Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: We speak to the NZ Queen who made the $20 note famous - $20 Karen

Episode Date: June 2, 2022

We chat with the infamous $20 Karen and our Royal Correspondent Gavin Grey as celebrations kick off for The Queen's Jubilee kick off in London.Ben had an embarrassing incident shopping with his daughter Indie and Jono shared some hilarious kid feedback. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Kia ora, welcome, this is the podcast. It's the 3rd of June, New Zealand, Aotearoa, heading into a long Queen's birthday weekend, which usually, we've always discussed, we're like, it's never on the Queen's actual birthday, but this is when she was first ordained? I don't know. Her father died, so she had to become the Queen, yeah. This weekend.

Right. Back in the day. 25 years old, we found out earlier today. Yeah, you're very young, isn't it? What an occasion, though. What an occasion, Ben. I was just looking at my hand sanitizer, and tell you what an industry that has just absolutely thrived

over the last two to three years, the hand sanitizer industry. And they've really branched out now into odours. Because I just put some on, and I thought I'd just grabbed your classic green top. Dead old jobby from the petrol station. And I was like, my hands smell, you know, exotic. And it's, you know, infused with chamomile now. Oh, I've got a cherry blossom one I get from time to time.

You do? I appreciate that. It's got a lovely smell on it. I like that one. It smells good. It's not always available. It's got like little granules in it. Yeah, yeah. I don't know what the granules are. Like exfoli one. It smells good, yeah. It's not always available. It's got like little granules in it. Yeah, yeah.

I don't know what the granules are. Like exfoliating granules. Yeah, exfoliating. You guys got big plans for the weekend? No, I was just talking about hand sanitizers. It's going to be the most exciting part of my weekend. What label are you going to read next? I was just going to go.

You're going to go, I read all the labels. Yeah, I was just going to go, what advancements there have been. You know, from an industry where, you know, the OG hand sanitizer, you put it on, just smell like pure alcohol burning off three layers of skin. To this, to this now, chamomile infused hand sanitizer. Smell like a hangover from vodka the night before. Exactly. What an age we live in. What a weekend I'm having.

What a fantastic weekend he's going to be having. Hey, we had a fun show today. Every caller that got on the airwaves won $20, and we rang $20 Karen. Now, if anyone's listening from overseas and don't know who $20 Karen is, she is an iconic New Zealander, became famous, viral sensation, because she left a message on somebody's phone,

turned out to be the wrong phone, wanting to get $20 back that she was owed, and she was very heated about this $20, and it became like a viral sensation overnight. You'll hear that message, and also you'll hear us talking to her today. She's great. Yeah, she's great.

That was 2013. Was it? 2013 that message was released. $20 Karen. She has ridden that wave exceptionally well, hasn't she? Yeah. You know, almost a decade of the $20 Karen. We're going to have to celebrate the 10-year, the Queen's Jubilee.

We're going to have to celebrate Karen's decade of voicemail. The $20 Karen. Eventually, I think she got her money back. I think it did. But after. That's right. Very heated about $20. I mean, and I want to take my hat off to Karen as well and thank her on behalf of the industry,

our industry. Radio shows, TV segments, memes, social videos. She's done it all. She's appeared on every radio show you could imagine and more than willing to give her time. Exactly. Although we always promise her prizes and we never send them out.

And she's not the right person to not send out a prize. As well as that, I have an awkward encounter in the changing rooms and we talked to our European correspondent. We like to call him that, UK correspondent, about what's going on with the Queen's Jubilee. Enjoy the podcast. They're not afraid to use the F word.

Be family, friendly, fun. Jono and Ben on the hits. Very special show this morning, celebrating Queen's birthday weekend, don't we, Benjamin? We'll tell everyone soon how they can win some money. It's not going to be all about the Benjamins. It's going to be all about the Green Queens.

The Elizabeths. The Lizzie's. My son, Oscar, he plays basketball, you know, table tennis Wednesday, basketball Thursday. She's a relentless schedule. I know you've pigeonholed your kids to doing two extracurricular events. Per term. Per term. Otherwise, you ended up, there was four or five nights driving around everywhere.

And as I said to you yesterday, they check out of the midway through. So you're like, why are we doing this? Why am I getting stressed about taking you to something you don't want to go to? So we're like, well, do two. You've got to stick stressed about taking you to something you don't want to go to? So we're like, well, do two, you've got to stick it out for the term, and that's it.

Because otherwise you do, you just... What have you pulled out of in the past? Oh, there's all sorts of stuff they've tried. Music? Yeah, music.

But sometimes you tap out and you can come back into it as well. Dance classes, dancing was one that we stopped and things like that. But it's important for them

to try to see what they like. Yeah, exactly. But you're right. I mean, I should have the pull-out policy as well. Yeah. But anyway, I saw you at basketball last night, and you sit with parents watching on,

and I got talking to this lady. Her son was also on Oscar's team. And she said, oh, I'm a schoolteacher. And you know me, talking. It's not so much a conversation, more of an interview, where I just fire a barrage of questions at people about their profession. What I love about you is you have no gauge of whether people find it awkward or not. The other day you were talking about some sensitive details

about some guy's course shutting down. You tell him, yeah, well, I don't really want to get into that. You're like, well, what's the thing with the government? And he doesn't want to talk about those things. You're in front of all the students too. But you're really getting into it, like you're Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB. I've got no barometer. oh was it awkward was it was a little bit you can tell he didn't really want to talk about it i was like oh i know you saw another one but it was great

yeah yeah but anyway so i'm talking to this lady and she's a primary school teacher and they're doing a uh thing yesterday with the kids where they were trying to you know talk about everyday superheroes you know yeah trying to convince them that iron man and uh who else billy eilish uh you know they're great but they're not you know there's people who do jobs who are everyday superheroes okay and so they had to write down on a form like fill out like a customs declaration for you know the question answer session and it was you know who who was your superhero uh why are they why are they superhero and you know does your superhero have any any worries are they scared

about anything you know for just to be everyday people and so this one girl wrote who's your hero my dad oh that's a great one yeah yeah i've never been on a hero form have you have you ever been listed on a hero form no i don't think so i mean no no yeah and it's the second question was you know what's why is he a hero and she's like because he's brave and strong which was sweet as well and the third question was you know is he scared of anything does he worry about anything the third question was, you know, is he scared of anything? Does he worry about anything? The third answer was, my mum. It's the only thing he's scared of. Oh, he's scared of the mum.

He's the world's greatest superhero, but you bring his wife into the equation. Like the enemy, like Lex Luthor or Superman. This is kryptonite. It's the mum. Oh, that's very good. Scrolling through your feed. He's like a cute news pig Shoving his nose into the trough of topicality

Ben, what's happening in there? Well, all eyes of the world seem to be on What's happening in London at the moment Tens of thousands of people came along to celebrate The Queen's 70 years on the throne Kicked off four days of celebration yesterday The Queen stepped out onto the Buckingham Palace balcony To a huge chair.

