Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - After I RSVPed, I was asked to chauffeur wedding guests | FULL SHOW

Episode Date: May 25, 2026

On today’s show: Ben had to apologise after his dad accidentally emailed a complete stranger for help Dear Megan… I feel cornered after being asked to chauffeur wedding guests after already RSVPing Update on the team’s campaign to get Mike Hosking on the show! The very weird way Megan avoids spoilers Megan reviews the Five concert and questions why everyone was standing and dancing when they all had seats Join the Itty Bitty Hitty Committee HERE!Instagram:  @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The John O'Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better tea. Now, Ben, we were at the netball the other day. Megan, we were looking for you actually when we arrived. We've had a bit of a check-at history, all three of us of all, you know. Turning up together. To be honest, you haven't had a check-in history.

It's been on me. And Megan's done some last minute, oh, things have, you know. Excuse me. I've done a couple by myself while you guys were on holiday. Yeah, listen, I feel on the core issue when it becomes to the shambles at the Nettball. I forgot it was on one time. I haven't turned up and I haven't lived that down. So we all love it.

We're there, A&Z Premiership. It's so great. And we do a little half, three-quarter time activity out there. And all three of us were doing it on Saturday. It's only taking us half the season for all three of us to turn up. So we arrived and someone's like, oh, Megan was here, but I don't know where she's gone. And we're like, oh, great play, Megan. driving, then leaving.

No, I was up, and I actually saw you guys when you arrived, because I was up in the stands looking down on you. I said to our promo guy, Wyatt, I was like, where are the boys? And they were like, not here yet. Anyway. So I beat you. I feel this is a very passive, aggressive conversation amongst the three of us. Well, Ben started it.

But we were just hanging out, watching the netball, and then a police officer came up to us. And he was like, hey, do you guys want to come and look at our activation? and they have a thing at the netball of the police where you can see if you'd be fit enough to become a functioning police officer or at least make it to police college. Yeah, well, some of the things. I don't think this is all of the things.

There's a full-on, like, fitness test, right? Yeah, I wouldn't say full-on, but it was like they had a... I think they do that. No. Oh, the actual list, the actual... Yeah. I don't think you can do these two things you're going to get straight into the cops.

No. They're like, first question, is a moral one. Would you accept money from a non-exual? organized criminal and I said how much and apparently that was the wrong answer. Second one was a physical test. So they had like a jumping stick. You know when you see like the NFL combine and things and all the athletes like jumping as high as they can and whacking the stick?

Yeah. And I was, you know, did relatively okay at that. And after the jumping one, I'm like, maybe I'm built for the police. Yeah. Apart for the fact I'd probably be a corrupt cop by morning tea. I would be built for the police. And then they're like, you need to go over and do the gripper test. You did one jump that was okay.

You're like maybe I could be in the police. 100%. Yeah, like your track record of not spending tickets, fines. Yeah, until they ask you guys questions, have you ever been arrested or had a court summons? And you both have to say, no, I'm not claiming I'd be any good. I'm not confident at all.

I'm the one who's getting all cocky about the police. I'm not brave. That's probably part of it. You'd be like a member of the public, you go over to the house and like, I think there's an armatured or you'd be like, well, can you just go and get it? I'll wait out here in the car.

Yeah, let me know how it goes. Text me when you're done. So then they're like, oh, now you've done the jump one, we need to send you over to the gripper test. And I'm like, well, I've been called a giant gripper for many years, so I'll be good at this. And it was like one of those things that you do with one hand and you're having to pull as hard as you can.

And she's like, you need to get over 120 to qualify to... I feel like you'd be great at that. I would thought my forearm strength would be right up there, Megan. All the work out these forearms get, push-ups, etc. And then I was like going as hard as I could. And she's like, oh, she was really, the disappointment in the constable's eyes. She's like, I've never seen anyone get so low on this test. And there's like, like seven-year-old girls and boys.

