Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: There's A Pole In My Driveway?!?!

Episode Date: August 3, 2023

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The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations. Now we've decided to put our aprons on next week, attempt to make all 106 cakes from the iconic birthday cake book, and thanks to Edmonds Baking School at Chelsea Bay. We're going to head there. Trying to do it in over two days, Jono. Yeah, we are preparing at the moment,

and really a lot of realisations that there's so much to organise. There's ingredients, there's accessories, there's people to bake these cakes. So last night I set you a challenge and actually I was driving home and I was like, I apologise for setting you a challenge. I said, you need to make one of these cakes from this book, you know, get match fit, warm up, see how possible it is, how long it takes. And I was like, I've made Ben do this on a Thursday night. This is school night, the household's at

capacity, the last thing you need is a cake added on to the stress. Roped in with my daughter Indy, who's quite good at baking and we did it yesterday evening. And I introduced her to the book. I've got some audio. So have you ever seen this book before? No, I've seen the brand

but normally, because we just use the internet really. Yeah, we do have the internet now. What do you think of the book? You've been flicking through. I really like it. There's some like cool cakes but it's just a bit weird, the girl side, like there's a section and it's just a bit weird cakes

like sewing machines and there's a kitchen. Oh, there's a stove. You've got yeah, you've got like a sewing basket there. That's all your favourite things. All my favourite things. Yeah, it's an interesting part to the book, isn't it? I know, that was back in a time where girls knew their place in the world. Sewing machines, baskets.

Now, Grace, our pen operator, is mouth wide open. I'm sorry, Grace. That was Andy's reaction as well. Now, I introduced you to the cake from the book that you chose, the one that we were going to have to make last night. So we're going to make the doll cake, which looks like it's like three sponges we need to make on top of each other. What's your thoughts about the doll?

The doll, well, she doesn't have any pants on, but she does have like sandals, which I'm a bit confused. Yeah, that's quite confusing. No pants, but just sandals. Yeah, so. Anyway, that's going to be in the cake, so that'll be all right. Let's get to it. Yeah, and the sandals.

So you gave me that was the Barbie doll that we had to put in the cake. The trouserless. Well, you can't jam your legs into a cake with pants on. High heels, though. You've always got to have your heels on. You've seen the Barbie movie. Yeah, that's right. So we got to it.

We got to making cakes. And I just thought I'd play this because it's a great bit of audio for radio. Oh, this is good audio for radio. Yeah, so good. Yeah. Oh, this is good audio. The mixing part. I was like, oh, we've got to get some of this as well.

This is good, good audio. Yeah, I didn't realize how long it takes to bake. Like to bake the part of the cake, we put it in and it was like 55 minutes. This is the sponge to bake the part of the cake. We put it in, and it was like 55 minutes. This is the sponge. The sponge part of the cake. And so I was like, well, we're really going to have to delay dinner for this as well. And then when we got it out of the oven, one of the cakes we were trying to get the cake out of the container after it cooled down had a wee bit of an accident. So we just had a wee bit of an issue with the cake?

Yeah. While we were trying to get it out of the tin, it kind of broke in half. It broke a little bit, but we've kind of fixed it together. So it's in the inside not great, but on the outside it looks good. Yeah, it looks beautiful. And now we're worried about what? That there's not enough marshmallows to fill the whole cake. Well, you meant to cut them in half.

Well, why didn't you tell us that before? I thought I did. I wonder if we've run out. I passed all that instruction. That was from Larissa here at the office. Last night I was like, oh, you go home and bake the cake. All it sounds like is you've made your daughter bake a cake and you're just kind of calming it and chipping it in from the sideline.

Should have cut the marshmallows in half. We got there in the end and this was the final bit. And it looked pretty good. Like you've seen some photos. We'll put it online at the Hits Breakfast. From the front it looked good. From the back, not so much. Hey, we did it.