There were loads of people dressing up. Crowns, flags, parades as well. So 25 years of age is when, of course, she became monarch. Seven decades. It's incredible. Imagine what you were doing at age 25. You know, the life decisions you were making. I can only look at my own ones and not fit to run a country. What I

was doing, I wouldn't trust myself. To be Queen, to have a whole sort of empire. She smiled lots the Queen. She talked to Prince Louis, who is four. He's getting a lot of attention. I mean, he was quite animated on there. He was chatting away to her. He was covering his ears when there was loud aircrafts over the

head. He loved waving, lots of waving. And he maybe had a little sneaky pick of his nose as well at some stage. But he's a four-year-old kid, so that's what you do. He's good. He's probably got very bored very quickly, I imagine. Like, can we go now? And so it was probably one of the most awkward family reunions in history, wasn't it?

It plays out in front of thousands and millions of people. Yeah, well, she only had sort of like the working royals out on the balcony and some of the ones. And so it was kind of like the core cast. The main actors were out there at the moment. And some of the other ones, like Meghan and Harry, were sort of watching out with some other of the royals through windows out along the side.

But they're saying that's not unusual. They'll all be getting together tomorrow. And it probably just kind of makes things a little less awkward. Yeah. Andrew, do we have to hide him away? How do we get of him he's got covid he's got covid so he wasn't out there as well so there's a lot dancing with the stars they all had to take their tests before going in and uh andrew's just for some reason turned up negative he's like can i see it oh no no you don't need to look at the results it's definitely i mean it was either that or tell

him the wrong address for the party wasn wasn't it? Where is it? North Korea this year. Oh, North Korea. Yeah, no, Kim Jong-un's been very accommodating. And that was the only other way to get rid of him. So he's not there. He's not part of the four-day holiday extravaganza. It's going to have a whole lot of events over the next few days,

a big pageant, thousands of performers, and a four-day holiday over there as well to the UK. So they go nuts for it. Yeah, and now, Belle, you're saying we're doing things in New Zealand as well, being part of the Monarch. We're lighting a beacon down in Wellington, although I think the Commonwealth country's all doing it. Also, Jacinda's going to a service. Oh, she's back, is she? She's back.

Must be. Well, that's what they said on the news this morning. Yeah, she's going to a service. God, she's got a busy schedule. She snuck in overnight on the red-eye. Yeah, just be like, can I just have a couple of days to decompress? I'll pack my bag and things like that. I've been like, Harvard, the White House, your plane broke down. There's a lot of stuff I need to chill. No off button if you're a Prime Minister, right?

It's a non-stop treadmill. There we go. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. It's Queen's birthday weekend and on the show today, because the Queen, of course, is on the $20 note, every caller that gets on the air on 0800 that hits gets a Green Queen. Oh, this is wonderful. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. Do you want that music?

Have you got music? Yeah, we actually have music. I was just doing it with my mouth. Oh, there we go. This is the seat of Siela. Should we give away one right now? Let's do it. We're giving away Green Queens to every caller that jumps on 0800 that hits this morning on New Zealand's Breakfast. You can buy

yourself one slice of cheese for $20. You know, you can fill up a shot glass of petrol. There's so much you can do with this money right now. Marilyn from Pahuanui. How are you in the Coromandel this morning, Mazza? That's what they call me, actually, my nickname.

Very well, thank you. I listen to you guys every morning. Oh, well, thank you very much. Now, you sound like you may be from originally the UK. Am I right? I am, yeah. So are you like a royalist or are you kind of indifferent? No, no, no, I do like the royals very much.

You'll be frothing over the next four days. You've got it all going on. I've seen the scenes on the news. Amazing. Thousands and thousands Lining the streets Mezza I know I wish I was there Because all my family's there

But you know Have they gone Have they gone along I've got a niece That lived in London So yes She'll be really Living it up

Oh good on you Haven't been a long time Since you've seen them Marilyn About Six years Oh mate That's a long time Way too long I know We're going to give you Twenty dollars It's got the queen on it to Maryland? About six years. Oh, mate.

That's a long time. Way too long. I know. Well, we're going to give you $20. It's got the Queen on it. It won't probably quite get you to London, but it will get you something pretty sweet. It won't even get you to the airport. It'll get you something sweet over the weekend, all right?

Thank you very much. Have a great long weekend. Of course, the $20. Now, when we think of $20 in New Zealand, you think of a lady called $20 Karen. Now, she became a viral sensation a few years ago for a message that she left for someone that ended up on the wrong phone. Near the wrong voicemail.

And this was the message. She was very fired up about the fact that someone owed her $20. Have a listen. Hello, this is Karen. Rachel thinks she can ignore me and hide from me for her $20,000 that she owes me from, like, well over three months ago.

She won $600 at the pokey at the Stokes Valley Bar, and she said to Jade and Dion, don't tell Karen you've seen me because I owe her 20 bucks. I'll tell you what, I'll get my 20 bucks or she's going to get 20 whacks. Not my $20. I want my $20 money. So she gets quite passionate about $20. Don't tell Jade and Dion that you've seen me. Now we've talked to Karen many times.

$20 Karen, as she's known over the years. But we thought, because every caller that gets on the air on 100 of the Hits gets $20, why don't we give her a call next and give her $20? Because she loves $20. It's always exhilarating when we phone Karen, because it could all go so wrong at any moment. This is why I love it. She's the world's most frightening slash lovable small claims debt collector.

All right, $20 Karen. Hopefully we'll answer her phone next and we'll give her $20 and we better pay her back. Tested safe for listing from home. Jono and Ben on the hits. Throughout the show this morning, you can win $20. Every caller gets a green queen to celebrate Queen's birthday weekend that gets on the air.

And who better to give $20 to than $20 Karen? She is the actual queen of the $20 notes in New Zealand. She wanted to retrieve $20 that was owed to her on a misplaced voicemail that ended up going viral. Who would have thought that would turn her into an overnight superstar?

Just a voicemail that had probably been sitting there for six months because no one clears the voicemail. So we're going to go through to Karen now. All right. Hello. Oh, it's our mate, $20 Karen. Now, you've got to guess who it is, Karen. There's two of us.

Is that John and Ben? How are you, mate? I'm good. What's been going on? What's been happening? Not a lot. What are you doing right now, Karen? I'm just sitting in my chair having a cup of tea. Oh.

Did you put sugar in that tea, Karen? No, I don't have sugar in tea. I'm sweet enough. Yeah, you are. I imagine Karen would have her tea in a very particular way. Yeah. You wouldn't want to mess that up, would you? Are you running a top or are you running a teapot or a sort of a kettle situation there, Karen?

May I've got my dressing gown on? I don't know. How did we get there? What did you say? I must have missed the edge. We couldn't tell. We couldn't tell. We couldn't tell. Now, Karen, it's Queen's birthday weekend,

and the Queen, of course, is on the $20 note. And we thought we should give $20, Karen, a call because we're giving $20, Green Queens, to every caller on the radio this weekend. We thought, well, who would want $20 more than you? So we're going to give you $20. Oh, very good. They tell me you get quite enthusiastic about $20.

