Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: Dad Maths..

Episode Date: November 19, 2023

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The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations. Frustrating weekend for a lot of people around the country. Flights out of Wellington yesterday, a lot of fog. I don't know if you saw this over the weekend, Jono, as well. There was a mall in Auckland where people couldn't get out because of the bad weather and a lot of traffic as well. The Black Friday sales, a lot of people in there early. And three hours, people were waiting in their car, not moving. Yeah. You couldn't think of a better way to spend a Saturday night.

I know it was sort of 6, 7 o'clock at night, gridlocked in a Westfield car park. What a dream. I read a story about a lady who was in her car. She sent her daughter to go get some dinner from the food court the daughter came back and it was like you've literally moved about half a meter oh my goodness people had your dinner in their car it was like i guess like a drive-in movie unfortunately someone had to go to the bathroom in their car as well because things weren't moving you don't have to do that i guess if you're if you're the only one in the car, though,

you probably can't get out. I did that once at a pack and save in Glen Innes. You can't say it. Why would you? You did this. Well, because Annie went in. I was in her Fiat. She had a little Fiat Punto or something,

and she went into pack and save. And boy, oh boy, I was bursting at the banks and I had an h2o bottle that was the only thing at my disposal well you could have gone into the supermarket and I'm sure they had a bathroom in there same situation couldn't leave the car and tell you what when you when you're filling up an h2o bottle it fills up very quickly it's hard to really hard to manage like you over you uh you underestimate how much that bottle can hold that's all i'll say just to add to a frustrating weekend australia uh win the cricket world cup overnight um india india hadn't lost the game until the

final australia started a bit shaky in the tournament but there you go australia winning another cricket world cup just to add to frustration bloody aussies you you you've got so you've got some major beef with australian sporting teams don't you well no i just feel like they're they're the kind of team you love to hate for a new zealander they're always so good and we're like the little brother to the big brothers thing and we always want to compete and it doesn't always quite work out right yeah poor india and their home in their home ground too. 120,000 people. It looked epic.

But last night, about 11 o'clock, my daughter, Indy, big loud noise, Mom, Dad. And we're like, what's going on? I'm sort of half asleep. I hadn't quite got to sleep there, but I'm sort of half asleep coming in. And the cat had brought in a gift into Indy's room, another rat. So thoughtful. And that situation, too.

To be honest, I hadn't been asleep, but I definitely played up that I was sort of a bit drowsy, a bit sort of, what, what, what? And so my wife did the thing where she kind of got the rat and got it out. And I'm like, oh, thank goodness. I didn't have to deal with that. What's going on? Is this a bad dream? I'll just pick it up, put it in that thing oh yeah oh yeah you know definitely great acting job by me can i say that now oh just half asleep we're working in the morning and so my wife who's much braver than me i managed

to deal with that so there we go what was it a spa was scooping up with a spade so chug no it was a sort of one of those rubber gloves, sort of pick it up with a paper towel into a sort of paper bag situation. And just the squishiness of them too. Just pick it up. Just pick it up. Even though I was clearly not picking it up.

So you go. I'm half asleep. I might drop it. Yeah. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, Girl Maths is a thing, girl math. You might have seen it on social media, hashtag girl math. It's basically a justification for spending when, you know,

typically when it comes to what females are buying. My wife, I mean, she uses girl math all the time when she goes shopping. I don't even know how the businesses are making money. When she comes back, the savings that she has got it is incredible and the outfits i mean you know she can everything's on sale it's all on sale amount that she has saved us it's incredible and they're versatile too john oh she can dress them up she can dress them down there's options it's not just for you know slumming it around the house it's for going out and slumming. I mean, there's options for whatever she buys. Half a dozen options for each outfit.

Now, does Amanda tell you how much she actually paid or how much she was saving? Usually it's just the saving. Focus on the saving. But I'm always like, yeah, but what was it? But I saved over. And I'm like, geez, if you saved that much, how much is this thing?

You know, how much is this? How much did this versatile frock cost so that's girl math and that's a big thing but i thought there's something else around particularly when i look at my dad you know and other dads dad math where dads will traditionally and again traditionally stereotyping they won't spend money like my dad will hardly buy new socks or new underwear or new clothes he'll ride out the same clothes he's been wearing for many many years but then when it comes to getting new callaway golf clubs or or electric bike oh geez you'll spend up large on that you know yeah yeah i know what

you're saying my dad's the same he'll have 10 year old schnitzel from the freezer but then to save on that, he'll then go and spend $450 on a line trimmer. Yeah. So that's what we wanted to know this morning. 4487 is our text number. Or 800 the hits. Dad math.

