Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Jono got a parking ticket while he was asleep

Episode Date: July 4, 2022

We're on our $20 Tour with tales from our trip from Auckland to Rotorua. We met Doug the spud and experienced the robot waiters at Rotorua Cobb & Co. Jono has another parking ticket, how he got it is quite the story and sparked a debate and we catch up with our Hollywood Insider Enty and find out more about Taylor Swift's alleged stalker and the truth about paparazzi photos See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Kia ora, 5th of July, it's the podcast. Jono and Ben here coming to you from Rotorua, the Hello Stranger cafe. We are literally in the shop window of the cafe. It's been quite busy all morning. We've got Bianca here from Hello Stranger. Thanks for having us this morning. Good morning, team.

It's been great. I wasn't expecting this many people. I don't know if we've sunk the business for how many free coffees we've given away. Not at all. How much coffee have you made this morning? It feels like a steady stream. A lot. Well, thank you for having us here.

It's going to take a lot to claw your way back from this morning. Now, you brought out a wonderful dish, the signature range dish here, for breakfast, chicken and bacon. Breakfast chicken. With waffles chicken with waffles yeah yeah yep our most popular dish it's pretty amazing like i've never had breakfast chicken before well maybe hungover maybe back in the day you might whip past kfc or something but that was that was amazing thank you yeah and it comes with cream as well so you got bacon fried chicken waffles maple syrup it shouldn't all go together but it does it kind of works now producer b humps who's with us right now he's gluten-free and he has just

raved about how the cabinet for the gluten-free food and keto food is bigger than the other cabinet for the other food yes so we're about 50 50 here at the cafe with gluten-free and normal food you don't discriminate it's great because i discriminate. It's great. I like discriminating against him because I'm like, oh, you can't come here and eat with us. Every time we go out, he moans, oh, there's not this thing. So he's found this happy place. This is great. This is great.

We went to a bakery yesterday. He's like, I could eat nothing. Nothing. He said nothing. Not one thing he could eat. Yeah. So today, you can eat more than half of your food, which is pretty awesome.

Including a full menu. And what's the wildest thing that's gone on inside this cafe? he could eat. Yeah, so today you could eat more than half of your food which is pretty awesome. What's the wildest thing that's gone on inside this cafe? Does some strange stuff happen? Yes and no. I imagine a radio show is it the first radio show to happen inside the cafe? Definitely. Has there been a naked person in here?

No. I'm just trying to check out scenarios. So no naked people. Cross that off the list. I'm just crossing stuff off the list. Why does everything always have to be the wildest thing you've seen in a cafe? Has anyone tried to rob the place? No. Oh, that's good.

That's good. Okay, so no naked people. No naked robbers. Oh, jeez. Okay. Has anyone... Has anyone cut a finger? Cut a finger?

No. Chop the finger off. See why I try to wrap them up, Bianca? Has anyone tried to... Has anyone had gluten-free food that's not gluten-free? Yeah. No, we're pretty good with our cross-contamination. Oh, that's good.

There you go. Now, do you have to... Because I was just about to say that about cooking and stuff. You'd have to wash your hands. How many times a day are you washing your hands? Be wild. Yeah. On average, 20 times a day, you reckon?

More. More. That's up there with Ben. Oh, I do. I love washing my hands. Be wild. On average, 20 times a day you reckon? More. That's up there with Ben because he loves washing his hands. The worst thing is I love a hand sanitiser as well so I'll put it on and then I'll go to shake someone's hand and they'll be like, oh their hands are greasy. We've got this bottle here you just spray it all over your hands.

This is Jono's, I don't think it's legal. This is Betty's hand sanitiser. Remember there was a, we all panic bought hand sanitiser. And we couldn't get it for a while, right? Yeah, there was a shortage. And my local chemist, Betty, she had a bootleg operation going on. This is bootleg. This will burn five layers of your hands off, mate.

Well, thank you for having us here. We really appreciate it. And hopefully we can come back and see you guys soon. Yes, hopefully. Do you know, actually, Bianca started this cafe in lockdown. Really? Started the business in lockdown. I did.

Seems like a shocking business decision. But you pulled through and you got a magnificent facility. Yeah. No, it's awesome cafe. So come down and see it if you're ever in town. Tomorrow, actually, we're going to be in Lambton Quay. We're going to be at Dillinger's. Sinking them as well.

Sinking their business to the cafe tomorrow. Free coffees. Slowly making our way through New Zealand. Sinking small businesses. They just got back there after COVID. And we're going to sink next February. But appreciate it. You're having us as a real fun podcast for you to check out

a whole lot of adventures on the road, including massive ice creams, massive potatoes, and robot waiters. It's all on the podcast. The Jono and Ben Podcast, the world's number one podcast. Please don't check those stats. Broadcasting this morning on our $20 tour, we're in Rotorua

at the Hello Stranger Cafe. You can come down and see us this morning. You can win $20, spin our $20 wheel. We've got free coffee this morning and someone will play five words at 7.45 this morning. Fever pitch down here at the cafe. What do you say, Hello Stranger? Hello Stranger!

It's just producer B-Hubs there. Fever pitch! Well, there's some people starting to come on down here, but it is very, very early in the morning. Electric energy, Ben. And if you're listening as well, we've got $20 notes to give away to you throughout the morning, as well as the Hits box office. A double pass to an amazing concert.

That's just after 8 o'clock this morning. Yeah. Now, we're on this $20 tour to give Karen, $20 Karen, the money that we owe her along the way, handing out cash. Ben, we're in a camper van. It's been a lot of fun, actually, the journey so far. You get to sleep at any stage that you want, which is great. It's like a travelling lounge.

I don't know why I should just own a camper van. It's straight in the car. People drive you around. Who's the weird camper van guy? So you can sleep. But it was a day we're going to reflect on throughout the show. But a big day yesterday where there was a giant 16-scoop ice cream. We saw the world's biggest potato that's not a potato.

There was robot waiters that served us last night. It's been wild. There's a lot to download over the next three hours. But can I just raise an issue with you? With me? Yeah. What have I done? Ben, day one, I think within the first hour and a half.

Oh, please don't talk about this. Managed to rip the door handle off Door? I did it He was in a fit of rage He wasn't in a fit of rage I accidentally broke a little handle Yes, that was on me

He's got legs like a flamingo But arms like a Bulgarian weightlifter This man So strong He doesn't even know his own strength No So there was a little bit of it So now

For us to get out of the camper van, B hums us to go outside and, you know, he has to let us in out from the end. So that's on me. I apologise for that. It's on you. It's on no one else. But the most frustrating thing was,

as it was happening, you get your phone out and start recording. You start filming. I'm like, we don't need this right now. They just really added to the stress. You're like, what's going on, mate? And I'm like, please don't film me while this is going on. Like a reality show where you're like, what's going on, mate? I'm like, please don't film me while this is going on. Like a reality show

where you're like, just tell me, talk about this. I feel like someone had done a lot of the heavy lifting for you before that. It was too easy. Well, yeah, I mean, as you say, my arms aren't very strong, you know, so, yeah, I feel like it was. You literally just went to open the handle, and it broke, so we'll be, maybe we should save a few of the $20

notes for those repairs. We're on the $20 tour, heading south, handing out a whole lot of $20 notes on our way down south to give $20 back to Karen that we owe. Yeah. We gave her a prize, and it slipped through the cracks, and she didn't receive that, so we're dropping it to her to make sure she gets the $20 now.

Hello, Stranger Cafe in Rotorua, where we're broadcasting from. Come on down. We've got $20 bills to give away. Spin the $20 wheel. Free coffee. Free coffee. Bianca and the team have put on free coffee. Someone at 7.45 will play five words as well, too, in the cafe for your chance to win a whole lot of money.

As I said before, electric atmosphere in here. First thing in the morning. I don't want you to expect it. A few people have come in. I'm like, wow, people were here before 6 o'clock. I know. Now, it's meeting some of the battlers, mate. They're down here. Now, what isclock. I know. Now, you know, just meeting some of the battlers, mate. Meeting some of the out down here.

