Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Is chivalry dead?

Episode Date: August 8, 2024

ON THE SHOW TODAY: Is activewear allowed when you're not active? Bribing kids is costing Where is the cheapest parking? Producer Tayla has a bone to pick! Ben's daughter hates the torch... What's happening this weekend? Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono and Ben Instagram: THEHITSBREAKFASTSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is John O'Bien podcast, hey that's us, brought to you by HelloFresh, the experts and tastes that Kiwis love. We wanted to have our own torch ceremony, nothing to do with what's going on in another part of the world, just because we thought it'd be nice to do. So we got a dolphin torch from the office, we don't know how old the batteries are, we thought we'd put it on a live stream on Wednesday, and you could predict when the batteries were going to run out, and if you predict correctly the exact time and the day, you would win $500. I'm looking at it now.

If anything, it's getting brighter. It's becoming stronger the longer we leave it on. Yeah, so Wednesday, we thought maybe it'd be wrapped up by the weekend, but it's been going strong. It has no signs of fading, really, and it got us quite worried yesterday that this thing could just drag on and drag on and to The point that we even spoke we even rang ever ready and spoke to someone there from the battery place Is there an end in sight will it be done by the weekend? That's our major concern

I don't think so. I think it's gonna keep going. It's gonna keep you there. It does say that they should last up to 65 hours Oh Isn't that three days? Yeah, so maybe The dolphin does the dolphin make it last longer? Oh five hours. Oh. Isn't that three days? Yeah. So maybe it might. Nearly three days, yeah. The dolphin, does the dolphin make it last longer? Oh, probably. Yeah, right.

Okay. So we're looking maybe a Friday Arvo finish. Yeah, maybe. Okay, all right. At the end of the torch ceremony. The problem was when we put the live stream

on Facebook, it kept getting shut down. I think they thought we were bots because not much was actually happening. You know, like nothing was really going on other than just the light.

So they kept shutting down the Facebook stream. Ben tried to put his feet in there just to mix things up a little bit. So we had to take it. We got two strikes. We got two warnings from Facebook. So we've now had to take it off there. And last night I had to take it home. Babysitter torch.

Kind of felt like when you're at school and they send home the animal from the class on the weekend or something. Or the egg that you're not allowed to break. Or my sister had a Tamagotchi or Tamagotchi, whatever they're called, and it was like one of those things. I was like, I've got to babysit a torch all night. Yeah, so we're spreading the babysitting duties over the weekend as well. Keeping an eye on it to see when it's going to, you know, it's quite a big responsibility because you want to know the exact second that it's going to.

So I haven't turned it off. I haven't touched it. There's cash on the line. I even took it for a walk with a dog in the afternoon. It was weird. Everyone was looking at me like, is he walking with a torch? It's like middle of the day. You never know when it can get dark. And my kids, they got in the car

after school yesterday. They were very confused why I had a torch and what was going on. That's so random. What did you say in the back? That's so stupid. Why is it stupid? Because you're not going to stay up during the night watching a torch waiting for it to turn off. We had it on a live stream at work. But anyway, long story short, I'll set up a camera tonight.

No one wants to watch a torch. No, but people want to win money. Why can't I turn it off? Look, hey, it's too late now. We're committed to it. Can I turn it off? No, don't turn it off. Yes, they really just wanted to turn it off.

They couldn't. And then that evening we had planned to go to Disney on Ice as well, and guess what came with us to Disney on Ice? Getting to Disney on Ice, and what's coming with us? The torch. The torch. Yeah, it's keeping us safe at the moment. So far it's quite handy, but I imagine as we get closer to the door it'll look a little wet.

But there's no people around, so we don't feel like an idiot. You would have been a bit anxious about putting the torch into Mickey's eyes at Disney on Ice. door and i'll look a little weird people around so we don't feel like an idiot did the uh you would have been a bit anxious about putting the torch into mickey's eyes at disney on ice you don't want him skating into donald's beak or anything i felt like i was smuggling in something like you know weirdly well you technically were yeah a torch on and i kind of like left it on the floor you know so we could see it because shining just a little bit when i look underneath but i couldn't it wasn't shining out directly into any ice skater's eyes or anything like that. I'm sure security are like

you know we've got a professional lighting grid in there. You don't need to. This guy's taking a torch that's lit. So yeah. I love that they called it

Torchy. Like you might miss it. Don't try and make me take it home over the weekend. Torchy. It's part of the family now mate. No mate you guys have done 24 hours

with Torchy. I even set up a live stream camera, a little handy cam last night at home. Can we draw a face on it? We can, yeah. You can take it. Torchy.

I'm going to dress it up. Over the weekend, so yeah, you can catch up with it. The Hits Breakfast on Facebook, if you want to predict when it will, you can still vote for when it's going to run out of battery and you can still win. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I asked you a question, I witnessed something yesterday, it was at an event, and there was a guy in, I'd say, early 20s. Okay.

