Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: The finale of our $20 Tour

Episode Date: July 7, 2022

This week we've travelled from Auckland to Christchurch in a camper van to give Karen the $20 we forgot to send her. We met so many Kiwi legends along the way and blew the budget. It was touch and go whether we'd have enough money left to pay back Karen and get home, so wish us luck! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben Podcast. Welcome to the podcast. The 8th of July, we're inside a cafe, and who do we have here? This is Joan from Black and White Coffee Cartel Victoria Street. Black and White Coffee Cartel Victoria Street, Christchurch. Heaving morning here, mate. Giving away free coffee and cash. Das Albon, ohne. Yeah, it's been beautiful. Thank you for having us here today. It's been great. One thing we noticed when we came in this morning, first thing, you were blasting out a movie soundtrack.

I think it was like, was it Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? That's true. Including all the orchestral instrumental parts. That's why we could have won Naka Welcome. So do you listen to movie soundtracks? Sometimes, yeah. Do you? What's your favourite movie soundtrack?

The War Star one. That's just my, I always like it. You like the War Star one, that's my always like it. You like the War Star one? Oh like Star Wars? Yeah Star Wars. Oh you love the sound like dun dun dun. Do you listen to that just as music? Yeah sometimes for me.

And also my kids like them too. Like the March of the Death, Darth Vader and things. That's very cool. I've never met anyone who listens start to finish to movie soundtracks I'm a fan of them so I like everything of them you're a fan of movie soundtracks so when you

no no no Star Wars so when you're watching Star Wars you're like oh I love this song turn it up sort of thing

it's like hearing a song there's no like lyrics no there's no singing eh no no no it's like

yeah we're always happy with doing that yeah we did it it was really cool to hear it made us happy as well and it did make us go what are we listening to No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're happy with doing that. Yeah, right. Well, I love it. It was really cool to hear. It made us happy as well.

And it did make us go, what are we listening to? But then when you said, oh, it's the soundtrack to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We're like, oh, yeah, no, it's good. We liked it. It's great. Hey, thank you for having us today. And I noticed, geez, you make a scone, don't you?

You can make a bloody scone, mate. Very good scone. We're selling heaps every day. That's number one. Number one thing. Number one thing. How many scones are you hocking off a day day. That's number one. Number one thing. Number one thing. How many scones are you hocking off a day?

We're probably selling 50. 50? Yeah, five zero. So do you make 50 scones every day? That's right. By yourself? Yeah, fry them in the morning.

Yeah. What's the secret? What's the key ingredient? My love. Your love. My passion. Love and passion. And a movie soundtrack

over the loudspeaker. And you can taste that through that delicious cheesy scone. Well, thank you for having us here. If you're ever in Christchurch, Victoria Street, Black and White Coffee Cartel, come on down. They make amazing coffee, amazing scones, 50 a day,

and they have some movie soundtracks blasting out over the loudspeakers. Hey, the podcast today had a fun one. Finally, we're on this tour to give Karen her $20 back. We delivered it. We delivered it. We what? No, you almost were so close to just saying that. No, just nearly nailed it. We went to her house last night. And delivered it. Yeah were? No, you almost were so close to just saying that. No, just nearly nailed it. We went to

her house last night. And delivered it. Hey, have a great day. We're going to be off for a couple of weeks, just recharging the bets. You know, going on holiday to the same location actually, Ben. We are, but the mid-term report will keep you going on the podcast each day while we're away, so you can grade us when we get back.

The Hit. In the middle of the $20 tour, well, towards the end of it, we made our way to Christchurch. This morning we're at Black and White Coffee Cartel on Victoria Street Cafe. You can come down to 9 o'clock for free coffee, spin our $20 wheel, win some cash, and someone can play five words for $5,000 this morning. It's been such a great journey, though, hasn't it?

We've really met some wonderful people along the way, Ben, and if only there was a movie-like trailer to recap all the wonderful events of the last four days. Day one. Ben damaged the camper van. Ripped the door handle. Was it a fit of rage? He wasn't in a fit of rage. We called in on Colin Craig-Brown in the Waikato and he thought he had a record-breaking veggie.

And they said it's a choco-moritis or something or other else's. We thought it was a record-breaking veggie. And they said it's a choco maritas or something or other else's. We thought it was a big potato. Day two, Rotorua. The $20 giveaways began. Sir John Kirwan shared with us his road trip rules. No passing of Lynn. We met Lynn, who's been working at KFC for 43 years. Drive-through policy.

What about an electric scooter? No. Bicycle? No. And Cob and Co's robot waiters from the future. The drive-through policy. What about an electric scooter? No. Bicycle? No. And Cobb & Co's robot waiters from the future. Then it was back on the road. Jono wanted to stop and master them where I grew up.

We're here at the Lone Star. Ben on the wall of legends. Where's your bar set for legends? Or is it that high? Passing through the huts, Elvis mega fan Cathy invited us into her whare. In the bedroom, shrine to Elvis. Then Wellington, day three, we continue the onslaught of $20 giveaways.

And we blew the budget again. Currently boring off Thursday to pay for Wednesday. We had to leave, so through Mount Vic Tunnel, and on to the Blue Bridge Ferry to cross the strait. Awesome boat, beautiful scenery, but all John could bang on about was the toilet.

NASA technology, have a listen to the suction power on them. Nelson, day four. We recklessly continue the $20 giveaways. Which didn't impress Karen. I've been listening and you've been giving a hell of a lot of money away. You better make sure when you get to Christchurch you've got my 20. Jeez. Thanks Aaron, our production engineer.

That's incredible. Wonderful stuff. He's had to trawl through all of the rubbish and babble we've spouted off for four days. I know. And make that. It feels like four weeks ago we met some of those people. Yeah. On tour.

But did we give Karen her $20 last night? Did we have enough? We'll find out very shortly. Have we still got our kneecaps? Yeah. We'll find out. Hey, Ben, we met a lovely guy yesterday, Ernie. 76-year-old Ernie approached us.

