Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Would You Rather Lose $30k Or Go To Prison?!

Episode Date: August 1, 2022

Today on the Jono and Ben podcast we chat to our boss "Mando" as he is 31 and has never had a parking fine! Do you use a handbrake in an automatic car?? and our Hollywood insider Enty is back with all of the latest Will Smith, Taylor Swift and celebrity gossip!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben Podcast It's stuff. Yeah, it's stuff. It's exclusive. It's the best of the show, though, coming up very shortly. I find mentally, as soon as we start recording this, you're just like, oh, relaxed. You know, you don't know what we're doing. No, we have no idea what we're about to talk about. Do you? No, but, you know, it's fun. It's fun. It's fun.

Yeah. But people listening to the show probably think that for most of the stuff we'd say throughout the show. Yeah. But that is actually fastidiously planned and prepared, which maybe we could do better work on that to make that sound a bit more polished.

Now, Producer Joel, you had an interesting little debate you wanted to talk about here on the podcast intro. Yeah. Sorry, as you said, the commercial will drop.

Oh, so yeah, so prison, how much money would you... Was that what we were talking about? Oh, jeez. You already caught me

off guard. You're not a saver. I just don't want to take it as, so we had a caller on before. Yes, that's right. Talking about fines. I feel like I've taken something that you came up with. But anyway, I'll take it. It's my own.

It's the show pony that I am. Yeah, so a caller talking about fines. Her husband many years ago had fines. $30,000 worth. And he was like, hey, you got me? You got it. Sorry. My bad.

How can we settle this debt? I don't really want to pay it off. He's like, how, you got me. You got it. Sorry. My bad. How can we settle this debt? I don't really want to pay it off. How about I go to prison? He offered himself up for prison. And you wipe the fine clean. Now, that's an interesting move. Now, I don't know. In this occasion, they said, no, no, no, no, no.

You have to pay the fine back. I don't know if they were ever doing that. Can you just offer yourself up for prison to get off anything? You got me. All right, I'll go to prison. And how long for? Like, how long would you? I don't think I'd offer myself up for prison to get off anything? You got me. All right, I'll go to prison. And how long for? Like, how long would... I don't think I'd offer myself up to prison to get off fines.

It doesn't look like a sort of place that... Yeah. Because, I mean, at the end of the day, he's going, hey, I'll do good. You chuck me in prison for a while. But that ends up costing the justice system. They have to feed him, clothe him, look after him. So they're like, oh, thanks, mate.

You're a steady cat. And now we have to pay $10,000 to look after you in prison. Okay, so you owe $100,000. You've got a lot of fines. You're getting a lot of them here. It's gone. Baycorp, you've missed many, many. It's gone up to $100,000.

Okay. $100,000. Am I offering mass? We say, all right, Mr. Pryor, do you want to pay these back? And you're like, no. And thanks for the conversation. Yeah, we're like, we appreciate your honesty. Look here, we'll make you a deal. How about you go to prison for a bit? What's a bit? and thanks for the conversation yeah and we're like we appreciate your honesty look here

we'll make you a deal how about you go to prison for a bit what's a bit well how much are you willing what's your offer what's your starting offer

to wipe this 100k a weekend a weekend nah I'll do a weekend in prison for 100k well yeah I know you would

but me as the justice system I'm not putting you in there you know you've got other you want to keep those cells free for you know people you want to lock up you don't want me system, I'm not putting you in there. You know, you've got other people. You want to keep those cells free for people you want to lock up. You don't want me in there. I'm just a poor citizen who hasn't played a couple of fights.

It's great. It's great. The crime rate in this place where I'm at right now, it's dropped. Well, I've been watching the news. There's so many ram raids. It's great. There's shootings. There's gangs.

We're going to have to lay off some wardens at the moment because there's not enough work for them. So we want to get more people into the prisons. Okay, so it's an option yeah this is in my fixitious place that doesn't exist yeah right

28 days 28 days or $100,000 what are you taking what prison where am I white collar job I reckon Mount Eden we'll just go Mount Eden

okay so it's a correctional facility you're in there you're doing am I with the referee yeah the preferential

treatment mate you're in there you know. 28 days. 28 days is a long haul, really, isn't it? $100,000 is a lot of money, though. But I'm a target in prison. Okay, here's the other offer.

The other offer. You do 28 days up north on a beach for Celebrity Treasure Island. Chance to win $100,000 for charity. Take me to prison. Limited food. Can't get out No phones It's kind of like Prison for celebrities

Isn't it So never any treasure On it Just as I said it Hey thank you very much For listening to the podcast Today on the show We had a couple

Of interesting debates A. Do you ever use The handbrake on The automatic car Really interesting Response to that one And also we We managed to get One of the unsuspecting Listeners on the radio car. Really interesting response to that one. And also we managed to get one of the unsuspecting listeners

on the radio as our Commonwealth Games correspondent. You have a great day. We'll catch you tomorrow. Proud to be Kiwi. Jono and Ben on the hits. Commonwealth Games going on overnight. Bring it up to speed very shortly. It's been a very successful couple of hours for the Kiwis again,

which is awesome. A lot of medals coming in. Did you see that bloody horrific crash on the cycling course you saw on the velodrome? Wild. Cyclists seem to be up over the barrier towards the crowd, right? There's a photo in the Herald, and there's just this poor little girl, and she's just got that look of terror on her face.

Oh, as you would. As you would. Oh, you look at all the faces. There's grown men cringing. There's one kid blocking his ears. You know, I love the kids that block their ears. It's just, yes, you would. Yes, you would. Oh, you look at all the faces. There's grown men, like, cringing. There's one kid blocking his ears. You know, I love the kids that block their ears. It's just the first instinct you do. It'll go away.

The dad's using the little girl as a shield, almost. I'm sure he will. I mean, he's got some questions to answer when he gets home from his wife. Yeah, so that's what's up with the Commonwealth guys. I was talking to a friend yesterday who'd been overseas for work, and he was over with the work colleagues, and they're like, hey, we're going to do a a fun run like a mud run thing tomorrow he's like do you do you want to get involved he's like oh i guess so so he did i love the i love the term fun run it's a real oxymoron and no one's ever having fun when they're running but it was like climbing over all these

army style you know climbing over these things jumping down crawling through nets you know the standard ones doesn't sound fun at all but he said this poor lady, she got her foot stuck up near the top and she was sort of dangling down and he was in front of her, but he heard her sort of going, help, help. He had to go back and help her. No, you keep going. You keep going.

Go to that finish line. But he said, you know, the only way to sort of get her down was to sort of reach up and sort of, he was like, he's like yelling at her because she's obviously panicking. He's like, I'm going to have to grab you behind because that was the only thing he's like do you consent i mean this is 2022 he's have to yell that even when you're saving someone from peril she's like yes yes i can sit right by bottom and then he had to help her down it was like i was very unfortunate and he said the next one next time i went over barrier the next guy jumped down thought he could

jump to her broke his ankle i was like jesus is a wild, the next guy jumped down, thought he could jump to her, broke his ankle. I was like, jeez, this is a wild, wild. Yeah, the fun's gone from me. I mean, as soon as you had the dangling lady, it had disappeared. This is meant to be a fun run. You're like, jeez. Could he have not used the back? Could he have not used her back?