It looks better from the front than the back, but it's done. Yeah. How do you think we're going to go making 106 cakes next week? No comment. This was meant to be a confidence booster. Okay, well. Well, you've said it now. It's too late.

Yeah. Can we eat the cake? Yeah, you can eat the cake. So it tasted all right, but the confidence is not there for us. Overall, time-wise, this is what we need to figure out. How long did it take you? I'd say it was at least, well, 55 minutes when it was in the oven. So that was I could do other things.

But it was probably a good two and a half hour process. Oh, my God. For one cake. But I'm not fast because we're following the instructions. You know, it's, yeah. Two and a half, one cake. But I'm not fast because we're following the instructions. You know, it's, yeah. Two and a half, one cake. Maybe two hours. Yeah, but that's with the oven.

While it's in the oven, you'll be working on other stuff. True. Yeah. Yeah. We're going to have to get some good systems in play. And better people than us. If you want to register, you can do so at the hits.co.nz. Are you going to play the other audio if you're getting baked at home?

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Next week, we're going to bake every cake from the iconic Women's Weekly birthday cake book. We're going to do that at the Edsman's Baking School in Chelsea Bay, which will be awesome. Yeah, and right now we're going to get some advice from the queen of cake. What is the recipe for success, Ben? You'll know her from the great Kiwi Bake Off. Her business is The Caker. Her name is Jordan Rondell and she joins us live from Los Angeles. Welcome. Thank you very much, Jono. How are you? Yeah, well, I'm doing very well. I'm looking at you on Zoom. We're dressed in beanies and swan dries in New Zealand.

How hot is it in Los Angeles? It's been hot. It's been uncomfortably hot sort of oh i'm actually a i'm a fahrenheit girl now the 90s that means nothing to us give it give it come on i know definitely be like in the 30s okay let's let's do a google translate how much in degrees is 90 you're saying i could be um embellishing 32 32 yeah okay so we got you you on because we want to try and make every single cake from the iconic birthday cake book that many Kiwis had in their childhood. There's 106 cakes in there, and we need some advice from someone like yourself. How long are you giving yourself to do it all in?

Two days. But in saying that, there are some logistics we've looked after. There's an egg shortage, so we're buying pre-made sponges ah okay look like our record the number of cakes that we've made in a day that the record is about 400 oh and how many was that how many people was that that's a team of about 18 oh we'll knock this off before lunch all right great to chat to you see you later yeah there we go the cake well because Well, because I was reading last night that you got a request at like 2 o'clock in the afternoon from Miley Cyrus to make a cake for that night.

So that's fast. Yeah, it was, and it had to be a whole new recipe too. So look, I feel you guys, this is a challenge for sure. How can Miley phone you at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and go, I want a whole new recipe, and by the way, I want it in four hours? How does that work? Well, it wasn't her herself, unfortunately,

but you don't say no to Miley, do you? No, you don't. But you could have given me another 24, 48 hours. It's pretty cool because your goal was to make baking and cake making cool, and I think you do that. Has it taken a while to change people's perceptions? Yeah. I mean, look, I started it back in 2010.

So a good 13 years ago, there were like two places you could get a cake from. And neither of them had any innovation or sort of homemade feel to it. So I think back, I did trailblaze something back in the day. And now there's so many incredible cake makers around New Zealand. And I'm like, I'd like to think I had a little something to do with that maybe. You're looking at two of them right now. You've inspired us. We're probably about to undo all of the great work you've done for cakes.

Oh my goodness. Do you remember this iconic birthday cake book? Yeah, I do. I thought it's been a number of years since I would have flicked through it. But I'm pretty sure my mum used to make my birthday cakes from that book. I mean, the big bangers, the train seems to come through a lot. The duck with chips for a mouth. I mean, you know.

The unchlorinated pool's a big one with the green jelly. Now, hey, there was a thing with chrissy tegan a while ago and everyone in new zealand got up in arms that she stole your idea are you cool with that oh it's water under the bridge now but at the time at the time it was a bit hard to swallow um yeah but i did i got so much support from new zealand it was it was crazy um it really meant the world to me and you know she's off doing her thing and I'm off doing mine. And it's fine. I'm over it.