And Nelson, right? And Nelson, yeah, he came up to us, Ernie. An eccentric-looking character, Ernie, and he has some hot gossip for us. Have a listen to this. Ernie. an eccentric-looking character, Ernie, and he has some hot gossip for us. Have a listen to this. Ernie. Yeah. Welcome.

You've got some hot gossip for us. Ooh. Yeah. A well-known Irish rock singer and a former actress from the TV series Friends are hooking up to do their own show, and their names are Bono and Jen. Oh, Ernie.

Save your applause. Just give him the clap. Lovely to meet you, mate. And then we had to cut Ernie off. He kept going with some zingers and he ended some risque territory. Ben Boyce was getting uncomfortable. He started firing out his spicy content. And Ben was like, okay, Ernie.

All right, that's enough now. Do the same thing to Jono. Wrap him up. Wrap him up, alright that's enough now. I'll do the same thing to Jono. Wrap him up, wrap him up guys, wrap him up. Thank you. Scrolling through your feed.

This is, I've just mentioned, the laziest news update in the market. You've just literally copied and pasted this story from the internet haven't you?

We're sitting here watching some people work out while we do the news and we're trying to work out what's happening in the UK because British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, you would have seen him in the news a lot over the last couple of years,

particularly through the pandemic and a whole lot of sort of scandals and setbacks and things that were going on over there. Well, he kind of fought his way through a lot of them. He did. He did, you know, the lockdown party. Yeah, he wrote it out. And then another one recently that seemed to have caused a few people in his party to resign and it all got a bit too much. And now he has in fact resigned.

He's stepping down. So he's sort of, from what I gather, he's hanging in there until like October until they can find a new leader. But Boris Johnson is no longer the leader of the UK. I had a vote of no confidence from the people. Now let's do a vote of no confidence on this show. Just a hypothetical one. B-Humps, come over here mate.

Producer B-Humps, Joel you there, mate. Producer B-Humps. Joel, you there? Is Bill there as well? Yeah. Okay, we're all going to take a vote of no confidence. Who do we not have confidence in who's on the show?

What do you mean? I have no confidence in Ben Boyce. Oh, what? Who's your vote of no confidence for? Why the team? I have no confidence in myself. Yeah, okay. He's voting himself out.

You can't vote yourself out. Joel, who have you got no confidence in? Probably you, sorry, Jono, man. What? Me? Me? Bill? Yeah, maybe you as well.

Me? Oh, look, I'm going to have to go with Jono as well. Three votes, that's enough. He's out. He's out of here as well. Now, Boris Johnson, one of our favourite moments was when he turned up to talk to some business people. These were business people a few months ago, and it felt like he was pretty underprepared, and he started talking to these business experts about Peppa Pig World.

And Tony, yesterday I went to Peppa Pig World. I don't know if you've been to Peppa Pig World. Who's been to Pansy? I've been to Peppa Pig World. Not enough. I was a bit hazy what I would find at Peppa Pig World, but I loved it. And Peppa Pig World is very much my kind of place. But the real lesson for me going to Peppa Pig World,

and I'm surprised you haven't been there, was about the power of UK creativity. Who would have believed, Tony, that a pig that looks like a hairdryer, a pig that was rejected by the BBC, would now be exported to 180 countries with theme parks both in America and in China as well as in the New Forest. So he kind of had a point. Who's Tony?

Tony's being zeroed in on. Tony's like, please don't bring my name up. Yeah, like he's talking to the, these are the business leaders of the UK. You know, respected people. And that's a great lesson in not ad-libbing a speech. No longer British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson has resigned. Although, can I

say one more time, re-sign and resign looks the same when you read it. Like this morning, Boris Johnson has re-signed for another four years. It's hard. Anyway, we need to sort that out. Gavin Gray, our UK correspondent, we're going to talk to him after seven o'clock.

He's always got the inside word on what's happening over there. Does the Queen like Boris Johnson? I want to know. Because you watch The Crown, the TV show, and like Winston Churchill and the Queen

were meeting every week they would meet. Does that still happen as well? Does the Queen have as much power? Well, no, I'm probably just saying this is for Gavin Gray. After 7 o'clock this morning, it is the hits. Two men are on a mission to pay off their outstanding debt. Jono and Ben's $20 Tour.

We're in the middle of our $20 Tour. We've reached the end of our $20 Tour. The main reason, the main drive was to deliver $20 to $20 Karen who we promised about four weeks ago ahead of Queen's birthday weekend. She never got the cash. Never got the cash.

She was not happy about it. So finally, we travelled all the way from Auckland to Christchurch in a camper van along the way meeting some lovely people giving away a whole lot

of $20 notes as we go. We finally got to $20 Karen's house yesterday. This is at 4.45 yesterday afternoon. It's the peak of our Everest. Here we go. I think she's here.

There she is. There she is. This is her house. $20 Karen. Hello. What did he knock? I don't know. He's up in the back.

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But then we went into Karen's flat and had a little chat with her. Karen, we've made it. It's taken us four days, but we're finally here and we've delivered you at the $20. I know you've blown me away guys. Honestly, you were giving that much money away on the way here, I thought there'd be none left. I was worried, but we're not getting our 20 whacks. No. Can we get one whack? One whack just for all...

Oh okay, that's enough. I don't want 19 more of those. So the debt's all cleared, We can officially say... Yes. That you've paid in full. Do we get a receipt situation? And next time, if you promise me something, you'll send it. Instead of being a fool. Well, there have been a few prizes over the years we said

we were going to send, Karen. Well, they started off in the rock. Yeah, I know. Then they followed us over to the edge. And now on the hats. There we go. It's been a big investment just to drop a $20 note off. We could have saved a lot of time, effort and money if we just used internet banking, Ben.