Was the bottom the only? All he was. He was like, all it has. But he was like, it's 2022. He's like, I don't want to be the creepy guy that's sort of, oh, mate, look at him. Took the opportunity. The poor lady was dangling there. Yeah.

But yeah, as you say, fun and run don't necessarily go together. Now, the fun part is when it all stops. Hayden Weil, we spoke about. He got the silver medal in the triathlon. He was a bit stitched up, wasn't he, on Saturday morning? Yeah, look, I think he got a 10-second penalty because he took his helmet off too early when he was doing the transition phase of something. So, yeah, and he was told he had to wait there for 10 seconds.

And that was pretty much the difference between first and second. Yeah, well, he, when he won his Olympic medal, got back to the village. After running an Olympic triathlon, got back to the village, went for another run. Now that's a guy who thinks running's fun. Yeah, that's a whole other breed. Just a wind-down run. Scrolling through your feed.

Ben, it's time for yous to do the news. What's going on? Commonwealth Games dominating a lot of headlines this morning, and rightly so. Another couple of medals in the cycling overnight. We've done so well in the cycling in these games. Elise Andrews, she won three gold medals in these games, and she also won four medals in total in the Commonwealth Games.

Well done, Elise. That's fantastic. Awesome. Gold in the Kieran overnight. Don't ask me what the Kieran is, but it's to do with cycling. It's one of the events. They do have some obscure ways of tackling cycling, don't they? I thought it was just hop on a bike, run around the track, you know, have a laugh.

But there's all different variants and sub-competitions amongst it. You know, the one that would make me really anxious is when they start on opposite sides of the track. You know, it's the single pursuit. And you're like, oh! Am I going fast enough? Yeah, they really get inside your head. Gold also for Aaron Gate in the men's team race final. And a silver in the same race for Campbell Stewart as well.

So we are really kicking butt at the Velodrome, which is awesome. George Jackson, who's one of the cyclists, won yesterday, and we paid homage to his mullet. He's got a beautiful flowing mullet. A lot of them have got great mullets over there in the cycling team, though. Yeah, but he's gone full shave up either side as well. We took a video of it, put it on Instagram, and Producer Joel, you said a competing Commonwealth Games athlete

said we shouldn't have awarded gold too early to them because we gave them the gold medal for the mullet. Yeah, there's a man that goes by the Flying Kiwi Mullet, and he's a road cyclist, and he's not happy at all with this one bit, so I think we might have to have a bit of a mullet off one day. A mullet off. Yeah, so he's flying to the Comm Games Village now. He's like, I'd like to speak when I

land in Birmingham and he wants to put his case forward for winning the gold medal. So another cyclist, obviously, in the road cycling, but yeah. So maybe he might win best mullet at the Comm Games Village. He'll be joining us Thursday. Now Eminem, of course, the rapper. Now there's

a wacky internet conspiracy theory that Eminem died back in 2006 and has been replaced by a clone. Now this is, they reckon that Eminem died in a car accident. So it's not the real Slim Shady, is it? I'm sorry, Woody, please stand up. Fans have noticed over the years, they reckon there's a slight change in his voice, a slight change in his appearance, like his jawline and stuff, slightly different,

different sort of stylistic clothing. It's called getting older. He's a bit chubby around the face. He's got a little bit of a gut popping out. He's looking damn good. He's looking fantastic. Well, he's sobered up. I read an article on him over the weekend.

He was slamming back all sorts of pills and potions back in the day, painkillers and whatnot. It got to the point where his body wasn't functioning. Like he was sort of in a coma in hospital, which he didn't know about. And he said to get sober, he quit everything, obviously, and he didn't sleep for three weeks. His body had to readjust to not relying on medication.

And now I think he's been clean sober for many, many years. Or has he? Or has this's been clean sober for many, many years. Or has he? Or has his clone been clean sober for many years? So that is what's gone around the internet this morning. Just a couple of dads screaming on the sidelines of their kids' sports games. Jono and Ben on the hits. Commonwealth Games on at the moment, which we're really, really enjoying. We're talking about other people's memorable sporting moments

because New Zealand is creating a lot of memorable moments over there in Birmingham. Yeah. Karen, now this was a skating on thin ice situation here with Karen. This is an ice blade incident. Have a listen to this. She called yesterday.

It was Christchurch. We had a really popular skate rink then because there wasn't much else to do. You mean ice skating rink ice skating yep and uh fell over and landed on my knees so the back then can you imagine what the skates were like then like they were huge so we had the long front and the long back so landed on the knee the skate went straight in the bum oh oh i see okay so your knees bottom part of your leg is flicked up behind you.

Yep. And the skate's gone straight into my bum, making a new hole. Oh, so it went slicing into your cheek? Yes. Okay, so you've got, is it stuck in there? Yeah. Oh, so your leg's folded back behind you with an ice skate

stuck in your bottom. It did. So that's what I sat on. Had to go to hospital. I couldn't get it out. So they had to leave the leg bent with the skate in it on the bed in the ambulance and got taken to hospital and got the six switches in my bum. Oh, so you went to hospital with the ice skate. Pulled your leg out of your bottom in the hospital.

Yeah, well, they didn't know how far it had gone. Technically, I think it's a pretty hard ice skating move to replicate. So you would have got great points with the judges. I've got a few problems with my knees since then, so it might be why. And you thought Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan was the worst injury on an ice skating rink. Karen has come through. I will listen lovely talking to you. And have you got a scar there now?

Oh, God, Dave, it's been a long time since I have you got a scar there now? Oh, God, Dave. It's been a long time since I looked at my butt. Yeah. Send us a pic, mate. Very funny. Send us a pic. I'll open it. All right, John.

She still hasn't seen that through. That was Karen's most memorable moment in the sports field. Yeah. Well, now, we've just had a call come through on 0800, the hits after hearing that. Memorable moments from the sporting field. V, well now, we've just had a call come through on 0800, the hits after hearing that. Memorable moments from the sporting field. V, welcome to the show. How are you?

I'm very good, thank you very much. Lovely to have you on. We're just talking, you're memorable, memorable, you're memorable? Memorable. You're memorable. Thanks, Ben. That's why there's two of us. One of us can always pull through.

Memorable moments on the sporting field. What is it for you, V? To win the New Zealand Open Darts Championship and earn my spot at the World Champs. Have you done this or this is a goal of yours? No, it's been a lifelong dream of mine. And yeah, I've just done it. I did it last Sunday up in Rotorua.

Oh, wow. Well done. Won the New Zealand Darts Championships. Yes, it was a prize. I actually didn't know that the prize, last Sunday up in Rotorua. Well done. Won the New Zealand Darts Championships. Yes. It was a prize. I actually didn't know that the prize, I'd forgotten, let's put it that way, that the prize was a spot at the World Champs. So had I known, I probably would have

fallen to pieces in the final, that's for sure. Oh, so what a great surprise. You win the tournament and you know, where's the World Champs going to be? It's going to be held in England at the Lakeside, the home of darts 2023, January 2023. Yeah, of course it's going to be in England they love their darts. 190!