Yeah, I know you're over it. But just to bring everyone up to speed, just so we open up that wound again. She loved your pre-made cakes. You co-labbed and stuff. You co-labbed and everything. And then she ran off and did exactly the same idea. Felt like that, right? Yeah.

That is literally what happened. Yeah. She called the co-lab off three months in and said you know the reason being i'm going to release my own line and i said well hun like you can't just i said here's an invoice or we continue and so we did continue we released it and then they did everything in their power to squash it basically so it was an interesting experience i learned a lot yeah it must be pretty crazy though coming from New Zealand and you know taking that out of it the you know the obviously how things ended you know not so sweet having Chrissy Teigen having Miley Cyrus having celebrities you know wanting to collab

with you wanting to eat your cakes I mean that's pretty incredible journey you've been on yeah yeah I mean the thing I love about America is like you can wake up and have no idea what's going to happen that day and it it's this like terrifying, but also kind of wonderful feeling. And it just, it really is like that cheesy saying about it being the land of opportunity like is true. And I,

that's why I love it. Yeah. Well, you're nailing life over there. We're very proud of you. Well, wish us luck. We'll send you the photo evidence.

Don't feel you have to open it when we send it to you. You've already done more than enough. I want to see it all. Good't feel you have to open it when we send it to you. You've already done more than enough. I want to see it all. Good luck, you guys. Take care of yourself. Getting into the weekend, we want to know, is there a place you go?

They know you a little too well. They know your order pretty much before you even walk in there. And you don't need to be ashamed and embarrassed. We're friends and family. I mean, like Ben, when you walk into Peaches and Cream and they're like, Mr. Boyce, we have your when you walk into Peaches and Cream and they're like,

Mr. Boyce, we have your plentiful supply of cream and peaches at the ready. Yeah, I do love my peaches and cream, you're right. Or maybe you're like Mike Hosking and you walk into Louis Vuitton and they're like,

here's your $10,000 chinos, Mr. Hosking. Stuff like that where you're so familiar with the place. And it happens, I imagine baristas, coffee orders.

Across the road here, they are magnificent. Place called Scratch, we're walking every morning. Don't even have to say anything now. That always amazes me because there's so many orders that would come in that they tend to remember everyone's off by heart. It's a hell of a talent. You're right.

But everyone's always kind of the same but also different. Slightly different, yeah. And you wouldn't know anyone's name. You'd be like, long black, flat white, soy flat white. Then you have the pain in the ass, oat milk with the four shots of whatever. Nick, we're going to get you on from Auckland. Where are you ashamed that they know your order?

So it's a burger franchise company. And when I first started ordering, they thought it was a bit weird, but now they're a bit used to me, so order a burger and then i actually a particular burger then i ask for it to be put in the fridge so it can go cold so i can pick it up okay like half an hour and i only ever order my cold burger when i'm hungover oh every other time I order like a meat hot burger, but when I'm hungover, it's always the chicken burger with a milkshake. And so they're like, big night again, Nick.

We've got the chicken burger on the way to the fridge. Yeah, they thought it was just like the most randomest thing, but then once I started calling quite frequently, they started to get the idea. Okay, that's a sad reflection on your drinking as well. I love it. We're going to hook you up with some hell pizza as well. You can have that hot or put it in the fridge.

Enjoy that. Awesome. Sounds great. Thank you. I suppose a cold burger is just like a sandwich. Yeah. It's kind of like a panini, and then I asked them actually to put it in a veggie press, so it's kind of like a panini instead of toasting it through the burger bun toaster.

Wow, you've really experimented there. Good on you, Nick. Appreciate it. I've got it down pat. Yeah. Thank you so much for your call. Go and have a great weekend, all right? Let's get Hayley on.

