Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: Dumpster Diving.. Is It The Future??

Episode Date: April 3, 2023

We chat to Simon who is an experienced Bin Forager Car crimes? Ben has committed another! People are still doing the census... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kia ora, welcome to the John O'Bien podcast, thanks to Challenge Petrol Service Stations. Thank you very much for joining us, Benjamin Boyce. It's a really exciting podcast for you today. We'll talk to someone who, what do they call it, bin foraging, not dumpster diving, bin foraging. So, you know, so finds a lot of their food. There's no difference between the two though. No, I guess it's just how you like to say it, but you're right, it finds a lot of their food it's amazing what food they find that businesses have had to

throw away i guess because of the expiry dates a lot of the time but perfectly good food according to them they can find you're still eating at your own risk but yeah he tells us you'll hear it in the podcast diving into some oysters bin oysters now doing the maths on it, because he said he retrieved the oysters, dozens of oysters, but then not only did he pull them out of the bin, so they'd already reached maximum oyster. The oyster had lived out its life. So for whoever was throwing them out, they'd go, okay, these have got to go. And then he pushed them four days beyond that.

It was a daily thing, you know, like seafood. I would have thought you're probably giving yourself a 24-hour sort of window of fresh seafood, but hey, far be it for me. Charlie, the guy must have a stomach

of a Russian prisoner of war, stomach of iron, so yeah, that's on the show and a lot of money to be saved. Yeah. He's talking about croissants

and Lebanese bread and turkey, like all the finest breads you can think of. I don't know where this magical dumpster is. He's eating better than us uh today on the podcast as well as that i get very confused by a word that my daughter used on me uh you know when you get those sayings if someone says something you're like is that a compliment or is that an insult

normally i just think i'm being insulted but then she's she's lovely she's nice so i'm like well maybe she's not there's a lot of new words, though, coming into the mix, isn't there? And you get to an age where you just can't, like, I can't. Oh, no, don't be one of these people that are getting, what are you going to complain about today on the news or something, mate? I've already done that, mate. I can't understand what they're talking about. Oh, don't do that.

They're doing the weather. I'm like, where is this place? I have no bloody idea. That's the thing. It annoys, oh, yeah. You have these conversations with people and you're like, please don't. Yeah. Well, no one's listening to me. I keep sitting into my complaints. It's like, we yeah, you have these conversations with people and you're like, please don't, yeah. Well, no one's listening to me.

I keep sitting into my complaints. It's like, we've always called it that. You're like, no, but you've, but yeah, well, you have, but before that and before, you know, I like that. But, you know, so it's great to see that happening. And the more we do Tadeo and, you know, it's because our kids, you know, are learning so much more than we have. It's great. Yeah, you're right. And that generation will, they'll go.

They'll die off. We're just waiting for them to die. And it won't be. It'll be something that we're all embracing, which is awesome. How did we get there? I don't know, mate. It was a gear change, wasn't it? Geez, all right.

Well, enjoy the podcast. You've got the dubs and diving to that. Yeah, it's always a roller coaster with us. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. You know it's cheaper to buy a leg of New Zealand lamb in the UK supermarket than it is in the supermarket in New Zealand. How does that work?

Well, that's what people were saying. How does that work when it should be in New Zealand and it hasn't been exported? But anyway, that's correct. We could go three k's down the road right now and cut a leg. Well, yeah, I guess that way when you want to get like that but anyway but that's the big news floating around this morning

that's wild all the transport costs I hate doesn't make sense the economics not working for me doesn't make sense now I've got a present

for you oh yeah now it's in a box you said it was in a box now is this okay well this is a

a gift okay to you now just a little bit of a backstory. You had actually already gifted me this wonderful item. Okay. And I'm like, well, no, you deserve it. You deserve it more than I do.

So I'll just hand you over. I don't know what you're talking about, but okay. There you go. All right. You got a box. Open it up. It's light. What is it?

It's a banana peel a used banana now did i leave this in your car yes i thought yeah well thank you so it's the used banana peel with a quarter of the banana rotting in there yeah uh you left in the little side part of my door the car door yes yeah i thought you might, you obviously forgot it. I did forget. I didn't leave it there purposely. I thought I'd get it on the way out and I didn't. So apologies for that. Thank you for that lovely gift though.