Yeah, of course. I get enthusiastic about any dollars. $20. Yeah, I don't want to not give you this $20 because, yeah, I've heard what happened last time. Yeah, that's right. So you were going to... because, yeah, I've heard what happened last time. Yeah, that's right. So we're on the 6th of June on Instagram. There is anti-positivities and we're doing T-shirts.

Hold on, what's this turned into? Yeah, no, so you can let your callers know. You're hocking off T-shirts on Instagram in four days? In the 6th of June they'll be launched, yeah. Have you got your own merch? This girl's doing it. It's her little enterprise, and I'm getting my grandson to do it with her

because if they pay me, it starts getting too messy. I'm going to help my grandson become an entrepreneur. Oh, of course. I tell you what, if they pay me it gets too messy. So you don't want I thought, why not? Good thing for Lucas,

he's only 16. Oh, that's nice. So they've got you on the t-shirts, have they? Yeah, it's got

f*** off and she draws me and then she's done one and on the back it's like a $20 note that goes this is legal tender for $20

and whacked. I don't know if I can wear that at work. Don't forget that they put it up that I was New Zealand's answer to the coronavirus. Somebody put it up on YouTube. This is New Zealand's answer to the coronavirus. Somebody put it up on YouTube. This is New Zealand's answer to the coronavirus.

And that was you. Me going... I thought it was well done. That was. And now you're expanding out. You're getting merch involved. You're buying... Yeah. The t-shirts, they better be $20, Karen. No, I think they're $40. You're getting merch involved. You're right. Yeah. How much are the t-shirts?

They better be $20, Karen. Yeah. No, I think they're $40. $40? Yeah. She gets all that side of it. My grandson's just going to be in on part of it. Yeah, right.

And you can't be involved. It's too messy. Well, I would have got out of it, but I'm letting my grandson have it because he does all my filming. Oh, that's so good. Well, nice to talk to you and we'll send you out that $20. We better send you out that $20 otherwise we know what we get. That's right.

Lovely to hear your voice, Karen. Yeah, and I do custom videos and voice messages too now. Oh, do a custom message for Ben and me now. This is Ben and Jono, and they better bloody behave themselves and give me my $20 or you two will get $20. And that ain't 10 each.

Now, Karen, why did you censor yourself in the first half, but then you unloaded on the second one? It's how I do it. It's how she does it, mate. I'm going to do a custom video today for a guy who's going to tell his mate off for trying to kiss his other mate and steal his undies. The life of Karen.

All right, Karen, so good. So good. It's a rollercoaster, right? See you guys. See you later. Start to the weekend coming up. Thanks a lot. See you, Karen.

Okay. See you guys. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Spilling the tea on Hollywood's A-listers. Kardashians. I have met every single one. Exposing scandals. Because she's not a good person, but either is he.

Digging the dirt. Is she a diva? Yes. And finding out what's going on behind the scenes. Yelling at cast members? Yes. It was a script. No.

His identity is a secret. But his stories have been proven right time and time again. This is NT. Yeah, we want to find out what else is going on in Hollywood at the moment. And he joins us again live from LA. This is becoming a regular thing henty oh how are you boys we're doing all right spoken into a lot about the kardashians recently but jono yesterday reckons his theory is courtney travis they've got to fizzle out they've come

in hot they're going to fizzle out what do you think can you tell a relationship after years and years of experience in hollywood from you and go that's not gonna last yeah i totally 100 agree when you're that hot and heavy, when you're doing tongues on the carpet and everything, it's burning too hot. How long can you keep that up? Too sexual. It's better to be slow and steady. Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson,

there was nothing ever explosive about any of that. Did you ever saw Tom Hanks try humping Rita on the red carpet, did you? No. And it's just, I don't know, it's so publicity generated. It's so click generated. It's so marketing driven. And should your relationship be about clicks or should it be about getting along and, you know, developing a relationship?

And I just, we've had three ceremonies, guys. Three. And a giant Dolce & Gabbana marketing campaign as well. It's been a whirlwind of a marriage. Now, a lot of people work hard in Hollywood. You've even said that yourself, NT. Dwayne the Rock Johnson and Kevin Hart seem like the hardest working people in the game. Is that true?

They are. I've tried to decide who works harder between Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart. Because Dwayne Johnson works out four hours a day. And they both work extremely hard. And I'm not sure that there's anybody who works harder in front of the camera. But there's a lot of people. Reese Witherspoon works very hard. I mean, she's got a clothing line.

She's a producer. Stars in multiple things. And all these three things, you know, they take a little bit of time. So I think there's a lot of hardworking people. And there's a lot of people who really don't work that hard at all. Yeah, because Dwayne The Rock Johnson is Ben's hero. He seems so nice. Please tell me he's an absolute monster off camera.

Please don't. I don't want to. I love The Rock. Again, I think that he'd give you a little bit of time, but this was also the same guy who didn't want to be late for work and his gate wasn't working, so he crashed the car through the gate so he would get to work on time. Oh, did he? Yeah, so there's a limit to his patience.

A limit. I saw that. He put it all over his Instagram. He was like, I need to get through, and he got through. There's a lot of protein pumping through those veins. He can do anything at any time. Which celebrity comes with the biggest amount of personal assistance? Who has the biggest amount of staff?

Because many of these celebrities, I imagine, would have a lot of people working for them. Yeah. What I find is that singers generally have the most people. Whether it's Mariah Carey, Madonna, Lady Gaga, they also have those strangest kind of demands. Mariah Carey's at a point where if she doesn't want to press the button on a microwave, I've seen it where somebody is holding like a Diet Coke for her, holding the Diet Coke for her, so Mariah just has to do the straw. She bends down and does the straw. Even that's too much, wrapping her lips around a straw.

If someone else could do that for her, she would pay them. And oftentimes you'll find out these things when they inevitably get sued because they didn't pay overtime. So Lady Gaga had an assistant who had to sleep with Lady Gaga because Lady Gaga didn't like to sleep alone. There wasn't anything sexual going on. And during the middle of the night, the DVD stopped or something. Lady Gaga would say, get out of bed and change that.

I mean, who wants to get up in your woman bed? I get it. I get it. Madonna, every time before she goes to the bathroom, somebody has to go in there and clean it for her. I tell you what, she would hate our work toilets, mate. At what point do you go, you know, I really don't want to get up and change the channel anymore.

I really don't want to get up and change the channel anymore. I really don't want to do this. But just the act of, I don't want to get up and change the DVD, and I'm going to hire somebody to do that for me. And I don't want to sleep alone, so I'm going to hire somebody to spoon me all night long. Hey, have you got the money? And that's like, you know. Someone should tell her about remote controls and streaming services. Oh, NT, you are an absolute champion, as always.