I keep saying it. But we haven't. No, we haven't. We've given the money to $20 Karen, but that doesn't mean the $20 tour is all over. This morning we're in Christchurch's black and white coffee cartel on Victoria Street Cafe. We're here till 9 o'clock. Free coffee if you want to come doesn't mean the $20 tour is all over. This morning we're in Christchurch's black and white coffee cartel on Victoria Street Cafe. We're here till 9 o'clock. Free coffee if you want to come down and spin the $20 wheel.

And we've got heaps more $20 notes to give away. Yeah, Malcolm's down here. Malcolm's got his coffee and his cash. He's happy, mate. He even gave him a second spin. He didn't win, and you're like, how am I spinning? No, I didn't even give him a spin. I just gave him $20.

All right, we're going to tighten the purse strings a little bit. All through the trip we've just been saying to people Go buy yourself something nice Go treat the family You don't have to say that, it's a little intro for it Surround sound baby, Dolby Digital Now it's dry July at the moment isn't it A lot of people are abstaining from alcohol

And I got lost as I was rolling around I've assumed the position in our camper van As we travel down the country in the back. I roll around in the back like a kidnapped victim. You do, right. You keep saying you found a wee hack, sort of lying down with the seatbelt on. You lie down and you can sleep. Yeah.

Well, it's not so much sleeping because I get wee queasy. I felt a little queasy too. You get queasy back there for some reason. But now you're like, I've got the hack. I'm like, great. The hack is you lie down flat. He's got it good. So he's, you know, you did. So as I'm rolling around on the back of the camper van,

an article on celebrities who you never knew didn't drink. How many celebrities do you know that don't drink, Ben? Well, Paddy Gow, obviously now, because he made that great doco a few weeks ago. He's nailed his foot to the floor on that one, isn't he? Well, yeah. First beer Paddy has, someone's going to snap him on social and be like,

look, I want another beer. Anyway, Shania Twain. Shania Twain has never drunk. Man, she feels like a woman, but man,

she does not feel like a drink. I was so close to erasing you for that one. Did I beat you to it? I was like, he's going to say that

if he doesn't, I'm going to come in and he did. Well done. But her whole band has to be sober as well. So the people she has in her life and that she surrounds herself with. I suppose it makes sense, right?

If you're touring and stuff like that, you can't be, you know? Yeah. What's the point of being in a band if you have to be straight? Oh, yeah, the novelty would wear off, I imagine, after years and years, right? Bradley Cooper. Did you know he's sober? I did actually know that. Yeah, I think he's talked about it a few times in the media.

Age 29, he just said, I felt like if I kept going, it was going to sabotage my life. Plus... He had that really bad hangover, didn't he? He did that to the hangover. Three times, I think. Three movies. That would take its toll, too. And that awful, awful incident on stage at the Grammys where he peed his pants in that documentary.

When he was singing with Lady Gaga. No, that wasn't a doco. That was a movie, yeah. Terrible stuff. Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith's wife, does not drink. She likes red tables and used to love her red wine. Apparently, she said drinking red wine for her

was like drinking glasses of water. Really? Same as Jesus. Yeah. Same thing, so she doesn't drink. Daniel Radcliffe. Oh, Harry Potter. No more Butterbeans for him, mate, or Butterbeers, whatever they're called.

I don't think Butterbeer was alcoholic. I don't think they were given to the kids at Hogwarts. Maybe they were. I don't know if they had liquor laws. I tried it. It was bloody delicious, Butterbeer. Yeah. Have you tried it?

They have the Harry Potter world at Universal Studios. Yeah, it's like kind of like a ginger beer float sort of thing, eh, where you put ice cream in like a ginger beer. Yeah, so Harry Potter, sorry, we're just doing a photo with a guy through a window here right now as we're talking. I can't do two things at once, Ben. No, you can't.

You can't. You have to commentate what you're doing. Kendrick Lamar, the rapper. Right. Never drunk, but he's got lots of songs about drinking. He's even got a song, I've got a swimming pool full of liquor and I dive in it. Doesn't do it.

Well, he doesn't. He doesn't do drinks. He doesn't dive in it, but he doesn't drink it. No, he said his family grew up. He grew up in a household of substance abuse, and he's like, no, not for me. Not for me. Pharrell?

Doesn't drink. Christopher Luxon, National Party MP, never drunk as well. Yeah, and do you know something that really upset producer Behemz about Christopher Luxon is when he took his coffee order, he ordered a hot chocolate. Yeah, but you don't know that he did. He might have had two coffees already this morning. Don't judge him because he ordered a hot chocolate. I like a hot chocolate. Children drink hot chocolate. I like a hot chocolate.

Children drink hot chocolate. I drink a hot chocolate from time to time. It's a lovely hot chocolate. Did he go down in your books when he ordered a hot chocolate? I can't vote for him anymore. And that's me reading out stuff from the internet about people who don't drink. Mmm. Coffee breath. Jono and Ben on the hits.

We're broadcasting this morning from Christchurch. It's a wet whole day out there, isn't it? Hosing down. Yeah. Hosing down. That's the weather report from Jono and Ben on the hits. We're broadcasting this morning from Christchurch. It's a wet old day out there, isn't it? Hosing down. Yeah. Hosing down. That's the weather report from Jono and Ben. But it's nice for us. We're all cosy and warm here at Christchurch's black and white coffee cartel on Victoria Street. Come down.

Nine o'clock we'll be here till you can get free coffee, spin the wheel, win 20 bucks as well. Yeah, wonderful stuff. Good food too. Lovely bagels there. I see you're tucking into a bit of a smashed avo bacon combination there, Ben boys. It's lovely. Driving to Christchurch yesterday, went through some beautiful parts of the country.

Did you see much of it? I felt like you were lying down in the back of the car. I was lying down trying not to get casted. I don't think you saw anything. The sky looked beautiful that I was seeing through the window. It was. That coastline is stunning. It really is, yeah. I love Kaikoura and stuff like that.

Yeah, it's beautiful. What I love about Kaikoura, though, is they've really nailed their foot to the floor on the lobster thing. Lobster this, lobster that, crayfish this, crayfish they've got the bloody. They had the lobster inn, pub, I noticed. They had the lobster dairy, the lobster bakery. They've shown a lot of loyalty to the local gang, the Mongrel Lobsters. No, I don't think that's true. And they have the Crayfish Bar.