It's lovely. But you say it every time. I've had apple cores, mandarin skins, orange peels, half carrots. You name a piece of produce that's been left in some sort of compartment in my car when you're in there. I jam a whole lot of stuff in your CD player as well when you're not looking as well. It's a car crime. It's a low-level car crime.

It's a car crime. It's a car crime, isn't it? Now I'm here to peel you out like that banana you peeled in my car. So this is what I want to chuck open this morning. What other low-level car crimes are there out there? And they're usually committed by the passengers in your vehicle because they're coming into your territory yeah you've got your rules you run a tight ship people come in and they send you in a fluster don't they oh now and again i create a car

crime at home by ignoring my wife's petrol light that's something i like to do as well when i borrow her car and then you drive it in you're like oh she's oh it's low you're like oh jesus you know yeah yeah well i might have just you. She's like, oh, it's low. You're like, oh, Jesus. You know. Yeah, you do. I might have just, you know. Yeah, just like I didn't mean to leave that banana in your car. You know, that same sort of acting

that I just did before. Do the right thing, mate. Chuck your rubbish out the window. That's what we all do in New Zealand. So, oh, 800 the hits. What car crimes are being committed in your vehicle? What do you hate happening in your vehicle?

One thing that really irks me is I've got a passenger in the front seat and they've got their feet up on the dashboard. Oh, yeah. And sometimes their weird feet make marks on the windscreen. Yeah. You know? Have you seen those people? Oh, look, I've been guilty of that.

Not in your car in the past of doing that. On long trips it is comfy, but then you're like, it's got to be a very, you know, I'm not doing that in the Uber down is comfy but then you're like it's got to be a very you know i'm not doing that in the uber down the road or anything like that you're very comfortable with your surroundings yeah yeah all right i'm 100 the hits of 4487 what are your car crimes that happened in your car the hits the jonathan ben podcast i left a banana peel speaking of pushing buttons my buttons i'll push your. But there's a history of this. There's a rich history of you leaving Apple cores and all sorts of stuff in my car.

Apologies. You jam them into the drink holders, don't you? The little side parts on the doors. Just trying to eat while we're on the move. We're going somewhere else. I'm eating. And then I'm like, I'll get to that. I'll get rid of that later.

And sometimes I do get rid of it. And other times I've forgotten. So yesterday, apologies. So we are talking low-level car crimes. You know, these are the sort of crimes just sitting below white-collar crimes. You're not going to go to a hardened prison. You'll go to a nice prison probably with an all-you-can-eat buffet available. But that's the sort of crimes we're after this morning.

Tina, you're on. You're in Auckland. It's lovely to have you on New Zealand's Breakfast. What's your low-level car crime? Morning. So we have this friend, every time he comes with us, whether it be in the car or he's at our house, you'll find Smirnoff bottles, rum cans under your seat,

in the side bits, in your glove box, at home in the microwave, in your letterbox, in the toilet, anywhere. Sounds like you need to have an intervention with your friend. He's terrible. And people are like, oh, did you have a good night last night? Why is that? Because all those empties in your car. Oh, yeah, because there's a Smirnoff bottle poking out of the toilet.

And so you're always having to do the clean-ups, are you, Tina? I am. I am. I'm the clean-up lady. Is this the friend that you talk about when the police pull you over is it it's not a good look isn't it with the rolling vodka bottles rolling around on the floor hey thank you very much for your call Tina you're going to have a great day you too thank you bye Tilly your low-level car crime this morning what is it

oh I just cannot stand it when a passenger comes in and they change the radio station. Are you an Uber driver? No. No, how? Are you a taxi driver? No, I'm a teacher. Oh, so you're just saying

any old person coming in, because that is, yeah, that's a big move. That's a power play move, coming in and changing someone's radio. Yeah, that's like grabbing the remote at someone's house, isn't it?

Which you've suffered the fate of before. Yeah, so what are people doing? They're not changing it from the hits to something else, are they? Well, certainly that's what riles me up. They are changing the hits to something else. There's other options? Don't talk about the other options. Don't tell the current people there's other

options, Tilly. Lovely to hear from you, Tilly. Have a good one. You too. Thank you. Some great texts on 4487. My rules. Don't adjust the seats.

Don't adjust the mirrors. Don't adjust the air con without any permission. Oh, running a tight ship there. And also, don't move the seat back and forth. We had someone phone up about that yesterday. A big bone of contention in someone's relationship. Chrissy, what's your low-level car crime? Oh, what do I get frustrated with?