Great catching up with you, mate, and we'll catch you next week, buddy. Next week, you guys. Take care. Spy. Know what's up. Spy.co.nz. Here we are, doing our best to keep famous people relevant. Belle, what's going on?

I think you might be a bit interested in this. So Jada Pinkett-Smith has addressed Slapgate when Will slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars for the first time ever on her show Red Table Talk, which at the time there were all these memes like, come on Jada it's time to bring out the red table. And she's finally done that. Here's what she said. Now about Oscar night,

my deepest hope is that these two intelligent, capable men have an opportunity to heal, talk this out, and reconcile. The state of the world today, we need them both. Will and I are continuing to do what we have done for the last 28 years, and that's keep figuring out this thing called life together. Oh, there you go.

That was a wonderful pre-prepared speech, wasn't it? Well, good on her for addressing it. And she's right. Let's hope they can work it out. Both are very talented and like I said, very intelligent growing adults.

And I'm sure they'll come to some sort of arrangement, won't they? I imagine Will Smith's got a lot of work to do with Chris Rock in that regard to make the move to kind of make things better.

You feel like when you do something, if someone does something like that, there's a whole lot of other stuff bubbling away in the background for them to react that way. You know? A lot of stuff that he probably needs to deal with go back in the past mainly that his wife went off with another guy for a year and a half i'm sure that's probably been suppressed in some way yeah and you know so then he probably felt like he needed to over protect her and be like i'm the man for you jump up there do it hey i'm a, I'm not a psychologist, but I'm acting like one.

What a juice bag. I love it. It was different from you. No, no. A little bit different. No expertise. Please, I don't know. No, it was nice of you to, I think it's good that you're thinking deeply about that.

I like it. It's good. We will smith it. Someone clip up that audio set at Tom, you know. Sorry, I don't know. I can't remember when you got your degree in psychology there, Jono. There we go. And also the Queen's Jubilee, of course, is underway.

How could you miss it? Four days of celebrations. It's a big deal over in the UK. And I've noticed some of the fashion details. So Kate Middleton has channeled a Princess Diana look. She often does this, which I think is really nice. She's wearing a white suit jacket. You know how Diana would wear hats, big hats that would often go on the side?

I always found. How did she balance those on the side of her head? I don't know. It's impressive. So that's really nice. And the royal family has been coordinating in a lovely, they're calling it a dove blue, sort of like a light blue colour. The Queen in her lovely suit and hat and the grandchildren all wearing

matching clothes to tie in with her on the balcony. And Prince Louis, he's been pulling faces, which he always does. I mean, he's a little kid. He's four years old, yeah. They're making galleries of all the times he's pulled faces, so that's really cute. Yeah, he loves waving. He's a big waver.

Yeah. Like he's on a carriage waving. You waving, anyone? Getting involved? On the balcony waving. I don't want to, because his brother is in line for the throne, isn't it? George? Yeah.

Yeah, he's in line for the throne. He's in a George? Yeah. Yeah, he's in line for the throne. He's in a suit. They've put him in some sort of comical sailor's boy outfit. He's being dressed for the rogue role in the family. 20 years time, he's going to be partying away. We're going to be like, oh, Louis, champagne stuff. Yeah, and Princess Charlotte looks beautiful as well. So cool to see them all out there.

You can see photos at thehits.co.nz where you can find more spy. Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion. Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB. In the meantime, Jono and Ben on The Hits. The Hits, cash and car. Win a brand new Škoda and thousands in cash. Your next chance to win is at 8am. Now, if you're here for advice on life, you're in big trouble.

Jono and Ben. Good morning, Friday morning. Jono and Ben hanging out with you on The Hits. 7.04 is the time. Now, a couple of days ago, we got David Seymour from the ACT Party, the leader, and we put him in disguise. A.K.A. a wig and a moustache with a glued-on goatee. And we got him to go around and see if he could get people to talk about him

without knowing it was David Seymour asking the questions. Have a listen. If I told you the leader of the ACT Party was David Seymour, would that mean anything to you? Not really. Fair enough, too. This is a crushing blow to his ego, isn't it? What's the first word that comes to mind when you think about David Seymour?

This might be a really dumb opinion, but I think he looks like a snail. I don't know. I wouldn't trust him as far as you could throw him but... He's always talking lots, he's always got lots to say on everything. It's David Seymour! David Seymour! It was very fun, very fun. Good on him for doing it as well. Oh yeah, check out the video, it's at the Hits Breakfast on Instagram and Facebook. It is very funny, David Seymour undercover. Someone should teach David Seymour he's allowed to say no to any requests we put through.

But he's very accommodating. Hey, David, do you want to twerk during Dancing with the Stars? Yeah, yeah, I'll do it. You can't say no. Hey, catch that on the Hits Breakfast Instagram. And your chance to win some green queens is next for Queen's Birthday weekend. Rise and shine. Time to start the, um, who are we kidding?

When are the both of you? Jono and Ben on the hit. This Friday, heading into the long Queen's birthday weekend, we are celebrating with everyone who gets on air wins a green queen. Yeah, Queen's birthday weekend, and over there in the UK, we've spoken a couple of times about it this morning, but they've got four days of celebration to celebrate the Queen's 70 years on the throne. Incredible.

Incredible. I said earlier in the week I really put my daughter wrong. She was doing a project. They all had to do posters, Queen's Jubilee posters. And she was like, oh, it's Queen's 70th. And I was like, no, no, the Jubilee's the 75th. And I said this without Googling anything. With confidence.

With confidence. So she changed her poster to 75th Jubilee's the 75th. And I said this without Googling anything. With confidence. With confidence. So she changed her poster to 75th Jubilee. And then I had to come home on Monday and go, oh dear God, I got it wrong, Poppy. So we had to do a bit of a hatchet job on the Jubilee poster. And it now kind of looks like I've painted over the five in twink. And you know how when you go over twink, it's not quite the same. It's never the same.

So she said, well, you could have kept it for five more years, and then the 75th would have been relevant. Hopefully all going well. She's still around. Do you know once, I haven't really told anyone this, but do you know once I saw the Queen in Wellington? Now, the problem was that, because my mate and I, this was a story that I'm not proud of,

but we took a day off school to go to Wellington. Oh, Ben, this is uncharacteristic. I know, that's what I mean. You're so naughty. We wouldn't do that now, and I'm like, oh you know, what a story that I'm not proud of, but we took a day off school to go to Wellington. Oh, Ben, this is uncharacteristic. I know, that's what I mean. You're so naughty. I wouldn't do that now and I'm like, oh,

Ben, what were you thinking? Oh, Ben, I'm disappointed in you. We went on Wellington to the train, took the train to Wellington from Marston

where I grew up and then we were walking down the street and we were like, look, there's a lot of people out there waving. What are they all doing? They were all standing around and then this sort of car went past

and I was like, oh, there's a queen. We were like, we're waving. Did she wave back? And she sort of said what she was waving towards and I was like, hey, there's a queen. We're like, we're waving. Did she wave back? And she sort of said, well, she was waving towards us. I was like, hey, there's a queen.

