Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: We Are Live From London!

Episode Date: May 4, 2023

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The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. Home of warm beer and relaxed oral hygiene, Ben. Everywhere we go, where we just arrived, it was a quick trip from the airport, got changed in the back of a black cab. What you do notice in the shops you drive past, lots of flags bunting up everywhere,

there's crowns, there's memorabilia, they're really getting into this King's Coronation. It's exciting to be here and be amongst it. Yeah, it really is and we spoke to our cabbie Carl who were in a black cab and he was wonderful. Have you got a straight invite to Kensington or just a... You can just

drop us off at Buckingham Palace or something like that can we get in the gates? Tradesman's entrance is it lads or... What do we need to do while we're here? I would definitely get yourself to a football match if you can. Obviously, I'm from further north, so I support a certain team dressed in red. But get yourself round to one of the games, boys.

One of the games? And what do you think of our suspenders and outfits? You're probably going to get battered, but, you know, as long as you can get away with them. You might get away with them with old KC3 doing his thing. And the King. Are you a fan of the King? Of course we are. You know, we might say this, we might say that. We don the King are you a fan of the King of course we are you know we might say this

we might say that we don't all live in a big house but where would we be without them boys well we wouldn't be here no that's true well thank you Cal no dramas lads

that was very cool it was lovely I always I felt like I was talking to the Beatles every time yeah with Cal

but there's we are dressed in our white shirts we've got you know British flag suspenders we've got bow tie blue bow. We've got British flag suspenders. We've got blue bow ties.

We've got very inconvenient sunglasses. With the Union Jack and the shutters on them sort of thing. Kind of like Kanye West's Stronger era. Not great for visibility, I won't lie. Or sun protection. No UV protection as well on those glasses, but we're wearing those. You can follow our journey on the Hits Breakfast on social media.

And if you want to see the King's Coronationation it's going to be a late one uh saturday night it all sort of kicks off around about 9 20 and then continues on if you want to stick around to the finale the balcony wave the balcony wave is the thing it's going to be about midnight so you're going through the whole thing just after 10 o'clock he will he will become king king charles and queen concert uh consort camilla as well. But you don't even get to see that moment, apparently. It's all hidden behind a blanket. The shame goes on behind the blanket. Andrew's also behind that blanket the whole time as well.

They just keep a big blanket up around him the whole time. Who's right there? I don't know. Don't ask. He's like, do I get to come out for a photo? Yeah, soon, mate. We'll just keep holding this blanket in front of your face. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. This is Jono and Ben broadcasting live from London. We've made it over here. mate we'll just keep holding this blanket in front of your face the hits the jonathan ben podcast

is jonathan ben broadcasting live from london we've made it over here we arrived uh got off the plane pretty much got changed in a black cab a bit concerned about our accommodation you're like don't worry i've got it sorted and i've just looked at images of it of it looks like the buckingham brothel like i've never stayed in a motel i've had to pay by the hour ben it's not that it's all but one of the things I have noticed over here, it's just that we went to one sort of grocery convenience store. Food seems to be a lot cheaper over here. Even with the exchange rate.

It's so cheap that what I'm going to do, I'm just going to cram bread rolls in my pocket and take it back for the rest of New Zealand. I think I'll just fill up so I don't have to eat for the next six months. Yeah, we're talking about avocados. At home in New Zealand, they're being close to $10 each at the moment. I went to the shop the other day, and I just had to get two avocados. I put them on the counter, and the guy behind the counter gave me a guilty look.

He's like, have you seen the price of these? I was like, no, I didn't look. I just grabbed them in a rush. He's like, guess what they are? $9.99 each. And I just said, I'm sorry, mate. I've got to do this. And I had to take them back in place and put them back.

Fair enough. And I'm like, who's going to buy these? They're just going to slowly rot away. And even the avocados, they look like we know we're not going to go anywhere. Now, we went into a grocery store, as I said before, and we thought we'd try some food that we haven't experienced before. And this is what the lady had to say. okay let's have a let's have a thing so here we have like jammy dodger your phone's going your phone's going john i can answer you yeah um we've got

jammy dodgers got yorkies iron brew walkers crisps yeah you've got to just try everything. Can jammy bastards eat jammy dodgers? They can. They can. Dodgy jammy bastards eating jammy dodgers. Yeah, go for it. I love the names of all this stuff. This is great. What about one thing that we could do?