Maybe you're a dad. Maybe you're using this. Or maybe your dads are using some form of dad math. It's just like girl math, except way less cute. Yeah. I mean, I went to australia with my with my family i didn't buy a single thing in the shops like i did not buy a single thing but but then you come home and i might have bought like a funko pop uh pop vinyl you know like figurine

for the lounge i'm like oh you know that's what am I doing? Yeah, I know. Not your traditional dad math. No, no. A guy who scrimps on one side, but then goes and buys himself some fun copops. Some figurines, yeah. I think that's child math, isn't it? It might be child math. All right, I'll enter the hits.

The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. And now, dad math. We're talking dad math. I'm trying to coin a new phrase. Inspired by girl math, when it comes to spending, dads often won't spend on things like clothing or haircuts, but then they'll spend hundreds and thousands of dollars on things like cars or equipment from Bunnings, power tools, that sort of thing.

That generally can happen. This is dad math, just like girl math, except probably not going to take off. No, you're right. It's not going to take off anyway. It did. But it's good to give it a bash. Good to give it a bash.

All right, we've got Kirsty on the phone this morning talking dad math. What's something your dad's tried to save money on? He found some homemade mayonnaise in my parents' fridge that would have been at least seven years old at least. Homemade mayonnaise? So this isn't like your best foods, it's tightly screwed in with the seal? Yeah, I don't think it would have been open

but yeah, so the good old olive oil, condensed milk and egg, raw egg. Oh, homemade. Imagine there's a lot of chemicals and stuff that goes into some of the other ones, that preservatives and stuff that maybe, so this probably had none of that stuff,

which would have been great at the time, but seven years later, oh. Yeah, and he ate it. He ate it? He ate that? It would have been for men. Is he still with us? He is.

He's got a car sign somewhere. He's our human garbage disposal unit. Okay, so he's doing that. So dad masks, he's saving money on that. But then what's the thing that he'll unnecessarily, in a lot of people's opinion, spend money on? His car. His car. Yeah, there you go. How much has he blown on the car? Oh, I don't know, but he's got a 1972 Lotus sports car. Ben's not a car guy. I don't know if you can tell. 1972.

Definitely not just Googling that. 72 Lotus. It's a Lotus Land Sprint. There's about seven of them in the country. Okay. I know the ones. Five-speed manual manual transmission that one you know yeah yeah 420 horsepower oh they're going for it oh yeah 72 i think if i remember correctly

that's on the top of my head i think it was around 1970 the spanish grand prix they first popped up i don't know maybe i'm wrong but hey you know expectations were huge back then but uh yeah didn't have the greatest start from memory but anyway but it's gone on to be a collector's item it's a collector's item yeah you know how much a jar of mayonnaise is four dollars nineteen even at the cost of living even best food i don't know it might be about six or seven dollars yeah i'm not looking at best foods all right yeah yeah we appreciate that kirsty that's a dad mass for you this morning. You're welcome. Keira, good morning. Hello. Hello. We're talking dad masks this morning.

What things that the dads basically won't spend money on because then they spend it on other things that seem unnecessary. Your dad won't wear matching socks. No, like never. Even at his wedding, he wore unmatching socks. So if you find him in a pair of matching socks, something's gone horribly wrong. Something's gone wrong. Well, I'm not very finicky about

many things in my life, but for some reason I need to have the same socks. I don't know why. I don't know why. I can never wear an uneven pair of socks. He's gone his whole career with uneven socks. Yeah, normally it's like one neutral sock and then one like

orange banana crazy sock. So they're quite different. Yeah, see it's like one neutral sock and then one like orange banana crazy sock. So they're quite different. Yeah, see, I don't mind wearing them if they're sort of very similar. But if he's just going too wild, if he's got those weird toe socks, you know, the ones that shape around your toes. And then he's got another novelty fluffy woolen sock. Yeah. I don't know if he's he's more of just, you know, he likes his socks, but just not to be matching. So wedding day.

So why not even on the wedding day was he not doing matching? Yeah, I don't know. My mum and dad, they knew each other from like high school and it just carried on. And I think if he had of worn matching socks, maybe it wouldn't have gone right. But they're still married today, so maybe it was just out of good luck. Okay.