That was a pretty cool moment. But then we're like, we can never tell anyone. We can never speak of this because why were we in Wellington? Why did we see the queen? So we had to shut up about it until now. How disappointed will your principal be who's listening now?

All these years I've been very disappointed. He's on rubbish duty. He's on rubbish duty On this afternoon Yeah so That's my Queen story And so I thought this morning Have you got a better Surely got a better story

Than that But the Queen Kind of waved In my direction And I was Taking a day off school I regret it now You know

Yeah Queen calls That's all we're going to do On 0800 As we said Everyone wins A Green Queen Thank God

It's not Ernest Rutherford's birthday this weekend. Otherwise we'd be handing out red Rutherfords like nobody's business. Green queens, though, this morning. You got any story relating to you and the queen? We'd love to hear from you. Heading into a long queen's birthday weekend, and everyone on 0800 The Hits that gets on the show this morning

wins a green queen, a $20 note. It's the most obtainable cash giveaway on radio, isn't it? If you can get through on the phones. Yeah. It's very easy, an obtainable amount of money, and it'll help you out. As we said, fill up half a shot glass of petrol or something. Buy you half a Chesdale slice.

So we wanted some queen stories this morning because everyone's talking about the queen. Do you have anything? Anything that's happened in your life to do with the queen? Well, let's go to Dawn, shall we? Come on in. Hi. Welcome to the Queen Calls.

Good morning. So what have you got? Have you met the Queen? Have you seen the Queen? What's happened? My father-in-law was Sergeant Major in the Coldstream Guards, which means that he was a queen's guard. So the people that stand outside on ceremony at Buckingham Palace,

the guys who wear the red uniforms with the big black bear skins, that was him. Oh, wow. The big sort of beefeater sort of hat sort of thing going on there. Yeah. They don't move those people, do they? They're like statues. You can't. Do those people, do they? They're like statues. They absolutely don't.

If you butt, if you try to enter the palace or climb on the gates, they will move. They will put their gun at you and they will shout at you. That's when they start moving. Up until that point, they're just sort of watching. Don't you test me. And so what was the coolest story you heard from your father-in-law? Well, it was not really about the Queen because she was always very well behaved.

She was very queenly in her behaviour. She's a nightmare, mate. She's all over the show. But the nightmare one was Princess Margaret who would come home at all hours of the night and call them out onto parade. So she would get the guys to get up, get their full uniforms and their big hats on and parade around in the middle of the night

just to entertain her. So they were asleep? She's like, hey, you guys, get up, put your stuff on. Get up. Cook a toasted sandwich or something. And then I'd sit there like munching a toasted sandwich, parade in front of me. She was quite funny on The Crown.

I remember watching the early series of The Crown and yeah, she was the one that would go out and have, you know, she was allowed to have more of a social life

where poor Elizabeth sort of had to stay home and, you know, be good. Yes, exactly. Oh, that's awesome. Well, we're going to give you $20. Every caller that gets on the air this morning

gets a green queen, a $20 note. So yeah, thank you so much for sharing that with us. Thank you. On 0800 The Hits, we've got Helen right now. Hello, Helen.

Good morning. Good morning to you. Welcome to The Queen Calls. So you've got a story about the queen. What is it? When I was seven years old, my dad had built one of the buildings at Mystery Creek. And the queen was visiting. I was on one side, and my parents were on the other side,

and they were clearing the way because the Queen was coming in her carriage with the horses. Oh, very nice, yeah. And I ran out in front of the carriage to the other side. Oh, you ran in front of the Queen's carriage? Oh, I sure did. Was it a whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa situation? Were the horses having to stop?

No, no, no. It was close, but no. Did the Queen see you? I'm pretty sure she did, yeah. Yeah, that's impressive. There we go. Almost hit and run by a slow-travelling carriage. Yeah.

That's awesome. Well, every caller that gets on the air this morning wins a green queen, a $20 note. So we're going to send you out $20, all right? Oh, that's pretty choice. That's pretty choice, all right. Have a great long weekend. You too.

Plenty more queens to give away before 9 o'clock this morning. But next we go live to the UK. Gavin Gray, our official reporter over there. What's going on with the Queen's celebrations? We'll find out in three minutes on The Hits. Breakfast with Jono and Ben. Four-day weekend in the UK. Huge celebrations going on to celebrate the Queen's 70th Jubilee.

Yeah, and we cross live now to our Royals correspondent in the UK, Gavin Gray. GG, how are you, mate? Hey, very good, guys. How are you? Good. And now you out there celebrating tens of thousands we see in London yesterday? Are you out there celebrating, got your flag on, got your little tiara?

Well, I'll tell you what, it's absolutely packed. The scenes are amazing. Lots of bunting. Most people, I think, pretty keen on joining in. And this sort of sense of post-pandemic freedom, certainly pervasive. Of course, as well, lots of people very supportive of the 70 years on the throne and the work done by Her Majesty. Just an extraordinary amount of bunting, as you said. I mean, if I had nailed my foot to the floor

in the bunting business five years ago, you'd be reaping the rewards today, Gavin. Yeah, well, you would, except I have to tell you now, to hold a street party, which people are being intending to do, some 12 million people, it's estimated, would take part in some sort of a private party over the weekend or Friday, because that's a public holiday for us anyway, tomorrow, your time. They are basically saying, to do this, you need a license from the local authority. And believe it or not, people have been told they need about $10 million New Zealand dollars public liability. And if they've got bunting, they can't hold it, hang it rather from a lamppost, because lampposts aren't designed for that.

Lampposts can't hold a piece of bunting. It's a change of health and safety, this is. Yeah. Wow. So it's a four-day holiday over there. We saw some shots of the Queen out on the balcony. She looked very happy. She was hanging out with her grandchildren.

Yeah, look, I have to say she was looking a lot better than I fit because, as we all know, her mobility's been pretty poor. She did have a stick when she walked onto the palace balcony, but she looked so happy. She looked very well. But a big change, you know, so there were 17 people on the balcony and of course those are all supposedly

the working royals as they're being called. Well, the Diamond Jubilee, there were 40 royals on the balcony. I think that's a signal about how Her Majesty realises that perhaps people are less keen on seeing what some critics would say the hangers-on.

Yeah, right. And obviously, you know, it's been a tough time for all businesses. She's had to shed a few employees. The big question, Harry, William, how tense was that meeting? Yeah, I mean, look, sources are saying to me that they have been FaceTiming each other and FaceTiming each other's kids which is obviously very nice they are therefore getting on better but i have to tell you things are still pretty frosty between them the big thing might be you know tomorrow is lillibet's first birthday so harry and megan's youngest and of course it is the queen's nickname lillibet now the queen was due to go horse racing tomorrow for Epsom,

which she absolutely loves, but three of her horses were racing. They've all pulled out. Word is reaching me now she won't go and will instead go to a sort of impromptu birthday party for little Lilibet. So I think there's a great deal of hope there may be a rapprochement.