Obviously, there's the King's Coronation, but there is one tourist attraction you'd recommend. Tower of London. That's always a good one. His name's Ben. We want to take little Ben to Big Ben. Oh, Big Ben. Yeah, yeah.

Sounds a plan. All right. Sounds a plan. Okay. All right. These jammy, what are we, jammy dodgers are getting out of here. So she was lovely. Yeah.

And speaking of being jammy, because we're working from the BBC, the studios at the moment, we ran into Graham Norton. You'll know from TV. He's on three in New Zealand. He works at the BBC, the studios at the moment, where he ran into Graham Norton. You'll know from TV, he's on three in New Zealand. He works at the BBC. Ran into him. It was pretty cool to see him in the corridor and we asked him, because we're working in the same building, we're like, well, can we use your car park we saw downstairs?

Yeah. Can we use your car park there? Because they've got a car park. Oh, have they? Yeah. It's yours. Thank you. You can put a car about there.

You can live in it. So we can live there if you don't like our accommodation, Jono. Well, let's yours. Thank you. You can put a caravan there. You can live in it. So we can live there if you don't like our accommodation, Jono. Well, let's go. So we don't have to stay in the place that Chad just put the air down. And we did ask him, because his famous segment, The Red Chair, that you'll see on his show here in New Zealand, we're like, well, what would the story that you would tell if you ever got to go on The Red Chair?

Here's what Graham Norton said. What story would you tell if you were on The Red Chair? I have a very long story about my dog eating a condom. That's good. No, it's a really good story, but it's quite long. Okay. And quite rude. There we go.

So we're not going to get the dog condom story? No, it's probably for the best on this family-friendly radio station. And it felt like he had places to go. But he still gave us time as well and let us record, which was awesome. Yeah, there we go. Graham Norton live from London. We are here for the King's Coronation. It's been an absolute blast so far.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. There we go. Now, we have obviously just hopped off a very long quick flight, but it was very long, Ben. Well, it was long. It was quick for you because you just got straight on and you fell asleep again straight away. Like, I don't even think the plane had taken off.

And then we had to transfer over in another plane and you fell asleep. The whole time, I pretty much think you slept for 24 hours. Well, I do, and I slept in all 29 possible positions

you can sleep on. Face on the screen on the back of the seat, face on the tray table, face on Ben's face. You have to keep manoeuvring yourself, don't you?

I was thinking we'd have a good chance to chat, to talk about stuff. No, I sleep because I'm like, you'll'll be like he wants to work for 23 hours non-stop emails and stuff we'll back up emails we'll plan tv shows for the next 32 years tv shows probably won't happen anyway we can talk about that uh but yeah at one stage i got quite bored and i had my knife my fork and spoon you know the plastic cutlery that they'd given me.

And I managed to balance, because you're sleeping with your mouth wide open. I managed to balance. It was quite fun. A lot of people were watching me around the other seats. I got all three bits of cutlery just dangling just out of your mouth. It was a wonderful feat. I hope that was the only thing you put in my mouth.

It was. You didn't put like the napkins or anything? No, no, it was just all three bits of cutlery. So you treated my mouth. Oh, it what? You didn't put like the napkins or anything? No, no. It was just all three bits of cutlery. So you treated my mouth. Oh, it's fun. Mouth as a cutlery drawer, basically. Yeah, you kept them all upright. It was quite impressive. So what we want to do, oh, 800 the hits.

Insane on the plane. What went on on the plane? Maybe you sat next to a crazy, crazy, crazy person. Or a famous person. Or a famous person, yeah. Or a crazy crazy crazy person or a famous person or a famous person yeah or a crazy famous person combine the two yeah um we have a friend she sat next to uh an older gentleman passed away oh no so sad it's and i don't know i think maybe the plane might have been full so they i don't know what the usual protocol is. So they just had to put a blanket over him. And at that moment, I always say this to her.

I was like, did you ask, did he have the works? No, don't. Stop it. It was the last thing he said. He said, make sure you get my... No, stop it. Make sure you give the person... Stop it, stop it, stop it.