And the thing I love about darts is, you know no training, no it doesn't feel like you have to go to the gym. No there's a lot of skill set, a lot of practice and there's an old saying that the game is played with 80% of the top end of your head. Um, basically it's keeping a cool head and practicing and getting used to the situations that you're being put into as well.

I put in probably about three hours a day. Jeez. So you could hit like, like how many times, if you were trying to aim for a triple 20, like how many, if you had 10 darts, how many times do you reckon you'd hit the triple 20? If I'm on song, I could probably hit it 70% of the time. Wow. Oh, good on you. Good on you.

What an achievement. Well, good luck. So this is the World Darts Champs you're off to. Good luck. It is. And as I said, this is, the achievement for this is something rather larger because I'm the first transgender person to ever go onto the world stage

and play darts as a transgender person. Oh, my God. That's awesome. That's incredible. It's a much bigger accolade than I thought. Well, exactly. That's probably the biggest achievement. Well, I made world history, let's put it that way,

and it comes from little old New Zealand. Oh, well, that's amazing. Congratulations on both counts, and I hope it goes well for you over there. Who are we looking out for? Are we looking out for, you know, old Daryl Darts McGee? Who's number one seed? I think there's a young girl over there in England called Bo Greaves. She's a top-end player, a young girl as well, about 17 years old.

I think she won last year. Oh, well, listen, you just keep in touch once you get things up and running and we'll get behind your cause. Thank you very much. I really appreciate it. Keep your ears and eyes open. Spilling the tea on Hollywood's A-listers.

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Killing a cast member. 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. Live from Hollywood where movies are made and dreams are crushed.

NT, come on down. How are you, mate? I'm good. Hey, which one of you is going to be on Celebrity Treasure Island? You are across a lot of stuff happening in New Zealand. None of us. I don't think they'll ever be desperate to maroon either of us on an island. Do they have Celebrity Treasure Island over there? No,

they don't. They have Celebrity Big Brother, but they don't have Celebrity Treasure Island. It's kind of like a rip-off. No one tells Survivor we're doing it, you know, because it's very similar, but we do it with celebrities. NT, last week we were talking about where was Will Smith. No one had heard anything from Will Smith, and just a couple

days later, I don't know if he was listening to your podcast, but suddenly he comes out with a couple of days later, I don't know if he was listening to your podcast, but suddenly he comes out with a bit of a statement about answering some questions over the Internet. Yeah, but I mean, it took him five months to apologize. That to me seems crazy. I mean, why couldn't he just say, hey, you know, I'm sorry right after the thing. Why did he need five months and a trip to India in between and stuff? And as Chris Rock said, I mean, Will Smith was kind of playing the victim. You said he might not do another movie.

Well, if that video there was his last movie, just a man apologizing for his flaws and answering internet questions, it was a good watch. I thought it was a good watch. It would get five stars from me. Yeah, what do you think? What's been the feedback over there in the States on the video? I mean, judging by the reactions that he got from all of his friends and stuff, it seems like, oh, you know, thanks for apologizing.

My big problem is that he did wait five months. It's something that he should have done maybe that night. Instead, he didn't. He just continued on with his night as if nothing happened, that he didn't get up in front of a national, you know, worldwide audience and slap him. Maybe this is going to lead to some kind of divorce announcement, perhaps. It's all very up in the air at this point. Now, speaking of up in the air, there's a lovely segue right there. Oh, geez, that was beautiful.

The Jets. Now, obviously, a lot of celebrities have private jets. Did you see how I did that? Oh, you set me up beautifully. You threw the ball up being hit out of the park. Private jets. There's a lot of talk about celebrities and their private jet use, saying they're taking very short trips. But then Taylor Swift's people apparently have come out and said a lot of talk about celebrities and their private jet use, saying they're taking very short trips.

But then Taylor Swift's people apparently have come out and said a lot of the trips are not taken by her. She hires out a private jet to other people. Is that something that's done over there? Do celebrities hire out their jets? You know, really, no, they're not. What she said, if you look at the statement, is that she loaned it out to other people like, hey, you want to take my jet? Let me ask you guys this. If you had been called out for being a climate criminal and all you've taken basically a flight a day in a private jet,

would you one day later or two days later allow that jet to be used on two cross-country flights followed by like another half of a country flight? No. But Taylor had her jet go from Burbank California to Albany New York which is across the country as far as you can go basically across the country and then back to Burbank in the space of one day probably dropping off a music producer to work on her her new record because she uses a studio in Albany New York I you know what about

tickets on Jetstar or you know the version over there? Delta? Delta. Yeah, get an economy seat on Delta they'll get you there and back. Now do most Hollywood celebrities own jets or do they rent them? Most of them don't own them because it's really expensive. What they do is if let's say you're somebody

who's an up and coming actress or actor who's got a hot project or something like that, they will often try and use the movie studio or television studio's jet. But you have to be really, really, really rich to use a private jet. It's expensive. It's at least a million a year just for the maintenance, and that's not including the flight hours.

That's not including the purchase of the jet. That's not including the people, the staff. It's a really really expensive thing to own oh tell me about it uh you know thanks to the cost of living my jet expenses have gone through the so i imagine there's a whole other airport for the celebrities to use with in la would that be correct yeah i mean the main one for private jets is a airport called van nize and that made news this last week because Kylie Jenner had flown her plane basically from

a town called Camarillo which is about 30 minutes north of Van Nuys. She flew her jet from there to there which is about a five minute flight. It's like popping down the dairy to get some bread in your private jet. NT, love catching up with you. We'll see you.

We'll hear from you next week, buddy. You have a great week. Hey, you too. Sounds good. That hurts. This is the Jono and Ben podcast. Wall-to-wall talking without the niggly popular songs in between. The health sector in New Zealand, you know, we're doing some amazing work, but really under the

pump with COVID and the flu and everything going on. I imagine a backlog of things to go through because they couldn't do anything for a while. You hear some cases doing 14, 16 hour days, these people. Doing double shifts, working seven days a week, going

a lot harder than you, Ben. You could do a bit more. What are you doing for the healthcare sector? Nothing. Give them a shout out now and say we really do appreciate what they are doing right now. But there's an interesting wee tactic by the government. They're teaming up with

Shortland Street. Now Health Minister Andrew Little announced yesterday that the government are partnering with the soap opera to promote nursing as a career. Jesus. So it's going to be nursing as a career. Jesus. So it's going to be integrated into the show's storyline. Has it reached that point

before the government has it? So it's not paid for by the government. Well, they asked him if it was paid for by the government. He said he's not aware. He's not aware of any funding being involved in the partnership. Then why is Shortland Street doing it

if they're not getting a win for it? But it's part of the latest range of initiatives to attract staff to the health system after struggles from the pressures of COVID-19. So what's the storyline? Just run down nurses and doctors.

Oh, we need you to put a doctor in Chris Waters. I need you to pull a triple shift. Mate, everyone's out of here. If only there was more doctors. How do I do that? Well, you can sign up here. There's this great website. You go through.