Yeah, they love it. The Cray... Cray-Cray? Cray-Cray. It should be Cray-Cray. Cray and Display Parking. But yeah, they've really done that. But the one thing I enjoyed about going through Blenheim too is for years they've proudly boasted

longest sunshine hours in New Zealand. Most of me on the sunshine hours. New Zealand. Most amount of sunshine hours. Sarah, we're in Blenheim. The sunniest place in New Zealand. Well, you know what they're saying in Nelson? They're saying they're sunnier in Nelson. They always say that. But you guys say you're the sunniest.

Of course we are, of course we are, yeah. Did someone trump you? Yeah, someone up north. Someone up north did. Oh, see, but you've still got the sign up. Of course, because we're always going to be the sunniest. But you've lost out. You've got to take down the sign.

No, never. I'll amend the sign on the way out of town. The almost sunniest place. Always the sunniest. It's like Shelbyville and Springfield. Between Nelson and Blenheim, they're always bickering about the most sunshine. But somewhere up north took it last year. Really?

So it's not even between the two of them now? Yeah, but they're not taking the sign down. I love it that they're not taking it. They've gotten some excuse. We've got sunny personalities, you know. Why would we take down the sunny sign? And it's not like it's something you can control. It's not like, all right, team, let's get our sunshine hours up this year.

Yeah, it was lacking last year, but come on. Pryor, you, get a bit more sunshine into your day. Yeah, so pink, that song, Cover Me in Sunshine. It's not applicable for Blenheim now. It goes up north. That hits. This is the Jono and Ben podcast. Rihanna there.

You say big news for her. Yeah. Do you know what the news is, or does that make you sound quite confused? You're like, I'll throw it over to my mate here. Who's over here got the details? Yeah, I see you looking at an article about her right now. Yeah. So she's been named on Forbes list of, you know, rich people.

Only rich people on Forbes list of, you know, rich people. Yeah. Only rich people on this list, mate. She is the youngest self-made woman billionaire in America at 34 years old. That's awesome. She's worth $1.4 billion. She's beaten Kim Kardashian. Obviously very successful, you know, not only just as a singer, actor, but also makeup and cosmetics line and authentic, you know.

She's done great. She has done great great don't worry about her she's fine it's interesting the scoring system so they've got a uh a test out of 10 and they've scored her at 10 and they take into account uh you know where you were born in a country of poverty and how you've sort of made your way through adversity ben boyce and where you've ended up and that's how she gets her score better than the kardashians apparently who are listed at a 7 she's a 10 oh that's awesome uh now we're. Better than the Kardashians, apparently, who are listed at a seven. She's a 10. That's awesome.

Now, we're in Christchurch this morning. Black and White Coffee Cartel in Victoria Street. Come down and see us. Get a free coffee. Spin the wheel. Maybe win 20 bucks. Can I give a shout out? Last night, I ran into Mooney Mitchell and his mates.

Mooney Mitchell sounds like a world of trouble. Mooney Mitchell. Mooney Mitchell. And he was like, give me a shout out. And then he was like, you want to do it? No, so here we are. We're doing it right now. Why? Is Mooney Mitchell. And he was like, give me a shout out. And then he was like, you won't do it. So here we are. We're doing it right now. Is Mooney Mitchell going to be up right now? He said, yeah. We had a half hour

window between 6.45 and 7.15. He'll be listening to the radio today. So there you go, Mooney Mitchell. 4487 Texas if you've heard it. And I've followed through because normally I'm like, yeah, yeah, I'll do that. But today I was like, no. I put a reminder on my phone. So here we go. Now what were Mooney and the lads doing last night mate very quiet evening very quiet evening very

quiet like they were in bed by uh nine o'clock i'm sure they're working the next day hey i'll just say before uh now there's obviously you know you enjoy the occasional beer from time to time johnno but there's a new beer in singapore that's been made with recycled toilet water now it's hit the shelves it's hit the supermarkets in Singapore. So it's water that flows from your toilet cistern when you flush, and it's hit the market in Singapore. It's award-winning craft brewery is producing the drink. The punter who drank it...

So they handed out the award, so they give one to themselves. The punter who drank it said he seriously couldn't tell this was made out of toilet water. I wonder if he was told before he drank it or not. Well, there's the saying getting on the... Oh, yeah, well, true. Now it's literal. Yeah, now, you know, obviously it goes through a lot of purification, disinfection, all that sort of stuff to make the water safe to drink.

I hope there's some standards in place here. But I guess it's the concept of it is an interesting one. But it is quite a cool thing as well because they're trying to get more people to recycle because a lot of the world don't have access to clean water and drinking water. And, you know, so they're trying to recycle.

Well, they're recycling it because once you've had it, it goes back into the system where it came from. Well, yeah. Doesn't it? So there you go. My dad was a huge fan of drinking

the dehumidifier water. That's right. So, you know, the water that collects in the tank of the dehumidifier, he would pour right. So you know the water that collects in the tank of the dehumidifier? He would pour that out into a jug and put it in the fridge. And I said, who's staying at our house, I was like, what's this murky water here? Have you put like lemon

in with it or something? He's like, no, no, it's out of the dehumidifier. But that's got the bad bits out of the... It's pulled all the stuff out of the air. Yeah, to make the air better. And he's put it in the water. He's still with us today. Well, there we go.

Maybe that's what's kept him young at heart, dehumidifier water. Jono and Ben's $20 Tour. Two men are on a mission to pay off their outstanding debt. Now, we're on the $20 Tour. We're in Christchurch this morning. Come down and see us

at Black and White Coffee Cartel on Victoria Street. We've got plenty of free coffee to give away and plenty of $20 notes that could be won this morning now in the caravan we're travelling along the road okay picture this it's night time it's pitch black I was up the front

for once with producer Bee Humps who's been driving magnificently all the way you've been a wonderful pilot thank you very much Captain Tom but we saw a sweet elderly lady, you know, 70s, 80s, standing on the side of the road with a big camping backpack on with her thumb out. And we said, oh, there's a hitchhiker. Now, Ben, you pulled over, didn't you, Ben Humphrey?