I felt like I was... It could have been you. I felt like putting a blanket over you. I thought for some reason maybe you had the flight. You were like, wow. I just kept sleeping. Just kept sleeping. All right, I entered the hits 4-4-8-7 on New Zealand's breakfast this morning.

What's the thing? What have you seen on a plane? The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. You feel like you're part of history, Ben. I know. Our condolences to laura mcgoldrick who's uh back in new zealand the hits biggest royal fan she couldn't go on this trip

unfortunately because we're going yeah because we're going and i just want to tell her we are really we know nothing about it but we're really enjoying it yeah um and there's just merch merch everywhere you want king charles's face on something, you've got plates, cutlery. Bobbleheads. Contraception. Whatever, you know. You look at his face and you're like, I'm not in the mood anymore.

That's how that works. Sort of a bad idea, actually. Probably look at my face and not get in the mood anymore as well. But yeah, 0800, that's Ben Boyce on our long flight here. Putting all sorts of knives, forks, spoons, anything. He was chucking it in my mouth when I was sleeping. It was a balancing act, and I managed to do it on the plane. So we want to know what happened on the plane.

What did you see that happened on the plane? Let's go to Taupo. Steph, you're on New Zealand's Breakfast. How are you? Hi, I'm great, thanks. How are you guys? We're doing lovely, Steph. It's great to hear your voice.

It's good to hear the voices from back home, Ben. It is. I miss home. I miss home. Now, what happened to you on a plane? Well, my daughter was a month old. I was flying on my own to go and visit family, and I had to breastfeed her, and a young couple was sitting to my left, and I went to feed her, my milk squirted on his

arm and I was so embarrassed I just told him that mate I'm so sorry and he goes oh don't worry it's not the worst thing that's happened to me not the worst thing well I thought what's the worst thing yeah I'm thinking what's the worst thing as well? Oh, Steph, I mean, that happens, doesn't it? Yeah, it was a bit embarrassing though, but whatever. Oh, sorry, yeah. You get a rogue squirt every now and then. Hey, you're going to have a wonderful weekend, all right? Thank you.

Bye. We're talking insane on the plane. Angela. Hello. Good to have you on. What happened on the plane, mate? Well, when we were cleaning up the plane after the embarkation, we sometimes find bottles of pee, as in pee in a bottle.

Oh, people pee in a bottle. Bottles of pee. You were a flight attendant, obviously, were you? I was, so this is some sort of history now. Why can't people go to the bathroom? That seems very unusual. I was, so this is some sort of history now. Why can't people go to the bathroom? That seems very unusual. I would say it's unusual, but then it's quite usual too because customers might be sitting at the window seat.

They want to order other passengers to move around or they might be just bucking in because of the seat that's finally gone. I didn't know it was an option. I don't think it is an option. No, no, that is not an option. Okay, I was going to say, because I can definitely make use of this option. It's not an option. Save me a lot of awkward crouching and, you know,

excuse me, excuse me, and clambering. Yeah, but please don't do that. Please don't do that. What is the craziest thing you've found on a plane after it's landed, Angela? Well, I would say the P is the craziest thing. I mean, you started pretty crazy. I don't know how much more crazy you want to go, John. I want to go crazy.

Jeez, I mean, it's out there. I mean, I wasn't expecting that. What's one thing that all people in the airline industry just hate passengers doing? Pressing the call bell. Oh, pressing the call bell. Yeah. Well, to some airlines, pressing the call bell is supposed to mean, I have a safety or emergency problem, please come and help me.

Yeah, well, Jono wants another beer. This is an emergency. But generally, people press a call bell for services, and if you have 400 passengers on flight, each of them press it once. It's just a lot of work to do. I get that. I get that.

But I need a Heineken, and I need the bottle empty so I can pee in it. Well, we've learned some stuff. I didn't realize you're not meant to press the call bell. Unless it's an emergency. Unless it's an emergency, that makes a lot of sense. And I didn't realize you're not meant to press the call bell. Unless it's an emergency. Unless it's an emergency, that makes a lot of sense. And I didn't realize that the bottles were an option. They're not an option.