Welcome. We are embarrassed to say they know your order off by heart, Hayley. A little now, now that I'm on the air. Okay, all right. Whereabouts is it? Gladstone Inn. It's just out of Cardishon and Gladstone. Yeah, yeah.

They see you drive in and they have the Rose Port already there. I love it. I know the place. It's a great little spot. The Gladstone Inn. It is. It's a good local. Shout out for them.

Shout out to the Gladstone Inn. You'll be driving in there later on today, will you, Hayley? I will. I will. They might give me two tonight, maybe. You've got to plug. You've got to plug. You're out to the Gladstone Inn. You'll be driving in there later on today, will you, Hayley? I will. They might give me two tonight, maybe. You've got to plug. You've got to have a great weekend. Really appreciate it. Thanks.

Good on you. Minky, welcome. What's the establishment? Hi, thank you, guys. How are you? You're coming in with a lot of energy. Loving it. Where do they know your order?

Don't make me an hour out. It's an all coffee, flat white, no sugar. As I walk in my door, they're like out. It's an all coffee flat white, no sugar. As I walk in my door they're like, oh you're the lady flat white, no sugar.

I'm like, yep, that's me. The lady, the flat white with no sugar. They call me the flat white

as well, but for other reasons I think. Good on you Minky, that's wonderful. We'll take one more. Hayley, we are embarrassed

that they know your name and your order. It's not exactly an order, but when I ring the hits, they know that it's Hayley from Hamilton and I'm a physio because I ring you guys so often. Yeah, we do.

Yeah, we do enjoy talking to you, Hayley, too. You've got great stories. It was so confusing that there was another Hayley. I started talking and it was the wrong Hayley. Oh, we're doubling you. You're like, there's not another Hayley in the hits. No. We hate to break it to you.

There's a couple of Hayleys listening. I'm sorry. Oh, okay. You go and have a great weekend, okay, Hayley? Have a good day. Appreciate it, mate. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Mate, international news.

Honoured to have you on the show. You're welcome. You're welcome. It's been quite a wild ride this past week. I can imagine. Now, did you think that when this happened that it was going to make news? I mean, Ladbible is one of the big websites in the world. It's on that.

Yeah, that was quite a defining moment. Yeah, my bestie messaged me. She was like, you know you've made it when you're on Ladbible. Yeah. So if anyone hasn't heard the story, you're a teacher in the Tauranga region, but you came home to what? I came home to a pole cemented into my driveway. Just in the middle of the driveway as well.

And the location of it makes no sense. Even if it's a contractor who's gone and fulfilling a job, it's like, why did anyone want the pole there? Yes, that's what I said to them when they ended up fronting up. They explained to me that it was actually for a gate or a fence. And I said to them, that still makes no sense why I would put a gate or fence here. And they just shook their heads in a bit of embarrassment. Yeah, so you came over, you found this thing.

It was cemented in the middle of your driveway. Was your first thoughts maybe like you're a teacher, maybe it was a prank from a student? I mean, what did you think? That was not one of my initial thoughts. One of my initial thoughts was I just thought, is this allowed? Can someone just come and put a pole into my driveway? You know, first home that I've owned, I'm a bit of a newbie to everything.

You're like, maybe this is the done thing. Yeah, yeah. So I sent a video to my friend being like what is what is this can you tell me could this be for anything legit and yeah then the suggestion started coming through of that it might be a prank and i was like surely not that's quite that's quite a bit of effort yeah it's a bit it's a bit of a strange prank too i mean johnno and i have a rich history of pranks but i don't know for you know but the inconven of it, that's where the prank based it is. So this kind of gripped the local community around Tauranga as well.

Yes. Yeah, it took off. I put it on my Facebook at first just for a bit of a giggle, sort of being like, check out what happened to me. And then a workmate suggested I put it on the community notice board, and then everyone was just well intrigued by it. So who have you spoken to? Let's talk about the bit.

Are we going CNN, Al Jazeera? Are we looking at the big news organisations? I haven't spoken in person to anyone major, but I had people from the Daily Mirror in the UK messaging me. And now I'm getting messages from people in America being like, that was a great story. Thanks for that. Oh, wow.

