Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Ben NEEDS Praise From His Wife | FULL SHOW

Episode Date: May 27, 2026

On today’s show: Why we lie about our jobs to avoid awkward follow-up questions... Jono disappointed his dentist. Have you moved house the most times? Jono took a “silly photo” but was the only one to fully commit! Surprising facts you wouldn’t know about our jobs! Wild story about a UFC event being built on the White House lawn! Movie plot holes that don’t quite make sense... plus, The Devil Wears Prada 2! Join the Itty Bitty Hitty Committee HERE!Instagram:  @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Jono Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better tea. Look, I think I might lie about my job. You know when you're out. Is that ashamed of working with us? Is that? But when you're meeting someone, like, you go for an appointment,

and it's just casual banter, and it's like, my dreaded question is, what do you do for a job? Right. For what reason? Like, just. I try. I try, I start with like media or radio and then don't want any follow up. But it always whittles down to, oh, what, radio station?

Gotcha. Oh, what do you do? And then you eventually tell them. And do you know how often people are like, oh, I don't listen to you? Oh, I don't like, I listen to this station. It's so awkward. It is a good old conversation, Ender. And it's really funny because there's been so many lean-in questions to that point.

To get to that way. when you go work from the hits. Don't listen to that. You know, where does this conversation go down? Where does that go from there? I find it really hard to when someone says, where do I know you from? I don't know for some reason. I just, you know, like I can't bring up the fact that maybe maybe TV, maybe radio, maybe social.

I don't know. I just feel like awkward about it. So what are you saying? I don't know. I've just got one of those faces or something. You know, and I'm like, what a weird line. How do you just say what you do? You know, they want some help.

I don't know. I don't know. I just feel weird about it. No, but that's not like, you're going to sound. like a dick. Yeah, that's what I think. In my head, I'm just sound like a dick. Even though they've asked a question.

I'd be like, I don't know if we met or I'm not sure. You could go, uh, I once dated your sister. That would really, that would throw them. I used to work in the creative writing department here at the radio station. There was a guy who's a producer and he'd been there for a while. He used to say he sold beds. J.K. would say he sold beds. And he was his theory.

He never said radio because people would have too many questions. But I reckon beds would have just as many questions. Oh, what's the best mattress? Lumbar support, actually, Patricia Troy along those same lines at a party, said he lied about what he did for a job. What did he say? He said he was an accountant and the backstory really unraveled when the person he was talking to knew a lot about accountancy.

Why did you pick that? It's so technical. Oh, I thought it was so boring. Yeah, true. No follow-ups. But he goes, oh, one of the big four? Oh. Remind me again what the big four is.

I thought the right answer. So that was, nah, smaller, independent. Yeah, yeah. And he goes, oh, which one? Oh, no. Did you have to come clean and said, I lied about what I did for a job? I said, oh, I've just started.

It's, I think I said, like, Bartlett and Sons. Well, that's what you do, you just pick two things you see in the room. Chair and Sons. You know, like, and they'll go, oh, yeah, that sounds like that. It's more mum and papa. Just put two names together.

They're like, oh, that's the two last names, you know, you're pretty safe. Can we collectively decide on a, like an occupation that is safe to say. There will be no follow-ups. That's a good word. Text 4-487. Oh, yeah, right.

Do you lie about your profession when you're in a social vote? No, because I'd ask questions. Yeah. I feel like every job's got questions. Just one that's very straightforward. No one will ask any follow-ups. Teacher, you can probably get about a teacher. No, there'll be follow-ups.

What do you teach? Yeah. Amanda would know those. Your wife. Yeah, she'd get a few of those. But every job, I guess if you don't do a job, you're going to be naturally interested. in what is involved in it.

Witness protection. I was currently... That's good. Can't talk about it. Can't talk about it, mate. Hello? Sorry, I can't. I'd love to talk to you,

but I've been witness protection. They'd be like, oh, okay. What have you just said it? Currently unemployed. Got made redundant. Oh, redundant. Then they'd be like, oh, sorry about that. Not bad.

Not bad. That really sucks the area out of the conversation. You're like, are you working? Or must be nice. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. That's. I'm a bit tired. Did Iyer come into your... Yeah. I was going to say an intruder, but that was a bit dark for this time of morning.

And you're pretty casual about it for the whole fact if it wasn't an intruder. You haven't brought anything up before that. Oh God, I had a visitor. Yeah, I like very blase about it. But Ben, did you have a state of origin? No, I didn't, unfortunately. But I watched the highlights this morning. It looked like a really good game, a really close one.

New South Wales coming back as well. That's your team, right? Yeah, a controversy too, about... one player from Queensland getting sent off, Kalamponga as well. So there was a lot of... He's a Kiwi in there? Yeah, he's a Kiwi now. Yeah, well, he has.

He can play for the Kiwis and, yeah. And which he hasn't been able to do before and also Queensland. Oh, so he wasn't playing for New Zealand for the Kiwi team. He hasn't been able to play for the Kiwis beforehand and hasn't played for Australia. So, yeah, except for like a younger team or a nine's team or something. So yeah, he's now made himself available for the Kiwis, which is awesome. So there's what next game next week, is it? I think it's a couple weeks away, I think, yeah.