Now, what is your name? Fiona. Now, lovely Fiona, you work at IHC, and you came down and you were watching us as the Taylor Swift song was playing, and I said, radio's fun to watch being made, isn't it? And you said... Yeah, right. She said, it's very boring. You don't talk to each other when the songs are playing.

Our secret's out that we don't actually talk. You were editing something. I was doing some stuff. Hey, Fiona, sometimes we've got to edit some audio, mate. I was preparing. Carry on then. Fiona, I was preparing for scrolling through your feed, which is happening right now. He likes clearing emails.

Kick the intro off, Aaron. Scrolling through your feed. That's not an advert to come down and watch radio be made. I don't know what is. All right, I hand you over to the John Campbell and Paddy Gower. He's out with the people. He's on the grease at the Coalface. Yeah, I'm out this morning.

Yeah, the Coalface, making people bored watching you do your job, Ben. Now, I said before there was a hotel room that was perfect for us. So this is in Ibiza, overseas, where guests can stay the night for free in this room. But it's in the lobby, and the walls are all glass. So you're basically staying in a glass room. It's a lovely hotel room, but you have to sleep the night for free in this room, but it's in the lobby, and the walls are all glass. So you're basically staying in a glass room. It's a lovely hotel room, but you have to sleep the night, and you get to stay there for free. Just basically on show in the lobby

of the hotel. Oh, so what, your bed's in there and everything? Your bed's in there. It's the actual set up like a hotel room, but yeah, it's all glass walls. You can get there for one night for free, and they said it's perfect for artistic performances, radio broadcasts, there you go, DJ sets, or just people that want to be on display. So there for one night for free. And they said it's perfect for artistic performances, radio broadcasts, there you go, DJ sets, or just people that want to be on display. So you get one night for

staying inside. I think there's a little bathroom off the side that's not quite... I was going to say, there's some stuff... I had follow-on questions about how logistics work. Yeah. But I suppose you're not locked in there. No, you can get out on a steady stage. It's not like a cage or anything, but you have to go sleep in front of everyone. So if you chill with people watching you sleep, that's the ideal room. No, you can get out on a steady stage. It's not like a cage or anything, but you have to go sleep in front of everyone. So if you're chill

with people watching you sleep, that's the ideal room. Yeah, exactly. Now, we spoke about this yesterday. I did need an author whose book was gifted from Jacinda Ardern to Prince William, which was pretty cool. And she had no idea that the book was being gifted until she got a whole lot of messages. Have a listen.

I found out when I woke up yesterday morning, and I had dozens of messages on my phone from friends and well-wishers who had seen the media stories about it. And I must say it was a very exciting start to the day for an otherwise pretty routine Sunday. Pretty cool, eh? The book's called Tulip and Doug. It's a heartwarming story about a young girl and her pet potato. And Jacinda Ardern was given it by the author Emma Wood's mum

a few years ago just given it and it turned out to be one of her favourite books for Neve regifting I see what she's done here she's done a regift

she hasn't regifted she's regifted she said no she said it's one of her favourite books and Neve and she's passing it

on to Prince William she wouldn't have regifted this was someone who would say it was reg-gifting. Good smart play, though. You're a re-gifter. I love a re-gifter.

You re-gift. I love a re-gifter, yeah. You give Prince William a hand-me-down. Yeah, I'm like, we're done with that now. And that's what's making news this morning. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben, 6.16 on your Tuesday. You're essential listening for non-essential banter.

Jono and Ben on the hits. We're in the middle of the $20 tour. We're heading all the way down south to give Karen, $20 Karen, the $20 that we owe her. It was a great adventure yesterday in the camper van, wasn't it? Yeah, it really was. We stopped off in the Waikato and visited a friend of the show, wonderful Colin Craig Brown. Now, Colin, we've spoken to three or four times over the last six months. He was on a magnificent journey to get a world record, wasn't he?

Yeah, he was gardening a few months ago and he discovered what was like a seven kg potato that he dug out of the ground. He's like, this thing is huge. It looks like a Thanksgiving turkey, like it's massive. And he was like, this could be the world's biggest potato. I looked online and it seemed like it was the world's biggest potato. And then Guinness got involved and they had to send it away for testing on a potato. And the whole thing was a bit, you know, like trying to get your head around, is it a potato or is it not a potato? Yeah, and it turned out it wasn't.

But I don't really know what it is because it looks like a potato, right? Yeah, we caught up with Colin yesterday. Colin, thank you for having us at your farm. Yeah, no, beauty, mate. Not a problem. It's good to get you here, you know, after all these years. We've talked to you many times about Doug the Spud. We're very invested in the journey of Doug the Spud.

Yeah, I reckon I, you know, I know you. I've seen you on telly so many times and listened to you on radio. It's like, you know. We're family. Yeah. Are we family? Mates. Mates.

I said family, you said mates. Yeah, like bear buddies. So this is Doug the Spud who's hidden in a TNT children's wear plastic bag. So this is Doug the Spud. In my local cryogenic storage facility. So he's got a big deep freeze that he keeps Doug the Spud in. That's a bugger. Look at it.

That is a big almost potato there. That's a bloody big I'm not a potato, isn't it? It looks like a tumour. You can see why, when we dug it up, we thought it was a big potato. He's I'm not a potato. He's a tuber that grows under the ground, as in potatoes. He's got white flesh. He's got a brown skin.

So it's screaming potato to me. Well, if it quacks like a duck and it walks like a duck, it must be a bloody duck. That's what we thought. It tasted like a potato. And you sent it off to get tested by science? Yep. Crop and Food Research down in Christchurch done it.

And what did science say? They sent it to Scotland and they said it's chocomyritis or something or other else's. And my wife came screeching into me at about half past six one Sunday morning and said, I've worked it out what Doug is. I said, how many has there been? I said, oh, shit, love, it's too early for that. So you went through a lot.

We did. It was a journey. We got dragged through the ringer left, right, centre and pulled through the hedge backwards with no underpants on. I tell you. But you spoke to the Wall Street Journal. People over in America, the ABCs and the CBCs and the NBCs and all them other buggers.

Yeah. Poland. He's dug the Dominator from down there. Oh, she's heavy. How many kgs are we talking here? We dragged him out of the ground and he was 7.9 kilos. So he's shrunk a little bit? Yeah.

Well, I mean, cold weather, you know, does it to all of us, to be honest. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There you go. So that was it. That was Doug at the spud that turned out to be Doug the dud, because it wasn't quite the world record spud. But 7 kg, still really impressive. We got to hold it.

He keeps it in the freezer. Yeah, he does. And he took us for a wonderful tour of the farm, and he's got a penchant for oversized produce. Yeah. You know, he hasn't just got a giant thing that looks like a potato. He's got giant zucchinis, giant... Pump this pumpkin!

It was massive. He didn't even lift the pumpkin. Yeah, it was huge. It's like he had on the, you know, anabolic steroids that Putin puts in his Russian athletes. Enormous produce, but it was lovely to meet Colin. If you want to check out the photo of what could have been the world's largest potato, but that wasn't quite the potato, you can head to the Hits Breakfast on Instagram and Facebook.

Mature, responsible, and considerate. Three words we sadly can't use here. Jono and Ben on the Hits. Broadcasting this morning in the middle of our $20 tour, we're heading down the country, taking a camper van all the way from Auckland down south to Christchurch. We're in Rotorua this morning at the Hello Stranger cafe, so you can come on down, get free coffee.

Now, Fiona, who's sitting here watching us do Radio B, you started the show saying watching Radio B made is very boring. Has it improved? Has the show improved? Oh, but don't go back to Fiona. It hasn't. We're working hard. If I've got one goal today, it's to entertain Fiona. That's all I want to do. Well, you can come down like Fiona and be entertained yourself this morning.

Free coffee. You spin the wheel as well, the $20 wheel. You won $20, didn't you? Yeah. You won $20. Free coffee. Tough audience. Tough audience.