He was seated. Yes. Now, there was a lady, and I don't want to age shame, but I'm picking sort of late 40s, knocking on the door of the 50s. Right. She's standing. He said, I'll stand up. You can take my seat.

Oh, that's nice. That's nice. That's nice. Chivalry level 9,000, I thought, witnessing that. You don't see much of it nowadays. And then she said, he was kind of like, you take the seat. I don't need it. And then she responded with, no, thank you.

I'm fine. And remained standing. Grumpy tone. Felt grumpy. Felt like he was giving up a seat for an elderly person to her. I think she was probably feeling like, or does he believe that because of my genetic makeup, my legs are weaker and can't stand for longer.

The question being, are we still obliged to give up our seat and open doors for your mob? Females? Yeah, your mob. I don't think so. With the exception of when someone's pregnant because, you know, that's carrying a load. No, sorry, Taylor. Producer Taylor, come on in here, mate.

Come on in here. I mean, like, you get sore feet and stuff. What about elderly people? And elderly people. But I think if it's just a woman, I don't think so. It's nice. I feel like in this situation, it's nice that he asked. I think it's nice, too.

Yeah, so you're not going to be offended. Well, yeah. But you're not going to take him up on the offer. No, because we're fighting for, fighting for gender equality all the time right and so I just think it's a little bit hypocritical to then be like oh he has to give up a seat for me you know Now Taylor

you had some great news yesterday, big news yesterday Yep, heavy load came twins No I mean like it just, it feels heavy and uncomfortable and your feet swell and all of that. Well, I was actually on a bus not too long ago, about four weeks ago, back in Sydney.

I had to catch a bus from the airport to the plane on the tarmac and I was standing up. And, mate, can I tell you, every single person that took a seat copped a filthy look from me. You wanted to be offered a seat. Yeah, because my back, mate, my back is going through some things at the moment. So to have to stand for like 45 minutes, because

that's how long it was. It's wild. I was like, surely someone's going to notice. But then I took it as a compliment because I was like, well maybe they don't think I'm pregnant. I don't think you look you don't look pregnant. No. Mixed emotions on that one. Yeah. So you're fighting for equality.

And then you told me off yesterday, like, you made me walk, you know, 10 kilometres to go see Teddy swim. Run, run. And you knew I was pregnant. That's equality, mate. I mean, I took a lot of subways and buses overseas. I find if it was busy, I'd just stand up regardless. I wouldn't try and sit down or just stand up and leave the seat.

But if it was quiet, then obviously I'd take a seat and then I'd kind of like, oh, it's going to be busy, I'll just stand up. You know me and Megan, I love walking and standing up. But I've been like, when I've been heavily pregnant, people don't give up your seat for you. Really? No. Don't they? No. Oh, yeah, I do that.

Men or women, like it blew my mind when I was like heavily pregnant. People would still push past you and I was like, come on, guys. I was doing the stomach. Holding, cradling. Like, oh. Oh, it's such a bother being pregnant. Yeah, holding it, yeah.

Just waiting for someone to like, oh, here you go. But you know what the issue is? These days everyone's got bloody headphones in their ears. Yeah, they're in their own world. What's wrong with their eyes though? True. Hey, very true. I reckon I could do

that even now. I'd just push out my stomach and be like oh. I could do that too. You're right. Elderly and pregnant. That's the rule.

Give up your self-esteem. Hold the doors open for everyone. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. The Olympics are

wrapping up this weekend. It's been incredible and we cross live to the New Zealand Herald reporter Sheree Kinnear. Bonjour. Bonjour. How are you going? Have you learned any French? You do pick up bits and pieces, but it really amazes you how much we can communicate just by body language that you can kind of figure out what people are saying. But

I wouldn't say my French is fantastic. i do remember going to a restaurant many years ago in france and the lady was acting lovely she was acting out like mooing and you know because i didn't know the rest like i was like when i order something and she was like goat noise and all sorts of stuff oh so you're like what's this meeting she's like all sorts i was like very good it was like a little game of charades it was great great. We all know thank you is like merci, but you don't want to like, you don't want to go mercy. You don't want to say it because they take the piss

out of your accent. Yeah, it's funny when you try and speak a bit of French to them and they just reply to you in English and you're like, oh, was it that bad? Yeah, they're like,

you're butchering this. A really good 24 hours for New Zealand. A couple of gold medals. Yeah, it was fantastic. I was lucky enough to be down to watch the K4 women's team led by Dame Lisa Carrington down on the water and watch

them race for gold, which was just incredible. And then we had a bronze and our mixed multi-hull team there. And then just now we had another gold in the track cycling from Elise Andrewsrew so it's just been a metal blitz this morning amazing so what's the because 1983 games was at los angeles i know i brushed across that that was our biggest metal haul how many are we looking to pull in here yeah

no i believe you're right um let me have a quick look at my stats. Except for the year, 1984. Damn it. I was thinking there's usually odd, even numbers. But anyway. It's looking so good in front of the journalist. Well, we've got 13 medals at the moment. Five are gold, which is very impressive. But there are still a few events left that we can medal. We've actually got some more track cycling coming up.