Do they play N. in between? Some do, some don't, yeah. So I think it's just up to the club and have the feeling after a brutal 80-minute game. Yeah, I mean, having to back it up, because then you're, potentially your first game's tomorrow. Yeah, isn't it? Yeah, well, some of them, yes, yeah, back into it or not. Are the warriors that decided at this stage not to play their origin players? So, yeah. But in other years, they have. There's only so many concussions you can take in one week. No, no. We're pretty hard to back up, wouldn't it? Oh, my God, yes. It's pretty hard to do once a year.

I went to the dentist yesterday and it's sort of an annual thing and she had told me last time that I needed to use that I need to floss three because I got like this wire behind my top teeth so she's like, I'm showing you now how to put floss through there

I just just a stick, you know, one of those stick things put the, it's important that you floss that's the gums are going to get infected and I'm like yeah yeah great great great never do, I didn't do it once so come back in and they know as soon as you walk in don't they she's like you haven't floss have you

and I was like no she's like I told you didn't I yeah she's like I taught you didn't I yeah she's like I even gave you the floss didn't I I was like yeah she's like haven't done it at all and I was like no and there's just silence I can just feel her disappointment she's like

I can tell she's thinking you're a 44 year old man she's like God what Morty want to come around and do it for you and I was just laying there with my mouth open all I'm feeling terrible feeling terrible that I hadn't her advice and to be honest I probably won't do it for the next 12 months and hope that

they swatch out the hygienist by the time I go back but do you feel like the appointment comes around you like oh shit I didn't fly man that was quick it was in the back of my walking in you sort of a last minute thought as I walked into her we often do that on the way to the dentist you're cleaning your teeth and flossing like a way he panics it up someone coming out last week donnie there are sorry have you been flossing yeah yeah yeah oh heaps you're like Your gums are bleeding and she's like, you did it on the way here, didn't you? Mosting lots. So the other doctor says, you know, what's your alcohol intake?

They know. They know. You give them a figure and they probably triple it and go, that's the real figure. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Now, Megan, you've got your parents staying with you. Yeah, helping me out while my husband's away.

Ray, Ray and Wayno. Yeah. Lovely, lovely human beings, Ray, Ray and Way. I'll give me a wonderful hug. Is that what you'd call it? She groped you from behind. I called that a wonderful hug. It's a had me touched like that in years.

I was at the Nepal the other day just chatting to you and someone came up behind me and just, you know. Yeah, I got a behind hug from Ray Ray too. It's quite confronting. Oh, that's me. It's not. Ray Ray. Oh, lovely.

That's lovely. But yeah, Dad, Dad was doing something when I got home yesterday that very much surprised me. So Dad's the type of guy. Very supportive. But maybe this is where my. competitive nature comes from. So when I was at high school, I wanted to, like I was studying quite hard. I was a bit of a nerd burger. And I got 88% in an English exam. And I was so stoked. And I went to

my dad and he's like, oh, what about the other 12%? So that's the kind of guy. Yeah, God. Strives for excellence. Right. Okay. Well, this is making a lot of sense. There's always a backstory with everyone and you're like, well, that tracks. Yeah. And I have a podcast, um, about Formula One, which is a great place for me to put all my Formula One energy. Yeah, right. But I've told Dad about this. Sometimes you're fully distracted with the race on the show. This happened on Monday.

Yeah. You put a lot of energy into the Formula One during the show on Monday. I paused it. I was late watching it. I was trying to avoid spoilers. Don't. Our boss is listening. He was there.

He was watching in a real time, mate. He was here with the meeting. He was like, we have not got me good. We've lost her. Your headphones on. So anyway, I was, you know, it's episode seven now, and I've told Dad about this, and I was like, I'm super proud and I'm like working hard on my own. And Dad doesn't say anything about it. I don't even know if he knows how to listen to the podcast.

Never once mentioned it. And so I get home yesterday, and I'm like, where's Dad to Mum? She's like, he's out there. He's listening to your podcast. And I went out there, and Dad's like, oh, oh, yeah, oh, yeah, well, okay. Oh, yeah, you know, I'm just, oh, yeah, episode seven. and I've listened to all of them. I was like, oh, bless.

But then I was like, oh, he's going to tell me, it's great. What about the other 12%? He said, oh, that guy you do it with is great, isn't he? I'm like, there it is. Yeah, I was like, nothing for me. There's no, no compliments for me. What are the insights? Oh, yeah, okay.

No, he did say, how many people were listening to this? I was like, one, you. Yeah, but now don't you want to do better? Now don't you want to pick up your game and be as good as the guy you do it with? He had lots of compliments for Anthony. I was like, where's my compliments? Oh, that's awesome. He was listening to it, though.