Yeah, great. And, you know, who would have thought you would have made it to the bastion of journalism, the hits breakfast? Jono and Ben, I mean, what a highlight. Hey, I have been name dropping you this morning and everyone's well impressed, all right? Oh, that's very cool. We appreciate your time.

So it's now the poll's been taken away. It's been all fixed. It's all over and done with? Yes. Yep, yep. Just a patch as a reminder of my 15 minutes there. You can take your grandkids through and see that little square there. Yeah.

Grandma went viral once. It was their time to shine. It could have been like a tourist attraction. You could have left it up, you know? Like, come see the pole that's there for no reason. But hey. I actually did have a couple friends visit and did take photos and wanted a selfie of me with the pole.

So that was a bit funny. I don't know. In Tauranga, I guess you've got the Mount is one of the great tourist attractions and the pole. You could have had both. The Mount and the pole, yeah. The North Pole. They took the pole away attractions and the Pole. You could have had both. The Mount and the Pole. The North Pole. No, they took the Pole away,

so the Pole is no more. I think we all just missed Ben's great branding campaign there. Oh, the North Pole. The North Pole. It's in the North Island? Yeah, it could be. But hey, I would love to talk to you and I'm glad you see the funny side of this whole story

and your 15 minutes of fame. Right, you've just got to take what you can these days and that's that all. Good on you Sophie, love your work There you go, Sophie Hucker in Tauranga, got home to a pole cemented in her driveway, if you want to see the photo, it's very funny, we'll put that up on our

story on the Hits Breakfast The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea Had a really fun conversation yesterday with a wedding planner in the UK from with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. Had a really fun conversation yesterday with a wedding planner in the UK from a podcast called The Unfiltered Bride. Her name was Georgie, one of the hosts. And we actually just wanted to talk to her about our cake baking mission

and obviously dealing in wedding cakes. She said the greatest cake story she had was the groom cutting the wedding cake with a chainsaw. He was an arborist. Seems very messy and unnecessary. But then we said, what's the wildest thing that has ever happened at a wedding? Have a listen to this story. I wasn't actually at this wedding.

It would not happen under my watch. But a makeup artist that I work with quite often did a wedding. And so the bride was going down to the ceremony and she stopped off at the toilet literally just before they said I do. So she stopped off at the toilet before she walked down the aisle and what she saw when she went in was enough to end the wedding.

So I know it's early there but would you like to try and guess what she saw the groom doing? Was he canoodling with the bridesmaid? Yeah, sounds like it could be a canoodle. No. He was being breastfed by his mother. No! No! No!

How old? No, this is not... Old enough to not be being breastfed by his mother. What, like so we're talking... Surely this isn't true. No, honestly, and the bride was so shocked that they still went ahead with the ceremony. I don't think she kissed him when they said that she could.

So she had no idea that this was a thing. He had a little bit of bloody milky residue in his goatee or something. Oh, my God. So did the makeup artist tell the bride? No, the bride saw it. The bride walked into the toilet? No, the bride saw it. The bride walked into the toilet. Oh, the bride saw it. The bride walked into the toilet.

Oh, my. She's like, oh, oh. Oh, sorry. Carry on. And she still married him. I think she married him out of pure shock. Well, I can imagine. And then embarrassment.

So. Yeah. That's left a bad taste in your mouth. It hasn't been sitting right with you well i'm not thinking for a second that uh georgina's uh she's telling a story that's been told to her and i don't think that for a second she's lying you're not calling out her credentials but i just wonder like if it is true then how does it work from a point of view of like have they been no they said the groom is i don't know 25 years old 30 years old how is that that's obviously been going on the whole life well because taylor producer taylor was saying because we've done a lot of dissecting of

this phone call after the show yesterday she's like if you continue to do it you continue to lactate yeah so if it has gone on for the period of the groom's life Then the supply is still plentiful Yeah but they would have to be meeting up Like secret little liaisons every so often Otherwise you know Unless she's Can't you Express

Express put it in the bottle Yeah well maybe that's it Drops a little bottle Hey put that in your coffee son You know maybe Or there's another sibling And it your coffee son you know maybe or there's another sibling and it's back in are we 100% certain

it was breastfeeding or just like oh what's going on the better of if you're hooking up with your mum would you rather hook up with your mum or say you're breastfeeding like if you had the options of the two like if I were John what's going on in there with Eddie?