Obviously, Lisa Carrington again in action tonight, New Zealand time. So there's another medal there potentially. And there's also a little bit of athletics left too. So who knows? We could be in for a pretty good haul. Yeah, they had eight golds in 84 in Los Angeles. They've got 13 medals in total in the 1988 ones in Seoul,

13 in London, 20 in Rio they had 18. Yeah, we're going well. Yeah, we're getting pretty close. Are you going to miss it? Because you know how hard you've been working over, you know, you're pretty much a one-stop shop for the New Zealand Herald. You're filming, you're travelling around by yourself, you're interviewing athletes.

I'm sure it's busy work and amazing work, but are you going to miss it? Yeah, there's definitely quite a high of the Olympics. And some of us media were chatting yesterday and we were saying it's kind of like you get a bit of a taste of what the athletes feel in terms of that sort of post-event depression, I think. You know, I think you go back into the real world again and you're like, oh, OK, everything kind of slows right down and it's kind of like you're coming off a high. So, yeah, I think returning to the office and getting back into the day-to-day is going to be sort of weird again after the sort of craziness and the really unique experiences that you get covering the Olympics. Do you think it was successful enough that they'll do another one in four years? I hope so. Good, that's good.

Now, a couple of questions. Firstly, who's your athlete best friend? Someone that you've struck a chord with and you have a good relationship? Oh, good question. That is a very good question. I've been lucky to meet a number of athletes here at the Games. I really got on with Hayden Wild from the triathlon. He did well, yeah.

He's a very cool, yeah, he's a really cool guy. We had some good yarns. He came and hung out at New Zealand House, and we all took photos with him and his medals. Yeah, he was very, very cool. And I've actually hung out with Jack O'Gill previously before I did an interview with him leading up onto the Games, and that was quite cool to meet him and his family.

And, you know, he's kind of quiet, and people don't always know too much about him, but once you get to know him, he's actually a very, very cool person, very interesting and quirky guy. Anyone named Jack O' is always going to be a good time. Now no i know we brought it up to you a couple days ago our torch ceremony that we're where we turn on a torch on wednesday new zealand time we wanted to see when the batteries run out we know that they're not new batteries i know there's probably a lot of chatter going on in paris so i just wanted to tell you it's still going three days later it's still going we have

not turned it off it's still going i had to take it home last night because our live stream kept cutting out because of facebook wow so my prediction of a week's not that bad you might be right we're all regretting this undertaking we thought it'd be wrapped up by the weekend it doesn't look like it's gonna be so pass that one on to the ioc officials the battery torch is still going strong i'll let them know the hits the jonah and Ben podcast. My son's in the middle of, he's got like two weeks of music. He plays drums in the school band.

And they had a little break. So I was like, I'll pick you up. I'll take you to get some food. So we went into Burgerfield and we ran into a lady that we knew from school. She's quite a hard case. And I'm wearing what would be described as active leisure wear

describe it don't please don't tell me you're wearing the tights yeah well that's what I think of active wear right yeah no I would like just like track pants and sports shoes and like a that's kind of more or less like run of the mill just like slopping around the house sort of thing that's's leisure wear. It's like, don't go out with them, but wear that at home. Well, this is where our conversation started. Now I know. Active wear, you're right, Megan. It's just like, it's Lululemon and things like that.

Yeah, I thought you were wearing your Lululemon with like no shorts over top. Well, I can be active in these pants. Surely active wear is just something that you can be active in. This is the opposite to me, is drag pants. Yeah, right. Give it up on me. Well, I'm be active. This is the opposite to me, is drag pants. Yeah, right. This is like, give it up on me. Well, I'm feeling active, okay? Were they grey?

No, they were black. Oh, thank God. But that black sort of waterproof-y sort of material, you know, that stuff that, you know, the 90s material that was very popular. But she goes to me, oh, have you just been exercising? I said, no. She said, are you going to go and do some exercise? I said, no.

She said, well, you look like you're either just finished or about to engage in some exercise. I'm like, well, no, I'm just here in my track pants. Getting a burger. And she's like, my rules are no active wear unless you're being active, have been active, or are planning on being active. That's fair enough. Why is that a rule?

But you're to me, you're in the slob class. So I leave the house like that? That's probably my rule with that for you? Yeah, you wouldn't wear your track pants out in public? Oh, if I'm walking the dog or doing something active. Like, yeah, if I'm doing that sort of thing. That's the joy of wearing stuff like that is it looks like you've done exercise, but you haven't done it.