People just thinking that they own your car for a start. You know, just going through your glove box or whatever. Oh, exactly. Now, these aren't the money lenders who do actually own the car. These are passengers. No, these are the passengers. The thing that annoys me the most when they actually get in

is at night time and we've just had daylight so we're heading into winter and they leave the light on in the damn car. They turn it on and I can't reach around to get the damn light to turn it off. So people leaving the car light on, you don't like people

fossicking through your glove box? No. Fair enough. What reason does anyone have to fossick through your glove box unless you're saying hey can you look for my sunglasses or something? It's like going into someone's house and opening up their underpant drawer. Absolutely, yeah.

Except instead of underpants there's maps and instruction manuals And maybe a compact disc or something like that So it's not really underpants at all are they? I don't keep my underpants in there do you? Maybe that's why Chrissy doesn't want us opening her glove box No I wouldn't put them in the glove box either Great gag though, maybe I will

I'll put a whole lot of underwear in there And someone goes to open up my glove box. I'm like, ooh. Chrissie, thank you very much for sharing. You go and have a great day. Appreciate your time. Keep going. Yeah.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Of course, only a couple more days of work and school before Easter rolls in on Friday. And 8 for April, we were just discussing. Yeah, only eight days of school for kids primary and intermediate and secondary through April. Now, I'd repitched my idea of YouTube just educating our children.

We received a text message saying, way to support the teachers, Jono. That's right, yeah. Like, since you said there'd be job losses, I'm like, I'm not behind that idea, mate. Well, especially because your wife's a teacher. Yeah, exactly. And the teachers do amazing, amazing work.

Well, I'm not behind the job losses either. How about we still pay the teachers and YouTube teachers this as well? Okay, that's my solution. The teachers can use YouTube as part of the curriculum. How's that? Speaking of all things government-related, Ben Boyce, cast your mind back to, jeez, we're on 7th of March. We're talking almost a month ago.

Oh, we are, aren't we? Yeah. 7th of March, okay? Do you remember what happened on the 7th of March. We're talking almost a month ago. Oh, we are, aren't we? Yeah. 7th of March, okay? Do you remember what happened on the 7th of March? That was, well, two amazing things. Well, one amazing thing and another thing. The amazing thing was Harry Styles was in the country. We'll remember that day forever.

Charmed the pants off us. The other thing was it was a census day, and we combined those two things together by forcing Harry Styles to do the census, and he talked about it in the concert, didn't he? Yeah, we strong-armed him into doing the census. Everyone must do the census. Yeah, now I'm driving yesterday,

a month later, what do I hear on the radio? We are in your neighbourhood helping people who have not done the census. There is still time to do yours. Get help at www.census.com There's still time to do my census. I thought it was like one and done, you've time to do yours. Get help at www.census.com. There's still time to do my census. I thought it was like one and done.

You've got to do it on the night. Do it on the 7th. I had death threats. If you don't fill the census out, we'll take your family away. They were going hard. Now, we're a month later. It's still not too late. Jeez, guys.

I feel like if you're chasing down people to fill up the census a month later, their horse is bolted. Yeah, they probably haven't. I get the sense that they're not too happy with the turnout. Well, yeah, it feels like there's a lot of ads, a lot of social media ones as well. Come on, guys, you can do it. You know, you're like, mate.

I mean, everyone could do it. I mean, it didn't take long. It didn't take long. But, I mean, you can tell the nation's enthusiasm for the project. I mean, Harry Styles even did it, you know. I bet they're not chasing him down now. It's still time, Harry, if you haven't done it. We said he did it.

Turns out he didn't even need to do it. Well, true. Yeah. It's still time. Where are you, mate? Oh, you're in Brazil. Don't worry, you can still fill out the census, mate. Still plenty of time.

You're passing that model. There's still time, mate. As soon as you're done there, you can. Yeah. So I don't know how long they're going to give us to still fill out the census but apparently

the one day threat that we were all living under is not even a thing now they've made a rod for their own back next time census comes around

because everyone's going to be like we've got three years to fill this thing out the hits the Jono and Ben podcast 806 Tuesday morning

that is Pink Trust for Transmission Gully the Flash New Road just out of Wellington closed this morning following a crash it's a bit of a delay 8.06, Tuesday morning, that is Pink Trust Fall Transmission Gully. The flash new road just out of Wellington closed this morning following a crash. It's a bit of a delay for commuters if you're in that area this morning. Hey, thinking about you all stuck in traffic there and we hope the people are okay in the accident. Exactly. It's a lovely little stretch of road there, Transmission Gully.