So then if he's not spending money on socks, what's he spending his money on oh probably a christmas cake he's a fan of those anything to do with like mince pies hey anything's up with spending money on socks but i'll tell you what you put a fruit cake in front of me man geez i love it for a bit i love it that's dead mess that's this wonderful dead man and also he's saving tell you what else he's saving, valuable time finding pairs of socks in the trial of washing. Yeah, normally we buy him the socks, but he'll take one of the new socks and mix it with an old pair,

so we're never winning. Oh, so he does it on purpose? Yeah, he does it on purpose. We will give him a sixth pair of identical socks, and he will take one and use an old top for that. You know what I'm going to do here? I'm going to mix these up. Oh, Kira, that's wonderful.

You're going to have a great day. Awesome, you too. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We all need a bit of motivation for the week, particularly Christopher Luxon, David Seymour, Winston Peters. Maybe a bit of motivation for them to try and get a government formed. Is it still going? Still going, yeah.

It's like, I don't know what, are we a lawless society at the moment? I mean, we've got no leader, right? Chris Hopkins is back, he is. Chris Hopkins got sworn back in. He's like, mate, I just thought I'd left this life behind. But hopefully they have it sorted by the next election. Now we like to do Motivational Monday

where normally we find something from Instagram or something inspiring from Facebook and we tell you about it. But we've started to get some texts and calls in with people telling us their best motivational message, things they live by. And last week we got a text from Emma. So we thought we'd give her a call right now and see if she remembers giving us this text for motivation. Hi, Emma speaking. Emma, it's Jono and Ben calling. Hey, how are you? Sorry for this early morning call. Ah, Emma speaking. Emma, it's Jono and Ben calling. Hey, how are you?

Sorry for this early morning call. Not too early. No, you're right. You're up and about because, hey, we want to motivate everyone. And we've just seen on our text machine, you sent through a motivational quote. Did I? Yeah. She's like, uh-oh.

Someone you always live by every day. You've already got up this morning and you told yourself the saying Do you remember what it was? I can't remember what most people thought Give him some clues Clues? Okay, it's about limit I'm still

I'm still clear with it, I'm like, oh okay But I always push myself to the limit I'm always pushing myself to the limit What limits Are you going to push yourself to today? To be better than I was yesterday. Oh, that's good. That's actually probably better than your quote you said. Your limit is only as high as?

As you allow it. Yeah, yeah. Well done. Yeah, that's right. That's good. Emma's like, that sounds like something I would have said. Yeah, it must have been a while ago. I'm flicking the fence. Stop thinking about it. Emma's like, that sounds like something I would have said. Yeah, it must have been a while ago.

I've slipped in the bin. Stop thinking about it. So have you brought your limits down, have you? No, I've definitely not brought my limits down, no. Your limits are only as high as you set them. That's a great way to think of it. I wrote something on the wall here for we were doing Wellness Wednesday. And my thing was, don't set the bar too high and you'll never be disappointed.

Well, that's a good one as well. Yeah, well, that's kind of what Emma's saying, but Emma's saying more that put the bar a bit higher. I'm saying bring the bar down a bit. Yeah. Bring the bar down to a comfortable level. If this was high jump in the Olympics, then Emma would definitely win. I don't know. I'm a bit short.

Okay, Emma. Well, that was some great motivation. Have you got anything else you want to do to inspire everyone? Do something each day that scares you a little. That is good. What are you going to do today that scares you? I might go for a run. I might drive down the wrong way on the motorway

on the way home. That's a bit too far again. You've gone a bit far. Tell you what I'll do today. Just because something that scares me, answering a number I don't know. I'll do that today. I'll do one today and then see what happens. He doesn't answer private numbers. I know.

I was a bit debatable whether to answer the best call. I was like, oh, what's this guy? She's like, well, you've done something that scares you already. Yeah, you've done. Hey, good on you. Have a great day. Yeah, you too. Thank Hey, good on you. Have a great day. Yeah, you too. Thank you.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We want to get you, well, I do. I want to get you in the ASB Classic Tennis Tournament. You had a dream as a young kid to be a tennis star. That dream didn't work out, but it's never too late. Never too late. Instead, I became a middling radio host. Dreams can come true of some description.

So on Friday, we called the ASB Classic organizer, Nico. We said, we want to get you in as a wild card. He said, send me some footage. We filmed you playing some tennis. We sent the footage to Nico. He's the tournament director, and he joins us right now with hopefully the answer. Nico, good morning.