And I'm screaming. She's like, use your core. I'm like, I'm using my core. The veins are popping out of my neck. And she was like, oh, unfortunately. She's like, oh, you'd get in potentially at the very, like, low end. If we were desperate, if the police are really desperate, we might consider you. What do you need like a hard grip for?

I've got the grip of a bloody arthritic 90-year-old. So, yeah, no, not made for the police, guys. Not going to happen, no, boys are they. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. Yeah, no, we've spoken a few times, Megan, about your husband, Andrew. He's in a musical called Anne Juliette that's going around the country. Really great musical. It is a lot of fun.

It's an easy one to get into musicals. It's a jukebox musical, so it's all songs you know from the radio. So we went along and saw it when it was in Auckland. It's been to Wellington now in Christchurch. And my dad and step-mom were up about a week ago. And they were at our place and they were talking about Ann Juliet. And I said, oh, Megan's husband's in it. And they didn't realize that.

And hadn't made the connection. And, yeah, they're like, we'd love to go along to that musical. We're thinking buying tickets. And then a couple of days later, I was talking to you, Megan. You're like, hey, there's a secret little discount code that the cast sort of have. It's like a little thing that you might be able to... Friends and fan. You might be able to pass on.

Now, I know and love Kevin Boyce wholeheartedly, but passing on a discount code to Kevin Boyce and him having to, I guess, be responsible for inserting the discount code into a website. Well, because it's quite tricky. There's a little bit of a, like, you've sent a screenshot to me to pass on. It was a sheet, though,

and I had full instructions on it. It was like, and I just had a look at it, And you're like, follow these carefully because you had to put the code in at the start. You know, you usually put it at the end when you're about to pay. So follow the instructions. So I messes to dad and I said, hey, this was not to share to anyone. You're very lucky to get this. You know, this is, you know, just, you know, just follow the instructions.

You should be fine. He's school teachers and principal. It's a lot of concept for someone, you know, of Kevin's age. Yeah, so anyway, I said that way he was very thankful about it. Get a call Sunday night. And they were all raving about the show. It was so good. Went along.

I'm glad it all worked out. Did you get the tickets all. good. He was like, Kate was so helpful. I'm like, who's Kate? He's like, Kate, she was on the form you sent through and contact Kate. And I was like, oh no.

It does say in the list of instructions, if you have any issues, please get in touch for Kate. This is like a little bit of a back door sort of on the slide thing. I don't know if we meant to have this code thing. And now he's like, yeah, I just email Kate, email back. We had back and forward correspondence. And then got some tickets. Just Kate like,

Who are you? Why are you emailing back and board? Oh, my God. I love it there. He was like, this is too much for me. I'm just going to go straight to cake. What even if he got to the bit of me?

I'm going to get an email from Kate being like, who are you sending this to? Yeah, so thank you very much. They had a great time at the show. And hopefully Kate's all good with the fact that my dad emailed multiple times. Oh. I've got sick and cringe. It's so good.

I'm glad you enjoyed it, Kev. He loved it. Lovely. The real hero. Kate. Thank you for being so accommodating for this random guy emailing you. Who's Kate? He's like, on the form. I'm like, oh.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. DM Megan. All right, someone has slid into your DMs, Megan. Yeah, this is a part of the show where we help solve a problem for someone. This one, it does seemingly have a simple answer, but I would find this very hard to do.

It's awkward situation, eh? Yeah, it reads, I have been invited to a wedding of a family friend and after I'd already RSVPed, my husband and I have both been asked to drive guests to and from the wedding. My issue is that we were asked after we are RSVPed,

so now I feel like we can't say no, and we also won't be able to have anything to drink. It also means that if anyone leaves the reception early, we're expected to take them. I'm hoping there'll be petrol money included, but nothing's been mentioned. I feel a bit cornered, and like that might have been why we were

invited. How do I say no? We really don't want to do it, but it's their wedding and I'm pretty sure the bride won't take no very well. Tricky situation to be in. Firstly, you should be honored that they respect your driving ability so much to be relied on to transport the guests to and from. But it does feel like a bit of a blind side after you've RSVP'd. Yeah. Although I did have, I have a mate that gives me grief because he's a camera person, Andy, and he came to my wedding. and then when he was there, I went, oh, you're here, mate, could you just hold this camera for the ceremony? He's like, oh, is it the reason you invited me?