I did. Did you pull over? I slowed down and pulled into the lane. I was a bit teasing, you know. And then we shouted back to Ben Boyce who was in the lane. I was a bit teasing, you know. And then we shouted back to Ben Boyce who was in the back. I was lying down. I couldn't see anything. You can factor that in.

I can't see the windows. I can't see anything that's going on. I had headphones on. I was listening. And we said, shall we pick up a hitchhiker? And you said, you came back with, you said, because I knew. You know what made it so amazing? It's because I knew what the answer was going to be. And you said, oh, no know what made it so amazing is because i knew what the answer

was gonna be and you said oh no i'm good thanks good thanks oh no no outside is a sweet i didn't know that otherwise we would have picked her up and then you drove off and then you were like oh five minutes later you're like guess what you left behind i'm like i didn't know you were one you're telling the truth she just wanted to go and see her firstborn grandchild. I didn't know that. And you left her on the side of the road. I was like, let's go back. And you're like, too late now, mate, too late now.

We're headed on the way. Freezing cold. I know, I'm feeling awful. You said, oh, listen, to be honest, I'm a bit bantered out. I didn't realise the full scenario. I couldn't see who it was. Otherwise, of course I would have picked her up.

Yeah, no, but I know what you mean. You just don't want to sit there back there talking. It was a long way to Nelson, wasn't it? I felt terrible. I felt awful. Well, go back and pick her up, mate. She's still waiting. Let's go back. Guys, we're going back.

After the show we heard about it. This is what we want to chuck open this morning on New Zealand's Breakfast 0800. The hit's 4487 if you want to text us. Hitchhikers. Yeah, they do look a little smelly, don't they? Let's be honest. When you're driving past. Says the guy, oh no, you have changed today.

I changed my clothes today. Because I just wanted to say that line and I knew he'd come back with, you haven't changed your clothes in five days. Yeah, it's in four days he's changed his clothes. It's good. So yeah, have you ever picked up a hitchhiker? I've had a couple of instances. One memorable one, Ben, was the lady who was, she ran out in the middle of the road.

She was a little frazzled. She looked like she hadn't slept in maybe seven days. That's right. Wasn't blinking. I don't think you got a choice in that one, though, did you? No, no. She kind of jumped down in the middle of the road. She sprung her hands on my bonnet, slammed both hands on the bonnet.

I need to get to the district court. And I was like, hop in, mate. I was meant to be at work, but I was like, hop in. I'll take this damsel in distress to her court appearance. So she hopped in the car. And then sort of her frazzledness relaxed. And she's like, well, you know what? I could go.

I could go a bit of Wendy's. I don't think you're up on charges here. If you've got to go to court, maybe it's good to have some Wendy's, you know, before you settle the tummy. Might be the last time you have it. Yeah, come on.

And so then I took her through the drive-thru, and she's like, oh, I'm a bit skint. So you want me to pay for your Baconator as well? And so I ended up shouting her Baconator, chips, and I didn't even end up dropping her at court,

she's like, hey, thanks. I think I just went on a... I thought it was a date. So, I went under the hits. 4487, Tales from Hitchhiking, your best hitchhiking tales. Did you pick up one?

Were you hitchhiking yourself? We'd love to hear from you next. We've got $20 to give away for every call and text that gets on the air. Warning, this show contains Jono and or Ben. Jono and Ben on the hits. So we're just talking hitchhiker stories. You can call us and text us 24487. Kirsten, you're on.

Welcome. How are you? Good. How are you? Oh, it's good to have you on. We're doing well. Are you in Christchurch? I am.

I'm just about to drive past, but I can't stop for a coffee. I'm sorry. Oh, no. When you drive past, honk and we'll have like interactive radio. Yeah. Okay? Oh, okay. I'm sorry. Oh, no, when you drive past, honk, and we'll have, like, interactive radio. Yeah. Okay? Oh, I see. There you go.

Oh, there she is. There she is. Oh, I can hear you. Okay, hitchhiker stories. What have you got? Well, I picked up a guy heading to Taranaki. We hit it off so well that we ended up dating for a couple of months. Oh, wow.

You picked him up and picked him up. Yeah, picked him up and picked him up. Yeah, now, how did this, like, you started talking, obviously. You picked him up and picked him up. Yeah, picked him up and picked him up. Yeah, now how did this, like, you started talking, obviously. Yep, yep. Who makes the first move? Hit it off and then went in for a cup of tea, and after that, the rest is history. What did happen after the cup of tea?

Hey, hey, hey. History. History. Thank you, and we'll take Margie. And it says in the notes you've got a random story, mate. It better be random, Margie. I used to live in Caledonian Road, Edgeware. And I had to go to a friend's place to help her out.

And I went down Hollywood Road just off Caledonian. And there was this elderly lady in the middle of the road and I couldn't figure out why nobody would stop for her. Right. And I went, well, heck, she's in a nightie and everything, so I stopped her. So she stopped me and I said, can I help you? And she said, can I get in? I've had

a car accident. And I went, oh, shit, we'll get in and I'll take you to the doctors or to the police station or something. And she said, oh, no, I need to go to Hereford Street because I want to pick up some more stuff on my car. And I went, okay. So I drove all the way to Hereford Street

and I'm thinking, hang on a minute, how did she get from Hereford Street to Caledonian Road? Hang on a minute, yes. I'm thinking the same thing. Yeah, we all are. So anyway, we got to the car and it was an old accident that the police had stopped and had taped off. And then she says, oh, can I have some money for some power?

So I stopped off at the ATM and gave her some money for the power. Hang on. Then she says, can I have a burger? So we went to Burger King on Beardy Ass, and I gave her some burgers. And then she says, oh, can you just drop me off at Selwyn Street? And I'm going, hang on a minute. What happened to this car accident? Hang on a minute.

