now Joey Jaws Chestnut he's won, he won his

15th title just on the 4th of July a couple of days ago. And he ate 63 hot dogs and buns and also overpowered a protester who came up on stage with like a Star Wars-themed protest. And in the end, he put him in the chokehold, slammed him to the ground.

While he's eating? While he's still eating. And then continued to eat more hot dogs. A lot of hot dogs. Last year, he ate 76 hot dogs and the buns as well. And how long, sorry? 10 minutes. We sent Nala Zissa, who's a competitive eater from New Zealand,

we sent her over for that competition. That's right, a few years ago, eh? And the competitive eating world, it's a whole subculture. There's some heroes in that world. She was saying what she didn't realise, because you're used to eating hot dogs and you're used to eating them hot, but because they've been sitting around and there's so many sitting around, they're quite cold.

It's not a cold dog competition, is it? Well, yeah. But she said that was a little harder to eat. A cold hot dog is a little harder to eat than a hot hot dog. Yeah. If that makes sense. Well, like, how does your body work that through? You'd feel awful for the next couple of hours, wouldn't you?

You'd be like, you won. You'd be like, oh, just. What emerges? Just one giant hot dog. We'd definitely take you some quickies after that. We're heading down the country on a $20 tour. You won. You got something. What emerges? Just one giant hot dog. We're definitely taking some quickies after that. We're heading down the country on a $20 tour. Now, we owe $20 Karen, $20 for a prize that we didn't send out.

And she's in Christchurch. And she's, you know, you don't want to not. You don't want to owe Karen $20, right? No. She's very strong-armed, isn't she, in getting her debts paid. And that's the end result. Along the way, we thought, well, let's apologise for everything we've done in the past and pay off people. Bribery cash. Handing out $20 bills to people.

They come in here, come down to Dilly's this morning, spin the wheel, you can win $20. Yeah, it's on Lampton Quay in Wellington this morning, so yeah, come see us. However, yesterday, Ben was starting to get a little nervous that I was being a bit of free and easy with the cash loosening the belt oh there was the people coming in we're just been aware what's meant to land on the the 20 to win and you're like another one another winner yeah so we're not getting a job as a carny mate we had to make an emergency stop at the bank used to unplanned have a listen outside the bank because what's happened okay it's after the first show yeah and it seems someone was a little frivolous with the cash being handed out you you we're on the $20 tour now we can't not have $20 to give to Karen we've got an allocated budget we've blown

it already we have to get more money out today day one it was basically walk into a cafe and we'll give you 20 bucks yeah we had a wheel and you were like ah yeah that landed on it no it didn't but you gave the money anyway which is lovely it's lovely and then it would come a family of four all spun the wheel and all one they walked out there with 80 dollars they fleeced us and i was just everyone i was like ben ah. Ben, I can feel the tension. It was building. It was building. With every victory, Ben's, there's a part of Ben's body just getting tighter and tighter.

Well, I'm worried because we have got to see $20 Karen and give her $20. Otherwise, we're going to get 20 whacks each. Yeah, that's 40 whacks. 40 whacks. That's a lot of whacking. Has she got it in her to deliver 40 whacks? I don't think so. Probably in installments or something.

We're like, yeah, label. We'll give you some now, we'll give you some later. So we need to make sure we keep money for Karen and not give away too much. But it's nice to give away the money. Yeah, I get it. Yeah, I know what you're saying. But there's a wheel for a reason.

Yeah, OK. The wheel needs to land in the favour of the house. And today it didn't. The casino lost, Ben. Yeah, no one wants to be a reason. Yeah, okay. The wheel needs to land in the favour of the house and today it didn't. The casino lost, Ben. Yeah, no one wants to be in the hole financially, Ben. I didn't want to be here but people liked me when I gave them $20. Yeah, yeah.

And that family loved you when you gave them $80. Made me feel good about myself. Who knew that's all I had to do? The Jono and Ben Podcast. The world's number one podcast. Please don't check those stats. There's a new drama thriller series starting next week on Disney+. It's called The Old Man.

It's based on a famous book by Thomas Peary. It stars the iconic Jeff Bridges, the Big Lebowski, and many other movies as well, as well as Amy Brenneman. And she joins us over Zoom right now. Hi. Hi. This is meant to be a work meeting. I don't know how we've ended up here.

Is your microphone on? No, no, it is. We're Jono and Ben from New Zealand. We've only got one microphone in New Zealand. That's a very small country. It's a small country. We've got one microphone and one internet camera, so we need to be quick.

Hey, really nice to meet you. This, of course course the series is based on a famous book old man by thomas perry be honest come on be honest did you read the book i did read the book no i read it i read it after i got the role but then i for zoe anyway i kind of tossed it out it was already so different you know amy's a professional actor of course she read the bloody book well there's a script she obviously has to read you know well no i mean sometimes i think steinberg john steinberg our writer said please don't read the book and then of course

if you tell me this is for the world to know if you tell me i can't do something i'm not supposed to do something i'm going to immediately do it i'm going to read the hell out of that book read the book i mean the series looks amazing it stars the iconic uh jeff bridges as well you know the big lebowski true grit iron man uh And he plays your husband in the show. But you guys had to delay for COVID. And then also he wasn't too well. He was not too well. No, no, we shot for about two and a half.

He plays my love interest, actually. Oh, sorry. You're like, you're just like hooking up, you know. You know him for the long term. I'm really taking things to the next level. I'm sorry about that. And then about six months later we reconvened with COVID protocols

and all that stuff and then heard that Jeff had lymphoma. Then he kind of sailed through that really well and then got COVID himself and that was the scary part. Jeez, what a machine

to power on through. I know, I know. Now he lives off the grid in the story. He's like going, he's gone away, he's retired the grid in the story. He's gone away. He's retired. He was in the CIA. Off the grid.

Did you ever think of moving him to New Zealand? I mean, you couldn't get more off the grid than New Zealand. Every American wants to live in New Zealand right now. Are you kidding me? All I do is look at New Zealand and go, like, why can't we be like this? Really? Well, it's bleak. It's bleak out there.

We can't have you. We'd have to buy two microphones. Too many people. But you have been acting over the years. NYPD Blue, Judging Amy, Grey's Anatomy, Frasier, now, of course, The Old Man. And we heard that you take some things from time to time from sets. Is that true? And what did you take?

What's the best thing you've taken? I would take Jeff Bridges, but he's big. I can't stuff stuff in my trunk well when you're on a long i stole some um uh paintings from the judging amy set what i really wanted you know i played a shrink on on private practice and for six years right so i had this office it was so awesome my character had the best taste and i really wanted that couch and i made it i made a play for that but they're like no you can't have that couch a couch is a massive item to steal from a seat but I had sat on that seat for like six years and it

was so comfortable I was very attached to it and I know what you're going to take away from our time together rich memories and a lifelong friendship I can tell Amy before we go before we wrap things up we just wanted to say uh really quickly you want to say some names of people you've worked with over the years because you've worked with over the years, because you've worked with so many amazing actors and see what first pops into your head when we say the name. OK, OK. You've got Sylvester Stallone in Daylight. What pops into your head?