I was like, no, no, no. It's great that you do you here. You don't have the whole time, but just. Did you not have like a videographer set up? We didn't have, no, we just, it was like a little handy cam and stuff. So yeah, he did that for that. And he would have been brilliant to that. And he was good.

And then I was like, mate, you can check out. Well, actually, do you know, after all these years later, how many years ago was your wedding? Oh, yeah, it was, 16, 17 years ago? And he's getting married in January. Yeah. We RSP'd used to his wedding. He's like, by the way, can you two emce?

Yeah, true. There you go. He's had a win. He's had a win. He's had a win. Exactly. But it is a tricky one, isn't it? Because I'm like, well, I mean, maybe you can help drive people to the ceremony, but it feels like after that you'd want to.

I just don't like saying no to people. And the problem is it's her wedding. And she's not going to take her well. So how are you going to say no? Because you obviously don't want to do it. But you're not the Uber service. That's the thing. No, I know.

I know. But like for my wedding, I'm thinking there was a lot of older people who, A, don't have Uber, B, wouldn't know how to even do it. So maybe she's thinking more along those lines. Why doesn't she come in and go, hey, listen, I really just want to spend the day with you, celebrating you. Put on a bus. Not ferrying people around. I inadvertently ended up working at a wedding to our friend's wedding.

They ran out of alcohol. And they're like, can you take our credit card and head off to Liquorland? low, you don't have to tell me twice. And then I came back and I was operating the bar. I was behind the bar. At what stage of the night, though, did you have to go and get the alcohol? Oh, it was definitely the tail end of the evening. Yes, I wouldn't have asked you.

No. There was a sweet, sweet elderly lady. I'll never forget it. She came up, she's like, can I please have a wine and an orange juice? And I said, yes, sweet lady, and I was working the bar. And I poured a big glass of orange juice. And then I didn't know what wine was what. And I just poured like red wine all into this orange juice.

Oh, yeah. Although she was horrified to pull. It looked like a sangria. And I was like, have a nice night. She kind of walked away with it. So that was my work effort at a wedding. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast.

The hits. Sorry, Ben, I played that way too early. She was still jibbering away. Megan, what's been happening in your inbox? So a message today is from someone who's been invited to a wedding. and after she R-S-Ped, they asked her and her husband to basically shop her own guests to and from the wedding. She doesn't want to do it, which is fair enough,

because she won't be able to drink, she won't be able to have a good time, but she doesn't know how to say no to a bride, which I get a bit, a bright, like saying no to your friend any other day is hard, but doing it for her wedding is just... Yeah, however, I reckon some people use that as currency, some people who are brides and grooms,

use it to run a dictatorship and use their friends and family as servants, don't they? Emotional warfare. Yeah, there's only one or two times in your life you can get away with that. When you're having a wedding and when you're dying, you can use your friends and family as servants. So they're taking full advantage. A lot of feedback on this on 0800. It's 4-487. What would you do, Emily?

Well, morning, go. Happy New Year. Happy New Year to you, M. Lovely to have you on, show catchphrase. That's the worst. If it was me, I would just politely decline and say, I'm here to celebrate your day with you, and that's just how I want to spend the day. So I will not be attending.

You're right. I'll attend the wedding, but I won't be your driver. It does feel like a conversation that needed to be front-footed before. Yeah. Yeah. It's a lot to ask. Yeah. Yeah, they've kind of been sort of steamrolled here or whatever.

You know, like that was their plan. and yeah. It feels icky because now it feels like that's why you were invited. And it's like, well, do you actually want me here? Or do you just want me to drive your guests? Exactly. Yeah, well, technically they don't really because you're going to be on the road at the lowest part of the time.