Then certainly the feelers are being put out between the Queen and Harry and Meghan just to be a little bit more on the same page. Nobody wants to spoil this party. But I think underneath it all, William and Harry are still not on a good place with each other. OK, well, there is celebrations continuing for the next few days. What are there to look forward to?

We hear talks of people like Elton John, Ed Sheeran. What's happening? Yeah. So, OK, so the beacon lighting now i know that uh across uh new zealand australia you've already lit yours but across some 54 countries beacons are going to be lit and indeed we are talking many hundreds if not thousands of beacons across the uk uh indeed one village has had to postpone that after a bird nested in their beacon. But other than that, everyone is getting ready to light these things.

Tomorrow is a Thanksgiving service, a more formal one at St Paul's Cathedral. Harry and Meghan are going to that and will be centre stage. Prince Andrew has coronavirus so he won't be going. They dodged a bullet on that one, didn't they mate? Yeah, that's just my expression

that I was using to a colleague earlier. They sure did dodge a bullet. Saturday is the start of big festivities in terms of a massive festival, lots of street parties and this huge concert at the Palace which as you say

Ed Sheeran is due to perform. There's going to be other major artists performing. Some big names and lots of people hoping that it all goes off really, really well and that the Majesty has the kind of celebration that it's getting. You know what, dear God, I forgot to light the beacon. Gavin Gray. Oh, it was on you.

It was on me and I've just remembered so I better dot out. Gavin Gray, thank you so much for your time this morning. We appreciate it. Enjoy the festivities. Enjoy the four-day holiday over there. The Hits,

the Jono and Ben podcast. Over the last couple of months we've had a couple of people pass on in the family and wider family and friend circles and things

and so we were kind of talking about this with Oscar and Poppy, our children, Ben. You know them. You're familiar with them. Yeah. And they had some questions about the funeral process and they've been children, Ben. You know them. You're familiar with them. Yeah. And they had some questions about the funeral process.

They've been to one. Yeah, gotcha. Have your kids been to a funeral? I was trying to think. I don't know if they have them. Yeah. I can't remember how old I was when I went to first. I was probably about 10 when I went to my first funeral.

Yeah. You don't quite comprehend what's going on. No, no. You're like, oh, it mustn't be a good day. Yeah. People don't look too happy. You know, that's the only thing i remember thinking at age 10 so yeah i was just kind of talking through that with them and um one of them raised a very quite an important issue

you're like so they they go underneath the ground if that's the way they choose to go yeah you know and flash suits dresses you know shoes yeah always and then we just leave them there so then i was like you did right there is you know billions and billions of dollars of great clothing that we've just buried underneath like billions loads of it loads shoot you know so well the i mean the option is you don't you use cheaper stuff or stuff you're like

oh maybe we don't want but you know it's nice to put someone in the stuff that is but here's

I have a wish a dying wish that I'd like to pass on to you okay okay so when I go

next couple of months or so I would say that old age it's kitchen I don't know who's going to go first the queen

or me so 70 years in radio as well 70 years I know he's going to go first, the Queen or me. 70 years in radio as well. 70 years for the Queen. Jono's Jubilee this year. My career started out in black and white. But where do I go, Ben? Gather everyone around. I want a lot of emotion.

A lot of emotion and some good, know, some good, just favorable comments. Changed history. You know, great guy philanthropist. Just get them all saying stuff. Okay. Bury me. Okay. Put me in a gorgeous suit.

Gucci. Dolce and Gabbana. I've never seen you in a suit like that. Yeah, but I want a gorgeous suit. Okay. Nice shoes. Prada or something. Dress me like Mike Hoskirk.

Okay. Once I'm underneath the ground, let everyone leave. They'll be quite emotional. You go, I'll catch up with you guys soon. You dig me back up. Undress me.

Undress me. You can have the suit. And the shoes. And the shoes. And then put me back down. He's slightly bigger feet than me, but okay. But I'm sure I can,

you know. That's my wish. Two socks that I can wear. Okay. That's your wish. That's my one wish. When someone comes back and goes, what are you doing? I'm like, what's his wish? What's my wish Two socks that I can wear Okay That's your wish That's my one wish Someone comes back And goes what are you

What are you doing I'm like What was his wish It's your hugging man You spoke about it on radio And you're holding me up And I'm naked Hanging over you

I undressed you Sorry We're going to call The authorities now Who's wish Who's wish I've got some audio recording Of his wish

Five words for 5K. You're just five words away from $5,000. It is our game of word association. We play it every morning at this time. You can win $5,000 by matching all five words with us.

That'd be a great way to start a great long weekend. Okay, she works in accounts payable. Andy, come on down. Hello. How are you, Andy? All right? Yeah, good, thanks. Yeah, a good five grand. A lot of cash. How are you, Andy? All right? Yeah, good, thanks.

Yeah, a good five grand. A lot of cash. What are you going to do with it? Yeah, I'm not sure. I think I'd just go on a big party. Bend it all. Yeah, big bender. There we go.

Let's try and win that for you. That's what they do in the accounts payable department. Yeah. Hey, so it is Queen's birthday weekend, and apparently all the words are Queen-themed. You've already won $20. We're giving away green queens to every caller that makes it to here, Andy. Oh, my God. Well, that's exciting.

That'll get me a cocktail. There you go. There's one and done. Already won some cash. So $5,020 on the line now. That's right. You've got the 20. We're trying to win you another five grand.

Who do you want to send into the soundproof booth? I'll send Ben, please. All right. Copy and paste the words from your mouth into Ben's mouth. He's off to the soundproof booth? I'll send Ben, please. All right. Copy and paste the words from your mouth into Ben's mouth. He's off to the soundproof booth. Actually, less known fact about that, it was used as the spray tanning booth for Dancing with the Stars. So Ben's going to come out with the skin complexion

of a seven-week holiday in Fiji. In the meantime, Andy, we're going to try and win you some cash, all right? First word that comes into your head, Buckingham. Palace. There we go. Buckingham. Palace. There we go. One and done. London. England.

Jubilee. Party. Weekend. Cool. I'll go long. Long. I had long in my head too. And the fifth and final words for Andy to go on a huge bender.

Prince. Oh, God, there's so many of them. I know. Prince. Oh, God, Charles is the oldest. Yeah, you're going to go lock in Charles. Yeah, there are a lot of them. Yeah, you had about half a dozen to choose from there.

Okay, you've done well, Andy. You played a fantastic game. Ben, emerging from the booth, and you do have the glow of a seven-week Fiji holiday. I was just saying that was used as the spray tanning booth for Dancing with the Stars. Okay, I was like, do I? Yeah, dude, you look amazing.

Andy, phenomenal game, Andy. Oh, really? Yeah. She's already got $20. Let's see if we can add $5,000. All right. Okay, first word. Bearing in mind it She's already got $20. Let's see if we can add $5,000. Alright. Okay, first word. Bearing in mind it's all Queen's themed. Queen themed. Buckingham.