They said that. Getting to the regions, it was always going to be tough for us. It's hard to win them over, mate. And at 7.45 this morning, You can know someone will play five words as well. But $20 to give away to people listening too. So yeah, plenty of winning this morning. It's like we're almost bribing people. We are. But still, that's not good enough

apparently. Alright, let's get into the Internet Wormhole. Join us, Internet Wormhole. Actually driving here in the camper van yesterday, I got lost in a black hole. A big dark black hole. And that black hole is space, Ben. Have you heard of space? I have heard of space, yeah. Well, this is stuff that's going to blow your

marbles about space. Did you know that there's, obviously, there's no atmosphere in space, which means it's completely silent. Sound can't travel in space. So right now, if we were in space, you couldn't hear me talking. It'd be a dream. Really? You wouldn't be able to hear a thing. You wouldn't have to listen to me talk in space.

Oh. NASA. You heard of NASA? Yeah, I heard of NASA. So they, you know, the spacesuits that they send the astronauts up in. Yeah. In 1974, they were $12 million to make. They still use the same spacesuits today.

From 1974. What, the same? Yeah. If they were to rebuild them now guess how much a space suit would be 150 million dollars oh what i don't understand though we're talking about this the other day is like we went okay let's say yeah some people think we didn't go to space or people didn't go to space you know walk on the moon and stuff all these years ago but why have we not why has it not happened since with all the technology that we've got i don't

want to be a conspiracy theorist but when you but when you had that conversation, we're all like, hmm. Yeah, it's like we did this many years ago, like in the 60s or whatever, and we haven't put people back on the moon since. And it's no coincidence we went to Pack and Save and bought a whole roll of monofoil. Okay, sorry. Yeah, after that. One million Earths can fit inside the sun. One million?

1.3 million to be exact, fit inside the sun. Jeez, that's pretty big. What nerd did those equations? But.3 million to be exact. Fit inside the sun. Jeez. That's pretty big. I don't know what nerd did those equations but thank you for your hard work. Venus, the planet of Venus takes 243 Earth days to complete one day in Venus. It rotates so

slowly. Wow. The days drag in Venus, mate. Long days, long days. It's like when you go to a child's dance recital and you're waiting for your kid to come on stage. Longer than that. That's what it would be like living on Venus all of the time. And there is a planet made entirely of diamonds. What?

It's all diamonds. Who says this? 55 kangaroos. The internet. Do you think they just say that stuff because no one's ever going to go check it out? Michael Hill Jeweler is having a diamond-encrusted climax listening to this. There's a planet made of diamonds. There you go.

That's some stuff about space you didn't know. That hits. This is the Jonah and Ben Podcast. Spilling the tea on Hollywood's A-listers. Kardashians. I have met every single one. Exposing scandals. Because she's not a good person, but either is he.

Digging the dirt. Is she a diva? Yes. And finding out what's going on behind the scenes. Yelling at cast members. Yes. It was a script. No. His identity is a secret. But his stories have been proven right time and time again. This is NT. He's here

from the bright lights of Hollywood to the one light of Rotorua. Come on in, Andy. How are you? I'm well. How are you? Good. We're traveling.

We're on the road at the moment, mate. We're in a small town called Rotorua, which will mean absolutely nothing to you. It absolutely does. Does it have a bunch of hot spring? Yeah. Oh, Jesus. Is there nothing that you don't know? You know, that just came out of my head.

I got to tell you, I did a report on New Zealand when I was in the fourth grade, and for some reason that just kind of stuck out. Yeah, well done. That would have been a bleak report to do. Hey, it's lovely to have you on, NT. It's been a big week. We want to kick it off with Taylor Swift swift the stalker uh who's been arrested you know it's she has a big problem with stalkers this guy isn't even as bad as somebody that uh

back in may there was a guy who and he tried to drive into her building crashed his car into her building like then ripped off the the intercom system from the building or whatever saying that he had to talk to her i think he said that maybe they were married or they had gotten to a fight or something like that so this most recent guy he's nothing compared to the guy who tried to drive a car into the building well listen i apologize for it got away on me and i said sorry do you so i thought this was the same dude this This is a whole other guy. Yeah, this is a whole different guy. Yeah. How much, like, security would Taylor Swift have?

I mean, she must have round-the-clock security. But even with that, I imagine, you know, there's still people trying to get to her. Yeah, I mean, Taylor Swift does have round-the-clock security. I mean, just it's everywhere. And, you know, she's very well protected because she's got the amount of money that it takes to have that. And she understands that there's a threat against her, a constant threat. So that's just how she is and how she rolls. And that's how you can also tell one of the things when you have extensive security like that.

It kind of also plays against you when you're trying to play the publicity game, because there is no way that you or I are going to get within three or four feet of her to take a paparazzi photo. It's just not possible. She's got too many security guards. So when you see a photo of her from three or four feet away or ten feet away, you know that it's somebody that she let in to take the photo. That is something that she is agreeing to. Do celebrities hire paparazzi photographers? I would say, okay, back in the days of the Lindsay Lohan, Brittany, Paris Hilton,

I would say almost nobody hired paparazzi. It was very, very few. Now, I would say, in this day and age, 90% of all paparazzi photos are actually bought and paid for. Not necessarily paid for by the celebrity, but hey, you come to my house,

you come to the street, you would take the photo, and then if you think you can get money for it, get celebrity, but hey, you come to my house, you come to the street, you would take the photo, and then if you think you can get money for it, get it. But meanwhile, I'll have my photo in a tabloid. And it's also pretty obvious. There's some obvious clues. If you see a celebrity walking in the street rather than a sidewalk, then that's generally a paparazzi photo because they want to be the sole person in the photo. And if you're on a sidewalk, that's tougher to do. If they're holding a product that's facing towards the camera,

that's generally something that has been planned in advance. Or if you see a caption in the photo in the tabloid that mentions the product's name or something that they're wearing, that's also an indication that they've done that. Really? Oh, you're pulling, Bette. You're ruining it for me. The celebrity tours that, you know,. Really? Oh, you're pulling, but you're ruining it for me. The celebrity tours that, you know,

you go to Hollywood, you see the little, the buses driving around, they go past celebrity houses. They're like, this is where such and such lives and this is where, are they the actual houses

where the celebrities live? Do people know where the celebrities live? Or are they just saying names of celebrities? Because we don't know. I'm not going to fact check them. Well, here's, okay.

If you're talking about a celebrity that is dead, then it's generally the house. What they'll do is, like, most of the time in the first stops, because they leave from Hollywood and Highland, the first stop is the outside of an apartment that was in Pretty Woman. And that's kind of what they'll do is they'll also show you, say, you know, the Nightmare on Elm Street house, or they'll show you, you know, the Fresh Prince house or something like that, combined with, oh, Frank Sinatra used to live someplace.

And this was and so when they talk about actual celebrities, celebrities move quite frequently and they don't want to tell somebody where a celebrity lives. So they'll pretend that somebody lived there or maybe the celebrity lived there for five minutes or something like that. But it's very rarely where the celebrity lives. Oh, is anything real anymore? Is anything real? Hey, NT, great to catch up, my friend. You look after yourself over there in America.

Hey, you guys have fun on your trip. With a long and extinguished career. Jono and Ben on the hit. In the middle of the $20 tour we're heading south to give Karen the $20 $20 Karen the money back

that we owe her. Yeah, she won a prize never got it and along the way we're handing out $20 notes this morning at Hello Stranger Cafe in Rotorua

if you want to come down spin the $20 wheel. Can I just say like if we were doing the lotto show on TV like we would be giving away a lot of money because you're you're letting everyone win so far we need to tighten, like, we would be giving away a lot of money because you're letting everyone win so far.

We need to tighten up. We're giving away a lot of $20 notes. You're getting swept up in the excitement, aren't you? If anyone doesn't win, doesn't get $20, you're like, oh, mate, I think it was on this. And you click the wheel around again. The scrutineers would not be happy. No, they wouldn't. That would be part of an internal investigation if I was at the lotteries commission.

Hey, last night was something that I've wanted to do for a while now. We heard a few weeks ago about robot waiters, the waiters that go around the restaurant delivering food at Cobb & Co in Rotorua. Yeah. Now, James, who listens to the show, he's from Rotorua, and he said, Well, come down. We'll have dinner. We'll go to Cobb & Co.