Rotator cuff injury. He got a rotator cuff injury doing that movie, and I think that was the last action movie he made. Like right after that, he started doing Copland, these sort of dramatic things. But I remember. Oh, you ended his action career. Oh, there we go. I pushed him really hard.

That's how he does it. Pushed that rotator cuff to the edge. Reese Witherspoon in Fear. Oh, brilliant and adorable. Okay. Emily Blunt in Jane Austen Book Club. Made me laugh so hard that I would pee pee a little bit in my pants.

Like it got to the point where we would get the giggles and we couldn't look at each other. Now, two iconic actors in Heat. book club um made me laugh so hard that i would pee pee a little bit my pants like and i like it got to the point where we would get the giggles and we couldn't look at each other now two iconic actors in heat you got robert de niro al pacino i mean jeez i mean you can't get much better than that yeah um i mean de niro is home base uh taught me so much and al is just a lunatic in the best way. And finally, of course, Jeff Bridges, the old man. Jeff Bridges is like warm sunshine, guitar, and honey. Now, you know what we're going to do to you, Amy? We're going to do a great stitch-up where we take all your answers and pretend you're talking about us.

They taught me so much. I was like, honey. I was like, oh, that was lovely. Amy, it's been so lovely catching up with you. The series looks amazing. We can't wait for New Zealanders to see it on Disney+. Oh, thank you so much. Have a great day.

This is the Jono and Ben podcast. Wall-to-wall talking without the niggly popular songs in between. We're in the middle of our $20 tour. We're travelling down south to deliver $20 care and the $20 that we owe, giving away a whole lot of money as we go down. Now, we're in Dillinger's, too, in Wellington. If you want to come down and see us, spin the whirl deliver $20 care and the $20 that we owe, giving away a whole lot of money as we go down. Now, we're in Dillinger's too in Wellington. If you want to come down and see us, spin the whirlwind 20 bucks, you know, win a coffee, you can use that $20 to bribe a public official.

I know there's a lot of them around here. Yeah, you could. Bribe a cop, do whatever you want with that money. Now, a lot of people talk about the Elvis movie. It's in cinemas at the moment. And, you know, I watched it and I felt sorry for Elvis because, you know, he had the colonel who was his manager who was like mooching off him. He was making him do all these gigs he didn't want to do.

He wouldn't let him tour overseas. Now, this was because the colonel was an illegal immigrant into the U.S. So if he left the country, the colonel ain't welcome back. He's not coming back. So he kept Elvis locked in America. Just touring. He had him all sorts of meds as well. He just kept him touring.

He didn't want to tour. He kept going. Uppers, downers. And I felt sorry for Elvis. And now we go on tour, Jono. Yeah. And we want to stop touring at some stage. And we can't because producer Bee Humps, he's become like Colonel Parker.

He is. Like Tom Hanks in the movie. You've got a merchant off you. He's a merchant off us. They're pumping us full of all sorts of narcotics. I don't know where I am right now. Uppers, downers, you know. What city are we in right now? Get to work, mate.

What day is it? And he's driving us around in this camper van. Yeah. All I want to do is go overseas. I want to take the show overseas like Elvis. I want to spread my wings. I want to take the tour overseas. But no, he's like, we need to go to another town. We need to go to Marsden. We need to go to Nelson. We need to go to... We're due on the Blue

Bridge Ferry. Just a relentless tour operator. Well, there is a little performance that you need to do on the Blue Bridge as well. Yeah, we've got to do a show on the Blue Bridge. That's how we're paying for that. You've got a bit of singing to do.

Yeah. I feel like a slot machine instead of coins pumping into us, it's just pills. He's just keeping us going. Ben, you're a shell of your former self. Oh, exactly.

And you were already a skinny man. Look at him now. Yeah, so a lot of sympathy to Elvis. And Elvis is like, you know. Ben's going weirdly around pashing all our fans. I don't know, what?

It's like Elvis. I don't know. Yeah, that was an uncomfortable part of the movie, that, actually. I've started wearing diamond-encrusted suits. Yeah. Not buttoning up my shirts. Things have gone wild.

We just want to button off for the tour. But yesterday, I mean, we drove for how long yesterday between Rotorua and Wellington? It was a long haul. What time did we arrive last night? About 7.30. Yeah, 7.30, 8 o'clock. All we wanted to do.

But then we're like, mate, we've got to go off and do this thing, you know? Another performance. Another town. Yeah. As we go. He's an evil man. That's all I'll say. No, he's not.

He's a wonderful guy. We'll get him a cowboy hat, though. Colonel Humps, we'll call him. Yeah, it's better than Colonel Sanders. That's what you want say. No, he's not. He's a wonderful guy. We'll get him a cowboy hat, though. Colonel Humps, we'll call him. That's better than Colonel Sanders. That's usually what I get called for. Colonel Humps would sound like your Men of Steel stage name. Come out with a military-themed routine. Proud to be Kiwi.

Jono and Ben on the hits. We're on our $20 tour heading south to give $20, Karen, the $20 that we owe her. This morning we're in Wellington at Dillinger's on Lampton Quay. Come down this morning. Free coffee, free hot chocolates if you want. You can spin the wheel, win $20, and someone will play for five words at $7.45 to win $5,000. And, of course, you can meet a couple of radio legends.

Who's here? Polly and Grant will be here. After 8.30, they'll be coming down. They're going to meet and greet. Hey, yesterday we met a legend on our travels down the country, Lynn, who's worked at the same KFC in Rotorua for 43 years. Longer than

I've, she's been frying chicken longer than I've been alive, Ben. Yeah. And what a wonderful treat it was to meet her inside the actual restaurant. Lynn, here we are. Yes. In your home ground this is it

this is where the magic happens yep that's it so 40 years we spoke to you the other day 43 sorry you don't undersell it yeah

you've got a trophy here like a golden bucket to say 40 years yeah that was last year I don't want to talk down the golden bucket but it looks like they've just got a normal bucket

and spray painted it spray painted it with gold paint. What are they like? Geez, no one's ever worked 40 years before, but that's great. I mean, it's such a great honour, isn't it? Yeah. No, there is a lady in the South Island that's done two years longer than me. Oh, really?

Yeah. And her name's Lynn as well. So have you officially retired or are you still kind of... I'm just doing the car park for them. Yeah. What are you doing? Tar sealing the car park? What are you doing?

No, I try and keep it tidy. Oh, nice. The rubbish in the gardens park for them. Yeah. What are you doing? Tar sealing the car park? What are you doing? No, I try and keep it tidy. Oh, nice. The rubbish in the gardens and, yeah. Now, the last time we spoke to you, you said someone broke down in the drive-through, not but three weeks ago. Has anything wild happened since then at the KFC? No, not that, no.

Do you know what? One thing that's really intrigued me is the no walking through the drive-through policy. Why is that in play? Because safety. Health and safety. And it's got a drive-through. Yeah. You can walk inside here, you know that.