Yeah. But didn't want to tell me, has never once told me that he's even heard it. He probably follows everything you do. Sometimes that generation have a really hard time expressing love. Dude, I need external affirmation

about everything I do. You're very demanding too. That's a thing as well. All they need is a handshake and about him. Have a great day, thanks. I think that's how a lot of them formalized their unions back in the day, wasn't it? John O'Ben and Megan

The podcast The Hats It's long weekend King's birthday weekend Coming up this weekend Now Grace, you're producer Grace Welcome back in

She has having a birthday Next week, isn't it? No, my birthday's this week Oh is it this weekend It's Saturday, John Saturday's your birthday Yeah Okay

Well happy birthday for the weekend Sorry for offending you Now Grace you You mentioned a friend of yours In the same area Was the birthday thing relevant? Yeah, what was it? that.

Oh, I just said some stuff. I know. I was like, yeah. No, the birthday thing's got nothing to do with where we're heading. Yeah, I know. Just wanted to acknowledge.

Did you actually say happy birthday in that? No, no, no. You just put himself, like, you incriminated yourself. I was for no reason. We weren't bringing her in to talk about a birthday. We're bringing her in for something else. Just wanted to acknowledge that I'm aware that there's something coming up in

your life. Thank you. Now, your friend, who's moved multiple times in the same area. Yeah, she was my primary school best friend. still my best friend now growing up from the ages of like, all throughout high school, she moved legit seven times just moving around the same area. Different houses, just house. It's not a big area where you live.

No, no, no, no, no, up on the coast, it's not big at all. Right. Yeah, so. So seven times over how long? Oh, like, primary school and then, like, a bit of, like, year seven and eight. But, yeah, like, I'm trying to calculate that. I'm guessing. Yes, renting.

I think they wanted their dream house, and then they finally got their dream house. Some people just love it though. Some people love moving. I reckon it'd be really good for just shredding all the excess stuff that builds up in a house. Yeah, right. If you're moving that many times, you'd be running at an optimum level of items. I'm moving flats in two weeks and I'm most excited about getting rid of a bunch of items because I'm going to go through everything. That's so true.

You know what's good for decluttering? Divorce. Oh, yeah. You split everything and chuck a whole lot out. Shocking for your personal life, but really good for the clutter. My first 19 years in Auckland, I moved 12 times. Oh, wow. So that's quite a...

What are you running from? What are you hiding from? Myself. I guess when you're flating and you're going through those years, a lot of time you do, you know, you move around before you kind of settle down. Yeah, my dad, one of his claims to fame, as he reckons he's lived in 24 different houses over his life, which is pretty impressive. Again, I don't know...

I reckon I'd be close to 20, yeah. Would you? Yeah. Okay, this is what we go. You, listen, you know this radio game. You know where we're. heading with this. They know, don't they Ben? Yeah, I think they do. When's

Grace's birthday? Oh, no, no. If you guess you win big, yeah, most amount of moves. 4487 on the text 0800 the hits is the telephone. How many times do you move? Well, not nowhere near as that. I mean, a few different places, mastered and Christchurch, Auckland and stuff, but yeah, not

like that. Well, we've got an early caller. Should we go rogue on this? What's your name? Paul. Paul. You sound like a mover in a shaker Paul, how many times are you moved? I'm going to say, well, I just did the count up with the kid actually, and I got to 21, but I missed a few. Oh, she, sir, in the 20s.

That's okay, that's where we're starting. Can we get more than that? Or can we get more in the 20s? John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. The most amount of times you moved different places. Megan, you're just saying you're counted up at 19 places? 19, yeah, over my 40s and my years.

Right. Excluding the current location, which we, you know, been to multiple times. I think you can actually see the straight of Humus from Megan's house. It's so far away. But what's been your favourite?

Because obviously now this is the family home. Excluding this one. Yeah, excluding. Probably the one I spent most of my time in in Nelson. Oh, you grew up? Yeah. Many memories.

Yeah. I drove through our old neighbourhood the other day. God, it all comes flooding back. Doesn't it? Yeah. It's a really nice thing to do. Yeah. No one else in the car cares.

No, but that's, it doesn't. Yeah, because obviously it means more to you than it does to anyone else. You're doing the whole tour, like, That's where I went to school. Don't you know it? But yeah, do it by yourself. It's probably a more enjoyable experience by yourself.

Not pushing it on poor people in the family. Chanel, morning to you. Morning. How are you? We're doing well, mate. Happy New Year. Most moves. 23.

Oh, not bad. So is this all in the same city or town or been further afield? So, obviously, growing up in the UK, I only ever moved three times as a kid, like with my parents. And then, yeah, moved to New Zealand, and I've had, like, another 20 different houses since then. Well, around this country? Yeah, that was 18 years ago. Wow, okay, so what we're going to do, we're going to give you 10, see how many of the places you can name. We have lived in 10 seconds.

All right, take it away now. Ahopi, Fokitani, Uroturuwa, Altia Merdi, Bedworth, Naniton, Coventry, oh got so many the dingings probably put you off I love me you're doing you dig like correct dancers

like we don't know you can just say places and we wouldn't know but also like every second or third one no Johnno's just like ding ding ding ding the erratic brain of Jono just going through there

oh thank you for sharing that with us we appreciate it all right let's go another goal I'm good have a good day you too now Georgie you're a big mover yes I have moved

36 times in 39 years of living. Oh, wow. So different town, cities, countries, or just in the same place? Yeah, no, I've moved country 16 times. What? 16. Jason Bourne. Oh, my God.