It's the ultimate life hack. You come into here in your bloody fancy workout gear, Megan, everyone will be like, damn damn she's a fitness person The only time I would do that though Is she's right if I was about to go to the gym Like straight after the show And I would nearly Oh see producer Taylor's wearing a track suit today

Are you going to call her a slob She's pregnant You're a slob She's wearing a blazer Ben thinks you're a slob for wearing your here. Come in here, slob. She's wearing a blazer. She's really blunted. Ben thinks you're a slob for wearing your track pants to work, mate. Can I just say, I bought this track suit when I wasn't pregnant. When I wasn't pregnant, I wore it all the time.

Yeah, but that's quite a trendy track suit, though. Thank you. It is cool, guys. No, it sold the pregnant woman some more, Ben. See what happens. I'm a slob when I wear a track suit. You're trendy. Yeah, well, that's quite trendy.

I think there's probably a price difference between the two tracksuits. And I'm also like way prettier than you, Jono. And younger. He's got domes down the side that you can rip off. Oh, you don't have stripper pants on? No, unfortunately not today. You should because you're pregnant. They need to come off at any time.

Look at me now. I'm giving birth. Pants are off. The Hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Been'm giving birth. Pants are off. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. I've been loving the Olympics. I don't know what we're going to do next week when it's all over and done with. Just sit here in silence. Watch the Paralympics? Oh yeah, that's right.

That's carrying on. Yeah, of course. I've got it. That's awesome. Oh, great stuff. That's great. We're back into that. I was feeling like I was going to get withdrawals from the Olympics.

Well, you're not, mate. No, it's great. Another two weeks worth. In fact, when you think about the Paralympics, I think that to get withdrawals from the Olympics. Well, you're not, mate. No, it's great. Another two weeks worth. In fact, when you think about the Paralympics, I think that's more impressive than the actual Olympics. Absolutely. Isn't it? Yeah.

Wilder stuff they're doing. It kicks in as well. Another couple of great medals for New Zealand overnight. We've got gold in the K4 and the canoeing, and Elise Andrews as well in the cycling. She got a gold as well, and we got a bronze as well. So a pretty impressive medal tally for New Zealand. Was the Canadian pole vaulter.

He was in a bit of hot water. She got third. And she has an OnlyFans account, which is fine. But then people are upset because when she won bronze, she celebrated by twerking. People were like, not appropriate. Well, it's not appropriate. You should be paying

for their content that's right so I'm a subscriber and I don't just hand it out for free you can't get it away for free the world

now it's pretty impressive there's been so many great moments from the Olympics and one in particular was a young skateboarder 14 years old from Australia

Arisa True is her name and 14 she won gold that's amazing That's wild. I was like, if I was 14 and won gold, you'd be like, now where to? I know! It's like you've already peaked.

You can do something else. I have a theory when it comes to skateboarding and stuff too. Kids have less fear. You know, the older you get, you think about consequences. A 44-year-old on the skateboard is like, oh man, if I tank this, I'm going to have to have five weeks off work, ACC claims. Pet surgery.

A 14-year-old's not worried about that stuff. And it was such a 14-year-old answer as well. She was talking on Australian News about her parents and if she won gold, what she wanted to get. And have a listen to this. So how does a 14-year-old want to celebrate becoming the Olympic champ? The gift I asked for my parents if I won was if I could get a pet duck because ducks are really cute and I really wanted a pet duck.

She wants a pet duck. She sounds like a child. She's a child. She's a child. Is she the youngest gold medal winner? Oh, maybe, yeah. She's not the youngest competitor, but at the Games, I think it was an 11-year-old or something.

No, I think it was like, isn't there like an 11-year-old Russian back in the day, gymnast, who won gold? Jacked up on steroids. Do you think the fact that she got offered a duck from her parents, you know, the bribery helped her, maybe? Absolutely. Kids thrive off bribery, and it's never too early to educate your children on the bribery system as well.

You know, ice creams, fatty foods, you know, small denominations of hush money works well with the kids. I remember when I was doing, like, exams back in high school, there were kids who were like, every A they got or whatever, their parents would give them money. Really? Yeah. My parents were not having it. Although, Jenny, my mum smoked for a little bit and she hated the fact that she smoked. would give them money really yeah why my parents were not having it my mom although jenny she um my mom smoked for a little bit and she hated the fact that she smoked and so um she stopped she was really hard to stop she's like i don't even want you smoking i'll pay you 50 bucks a year to not

smoke a salary for uh yeah and i had no real interest in smoking because i was like great i'll i'll take the money would you get it in installments or at one payment at the end of the year that i had yeah and was it an honesty policy? I guess it was in some ways, but I didn't really have any interest. I was like, great, you can give me your money. So it was bribing me not to smoke. Amazing. Geez, 0800 the Hits.

Okay, were you bribed as a child? Are you bribing children now? Your children probably. Don't bribe other children. But weird if you're bribing other children. We don't want to hear those calls. 4487 is the text. 0800 the Hits. Love to get your bribery stories on. Because it if you're bribing other children. We don't want to hear those calls. 4-4-8-7 is the text. 0-800-THE-HITS.