Angela, lovely to talk to you. Thank you for sharing that with us. Thank you. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We are in London, the King's Coronation. Not the only ones over here broadcasting, Ben Boyce, Mike Hosking, and Kate Hawksby are here as well. And she joins us in the studio.

Great to be here. Oh, it's nice to see you. Nice to be working. I mean, we work in the same building in New Zealand. We work in the same building in London. How good. I was just a bit worried about you guys coming into the BBC in terms of, you know, it is the BBC and you're not used to too much riffraff. But I'm pleased to see you've polished yourselves up for the British experience.

Yeah, no, I mean, there's been some historic moments in this building made, and this will be one of the lowest. But, Kate, is it okay if we come and crash in your hotel room? Maybe we can sleep in the armchair or something. Well, you realise my daughter's here on this trip as well, so we've already got someone crashing in the armchair. But there could be a little bit of, actually, I was going to say room in the closet, but no, the wardrobe's pretty full.

So I think we're just a little bit full. A little bit full. Oh, okay. Well, speaking of, you know, why the wardrobe is full, I was looking yesterday on your social media, which has been awesome. It's made me very excited about being in London, all the things you've showcased. But you're out suit shopping with Mike Hosking, who's got a pretty important job to do over the weekend.

Yeah, so we were really excited when he received the invite from the Palace to be the sole New Zealand media representative to attend and go inside the Abbey. So we suddenly realised, jeepers creepers, we're going to need an outfit. We're going to need a suit, which of course we had not packed because we had no intention of, we didn't think this would happen. So we have been out desperately hunting down a suit, and so we hit Savile Row, which is, by the way, where the king gets his suits made and many royal outfits. And we had as many shops as we could just trying to find the right thing for him,

and I think we have finally nailed it at the 11th hour. You said he's going to look magnificent. He will look magnificent. And no, I think he'll look great. And I think he'll do New Zealand proud. Do you think Mike could cut off his, you know how you can cut off your wristband and give it to us through the fence and then we'll put it on just so we might be able to get it. One by one and we'll just put you passing it back through do you think that's an

option i just don't know that that is an option with the thousands of military and police and the double barricading that's gone up and the security checks and the photo id there's just a few snafus there for you along the way unfortunately there's a theme here every time we're asking you to help us out you're saying no no no No, no, no. I get it. Fair enough. But what does he do? Like, it's part of that, which is awesome. And what does he get?

How close does he get to the king and Camilla? Well, I don't know whether he's – we'll have to wait and find out. I don't know whether he's reached out and touched them in distance, but I very much doubt it. But he is inside the Abbey, which is a real honour and a thrill. They have to get there super, super, super early on the day, like I think at like 7 in the morning or something insane, to all get in and get seated and ready for the formalities and festivities.

So I guess nobody knows until it unfolds exactly how and what will happen, but pretty exciting. And he will be publishing a couple of pieces for New Zealand media, obviously, so everybody will get the update on what went down. Yeah, so he's the sole media representative in there. And I imagine because I know how much he loves the Royals. This must be like his holy grail. Yeah. Oh, he is honestly fizzing. And we are so thrilled for him. Honestly, it is just so

cool that someone who's such a devout fan of the Royals gets to actually attend the coronation. So we just, we can't believe it. We just keep sort of saying, how is this possible? How has this happened? You're so lucky. This is awesome. So it is a real privilege in an honour, and he's really aware of that.

Oh, awesome. And now the other big question we've just got to throw at you, your way, is where are we going tonight? You know, we're here. Where are we all going? You know, you, Mike, the two of us, where are we going? Your daughter, she's in here. And who's splitting the bill?

How's that working as well? I like to get these things. Surely NZME can pick up our tab, but we've found some great little pubs around the place. They love a pub lunch and a pub dinner around here and they're open late, so I reckon we just hit the local and we just put it on the NZME Twitter card, don't you?

No, that's right. Us, Hawks beat Posking. It's all going tonight and the atmosphere is electric here. I haven't felt anything like it since the Taradale Christmas Parade. Absolutely wonderful. Kate, hey, thank you so much for your time. Glad you guys are having a wonderful trip and we'll see you around the streets. Absolutely. See you later.

See you, Kate.