Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Beauden Barrett Finally Sets the Record Straight | Itty Bitty Bit

Episode Date: July 2, 2026

After weeks of being accused of making the whole thing up, Jono finally gets the validation he's been waiting for. Did All Blacks star Beauden Barrett really pretend to be on the phone to avoid a chat outside a public toilet with Jono?   Join the Itty Bitty Hitty Committee HERE!Instagram:  @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is what it feels like to feel validated. Now, a week of so ago I said that I'd visited a public toilet, walked out, and lo and behold, all black Bowden Barrett was there, rugby balls under his arms, he'd obviously just come off the field from a kicking practice session, and, you know, I was gobsmacked that I could see an international athlete just hanging around the local rugby park. Sifting around the toilets like yourself.

Yeah, that's right. He wasn't actually sifting around to us. No, he was just making it. his way to his way. I was definitely sifting at the situation. So then as it turned out, my vehicle was parked directly next to Bowdoin's. He's loading his rugby balls into the booth of the car. Yeah. And I built up the car to say, gillay, Bowden. And he looked at me and he made the signal with his fingers, you know, he did a little one in the thumb and it's a sort of signify you're on the phone and he's mouth to me, sorry, I'm on a call. Yeah. But I couldn't see a phone.

Right. Couldn't see earbuds in his ears. There was no sign of any telecommunications taking me. place. And it's sat with me as I drove off. I was like, did he just make up a phone call to completely avoid talking to me? To get punished by someone

who was sifting around the toilets. I don't blame him if he did. Yeah. I feel like there's been from the whole team on And off here a level of, you know, non-belief of this story.

Well, yeah, just, yeah. I'm sure that you think you saw Bowden, but I'm not sure it was. Well, yeah, I don't know. I mean, you might have, you might not, but you've really gone deep on that.

I made you take part in a dramatic reenactment. You can see that if you want to text toilet to 4487. We've got a whole video because, you know, producer Troy went to the next step of asking the media liaison for the All Blacks. You know, ask Bowden as well. And he's like, well, the feedback we got was he didn't remember that. This was 24 hours after the incident. And you were like, what?

And you're like, what? And or care. No, and care. Yeah. And so. I mean, he's got bigger things to worry about. Yeah. He does.

He does. And a guy who said hello to him outside of toilet. He's like, did he remember? Did he not remember that? So that's even sat with him. It's been a heavier feeling to sit with. It's the fact that he's got no recollection of this. So I'm like, I feel like you don't believe me.

That Bowden's saying he doesn't remember it. So then I made you take part in a dramatic reenactment, which we filmed at the park. You can actually see that if you text toilet, like Ben said to 4487. Put it online in the hope that this would attract his attention. Jog his memory. Yeah, right. Yeah, a recreation. God.

And so he's commented. He's commented on the video. What does he say? We haven't looked at it. Because I saw we tagged me. He tagged him. And I was like, oh, God. What is his response?

Bowden Barrett. Tick, tick. It's official, not a burner account. Okay, gotcha. Okay. This is actually true. Ah, actually true. I'm so sorry, mate.

I was on a speaker phone call. So the car must be sitting, the phone must be sitting inside the boot. and I was fully locked into the conversation crying, laughing emoji Oh, there you go Why did we don't think about that? Speaker phone sitting in the boat.

That makes a perfect sense. Place closed. I see two of them, I feel seen heard validated. Speakerphone makes ultimate sets. He was. He was on the phone. He remembers the story.

He's not working in that saga. Like you say, you know, a few hours before a big game that they've got on tomorrow. Talking to the All Black Coach or something. who's like, hold on. Maybe he doesn't know you by name, only by face. Yeah. And he saw the video and he's like, I remember that guy.

I remember the house.