I thought it was a hot date. He awkwardly brought along his wife, Kirsten. So this is unorthodox, but I guess, right, okay, whatever. And we had dinner with them last night. It was fantastic. It was actually really awesome. And these waiters, I keep getting distracted by the robot waiters. They would sort of zip around to the restaurant delivering food.

And when they come over to you with your meals, they make these cute little noises and talk to you. Have a listen. Here I am. Three, five, six. Dear guests, your meal is ready. Be careful when picking it up. There we go.

Just adorable. One was like a pussycat and the other one was like another robot. They are adorable, but they would get on your nerves after six hours of, don't forget to pick up your thing. Very cute, though. It felt like we were dining with the cast of Star Wars, didn't it? It was like a sort of R2-D2 size. It was impressive.

They'd just obviously program them in, and they'd just go around the restaurant, they'd go deliver the food, and then they'd go back to the kitchen. I was very excited, like a paparazzi waiting outside to film them for social media. You were. You were very concerned with getting a good shot of the robots. It would be like going to Elon Musk's house for dinner. Yeah. He'd have something like this going on.

Anyway, we've got talking to the manager of Cobb & Co afterwards. So let's talk robot waiters. Let's do it. Let's do it. Yeah. Let's do it. So we've got two of them, Sione and Bella, and they're really, really helpful.

They're awesome, man. Everyone's really excited about it. The kids love it. Seniors it seniors love it yeah people come from all over the country to see them it's been it's been a while it's been really really cool yeah so what so what do they do explain what they do because it seems like one brings out like the food and others takes away the plates or is that's exactly right man nailed it so we've got Bella who is a food delivery robot and she'll drive out to any table and then lights will flash and then the

guests grab their food off the off the trays they have flashing lights and Sione, Sione is a dishes delivery robot so he sits in one spot and his staff put dishes on him and he's on a timer and when the timer counts down he'll drive automatically out to the dish area and then he makes a little announcement he like alarms himself and says hello please unload me and then when makes a little announcement. He alarms himself and says, hello, please unload me, and then his weight census will let him know that he's empty, and then he comes back and sits there and gobbles more dishes, and when it's real busy, we turn him into a food robot. How do the annual performance reviews go? They're, you know, like the new staff,

so we're just taking it day by day. It's informal at the moment. You scratch the head and stuff as well. You can scratch Bella's ears, she'll purr and her eyes kind of make a satisfying... Satisfactory... I don't know. She loves it. The robot seems into it. Who knew the future of dining lay at Cobb & Co Rotorua?

Oh my mind was blown by it. They reckon that's going to be, you know, 10 years. That's just going to be the normal. But this is the first restaurant in the country to have it. And what they do is they get the robots and then they take them to each location when they first get them, program them in, so like table 72, and then it just remembers the path to table 72. Genius. Oh, man. One drives like Lewis Hamilton in Hamilton.

The other drives like a nervy nana. In the middle of our $20 tour heading down the country right now. It's been a lot of fun, but also a little bit tense driving a camper van down the country. Yeah, we're at Hello Stranger Cafe in Rotorua this morning, delivering $20 to Karen in Christchurch. But along the way, handing out $20 notes. Come spin the wheel, Ben. And you said you've turned Vegas into a... Yeah, it was Vegas.

We actually brought the Vegas to Vegas, didn't we? With the winning wheel, you could win $20 this morning. This is Vegas' only casino. Yeah, plus five words this morning. Someone could win a whole lot of money here at the cafe this morning. But you listening right now as well, there's plenty more chances to win money and concert tickets. So everyone's a winner today. So much winning.

So much winning. We haven't left anyone out. But tensions are at an all-time high. We just mentioned before with the camper van that we're travelling in. It felt yesterday that I broke some apparently road trip rules by falling asleep. If you don't want me to fall asleep, don't transport me in a mobile lounge. As soon as we were like, I was sitting in the back with you for a wee bit as well,

built it up, and I was like, he's going to go to sleep. I'm going to sit back up with B-Hubs at the front. Producer B-Hubs, who was driving, keep him company

as you slept your way through in the back. But I'm like, I feel like a responsibility to have someone keep awake with the driver. Like, I feel like that should be a road trip rule

that someone stays awake with the driver. Who's staying awake for us? Not you, mate. You're like, any chance you get, you'll fall asleep. Oh, like if I could fall asleep now, I would. So you believe that someone needs to be awake at all times. To keep the driver company.

We have to do shifts at keeping B-hubs. Otherwise, you're like, I've done it before with my family. You're driving along and you're the only one awake. You're like, well, this is fun. Thanks, guys. Everyone's having a sleep. Well, don't commit to awake. You're like, well, this is fun. Thanks, guys. Everyone's having a sleep. Well, don't commit to driving. You can have sleeping as an option as well.

Yeah, so we've had a few little conversations over the years on our road trips as well. You like to use the horn when I'm driving, which I find a bit upsetting. When he does use the horn, like if we're sitting behind a car that forgets to go at a green light, he won't honk. He would sit there through five different light phases before even honking the horn. Like if we're sitting behind a car that forgets to go at a green light, he won't honk. He would sit there through five different light phases before even honking the horn. And if he does, it'll be a little, hee! But you'll lean across and go, mate, give me a honk! And that's what you'll do. But then I'll put my hand up and say, sometimes I've accidentally left rubbish in your door,

your little compartment in your door. Apple cores, banana skins. So I'm sorry about that. Yeah, but you also, you cram them into the cup holders as well. Apple cores and banana skins. I'm sorry, I'm sorry about that. Yeah, but you also cram them into the cup holders as well. Apple cores and banana skins. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'll put my hand up and say that wasn't on purpose, but I've walked away going, oh, God, there's mandarin peel or apple cores

I've left in Jono's car. So it feels like we need to nip this in the bud early in the trip. Yes. Or else it's going to linger, it's going to fester, and then by Friday no one's going to be talking to each other. That's not ideal for radio. No. So, 0800 the hits.

What are your road trip rules your rtrs uh you know no blindfolding the driver while driving that's a good one that's a good one i always are here too no stopping to go for a pee no use the cup holders yeah or pay for something when you go to the gas station like jono loves to just walk on there and use it like it's his bathroom i'm like mate you gotta play and I will have to go buy something because I feel guilty. So again, is that a rule? Do you need to buy something from a gas station to use the bathroom? No eating petrol station chicken.

That's a good rule. Chicken cordon bleu. Don't do it. Don't take the risk. So 0800 the Hits, what are your road trip rules? We'll implement them. We'll write them down on a Word doc so we can all see. We'll print them out and we'll hang them on the wall of the camper Dan Carter.

Need to sort out these tensions in the road rules this morning. One great way to make the morning commute a little more stressful. Jono and Ben on the hits. We're on our $20 tour. We're heading down the country in a camper van and we want to sort out some road trip rules because things

were getting a little bit tense on day one between us and the camper van. Yeah, there's some great texts coming through, 4487. Zoe says, my rule when I'm driving, first to fall asleep pays for dinner. That usually keeps people awake, says Zoe. Johnny, you'll be paying for dinner every night. I like that rule. Yeah, that's good.

Well, this is a work trip, man. Okay? What? Work can pay for dinner. Yeah, but they also don't pay you to sleep. Yeah. So... What? Work can pay for dinner. Yeah, but they also don't pay you to sleep. So. Another great road trip rule here on 4487 is try and stay on the right side of the road.

Oh, that's a good one. Yeah, that's a really good one. That's a really good one. Don't open the windows for the entire trip. Yeah. You get that noise. We've spoken about this many times before. I always thought my dad was lying about the noise when we'd open the backseat windows, you know.

But there is a noise that when you're driving, you're like, it gets a piercing. You do need airflow, though. You need some airflow. But this person's saying, hold your breath. Breathe when you stop. So 0800, that's the telephone number. What are your RTRs, your road trip rules? What have you got, Bevan? Oh, no smoking in the car while travelling long distance, otherwise the baggage is sick. And we all know how Ben likes to have the odd smoke too, eh? We do, we do.