We have had the odd person come through in a mobility scooter. Do you let them take their order? No, not really. That's not really a done thing. Okay, what about an electric scooter? No. Bicycle? No. A mcle? No.

A moped? Don't try to get around the system. No, no, no. Do you still get the staff discount now you're retired, semi-retired? No. You know, but you're still doing stuff out here, you know? No, no. So you're just doing that for love, fixing up the car park?

No, I'm not doing it for love. Who does things for love today? Hey, I do. Who cleans up a car park for love? Well, I will. Of an international corporate like KFC, no one's doing it for love. Yeah, you're right.

Not even the colonel's doing it for love. You would have seen a lot, Lynn. Yes, a lot. Over the years? Yeah. What has been the best year? Oh. Out of 43 years, you name the best year.

When I first started, i was proud to put the uniform on so what year was that 1979 wow okay um when i first started my manager said lynn can you go home and learn to talk in a deep voice because your voice is very high pitched over the mic oh okay so what was your deep voice let's see see what your deep voice sounded like. G'day welcome to KFC it's Lyn here. And there was different things you had to say because believe it or not a five piece and a 12 piece sounded the same so you used to have to say a five pack and a 12 piece. Ah these are the inner workings. And you'd have, would you like a five packer or a 12 piecer? Well Well, Lynn, lovely to meet you. And we're on our $20 tour.

We're giving $20 to a whole lot of people as we go down the country. Really? Yeah, you go. Really? Yeah, buy yourself whatever you want. It's Twisters or whatever. It's gutter journalism, Lynn. We're paying you for the interview, mate.

Oh, really? Hush money, baby. Thank you. Yeah, nice to meet you guys. You think the tabloids are bad. We're bloody hanging in off for an interview at KFC. Wasn't Lynn a good rooster? Yeah, just one of the legends we've met on the $20 tour so far.

Ironic how many of the rooster's family she's ended up deep frying as well over the years too. But yeah, she was a real treat. This morning, this show contains Jono and Orban. Jono and Ben on the hits. Broadcasting in Wellington this morning. We're in the middle of our $20 tour. It's been a lot of fun heading down the country, giving away $20. As we go, giving people the chance to win that as we take the money to Karen on an epic journey. Ben, we're in a camper van.

Day one. Managed to rip the door handle. In a fit of rage. He wasn't in a fit of rage. Stopped off in the Waikato. Wonderful Colin Craig Brown. He was like, this could be the world's biggest potato. When we dragged him out of the ground, he was 7.9 kilos.

And they said, it's a choco maracas or something or other else's. We thought it was a big potato. We heard about robot waiters at Cobb & Co in Rotorua. Here I am. You're a fearless friend. Anyway, I got talking to the manager at Cobb & Co in Rotorua. Here I am. You're a fearless friend. Anyway, I got talking to the manager of Cobb & Co afterwards. People come from all over the country to see them. How did the annual performance reviews go? I broke some apparently road trip rules by falling asleep.

Sir John Kirwan, welcome. I've got three rules. No passing of the wind. Do not talk to me before 10am. I don't want to see you or look at you. The third thing is, is it a sausage roll or pie? That's the only big decision you need to make for lunch. You know, you look back around to the wind issue at the beginning once you've had those. Someone else has just won $20, spending a $20 bill.

What's your name, mate? Logan. I'm also not happy for our budget, Logan. We're giving away too much money today. Yeah, I know. A lot of $20. I know. Throughout the whole country. I know, Logan. I'm also not happy for our budget, Logan. We're giving away too much money today. Yeah, I know. A lot of 20 bucks. I know. Throughout the whole country.

I know, Logan. What are we doing? There we go. Ben Boyce getting a little frugal with the money he's handing out. But you can come down to Dillinger's, spin the wheel. Paul, can we thank the wonderful people here at Dillinger's Cafe in Wellington, for opening up early for us, just so two twits can bark away into microphones. Yeah, annoy people in a cafe.

Yeah. Now, we have Hayley Bath who hosts the day show here in Wellington on the Hits. Welcome. Thank you. Thanks for coming down. It's very nice to see you guys in person because we've had the life-size cutout of you guys from the last tour in the office. Yeah. So it's nice to see you in the flesh. Actually, we're more

disappointing in real life. Actually, I would argue that... The cardboard's got better banter than us though, that's the thing. Yeah, more personality. Yeah, yeah. You would argue that... The cardboard's got better banter than us, though. More personality, yeah. You agree with that, eh? Well, the cardboard cutout looked good for the first six months, but then slowly got defaced, so it's good to see no eye patch. Hold on, who's defacing our cutout? What are they putting on our faces?

Well, you lost a tooth, and you had an eye patch. One of you got pubes, but it's a family show, so we won't say. Okay, wow, okay. Now, Hayley, we must come clean. We had an incident at the hotel last night. Yeah. We went and visited someone, and they had a dog. They had a lovely little corgi dog.

Yeah. And then they were like, hey, come look at this thing outside. And it was pitch black. And I could feel the familiar squelch of something on my shoes. Yeah, no, I also... I said, uh-oh, and then you said, what? You say, uh-oh, and I said, look down, and we both went, mm. Yeah.

Now, we thought we'd got rid of that as we got back to the camper van that we're taking around the country. But when we turned up at the hotel, it was one of those moments where you're like, uh-oh, you can smell something, and we'd walk back through the reception of the hotel. The poor cleaners. I was more worried that you just followed a stranger with a dog into a dark... Yeah, we were just lurking around the hut last night.

That's what you do in the hut, right? They lured you out with a puppy. We had 20 bucks, they're like, 20 bucks? Yeah, come on, we've got something we can give you for that. So we wanted to open the phones. Hotel hilarity this morning. Oh, 800, that hits. What's happened to open the phones hotel hilarity this morning oh 800 that hits what's happened to you uh inside a hotel maybe i don't know what what am i was trying to think of an

incident that didn't you get in trouble with something in a fridge oh well i didn't yeah i didn't get in america there was a few years ago actually and uh when we'd been staying at a hotel not a particularly amazing place on hollywood boulevard staying there for a couple of nights and as we went to clean out the hotel as you're like, oh, well, let's see what we've got. The guy who I was staying with was like, look in the freezer. And there was this big bag of weed in the freezer. In the freezer. And it had been there for a couple of days in the little freezer of the fridge.

And we're like, well, we'll leave it. You know, this is America. It's illegal. We're going to leave. We don't know what to do there. But we came back to that hotel a few days later because we went somewhere else, came back. And the manager knocked on the door and he's like, did you leave something in your room last time?

I was like, oh, no, no, no. We know what it is. He's like, it's drugs. I'm like, yeah, I know it's drugs. And they came and they showed it. They put it aside for us. And I was like, it's not ours. It's not ours.

I was trying to give it back to us. They put it aside next to the towel. So wonderful service at the hotel. They've stitched you up. Hayley, do you love it how jumpy and nervous he gets when he tells that story? Hey, mate, we're not the customs agents. He always accused me of, like, it wasn't. That's the genuine truth.