Where did we travel down that? Your dad said you must travel down Transmission Gully. I know, he pointed out, this is the new road. He was very excited about driving down that new road. Only what, 92 years in the making. Yeah. Now, speaking of dads, I'm one, so yourself as well too, Jono. You can't prove that.

And the job that we have, I'm on TikTok, I'm on Instagram. I feel like I'm in touch with a lot of things that maybe, you know, maybe my dad wasn't in touch with when I was, you know, going. My daughter, her first year at CNRS, she's in high school her first year. So I feel like I'm okay with a lot of things just through the job that we do. Oh, God, this sounds like it's going to go into a conversation of two old guys pretend they're in touch. Is this what's happening?

Well, I had a moment. You got your finger on the pulse? I thought I was not 100% over everything, you know, but I thought maybe I was, you know, a little more, I'm going to say with it, and even me saying with it doesn't sound like I'm with it. Mate, that's dope. But my daughter yesterday, Sienna, she had a friend over

and I said something to her and she went, oh, dad, you're so aesthetic, aesthetic is what she said and she sort of said it in a way that i was like oh is this a compliment or is this an insult so she didn't say whether you're aesthetically pleasing she just said oh you're so dad you're so aesthetic and i went yeah i am and then i was like quickly left the room got my phone out but i've got to google this kids saying what does it mean what does it mean? What does it mean? Because, you know, I've heard of obviously the say it's aesthetically pleasing when it comes to design

or things like that. Have you just been bullied? Yeah, and in defence, I hadn't been bullied. It's the styles, the essence of a person, you know. It can be cool, you know. It's got to be cool. It's like, well, what I'm trying to say before. Yeah, that's right.

I went back in later. I'm like, yeah, you know, right. Yeah, I am aesthetic. I just Googled it. But it's one of those things at some point you do lose touch with the words, you know, what the kids are using. And I found a couple more while I was Googling. And I thought, well, I'll throw them over to you, Jono. I'm not going to.

But you can have a guess. You can have a guess. You can get someone more out of touch with children. So bussin'. Bussin'. I'll put it have a guess. You can have a guess. You can get someone more out of touch with children. So bussing, bussing. I'll put it in a sentence. For a change, Jono, what you did there was bussing. Okay.

I'm going to go someone's very frustrated with the public transport system. They're going to cause a fuss. The bus has been delayed again. No one's bussing when it comes to Auckland. Yeah, they're fussing at the driver. So again, it's amazing. Really good. If you're bussing, it comes to Auckland. Yeah, they're fussing at the driver. So again, it's amazing. Really good. If you're bussing, it's really good, apparently.

Fell off. Example, John O'Prior, he fell off. Oh, I don't know. Lost your social status. So Ben's, you know. Oh, Ben Boyce was caught crying in the car park. Yeah, kind of. Oh, it is? It's along the line.

Disappeared from the radar. Whatever happened to John O'Prior? He fell off. That's what that means. Okay. Touch grass. Oh, touch grass, Jono. I think that's how you'd say it in a sentence.

Is it a family-friendly way of saying you accidentally grazed someone else's bottom with your bottom? Like, touch an ass's grass. That's kind of how you'd swipe past them in the office when they're bent over the photocopier or something. No, I'm sorry. I'm sorry you're wrong. Apparently, get a grip. It's along the lines of time to ground yourself. Touch grass.

Oh, as in get outside and be one with nature. Let's go one more. Riz. Jono's got no riz. It sounds like a new form of disease you get from kissing. Oh, man, you caught the riz. It's along the lines of charisma, I think, along the lines of your ability to pick up, you know,

and to be fair, we probably have very little riz, the two of us. No riz, riz-less. Yeah, so we're zero from five. Extra? Extra. Have you heard of extra? I have heard of extra. Someone called me extra the other day, and again, I had to Google it.

I think it's a kind way of fat shaming nowadays. Oh, you're a bit extra than you used to be. I think in general, I think it's a way of shaming you in a nice way. You're extra great, you know? Oh, well, it's all riz. We'll keep busting on. Well, that's right, mate. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Now, it costs a living, you know? It's a thing that we're all having to deal with at the moment, and there's a few people out there that are taking it upon themselves to get some bargains, get some food for free by finding it. No more better bargain than free. And bins that supermarkets and other businesses, they throw out the stuff when it passes expiry date, and they go rummaging in the bins for the food.