What are you running from? Exactly. I like to tell people that we work for MI6, but it's a bit of a, yeah. Can I ask what? Why? Why so many moves? Um, because my dad worked for an airline company. Ah.

And just as I've grown up, I've just enjoyed. What a cool thing is. Around the world, yeah. Can you rattle through some of the big bangers where you've lived? Yep, I've lived in Moscow, I've lived in Amsterdam, I've lived in Stockholm, I've lived in London, I've lived here in Mount Longanui. What's the best? What was the coolest place you lived?

Your favourite. Also, I've got to say Mount Longadouille. Yeah, yeah, but I do love Perth, West and Australia, a beautiful place. Well, that's, yeah. Any plans to move again or you're locked in? Absolutely love it here. So I'm kind of rebelled now and I'm adamant that this is home now. Well, a citizen of the world we're speaking to here.

That's really cool. Yeah, I've found the perfect spot. People just get safe and it's almost scared to move, which is also that you do it because, I mean, you can experience so much by doing it. Yeah, that is amazing. And you're right about decluttering. Yeah, it's decluttered a lot. So every time I move 90 house per country, yeah, you get good at it.

Like Megan says, as well, you just get good at it. Yeah. And it's a stark reminder of how much stuff you just hold on to. So much stuff you don't need, right? Yeah. And a stark reminder too that New Zealand, the most beautiful place in the world. You can forget that. And here in Mount Moncadouille, stunning.

Yeah. Oh, we'll love to talk to you. And thank you for sharing that with us. Oh, absolutely. You're welcome. John O'Bennon and Megan. The podcast. The hits.

And I gather most people listening. right now would have been through this experience. Yesterday I had a group photo with a bunch of appearance, so it was people you didn't really know. Right. And the photographer was really good. Now, not a professional photographer, obviously, but some people get really, what's the word,

enthusiastic, supportive behind the camera. That's a good one, great, funny. I like that when people give you a little bit of something rather than just holding it up, and you're like, are they taking a photo? Are they not? What's going on? Then just hand it back to you in silence.

So, yeah, this photo is happening, and then the first photo took place, all very sensible, run-of-the-mill photo. Then they came out with the, let's do a silly one. Yeah, yeah. Let's do a silly photo.

And, you know, the group of it, we don't know each other that way. And so that level of everyone's silliness, obviously, varies. I mean, if you ask me to do a silly photo, there's parts of my body that might come out there. Not appropriate in the school yard.

Yeah. And then, but then the silly photo just ended up with us, some people just holding them hands in the air and doing thumbs up. That's what Ben does, eh, silly photo. Thumbs up. What is it, yeah.

What depends on what, yeah, maybe a tongue to the side or something. Be crazy, slightly open your mouth a bit more. Well, you're not going to put another pair in at a headlock or anything. You know, like, you know, like, I looked at both photos. So beside I was like, barely, like, someone's kind of doing like a, hey, a bit of a smile. But apart from that, it was exactly the same photo. No silliness at all. No.

What's the silliest thing you've done in a photo with the silly photo when it comes out? It's not, I can't so handle the radio. Oh, really? Really? And they'd be very silly, haven't you? Yeah, but with like close mates. Yeah. I don't know where that photo is, actually.

Oh, geez. We had a friend who wanted to travel the world doing silly photos. Oh, yes. And it was involving a body part. But it would go to all of the, you know, the seven wonders of the world. So I don't think it's appropriate for any of this. No, but then he was going to call the account May Containterance. traces of nuts.

You can add up what was going to happen. So thankfully he hasn't done that. Like the pyramids, the Ophal Tower. The pleading tower of Pisa. Prop those up. International incidents everywhere. Did he do that? No, no.

Well, not as far as I know. Did you talk him out of it? He's like, I'm very free. Hey, well, yeah. I'm going to search that account just to double check. Just to make it, make sure it's not. It's been an allergy account. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast.

The Hits. And you think you might have had a win too. I don't know and I don't know what to do. Now, Megan, I wanted to probably ask your advice on this one because... No one ever asked my advice. No, I don't, yeah, I don't. Yeah, I've never, no one's never once comes to me and go on, John, you know what, can you give me some advice? Yeah. I would like that once, just one day on this show. I feel like you'd be like, uh, yeah. Tomorrow I want one of you to ask you something silly or something not relevant. I'm like, okay, yeah, so that's why I'm asking Megan right now. But you can be part of this

cop-a-you-you-listen, it. That's fine. I'll give some advice regardless. You can. Okay, as well. So I talked about this last week when my wife Amanda, she's schoolteacher. She was away on school camp. They had the guy coming over to put some pictures up on the wall, some artwork and stuff that were taken down for some painting. And before she left, I said, can you let me know where they need to go?

And she's like, I want to mix things up and I put them underneath, thinking that's where I thought she'd go. And I was like, have you had a look? Is that where you want them to go? She's like, I had no time, no time to do it. She's packing for camp. To be fair, you had done all you could do. Well, instead of like taking a photo and being like, can you check this? this all waiting until she came back.