So, yeah, good point there, Emily. Appreciate it. Bridie, good morning to you. Good morning, good morning. Happy new year. Happy new year. Lovely to have you on, Bridie. Okay, you've been invited to a wedding.

You're RSVP, then all of a sudden you were blindsided with a request that you drive the guests to and from. Yep, no, you decline. You say you're there to get sloshed. I mean, that's the only reason why you attend a wedding right. I don't know if that's the main reason about celebrating the couple, but I guess that maybe it's a second reason for some people. I mean, you could do it politely, but you are there to have a good time,

so I would say no, sorry. I think that's what weddings are all about, I think you're there to get sloshed. Not to celebrate the couple in their lifelong commitment to each other. Well, Brody. Free booze, that's right. It does feel like a landslide this one, doesn't it? Yeah, it does. It's just how you bring it up is the awkward thing really for me.

Yeah. I like Damien on our breakfast Facebook page. He said, say you're really sorry, but you don't think you're emotionally mature enough to spend the night sober while watching everyone else sit the dance floor. I need to dance to Mr. Brightside, so I'm going to politely decline. Well, that's all you can do, really. and then I guess what happens from there

is what happens from there if you get uninvited? The hardest lesson I'm having to learn is you can't control other people's reaction to what you say. So if you say no, for very good reasons, if they have a negative reaction, it's not your fault and it's not your problem. It's their problem to deal with.

That's easier said than done. Okay. Yeah. That's what you said to your first husband. I can't control the reaction to the news I am currently delivering you. Is that what you said? Was that what you said?

We've learned since. That's your reaction. That's on you. That's not on me. That's so put the gills on me, mate. Thanks so much for your calls. It's because you didn't drive people to and from our wedding. I asked you to do it.

You said, will you marry me? Only have you been transport our guests at the wedding. Appreciate everyone. Helping us out for the dear Megan this morning. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. And we are joined by one of the many consultants on this campaign.

Our big boss, Jason Wynne Stanley, also affectionately known as Stano. Good morning. Morning, guys. How are you? Good. Dubious, to be honest, Stano, because we've had word from you that Mike's going to come down, but I don't buy it. I'll believe it when I see it. Well, so will I, Megan, to be honest. All I can say is it's looking better than I thought it was,

although my reputation with him has taken a bit of a hammering. He's called me whiny about three times this morning so far. He keeps guy with expletive use and then, I'm not going down. Nah, not, nah, not. Too busy, too busy. And I'm like, come on. It'll take like literally 10 minutes.

He's like, nah, not, not, nah, not. You're just whining, whining, whining. So it's like, oh yeah, you used a zookeeper analogy the other day for your relationship, right? Yes, yeah, very much so. Yeah, so you're kind of like the... You pat the line for a little bit, and then you just even know when he's going to bite your hand.

Yeah. I like staying outside the cage, you know what I mean? You like control. falling from afar and then you electrify the fence when you need to or turn it off and throw some food in there when you need to. Kind of like Jurassic Park a little bit too, isn't it? And then sometimes it all gets out of control and he bursts out of the cage. And that's a good analogy as you, John.

I just want, I can't actually understand why you'd want him in your studio. Well, we never had him down here on this floor, so, you know, it may happen. So after the show, he's going to get in the lift. He's going to go downstairs. Is it going to stop? No, no, no, no lift. No lift. We don't take the lift.

We always take the stairs. Oh, stairs. So what I'm trying to do is I'll go down the stairs with him, and then when he goes to the car park, I will block for car parks to stay this way. And hopefully I strike at the right moment, and he goes, yep, here we go. Okay, so that's the moment.

That's happening in about seven minutes time. Why doesn't he take the lift? Oh, he just likes taking the stairs. Good exercise, Megan. Good exercise. He always takes the stairs up and down every day. He would be a stair guy. Yeah, yeah.