We're all going, hang on a minute. You're just a friendly Uber driver who paid for her dinner. Oh, she was. Oh, that's so good. She was 84, and I said, do you need to go to the rest home where you go? And she goes, hell no. She said, I'm pretty much okay, thank you.

And I went, well, apart from just being snookered by an 84-year-old, I think I've done pretty damn good. Hey, Margie, you've got to flick out $20. You have a great weekend. Thank you for that amazing story. Mature, responsible and considerate. Three words we sadly can't use here. Jono and Ben on the hits.

Yeah, now Ben, you want to raise an issue, something that I do involving petrol stations, which is filling up the car and driving off without paying. You're saying it's not kosher. Oh, well, I have issue with that. Everyone knows that's not the done thing. You can't do that. But we are taking a camper van around the country, and I think all going well. Joel, who's back at our Auckland studios,

have we got some audio of the incriminating evidence? Have we got that loaded in yet, Joel? Yeah, mate, that's right here. Have a listen to what John is doing. The best thing on people that use the bathroom and don't go into the gas station to pay for anything. Okay. This is for customers only.

You going to go in? You going to go into the gas station here? Are you? You know the answer to that. What's the answer to that? You tell the people. You tell the people. for customers only. You're going to go in? You're going to go into the gas station here? Are you? You know the answer to that. What's the answer to that? You tell the people. You tell the people. The answer is I'm not going to.

It's for customers. Yeah. Can I do another oven and cover sting on perverts filming people in public toilets? Okay. Here you go.

Yeah, I'm out stinging your sting. This is my oven and cover sting. Pervert filming innocent people in public toilets. It's a sting sting. You don't have this footage? All right, I'm over it. So yeah, I walked out of the toilet, boom,

hit like a fair go camera crew. With a camera right up in my grill. What do you have to say? What do you have to say to people like a disgrace part? Like Boris Johnson's probably getting at the moment in the UK. Yeah, what? You have an issue with me using the toilet and not paying for anything at the petrol station.

I do. I feel the guilt. I went and bought a packet of, like, nuts. Nuts. You did. Fruits and nuts. Yeah, I did. Yeah.

Because I felt like, I felt guilty. I didn't need those fruits and nuts. They were lovely, the cashew nuts and little cranberries. Speaking of perverts. Please don't segue. Some people came in before. Now, where we're located, lovely place here, black and white coffee cartel. And Christ, it's beautiful.

We're sitting at the window. And across the road is a CrossFit gymnasium. Now, some women came in before. We'd finished their workout and they came in before. Spin the wheel here, get a coffee. Because you've been talking all morning. You're looking out the window. You go, we can see this.

We can see that. We can see people working out. then there's a whole lot going on yeah and then i said to the ladies hey we've been watching you work out and they both went yeah and they looked at me like that's gross and i was meaning because you know what i've been saying i feel lazy watching people work out that was my point yeah but then and then you had to sort of like go but not in a creepy but then when you say not in a creepy way when you say I've been watching you work out that's always going to be in a creepy way

100% of the time but come on down and see us this morning you can grab yourself free coffee that's until 9 o'clock and you can spin our $20 wheel lots of $20 notes flying out into the wild weather of Christchurch who knows Ben could film you as you're walking out of the toilet as well

no let's go Jono and Ben out into the wild weather of Christchurch this morning. Who knows, Ben could film you as you're walking out of the toilet as well. No. 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 every morning on the hits. We tell you five words. You tell us what pops into your head after those five words. But now we added a twist and you can win money along the way. That's right, and live in the cafe here at Black and White Coffee Cartel, we have the wonderful Amelia. How are you? I'm great, thanks guys. How are you?

You're good. What we do is we put on these sports commentator headphones and microphones on all the guests and you're looking pretty professional right now, Amelia. Thanks. Now Amelia, you were saying to us just before that you listen to the game most mornings and you play along. So you're feeling good heading into this? I am a little bit nervous now that I'm on the spot, but we'll

see how we go. Yeah, you've watched, you've listened the last two days and people have been taking huge risks. They've been getting to the $500 and then leaping up to the $5,000 and bowing out and it hasn't paid off on any level. Two levels. Well, I'm either going to be the first or, yeah, we'll see what happens.

We'll see how it goes. All right, now you need to decide who's going to go outside into the blistering weather, the blizzard-like weather. It looks cold out there. Who's going out there? I'm sorry, Ben, but I'm going to give you a go today. All right, here we go. You're off.

See if you can match words with Ben Boyce. And the first word that comes into your head, Amelia, when I say to you, Dimitris. Suvalaki. Suvalaki. Christchurch Institution. Port is the second word for you this morning, Amelia. Port?

Let's go wine. Wine. Southern, word number three. Southern man. Southern man. The opposite of me. Soft northern man. Cathedral. Square. And rugby, word number five. Southern man. The opposite of me. Soft northern man. Cathedral.

Square. And rugby. Word number five. All blacks. Yeah, right. You're done. Well, quick game too. Any words you think you might be shaky on there, mate?

Port. Port. You can't change it. He's walking back in now. Nah, I'm going wrong. You're going to go with wine? Yeah. All right.

Let's get him back in. Jeez, he's lucky he didn't get blown away out there. He has legs like a flamingo. That's cold out there. Don't he? Cold, wet. Ready to go, though. You're out there in the elements.

You look like a lonely, lost little child. Okay. All right, Amelia did very well. Let's try this. How are we feeling? How are we feeling? Better than me? We'll see.

Okay. A bit shaky on word number two. That's all we'll say. Oh, word number two. Oh, jeez. Okay, but let's play for $25 first up. Word one, $25. All Canterbury themed there, Benjamin.

Okay, okay. Okay, Dimitris. Oh, super lucky. That's $25 right there, Amelia. Now your decision to move on to the $50 round. Are you going to advance or walk away with $25? I reckon he'll know it. I've got nothing to lose.