You just did it anyway. Well, yeah, that's the thing. I wasn't going to, but the guy was so efficient the things we had agreed on. I was like, well, why are you here, mate? Yeah, because it doesn't take long to hang a picture, but anyway. It would take me a lot longer. I blocked out the whole afternoon. You can imagine all the holes all over the wall and uneven pitches.

I was like, have you done it already? And those three things? He's like, yep. He was only three. I was like, okay, here we go, mate. Here we go. I'm going to take a risk here. I'm going to say these next seven or eight things,

in the hallway, bits and pieces, I'm going to go. This is where I think they should go. A couple towards the lounge as well. Okay. Good on. You took creative control. Good on, yeah. And in my back of my mind, I was like, firstly, I shouldn't be doing this. But secondly, my wife said mix things up.

So I did. I mixed things up. Do you need me to decode her reaction? Well, the thing is, she's come back from camp. Yeah. She's been in the house for like four or five days now. She has not said a single thing. Oh, you've had a win.

So I'm like, and I don't want to bring it up, I'm going, what do you think of the pitches? You know? So I'm like, have I had a win? And we've just let it slide. Because surely I would have heard of it. Heard from it. If there was something wrong, you would have heard from it.

Yeah. We have gone wrong as talking about it at 5 to 8 on the radio. She could be listening. She definitely would have told you. Yeah. I feel like so, right? Either she hasn't noticed, which is a win, because she'll be happy with it. Because she definitely would have noticed if she didn't like it.

I'd have kept one spot for like whatever she wants to do. Some ad-libbing. Yeah, that's a spot you can do whatever. But the other bits, I was like, I've made a choice and I feel like... You've had a win. I've had a win. But I want the satisfaction of having a win in that moment it feels hollow.

Just let it sit with you. What would make it not feel hollow? Go ahead. Those pitches look great where you put... You know that? Here's the thing. But I'm not going to get that, am I? No.

So it depends where you're... You know, the vibe of the current state. Like, her stopping and acknowledging it out of the blue is a big deal. Like, but in her mind, she'd be like, great, he did that. She's had a win. She knows you've had to win. Okay, good. You just rest easy knowing you've had a win.

Nothing needs to be said. But Anne, I think also to her, if she acknowledges I've had a win, that gives me more confidence to do more stuff without her approval. Technically, you're not usually doing it. You're getting this guy over to do it. So that's why you've had to win. He's done a bang-up job. I don't understand what's with guys, though,

because whenever you do one thing, so you do the vacuuming or you hang the pictures or whatever, you want a medal and you want this acknowledgement. And it's like, well, how do you think everything else gets done? the rest of the time. I was a really good article today. Women shoulder 70% of the mental load. That's what they say.

Andrew's always like, I did the washing and I hung it out. I'm like, what about the rest of the dime? He's also shouldering 30% of the mental load as well on top of the washing. All right, so I'll hush my mouth and I've had a win. Yeah, just don't say anything. Hey, John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The Hats.

We just had Mike Hosking on the show on Tuesday, and the podcast is available. If you'd like to hear it on I-Heart Radio. He was with us for most of the hour, wasn't it? Much longer than we thought. He gave us some advice on how to do radio. Do you know the real trick? What's that?

Not to give a rat. Really? Yeah, you don't want to take it too seriously. Oh my God, Ben, you need listen to that. Night, anxious. Anxious. He's intense. He's an intense, guys.

Very anxious. Is he a handbrake on the creativity? No, no. No. He's a hard worker, Mike. He's like you. It's not about hard work, John. It's about performance and results.

So it was a bit of a performance review, essentially, wasn't it over there? We did. It was a back and forward that you probably followed over the week after he badmouthed the hits, and then he said he'd come down, and eventually he did come down. And I think what surprised a lot of people, firstly that he did come into the building, and came into our floor, but also the fact that we are in the same building as Mike Hosking. People couldn't really get the heads around that, I think. A lot of people, I didn't realize there were other radio stations in the same building.

Yeah, we've got heaps in here. We got us ZB Coast Flavour ZM Is that all? Yeah

Hodaki The country Yeah that's true Yeah The sports station Yeah Got the bloody all It's crazy

And then there's a Basically there's another company That has similar set And they're stable as well With like the rock And the edge and all that And so there's basically Essentially for the most part

Two companies That own the radio station But you talk to people And that surprises a lot of people. But then you, like, we'll talk to someone that maybe works for a liquor company, and they've got multiple brands underneath their sort of umbrella, right? Yeah, similar situation. Yeah, so it happens a lot.

So we wanted to know what would surprise, what surprises other people when you tell them about your job? Producer Troy was striving to be a lawyer, but ended up producing radio. God knows where that went wrong. But, yeah, that's a real detour, eh? Dogleg, mate. What were you saying about lawyers that they have to study? read you've got to get into law school first

did you not get into law school I applied but then my broadcasting thing got through first so I cancelled my application what I found out about lawyers though was and this actually was one of the things that put me off was you have to account for every six minutes of your day and invoice for every six minutes

that sounds exhausting I know but do you know how much I get paid for those six minutes it's not exhausting when you get probably another one and another one but you know also if you have like a seven minute phone call with the lawyer, they'll round it up to 12. They round it up to the next six minutes. We learned that lesson when we were making a TV show

years ago and there was some legal issues and one of our mates was he was a good talk at and he was like, this lawyer's so good, we'll talk for ages. And then we got the bill and we're like, no wonder they're so good. We were doing our wills and my husband's like, shall I just call them. I've got a question. I was like, don't call them.