Oh, yeah, click on that. Oh, yeah. And then, you know, maybe that's what they're doing. The website should flash up on the screen now actually If you want to Yeah the little thing there Hey I'll take you to the computer And show you how easy it is Yeah

Mind you if you're going to Be inspired to get into nursing From Shortland Street You're going to be expecting A lot of affairs Christmas time's not happy Oh it's wild at Christmas time Not pretty as Christmas time

Yeah Yeah watch out there And also probably I don't know what else you'll expect Experts in giving out Inexpert advice Jono and Ben On the hits Yeah. And also probably, I don't know what else you'd expect. There's a lady from the US who's over there in Australia and she's made a controversial confession on TikTok that is dividing the internet, getting a lot of people angry. She's saying that she's never used her handbrake.

She's got an automatic. She's like, I've never used the handbrake. It's got a park function, put into park. I don't need to use the handbrake she's got an automatic she's like i've never used the handbrake it's got a park function put into park i don't need to use the handbrake and here's here on tiktok if you're american do you use the parking brake when you drive or when you're parked i suppose because i've never used one in my entire life but i think everyone uses them in australia and my boyfriend asks me to drive and i have to look at it and say is it on I don't know could you turn the window I wipe as well so the videos prompted you know thousands and thousands of people commenting most people really uh like find it hard to believe that I know we use it

because you have had a traumatic history a traumatic past with handbrake incidents in your cars you can share oh yeah I had one a while ago where I was parked. My driveway was sort of a bit of a hill. And I swear I put the handbrake on. You clearly didn't. Well, yeah. And the next thing you know, I get a knock on the door, and there's a couple of kids who are going,

hey, do you drive such and such a car? And I'm like, yeah. They're like, it's rolled down your driveway onto the road. Across the road? Across the road. And I'm like, yeah. They're like, it's rolled down your driveway onto the road. Across the road? Across the road. Thankfully, no one was hurt. This is just horrible even. It sickens me to talk about it.

And I hit the fence across the road and rolled back into the middle of the road again. Two lanes of traffic. No one got hurt. No one, thankfully. But jeez. And I was like. The more you say no one got hurt, the more I think, did someone get hurt? All right.

Well, I covered up some stuff. Honestly, no one was harmed. No, but it was just i mean it could have gone you know horribly wrong and now no one got hurt now because that was obviously a manual car but even still i've got an automatic now i still like if i go i take photos of the handbrake just for my own peace of mind did i put the handbrake on i take a photo of the handbrake now so i'm doubly i'm never i would never not use the handbrake you know never even he's got screeds of handbrake photos yeah never not use the handbrake. You know, never. Even in an automatic. He's got screeds of handbrake photos. Yeah.

The most erotic handbrake photos you can imagine. Yeah. There's a part of the internet that would probably appreciate those if you uploaded them. My OnlyFans account. See, I'm a bit lacklustre on the handbrake. If you're driving an automatic nowadays, what's the park function for? Surely the park is locking the car into some form of a braking situation. I do get that.

I do get what you're saying. But I'm like, oh, the extra security for me. I need that extra security of the handbrake as well. There's a handbrake on his car and on this show. Oh, I don't know the hits. Let's open the phones on this show in New Zealand. Yeah. It really baffles me that you wouldn't use it.

But, okay, you're saying you don't. Do you use your handbrake? Yeah, automatic car or even a manual. You're dog if you if you're not using it on a manual that's all i just like to leave it in neutral on manual yeah see where it ends up but yes 0800 the hits 4487 on the text manual's probably out of the question if you drive an automatic are you using the handbrake? I didn't when it comes to automatic cars. It seems like some people are taking a wild risk, in my opinion.

But anyway. You like safety first. Well, yeah, that's to say traumatic handbrake experience for me. No one was hurt. Definitely someone was hurt. No one was hurt. We had to hide the body. I replay that and it does traumatize me that

that happened so you know like it could have got a lot worse well and i can see where you know everyone is who they are for a reason ben and if that affected your you know your driving experience then you're always going to use the handbrake i'm not going to judge you and i take photos of it when i go away from the car sometimes just to go did i put the handbrake on i know i can look at my photos some great photos of the handbrake on? I know I can look at my photos. Some great photos of the handbrake. So many. When do you do the clear out of those photos?

I do from regularly. Must have to do like a monthly sort of get rid of it situation. It's kind of weird when people look at your photo stream, like, why do you have lots of photos? Anyway. Whereas I haven't run over any innocent pedestrians due to a lack of handbrake usage. So I don't use it on my automatic. We'll get Tiana on from Auckland. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Moreno Tiana.

Good morning guys. How are we today? We're doing well mate. Handbrake, yes or no? Good. Definitely yes because you don't know what's going to happen. I've had a couple of horror stories in my lifetime. Stepdad parked up his bike behind a lady who was putting her kids in the car. She had her handbrake on, but her toddler took it off, and it almost took out my stepdad, but it took off his bike. Well, see, that's what happens. See, I think I had my handbrake on, too, but this is what can happen.

No one got hurt, though, Shiana. Don't worry. No one got hurt. No one got hurt. No one got hurt. He was out of the way of taking his helmet off, thankfully. Okay, so, yeah, all right. But that's an awry toddler.

Toddlers are unpredictable. They're wild. You don't know what a toddler's going to do from one minute to the next. You never know what they're going to do. Yeah, no, okay. Tiana's always using the handbrake. Anna, you're on from Taranaki. Now, you're a car dealer.

Oh, no, sorry. You spoke to a car dealer. What did they tell you to do? So, I used to always use my. What did they tell you to do? So, I used to always use my handbrake whether it's manual or automatic and then the last time I bought a car, my current one, the

car salesman said you don't need to use the handbrake if you're on a either flat or slight incline. Well, it's in his best interest to tell you that. He's trying to shift you. He's sent you another car.

Okay, well there we go. Appreciate your call this morning. And just while that song was playing, that pink song, we spoke to a mechanic as well. To get the official word. Now, do we have the mechanic here? Yeah.

Jazzer and Bazza from the hits here. How are you? Not bad, how are you? Good, thanks. I was just trying to talk like... We're not Jazzer and Bazza, but I like Jazzer and Baza from the hits here. How are you? Not bad, how are you? Yeah, good, thanks. I was just trying to talk like... We're not Jazzer and Baza, but I like Jazzer and Baza. We're just trying to talk like mechanics. Did we blend in?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it sounded legit, yeah. Yeah, it sounded legit. Hey, quick question, Russell. We're having a debate over the handbrake. The handbrake. Now, if you've got an automatic car, do you need to put the handbrake on or not?

Like, I'm thinking it's an extra safety. You just whip it in park and that's doing the job for you. Yeah, it's dividing the internet according to a TikTok video, so we thought we'd... Nah, I don't want to wear it out. You don't want to wear it out? Yeah, what's the point, Ben? What's the point? You don't want to wear it out?

So the handbrake on the automatic car is irrelevant? Never use mine. Really? But what about the extra safety? If you're parking, you put it in park. I mean, it states what it's used to be used mine. Really? But what about the extra safety? If you're parking, you put it in park. I mean, it states what it's used to be used for. If you're on a hill, I don't like it. You just want more mechanical work, don't you, out of this?

