Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - We Can't Work Out What Ben's Mums Car Is Saying???

Episode Date: December 4, 2023

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My mum has been staying for a couple of days with us and it's very, very handy to have your mother staying. It really is, yeah. When you get that extra set of mitts helping out around the household, you're like, could you kind of live here but not be here the whole time? That's probably what you think. Her Sunday was just her just binging the crown from start to finish. Has she not watched the crown? The new series of the crown. Ironing? Yeah, she loves ironing.

Ironing things that I didn't even, I was like, none of this needs ironing, but she did it all, so bless her. What's the one item we're like, gee, she's ironing my. She's ironing all sorts.

Underpants? No, she didn't iron them, but a lot of pillowcases, which apparently is more hygienic when you iron your pillowcases, which you're saying. I think because of what you're doing, I think because of the heat as well,

apparently it makes it more hygienic. Oh, it gets rid of the. Yeah, apparently. No creases for the bugs to hide in, I guess. I don't know. But I was just like, all right, knock yourself out and enjoy watching the crown. Ben's got his in-house maid living at the moment. But I had to take your car down the driveway and just park it out on the street.

And it's got a unusual feature. And I recorded it Here's the beeping noise Because I'm reversing But you also hear It speaks to you It's a very friendly voice It is very friendly

And I said to mum I said what's What's the car saying She's like I don't know I've had the car for a while now Is it not worried you Yeah I know She's like I don't know

What it is But it says Talks to me every time I get in the car she's like oh god this car probably shouldn't be driven uh there's some serious safety issues with the vehicle it could be i did i didn't know and i'm like well have you wanted to find out she's like yes but not enough no there's pillowcases to iron mate exactly it's more hygienic so uh we'll take it upon ourselves to find out i think we should right we'll go through to the Is it Japanese you're assuming

Yeah that's what I am I am assuming it's a Japanese car So I'm assuming that's a Japanese voice And I'm so dear God please be a Japanese voice I don't want to I hope I haven't got this wrong But I've got a number A huge part of me hopes it's not a Japanese voice

Just so you have to deal with the fallout There's another place to help out with Japanese holidays For New Zealanders So should we give them a call and see if someone can help? Show that I'm not me. Thank you for calling HHS. This is Uncle speaking. Oh, hello there.

It's John Owen Bean calling from the HITS radio station. Yeah. I was wondering if you could help us out. It's a very random question, but I wonder if you could help us out. Oh my God. Already, she's like, probably not. My mum has got a car and she's had it for, she bought

it off some friends of hers, and every time she reverses out the driveway, it says something to her through the speaker system. Now, I think, we think it's in Japanese, and we don't know what it says. Oh, I can't understand the situation. She can't explain your situation.

So if I play you, I recorded some audio, it's got the beeping noise of the car reversing, but if I played it to you, can you see if you can work out what it says? In Japanese? I think it's Japanese. If it's not, he's teetering on a racism scandal. I know! This is what worries me. This really worries me. Imagine if she's like, that's teetering on a racism scandal. I know. This is what worries me.

This really worries me. Imagine if she's like, that's Korean, mate. Okay, can I play you this audio? It's got a couple of beats. See if you can hear this. ETC card is not inserted. Okay, I got the point. Okay, so did you get that?

Yeah, I got it. What does it say? Normally, we use I got the point. Okay, so did you get that? Yeah, I got it. What does it say? Normally, we use it in the highway in Japan. Yeah. And we have to pay the fee for the highway fee. And then, so this one is an ETC card. It's kind of the credit card we put under the board. Yeah.

Yeah, and then you go through to the gate this might go to the automatic gate so it's like a toll like if you're right driving on a road it's the tolls okay you've got the credit card you can go through the the automatic gate yeah ah so is that what it's saying every time she's reversing if you saw that If you see that the driver's hiding at the bottom of the dashboard or something, the small case is, so can you put in the credit card? Oh, so it's saying you need to put your credit card in. Yeah, over there. And then you go through to the highway in Japan. Yeah.

So you can go through to the automatic gate. Oh, so it's saying, Ginny, check in your credit card details every time she's reversing. I guess it's every time she's driving. I guess it must be when you get on, but I've only heard it every time I'm going out the driveway with her. Jenny, you should even put your credit card deets in.

Hey, well, thank you so much for helping me out, and thank you also for not making me part of a racism scandal. That was good. That was great. Yeah, thank you very much. You're going to have a great day. Have a great day. All right, thank you.

Lots of fun with that. A lot of texts coming in, people saying they got exactly the same thing, never knew what it was. Oh, really? Solving problems.