Yeah. Do you like chicken parmesan? We were talking about so much stuff and I'm like, oh, you idiot. Is she state of origin, mate? Yeah. What a comeback? Oh, it's okay.

Yeah, I'm like, every six minutes, it costs us. So what do you do for work? And what would surprise us about your job? John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. And what would surprise you most about your job? I'd love to hear from me a loads of texts coming through. Pilots eat different meals to not get sick.

Oh. Like from the passengers or from each other? Yeah, from each other. That's a practical fact, though. Because how are you going to fly the plane if suddenly you get like diarrhea? Both, yeah. Well, yeah. They're like a divorced couple eating dinner, having different meals.

Do they fight? I want the bush. I'll have the chicken. All right. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense when you think about it. Producer Grace, you worked in retail, a fact about your job, your previous life that would have surprised us about retail. Well, as soon as someone walks in, we know whether they will buy something or not.

Really? You can instantly tell by the mannerisms and just how they walk in, how determined they are. We know. We know if you're not going to buy anything. It's that why you don't bother us if we're just, like, browsing. Yeah. What, too much like touching, like slow walking, bit of picking up, putting down.

Are they going to buy anything? Yes. I would lean more towards yes, but you just have to buy it. You know if they're in the market for something or they just, yeah. I hate it when you go to a new shop and you walk in and you see the price tag and you're like, oh, Jesus, that's expensive. So you just pretend to browse for a little bit longer so they don't know that you're, you can't afford it.

They know, but you're right. They just picked up their $100 T-shirt. You're like, oh, not today. Yeah, well, thank you very much. Erin, morning to you. What would surprise us about your job? So I work for VJ. Cox, the food blogger. Oh, yeah.

Online food blogger. And about 90% of the work that we all do is on the computers. We're hardly ever cooking. We're hardly ever creating recipes. We're all about numbers and data. And, yeah, we all just work away on our computers. I thought it was all about eating and cooking. No, I mean, we definitely get lots.

lunch occasionally when Varnia's in the kitchen, but 90% of the time we are on our computers and just number crunching. I suppose it makes sense, but you're right. Yeah, I guess online, you know, the engagement and... I'll tell you what, old Varnia's doing well, mate, 252,000 followers. Great recipes. I've definitely cooked two recipes before. And so how many on your team, Erin, that work for Vanya?

There's Vanya, and then there's four part-time mums, and we're all data nerds. Oh, I love that. That's great. And it's a full-time gig. Well, part-time, but full-time. Yeah. What do you mean? Yeah, dominates our lives.

Yeah, dominate. I mean, if you had one of those people, they would be full-time, but they're all part-time. Right. Does that make sense? Yeah. Oh, that's impressive? Yeah. No, not so much cooking in Vanu cooks.

Well, not all the time, I guess. Yeah. Kingston, well, it would surprise us about your line of work. Well, I'm a borrista, and I work in a really cool motorbike. cafe and everyone thinks it's just motorbike themed but we actually have a motorbike collection of about 80 motorbikes on display oh wow that's a lot of in this in the cafe yeah yeah there's a big display room out the back and it's just filled with motorbikes and what's really cool is it 98% of it is one man's personal collection she's whereabouts in the country

you uh upah up all right and what people just walk into thinking it's just a cafe but there's loads and loads of motorbikes yeah Yeah, so they think we're kind of motorbike themes, but no, we take people through the collection and talk bikes. That's pretty cool. That's interesting fact about your job. They did surprise us. Thank you so much for sharing our 800 of the hits. You can keep these coming through.

Yeah, surprising things about your job. Accountants, apparently, too. They have to log every seven minutes like lawyers. And someone saying work at the airport as ground staff, we're not supposed to lift the bags for people. I guess probably makes sense. Liability thing. Yeah. And what?

did you touch the hampering and all that sort of stuff with the bags. They can't chuck the bags though. I've seen them lifting them, uh-uh-uh, but throwing them onto the... You've seen that out of the plane. We know, yeah. John O'Ben and Megan. It's a podcast. The hits.

Now, for something we could call Troy Story, he's been scouring the internet for something that... Well, it's something that interests you. And this one, it's a wild story. It is wild. President Donald Trump, President of America, is turning 80. and he wants what all 80-year-old men want, a 5,000-seat arena on his front lawn. So, I've heard, this has been in the talks

for a couple of years, hasn't it? Yeah. He wanted to put a UFC fight on the front lawn of the White House, and construction has started. Wait, that's not permanent, is it? It's a temporary structure. Oh, okay. I would love it to be permanent.