Love to get your bribery stories on because it works a treat, bribery. It does. It gets results. If that four-year-old, a 14-year-old,

hadn't been promised the carrot-dangling duck at the end of the tunnel, she probably wouldn't have even placed. She's like, what's the gold medal to a 14-year-old

but a cute pet duck? Yeah. What's the point? The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We're talking parent bribes after the Australian, the 14-year-old, but a cute pet duck. Yeah. What's the point? The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We're talking parent bribes after the Australian. The 14-year-old who won gold in the skateboarding, she was incredible, asked for a pet duck if she won, and their parents said,

if you win gold, you'll get a pet duck. So how does a 14-year-old want to celebrate becoming the Olympic champ? The gift I asked for my parents if I won was if I could get a pet duck because ducks are really cute and I really wanted a pet duck. She sounds so, so young. She's won a gold medal Jono, how does that make you feel? Let's put an age limit on kids entering the Olympics I reckon. Why, because it makes you feel old?

Yeah. She's good enough, she's obviously the best in the world. I just think she could have asked for something more. Well yeah right, a gold medal, but it may be a duck, it's important to her. For a 14 she could have asked for something more. Well, yeah, right. A gold medal. But maybe a duck is important to her. For a 14-year-old, a duck's a dream. It's all you want,

a duck. As a parent, I'm like, oh, a duck. You're going to clean up. The duck's not going to be toilet trained. It's going to, you know.

A lot of admin. Tasty. Tasty. Isn't it? If you like ducks, you think, too. If ducks are a thing, yeah.

So there's a need, like you can't eat a puppy when they move out of home. But, you know, once this little girl moves out of home, you're like, oh, yeah. So you can't eat a puppy when they move out of home, but once this little girl moves out of home... You couldn't eat a pet duck, though. You couldn't eat a pet duck. I'm sure there's farmers probably now in down south telling me otherwise. Someone in a parent bribes this morning under the hits 4487.

Are you easily bribeable as an adult? Probably. Totally. There's not much I won't do for very little. Really? Easily bribable as an adult? Oh, probably. Totally. There's not much I won't do for like very little. Really? Easily bribed. Yeah, we'd be terrible government officials. They'll be like,

I will take you out for a free buffet lunch. They'll put this pro-smoking in schools bill through and we'll be like, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, great. Seafood buffet. I'm not a police officer or anything. I wouldn't be good for any of those jobs. Let's get Sandra on. Welcome.

Hi. You're employing the bribing system in your household, Sandy. Oh, we're losing her. Sorry, can you hear me? Yeah, now we can, mate. What are you bribing your kids for? So in my wisdom, I decided to have four children, and three of those children were the same age, and they all played rugby.

One day, the two boys, one girl decided that they weren't that keen on going out because of the weather. I said to them, look, you've got to go to team sport. I will give you $5 if you get a try. So little Mr. 11 year old got six tries. That cost me 30 bucks for him. And then the other two got a couple each as well. So at the end of the day, I ended up paying 60 bucks.

My friend did the same thing to his son. He was like, he was 10 bucks a try. And then his son, I think scored like five or six in a match and he was like, he had to, so after the game he said, I need to talk to you about passing it, mate. Not being too greedy, you know. He's like, this is costing me too much.

It's a team sport, mate. It's a team sport, mate. No, I and team. Costing him a lot of money. And there's no money in my bank account now. Linda, good morning to you. Hi, how's it going? Oh, Linda, we are doing really well this morning.

Have you been bribed or have you done the bribing? You're getting all the bad mother stories, I feel. No, no. No judgment here. No judgment at all. What's your bribery story? Similar to the one before, four kids, first boy, played cricket, sat on the sideline forever in the boring hot sun with a new baby.

You turn away for two minutes and you miss their act, right? So then third one, second son came along and he wanted to sign up to cricket because all his friends were doing that. And he's very, very active. And so I paid him $5 not to join. Hey, amen. Amen, Linda. Cricket is a commitment, isn't it? You were a cricketing man. Hey, amen. Amen, Linda. Cricket is a commitment, isn't it?

You were a cricketing man. Well, back then, there was no real sort of 20-20 over game. So my mum, she'd drop me off and go. She was like, I'm not going to spend, you know. Come in for pockets, but you know.

It should be illegal. It should be illegal. Cricket should be illegal. That's a great sport. I love you, Linda. Good on you, Linda. You wouldn't have liked Raising Ben. He was cricket illegal. Cricket should be illegal. That's a great sport. I love you, Linda. Good on you, Linda. You wouldn't have liked raising Ben. He was cricket man.

He would wander down the street in his cricket whites. They'd wear those as civilian clothes. That's right, yeah. My boy tried to wander down the street naked with his gumboots on all the time. So there you go. Well, at least I didn't do that. Okay, we already think you're a bad parent, Linda. Let's not double down.

Hey, Linda, love your call this morning. Great Texas to finish. I've got three teenage boys. Give them $20 each a week not to get detention. It's great. How terrible are your kids? If you pay, you just pretend to be good. 9am till 3pm. That's all we need. No judgement.