Okay. Well, you've got $25 to lose. Yeah, but... Okay, we're doing it. Word number two. Word two. $50. Are they Canterbury themed? They are. But... Don't look at us in the eyes. Okay? $50. Are they Canterbury themed? They are but don't look at us in the eyes

Okay? Maybe not this one? Yeah I don't want to say We both look sideways at each other Port Now remember

They are Canterbury themed but remember our hesitation. Port. So the obvious one that pops into my head, if they were Canterbury themed, would be sort of hill-like structure. That would be the... Yeah, that was what came into my head. But if they're not Canterbury themed...

Port. Oh, well, there's two options. Do you like shipping or do you like drinking? Maybe let's go wine. Yes. Well done. Sorry, I can't. I've got a little help from the audience.

Ask some help. We guided a blind man through that. Yeah. Word number three. Would you like to go on to the third round, Amelia? This is $100. You'll win. You've got $50.

You've got $50. You can walk away with $50. Get yourself whatever you buy with $50. Bags? No, we'll continue. Okay, on to the $100 round. Word three, $100. What do you say when I say southern, Ben?

Southern man. Whoa! She's got 100! Yes! Black and white coffee cartel, electric scenes. Or is it just us with the electric scenes? Yeah. No one else is electric.

Okay, 500 bucks for the next round. Are you going? I can't remember what the word was. It was... Cathedral. Are you going to go forward? Amelia, it's a hard decision to make. What do you think? Don't put it on me, mate!

I don't want to make a decision and then you lose the money. Nah, I'm going to go with $100. You're going to walk. Yeah, but what I'm going to do is trade me at the moment and have the kindness store this week. Have you guys heard about that? No. So you can make a donation, and yesterday or the day before,

they matched your donation, so it's basically giving out to people in need. So I'm going to put some of that money towards the kindness store. Oh, what a way. I'll tell you what, we'll chuck $100 towards the kindness store. Yeah, tell you what, we'll give you $100 and we'll put $100 on behalf of you towards the kindness store. Oh, what a way. I tell you what, we'll chuck $100 towards the kindness store. Yeah, tell you what, we'll give you $100 and we'll put $100 on behalf of you to the kindness store. All right. Good on you.

Now, let's just go through the motions, see what you would have said. Oh, no, I don't know. We can't do this. What would you have said for cathedral? Square. Oh, f***. Bunch.

Oh! You would have won $500. Now, if you'd gone to a $5,000 word, rugby. Crusaders. Oh, yeah. Okay, cool.'d gone to a $5,000 word, rugby. Crusaders. Oh, yeah. Okay, cool. She said All Blacks. Because the All Blacks are playing this weekend. Oh, good. You did well then. You got $100. We donated

the other $100 as well. Thanks so much for playing this morning. It was lots of fun. It was a rollercoaster. It was. Thanks, Amelia. The Hits. The Jono and Ben podcast, available on iHeartRadio. Big news, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned last night New Zealand time. He's the man of course

with the messy hair and he stepped down after a whole bunch of scandals. Let's head to our UK correspondent. I don't even know if he is our UK correspondent but we're going to call him it anyway. Gavin Gray, come on in. Hi there guys. An amazing sort of 48, 72 hours. And I've even read one article

saying, think about the poor new education secretary. There have been three education secretaries in less than 48 hours. Such has been the amazing turnaround in ministers and resignations and one sacking and then Boris Johnson's own resignation just in the last couple of days. Well, Boris seemed like he was riding through a few sort of scandals and setbacks over the last sort of a year or so. But obviously, it just got a bit too much. Yeah, I think so. And I think people as well, you know, were a little bit sick of hearing, I'm going to set it all straight. I'm sorry. You know, let me apologize to everyone. I think in the end, everyone was thinking, well, what next? Because it has been one thing after another. But, you know,

John O'Byrne, at no point in the prime minister's speech, which was only six minutes of resignation outside number 10 Downing Street, at no point does he really allude to anything that he has done wrong. It's all about the fact that his ministers were acting like sheep. It wasn't his fault at all. He was going to carry on. He wanted to carry on because that was the will of the people. Some pretty critical things about those who had been the architect of his demise, shall I say. He always seems like he's operating at a, you know, varying levels of shamblesness. Is he a disorganised Prime Minister? Was he a bad Prime Minister? Well, I think he's a

Prime Minister who's got massive faith in his own abilities. Now, that could be a great thing if you're Prime Minister. You need to have, you know, that feeling of, right, this is what we're doing. No, this is what we're doing. I'm not listening to anyone else sort of thing. He's turned up for interviews with me when he's been looking perfectly respectable with the hair neatly combed, but he ruffles it up shortly before the interview. And that's a bit of a trick to be, you know,

a different world leader, a different prime minister, a different politician from the normal run of the mill. He does it on purpose. Yeah, we wondered that. We wondered why he never had his hair, you know, sort of combed or, you know, styled. You know, he's one of the few Prime Ministers around the world who are known by

their first name, Boris. We're just going to name three of our favourite Boris Johnson moments, and I wanted you to pick your favourite out of the three. Number one, his Peppa Pig speech. Tony, yesterday I went to Peppa Pig World. I don't know if you've been to Peppa Pig World. Who's been to Peppa Pig speech. Tony, yesterday I went to Peppa Pig World. I don't know if you've been to Peppa Pig World.

Who's been to Peppa Pig World? Number two, when he mowed over that sweet, adorable little Japanese boy at the Rugby World Cup launch. Oh, that's right. He was playing rugby against some kids. He literally ran directly over him. And number three, when he almost ripped our Prime Minister's arm off last week with a vigorous handshake. What's your favourite out of those three, when he almost ripped our Prime Minister's arm off last week with a vigorous handshake. What's your favourite out of those three, Gavin Gray?