Okay. Well, Stano, good. in cutting him off at the pass. I hope it works. I do hope it works for you guys because I think otherwise we're probably, if it's not today, my gut is it probably won't happen. And can I appreciate you to putting your relationship

with him on the line as well? He's literally the only person in the company that Mike will talk to is Jason. No one else he'll engage with is he trusts Jason and we've really used your relationship, so thank you. Talk to, but not listen to. Yes, correct. I actually think

cases play more of a part for you three than you realize. Oh. Thank you to her later. I reckon she's more of her weapon in this. Oh, thank you, Kate Horksby. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast.

The Hats. Megan, speaking of beautiful humans. Oh, my God, thank you. Liam Mawson is a huge icon for you. He is actually all of the Formula One boys. Pretty handsome. Pretty talented. It's your sport.

You love it. And you've got a podcast as well. So I get you very invested in it. And yesterday it was scheduled during our radio show. I know. It started at 8 a.m. And the thing. is I, now you have a podcast, I have to know everything.

I can't just follow what Liam's up to. I have to know about all the drivers and how everyone went. So I need to be dialed in. But the show was happening as well. Talking Pitt available on IHeart Radio featuring Anthony Capaldi. Louis Capaldi's brother. Thanks. Good plug there.

Do you have that in the marketing in brackets? Lewis Capaldi's brother after, do you? Yeah. Does he like, thanks. He's like, I'm my own Capaldi. Anthony is one of those people that actually really loves his brother. Well, like I love my brother. They get long well.

He's like, I'm so proud of him. And I'm like, oh, bless that's so kind. That's sweet. Yeah. But I was dialed in and the thing is I was missing a lot because I was pausing it for the radio show. Thank you very much. Sorry, right. You said I was like avoiding it by.

I paused it during the radio show. But still thinking about it when you were doing radio. Oh, no. Absolutely. But I am part of a few group chats that pop off when the races are on. So on my laptop, I can see a preview of all my texts. So while the show's on, I'm like, well, I don't want to know. I don't want anyone to spoil it.

So I put a little tissue over the top right of my computer. So I didn't see the previews of the text. It was like a small little tiny paper blanket for the computer screen, wasn't it? But I was flustered. There was a lot going on. And it wasn't until Troy afterwards was like, couldn't you just put your computer on, Do Not Disturb. Could have done that.

But yeah. Could have. A cute little bit of tissue thing kind of work. Draping a snot rag over it was probably the most logical solution I would have thought in this day and age of technology. Yeah, right. I thought you did a good job during the radio show. Like, I think it was, it was fun.

But after the radio show, we had meetings, embrace it. We just, you were like headphones on, looking at the thing. I was dialed in. We lost you. We lost you. Well, I figured if you needed me, you yelled at me. You were definitely not there for the last hour and a half. I know, I could see you all laughing and looking at me at some point.

I'm like, oh, that must have been some joke. I'm all right. It's just brainstorming work stuff, but that's fun. Just do it. your obligations of the job. I could have, you know, just watched it when you got home. But hey, this is an IHeart radio podcast as part of the company. Yeah, I'll get that.

The radio show is finished. But you weren't doing it directly after the, anyway, that's one. Just like that you could have. So did anyone spoil the race for you with your system of putting a tissue over the computer screen? Yeah, because I didn't factor in when I went to the toilet, all of the TV screens out here had all the results playing on it. So I did actually see who won before the end of the race. Do you know, speaking of putting things over your laptop camera, terrible.

Someone really got in my head and said, you know, the camera can see everything at all times. Only if they're a little lights on. Yeah. So my workmate was like all the time I have something draped over the camera. Every time he's using his computer, he just doesn't want to be seen. You do see those people who have tape over their camera. You'd be a tape over your camera guy, Ben.