Cars crashing into other parked cars. Yeah, no, there's a benefit. Yep, there's an offshoot to that. Yeah, there's got a bit of a financial windfall from cars going around, right? So there you go. This is from a mechanic who's never used his automatic handbrake. No point. No, that's fine. Yep. On a hill, though, you definitely would, right? On a you go. This is from a mechanic who's never used his automatic handbrake. No point. No,

that's fine. Yep. On a hill though, you definitely would. On a manual I might. I might have to think a bit different on a manual. Jeez, I tell you what, the text machine is blowing up here too. This is the most popular thing we've ever done. Tomorrow will be, do you use your hands to use the steering wheel? Yes or no? We'll think more about that

after the show. I'm just spitballing here scrolling through your feed voted the most trusted news source in the room at the moment it's Ben Boyce, if Samantha Hayes walks in here you're down the next peg I can understand that, now Lisa Andrews in the Commonwealth Games overnight in the cycling, she's now won

a hat trick of gold medals in this game which is awesome, Aaron Gate won a gold as well, which is pretty awesome. But I thought you'd be impressed by this, Jono. So yesterday we saw Josh Wilmer. He won gold. And he credited, you know, he was like a bit nervous before the race. And so he listened to a song and had a listen to what he was listening to.

Master of Puppets. This is a Metallica. Yes, Metallica yes Metallica obviously it's big at the moment with the kids on Stranger Things you know

it's another song much like Kate Bush's song that's blowing up but he was like well that kind of got him in the mood got him psyched up

for his big race so it's pretty cool I think you'd end up cycling in a rather aggressive fashion after oh he's swimming but yeah sorry

sorry he can cycle he can cycle afterwards he's so pumped up he swam he just swam through the end of the wall of the pool

into the cycling track and jumped on a bike and won that as well and he off went cycling as well how jacked up he was yeah that's what I did

and Emma from the Wiggles of course you know it was pretty pretty devo wasn't it for a lot of kids

when she when she left the Wiggles well she was with the sword Captain pretty devo, wasn't it, for a lot of kids when she left the Wiggles? Well, she was with the sword, Captain Feathersword, wasn't she? Was she? What? Was she?

Was she? I don't think so. I don't think she was with Captain Feathersword. I don't think she was with Captain Feathersword. She was with Lockie, I think she was, and then they broke up. Oh, no, I had heard that Captain Feathersword broke up the relationship. No, that's not true. He got his Feathersword out and things. Apparently that was the reason why.

No, you're making that up. That's not true at all. Anyway, she's got a new profession. International stock trading? What's she doing? No, she obviously quit the Wiggles, but she debuted yesterday on Instagram, a new children's character.

She's going to be releasing an album soon. A TV show is in the works, and it's called Emma Mema. Emma Mema is the name of a very, very tricky one for me to say, but Emma Mema is the name of the character. Thankfully you're not the target market. Emma Mema is the name of the character, which is cool. And she's going to do a lot of stuff.

The majority of the character will be focusing on sign language for the Australian deaf community, which is awesome as well. So, yeah. Who's your favorite Wiggle? Out of all the Wiggles that I've seen. I was a big fan of Murray. Murray was a ballet. community which is awesome so yeah who's your favorite wiggle out of all the wiggles that i was a big fan of murray oh murray was it was a ballet it was in there with the og wiggles playing the guitar a little goofy like me the og wiggles i had they had no rhythm did they they

were but then they got this sort of the professional dancing ones who were showing showing the og wiggles up for their yeah ability too i like old Jeff, the sleepy guy. I'm a sleepy guy. Oh, yeah, yeah. You're our version of Jeff, eh? Yeah, wake up, Jono. You're always asleep. If you could nap at work. I mean, great gig too,

being able to nap at work. Who's the dead weight in the Wiggles? I don't think there's any. No, there's no. Pick a dead weight. No, I'm not picking a dead weight. Well, you did. No.

The octopus. Oh, yeah. Yeah, don't have to do with him. Is he Henry? Henry the octopus, yeah. Yeah, okay. All right. I can do without the octopus. Get rid of Henry The octopus. Oh, yeah. Yeah, doesn't have to do with him. Is he Henry? Henry the octopus, yeah. Yeah, okay, all right. I can do without the octopus. Get rid of Henry the octopus.

Now two guys with tertiary broadcasting qualifications prove C's get degrees. Jono and Ben on the hits. Now we played some audio before the show from producer Joel. Audio, embarrassing audio for us. I know what you have come to expect on this programme is a level of professionalism and

two industry professionals going about their work every day. Hosking, he looks down from his ivory tower at us and he's like, they're coming for me. That professionalism. For us, does he? That's what he's saying to himself. This audio exposes us for the frauds we are being

We were required on Friday afternoon Before we left for the weekend To record what they call in the industry A tease to Monday's show A promotion, a promo for the show It was just a simple thing of telling what was on the show That we knew of on Monday It was meant to be 15 seconds

Now bearing in mind 15 seconds This took 25 minutes to record. Have a listen. Three, two, one. Jono and Ben here. We are back Monday on The Hits. And we're with this lady. That is the...

Sorry. Three, two, one. Jono and Ben, we are back Monday on The Hits. Sorry. Here we go, guys. All right. You ready? Are you recording?

Yeah. Three, two. Jono and Ben, we're back. Sorry. All right, here we go. Three, two. You ready? Sorry, Joel.

You've got stuff to go on with. Jono and Ben, we are back Monday on The Hits. All right, you can do this. We can do this. Jono and Ben, we are back Monday on The Hits. Oh, come on. I've done it all. I've done, come on. I've done it all. I've done it all now.

I've done it all. All you have to say is... That's already you. You've done it all. All right. See you soon. Okay. Jono and Ben, we are back on Monday on The Hits.

And we're with this poor lady who got stuck in the middle of... Like I say, 15 seconds. It took us half an hour. got stuck in the middle of it. Oh, yeah. Ah! Like I say, 15 seconds, it took us half an hour. I was at the line, I go to you, and you just go... But you were like... He's like, John, I've been on the hits. I've done it all. I've done my part, then we hit a breed, and it was going over to you.

I've done my part, mate. And then I get annoyed, Like, ah, come on. Anyway. Keeping together prior. When they sit us down and make us redundant, that is definitely going to be the example of audio they play. Yeah, we cut it up nicely. We edited it for them and played it on radio.

Yeah, and I'll be like, well, you know what? We can't argue that. We'll leave. Let's go. Jonah and Ben with five words for 5K. Stop any time to keep the cash. Thank you. Or play time to keep the cash. Thank you. Or play on to win more.

Your chance to win cash every morning with our Game of Word Association. How far do you want to play? Do you want to risk it all to get to the five grand? Or tap out early and take some money? It's up to you. Hey, Connie, welcome. How are you?