There's just this octagon that people can fight in on the front lawn. Yeah, that looks impressive what they're building, the big structure with the lighting grid and everything, right? It's quite literally smack bang on the front lawn. You look at the White House, and it's covering the front lawn of the White House, this kind of like lighting structure. It's kind of like an orb kind of looking thing. They're building the octagon on the...

Every day, bloody UFC Mantas coming in to watch this thing? I think military. Oh, that makes sense. And like service people. And maybe a little couple of celebs or something like that. 100%, yeah. A couple of those broadcaster, the podcast guys. The Ovan will be there.

Rogan. Oh, he's always there. He's a commentator. 5,000 people will be on the front lawn. That is wild. He's so trashy, eh? politics aside they're so trashed

okay so if you are the leader of the country what are you going to put on the lawn that's the thing right I remember asking Taylor Hawkins from the foo fighters how much do you pay to pay at my house once and he was like a million bucks

and I was like don't pay anywhere for a million bucks I'd do it I'd have to move the tramp but you know and your cow that's the only thing holding you back you got a five glass cow

and a million bucks I'm like not a great investment for me at the time There's some great front lawns and greymouth cricket pitches like proper moanin cricket pitches and like grandstands I've seen those in the West Coast

He could start putting some cars on swapper crates On the front lawn of the White House So that's crazy That is well because I know he He helped Dana White out didn't he Who owns the UFC when he was first starting He was letting him hold his fights in his hotels Oh right

So I think that's the back story about how they So is Trump personally paying for that? I think so. Like the ballroom, yeah, like the ballroom. So what's the New Zealand equivalent at the beehive? Apart from the thing that we had a while ago that we don't talk about the lawn on the lawn of the beehive? That's not very controversial.

What would you put on there? What would be the sporting event? You're like, is there anything that would be iconic? New Zealand? I'm only like backyard cracker, but that's not that exciting. No, in a barbecue, a permanent nice barbecue set up there. Ball rush or something, but yeah. Lawn bowls?

Oh, we're a bit boring, really It's not big enough for like a game of league or anything like that, is it? And a lot of it's concrete too, so You're not really conducive for netball Neatball's nice The A&Z Premiership on the front The Front of the Beehive. Parliament, there we go

Well, thank you for producer Troy. When's the fight? Two weeks 14th June. John O'Ben and Megan The podcast, The Hats. I've talked lately about some of the great movies They've been in cinemas. There's the Michael Jackson by our

pick the devil wears prada too and it's funny when you watch a movie and then someone talks about it later and you're like ah I didn't even think about that that sort of plot hole that maybe I should have well sometimes it's good just to sit in there and just let it wash all over you and not think too hard about it this is not a

suspension of disbelief in the moment you're just like in it and this is not a major one if you haven't seen the devil west Prada too I'm not going to give away anything too crazy here but there is a bit where you know the high flute in fashion people like Meryl Streep they had to sort of they have budget cuts. Oh so they're also living in the cost of living crisis. Yeah, so it's in today's

world, so she has to fly economy like the rest of us, right? And so that's, there's one scene, she's sitting in, you know, in the seat where someone put their seat back and she's not happy about it. I'm like, okay, that's what happening. And then they go to Milan, obviously for the fashion a week. And then later on, she is staying in the most beautiful hotel room I've ever seen. It's like about three different rooms and stuff. Oh, it's very palatial. And then someone later was like, well, how come she was, they were saving money there? But then they got her just an extravagant, extravagant hotel room. Maybe that's why she's like,

maybe she's like, I'll save on the flights, but you know my rule with accommodation. Maybe she got gifted the accommodation. Maybe. Maybe she should have got hashtag gifted. Yeah, it would be nice to put a little hashtag giffed on the screen at the time. Well, her just go, hey, just, you know, this has been gifted to me by the fine people. Excuse me, does she own the entire company?

No, no. No, there's people she answers to. Yes, she's disgruntled about flying economy. So taking those receipts, the accommodation receipts back to the board. going to be asking some questions about that week away in Milan, aren't they? So what's the movie plot point that you kind of go, ah, the plot hole that you want? Actually, now come to think about it.

My big thing is, I've said it before, Jurassic Park. I've always said, you know, why on earth six, seven times? We keep going back there, and we don't learn our lesson, but that aside. Yeah. Every time there's only one IT guy looking after the park's infrastructure of a park laden with dozens, if not, you know, 50 or die. We've got more IT people here at work, right?

I do. We'll go to the IT guy. He's like, oh, I'm stressed out. I wonder he's stressed out. Good point, actually. That's a big pot hole for me at Jurassic Park. There's some good ones that we found online as well too. Armageddon?

Yeah, Armageddon. You remember that movie, right? The Ben Affleck and Bruce Willis as well. And they sent them to space. They were because they were the guys that could drill stuff, right? They were construction workers. Now, refresh the memory. It was an asteroid coming to space.

needed to go land on the asteroid. They were chucking like a bomb in there. They'd have to drill the bomb down to split it up. Yeah. She's blue sky. Blue sky thinking. So they got these everyday battle of construction workers and they set them to space to save the world, right? I mean, didn't the detonator break?