Hi. Thank you for having me. As they say in France, Nico, au revoir. Is that goodbye? I think you just wrapped him up. Goodbye, yes. All France, Nico, au revoir. Is that goodbye? I think you just wrapped him up. Goodbye, yes. All right, Nico, everyone. There we go.

We brought Nico back on there because everyone's been waiting over the weekend to find out. It was a long shot odd. So I know, Jono, you wanted to be a tennis player when you were little. Yes, I did. And things didn't quite work out. So I thought, well, let's get you back in a tournament. You never won a game in a tournament. Now I asked Nico.

And you thought, what better tournament to dip my toes back into the pool of tennis than a professional tennis tournament, the ASB Classic. The best in New Zealand, the ASB Classic. It's going to be awesome. First of the 13th of January. Unfortunately, Nico, we can't quite get him in as a wild card, right? No, it's quite complicated. Look, we had a tournament meeting over the weekend and we look at the footage, but I don't think you're quite there yet.

No, he's not. We might have something else for you. To me, not quite being there is probably the nicest thing you could say, Nico. Now, Nico, you used to be a player agent for many years for tennis players, right? Yes, and I still am. I look after the like of Gael Morpheus, the French guy who you might know, who's actually coming back to the Classic

next year, which is very exciting. Did you have to negotiate with yourself to get him in there? Pretty much, yeah. He basically waived all my fees and got the deal done. Well, you're looking after your tennis players, that's great. Well, I'm looking after mine.

It's Jono. In this case, I'm his player agent. So I've negotiated with Nico a bit of an exhibition match. Now, Nico, on Thursday, there's a big media launch for the ASB Classic, right? Yes. So we've got a media event on Thursday, the 23rd. And we thought that along with the media event,

we could have an exhibition match an exhibition match this is you I'm the exhibition you're the exhibition match now we're going to find Nico's going to find

a tennis player a professional tennis player to take you on but because I know that you haven't played for a while we've kind of made our own version

of what could be a tennis game so what's going to happen is you've got to make 40 hits between the two of you back and forth. If you get 40 hits in a row, then you'll get

40 tickets for us to give away on the hits to people to go along to the ASB Classic Tennis. But you've only got 40 minutes to get those 40 hits. So if you get to 38, 39, and then you screw it up, because let's be honest, the professional tennis player won't, you have to start back at zero again, okay? So it's all on you, because the guy we're putting against you,

he's not going to miss one single ball. He's not going to miss one single ball? No. No, you know, he could even play left-handed, he wouldn't miss, so. All right, and so then if I do this, I also get an entry into the tournament as well? No, no, no.

Unfortunately, no. As your agent, I'm going to break the bad news to you. I tried. Jeez, I tried. You'll probably make more money in exhibitions than tournaments anyway. I offered to do all sorts of things with Mika, but no, that didn't quite work out. He's very good at his job.

Do we want to say who the professional tennis player is going to be? Oh, yes. Let's do that. Okay. So maybe we can have a little bit of a teaser, because he's an Olympic medalist. Ooh. A New Zealander? A New Zealander, yes.

Let's have a look. Don't Google. Well, you can do your own research. We're happy to reveal that your opponent for the exhibition will be Marcus Daniel. No, Marcus Daniel. Marcus Daniel.

Marcus won the bronze medal at the Olympics in Tokyo with Mike Venus. And then Marcus will be making his comeback to the Tour at the Classic next year. So I think he's very, very much focused at the moment. He's very focused. Do you want focus, Nico? You got focus right here, mate.

So, yeah, I mean, don't disappoint him because he wants to make sure we release all these tickets. Oh, Nico. Listen, well, thank you very much for even accommodating this idea. And we'll see you on Thursday. Yeah, we'll see you on Thursday. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, I don't want to start your Monday morning on a bad note.

It's not you starting on a bad note, mate. Don't you feel guilty? You have no responsibility here. But there's some fan mail, again, that's come through. Now, I feel like we've copied and pasted the conversation we had last Monday. You got some fan mail from the city council last Monday. I don't know if they keep hearing us talk about this or what's going on. But this is...

What's going on? You're not paying your parking. This is what's going on. This is... We're driving out of bus lanes. Without any word of exaggeration, the 11th. I've got another three infringements. 11 infringements.