Palace. One from one. London. England. Oh, okay. Ando. This is going well. Jubilee. Party. Party. Oh!

Oh, my God. I had a question mark, so there was that one and the fifth one. He's overcome one hurdle, Andy. Here we go. Weekend was the fourth word, Ben. Long. Jesus. We're here, Andy.

I can't breathe. I feel sick. Book the hotel room. Oh, Andy, I'm nervous. Okay. The fifth word to win Andy $5,000. First word that comes into your head when I say prince. I know, I know.

Andy knows, we all know. Harry. Oh, no. No, Charles. She went Charles.

It was William, Charles, Andrew. I was like, oh, that's a hard one. No, listen,

no one's going to pick Andrew. We know that. The Queen hasn't even picked Andrew to attend the Jubilee. We've all disowned him. Oh, I'm so sorry, Andy, that's a hard one. No, hey, listen, no one was going to pick Andrew. We know that. The Queen hasn't even picked Andrew to attend the Jubilee. We've all disowned him. Oh, I'm so sorry Andy was so close. No, that was so exciting. Thank you.

Oh, that was fun. You played a wonderful game, Andy. Well, we'll give you that Green Queen anyway and go and have a great long weekend, okay, mate? You too, thanks. Two semi-competent dads handing out semi-competent parenting advice. Jono and Ben on the hits. A bit of a change Changing seasons at the moment.

It's getting a little bit colder. And I was talking the other day about my daughter, Indy, 10 years old, how she's not always dressing for the conditions. You know, the kids seem to have a different temperature gauge. Yeah, she comes out in sometimes togs in the middle of June, doesn't she? Yeah, she's wearing shorts and stuff. I was like, hey, no more shorts. She's like, well, I need some more tights if I'm not going to wear shorts every day.

Has she been wearing shorts up until what? On and off, she's been wearing shorts and sometimes I'm like, put them away, put them away. Yeah, amazing.

So we went yesterday to the mall to get some tights. I was like, let's go shopping. So me and Indy went on a bit of a shopping day. It was lots of fun and we sort of walked around and then we ended up in a store

that sold tights and then they sold, you know, they sold bras and underwear and all sorts of stuff like that and I sort of, she was like, I found something, I want found someone to go try it on i'm like that's sweet and i sort of looked around i'm like oh the only sort of dude in the store that's fine that's fine but it's one of those places where you're sort of lingering outside the changing rooms but you don't really

want to be lingering so i was like oh look at the and you don't take out your phone so you're kind of like oh there's a price tag of this thing i wonder what how much so you're checking out the price tag of uh of underwear no it was like this is. So you're checking out the price tag of underwear. No, it was like a pajama top or something. I was like, oh, yeah, yeah. And I kept going back to that because Indy was taking a while. And I was like, this is taking a lot longer than I expected. And I imagine the shop staff are like,

he's looking at their price tag for an extraordinarily long amount of time. And it sort of went two minutes, and then it sort of went five minutes, and then it sort of went a lot longer. And I got to the stage where I was like, has she come out? And I've missed her or something, and she's gone out of the store. So surely not, because I'm standing sort of by the sort of corridor of the changing rooms, but I'm still in the area. Yeah, and the last thing you want to do in this situation

is have to peek your head over each of the doors. Around the corner. You all right in there? Yeah, so I sort of went, I go talk to the the lady who was running the store and i was just like hey my daughter's down there i just want to kind of go down there and make sure she's okay but i don't want to just kind of walk on down there and she's like that's fine come around the corner i'll sort of walk you down so i walked down to around the corridor where the changing rooms were and then she's like why don't you just call out because there's obviously

change rooms you know you're not going to get and she's not going to walk along and start whipping open the curtains or anything so i was like indy and this is the moment where i'm like please dear god please reply back indy because i was like i'm hoping she did it oh god i'm hoping she did it indy was me i probably wouldn't have replied back you're like oh i could throw him under the bus here she's like yeah dad i'm Dad, I'm in here. It's all good. I'm fine. She's all good. And what had happened, basically, is her lace had got... You know when sometimes you get your lace so tight, you can't undo it? On your shoes. Your shoes. She was like,

she was struggling on that. Trying to undo Fort Knox. I was like, dear God, this is taking such a long time. And it was that moment I'm like, thank God that she actually replied back with, yeah, Dad, I'm here. I mean, you've had some shocking changing room incidents, haven't you? Didn't you take your wife shopping or something and you were looking under the doors or something?

I don't know. I thought you slid your head under. You got on your back and slid under. No, I didn't say that. Yeah, was that a story you told? I was off air chat, sorry. I thought I even said that. Yeah, was that a story you told? No. Oh, it was an off-air chat, sorry. I have never had that happen.

This is defamatory. That's why we call him the slide around here. Constantly stitching him up. He's telling a heartfelt story about his daughter and then you stitch him up. Oh, no. Now I'm all the sudden sliding my head under. Watch out for him at Glassons this week here. Oh, stop it.

Oh, jeez. Cash. Cash and car. my head watch out for him at glassens this week here oh geez guess how much cash we've stashed in the skoda's boot and drive it home along with all that money it is an amazing car worth over 45 000 there is thousands and thousands of dollars in the back of that car and if you can guess the exact cent how how much money is in there, you'll take home cash and the car. Now, we've almost had a couple of bullseyes the day before yesterday, otherwise known as Wednesday, but they didn't quite

land on the bullseye. Landed on that little circle around the bullseye, which I don't know the name of. The dark community might be able to help me out there. But Cash Keeper Alex, hiding in the cash capsule, we should actually change the name of Cash Keeper to Cash Giver Away-er-er. Because that's what you want to do. Yeah, exactly.

And that's what I think I deserve after being, you know, abused by you guys every day. Saying, can you give this away, please? Yeah, it's the highlight of my morning. I'm trying my best. I really am trying my best. We know you are. We know you are. And it's a big commitment becoming Cash Keeper.

They actually asked Ben and me to do it, and we were like, I can't commit to it. Like, it's an actual, you know, three times a day, you've got to be there for the people. And Haino from Kapiti, welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. How are you this morning? Yeah, no, I'm doing good. Thanks, man.

Lovely. We're doing well. Lovely to have you on the show. Lovely to have you on Cash and Car. Now, we understand big households you're running at the moment, mate. Yeah, yeah. Now, we're about seven in the house at the moment. Seven?

How many families? Two families. Two families, seven people. Does the car, you need a new car? No, we definitely need a new car. Trust me. Yeah, all right. Well, it can all happen.

We'll hand you over to Alex now, eh? Yeah, thanks, Brent. Sorry, what was your name again? I just missed it. It's Haino. Haino, cool. Yep. Haino, what was your guess for how much cash is in that car? It is $18,199.70.