Whatever you need to do to make it work. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Last night went along to Disney on Ice, which was great, but we were running a bit late after everyone got home from various things in the evening. And you had to, you know, when you're in a panic, you have to get parking. You're like, just got to park at the next best,

the first available spot. And went into like a private parking building. 20 bucks, 20 bucks. And I was like, oh, I guess. But at the same time, that's expensive. That's the event parking building. So they know like you need to park at the same time that's expensive that's the event parking building so they know like you need to

park by the arena and it's a flat fee and it wasn't super close but it was close enough sometimes a piece of your soul dies as you pay for the $23

for 10 minutes parking I know yeah but hey parking we want to know the cheapest parking in New Zealand

there must be free parking out there in some gorgeous town. I remember driving. I can't remember the town. It's somewhere in the North Island. I think they're saying we haven't got much, but we have free parking. Oh, yeah. Well, that's great.

That's a great tourist hook. It's great. Is it? Once you've parked, then what? You can't go out and see anything. Did you enjoy the free parking? Never had that before. You used to have a theory, and I don't think you're doing it anymore, right,

when you would not pay for parking. No, I still strongly back that theory. Do you? Yeah, I still strongly back that theory. All of those parking tickets he gets sent to work. And he's like, it'll balance itself out. It does. No, it definitely does not.

You don't pay. End of the year. If you add the numbers up of what you would pay for parking with the fines, yeah, they win, you win. You know, you have a loss, they have a win. You have a win, they have a loss. That's the sort of – however, the technology advancements and ticketing, that's where I am starting to get stung a bit more with this car

that goes around with 39 cameras on it. They don't have to get out of the car. I didn't know that was a thing. I'm always like it's raining. The parking wardens aren't have to get out of the car I didn't know that was a thing I'm always like it's raining the parking wardens aren't going to walk around in the rain well now they've got the car the Terminator ticketing tank

do you know I saw one of those getting it was actually at work the other day one of those was getting towed one of the council and people were applauding great we were all lined up in the window

like cheering and I mean maybe it had broken down who knows but it just looked like a tow truck driver had come along going,

you can't park here, mate. Don't you hear it? You're from the council. Joe passed once and I gave it the bird and Ben did grow up. I know. He like pulled the fingers

at this poor person driving along like, why is this person that you're like, I didn't do it to the person. I did it to the cameras. He doesn't know that. He doesn't know that.

Nothing sums the two of you up more than that scenario. It's like the poor guy looked over as you're pulling for the cameras. He's like the poor guy looked over as you're pulling. It's for the cameras. He's like, I don't know that, mate. Just like getting, imagine if you went to your work. People do abuse you.

That's true, actually. That's true. It's a terrible example. It happens every day. Have you ever paid for free parking? No, we know you wouldn't have because it was free. Nelson wouldn't charge. Nelson at the moment I think is like $2 an hour,

but I used to go home and be like $2 an hour but I used to go home and be like 50 cents an hour and I was like whoa amazing that's in the city too

okay so where are you right now listening and what does parking cost you let's get the cheapest there must be $0 parking out there somewhere it is kind of like

when you think about parking it's like you're investing in a tiny little piece of real estate for a short period of time. Yeah, here I am. Just for a couple of hours. It's in high demand.

That's, you know, supply and demand. It's economics. Prime stuff. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Tell you what, you could pay for all the parking you wanted with $44 million. Totally. We're after New Zealand's cheapest parking this morning.

$0.800, The Hits. Ben Boyce extorted by the parking industry. When you go into the private buildings, you're kind of... You know what's going to happen. They're like, welcome. Welcome to our lair. There was something going on. I think it was at the Warriors last year.

Remember that news article? And someone was just going along in a high-vis vest and just going, hey, you can park here in buildings around your businesses around there that weren't theirs. They're like 20 bucks 20 bucks parking and then they just scarped off at the end of the day and someone got towed from there and they were like but i gave 20 bucks to the guy no one questions high visibility maybe we should partly can't be angry because like that's just it is yeah that is very entrepreneurial um i have to make an apology uh to the nelsonians i said it was two dollars an hour in the city.

My dad has said the first hour is free, just by the way. If you're only there for an hour, it's free in Nelson City. Okay. That's way no. Jesus, is he making use of that first hour free parking? Surely. Which is a great thing to pull people into the centres of towns and cities. Isn't it all for free parking?

Because it probably just turns you off if you have to pay. But, yeah, New Zealand's cheapest parking. Let's get this out there. Faye, good morning to you. Hi. Hi. How are you? We're doing really well, Faye.

It's lovely to hear your dulcet tones. Where are you from? How much is the parking? Hamilton, $2. The first two hours are free in the CBD, but if you move along to another car park and you think you're going to get another two hours free, they fine you. Don't think you're going to be driving around the block.