I don't have tape over camera. I don't have tape over camera. Oh, no, he doesn't. No, but I don't really use any of the, you know like yeah i would have thought Jono would have been the tape over the camera guy but yeah no this uh he really got in some way here with your tinfoil hat

I'm always yeah I don't you sorry for the reason of always always listening and always you know I don't even my phone always listening to me it's not Siri that does that your phone will listen to you regardless he's got to listen to his own inner thoughts that's enough let alone the phone

Jono Ben and Megan the podcast The Hats morning Megan last night Monday nights Oh I went along to see five in Auckland. It was good.

I was prepared to go along and be a little bit, you know, cringe a little bit. You're a big fan, obviously. I am, but, you know, it's been 20-something years since they were performing. And I thought maybe they wouldn't sound the same. Maybe they would look. I mean, they did look older, but they looked great. Yeah. And the dance moves weren't try hard.

It was like they still seemed cool. They didn't disappoint. And they sounded really good. It was Mum Monday out there for what I saw. on social media. There'll be some tired mum's waking up this morning. Also, there was some, quite, um,

I'd had a few beverages. I was like, it is Monday. You were really taking the boat out. Start the week, right, on the Monday with five. Yeah,

there were a couple of complaints about the concert. Your first bug bear being, they said, we've been in the country since Friday. And you did a show on Monday? Do it on Saturday. Like, it's a fair point.

It's a fair point. Yeah. They're not structuring their way. like Arsenal. They're not working in a nine to five though are they on Monday to Friday. There's one song where they reference like a party on Saturday, I can't remember the lyrics, but they were like, Monday night and I was like, it's not the same.

No ideal party conditions Monday. And then you had a second bug beer that you'd like to raise to five if they're listening now on their way to the airport. Yeah. Something that you would like them to initiate it for future concerts. Constructive criticism. When I walked in there was seats everywhere. So even on the floor where you usually have, you know, like the mosh pit and everything,

fully seated. They knew the audience. Yeah. Stand up and have a boogie sit back down is what I thought. Get on up when you're down basically. Take a good look around. And then get back sit back down again. But as soon as they came on, everyone stood up.

And then no one sat back down. And I was like, what is the point of the seats? That's the thing. Soon as someone one person stands, you've got to really stand to see, right? All people get annoyed. Stay down. Don't come out of see the back of you. She's one of these people.

I thought we were like going up and down depending on vibes. Yeah. But, you know, even during the ballads, I'm like, everyone's sit. Just sit. If you're getting down, you can sit down. Get on up. Yeah, like. It's a fair point.

And so you just wanted to all sort of politely sort of shuffle in your chairs, shuffle and dance in the chairs. Yeah, I'm like you to wave your arms in the air, put your cell phone light on for the ballad, but you can beat in your seat. Like, come on, guys. It's like when they get the entertainment at the rhyming. You know, they all just sitting there, waving their arms. Side to side.

Comfortably seated. But man, the crowd was into it. Like really into it, more than I've seen for a long time. So there was a lot of fizzing mums last night. Well, listen, Megan, you're young. You're only 40. And you've got a lot of life to lead. But some would say this would be a complaint.

You might hear, you know, from a 70 plus audience. But look, we had a small digital clock in the middle of this arena. And I was just watching it go like 10, 10, 15. And I was like, oh my God. Yeah, I'm just thinking of like my alarm at four. And I was like, I've been up since four. Can we at least sit down? Okay, this sounds like an old person problem, really, doesn't it?

It does. Okay, 0,800 the hits. What are you really into that's well beyond your years? Yeah, what's the thing that you're doing that maybe makes you seem older than you actually are? Like sitting in a concert? Yeah, like sitting in a concert. I always get, the kids get me grief because I like turning the music down in the car to think, you know, when it's something I get a bit like... Oh, when you have to put.

Park? Yeah, park or something. It's like they have their music blasting or they have the radio blasting. I'm like, just to concentrate. They're like, oh, okay, boomer. I'm like, no, I just want to concentrate on something just for a second. Yeah, I would say, and this is just, I wouldn't say it's an old person thing, but it's just from wearing 25 years of headphones in this job.