Bevan knows. I don't even know. Yeah, I've been saying it for years, and Bevan knows. I don't know. But you did right, Bevan. I was about to take up smoking just before we left on our trip. Yeah, nothing better to pass the day by. Yes, there is.

Plenty more stuff. Did you now, producer Behemz was saying when you were a child, your dad used to. Oh, for sure, mate. Of course, not what Ben smokes, but the old cigarettes and that. Yeah, he used to make me feel very sick and get car sick, and I'll put it down to that, I reckon. Yeah, I mean, there was a great period where parents would smoke in the car with a car sick and I'd put it down to that, I reckon. Yeah, I mean,

there was a great period where parents would smoke in the car with their children, wasn't there? Oh, for sure, for sure. Windows up as well?

Oh, a little bit down, say like 50 mil, you know, just enough to make it go into the back seat. Oh, great.

Bevan, listen, I've loved this on multiple levels. I haven't at all, Bevan, but yeah, have yourself a great day. Great story.

It's all good, Ben. See you, bro. Great character assassination. Thanks, Bevan. Okay, see you guys. See you tomorrow. Great character assassination. Thanks, Bevan. Okay, see you guys. See you, mate.

Ashley with us on 0800 The Hits. Where are you from, Ashley? Taronga. Oh, I love Taronga. Beautiful place, isn't it? Oh, it's lovely, sunny, beautiful all the time. Yeah, it is. Really is.

Now, road trip rules. What are yours? What do we need to employ? Well, we've got a road trip rule that stands in our house that hubby packs a couple of beers in a bag and I drive home. Oh, so the road trip rule is

you just drive him home while he drinks beer? Yes, pretty much. Oh, that's it. Okay. Well, I would like to employ that road trip rule. Ben, I'll pack a couple of beers. Well, you've probably packed a couple of beers already, haven't you? And I'm driving him away when that happens. Yeah.

Has this just always been a long-standing rule? To be fair, for the last seven years it's not changed, and we're off to New Plymouth tonight, and I know he's already packed a couple of beers, and he said that the ute will be ready and started for when I get home so I can drive. That's a lovely guy. So he's packed the car, he's got it.

Yeah, he's packed the bags and packed everything and all I've got to do is get home and just drive. That's all you've got to do. You're doing a lot of the other... Can I just say, who is this legend? You are the legend, can I say. He's just lucky I like driving. Oh, that's good. You're awesome. Who pitched

this? I reckon he just somehow snuck this in right at the beginning. Yeah, it was me. He gave me no option when we go for Friday beers with the boys, and it was if you want to go home, you drive and I drink, or we sleep on a couch. Yeah, right. Okay, well this feels

like a rule that was put in place in 1986. And you're like, so what? We're still doing this. Oh, I love it. If it works for you, it works for you guys. And we want to send you along to see Thor. It's a brand-new Marvel movie by Taika Waititi. It looks awesome.

It's in cinemas this week. Oh, brilliant. Thank you so much. I'll probably have to drive home from that, too. I was just about to say, on one condition, you get to pack a couple of beers and he drives. Yeah, and he drives home. To be fair, he always pays for dinner, so I don't mind driving.

Good on you, mate. Thanks, Ashley. Cool, thanks. That is Ed Sheeran, Overpass Graffiti. You're on the hits, John O'Benn, 724, in the middle of our $20 tour, heading down the country in a camper van. That's right, in Rotorua at Hello Stranger Cafe, where they've just provided breakfast chicken.

Oh, yeah. Chicken, bacon and waffles. It's the most popular thing on the menu there. You can see why. My arteries are scared. They're quaking. They're shaking with fear. Delicious.

Let's find out what's making news around the world. Scrolling through your feed. All right. This is the only news update you'll hear from the comfort of a cafe this morning. What's going on, Ben? Well, can I front foot with this in saying thanks to our partners who are actually not our partners at Ladbible, the website, because they've provided us with two bits of amazing news to talk about this morning. But you said to me before the show, you're like, oh, I'm going to have to go to Ladbible, the website, because they've provided us with two bits of amazing news to talk about this morning.

But you said to me before the show, you're like, I'm going to have to go to Ladbible. Like it was something you should be ashamed of. No, no, no, it's not, because it's a great website. I just feel like I should go find, I should hunt out these stories myself, and in the end I just go to this website, and they're there. And this one, the first one is... You should be more ashamed about that hub one you go and visit all the time. Oh, whatever.

That's one you should be ashamed of. Now, there's a groundbreaking new hangover pill. Now, it's on sale in the UK. It's just one pound. So you can take the pill before you go out drinking, and it will rapidly break down alcohol to avoid hangovers. It's the first product like it in history. It's 100% natural and vegan, and it costs about, yeah,

30 pounds for a pack of 30 pills. It's been perfected for 30 years of science. Science has been working on this for 30 years. Science should have been maybe working on other stuff. Vaccines and stuff. Another great way to not have a hangover is maybe don't drink. Yeah. But, you know, there's a new pill, and it's cheap, and it's on sale,

and it'll hopefully avoid you having hangovers. But you're right, Jono. Yeah. Do you have a sort of a fix-yourself-up thing the next morning? What do you do? I try, like, fresh air. I try and do some activities. Just do stuff.

Just do stuff. Fresh air. Well, eat fresh air, you know, like, drink some fluids. That's the kind of thing, yeah. I don't like sitting around and wallowing in my own self-pity. I'm like, just do something. Even though I don't feel like it, I'm getting some fresh air. I'm trying to do something.

God, you'd be annoying. Imagine that guy. Come on, guys. Let's get getting some fresh air. I'm trying to do something. God, you'd be annoying. Come on, guys. Let's get a get fresh air. It's six in the morning. I don't want fresh air right now. This is the day where you eat pies and you sit on a couch. Not for you, though. I had another thing I was going to say and I forgot.

Well, that's a great story. Well, that's good. See if you can think of it while I tell you this next one. So a lady in the UK has lived an incredible 104 years in the same house. She lived in the same house. Now, she was born in 1918. She's been through, you know, like a lot over the last 100 years. There's a lot of stuff that's happened over the last 104 years.

Yeah, but she's lived through it all in the same house she was born in 104 years ago. She's lived in one house and one house only. Is it central London? It's just out of London. Yeah, yeah. She basically bought it for 250 pounds. Imagine what it's worth now. Yeah, and she couldn't afford it at the time.

She had to get a loan from the bank for 240 pounds. Her father began renting it before she actually bought it. You remember what the economy rate was to convert this? A seven shillings and a sixpence? Yeah, yeah, back when you were using it. Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, yeah. The Great. Back when you were using it. Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, so that's a... The Great Depression.

All the days. Yeah, so that's what... Originally, he was renting it for seven shillings and a sixpence, about £30 in today's money a week, and she bought it not long after for £250. Couldn't afford it, but now she's lived in it for 100 years. That's a long time. How much stuff would have just piled up in there?

Yeah. What you would gather over 104 years of just stuff. Stuff I've gathered over 10 years. Yeah. 104 years worth of stuff. That's incredible. Well done to her. And hopefully many more.

Well, no, there's not going to be many more, let's be honest. She's reached the peak. Hey, she's played. A hundred and bloody four. Okay. I'm not going to say, well, here's to the next hundred and four. That's not going to happen. No, we're not the only ones on a road trip down the country.

Josh, so John Kuhn is doing it as well. He's going to join us next. It's an amazing thing he's doing, travelling around the country to help out the youth in New Zealand. Yeah, now we're both doing tours of the country. You know, who's to say who's doing a better charity tour? He is. Who's to say this? He is.

Who is? Who is? So John Kuhn is, and he joins us next. It is the hits. You've got Giorno and Ben, 7.28 Tuesday morning. Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain. I leave my heart open, but it stays right here empty for days. The hits.

This is the Jono and Ben podcast. Broadcasting on our $20 tour as we're heading down the country on our road trip, giving out a whole lot of $20 notes as we make our way down the country. But Sir John Coon, all-black legend, does amazing work for mental health in New Zealand. He's launched Mighty, which aims to help young people in their mental health and get it as part of the school curriculum. He's going to try and launch an education programme

across all schools, or as many schools as he can. That's why he's on the road this week on tour. And Sir John Kirwan, how are you? Welcome. Glad, what's going on? It's lovely to have you on the show as always, John Kirwan, how are you? Welcome. Clare, what's going on? Oh, it's lovely to have you on the show as always, John Kirwan. You've embarked on your tour of New Zealand. Yeah, how good is that? Getting out and spreading the word around mental health and BIC at the foundation, so really excited.