It might be double ups. Let's open them. Three letters have come through. Just got handed it from lovely receptionist Yona. Yeah. And she does it with this. I can't get angry at Yona. She said,

Yona, you've got some mail. And I said, are they bloody parking tickets? She's like, oh, yes, they are. Yes, I'm sorry. This is already adding to the $475

that I've had for bus lanes. There's a $40 one. That's for apparently not paying for parking. Do you know, because there's been a lot of talk in the news about potentially toll roads. Maybe you are the saviour. Maybe they'll go after this.

They'll go, hang on. As soon as you pay your fines, they'll go, oh, no, we don't need to do the toll road. Thank you so much. So there's one motorist who's paid everyone's tolls for the past five years. Another $40 one there. So they went up to 80.

Oh, God. Where were they? Parking outside? Where? Where are these locations? This is all outside work. Yeah, right. Now, this is...

That tank they put in it, the car with the cameras on it. When it was human-to-human contact, a person you could abuse to get angry at, you wouldn't get the Consistency of tickets No true The tank just drives past The AI tank And another 40

So there's Another 120 $120 On top of the $475 Which I haven't paid yet Jesus Oh it's okay This is

Why don't you get tickets I doubt again I do But I don't get sent to work So by the way That's probably why I get to enjoy your Oh my god Yeah I don't get sent to work So that's probably why I get to enjoy your Oh my god Yeah

I know It's not like I've never had a ticket Like Matt, our boss Has never had a parking ticket Yeah Which is impressive But this is the problem Is you don't know when they're coming

Yeah Yeah, you're right You don't know At least when you've got one On your windscreen You're like Oh, I'll take the hit there And you're coming back to the car

You're like Yes, I didn't get But no, you don't know It's a mystery They two or three weeks later. They all get sent through as a giant surprise in one hit. Yeah. Oh, great way to start your money.

Yeah, thanks. Listen, don't you ever put, again, it's not you. You know who I'm blaming. I know. Wayne Brown and his mob. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Hey, Snoop Dogg, over the weekend, some big news. Says he's going to stop. He's giving up the smoke. Yeah. He's stopping up the smoke. Yeah. He's stopping smoking weed, apparently. Someone who used to smoke 81 blunts a day,

he had a professional roller that he would, he'd hired someone as a full-time roller to roll up his marijuana. He's now decided to step away. Yeah. Well, they've lost their job instantly because he's like, well, what else can you do for me he's like i don't know i was just i think it was a female employees of his she's like why did i just roll blunts for you he's like well i don't know can you do taxes or anything she's like

no i can roll blunts though no longer needed man uh but he did say to respect his privacy at this tough time so are we respecting his privacy by talking about it on the radio beat? Well, a lot of people are talking about it. I feel like, I don't know, do we feel like this is a legitimate story or not? There is a conspiracy theory that, because he says he's giving up smoke, he didn't say anything about edibles, that he could be launching a line of... Yeah, maybe. He might be right. Potentially.

My friend had a funny funny story he came he did a show here a couple of years ago snoop dog and he was working on the show my friend was and snoop uh he flew out i think immediately after the after the show in and out uh did most of them do did we get time to ask him what he thought of new zealand because that's all I want to know. What does he think of the place? To be fair, he doesn't seem like the type of guy who would care about New Zealand. I'm sure he does. He probably goes, yeah, it's nice. But he's been to 72 countries in the last three weeks.

He's probably just another stop on the tour. Anyway, so he left. And then he was like, oh, you can stay in the hotel room. The promoter's like, you can stay in his hotel room. You can use it because we paid for it. And he's on it, walked in there, and he said it was like a pile of compost. Oh, really? Just a giant amount of compost in the hotel.

Everything just half-smoked this, half-smoked that, all the paraphernalia across the whole room. Wow. And you know when you have those big bags of compost and the garden people have to come around and collect them? Now, I don't know what he did with it. I think he handed it in to police. Well, he'd be very worried if there was an undercover police thing

and your mate's caught in a room with a whole lot of stuff. Yeah, you're right. It was Snoop Dogg's. He was here. Oh, sure. Oh, sure, yeah. He's left the country. Yeah, yeah, right.