Okay, so Haino with a guess of $18,199.70. It is lower. It is lower. Ah. Anyway, it was an opportunity. And you're helping close that gap, Hino. Hey, Hino, Hino, you don't walk away empty-handed, baby, because every caller that makes it to air this

morning, we're giving a green queen to for Queen's birthday. Oh, excellent. I mean, it's not quite, you know, the $18,000-odd dollars that you, you know. And a $46,000 car, but hey, it's $20. Yeah, yeah, man. Better than a kick to the throat. Heino,

you're an absolute champion. Hey, thanks, guys. Appreciate it, man. Well, keep guessing. Follow all the guesses at the hitstopco.nz and extra clues there as well. And higher and lower. We're playing it all day. Yeah, and also download that iHeartRadio app too.

Hit the microphone, record your guess and your number, and Alex could be calling you back at 11 o'clock. Next on the show, we're giving away Green Queens $20 notes, and we have a special guest we tracked down earlier, $20 Karen. We want to give her $20 ahead of the weekend. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. The hits.

Queen's birthday weekend we're heading on into, and we just put the call out. Oh, 800 the hits. Have you ever met the Queen? Yas, Queen. That's why I don't sound good when I say that, do I? No. Especially unconfidently.

Leave that to me, Jono. Yeah, I will do. Sorry, Belle. I went in there with about 30% confidence on say that, do I? No. Especially unconfidently. Leave that to me, Jono. Yeah, I will do. Sorry, Bill. I went in there with about 30% confidence on that one, and you could tell. We've got Dave on the phone. Dave, how are you? Yeah, good, thank you.

Good, thank you. Lovely to have you on the show this morning in Blenheim. We're just talking about have you met the Queen? Queen calls, and you have. Yeah, I have, man, yep. A bit of a story. 2015, so I'm back in the Army now, but I've been a strength conditioning coach, sports scientist for many years.

So I was working with Samo at the 2015 World Cup. Oh, wow. It's Samoan Language Week this week too. It is too. Talofa lava. Yeah, talofa lava. So you went to Buckingham Palace to meet the Queen? Yeah, so what happened was we played our last game up in Newcastle. Unfortunately, we got knocked out playing Scotland.

So because they flick you out of the World Cup pretty quickly. You're done. Get out. Catch a bus home. I'll pretty literally go the next day. So next morning, we're about to leave. And my dad's a Geordie, so I was going to stay with the rallies up there. And then it was our World Cup liaison officer said,

hey, there's a chance to meet the Queen tomorrow. So it was like a Rugby World Cup hosting thing. A couple of players in management. I was going to be the only management in the country. What they said was, yourself, and I got to go down from Newcastle the next day on the train with Alassane Tuolangi. So me and him went down there VIP. Flash hotel for the day, got kipped it up.

So what you do is you go and you're number ones. Those rugby fans know that the Samoan number ones is Ifai Kanga, which is your formal lava lava, andals, and a loa shirt with your beads. You went into Buckingham Palace in your jandals? Yep, yep. Into Buckingham Palace, sort of all the players got shifted out, you know, in one room.

And then, because I was sort of Mr. No-Mates, because I was the last one there from Samo by myself, you know, you've got South African there with pimped out blazers and England and All Blacks. I'm in my jandals. So I walked up the front of the room and they had the Webb Ellis up the top of the room where it was going to be the Queen, Prince Harry and Prince Charles and Prince Anne come in.

So I walked up front of the room, I was having a look, saw the trophy, had a look, and there was this dude sort of standing at attention beside the trophy. And being a bit of a military man himself, I sort of looked at him. We just gave each other the eye. You know, I don't know, you just know. And then we got chit-chatting, and I said, oh, are you military?

He was like, yeah, I'm on secondment to the palace. I said, well, I'm actually, I'm an officer in New Zealand Army. So we chit-chatted. We got talking, and next minute he said to me, Dave, do you want to meet the Queen? I said, I'd love to meet the Queen. So he said to me, you go and stand over by that pillar, which was about 10 metres away. When the Queen comes in, she's going to speak and then I'm going to lead her to the first person to talk and I'm going to bring her to you. I was about 10 metres away and I thought, is he for real? And I thought, I don't know, see what happens. Anyway,

I went and stood by my pillar and then as the Queen, Prince Harry, Prince Anne, Prince Charles come into the room, everybody sort of gathered towards the front and then I stayed by my pillow. There was about, you know, five people deep in front of me. Yeah. And then they talked, blah, blah, blah, blah, and then said their piece.

Next minute they go, oh yeah, we're going to do, you know, walk around the room and to this man's word, he opened the barrier. As he walked the queen out, he's shuffling the queen. All these people walk up and he's putting his hand in front going, no, no, no, move back please and brought it straight to me.

What? I imagine it's probably a brief encounter but what did you get to say? What did you talk about? Well, because it was a rugby World Cup meet and greet. So we all had our name badges. I'm a Pāinga white boy from Tokoroa. I work with Samoa. Get on with Islanders really well.

So I had my name badge, you know, David Gassamoa. So she obviously put two and two together. But then she'd come up, started chatting, and she was like, oh, Dave, the Samoan boys with those big, really boys. And she was onto it. She knew all about it. She knew what a fitness trainer did. She understood rugby.

We had a big chat. And then she said, oh, well, all the best. And you kept up the hard work and sort of moved on. And I was just sort of standing there thinking, mean ass. Mean ass. I just met the queen of magandals. Yep. That is an incredible story, Dave.

And then after that, sort of, yeah, we sort of got chauffeured in one of those big flash black taxis back to the train station. And myself and Alassane Tuolangi back on the VIP train and back up to Newcastle. That is incredible. What a day out. It was awesome. Yeah, it was awesome. That is incredible. And did they give you food at Buckingham Palace? I imagine very small club sandwiches. Yeah, it was a sort of fingery food, the old hors d'oeuvres and things going around on Trace.

And then what they also do is it's quite cool because of obviously security. Like as soon as you go through the gates, because we all had VIP passes, but they get the old sticks out with mirrors on under the car and they checked us and you have to check your phones in and everything in the foyer. So pretty strict.

Oh, you couldn't take it? You're pretty cool once you get in. You're not snapping a cheeky selfie or anything? Nah, well, that's the funny thing. I was like, they really warned us, you must leave your phone. I was like, oh, gutted. Okay, fair enough. And then as we get out there, Alassane Attuolangi's going to me,

hey, look at my photos. And I was like, who saw? How'd you get those photos? I just left my phone in my pocket. They went on the trusting policy and it never works. Oh, it's so good. Well, thank you for sharing. That's an amazing story. Every caller that gets on the air this and it never works. Oh, it's so good. Well, thank you for sharing. That's an amazing story.

Every caller that gets on the air this morning gets a green queen. $20 with a queen on it. So we're going to flick you out $20, all right? Yeah, nice. Thank you. That's pretty much our show. Don't forget, we're playing higher and lower all day today on Cash & Car as we narrow things down.

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