Good, thank you. Lovely to have you on from Taranaki. This is our version of the Commonwealth Games. The five words will let you name to wait every four years for it. Thank you. Lovely to have you on from Taranaki. This is our version of the Commonwealth Games. Five words, although you don't have to wait every four years for it, Connie. You work in hospital admin. You guys are under the pump at the moment, you poor buggers. Oh, we sure are.

We sure are. I was talking to a friend of mine, took their mother to a hospital, checked her. Well, they got there at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. They weren't seen until about 3 o'clock in the morning. Yeah, it's busy. It's pretty sad, really. And we all know it's not your fault.

You guys are doing the best you can. But they're very trying circumstances at the moment. Is there anything we can do better as the public? Oh, just patience. You just have to have patience. Patience from the patient. That's not one of my things. I don't like patience. Anything else I can do that's a bit easier.

Maybe you can win Connie some money. Are you going to choose Jono or are you going to choose Ben? Who do you want to go into the soundproof booth? I'll go Jono, I think. All righty. There's something you can do, Jono. There you go. You can do this for Connie this morning.

All right, Connie, your first word this morning is a topical one. Here we go. What pops into your head when I say Commonwealth? Games. Buckle is word number two. Buckle. It's a topical one. Here we go. What pops into your head when I say Commonwealth? Game. Buckle is word number two. Buckle. B-U-C-K-L-E. Buckle.

Belt. Belt. Buckle. Exactly what I was thinking. We're matching 100% so far. Harry. Ooh, Harry is word number three. Prince.

Prince Harry. Closet is word number four. Closet is word number four. Closet. Oh. Cabot. Cabot. That's a good option. Roast.

Roast is the next word this morning. Meat. Roast meat. I think you played a really good game this morning. Let's get Jono out of the soundproof booth and let's see how far we want to go to try and win you some money. Jeez, that took ages in there. I was getting impatient. My God.

Oh, there's some tricky words towards the end, but that seems to be the theme. It was tricky. All right, let's get into it. Here's my number one. Word one, $25. The $25 word this morning to win Connie $25

is Commonwealth. Games. Yeah, well done. You've got $25. Do you want to play to the next word for $50? We'll play on. That could have got you a packet of pretzels from the vending machine at the hospital. There we go.

Word two, $50. Buckle. Buckle. Belt. Oh, here we go. $50 is yours, Connie. Do you want to play for $100, word three 3 or do you want to take your $50 and walk away? We'll play on.

We'll play on. Word 3 $100 Harry. Okay. I have a question. Do you have a penchant for pubescent magicians or members of the royal family who

decided they hated their family. We can't influence anyone. Sorry, come on. Yeah, I can't. Prince Harry. Yes! That was a very tentative Prince Harry. Oh, I didn't know.

No one was giving me anything. We're not meant to. That's how the game works. All right, Connor, you got $100. Now, do you want to risk it for $500 or do you want to walk away with $100? Bearing in mind, if Johnno gets this wrong, you get nothing. Yeah, this was a hard one. How high is your head held now?

Because you can walk away with it held high. Yeah, $100. There's no shame in $100. Yeah, we might walk away with it, actually. Oh, well done. I'm walking away. $100 is yours. Well played, Connie.

I think you played a really smart game. Let's go through and just see what you would have done with word four, Jono. Closet? Closet? Closet was word four, yeah. Oh, that is a tough word. Cupboard? Oh, you would have gone $500.

And finally, word five was roast. What pops in your head with roast? Roast meal. You would have got $500. And finally, word five was roast. What was it? Roast. Roast meal. I thought you were going to say meat. Oh, did you say roast meat? One letter. Oh, jeez.

One letter. I think you played it. You would have $500, but you wouldn't have got the five grand. So you played well. You still got $100. Well done, Connie. Awesome. Thank you very much.

You go and keep doing God's work out there. And thanks to all of the hard work you and your team are doing. Connie? Great. Thank you very much. You guys have a great day. The Hits. Look out.

Scary dinosaurs. Not Jurassic Park. It's these guys. Jono and Ben on The Hits. Hey, so yesterday you were talking about email. And you had an email hack that you... Huge email hack. Now I've just put automatic replies on all of my email accounts, work, personal,

even the weird joint one that we have been for work purposes, just going, hey, emailing's not my forte, so don't expect an email back. And people feel like they've been communicated with, therefore buying you time to either get back to them or never. Or not, in your case, not getting back to them. You don't really like, you know, you find it a bit of a burden, the email. I understand that. It's just a giant cloud that hangs over you.

I look at mine now, just in my inbox, and my pages are 3,210 emails. It gets away. It's something like, I like an email. You know that. I love an email. I love to get an email what you do now though is because people

were like hey mate you just gotta stop emailing but now I know you're still doing the quantity of emails you were doing except he's got them

all on a schedule set yeah I've found the schedule scheme and they all come through bang bang bang what's an appropriate time for this email to come like bang bang

and then you get one like 8 o'clock Monday brrrr you know all the weekend emails come through. So the addiction's still there. You're still feeding the beast. But you know something that I think we need to get rid of from emails? Like, I love an email, don't get me wrong,

but people do it to me and I do it to them. You feel the obligation in the first line to go, dear such and such, I hope this email finds you well, or I hope you're having a good week, or I hope you're having a good weekend. No one, like, to be honest, I do. Of course I care if it finds you well, or I hope you're having a good week, or I hope you're having a good weekend. No one, like, to be honest, I do. Of course I care if I find you well, but it just feels like they don't take the time to go,

oh, that's great. That Ben hopes I'm well with this email. They just skim past that. They get to the end of the email. It's like, just get rid of that line. I always go hopeful as well. It just feels like an obligation to make you appear like you care,

but you don't. You're like, I just want an answer. I just want to get to this part here, but I have to give a line at the top that you won't respond to, probably. You won't go, oh, yeah, no, things are going, you know. Has anyone ever actually replied to the Hope You Well? Oh, well, funny you ask.

Things haven't been going well at home. But I was typing it out yesterday for the 12th time on my email schedule send and I was like, why do I have to keep going? I hope this email finds you well. Like, just get rid of it. Like, let's all just agree,

just get straight to the point. Don't even say hello, such and such. You know who you're sending it to. Just get straight in there. Why are you hoping the email finds well? I mean, the email system

has done a pretty good job of getting emails from one location to the other. Pretty sure it's going to get to them. But I was like, yeah, just let's get rid of that. What are you, are you a fan of the sign-off best?

Oh, no, I'm not a big best. I don't know what best means. I'm gathering his best wishes, but you can't be bothered writing the wishes. We're backing up with the wishes. Why is it not the... You do a cheers. It's like going, fa.

You've got an automatic JP. What's your little thing at the end? You've got it yours? Cheers, JP. I always go, thanks, legend. Thanks, legend, JP. Yeah. At the end, I'm like, who's JP?

Me. I'm just calling you JP in your day-to-day life. I'm calling myself JP. You can't give yourself your own name. I'm trying to get it out there. Yeah. Yeah. They've got pranks.

They've got puns. Now they just need some actual listeners. Jono and Ben on the hits. The Commonwealth Games is on. Day four. A pretty good one so far. Elyse Andrews, Aaron Gate in the cycling have won gold. And Andrew Jeffcoat has won in the 50-meter backstroke final just before.