It's an awesome thing you're doing because, you know, like I was reading some stuff over the weekend, you know, about the young people, you know, going through COVID and lockdowns and all, how it's really affected a lot of young New Zealanders. Yeah, look, and to start with, we've got one of the worst mental health stats in the OCD. And like, you know, five years ago, I woke up and thought, you know, we're heading in the wrong direction.

What do we need to do differently? So for a year, we facilitated child psychologists, psychologists, teachers, headmasters, and everyone came up with the same answer. It needs to be a curriculum-based school program, right, that teaches our kids, just like English, maths, and science, teach our kids about mental health. It needs to be delivered through the teachers that are already in the schools

because they're amazing. Don't need to put any pressure on them from a resource point of view, either financially or human resource-wise. And we need to give our kids curriculum-based knowledge around how to deal with some of the stuff the world's throwing at them. So you've obviously launched Mighty. You're on the Mighty Drive driving around New Zealand. How can people get involved and either see you

or help raise some money with you? Yeah, go jump online. So my mate Steve Kensington who runs J.K. Orlando has given me a brand new Defender 90 giveaway. I'll be driving that through the country. If you go to themightydrive.org,

$20 a ticket, all the money goes to the J.K. Foundation to reach out and help out Tamariki and you get to win a Land Rover Defender 90 which is really really cool. Otherwise you can text MightyMightyEY

and 4229 and you will donate 3 bucks but just jump online, have a look I'll be in the communities on Hamilton today, Taronga tomorrow, Hawke's Bay, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin and Invercargill. So I'll be in your neighbourhood. Get text mighty to 4229.

Do you know what, Sir John Kewin, I know your raffle's going to be flawless, but do you know Sir Graham Henry came in here this time last year and he sold Ben and me raffle tickets up the wazoo to win a spa pool. And we haven't heard from Graham Henry since. I can't believe that. I know. If you see me driving around in my Land Rover 90 towing a spa pool, you know where it went.

Now, JK, we're also doing a bit of a road trip, not quite as important as the one that you're doing this week, but I wanted to ask you a couple of questions, you know, just to get some road trip rules, etiquette, because you're on your road trip. So can Jono lean over and honk the horn if I'm driving? First question, because I don't think he can, but he will do it. No, no, I've got three rules, three rules that are really important you guys should implement.

Okay. No passing of wind. Okay. Yep. All right, fair? Secondly, do not talk to me before 10am. I don't want to see you or look at you. Don't even want to look at me.

Our show goes to nine, but anyway. Look out the window. And the third thing is, is it a sausage roll or pie? That's the only big decision you need to make for lunchtime. Okay, but then that comes, you know, you look back around to the wind issue at the beginning once you've had those. Yeah, windows

down would be the afternoon call, I think. Alright, we'll add those to our road trip laws and rules as well, eh JK? It's always great to catch up, buddy, and you're doing such an amazing thing. I hope it goes really well for you. Yeah, guys, and I just really appreciate your support. You've all been always been really supportive of the

stuff I'm doing, and I really appreciate it. Let's go. Jono and Ben with five words for 5K. Stop any time to keep the cash. Thank you. Or play on to win more. It is our Game of Word Association. We play it every morning on the hits,

but we've added a twist over the last week or so where you can win cash the longer you play in the game, but if you get one wrong, you lose it all. It's a lot more fun. It's a champagne sexing up of the format, Ben. We've seen it before in the game, and we'll see it again. But, yeah, we're giving it a little zhuzh up. And if you thought it was exhilarating listening, well, imagine playing it in person.

I.R.L. Fiona, you get to play right now. How are you feeling? Okay so far. Okay so far? Yeah. You've been watching us do radio since 6 o'clock this morning. What's the highlight so far, mate?

Talk us through your highlights of watching us clear emails. It's actually quite boring, actually, watching you. It is quite boring. Radio's not quite as exciting. It's not really a spectator sport, is it? Front of shop on air. It's all go, isn't it? It's all energy.

It's all fun. Behind the scenes, though, it's bleak. All right, Fiona, let's try and win you some money, because that's exciting, right? Yes. So you've decided you want Jono to go away. Jono, can you whip outside? I'll go into the street. Yeah, into the street out there. And then as soon as he gets out the

door here, he won't be able to hear us. And we'll go through your first words. Okay, here's word number one this morning. It is Dublin. Dublin. What pops into your head when I say Dublin? Irish. Irish. Okay.

Sultana. Biscuits. Biscuits. App. A-P-P. App. Oh, God. B&B.

A B&B? B&B app. Oh, like B&Breakfast? Thermal. It's hard when you get put on the spot, isn't it? Clothes. Clothes. And panini. Final word this morning.

Oh, God, panini. This is tough. These are tough words. Panini. Eat it. Eat it. Eat it. What, maybe a toaster cafe?

What are you thinking? Toasted. Toasted panini. Okay, these are hard words this morning. Are you happy with everyone? Yeah. I've got nothing to lose. Dublin?

I was thinking Dublin. You've got Irish or Ireland as the two options. Ireland. Ireland? Yeah, I don't know what he's going to say, but that was what popped into my head as well. Okay, let's get Jono back. We'll wave through the window right now.

Here we go. And we can see how we go. Here we go. We can head straight into word one. Word one is, of course, worth $25. Word one, $25. Out on the street, it smells like sulfur and winning. Okay.

I'm feeling good. Okay, word number one. These are tough words this morning, Jono. Dublin is the first one. Dublin. Ireland. Ireland, well done. We changed it at the last minute.

I'm glad we did that. What else did you do? We had Irish. Which is another great option as well. Now, how are you feeling? Because Go on. You want to keep going? Okay, this is the next word which is worth $50. Word two, $50.

Sultana. Sultana. What pops into your head when I say sultana? When I hear sultana, I say raisin. Of course! What if Fiona, what did you say? Biscuit. Yeah, Sultana biscuit. Sultana!

I'm sorry. We all know raisin was the best option. Now we do, now we do. We'd even thought of raisin before. Yeah, yeah. But Fiona, it was, yeah. Now, Fiona, she always thought radio was boring, and now she's walked away with nothing.

Yeah, well, listen, Fiona, what price do you put on a money can't buy experience of being on New Zealand's 13th most popular breakfast radio show? Being here with you two. Lovely to meet you and your family as well. You've spun the wheel, you've won $20 at least on the tour this morning and grabbed a free coffee.

Thank you. Lovely to meet you Fiona. Another chance for someone else to play tomorrow. I think we're going to be hitting She just scoffed at me. It rolled her eyes. You're a disappointment. Warning. This show contains Jono and Orban. Jono and Ben on the hits. Broadcasting in the middle of our $20

tour. We've made our way from Auckland to Rotorua. We're broadcasting this morning from Hello Stranger. Come down to the cafe, free coffee, spin the wheel, and you win $20. We're taking a camper van down the country, but then we had the option last night of sleeping in the camper van, which is lovely, or sleeping in the Ridges

Hotel here, and I was like, well... We took option B. Producer B helped us stay in the camper van, but we stayed at the Ridges, and now, because we stayed at the Ridges, just like to say, the best family-friendly hotel in Rotorua, dedicated kids' play zone as well, next to the geothermal village. Yeah, the kids can't play anywhere else apart from the

dedicated play zone. That's where the playing takes place. It's a lovely hotel. It's a lovely hotel. It was warm and cosy and I forgot to turn off the air con.