Whatever happens overseas stays overseas. Anyway, why don't you come back? You're sharing a room with Post Malone, were you, mate? Mmm, coffee breath. Jono and Ben on The Hits. Hanging out with Hayley this morning from Wellington It's nice to see you here Hayley, it's from the Hits Very nice to be here as well, have you guys in the flesh

Now Hayley you host the show after 9 o'clock But we're just talking about hotel hilarity We unknowingly tramped You know dog matter through the hotel Last night and you were saying In Amsterdam you ended up in a situation I did yeah I was backpacking with my sister And when you're looking for accommodation

in your early 20s, it's like cheap and cheerful. There were no photos of this hotel. We turned up and the entire room was red velvet. The entire room was a bed. All the mattress in there. That was it? It was there? Literally, in the whole room, it was just red velvet. And they said

make sure you close the curtains because some of the neighbours are nosy and the one criteria is that we had to vacate the room between one and two o'clock because they had clients Oh good coming to use the room

Yeah but we didn't ask questions I'll be taking my hand sanitiser with me in that room Rolling your entire body in it Never mind we went to Palmy North once from Amsterdam to Palmy North

and that motel and I was gifted the honeymoon suite in the motel. You were so cocky about it. Oh, the suite, you'll be upgraded, remember that? I wasn't even on honeymoon, but I consummated the relationship. But there was a spa pool. Not a spa bath, a full spa pool in the carpeted bedroom. So next to the double bed. You're just, how do you get the carpet clean?

It's very, very unusual. And it's a brave soul to go for a dip in the murky waters of a honeymoon spa pool inside the bedroom. What a day this morning. Hotel Hilarity, what has happened to you on our 100 of the Hits? We're giving away $20 because we're on our $20 tour. And I think we've got another Hayley on the phone right now. Hayley from Hamilton, good morning. It's a great morning for Hayleys, isn't it?

It is, it is. And we have another Hayley from NZ Me on the hits here in the cafe as well. So three Hayleys we're talking to right now. We're ticking, filling quotas here, baby.

What happened to you in the hotel, Hayley? We were in Auckland, so not Amsterdam, but we went to a concert And we'd had a few drinks And we had got some lasagna toppers For a pre-concert snack And realised that two in the morning

There was no kitchen Or no way of heating them up So we popped them on the wall panel heater And it was delicious. I have to say the heat through was a little bit patchy. So not the towel rack? No. Well, that would have been a good idea too, maybe.

But the panel. Oh, the bar heater. Yeah. Heated lasagna off the. Imagine you'd have to hold it against it because it wouldn't be horizontal. Hayley, were there any side effects? It was a freaking slow process. Did it heat fully through?

Were there any effects the next morning? Oh, no. No food poisoning. I mean, they were pretty hungover, so it's hard to tell. People were heating toasted sandwiches on irons and stuff during lockdown, like an iron that you'd iron your clothes with. It was wild. We've got a great text through here, Hotel Hilarity, 4487.

We were staying in Boston, and there was an overactive couple in the throes of... Maybe in the Velvet Room? Maybe in the Velvet Room. Maybe in the Palmerston North Honeymoon Suite. Yeah, who knows? They were making use of it, and you could hear it across the whole floor. And once the proceedings were finished, they got a round of applause from the entire floor. From everyone.

So it was a marathon effort. So thank you very much for your calls and texts. Hayley, we'll flick you out $20 as well for your Wednesday morning. You enjoy that. Thank you. Good on you, mate. Thanks for listening. The Hits.

The Jono and Ben podcast available on iHeartRadio. It's Lost Frequencies. It is The Hits. Jono and Ben, 7.23 on our $20 tour heading south. We've made it to Wellington. We're on Dillinger's, Lampton Quay. Free coffee, free hot chocolates this morning if you want to come down, spin the wheel, win $20 as well. Yeah, now it's just going to

do some Wellington facts. Do you know the southern most capital in the world? I know that because just as you went, I'm about to do a Wellington fact. Joel, who's up in the Auckland HQ studios, you knew this fact already, Joel. Yeah, that's a pretty common fact, isn't it? Okay, all right. I'll take that.

I'll put that in my private smoker. Okay, next one. Did you know this? Packed with over 400 cafes and restaurants, which, don't, he's screwing his nose up, Joel. Don't screw your nose up, Ben. Which, on a per-person basis, rivals and beats New York City. That's pretty good.

That's pretty incredible. Thank you. Now he's unscrewed his nose. He went, eh. He's like, eh. It sounds like Wellington propaganda, doesn't it, on the wellington.com website. It does. He read that off a brochure in the hotel.

Yesterday we were travelling through the hut and we went and saw Cathy. Now Cathy is, I'd say, New Zealand's biggest Elvis Presley fan. There would be no bigger. She puts on an Elvis impersonator competition every year at the Hut Cozzy Club. And we went to her house. She's like, you must see my house. And it is something to behold. We'll put all the videos and pictures up on...

It's incredible. She was awesome, but she has just got so much Elvis merchandise, paraphernalia everywhere you look. Elvis has exploded all through her house. Yeah, and this is what happens when we caught up with her last night on the $20 tour. It's just been a big part of my

life, Ben. I don't know if you're Ben or... No, it's fine. Okay, guess who do you think is who? Well, I think you're Ben and you're Jonah. No, you've got it completely around the wrong way. Okay, sorry about that. No, don't apologise. You've only got room for one man in your life and that's Elvis. I understand that. I know that. That's why I haven't

got a boyfriend, probably, because they... Now, Cathy, what a funny. You have, what a house. It looks like an Elvis museum. Well, it is, Molly. It's here. Everywhere you look, there's Elvis museum Well it is Molly, it's here Everywhere you look there's Elvis pictures memorabilia, there's t-shirts There's an Elvis clock

where he's shaking his legs It's incredible There's a phone over there somewhere hiding behind the picture You've got an Elvis phone It's not working though, I could plug it in but it sings Jailhouse Rock If I was your family I was, do I get any wall space?

Yeah, there's a few family photos on the other table. Oh, there's a couple. I'm sort of hiding behind some Elvis shots. You really have. You've got Elvis dresses. You've got an Elvis tattoo I've just seen as well. You've got an Elvis tattoo? Yeah.

Where? Oh, Kathy. The king's face there. That's on Kathy's bicep. Yeah. Yeah, I know. You even said you've got to check out my, I know. We even got, you even said, you've got to check out my bedroom as well.

We went there as well. And there was Elvis stuff in there for us to check out. Do you mind if we walk into the bedroom now? But you don't have to come. No, no, you can go in there. In the bedroom, it's a shrine to Elvis. Like behind the bed, next to the bed, beside the bed. Elvis, Elvis, Elvis everywhere.

If I was Cathy's man, I would be a little threatened by Elvis. I've just noticed your Elvis earrings. You've got Elvis earrings. She's got the word Elvis dangling off her earlobes. Is there no Elvis? And her neck. Say what you want about Elvis, but he had a lot of merch. Everything was

covered. There was no bit of merch that Elvis doesn't have. What would you say to Elvis if he was here? He's not, but what would you say to him? I'd give him a big hug for a start and say I love you. He was quite pashy, wasn't he? He had lots of girlfriends, yeah. He was a smoocher, wasn't he?