Incredible. Third place on the medal table so far in New Zealand. They're doing so well. We're very proud. And one show that does a lot of talking of sports is this one. And it does it well, Ben. Do we? well yeah we try

you saying do we probably answers the question yeah like hey we're jealous of the other TV radio shows because they've got reporters on the scene they've got you know

Mike Rick Roberts they've got Storm Purvis they've got people like that they're crossing too they're holding their ears when they cross too yeah I know what you mean and unfortunately

we didn't have the opportunity to get someone over there. Ben, you played hardball at the negotiating table, didn't you? I did. With the Commonwealth people. If hardball was an Olympic sport, you would have won gold. You would have, but it lost us. Didn't get a reporter over there.

So we have to make up a reporter. We have to call people at random pretending to be a sports radio show and kind of thrusting them on the airwaves, tricking them into doing a report. Yeah, so we did this after the program yesterday. Hello, Jackie speaking. Jackie. Yes? Jackie, it's Gazza from Sports Talk for your cross to the team.

Really? Yes. Why don't I believe you? I'll just put you through to the studio. Really? Yes. Why don't I believe you? I'll just put you through to the studio, Jackie. Sure. Nothing but sport. Call 0800 8010 80. It's Sports Talk on Newstalk ZNB.

Oh, yes. The Wacko and Geza show. The say. Coming to you live across the airways. We're talking com games. That's right. The games have started. And over the weekend, so much action.

In fact, too much action for us to unpack. No. That's why we have our Comm Games specialist joining us live from Birmingham, Jackie. How's it going over there, Jack? Good day, Clay. How are you? So much action over the weekends. The Kiwis were out in force. What was the highlight for you?

Last weekend? Past, I can't remember. A bit too long ago for me. It was literally just, it's literally been the last two days. The Commonwealth Games. Yes, that's what you're here for. Oh, I know what it was. Hearing that Tom Hardy was a flag there, I thought it was very well-designed.

Oh, Tom Hardy. Yeah, yeah. Oh, actor Tom Hardy. Tom Hardy. Tom Hardy. I think you're thinking of... Tom Walsh. Tom Walsh.

Tom Walsh, I think, is the... Tom Walsh. Oh, shit. Sorry. Tom Hardy, the actor. I was like, jeez, I must have missed that one. But that's why you're so good. You've got your finger on the pulse.

You're bringing us news we didn't even know happened. Over the weekend, though, your highlights. Morris weekend. I can't think that far back. What about on the ground over there in Birmingham? I mean, what is the atmosphere like? You've been talking to people, shaking hands,

talking to locals. What's the atmosphere like on the scene? I haven't talked to anybody recently, but I believe that the warm weather that they're having over there is certainly going to take its toll on our athletes. I'm starting to wonder why we flew you over there, Jackie.

Jesus! That's what we were saying. We spent a lot of budget on flying you to Birmingham. You literally said you can't remember what happened over the weekend. Is it my weekend or the sporting weekend? You're here to commentate on the Commonwealth Games.

That's why we got you, Jackie. Live on the radio, live on the airwaves. Well, I'm sorry that I would not be a very good commentator at all, folks. I might be able to commentate on the downside of being a parent and your kids driving you up the wall and why they force you to drink, but that's probably about it. Jackie, I'm sure you worked it out. It's John Obed here.

We were thrusting you in as our reporter because we don't have any reporters on the scene over there in Birmingham. We thought we'd just call a number at random. Unfortunately, it was you, and I don't think you really came through for us, but it was a lot of fun. I did, and I had no idea who was calling me. It's nice to talk to you guys. Well, you couldn't tell you had no idea.

You pulled it off beautifully, Jack. Mia, hold the line. We want to send you a prize. Okay. She was awesome. If you're looking for marriage advice You are in the wrong place Jono and Ben On the hits

Now I want to share something with you About WhatsApp You've got WhatsApp don't you Most people do on their phone now Yeah we have a few groups And I've been stitched up You want to talk about A netball group

I've been stitched up By the netball group before Yeah now WhatsApp If you don't have it on your phone Get it I don't know why we all text Why don't we just all use WhatsApp Because it needs data doesn't it Yeah it does phone, get it. I don't know why we all text. Why don't we just all use WhatsApp?

Because it needs data, doesn't it? Yeah, it does need data, but it obviously doesn't cost, doesn't eat into your text in minutes and all that sort of stuff. So it's good. It's good like that. Yeah, so you had a faux pas in front of a group of netball mothers, didn't you? Yeah, because all the netball mums and dads, you know, from one of my kids' netball teams, you know,

would often go, there's the games on this week, this is the time to practice, all that sort of thing. But then we have another one for the radio show. And I thought I was sending a message to the radio show going about these two mums that had started a sort of naughty toy business. It was an adult toy business. It was an article, yeah. And I was like, we should talk to these people.

And I sent it to the Nepal mums and dads. And the mums were all like, why should we all talk to these people about their erotic toys? So anyway, I guess we could. At halftime. Who's with me, guys? Maybe they'll come on and inspire the girls. So I had a shocker with that,

but you've now made me feel better by telling me a tale yesterday. Oh, this is amazing. So it's a friend of mine who's given his blessings for me to tell this story. They'd moved to the South Island a couple of years ago, him and his partner, and sadly, they've gone their separate ways now i've never been through a divorce but i can't imagine it's the happiest place on earth ben no uh it's probably you know the opposite of disneyland the most abysmal place on earth and so they're in that period where it's probably that the comms are a little little tense between him and his ex-wife.

And they were messaging each other on WhatsApp and they were having a healthy debate over who was going to take the girls to netball the next morning. Yeah? And they were going back and forth to the point where the communications kind of, they got a little bit heated. You know, you never take them.

You better not be out drinking tonight and wake up hungover and take the girls to netball. You know, why don't you and your dickhead boyfriend take him? Oh, okay. Yeah. How about you and your skaggy new girlfriend take him? So it was, it had reached that point. Okay. So quite petty, quite, you know, personal.

Oh, you'll probably go and get your mum to pick him up like you always do. That sort of thing. Some great stuff. Some champagne. Relationship's over. Not coming back. There's no saving this one. At which point, the WhatsApp bings.

Thank you, Producer John. The WhatsApp bings. In comes a third party to their conversation. Huh? Exactly. That's exactly what he said. And the third party was like, hey, guys, just so you know, I thought you'd probably like to know you're currently having this conversation

on the netball parents of WhatsApp chat. It'll stitch you up, I'll tell you. So everyone, it seems, the whole netball mum and dad. in front of an audience of about 20 netball parents,

back and forth, just the jabs, the low shots. At which point, I think it was that, you know how it goes, Tony has left the group. Everyone's out.

I think they can both see the funny side of it now. It's so good. You'll be like, girls, you're playing for a new team. You're essential listening for non-essential banter. Jono and Ben on the hits. How are you going to get Matt, who we work with here in the office, Matt Anderson on the show. Pretty amazing story. He has an amazing claim. Matt, welcome. How are you?