In the middle of the night I woke up with not an ounce of moisture in my body. Like a shrimp. How was it inside the camper van? The camper van was

great. I tell you what there was lots of kids playing out in the car park this morning. That shouldn't have been happening. Should have been

there in the dedicated kids play zone. But thank you to morning. That shouldn't have been happening. Should have been there in the dedicated kids' play zone. But thank you to the Ridges for having us last night. Yeah, it was lovely. Now, a bit of a debate going on between the two Ben's, Bee Humps, Ben Boyce, and myself. Now, a couple of weeks ago, I received a parking ticket. Now, all I get, the only mail I get sent to work, are tickets, infringements, notices,

and each day Ben Humphrey comes in, he's like, another one, mate. And you're like, oh, yeah. When will they learn? So the latest one is a little bit of a contentious ticket, in my mind. Yes. Now, we know kind of the full story. But anyway, over to you. This is your story.

So I'm parked on yellow lines outside my son's school. I'm in the vehicle, okay? I'm in the vehicle. Am I napping? Maybe. You like to park up early and occasionally get a bit of a nap. Just get a cheeky 20 in. A 20?

You're getting 20. You get there early, don't you? And so I then sent this letter. It's a low-level, low-brow, local government hit job on me where the ticketing officer has taken a photo from a distance, 100 metres away, like zoomed in. Hasn't even known that I'm in the vehicle. Now, here's where my issue lay.

I then email them. I say, listen, guys, I was in the vehicle on a very important phone call. But you were. But anyway, yeah. That's why, I was in the vehicle on a very important phone call. But you were, but anyway, yeah. That's why I'd pulled over onto the yellow lines. And you two are saying you can't park on yellow lines regardless if you're napping or... Or on an important phone call. It's a no stopping zone.

It's a bureaucratic stitch up. Now the government's there trying to claw back lost revenue from the last two and a half years. They're out there on a ticketing massacre at the moment. Mate, you had you on the broken yellow lines. All you needed to do before you wrote in your email trying to get off there was Google it. It says it's illegal to park a vehicle on broken yellow lines.

To stop, stand or park a vehicle on the road, no matter if you're sleeping or on an important phone call. So what if I was having a serious medical emergency? Well, you didn't say that though. But if the serious medical emergency was I seriously needed a nap. And all you've done is clog the bureaucracy. Because someone that actually needs to get off their ticket, the team now are just looking and going,

oh, why is this idiot replying to us? It's clogging up the whole system as they review and go, You can't park on yellow lines. The loved broadcaster innocently parks on yellow lines. Beloved broadcaster innocently parks on yellow lines. You had so much time. Obviously you had 20 minutes. Why did you park on the yellow lines? Because there's no other park. And now I

pay my rates. You can't get off parking. It's for your housemate. I paid for those lines to be painted on the road. It doesn't mean you can park anywhere, though. Anyway, we'll bring you up to speed. We'll get blow-by-blow coverage of this.

If you get off this, it'll be a miracle as well. Especially now. The Hits Box Office. There are some amazing concerts coming to New Zealand over the next 12 months or so. And every day this week, around about this time, we open up the Hits box office. Your chance to win a double pass

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Well done. There was a lot of information you just handed out there, Ben. I got a heart. Flawless. Oh, thank you. There is so much happening in this country that New Zealand, if you tell me you're bored and you've got nothing to do, I won't be having it. Flawless. Oh, thank you. There is so much happening in this country that New Zealand,

if you tell me you're bored and you've got nothing to do, I won't be having it. It'll be like when your parents say, well, go outside and play. Oh, some amazing gigs. Yeah, it really is. Now we're going to go to Claire.

Welcome. You're on from Auckland. Tracy, sorry. You're on from Auckland. Welcome. Bloody hell, got my name right. Oh, I'm sorry, Tracy. I was flawless.

Did anyone hear that I was flawless before with all the information? And John, I just got a name wrong. That's Tracy. I was flawless. Did anyone hear that I was flawless before with all the information? And John, I just got a name wrong. That's why. I had one job. I was just about to go. I was just going when you had Claire. Oh, fucker.

I didn't wish it. Yeah. Yeah, that's not my name. If you could be polite and just answer to Claire, that would have been helpful. Make me seem half-competent. Hey, well done. You're going to go to the Killers in Auckland, Trace. Great. Brilliant. Fantastic. Hey, well done. You're going to go to the Killers in Auckland, Trace. Great.

Brilliant. Fantastic. Now, did you know, Killers, I was looking, their first name was the genius sex poets, the Killers. Oh, really? You're really backing yourself to be fantastic at poetry

and or lovemaking, aren't you? Yeah, yeah. The Killers are going to be an amazing concert. And actually, we've got a $20 wheel here at the cafe. Do you want to spin that right now and see if Trace can win an extra $20 as well? I certainly do. Right. I'll spin the wheel if your answers are clear.

I will answer anything. Medium, hard, soft. What do you want there, Trace? Oh, I want to... Ooh, where am this? I have a medium. Family show. Okay.

And it's a medium spin. Yeah, the wheels are getting wobbly. But at least you got the double pass to the killers. All right, that's okay. I can accept that. I will accept it. Well, another chance this afternoon with Brad and Laura to win a double pass to another amazing concert

that hits box office. It's pretty sweet. Come on down, grab a free coffee or a hot chocolate, spin the $20 wheel. We're just taking a lot of our money. I'm worried because we're on a mission. We're on the $20 tour.

We need to give $20 back to $20 Karen. We owe it to her. We promised it for a prize and now I'm worried we're burning through the $20 giant. I know, you keep having side conversations

with producer B. I'm like, how much we got here though? And you're like, everyone wins. You were clicking the wheels round to give away things early. I'm like, this is going to though and you're like everyone wins you were clicking the wheels round to give away things I'm like this is

going to come back and bite us they don't do this on the lotto show yeah the lotto winning wheel this wheel is just a formality

you just need to turn up and we'll give you 20 bucks Sonia Gray hosting lotto doesn't just pull out a ball and go what number did you have

oh yeah it's 23 it's clearly not 23 wouldn't lotto be a lot more fun though if that was the case it would probably only last a couple of weeks. But it's been a fun trip so far in the camper van. Ben, you, within an hour, broke the door handle in a fit of rage.

It wasn't a fit of rage. Wild fit of rage. I did break the door handle in the camper van. And was there rage? No, there wasn't. It was rage towards you because as soon as it happened, old mate gets his phone out and goes, what's happening? And just starts filming me up close as I'm trying to deal with the situation of the handle breaking.

He was doing that thing where he's just trying to reattach it, just stick it back on as if it would magically just sort of glue itself together. So we can't get out of the camper van. We have to be let out from someone from the outside. Which makes us look like we're big stars or something, like producer B-Hubs has to come and open the door for us because we can't open it ourselves. Now I see why he smashed the door handle.

But on the way, we popped into the Waikato and caught up with our friend Colin Craig-Brown. Now, Colin Craig-Brown, he almost had, he was an almost Guinness World Record holder, wasn't he? Yeah, he's got an amazing veggie garden, and he found a few months ago a potato that he'd grown. It was 7kgs. He pulled it out. It's just huge. It looks like a Thanksgiving turkey. It's amazing. And I thought it was the world's biggest potato. It seemed like

it was. Upon some scientific testing, turns out it wasn't. It was a tuber. And we went to see the famous not potato yesterday. So this is Doug the Spud who's hidden in a TNT children's wear plastic bag. So this is Doug the Spud. In my local cryogenic storage facility. So he's got a big deep freeze that he keeps Doug the Spud in. That's the bugger. Look at it. That is a big almost potato there.

That's a bloody big I'm not a potato, isn't it? It looks like a tumour. You can see why when we dug it up, we thought it was a big potato. He's I'm not a potato. He's a tuber that grows under the ground, as in potatoes. He's got white flesh. He's got a brown skin. So it's screaming potato to me.

Well, if it quacks like a duck and it walks like a duck, it must be a bloody duck. That's what we thought. It tasted like a potato. And you sent a duck, it must be a bloody duck. That's what we thought. It tasted like a potato. And you sent it off to get tested by science? Yep. Crop and Food Research down in Christchurch done it. And what did science say? They sent it to Scotland.

Yeah. And they said it's chocomyritis or something or other else's. And my wife came screeching into me at about half past six one Sunday morning and said, I've worked it out what Doug is. I said, how many has there been? I said, oh, shit, love, it's still really flat. So there you go. So it wasn't actually a potato.