He was smooching with everybody in the movie, wasn't he? And his wife was there as well. It's well, it's part of being a celeb. You know, you've got to... I don't... That's what Jono keeps trying to say. That's what I keep telling my wife. Unfortunately, he's not a celeb, and his wife doesn't believe it. Can you just stop smooching everyone?

It's the downside to fame. She knew what she signed up for. I'm talking about Priscilla here, not my wife. She left him a year later for another guy, so it works both ways. There you go. Cathy, New Zealand's biggest Elvis fan. Honestly, we'll put all the photos and videos up on the social media. Someone who's got the passwords will do that, that's not me.

Everywhere. Not even Elvis would have had that much Elvis memorabilia. I just found an earring on the floor. Like a legend. Hayley was missing from the hits wellings. I felt good, actually. She's like, where's my earring? And you're like, here it is.

Don't you feel like an absolute hero when you find something? You always want to revel in the moment, don't you? Was this what you were looking for? It's John Owen Ben this morning coming to you from Wellington. We're at Dillinger's on Lambton Quay. A lot of people coming in now to get free coffee. Spin the wheel for $20 and someone will play for $5,000 very shortly

for five weeks. Did you want to know another Wellington fact there, Ben? Oh, yeah, I can. How many cafes and restaurants they have per capita or something? Yeah, you're less than impressed with that one. But you know the beehive? Yes.

Where you went and protested with your mates outside for a few weeks with your tinfoil hats? I didn't. Do you know that was actually drawn, the designehive, where you went and protested with your mates outside for a few weeks with your tinfoil hats. I did. Do you know that was actually drawn, the design of it, on the back of a napkin as a joke? Really? And then someone went and built it. That's a good fact. Like halfway through construction, you would have been like, oh, I was only joking.

But they've really rumbled the ball here. Let's see what's making news this morning. Scrolling through your feed. All right, here's some bougie newsy. Here's Ben. Now, a lot of talk over the last couple of days in the media, and I'm kind of like, I will say, I'm probably sick of talking about COVID, to be honest.

I'm sick of reading about it, but there's a bit of talk coming back going, a lot of experts saying, are we going to go back to the red light, traffic light setting? Well, it does. Do you even remember what the red light traffic light setting is? No, I don't even know. We're in orange now. Who knows what that means?

But it felt like just through conversation, anecdotally, you're like, oh, she's blowing up again. Yeah, well, there's 9,000 cases yesterday, up by more than 3,000 from the day before. There's a new variant that sort of popped its way into the country, sort of having a look around, much like us, doing a bit of a tour. Hey, guys, what's going on? Yeah. Coming to visit Wellington's 400 bars and cafes. But the Prime Minister has said yesterday, she was asked about it,

she said there's no expectation New Zealand will move to the red light, traffic light setting at this stage. And she questioned whether gathering limits, because that's the big difference, it's only 200 you can have on limits. She's like, would it make much of a difference? And she also wanted to remind everyone

that what we're doing right now in New Zealand under Orange is probably a lot more stringent than a lot of other countries are doing. She compared it to the likes of what they're doing in Australia or the USA and other countries right now. So that's probably good news if you're putting on a big event or a concert over the next little while. Yeah, and I love that attitude from the Prime Minister.

She's like, ah! Is it going to make a difference? Yeah, it's gone. You know, their horse is bolted. And fair call to you. That's the way to approach it. Because businesses still operate. Things still go as normal.

It's tougher, though, right? It is tougher. For big events. We were talking to people from the hospo industry last night. We're going around trying to have dinner at 8 o'clock, and a lot of kitchens just happen to shut down at 8. It's just the sign of the times. They're hurting at the moment,

so hopefully we can keep ploughing on through. It probably doesn't help when we turn up to cafes and make them give away free coffee either. Like, what are we doing for the economy? And there's an unusual trend going around on TikTok. So there's a new movie out there, the Minions movie, The Rise of Gru. And there's a new trend from Jen Zia's. So basically they're called the Gentle Minions. And they all get dressed up as suits.

Like guys en masse are getting dressed up in suits and they go to the movie, the Minions movie which is probably more aimed at kids and they applaud, they cheer through the movie which is kind of funny on itself but some other people have been pushing it too far taking bananas, throwing them around and stuff making quite a disruption there

like sort of evil business people watching the movie at the moment so some cinemas overseas are having to give money back to upset families who are going and other cinemas are looking on they're looking at putting special adults only screenings of the minions that people want to come along dressed in suits as packs and make a lot of noise get a job why don't they go out and get a job they have a job they're off to your own suits but they can go watch the millions in their time no you're they're job. No, you're right. They've just taken 90 minutes out of their day to watch a movie.

Doesn't mean they don't have a job. You sound like an old man spraying a hose at skateboarders right now. Yeah, I'm doing my Trevor Mallard at the moment. Yeah, exactly. Oh, that's a good little trend, isn't it? Yeah, well, it seems like it was a fun little trend, but maybe there's a few bad apples taking it too far, bad bananas. Do you know one of my favourite things, one of my favourite trends was the cricket,

the New Zealand cricket. And if you caught a ball in the crowd, you'd win like, you know, it was the catch a million or something. Catch a million. And when that first went off, jeez, that was some magnificent viewing of just, you know, drunken 27-year-olds literally just running over toddlers, mowing through grandmother's picnics at the cricket, diving into granddads to try and catch a ball. Carnage! That was a carnage trend.

That got out of hand, didn't it? I loved it. I think the next week they're like, OK, now everyone has special zones. We have all the drunk munters in one zone. You can all destroy each other. And that is what's making news in New Zealand and around the world. Five words for 5K. You're just five words away from $5,000. It's a game of word association. We play it every morning on the hits, and we've added some money to it along the way.

You match up five words, you still get five grand, but you can stop at any stage and win some money along it. Is it such a crime we just wanted more winners on the radio, Ben? You know, what are the haters saying? Why are they out there hating? Now, we've got Moots with us, who's in Dillinger's. How are you, mate? I'm very good, thanks.

It's really got busy all of a sudden around here. For the first hour, we're sort of sitting here by ourselves in the darkness, but now it's packed. People see you as they walk past and they're like,

I've got to get in there. Yeah, no, I think it's probably more the free caffeine and free cash. So you've already won $20 from us and you've already got a free coffee, which is great. Life is good.

Yeah, and now you're about to play for potentially $5,000 as well. Yeah. It's a great morning. It's a great morning. So, I mean, maybe do we even need to go through the full melodies? What's your bank account number? We'll just wire you some cash.

Well, yeah, if you get one word wrong and you want to play through, you do lose everything. So you want to select Jono this morning to go away, right? Yes. Okay. All right, Jono. Head outside. See you later. And when he can't hear us, I'll go through the words right now.