My hearing's like, absolutely, I'll go into a bar. I've just guesswork when someone's talking to me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I might have agreed to adopt 10 of their cats. I don't know what's going on those conversations. So I even said, they need to, I said this to my wife once, they need to turn the noise down in here. There's too much noise. I can't concentrate.

Can't even hear myself thinking. Oh, when you get your hearing aids, you can turn down background noise. You know, I don't do an airy aids. Well, it sounds like you need them. Yeah. Can't hear people having conversations at a bar. I don't know what have agreed to out there in the bars, donating organs and all sorts.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. Long weekend, this weekend, King's birthday holiday on Monday. I forgot it was. Yeah. We're doing a good job of sort of scattering them. throughout the calendar year now, aren't we, the old long weekends? Feels like they're pretty consistent.

Yeah. We've got matriki coming up as well. Love it. Is this the same weekend that we would have had Queen's birthday? So it's not actually on Charles's... No, yeah, I think... It wasn't her birthday either. No.

Great banter from me there. Great royal banter. Rich! That was five last night, Megan. So good. So good. I was prepared to cringe and I... Absolutely loved it.

That's good. Yeah, I'm glad. It looked amazing. At first it didn't, because you sent through photos where it was just stark, bright lighting before they got on stage. And there was like,

there was questionable music playing. There was a bit of ditty. And it was almost like at the club when they want you to go home. Yeah, it was like that sort of moment. And that five weren't on stage there. They probably had nothing to do with that. But then they came out later

and it looked incredible. It was. And they managed to hit all the notes. I honestly, the thought, wondered if they were lip syncing, but they weren't. It's good. Yeah, stuff I saw on social media,

they were singing. and I can't sing so I appreciate anyone who can now do they have an opening act no what's that face for no there's no face I just asked that they have an opening act

no they didn't it's a face of me just processing the fact they didn't have an opening act but I uh... Is there like an old person thing we're like oh don't worry about the opening act just get to it it depends to the opening act

is you do kind of I went to the bloody pussy cat dolls and who opened up for them Lady Gaga Yeah it's amazing when you see someone and you're like, wow, and then they become, like, Lady Gaga, it becomes Lady Gaga. To be honest, in this.

She called the radio station from the airport when she was, yeah, warming up for the pussy cat dolls. Wow, and no respect to the pussy cat dolls. The opening act was she was better than them. No respect. No respect. No respect to them. No respect. That was no respect. Did I say no respect?

Yeah, no respect to them. Well, that is not respectful, is it when I say the opening act. Oh, no respect to the pussycat dolls. No, no, there was zero respect. No, he was right. He stands behind it. So what is the old person thing that you're doing right now, maybe ahead of your years, like Megan, wanted to be comfortably seated for some of it and then get up and down?

Everyone just stood up. Yeah. She wanted to be sitting and shuffling in her chair. Michelle, welcome. How are you? Good, how are you? We're doing well. Temaru, looking good this morning, Michelle?

No, it's raining. Way to bring the vibes down, Michelle. So what's the old person thing that you're doing? I play bowls. Oh, lawn bowls? Yes, it's great. It is great. It's a really fun sport.

I took it up for a summer with some mates. Do you know, Michelle, Ben inadvertently became the face of youth lawn bowls. Yeah, we took it up because it was like cheaper drinks. It was a fun thing to do on a Friday evening and stuff like that. And then someone from one of the newspapers was like, well, you should do a story or all the young people getting into bowls. And so we became the faces of that for the club. And then I don't think we came back the next year.

But we had a lot of fun. We always went, we'll get back to that because it is fun. It's so much fun. It had heavy paws, eh, on the wines? The wines are almost poured to the top. Yeah, they love a white, what, what, red? Michelle, are you playing competitively? Yes, I am.

Really? Good sport to play competitively too. You've got youth on your side. There's plenty of time to get some practice in before I need it. Yeah, and what does it? What do you say in bowls like you would say engulf your handicap is something? What do you like to tell people how good you are? What are you say in bowls?