Honestly. If we could only talk to him right now, he would admit everything. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Over the weekend, I got called out for something that I think I've been getting away with for about four or five years. I am in the household, the one that gets sent down the road to collect takeaways. So, for the family's you know friday night fish and chips fish and chip friday was a popular fixture in the prior household i'll be sent down the road to pick them up now for years i have been secretly nibbling on the

chips on the way home in the car now i know this is probably a common occurrence not many people like to talk publicly about it because it's shameful. It's shameful eating food in your car. I once ate a whole cheesecake on the motorway. Well, I mean, I understand, you know, I remember back in the day, you know, like getting the fish and chips and, you know, dad or mom would open up a little corner and you'd pass the chip in the back. But that was like a communal thing.

That wasn't just by yourself a situation and you were even saying that you will do it if you go somewhere like a fast food place and then you were getting like three or four different sort of uh french fries or whatever and you'll take some out of everyone's box i'm like oh hang on but then i'll i'll make sure they're evenly distributed by the end and then get home and there's obviously raised eyebrows and I'm like, jeez, Ronald's tightening the belt, obviously. But you should take it out of your box because on that occasion you've got your own box.

Or buy an extra box. You can't take it. Well, I'm driving, so I'm focusing on the road. I'm just dipping my hand in the bag and picking out what's coming. I've got about a two, two and a half minute window where whatever I shovel into my gob in that period that's fair play that's all mine no this is you you think this is an illegal maneuver that is an illegal maneuver especially in a situation where you've got your own box of fries that's

fries you can go that you can go whatever you want on that box but if not i don't think you should be doing takeaway tax okay so 800 the hits the takeaway tax is it, so 0800 the hits, the takeaway tax. Is it within the collector, the driver's rights, well within their rights to have a cheeky nibble off the top on the way back home? Of all four boxes! They're sacrificing their time, their petrol,

and in a lot of cases their wallet as well. I just think having some sort of reward on the way home is only fair payment all right oh 800 the hits four four eight seven the hits the jonathan ben podcast now uh takeaway text when you're driving home from the takeaway shop you're collecting for the household is it within your rights to slip your hand in the bag and have a few chips now i i will admit that i'm shoveling stuff in my mouth like

a coal into a furnace because I've got two minutes. And whatever is digested in that two-minute period is mine. Guilt-free tax. I'm saying no. The time, the effort, the petrol, the money. I know you're against it. Well, I'm saying you can buy your own. You've got your own. Just get your own. You can eat that. But not everyone else's. But that's what we wanted to throw out to you this morning on 4487 on the text 0800 that. Yeah, Vanessa, we'll get

you on from Tauranga. Welcome. Hello. What do you think? Takeaway text, yay or nay? No, definitely. That's your reward for going down. It was probably pissing with rain when you did go down. Who was pissing with rain?

Yeah, and they're using your petrol. But you're just doing that for the family, you can't be shuffling. Definitely, it's your reward for going all that way for the fish and chips. So Jono goes down, gets your takeaways, comes back and gives you half a box of French fries. Vanessa, what are you saying? Thank you for getting my French fries. That wasn't what I expected, but all right. No worries, Vanessa.

Damn it, that role play didn't work. I don't know how you thought getting her to engage in role play was going to sway her. No, okay. We're going to give you some hell pizza, and if it arrives with a piece or two out of it, well, that's because I've eaten it, all right? And there's no complaining. Perfect.

Good on you, Vanessa. Appreciate it. Now, well, let me throw this to you, Ben Boyce. An Uber Eats driver. What do you give them? Well, they can't take it. Like, yeah, they can't eat. You can see money.

You can see money. This is just the pain. All right. Next time I'll give them a couple of chips or something like that. I've got Tina on the phone. Takeaway tax. This is something dear to your heart and your household. Yes, yes it is.

So what do you think? If you go pick up the takeaways, are you allowed to eat some of it on the way home? Because you've done all that work. John, I'm saying you do. I'm saying you've got to wait. What's your thoughts? You've got to wait. What's your thoughts? You've got to wait. Why do you have to wait?