He's taking a very, very slow walk around the cafe to get outside. Come on, mate. Come on, mate. Live radio. Here we go. All right, bitch. First word we want to say to you this morning is Whittakers. What pops into your head when we say Whittakers?

Chocolate. Chocolate. That's what I was thinking too. Sorry. Windy is the second word this morning. Windy. Wellington. Windy Wellington. Sure. Sorry. Windy is the second word this morning. Windy. Wellington. Windy Wellington.

Your. Bacon. Bacon. Busy. Bacon busy. That was actually on the menu this morning I saw here at Dillingers. Cruise is word number four. Cruise.

You've got options with that one, eh? I have. What if they cruise to work, which is what I'm doing this morning. Cruise ship. Tom Cruise. There's a few other, you know. Yeah, let's go have. What are they? Cruise to work, which is what I'm doing this morning. Cruise ship. Tom Cruise. There's a few other, you know. Yeah, let's go Tom. Tom.

And fire. F-I-R-E. Fire. It always gets harder towards the end because there's more options, right? I'm going fireman. Fireman. All right, good options.

I'll wave to Jono to bring him back from outside Dillinger's. We can get a quick weather report too this morning in Wellington from Jono. How was it outside? You won't be happy with me, Ben. Why's that? People were spinning the wheel and they weren't letting on $20 and I was manoeuvring the wheel over so they won again. I can't help it. People like

me when I give them money. He's a generous guy. Alright, we've locked in Mooch's five words. We're about to play for word number one which is worth $25. Word one, $25. Jono, first word we said this morning was Whittaker's. Whittaker's. I'd say chocolate?

Correct, $25. All right, so you've got $25. Now do you want to play for the $50 word or do you want to take your $25 and leave? You going to go to it? She's a gambler. If you get it wrong, we're going to lose it all, but let's go to the next word.

Word two, $50. Windy. Windy this morning is the second word. Windy. Well, Wellington. Yes, well done. All right, $50. $50.

You're on it. Okay, now do you want to go to word three? We jump up to $100, or do you want to take your $50 and leave right now? Keep going. Keep going. You're wild, bitch. Wild as the wind outside. Okay.

Let's go to word three. Word three, $100. Bacon. Bacon. I'd say butty because I just looked at the menu. Did you say butty? I did say it was on the menu. Bacon, butty.

She's well, well. Okay, $100 right now. Now, we jump up to $500 with the next word, but if he gets it wrong, you choose well. Okay, $100 right now. Now, we jump up to $500 with the next word, but if he gets it wrong, you get nothing. Have a think about what you said. So this word was cruise, right? And we thought there was options, lots of options. Several options.

Several options. But? But I'm going to go for it. You're going to go for it? Come on, I've got $20 in my pocket from winning it outside. Okay, we're going to go to word four, the $500 word. Alright, here we go. Word four. $500. I'm nervous now. Okay, here. I'm just going to say Tom.

Shut up! Are you? Are you? Yes! Moose! Yeah, come on! $500! Okay, now. I know now it's getting serious though. Yeah, because this jumps up to $5,000, but you've got $500. Now, do you want to walk away with the $500?

Because that's a lot of money. If he gets this wrong, he doesn't know... What's the word? I don't know. Big decisions. Big decisions. $500 is yours, but if he gets it wrong, you get nothing. It's $500.

It is $500, which is a lot of money. It is. I'm going to go. I'm risking it. Are you going to risk it? She's going to five grand. Okay, we're going to the five. Strap yourselves in.

Come on. Word five, $5,000. Okay, I am so nervous right now. Word number five for $5,000 right now is fire. Fire. Fire? Fire? I get this wrong, but she gets nothing.

It's been fun, though. You had 500. Okay, God. Fire. There's so many. No pressure. I'd say fireplace. No!

What was it? What did you say? Obviously, fireman. I'd say Fire Place. Oh! No! What was it? What did you say? Obviously Fire Man. Fire Man! Oh, Fire Man! Oh, Moosh, we had so much fun playing with you. You're a legend for Sir Guy.

That was so much fun. You were put on you for Risky and All. That was awesome. What a ride. We're going to give you a couple more $20 notes from our $20 tour, at least, for just to be hubs as well. Thank you so much for playing. That was awesome.

Jono and Ben's $20 tour. Two men are on a mission to pay off their outstanding debt. Jono and Ben on our $20 tour. We're making our way south, taking away a lot of $20 notes on our way down to give $20 to $20 Karen that we owe. We went through my hometown yesterday of Masterton. I was very excited to drive through. We drove past the big sign with the golden shears, which is the sheep shearing competition that we have there.

Got a fire and then, John, you were like, well, it looks like something else. The shears logo looks like something else. Not a rocket ship, but something else. Well, down the bottom, they've got two sort of oval, which I'm gathering meant to represent the handles of the shears. The handles of the old-fashioned shears. Yeah, but just the way that the design process has occurred. You've ruined it for me. My hometown, I was very excited.

And then you made me go along to Lone Star in Masterton, the restaurant there, because we'd heard about the wall of legends that they have there for local people on the wall. It was a tale of legend that Ben, you, hometown hero, born and raised in Marston, you grace the wall of legends. And we went to the Lone Star to see it for ourselves. We're here at the Lone Star in Marston. Hometown hero returns. You've taken me, I know what you're trying to do here today. It's lovely. I mean, I love Marston. I know what you're trying to do here today. I mean, it's lovely.

I mean, I love Marston. I got a lot of fun growing up here. Now, Seamus, who runs the Lone Star, you've got Ben Boyce on the wall of legends. Yeah, that's right. A few others as well from Marston. Jermaine Clements up there. Legend, actual legend.

Sir Peter Jackson. Yeah, Sir Brian Lahore's there as well. Ross Taylor, they're all legends. Elvis is up here as well. I don't know if you know that he was a master. Mastered in local. Marley too. What, Marley?

They cut that out of the Elvis movie, but that was part of it. That was part of it. Now, I'm just wondering, with Ben on the wall of legends, where's your bar set for legend? Well, being born here helps. Yeah. And being on the telly,y I think just pushed him over. Yeah right.

I feel like I could be replaced at any moment right? That's fine, that's fine. I understand. To be honest, bar isn't that high I'll be honest with you Ben and Jono. Don't be too honest though. Don't be too honest. There's no consistency to the wall. I mean you've got Elvis up here.

Why is Elvis up there twice? And then we've got some wine makers as well. Yeah Elvis isn't up there twice? We've got some winemakers as well. Yeah, Elvis isn't up there twice, is he? But there's some Bob Marley. Bob Marley? These are just, you know, like me, they're just holding the space for other legends to come through, then I'll be replaced.

There'll be a couple more replaced before you, I'd say, Ben, just in case. Oh, there we go. So I'm up there temporarily, which is a great honour, but I feel like I don't deserve to be there. But it's still nice to go through Marston, pass through Marston. Don't be so humble, mate. Showed you the place. I used to live next to the school.