I always wondered that. If you were in a position and you got in your car just before it ran out and you drove around the block and parked again. They fine you. What if I went home and realised I forgot something and I went back? You're still usually two-hour parking free.

Two hours a day. It doesn't explain that. A lot of people get caught out. And my daughter and I went shopping in Clyde Street in Hamilton. We've been there every weekend and never got fined. But this weekend we went and parked over the hour. Two days later, I got a fine for $85.

Ooh! That's cheap. $85. Well, they make up for it, don't they, when they get to ticket you? Well, no, because I hadn't put the disability sticker on it, and I hadn't displayed it, so I took over that and sent it in, and they cancelled the ticket. Oh, yes. what a rollercoaster

of a story you told us so that's why all our people go out to the base and chart

walkers it's free you get chalked back when you were by the TV station

but then everyone would just go out and roll their tyres over just slightly I loved the chalk system.

Yeah. Is that a hack? Easily beatable. You just roll it just a little bit. Before you can wipe it off. It's not like the chalk. So I was like, surely they know that it's the same car, but anyway. Ah, right.

So you get the first hour free in the Tron, but watch out if you don't have your disability sticker on, they'll come for you. Sharon, free parking. Have you got it? Oh, sorry. I should turn you up, Sharon. Oh, she's gone. Oh, free parking. Have you got it? Oh, sorry. I should turn you up, Sharon. Oh, she's gone. Oh, Jono.

Jono, what have you done? Ruined the phone topic. Sorry, Sharon. It was all going so well until that moment, wasn't it? Oh, well. Our boss will be happy. We can wrap things up a little earlier than normal. Oh, no, he's back in.

He's back in. He's dipped his toes back in. Mate, you can't. You can't. He didn't give you a great out. But's dipped his toes back in. Mate, you can't. You can't. Ben gave you a great out. But no, you've started now. It's not a goal that we have to prattle on to our bosses. Keep it shorter.

I just heard an interesting text I'd like to read out. I'm not going to hear it now. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. On Wednesday, we started a torch. We turned on a torch for our torch ceremony here at The Hits. And you could decide when, or you could basically make a prediction when the batteries were going to run out.

And you can win $500 if you do so at the Hits breakfast on Facebook. Hands up on the show who regrets starting this. I did yesterday. We had a crisis meeting because Facebook were like, they're cutting the live stream. We got two warnings. They were going to end. They were going to shut down Facebook for the world if we're cutting the live stream. We've got two warnings. They were going to end. They were going to shut down Facebook for the world if we continued on the live stream.

And I was like, oh, this is becoming a bit of a ball eight. But then we had a crisis meeting and we got the experts in. Someone from Ever Ready phoned and said how long this torch potentially could be going on for. And it was a long time. Take a listen. Is there an end in sight? Will it be done by the weekend that's our major concern I don't think so I think it's gonna keep going it's gonna keep you there it does say that they should last up to 65 hours oh isn't that three days yeah

so maybe the dolphin does the dolphin make it last longer? Oh, probably. Yeah, right. Okay. So we're looking maybe a Friday Arvo finish. Yeah, maybe. Okay, all right. At the end of the torch ceremony. And I'm thinking the longer it goes on, the funnier it is. Yeah.

It's good. But the problem is we can't live stream it. No, so we have to keep an eye on it the whole time because we need to know when it runs out of battery. So yesterday we were like, well, what are we going to do? One of us is going to have to take it home, keep an eye on it. At all times, it was me yesterday. Very confused the heck out of my family. My kids got into the car after school.

There was a torch sitting on the front seat. It was on, and this is their reaction. That's so random. What? What did you say in the back? That's so stupid. Why is it stupid? Because you're not going to stay up during the night watching a torch waiting for it to turn on.

We had it on a live stream at work. But anyway, long story short, I'll set up a camera tonight. No one wants to watch a torch. No, but people want to win money. Why don't I turn it off? Look, hey, it's too late now. We're committed to it. Can I turn it off?

No, don't turn it off. They just want to turn it off. My wife comes inside and goes, there's a torch on. I'm like, don't turn it off, don't turn it off. Then he took the torch for a lovely night out to Disney on Ice. Did it. Great time. Have a listen to this.

Heading to Disney on Ice and what's coming with us? The torch. Yes, the torch. Yeah. It's keeping us safe at the moment. So far it's quite handy, but I imagine as we get closer to the door it'll look a little wet. There's no people around so we don't feel like an idiot. Yeah, so it's quite good like at night time you feel okay you feel comfortable with the torch walking

around because at least it looks like yeah guiding the way. When I walked the dog in daylight everyone was like what he's got a torch that's on as well. But anyway I did it for 24 hours kept an eye on it. It's still going. It's the little torch battery that could. It's a great advertisement for the dolphin torch. They've not turned it off. No one's touched it since Wednesday. There was talk that it could go on, depending if, we don't know if it's like LED batteries or something like that. There was some talk of it going on for seven years. What?