Oh, because you've got to enjoy it. As soon as you get back, you set it up in front of TV or wherever you're eating your takeaways, and then you can get stuck into it. But no, for me, you've got to wait. Now, have you fallen victim to anyone doing the takeaway tax? Yes. So Hubby and I have been together for, oh, God,

let me actually try to remember exactly how long. I think it's about 13 years. Yeah. And I'm a lover of Sal's Pizza, and quite often he's the one picking up our takeaways because he normally goes and gets burger fuel and I often he's the one picking up our takeaways because he normally goes and gets burger fuel and I get salve and every single time I get salve it turns up and half of one piece of garlic knot is missing every single time without fail right and so you're you're blaming this on

him what's he saying oh he he blames it on the people at sal sells That's what Jono's trying to do He's trying to blame it on Yeah he's like well if he's Consistently for 13 years they've only given me Half a garlic knot I don't know what I'm doing wrong No no no I have no idea And he's like oh man they did it again See he should

Just buy another garlic knot And then eat it on the way home That's the thing That's the thing. Good on you. That's what I think. That's where Tina's drawing a line in the sand. You're going to have a great day. Thank you.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Very exciting. Just before we just announced Coldplay coming to New Zealand, Eden Park next year, 13th of November. You can register for the first tickets at Coldplay.com. Bryn from The Night Show, John O'Hee. No one tell him Coldplay are coming to New Zealand because he just travelled to Perth.

He's a massive Coldplay fan. Over the weekend. He won't be liking this news. To see him. And he sent us back some audio. This is Coldplay audio from Perth, their concert. We've been rehearsing for this show in Perth for 119 concerts, so we should be almost up to your standards.

Bryn has said on the email he sent through, he said it made the era's Taylor Swift tour look like a school talent show. Ooh. He said, sorry, Swifties. I mean, let's not throw shade at anyone. I have seen Coldplay before. They are incredible. A stadium spectacular, light-up bracelets, glowing balls.

It's incredible. Like, it's incredible spectacle. If it did come down to a fist fight, though, the Swifties are definitely being the Coldplay fans. You're probably right. Coldplay fans like playing Patonk and listening to Coldplay. Those are their two favourite hobbies. Register right now.

You can register at coldplay.com. And we've got a double pass, the first double pass to give away for someone who has registered. Incredible stuff. Marie from Hamilton, how's it going? I'm great, thanks. Now you've gone on and registered at coldplay.com. You could get your tickets earlier than everyone else,

but you could get them even earlier than the registration because we've got a double pass right now that could be yours. Hurry up. Hurry up. You're like, get to it. Hurry up. Don't hurry us up. Three minutes.

Might want to take things slow, Marie. Well, we want to link up because you've clicked on the link and you've tried to register. we want to link up. Because you've clicked on the link and you've tried to register, we want to link up for someone. Who would you take to Coldplay if you won these tickets? My daughter, Riley. Okay, my daughter. Oh, now.

Joel told us, talking to you off air, Riley's already been messaging, saying, wouldn't it be great to get tickets? Yep. We had that cat best thing. Yeah, so she answers the phone right now. You guys get a double pass. If not, I'm sorry. It goes begging.

So come on, Riley. Come on, Riley. Come on, Riley. This is for Maureen Riley. Wait for Joel. Jeez, how slow is your buddy? She said hurry up, Joel. The dialing is very slow.

Marie's a lady on a mission today. Mate, it's Monday. Stuff needs to be done. Hello, Riley speaking. Hello, Riley speaking. It's Jono and Ben from The Hits. Mate, it's Monday. Stuff needs to be done. Hello, Riley speaking. Hello, Riley speaking. It's Jono and Ben from The Hits. Oh, my God. Hi.

We've got your mum, Marie, on the line right now. We need to cut to it. We've been told to go fast. Guess what? You go to Coldplay. Oh, my God. Really? Awesome.

Archie, thank you so much. You've got the first double pass for New Zealand for Eden Park next year. You guys have got it. Yay. I'm so glad. Well, that was good. Was that quick enough for you, Marie?

That was fantastic. I was like, yeah. You could. All right. Double pass, well done. You wouldn't get a nicer rock and roll band, would you? They're almost teetering on Christian rock. They're just so lovely.

Yep. Definitely one of so lovely. Yeah. Definitely one of the best. Yeah, well, he walked. Chris Martin, last time he came to New Zealand eight years ago, we were at another radio station. He just rang up the radio station, got the number, and he said, I want to come up for an interview, and just walked, walked through town

all the way up by himself and just turned up. That is amazing. See? Yeah. He was very sweaty and puffy and wheezy by the time it was a big one too. And the interview was very unprepared for the person who had to do it, but hey, it was still pretty incredible. Yeah, that'd be cool.

Yeah, well enjoy the concert you guys. I don't think anyone believed when he said, hello, it's Chris Martin and I'm away from interview. Who's going to believe that if he phones the 0800 number? No one. No one. Well enjoy the concert. You can register right now at Coldplay.com and I think we might have some more double

passes to give away.