I'm good, mate. How are you? Yeah, we're doing well. Something you just mentioned in passing during a meeting, which has floored us all. Yeah. I wasn't there for this part of the meeting, so I don't believe this is actually true. What is your claim? Oh, you're talking about my spotless record when it comes to traffic offences.

Blemish-free record. So how old are you if you don't mind me asking, Matt? No, not at all. I know that I'm very bald and it probably looks like I'm deep into my 50s, but I'm actually 31, nearly 32 and I have gone my entire life driving since

15, so what's that? Quick maths, 16, 17 years. I have gone my entire life driving since 15. So what's that? Quick math, 16, 17 years. I have never, ever had a speeding ticket or a parking fine. Never. Not once. He's got a blemish-free record when it comes to parking and speeding tickets and that's why he drives around with a stolen license plate. So I can understand the speeding.

I mean, very impressive on both counts. I can understand the speeding, but parking tickets. You both counts, I can understand the speeding but parking tickets, you just never let things go over and you've been pulled up for that, you know, getting a ticket? There's actually one technicality that I will share and I'll probably get in trouble for this, but one morning we were having a family brunch downtown in Auckland and I had to get back to the parking lot, it was my wife and I,

and she had quite a severe gastro bug and needed to... She's probably going to go, you know, there's details you could have spared from this story. No, because I need to... It's very much part takes to the story. So she had quite a severe gastro bug,

had to stay longer in the restaurant than we would have liked. We got back to, you know what, those downtown parking wouldn't delight, and we got back, and we were six minutes past the time and there was a parking ticket on the car. But I wrote in to Wilson Parking,

explained the gastro situation and they let me off. So then, okay, so you nearly had one but then got off it. So the blemish-free track record continues. It's going to be a struggle to keep it up in a metropolitan city. You're going to have to move to Stewart Island just so you can keep this going. Or not drive, ever. No, well, I mean, it's gone this far now, so I feel like how long can I go?

Yeah, I just don't, I want to see how long I can make it go now. Impressive. In his 30s, no speeding or parking tickets. We're on the polar opposite. On a daily, because you get them sent to work for some reason. So we're like, oh, Johnny's got more mail. The reason is so they don't get sent to home. If you want to.

But the only mail I get here, you get all sorts of stuff sent from, you know, here's some tickets to some movies, here's some things. The only mail I receive, Matt, and you'll vouch for this, is speeding tickets, parking tickets, Baycorp letters. You've got to go to the district court. It's all from the law, and they're all wanting money off me. Well, I will actually say, obviously, you've been in Fiji for the last couple of weeks when you came back and we caught up for the first meeting. I said to you,

oh, mate, there's a two metres sitting in the mail room all very formally addressed to Jonathan Richard Fryer. And you went, and you said, oh, no, no, don't worry about those, mate. There'll probably just be a couple of parking tickets. And they all were. They all were. And I was, I actually phoned, I phoned the, I found the parking, I phoned the council. Lay it on me. What have I

backlogged? And there was about a dozen. She's like, that one's gone to Baycorp, that other one on me. What have I backlogged? And there was about a dozen. She's like, that one's gone to Baycorp, that other one's gone. So then I had to call Baycorp, sort that out. But I'm clear at the moment. I'm like Matt Anderson. I'm blemish free at the moment when it comes to parking tickets. So thanks, buddy, for coming on.

Appreciate it. It's all good. I'm going to drive very safely to work. I'll see you soon. 0800 the hits. There we have someone who's never had a speeding or parking ticket can we go the other end of the scale

who has had the biggest ticket the biggest fine alright who's got the most amount of fines or the biggest fine love to hear from you

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this September with an all star line up so 0800 the hits if you want to win that next. With a long and extinguished career. Jono and Ben on the hits. Welcome to the show, Bianca from Hamilton. Talking most amount of fines. Matt, who we work with, never had a traffic ticket, never had a speeding ticket. Your husband, however, is the opposite end.'s he got yeah hey good morning um so when i met my husband about

15 years ago um he was a bit of a bad boy i didn't know this at the beginning but yep the looks he uh managed to tick himself up 30 grand's worth of fines 30K Wow Yeah, 30K So unfortunately for him He wanted to go to prison To try and clear the debt So he didn't have to pay it back Is that the only option? Well, I'll get you out of the pay it back I guess Yeah

But because he was making regular weekly payments They declined that offer And said nope, we're going to get our 30K back out of you Did he say I will go to prison? But because he was making regular weekly payments, they declined that offer and said, nope, we're going to get our 30K back out of you. Did he say, I will go to prison? Did he offer himself up? Yeah, I believe that there was a thing back then where it was a bit more open-minded

to being able to go to prison to clear your debt. Might be wrong, but that's what he told me anyway. That's a general rule of thumb. I'm never going to offer myself up to go to prison. Hey, thanks, Bianca. Really appreciate your call on 0800 The Hits right now. Sophia, biggest fines, what happened? So I loaned my car to my daughter, my adult daughter.

Yeah. And she got lots of fines in it. I had another car. That's why she had it for quite some time. She racked up about $2,500 I think it was. That's a great effort. Are we just talking your parking tickets, your speed

cameras, all that sort of parking on yellow lines, that sort of stuff? Just parking. So it's $2,500 just parking? Yeah, I think that maybe there was no warrant at some stage. Ah, they'll get you for that. They'll get you on the warrant and the rego too, don't they? I bet if I was a parking warrant, you'd be loving an out-of-date warrant and reg.

Absolutely. Okay, so she's got two and a half grand's worth of fines. So did you have to pay this? Well, the first thing I knew about it is I got a summons to go to court. And I rang up the court and said, I'm not going to court. They're not my phone. They said here you are because it's in your name. And I said, but I didn't get the phone.

And they said, well, sorry, you've got to pay them. If you pay them by the state, you're not going to court. I said, I am not paying them and I am not going to court. Sophia, you're standing your ground with the justice system. And they said, okay, we'll see you in court then. So I went to court. Sophia, you're standing your ground with the justice system. And they said, okay, we'll see you in court then. So I went to court.

Trying to avoid it. Yeah, under duress, I went to court. And the judge said, okay, you've got PD. And I was like, they're not my phones. And the court security person said, be quiet, you'll get in trouble. And I said, they're not my fines. And the court security person said, be quiet, you'll get in trouble. And I said, they're not my fines. Hold on, were you making a scene in the court, Sophia, about your fines? No, I was not.

I was standing up for my rights as a mother for being kind and loaning my car. And I got punished. And they said, no, you've got community detention. And I said to the judge, can I say something? She said, no, banged the hammer down. No, you've got community detention. And I said to the judge, can I say something? She said, no, banged the hammer down. No, you've got community PD. And I started yelling out, they're not my phones.

I love that. Even after the hammer came down, you're like, yeah. I love this on Judge Judy when they still keep talking and she's wrapped up. They don't like it, the judges, when you still keep blabbering, do they? I was not blabbering. I was defending myself. You're like, they're not my friends.

And the security guard grabbed me by the arm and escorted me out because they said I'll be in contempt of court. So then I had to go and do bloody PD. For how long? It took me over a year to do it. Where's your daughter in this situation? Oh, just in the background.