Seven years? It could be still going next time the Olympics come around. Incredible stuff. So if you want to make a prediction when it's going to roll out, when the batteries are going to stop, you can do so at the Hits Breakfast on Facebook, and someone will win $500 at some stage when it runs out. Has it lessened in brightness? No.

Has it? It's still going. Do you have to work out which one of you guys is going to have it for the next little bit? It's kind of like if you're looking after it, it's kind of like looking after a dying grandparent. You're like, I know it's going to slowly fade at some point, but you can't take your eyes off it.

No, you're right. There's a lot of responsibility. You don't want to miss the moment either. You want to be holding their hand. Exactly. Exactly right. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We want to find out which island is having the best weekend. Who's having the best weekend?

Yes, we are currently engaged in the US-Serbia semifinal basketball game. The USA just won. Just won. Just won. It was so close, though. Jeez, it would have been a huge... I mean, Serbia are really good at basketball, and they've got Nikola Jokic, but, jeez, it would have been a big upset for the Dream Team to lose, and they've just won.

I only lost by four points. I know. Anyway. That's not what we're here to do guys. Focus. We don't want to know which country's having the best weekend. Yeah, just as exciting as the semi-final in basketball. It's the best weekend. As we said before

both of these competitors training four years for this moment right now. Hayley from the Hits of Wellington. Good morning. Hey. How are ya? Oh good. I've chosen kind of a classic Kiwi theme today happening in the North Island, so feeling quietly confident. Okay, coming in a little cocky you would say. Yeah, yeah, well let's back it up now. We've got a sausage making workshop, which is kind of

classically Kiwi in Mount Maunganui, where you can go tomorrow, you can rock up, and you can make kind of the classic sausages, or you can make kind of wacky flavours. But I was going to ask you guys, I mean, obviously, you've branched down on chips. You haven't yet done sausage flavours.

No, I never got into the sausage, Kate. No, we've sold our soul to many different products on the supermarket shelf over the years. You said chips. Immediately I thought of like a nacho sausage. Yum. Ooh, that would be nice. I don't know if I want to think too hard about what goes into a sausage.

No, no. They're delicious though, aren't they? Yeah. Well, there we go. Potentially you could sell your soul to a sausage if radio gig doesn't work out. It feels like you're just putting something over a giant piece of contraception, aren't you, when you're making a sausage? I'm sure sausage makers love that.

Yeah, okay, well, suddenly I'm not feeling as confident in my weekly events. Okay, so sausages are going on. That sounds fun to me. Yeah, okay, anything else in the north? Same. Well, this one doesn't sound fun to me, but it's right up some people's alleys. Tough Guy in West Auckland and Kumeu is happening tomorrow. So it's 12km of off-road running.

They've got swamp crossing, spiderweb net crawls. They've got heaps of mud, barbed wire, you name it. So people are going to get crazy and going to get muddy at that in West Auckland. The barbed wire seems very unnecessary for the whole event. Yeah, I feel like that's a lawsuit waiting to happen. It sounds like punishment. Yeah, I mean, it already sounds hard enough

and you're like, oh, we'll chuck some barbed wire in there as well. Okay, so lots going on. Sausages and barbed wire in the north. What about in the south? Kia ora, good morning. Kia ora, good morning, guys. We're keeping it low-key this weekend in the South Island.

We'd like you to join us for an evening of curtain music meditation at the St Peter's Church Hall in Queenstown. You don't get any lower key, do you? No, tomorrow night, Saturday 6pm. I'm surprised the people in Queenstown are doing this on a Saturday night. Saturday night? Yeah, I know, I know. I've only just realised that whilst reading this out. I'm not going people in Queenstown are doing this on a Saturday night. Saturday night? Yeah, I know. I've only just realised that whilst

reading this down. I'm not going to lie to you. A place of inner peace, happiness and relaxation. That's what everyone thinks about Queenstown, right? Yeah, well you're not going to get that on a Saturday night in Queenstown, are you? Inner peace and relaxation. You're dead right. No, and we're topping it off with a

wine and create tea light house evening. How does this sound? Beautiful Nelson there. You know how it sounds, Connor? It sounds like you're reaching this week. Oh, no. Not me. Not me.

Who? We've got meditation evenings. No, he's bribing me with wine and Nelson, my hometown. Hayley didn't even go with the All Blacks that are playing in Wellington Saturday night. I know. That's how confident I was about the sausages until you guys kind of unraveled that confidence. Sausage making in barbed wire. Okay, now Megan, you need to decide which island is having the best weekend.

Well, I mean, I'm from Nelson and I like wine, but I also really liked the idea of the sausages and the All Blacks in the North. Yeah. It's torn. I don't know. I don't know.

Think of the sausages, Megan. I'm going to think of the sausages, Hayley. I'm going to give this one to you, Hayley. I'm going to jump in here and make a decision

because, yeah. And you got the All Blacks and you didn't even mention that as well. So that's... I know. That's how cocky I was.