Yeah, Ben grew up in the primary school there, didn't he? Yeah, that was kind of cool. She said, that was my house. Yeah. But you know when people go, oh, that was the house I grew up in, and everyone goes, oh, yeah. Yeah. It means nothing.

Oh, yeah. Then we get switched and say oh Well that's true Like I know it means a lot to you Yeah I know And I wasn't At least I felt like I had to point it out And that was

You know I was mildly Yeah I know I get it I get it It'd be like If I took you back to my house And that's where I grew up

You'd be like Oh yeah that's a house He lived in a house He told me he lived in a house And that's a house The hits I'll get my 20 bucks Jono and Ben's a house. The hits. I'll get my 20 bucks.

Jono and Ben's $20 tour. In the middle of our $20 tour, giving away too much money. Too much money? I've said it on record many times. And, yeah. But anyway. I don't know what he thought was going to happen. How many people were you hoping were just going to, like,

a couple of people turn up with a couple of, you know, 40 bucks? Yeah, I grossly overestimated the popularity of giving away money. Yeah. And now he's getting nervous. That's his nervous laugh. Oh, geez. He's like, we've created a monster here. We've still got to travel down the country and give $20 the $20 carrot that we owe, and we don't have that money.

It's an ugly money monster, mate. Anyway, I have an issue that I'd like to get you far more important than a loss of revenue is our camper van. Now, producer B Humps, we're calling him Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis' manager. He's got us all jacked up and all up as and down as. He's making us tour constantly. Tour away.

Gotta get back on the van, he's mooching off us, all that sort of stuff. He's driving, and you're doing a great job of driving. Yes. Doing a fantastic job. Now, Ben, given my sleepy nature, that I'm always on the borderline of napping, I've been banished to the back of the caravan. Well, there's a place there.

You've got a belt there, but you can also sort of, you know, they've got room to stretch out. Yeah. Now, I feel like a granddad has been shipped off to the retirement village and the family's forgotten about him. You know, that's how I feel. Because at the back of the caravan, there's kitchen knives, there's a kitchen, there's drawers,

there's ovens, there's, you know, cutlery. This is what it sounds like in the back, which you can't hear up the front. Have a listen. It's when you go over bumps. I can't hear what you're saying. You guys are out of the conversation. You pop your head round at one stage, you're like,

oh, it's nice and warm up there, because we had the heater going, we had the radio on, we had the chat. We did take some back roads around the back of the building yesterday. It feels like I'm in a never-ending earthquake that doesn't finish. That's me at the back of the caravan. The battler at the back of the caravan. But then, can we bring an issue

to your issue? There's a bathroom on there that we all agreed was not to be used, and someone has used the bathroom. Now, there's only one person that that we all agreed was not to be used. And someone has used the bathroom. Now, there's only one person that's been back in the back of that caravan. I am not cleaning that up. The rule was like, let's not use it because we're going to have to clean it up. We were running late last night.

We didn't get into Wellington till eight. I knew we had time to make up. Like, why have a toilet on there if the toilet's not to be used? Like, why would you have that facility? It's exhilarating at 100km an hour. Tell you what, you're holding on for dear life. You know, you're kind of, because you're standing, I've kind of got both legs braced on the wall, just kind of in a

45 degree squat, just trying to hold it on, core strength required to do that. The Hits. The Jono and Ben Podcast. Wellington, Lambton Quay this morning on our $20 tour. We're at Dillinger's Cafe. A lot of free coffee given away this morning. Come down and get a flat white. You can see us flat whites

and have a great morning. Win $20 as well. Yeah, we're on a camper van, travelling down the country on our $20 tour and it's been an experience in the camper van. It is, because especially when you're driving for a long period, I didn't realise how long it was from Rotorua to wellington long way and we went

through uh mastered it through my hometown as well so then i had another issue too that i know i just raised the issue of i feel like if you can play the audio again there joel i feel like i'm in a never-ending earthquake in the back there i've been banished to the back of the caravan over any bumps you know this is what happens when you're in a mobile kitchen these are the results these are the results but what happened yesterday is I dozed off

you said you had to get to sleep no but I dozed off and then I woke up and we had driven backwards we had driven backwards 45 minutes we were hoping you wouldn't notice that

and I was like hey we've already passed this place and they're like yeah sorry we took a wrong turn. So, yeah. Well, you've enjoyed a sleep at the back of the camper van. We wanted to know

on 0800 The Hits this morning, camper van capers. Yeah, let's get Catherine on, eh? Morning, Cath. How are you? Hi, good morning. Hey, just for being you, Cath. The wonderful, generous you. We're going to give you $20. We're on the $20 tour, okay? Oh, nice. Thank you.

You're going to go buy yourself something nice there, Kath. Now, what happened with you guys? You and your husband took a camper van, we understand. We did a camper van. We're in Christchurch, and we camper vanned down to Te Anau and Milford two years ago, pretty much to this day. And when we first started,

we stopped just before Arthur's passed to check why the toilet wasn't draining properly and the previous people or the camper van company hadn't actually emptied the toilet from the previous person. So we stopped at a place you can drain it the kettle greats and as we were doing it my husband didn't realize that he had his phone in his pocket and it fell down between the kettle greats and while you're draining that oh no yeah that's a buy a new phone situation surely no actually um we thought we paid so much we can't afford a new phone situation, surely. No, actually.

We thought, well, we paid so much. We can't afford a new phone. I have to pay so much for such a lovely holiday. Did you go diving for it? Fishing it out? Yeah, he ended up laying down across the grate and fishing it out. What a hero. He landed on actually a clean concrete area underneath there. Oh, wow.

He ended up with cattle poop and human poop basically all over his nice, warm jacket, and it was our very first day. What a hero. What a hero. Hey, Debra, appreciate your call. So good. Thanks. Would you do that for me? Would you roll around in human feces for me, then, thanks, Kevin. I appreciate your call. So good. Thanks. Would you do that for me?

Would you roll around in human feces for me, then? No, no. We're going to take a quick one from Dean in Auckland. You had a bit of a caravan drama, we understand. What happened, Dino? Oh, no, no. It was a motorhome. We got a relocatable one from Christchurch to Auckland.

And on day one, we had this lovely drive, and we came to Kaikoura and we parked up right next to the ocean there and there was a seal there, it was really iconic. Anyway, we had a nice night and went to sleep and about 6 o'clock in the morning, knock knock knock on the door, I mean we were miles from anywhere, and there was a civil defence character just warning us of a possible tsunami. Oh, jeez. Oh, you were the people that they see on the news, like,

look at these idiots who've driven to watch the tsunami come in. Yeah, pretty much. And so we thought, well, okay, we'd better get out of here. So we went to start the motorhome, and it wouldn't start. It had a dead battery. So we thought, okay, well, we called the emergency people and said, well, we'll have some breakfast. So we started having breakfast, and then we thought,

well, maybe we should take this a bit more seriously, you know, but look for some high country or something like, which there was pretty much none. Well, it was too steep to climb. But, yeah, anyway, it all ended well. No tsunami. Got our battery fixed, and away we went. Oh, I was happy. You know it would have been better for radio if you like. The whole thing got taken out by. No tsunami. Got our battery fixed, and away we went. Oh, I was happy.