Oh, yeah. Yeah. And then Bruce, it was terrible. But anyway, here's a really good point from a movie podcast about that movie. Armageddon. This comment says, as Ben Affleck rightly says, surely it would have been easier to train astronauts to drill rather than train drillers to be astronauts. Bad Affleck sent him to Michael Bay, like, surely it would be easier, you know, to teach astronauts how to drill.

And he's like, and he said to me, shut up, Ben, just shut up, just do it. That is a really good point. Even Ben Affleck was in the movie. He was one of the stars. He was like, hang on a second, isn't it easier for like, should we got astronauts to be the people drawing? Well, because how many years the astronauts trained for? Yeah, no offense to those drilling, obviously quite complex as well. It was all worth it for the song.

You watch a movie and you just get caught up at it. You don't really think about the plot holes. Okay, so those are a couple of examples. What's something that just doesn't sit well with you? Can we just get it out of the way? The door was big enough for both of them. She could have hung on one side. He could have hung on the other.

You're right, you're right. But then the movie just would keep going. It was already long enough. I'll never let go, Jack, and then she lets go. Please let go. We've got to wrap this out. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast.

The Hits. Talking about the movie plot holes. And when people point these out and there are loads of texts coming through, you're like, oh, of course. Yeah, there's a good one on The Beauty and the Beast where they're like,

if you break it down, the entire village thinks Bell's peculiar and a weirdo because she reads books. That one's coming through, four, four, four, eight, seven jaws. Like, after multiple shark attacks,

why did they not close the beach for swimming? Like, well, like, yeah, very good work. That's what we would do on our benches. Yeah, right. Speaking of the Little Mermaid, though, I'm speaking of Disney. I watched The Little Mermaid with my daughter for the first time. So when Ursula steals her voice,

she signs the contract in script writing, Ariel. Right. And she can't explain to Eric that she is the girl, but she could write him a note and explain the whole situation. Yes. I can't tell him. Or just write him later. Write it down.

You're right. You're right. You're right. Just tell him. Write it down, mate. I mentioned Armageddon, too. The fact that wouldn't it have been easier to train Asthma astronauts to drill as opposed to train drillers to become astronauts.

Yeah, which was the big plot of the movie and well someone's disputing this. Yeah, Ellie, welcome. Happy New Year to you mate. Happy New Year from the Bay of Menti. Show catchphrase. We're almost at June and we're still saying Happy New Year. That's impressive but what, okay, explain to us why that was okay in Armageddon. Because one of the bigwigs asked the same question, to Bruce Willis and he said

it's taken me 30 years to learn to how to do this and we don't know what kind of metal or gases or everything of stuff going to he explained all of that. Don't worry Bruce covered that off. Felt like they had a real

a real scrabbled meeting on set they were like we need to get this in there. We need to get a light in here and why this. You don't know what's up there. But again, how many years are you trained to become an astronaut? He went up. Wasn't when some of the crew

actual astronauts as well. They had the drillers and the astronauts. Yeah, right. So they combined it. Okay, we'll let that one live then. All right. Yeah, another text. I guess you're not talking about

Jack fitting on the door, right? From Titanic. Well, that was one Megan brought up before. That feels like a major plot hole, right? Yeah. It seemed like a really big door. Like, couldn't he lean on the other side? It was room, Megan.

There was definitely. James Cameron's like, we've got to wrap this up somehow, man. Hey, thank you so much. Yeah, and have a wonderful day. Someone's texting about the hangover. A tiger a baby and not one bank statement or bank fraud alert.

Yeah, they got up to some wild things, eh? Wild things. Like, I can't even purchase concert tickets without the A&JN mystery. Is this you? Yeah, this is me, this is me. That's the excuse for that one. Different time. Shoreshang Redemptions come up.

A really great movie, if you've seen it. And, you know, if you haven't seen it, you might, it's been around long enough. Okay, I'm going to say, at the end, you know how he makes it hole through, and the poster gets put back up in the prisons. cell? Yeah. Who puts the post back up after, after him? Because they don't, they discover he's missing.

And it's meticulously placed as well. But he's gone. He wouldn't be an out of... You wouldn't be able, no, you're right. Someone else, you know. Maybe he had a friendly prison guard. A friend on the inside. Maybe it was one of the Mount Eden Correctional Facilities prison guards who are like,

I'll help you out, mate, don't worry. I've got anything you need, pal, I've got your back. So that's a really good one too. Oh, 800. That's four for eight, seven. You can keep these, keep these ones coming through. Home alone's come through many times. I mean, it does, yeah, it feels like how do they really miss the kids?

Because there was lots of them. Why did he not? And I know they lost the ticket and they counted the kid from next door. But why didn't he go to the police, all that sort of stuff? You said there's a tiny little moment. Yeah. In the beginning scene. So when one of the brothers spills the Pepsi and stuff

when they're having the pizza party and they throw out some stuff into the bin, apparently the ticket, his ticket, Kevin's ticket, goes into the bin with that then. But you don't really, they should have lingered on it. You've watched it many times. They should have lingered on that longer. Yeah, right. To explain why.

To zoom in on the ticket. Why there wasn't another ticket.