And you're like, what would you feel more comfortable with me going? For some reason, breastfeeding feels like the option you want to take. You know, the less judgmental. You got me. I need my calcium. Yeah. I don't know. It's a very confusing story

Yeah Because like Did she Why would she continue on with it Would you marry someone like that If you're in I think you might be in shock though But yeah

I think it would be Enough to call off Particularly call off the wedding Yeah If it came out of nowhere Do you think it was the mother and the son It was like Well you're heading off to another woman now

This is the final ceremony The last time we can do this And so maybe it was like The well, you're heading off to another woman now. This is the final ceremony, the last time we can do this. And so maybe it was like the cutting of the apron strings, so to speak. Unusual way to... Yeah. They're open for 7 o'clock. We've got $250 with our call of the week. No, not each to their own. This is not an each to their own situation.

Yeah, no. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Yesterday in Parliament. Now, we don't delve too deep into political news here, but this is pretty funny. This is a pretty funny moment. The only political news we delve into are bloopers. We give it a light dusting, don't we?

I know the biggest complaint when we used to have Jacinda on. Once a month we'd have former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on and all the rural people would come to me in Whangamata. You know, bloody, you'd give her a light dusting. A light dusting. I was like, yes, because we know nothing else. We would literally ask her a question. She would give us an answer.

We'd go, that's a great answer. We'd move on. We would investigate no further, Ben. So we're not political journalists. No, but this is a moment that we can all agree to we all enjoyed this moment, because Nicola Willis, she's National Party Deputy

Minister, she was in Parliament yesterday she was having a debate with Grant Robertson from the Labour Party about the fiscal hole that she was saying Labour's got the country into and Grant Robertson started with this and here was her response. Nina has to be the one who finds some way of repairing the fiscal hole in Nationals plans.

How big is his hole? And do... That is not in the public interest, I can assure you. You know, when you're trying to make a point, you're like, how? And then you're like, uh-oh. And even she had to, like, just stop and crack up laughing. She was like. Good response, too.

Not in the public interest. The size of it is for me and me alone. That's very good. Yeah, very good moment. That's very good. That's John and Ben's political coverage bit of rude stuff for you

that's all we'll get into just for a bit of backstory into this next thing you'd know this that Jono the last thing that I would want anyone to ever think of me would be an arrogant person

right like I would hate for someone to think oh this guy he's all up himself he's arrogant so I just wanted to say to front foot that, but as I get into this next story. Now, my Velcro wallet that you like to mock me for, it broke.

Your smiggle one. Yeah. Velcro, very attention-seeking fabric, isn't it? Yeah. So I got that wallet and it broke. So I was like. How did a Velcro wallet break? It just sort of ripped apart.

We're in tears. So I was like, well, I need to probably did a Velcro wallet break? it just sort of ripped apart we're in tears so I was like well I need to probably yeah I need to get myself a new wallet but I found one at home and I was like well this could be my temporary wallet

now this is a wallet I'd never used my mate had bought it for me a few years ago it's green and it's got writing on it it's got a square word on it it says total

and the F word legend on this thing total and I'm like well I've never last thing I think of myself as a legend he knows that so he's like he'll never use it but it's a funny funny gag to go around

so this one i love it is it velcro no it's not velcro very big writing growing up wallet i've never used it and i was like well use it temporarily for a couple of days just until i get a new wallet went to a cafe uh yesterday and the wallet hasn't been putting in my pocket like the other one so I've been keeping it out. Dangerous move. And I went to a cafe and then we did some other stuff. Couple hours later

I went to pay for something and I'm like, uh-oh, I don't have my wallet. Oh God. Oh no, you've left it. Oh no.