You know it would have been better for radio if you like. The whole thing got taken out by a giant tsunami. Can you just tag that on the end for us, Dino? Sorry about that. Hey, team. We're going to give you $20. We're in the middle of our $20 tour. Have a great day, all right?

OK, good on you. Scrolling through your feed. All right, let's hand you over to Morning Mike McRoberts. What's going on, Ben? Well, you know, the price of living, the cost of living, it's pretty bad in New Zealand and around the world as well. And over in the UK, in some UK supermarkets, they're putting security tags on items in the supermarket.

Things like cheese, butter, I saw some lamb chops in there. There's photos online and they're putting security tags, you know, that beep when you go out of the stores, on those items. You know, stuff you usually see them on, like bricks or cigarettes at Duty Free. You know, the wire wrapping around it. Or a little bit of cloth. You know, you might buy a flash jacket and have it on there. They're putting that on blocks of cheese.

I think we've explained security tags beautifully now. Do you really understand what we're saying? And then you walk out, and if you haven't paid for it, it goes beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. Anyone wants a little more explanation, text us. Sorry, 4487. Do you know you feel like such a low-level badass when you've paid for something, but they haven't removed the security tag and you walk out and it's like beep, beep, beep, beep. And everyone looks at you.

Yeah. And you're like, no, it's not me, baby. Sometimes you go home and they're still attached to the clothes. Do you find that? No. Many times I've bought items. Have you bought items? I thought I bought them.

As I shoved them down my trousers. Yeah. Yeah, no, but I know meat is also another big one. People put meat down their pants. Who does? People who need meat. Oh, really? Yeah.

Is that what you do as well? And then you go home and go, oh, I forgot. There's some premium beef mince in my underpants. No, but people do that because they're so expensive now. Yeah, right. And it's going to happen more and more often. This is the problem. Imagine how many runners are happening at petrol stations.

Can't even, in fact, we went to a petrol station yesterday. They're like, sorry, we just can't trust you people. You're going to have to come in and prepay it's life now unfortunately it is what it is so we ram rated the place

in our caravan and the queen no showed them and the queen refused to have a photo with her grandchild

and I read this and I was like this sounds like clickbait and it was well yeah she didn't have a photo

because she had her jubilee Prince Harry and Meghan went and took a lily bit to meet her grandmother, the Queen, for the first time, which was pretty cool. Is it lily bit or lily bet? You keep calling it lily bit

like it's a... Is it lily bit or lily bet? In British, I watched The Crown, I was sure it was lily bit, but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm wrong. But it is spelt like lily bet as well. But I thought it was... In British, they always say, you know, things are a little bit differently. Yeah, they do. I mean, Charles calls her Mummy.

Yeah. But the reason why she didn't want the photographer? Was not because there was any bad blood between Harry and Meghan and the Queen, and not because she didn't want those photos used on Netflix. It was because she had quite a bad sort of eye infection. Bad blood shot eye, yeah. The bad blood was in her eye. Yeah, it was.

A bit of conjunctivitis issue Which you understand They're not ideal photo conditions Remember when you had conjunctivitis So we were filming one time Through this marathon interview thing It was like 24 hours I had conjunctivitis

And I was putting in I had a very gunky left eye It wasn't great conditions It wasn't And staying awake for 24 hours I was like Can you not be right next to me With a gunky eye And because it was like a marathon We were never off air. I was like, can you not be right next to me with a gunky eye?

And because it was like a marathon, we were never off air, so I was having to put in the cream and the eye drops on the television. And the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern came in there, and you're like, oh, I was meant to be taking this antibiotic, so I stopped it, and she's like, take the antibiotic. Yeah, she told me off. Yeah, she put that back in the eye. Told you what to do, didn't she?

She did, yeah, she did, and she's still doing it, mate. But I remember she was very concerned. She's like, you've got to finish your course of antibiotics. Yeah. I was like, what are you, mate, the Prime Minister or a doctor? Broadcasting live from Wellington at Dillinger's on Lambton Quay. It's been a lot of fun this morning, hasn't it? We've been broadcasting here from Dillinger's.

It was dark and cold first thing in the morning and to be honest, we were a little worried that no one was going to come down and get free coffee, spin the wheel. We were like, oh, it's a big city, big city, they don't care about us. And now we have given away way too much money and way too much coffee. Quarter past seven really kicked into action, didn't it? Too much, a little too much for our liking. So much so we've had to pull the wheel

away. People out there go, where's that wheel gone? I hear everyone's going back to their office and going go down spin the wheel they're just handing out $20

these idiots handing out free money and speaking of which we can't give more away yeah let's do it 0800 the hits let's knock off some

free cash you just give us a semi good reason why you deserve $20 and we'll give it to you right now we'll go live to the phones

this is wild stuff we're out here changing lives very excited this morning, though. We've been crossing the Cook Strait in the best way possible on the Blue Bridge Cook Strait Ferry in a couple of hours' time.

Cruising on the Blue Bridge Cook Strait Ferry. Yeah, quick 3.5-hour journey. Experience some of the world's most incredible scenery on the way as well. So we're looking forward to that, taking the Blue Bridge across to Picton later as we wind our way to Nelson. Now, Joel. Tyler from Turtle House on the phone right now, so we're looking forward to taking the Blue Bridge across to Picton later as we wind our way to Nelson. We've got Tyler from Te Araha on the phone right now.

Hi, hello. Wow, I'm going to talk all over everyone here. I'll talk over here right now too. Tyler, you tell us why you want $20 in Te Araha. Because it's my sister's birthday and I need her a present. Beautiful. That's a good enough reason for me, Ben. Great reason.

To be honest, even if you said I need to pay a hitman to take someone out, I would have given you $20. That's a good enough reason for me, Ben. Great reason. To be honest, even if you said I need to pay a hitman to take someone out, I would have given you $20. That's a great reason, too. These idiots are giving away so much money this morning. So enjoy the $20. Awesome, thanks. Yeah, enjoy Te Araha. Let's go. One more. Oh, no. We can't keep. We've got to save money for Karen.

It's the $20 tour. We just need to save one note for Karen. Who else we got there, Joel? We've got Emily here money for Karen. It's the $20 tour. We just need to save one note for Karen. Who else we got there, Joel? We've got Emily here from Taranaki. Emily, you're on. Why do you want $20? Yeah, I'm after $20, mate. I wouldn't mind buying some V to keep me awake. Oh, V, you're a V drinker, eh?

One of these bloody monster cans. You get one of those giant cans, the 22 litres of V or whatever? No, no, I those giant cans, the 22 litres of V or whatever? No, no. Real cans, but I'm glad that they're still getting through. Well, you're going to have a few more because we're going to give you $20. We spoke to someone the other day who had a V addiction. Remember? That's right.

They're having like 30 cans a day. Yeah, which is not recommended. I'm not a doctor and I'm not recommending it either. But they were getting stuff done, mate. They were. Too much. Productive. The Hits.

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