I'm still confused as to what it was because it looks like this massive potato, but it was huge. And Colin, he has a passion for oversized produce. He had a zucchini as tall as Ben. Honestly, and a pumpkin probably heavier than Ben. You couldn't even lift the pumpkin. He's pumping though. I don't know what he's pumping most things. They're enormous. And something else we checked out last night here in Common Cone, Rotorua

was a waiter, or two waiters. They've got robot waiters that come over and bring your food to you and talk to you. Have a listen. Here I am. Three, five. Dear guests, your name was written. Be careful when picking it up. Amazing, eh?

There's these robots coming. They're taking jobs from hardworking Kiwis, mate. All right? Wouldn't the Terminator movies be much more adorable if they were like that? The robots were like that, delivering food. It's like, here I am. It feels like they could go wrong at any moment, but they're well-pro... As soon as they put them into the building, they program them to each

table so they know the route and location of each table, so they go, oh, table 62, bang, and it knows what path to take. It's... The future. And who knew the future would start at Crob and Co. In Rotorua. Not me, Bill. I wouldn't have picked it. If you said that to me,

I would have laughed. Plenty more chances to win $20 if you come down and spin our wheel here in the cafe this morning. And you listening next, your chances to win the $20. Just know one of us wants you to win on the wheel. I did, but now I'm tightening the purse strings. But you can still win next on the 800 The Hits on The Hits. The Hits.

The Jono and Ben podcast available on iHeartRadio. Someone else has just won $20, spinning a $20 wheel and sinking. What's your name, mate? Logan. Logan, you're sinking our budget. Let's go. Logan's happy.

I'm happy for Logan, but 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. And throughout the whole country. I know, Logan. What are we doing? Yeah, I know. A lot of 20 bucks. I know. And throughout the whole country. I know, Logan. What are we doing?

Yeah, maybe head up Westpac. We might have to do a ram raid on a bank. Oh, jeez. Halfway through just to make up the money. But Ben's very nervous we're giving away too much money on day one. Oh, day one? Yeah. Oh.

I know, Logan. He's like, I don't care. It's 20 bucks for me. Go down to the dairy on the way to school. Well done, Logan. He's like, not my problem, mate. That's our problem. Good on you, Logan. We're going to hear from the dairy on the way to school. Well done, Logan. He's like, not my problem, mate. It's our problem. We're going to hear from the finance at NZB after this.

$20 on the $20 tour, and we want to know on 0800 The Hits, what's the best thing that you've ever spent $20 or less on on 0800 The Hits? And we'll give you $20 if you get on air next, because yesterday we went past our Pocono, and they have ice creams, 16 scoop ice creams.

For $16, under the $20 threshold. Enormous. And we spoke to them about what is being voted the world's, the New Zealand's, I didn't say the world's, the world's best ice cream. No one's going to fact-check you. The world's best ice cream. Here we are at New Zealand's best ice cream, as voted by the New Zealand Motor Camping Association, Jacob.

Hello, nice to meet you. We're on the wall already, there's a photo of us on the wall, did you know that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think it's the last time you came. He ram-rated the shop. No, no, no. Security footage. We came here and we got the ice cream, the 16 scoop ice cream. So how many people are like us coming along and ordering 16 scoops?

Especially at the weekend, but not weekdays, not many. But at the weekend, that's a lot. It seems like an obscene amount of ice cream, 16 scoops. Has any one person on their own eaten the whole thing? Oh, I used to have one guy, he couldn't finish 16 scoops. One guy, every week? No, he just came once, but he came from Aussie, I think. Aussie, yeah. He couldn't finish 16 scoops. He ate all 16. He did all of that. Now we're going to see Jono do it.

He's the first one that I haven't even seen since I started working here. No one's seen him since. He had a heart attack. Well lovely to meet you. Thanks for this amazing ice cream. Thank you so much. Yeah so. Thanks for this amazing ice cream. Thank you so much. Yeah, so that was the 16 scoop ice cream. Oh, it's incredible. Like the 16 scoops. We've had it once before and the whole thing fell over in the shop.

And that's not a great look. But yesterday, successful. We even gave the rest of it away. A young guy took it home for his family. Charity. It was so much ice cream. That was charity. Yeah, so that was the best thing that I think we've ever bought for under $20.

So we want to know on 0800THETHITS this morning, $20 or less, what's been the bargain? The thing that you bought could have even been free. Less than $20, and we'll give you $20 if we like your calls or text next. They're always getting listener compliments. You happy to be on the radio with your hero? So yes, yes. Jono and Ben on the hits. It is the hits. Jono and Ben on the hits. It is the hits. Jono and Ben, we're in the middle of our $20 tour.

We're taking the camper van down south, giving away too much, too much money. Too much money on our way down. The $20 wheel is sinking NZB as a company. Do you want us to reverse the camper van back up to where we came from? I was just saying you were playing very fast and loose with the $20 this morning. People that hadn't spun the wheel correctly were winning $20. That's how generous you are. And now producer Behubson's like, we may need to pack the

wheel away. At the moment it's still out there and we're hearing a lot of cheers and every cheer I go, oh this is not great for the bottom line of the company. But anyway, it's a lot of fun. Every cheering dies a little bit inside. So these are great things. We're giving away $20 and we wanted to know what's

the best thing that you've ever got for $20 out of 100 hits is the phone number. Let's go to Sue from Morrinsville. It's our mate Sue. How are you? I'm good and you boys? Yeah we're doing well in Rotorua this morning Sue. Now best thing you bought under $20. What was it?

The first two series of Baywatch. Well the first two you didn't get the final three. Just the first two, the OG series. Well, the first two, you didn't get the final three. Just the first two, the OG series. That's still pretty good. Got the whole first two series. I mean, it was a heck of a show,

wasn't it? Heck of a theme tune. Oh, there it is. Some people stand in the darkness. Oh, such a good tune. Have you watched it? When was the last time you watched the Baywatch?

The whole one. Three days ago. Yeah, I can imagine. Well, Sue, we're going to hook you up for $20 as well. Thanks, boys. No worries. Now, Sue, is it on VHS or DVD? No, DVD.

DVD. Oh, beautiful. No one tell Sue about streaming. All right, let's head to the phones again. I think we've got Yvette from King Country. Good morning. Good morning. Great to have you on. Why, Yvette?

First thing you bought under $20? I brought my son's first pair of rugby boots for $1.97. Ooh, $1.97. Ooh! $1.97? Was it a hard bargain getting them down from $2? Oh, it was, it was. They were, well, actually, the laces were super long, so I had to buy a new pair of laces, and they cost more than the boots.

$1. Why did the seller settle on $1.97? Yeah. I don't know. They were on the reduced-to-clear table at the warehouse, and I don't know, maybe it was the reduced declare table at the warehouse. And I don't know. Maybe it was the 97 cents that, you know, just under that $2 that would really put people in. That is a bargain.

That's a heck of a bargain. Now, you can buy 10 pairs of rugby boots. We're going to give you $20, okay, there, Yvette? Awesome. Thank you. Have a great day. Let's take one more. Yeah, Alicia, you're on from Hamilton.

Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Best thing you bought under $20? I bought a lounge suite for $20 off Trade Me. Get off. Not a lounge, a whole lounge suite. It was like brand new. What? You've got to be asking a lot of questions.

What embezzlement was going on here? Yeah, is this legal? I hope so. $20. So what are we talking here? You're talking us through the lounge suite. It's like a three-seater and a two-seater. It's really comfy.

It came from a really, really nice house. Five seats. Maybe it's one of those ones where someone's getting divorced and they're like, I want to get rid of all my husband's stuff. Yeah, a bit of divorce settlement. Yeah, 20 bucks

for his new lounge suite. He loved that lounge suite. Yeah. Or some international crime lord having to hock off all their possessions before they get taken by the police.

Well, well done. We're going to give you 20 bucks. We're going to buy you another chair for your lounge suite. Cool. Thank you so much. Have yourself a great day. Pl give you $20. We're going to buy you another chair for your lounge suite. Cool. Thank you so much. Have a great day. Plenty more $20 hopefully to give

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