Well, I have to say, the ripping of the arm was quite fun. But yeah, I'm afraid my favourite, because it was just so appalling and an example of where Boris Johnson literally writes his own speeches on the back of a bit of a paper and doesn't take any notice of anyone. I'm afraid that speech where he suddenly started to talk about Peppa Pig is so surreal. You know, this wasn't to some sort of a charity. The speech was to the senior British businessman.

It was to a consortium of some of the most powerful businessmen in the UK and Europe and, dare I say, in the world. And there he is starting to do Peppa Pig impersonations because he's lost the bit of paper that he's scribbled on. Well, I think we can all agree how much we love Peppa Pig and how much we love Gavin Gray. Go and have a wonderful weekend over there.

Thanks. An inseparable duo. Unless I'm on better shows up. He's just going to replace me with Lee Hart and or Vaughan Smith. Jono and Ben on the hits. It's the start of the school holidays from 3 o'clock today. Stormy conditions expected across much of the country for the start of the school holidays. That sounds sweet, doesn't it?

Heavy snow, downpours, severe gales. Snow this morning in central Otago. And I was saying yesterday, today went to be the busiest day of the next couple of weeks in Auckland Airport. So 120,000 travellers they expect to depart on international flights out of Auckland over the school holidays. It's busy. They're only running at 50% capacity with some of the shops and stuff, so they said give yourself a bit more time if you are heading away.

Some of the destinations people were heading to, Fiji, Australia is the most popular, USA, and a lot of people heading around the country to the likes of Christchurch, Wellington and Queenstown. How did you get your hands on all these sensitive travel stats? There's data. I don't know why I'm on some mailing list anyway. A document to do hack.

Someone sent it out. But we wanted to know 100 of the hits. We've got the last couple of $20 notes to give away. Let's brag about it. Who's going to have the best school holidays? Who's got the holidays planned for the next couple of weeks? It's got to be doing something really cool. Yeah, we've just discovered we're going on holiday to the same location.

Now, I've just discovered this. You knew where I was going. I was saying, I'm going to this place. I've been saying that for ages. And then you just happened to say a couple, oh, I was talking and go, oh, yeah, we're both going to the same place. I'm like, what? What?

And you're like, yeah. Literally the same hotel. You're like, did I not tell you? No, you didn't tell me well now you know I mean I love hanging out with you don't get me wrong but I just

well it's never going to end it's never ending all year even on holiday I was like oh oh yeah if you love it so much why don't you act happier

than on holiday I was just surprised it was like still acting so blindsided change the blind side with happiness so we're even holidaying together which is not a surprise

for anyone probably listening right now. But yeah, we can also sleep with both our eyes shut. We don't have to sleep with one eye open now. We've paid off all our debts to $20 Karen, who we owed $20 to. I'm going to go watch the kids play a concert this weekend. Oh, nice. Preload, I'll get in the mosh pit.

Is it one of those sort of concerts? Yeah, one of those sort of concerts. Making an absolute nuisance of myself at the children's concert. So who's going to have the best weekend, best holiday? Let's go to the phones. We've got Tara. You're on New Zealand's Breakfast, Tara. Morning, boys.

How are you? We're doing all right. What are you doing this holidays? What's the cool thing? When I get rid of my sore throat weekend after next, I'm going to go and watch the Irish whip the old lad. We're going to watch the Irish stuff. Get rid of the kids.

Where are you getting rid of the kids to? Unfortunately, they're coming. Their kingons are coming with us. The kingons. Hopefully your kids aren't listening right now. Mum loves you. She really does. Well, hopefully you do get rid of that sore throat

and you get to go watch the Irish. And maybe not thump the All Blacks, maybe put on a competitive game and the All Blacks just win. Whip their ass, I'm sorry. Whip their ass. Okay, Tara, we're going to give you 20 bucks. You frightened me slightly, but that's fine. I think we're talking to the female Conor McGregor here.

Have a great time at the rugby, mate. Liana, we'll get you on from Auckland. How are you, Liana? Why are you going to have the best holidays? Morning. What are you doing on the holidays, Liana? Going to the rugby set. Where the fun never ends.

Until they close the park at five o'clock. The log ride, the log flume is meant to be the dunner up. It's even better, apparently, so that'll be cool. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. I tried to ride it seven times in one day when I was a kid, the log flume. You get wet trousers, don't you? Yeah, as a kid you don't care.

But as an adult you do. You do. You feel very uncomfortable. Hey, Liana, we're going to give you $20 to spend at Rainbow's End, okay? Thank you. Why don't you go stimulate the economy, okay? Okay. She has no idea what that means.

And do we have time, Joel, or are we running out of time? Yeah, we've got some time for Kelly. All right. Thank you, Joel. All right. I think we've got Kelly on 0800 The Hits. Hey, Kel. Good morning.

How are you guys? Mate, we are frothing harder than the milking machine here in this cafe. What's going on with you these holidays? Well, these holidays will be pretty boring for me. Work, work, work. But my partner has just been granted his New Zealand citizenship and passport. So we'll be saving to go to Samoa for the first time in December. Oh, that's wonderful.

Congratulations to your husband. Now, don't they do some sort of ceremony when you get your citizenship? Because of COVID, they'll send that out within a month or two. So it's kind of like the waiting game these holidays. Yeah, well, hey, well, well done. That's great. Thank you. Now let's all sing the national anthem to take us out.

Oh, what? We're going to send you our $20 so you can spend that in some hole when you head over there once you get started. All right, have a great weekend and have a great holiday, anyone lucky enough to get the holiday. The hit. Well, that is our show. We have, as we said before, a lot of fun on the $20 tour. alright have a great weekend and have a great holiday anyone lucky enough to get the holiday the hits well that is our show we have as we said before

a lot of fun on the $20 tour thank you for everyone that came down and saw us as we travel around the country got a whole lot of free coffee thank you to the black and white

coffee cartel today thanks to all the cafes who have helped us out throughout the week thank you for listening to it and winning $20 off us we're going to be on holiday for a couple of weeks

for the school holes but back then if they want us back, if they'll have us back. We'll see. Decisions pending. Have a great weekend. We'll catch you then.