So I had to go back and I went back to the cafe and I was like, what legend owns this thing? This is the thing. So I went to the counter and I talked to someone there who wasn't there at the time,

I don't think. I was like, did anyone leave a wallet there? They're like, what colour was it? I'm like, green. They know. There's only one wallet there.

They're just trying to drag this out of here. Because then they said, does it have any writing on it? I'm like, yes, it does. What does it say? I'm like, I kind of like, please don't make me say it.

Please don't make me say it. It's got writing on it and it says, and I had to go, total swear word legend. And they're like, I kind of like, please don't make me say it. Please don't make me say it. It's got writing on it and it says that I had to go, total swear word legend. And they're like, yep, here's your wallet. I'm like, oh my goodness. We have to do this as a security check. All part of the protocol.

But I'm like, oh, now they're going around thinking that I carry a wallet saying total legend. Do you remember the name of the cafe? Let's call them. Let's call them and see if they think you're a total effing legend the name of the cafe? Let's call them. Let's call them and see if they think you're a total effing legend. No, I'm not going to call them. Let's call them. No.

I've only had one shameful interaction with them. I can't do another one. You might have left a good impression. I'll be like, you know what, as he walked off. He is. They probably all looked at each other and they're like, there he walks away, a total effing legend. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

I know last week, Ben, you told a wonderful story where early in the morning a lovely lady asked you for a cell phone charger, right? Yeah, it was just out of the blue. It came up to me and I thought maybe it was a situation someone might be wanting some cash, maybe wanting something else, I don't know. And then it went, oh, cell phone charger.

And then I didn't know how the logistics would work if I had one because I was like, well, it's going to take a while for you to charge the phone. I've got to go to work. I didn't have one, but I was like, maybe there's a hotel around. They might have one at a reception. My other thing, too, was where was she planning on plugging it in? If you're out on the street, there's no power source. None of it made sense to me, hey, unfortunately I couldn't help her out

Well yesterday I was in a similar situation Where a gentleman asked me He said, do you have a cigarette? And I was like, mate, did you not watch the Paddy Gower doco? Tuesday night, powerful stuff But I said no Which I respected He thought I looked cool enough to have a cigarette

I took that compliment. Then he followed it up with, similar situation as yours, have you got a lighter? And I thought, that's a bold second question. If I haven't been able to deliver on the first request, why would I have, unless I'm a professional birthday cake candle lighter or arsonist, I probably wouldn't have one without the other. No. I mean, in your household, you would have matches, lighters, cake candle lighter or arsonist i probably wouldn't have one without the other no i mean

in your household you would have you know matches lighters those things for lighting candles and things you're right but not carrying out in the street i would say and then why does he need a lighter without the cigarette but then the the truth followed on have you got any spare change right and it kind of like became a guess who of what was in my pockets and what I could give him. And I was like, to be honest, all I have is some orange PK gum. I had some PK gum. Oh, nice. He's like, I don't want gum.

I want your PK gum. I was like, what are you getting all picky? You didn't want a piece of PK? I did that once. Yeah, I think it was in America. My wife and I saw someone sitting outside, looked a bit down and wanting some cash and stuff, and we were in a coffee shop. And we were like, hey, we'll buy a hot drink, hot chocolate, and like a bagel and stuff.

Took it out there. I thought, oh, this will be a nice moment. And he's like, I don't want that. I was like, oh, okay. I was like, oh, you want to give it to someone else? He's like, no. And I was like, oh, sorry. I just thought it might be nice to warm up your morning

it's a cold morning and then I had an extra hot chocolate and a bagel I was like well I don't need two bagels but anyway he's like

I sit outside here all day do you have any bagels and hot chocolate I can get offered mate sorry mate