I don't use a walker. I can bend down to roll the board, you know. Oh, no, it is a really fun sport, Michelle. And you've got plenty of years. You can probably still make the Commonwealth games. That's the good thing about it. Yeah, that's true. That is great.

Hey, well, good on you, Michelle. You keep up the... How old are you? 37. Oh, yeah. Oh, there you go. That's, yeah, young lawnballs. So many good texts coming through here.

I have found myself now doing the one-finger wave off the steering. wheel like an old man when I'm driving to acknowledge other motorists who have let me in. Yeah, that's good. I appreciate the one finger wave. Yeah. That or the hazard flicks. Yeah, that's a nice old touch, right? Oh. Oh, did she mean like another way? Flick the bearers? Another finger

wave. Oh, that's, I don't appreciate that one as much when I get that one. That's for sure. Kylie's just become aggressive behind the wheel now. And Michelle, I get annoyed when people start up their lawnmowers at 7.30 in the morning on a weekend. That's probably not an old person thing. No, they're the ones doing it.

me at that time in the morning, are they? John O'Benn and Megan The podcast. It was an unintended big night. I went to see Five Bad Boys with Power to Rock Me. Did they rock you? They rock you hard?

I went, like I was excited. Massive band for me, but I went expecting a bit of cringe and expecting them to have aged and not be as good. It was, it was epic. They were so good. That's cool. You sent through a couple of shots. firstly on the group chat at the start

was very stark, bright light to everyone was in there and I was like, geez, they could mood light this a little bit before the concert starts. It was bright and there was lots of seats, there's chairs everywhere and I was like, oh. Wonderful, comfortable seating arrangement it looked like, and then they were playing I'll be missing you by Diddy.

Yeah, well they weren't played that. No, they didn't play that. In the stadium, but there was kind of an audible groan when that started like oh! It's a banger though. Yeah, it is. to five. Far out.

The crowd was so into it. There was arms. There was singing. Like, it was so loud the singing. It was really awesome. It looked like really went off. It looked really cool. Yeah.

And like at the start I was thinking, are they lip singing? Like, that's how good it was. But it became apparent, you know, in the middle of the show that they weren't. Well, you've got some bootleg recordings that you talk. Every radio host feels an obligation to record a concert when they go along, don't they? Yeah. Yeah. With dance moves

It does great It does sound really good Oh very cool So Monday night though Interesting night I mean I guess they're on tour around the world And that's just what happens in New Zealand sometimes But Monday

Not prime concert night But hey No and it was the end of their tour So they've been to Australia And they've been to the UK and everything And I heard that they were here since Friday Maybe that's not right but someone said they saw them.

So why not do it Saturday nights? Many great days between Friday and Monday that you could have done it. You've ruined me for the week. I feel like New Zealand on the world tour schedule is like their Sunday night. You know, like post-mines here on a Wednesday. Yeah, for a lot of time there's day. Yeah, we're not their weekend. Yeah.

Well, we're in the end of the tour, guys. End of the tour. We're on the start on the end of the tour, eh? But usually the end. Yeah. Everybody get up. How long was it? hour and a half

oh yeah good yeah you say all the bangers yeah smashed it absolutely smashed I saw a lot of intoxicated women

getting wound up getting like dancing like nobody's watching and I'm just thinking if you have to go to it's Monday it's Monday but good on you yeah

if you're at a concert you might still throw someone Monday Monday did they go hey who wants to hear some new stuff we've written no thankfully no Well, good on you, Megan.

And it was impromptu as well. Late afternoon, invite from you, mate. I was like, okay, let's do it. Don't think too hard. Thanks, Emma. Emma, who signed me. Emma's also, we met Emma at the netball on Sunday. Emma also signed Megan up for the run club.

Which is tonight. Oh, and well, now she, yeah, you're going to back it up. She told me she gave me strict instructions, make sure Megan comes along to radio. I know, but I've had four hours sleep. Right.