And Simon joins us on the show now. Great to have you here, Simon. Welcome. Good morning. Good, thank you. Lovely to have you on. Now, what is the correct term, dumpster diving? Is that what we call it? Yeah, that sounds quite American. I would like to call it bin foraging.

Bin foraging. Okay, so when did this start for you? I saw an American film called Dive in a film festival about 2010, and that sort of let me know it was something that existed, and I didn't think too much of it. And then probably a year ago, we were heading to a friend's place for dinner, and we had to pop into the supermarket to pick something up on the way. And I was waiting in the car park, my wife was inside,

and I saw an employee coming out with a trolley full of stuff to go in the bin. And I sort of thought some of it looked quite useful, so I got out of the car and had a look, and ended up leaving with about four dozen eggs and a couple of things of yoghurt and some pre-arranged mints. Jeez, and so perfectly good products obviously being chucked out just due to food safety rules, I imagine? Yeah, I imagine it's the stuff that expires, you know, so bread in particular, bits of

sushi, bits of meat, you know, yoghurt and things. So in the bread category, you know, donuts, Lebanese bread, Turkish bread, burger buns, croissants, you know, all kinds of things. And they've just got to get new ones in and get rid of the old ones.

Jesus, Lebanese bread, Turkish bread, croissants? What high-end dumpster are you diving in? I've just had for breakfast, I had a gluten-free bean bagel. Wow, gee, this must have saved you hundreds of thousands. Well, I don't know that much, but I mean, I've had a guest maybe $100 a week. Wow, so you have a job, so you could buy food, but this is something for you that you can obviously save a lot of money doing. The money's the big part.

Obviously, free stuff is good, and I'm a firm believer that nothing tastes better than free food. I've met other people at the bins who are also foraging for food, and in my estimate, the little bit I know, I would suggest the bins I go to are feeding maybe up to 20 families, if not more. Wow, and it's incredible to know how much wastage is going on, isn't it? The other thing is that the idea of getting the free food is great,

and then the wastage from the supermarkets, you know, not so good. I've taken photographs of the bins and also the food when I get it home sometimes, and if I show colleagues or friends, the general response from seeing photographs is, oh, wow, what a shame, what a waste. And then you follow it up with, here, would you like to eat some food?

And then they say, oh, no thanks. And that's the general response. There seems to be a bit of a phobia about, it's come from a bin, was it wrapped, was it not? What was it up against? And I kind of think, again, just use your brain. You look at it, you smell it. Is um and i kind of think again just use your brain you look at it you smell it you know is it growing mold is it slimy maybe it's not for me but simon have you have you been sick from your bin foraging like have you ever taken a risk and then gone maybe

i shouldn't have had that so the the time i wasn't so sure is I came back with four dozen oysters. Ooh, bin oysters. And I like seafood, but I like a taste. I'm not a dozen-oister kind of guy. I'd have four or five. So I ended up eating about 10 on the first day. And I ended up, I kind of kept ticking away at them each day. So by the end of four days, I'd finished them. And I was still rolling the dice a bit more every day of the past.

But they were actually all okay. I think I was like one and that was off a hunk of tuna about the side of the earth first. Simon, is dumpster diving legal? Can you get away with it? Well, I don't know. I had a little look up the other day and apparently there are elements of trespassing and theft. So no, not strictly. However, there are a lot of people that I've seen doing it,

and I believe the establishments have an idea of what's going on. But I think the reality of people trying to feed themselves and to burp things away from the landfill, I don't think it's a bad argument. No, why would they get upset at that, the owners of the supermarkets? And it costs a living. Yeah. It must be saving a fortune. As I said, hundreds of thousands of dollars.

And he said, that's obviously not that much. Maybe you can bring Ben in some oysters, a dozen oysters. Yeah, and some hot cross buns for dessert. How's that? Yeah, lovely. Hey, thanks for your time, Simon. Really appreciate it. All right, cheers. Thank you. Oh, really fascinating, isn't it? There you go. Saving them for cost of living. You can do it, but at your own risk guess where we're

going after the show bit of a class trip it's just four day old oysters baby well okay we can get some