Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Ben’s Costume Collection Is About To Get Him In Trouble | FULL SHOW

Episode Date: August 3, 2026

On today’s show:  (00:00) Megan calls in sick at 4:00am and Ben questions whether her cough is doing a little too much acting... (03:10) A disastrous American national anthem performance has us revisiting Fergie’s infamous rendition (06:40) Celebrity encounters gone wrong, including someone unknowingly taking a photo for James Cameron (10:20) Producer Grace reveals how eating three packs of mints landed her in a wheelchair (12:00) We debate whether parents really miss the mess kids leave behind... (15:00) Ben’s garage full of costumes sparks a “use it or lose it” ultimatum from his wife (28:50) Troy’s unexpected obsession with high school productions leads us to celebrate the best minor roles ever played on stage (35:42) Paddy Gower joins us to discuss his investigation into illegal peptides being imported into New Zealand and why authorities are concerned   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. No, Megan, today. We got a voice message from here around about 4 o'clock this morning. I haven't heard it yet. You're going to enjoy it. You're going to enjoy it.

Because, as we just mentioned over the beginning of the One Republic song, Megan, for months has been a big anti-campaigner for Tuesday. She says, you know, Monday you expect it. Friday you celebrate it. Tuesday's just an absolute nothing day. Yeah. Yeah, she really just like Tuesday. Oh, Jesus.

And now out of nowhere, she's not here on a Tuesday. And tomorrow, let's have a listen to a message, okay? Okay. Okay. So this is Megan 402 a.m. this morning. Hi, team. This is what I'm dealing with at the moment. This is all that's kind of sexy, performative coffee.

Yeah. The coughs sound, they do sound performative of the cough. So the voice sounds really bad. Yeah. Because I know you never believe Megan when she's off. How are we feeling about that performance? I just say, I don't believe the cough side of things, but the voice sounds shocking. It does sound shocking.

She was wavering yesterday too. All right. You with the voice. Yeah. So listen, I think, and we're due in Wellington tomorrow night for an Alpha Quiz. Yes. Yeah. Mm.

Hmm. Hmm. Yeah. But yeah, we are a parrot dog tomorrow night playing the Off Quiz Live, which I think is already a capacity, which is very exciting out, baby. But on Thursday, if you're in the Wellington region, come along and see us at Sixers. sevens cafe it's a market lane uh we'll be doing the offer quiz live from 745 and you can get a free hot drink on us when you say the code word and i like this because that the place is called sixes

and sevens code word six seven right yeah love it yeah they're probably sixes and sevens before six seven it would have been yeah i was six seven and they're like oh they're they're probably hit the jackpot baby we've been doing this for a long time uh i don't expect to see megan do you No, that's it. Do you believe it? Are you buying it? I believe she's sake. Okay, I believe she said.

Okay. So this is not one of those, you know, if you want the day off, you've got to ceded in early sort of situations. You know, like, yeah. And parents, you know, as well, too, they would, yeah. They know, you're right. Your mum's like, yeah, you didn't seat it in early enough. You know what? And if she has, if this was the game plan all along, monstrous act, like at least three quarters of the show this morning was dedicated to me.

We've got so much content to Phil. Yeah, dear Megan, we're doing it. Then she's going to talk about Andrew and how many people he had slept with? Oh, it was all good. No one does his dear John O'Bin, do they? No one slides into our DMs with any thing for advice. Anyway, Megan, get well soon if you are sick

and enjoy Tuesday. I team. This is what I'm dealing with at the moment. She sounds like my daughter listens to this lady on the internet called So Dellen. Have you heard of Sue Della? She talks like those. John O'Bin and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. Yeah, all speaking of. of something that's popped up in my algorithm is this is sort of community grade baseball in America and very patriotic the Americans

they'll sing the anthem pretty much before anything they really love pelting out the anthem Yeah I remember just going to like a regular season football match over there because we've got family over there and it was just like there was rocket you know that was military

there was helic it was like wow This is just seven year old soccer Yeah pretty much Two guns and jet planes The Navy boat comes in I'm like wow Yeah

It's pretty impressive You see it we have got Well maybe one of those And nothing of the rest of it Yeah Some lighting a sparkler in the middle of the field But yeah This you know

There's always High risk high reward With the anthems And I know technical stuff can go on Sometimes people can't hear The in ears And then so they just have to roar dog it

And probably can't Get a vibe on their tone But this one was interesting, had three people a trio singing the anthem and I'm pretty sure you'll agree they nailed it.

A spy or the rapids we watched were so gallantly stream. Is she saying the bums bursting in air? A little late. They performed for royal tea or something these people

are they same ones? I think they've done it before, yeah. More key changes than a locksmith, that bad boy. She sounded like Mickey Mouse. Like Mickey Mouse. It's a singer. I've just gone back and listened to If Fergie gets a band rap, she was singing the anthem before

was like an NBA All-Star game, wasn't it? Yeah. And she really made it her own. She took creative license with it. Yeah, I think she even said afterwards, I tried to chuck some stuff in, and I think she was quite honest. She was like, some of it worked,

some of it didn't work. But when you hear it now, it's not that bad. Can you see booms early light? It's probably the hardest thing is probably good the crowd and the players to sing along too. Yeah. She's really made it her right. And the players were smiling and laugh. Then it cuts to Jimmy Kimmel, he's laughing.

Like if you're at some sort of nightclub sort of scene or something, and she's on stage, you think, that sounds fine. You know what you know? And brights to part. order... It would be the most nerve-racky thing, though. I know. I know.

And you know, people have had, you know, there's been the odd shocker here in New Zealand, but that's too close to home to mock those people. It's easier to mock people on the other side of the world. But it's really even think about it. You know, it's like, oh, yeah, the anthem, but when it's done badly, it's like, uh-oh. And you know, you get stage fight, you can forget the words. Yeah. It is, yeah, high pressure.

Shout out to those singing the anthem. And I'm never going to go out there and do I. No, I don't know. I should stand here and judge. John O'Bennon and Megan The podcast The Hats campaign New Zealand footballer

who blew up huge at the Football World Cup after a bit of a social media campaign from influencer who chose someone with the smallest amount of followers and tried to make him a star and boy is he a star now he's playing in Paraguay and his first game yesterday

he scored a goal and what a goal it was They're ready to be in the They couldn't have been That one for a Spanish-speaking What's he gone? He's gone from under 5,000 followers To like, what, 5 million or something? 5.4, I've just checked his account

That's a wonderful story And then we were watching that clip going He probably wouldn't be able to communicate with the coaching staff or the players. Not as easily, right? Yeah, many of them. Anyway, living his best life. Go Tim Payne.

My friend he works with a guy, he said a few years ago, he had a really interesting experience. He was in Wellington with his partner, and they were just sightseeing. And someone came up to them and said, oh, can you please take a photo of me and my wife? Yes, absolutely. So he went and took the phone.

photo handed it back as you do that transaction. And then people who were also at this location came up to him afterwards and was like, oh my God, do you know who that was? And he's like, no, but he was a lovely gentleman. He was very polite. He just wanted me to take a photo. And they said, that's Hollywood director James Cameron. James Cameron got this guy to take a photo of him.

Oh, wow. Jeez, you wouldn't get a more, you know, critiqued photo once you were just, yeah. James Cameron was looking at the lighting. angles. Yeah. Wow, that's good. I had no idea. Came, left and had no idea that he just met James Cameron.

Wow. That would happen a lot, I imagine, was celebrities. People meeting celebrities and not knowing who they were. I heard a great story about the legendary Sam Neal. It was really sad, obviously, that Sam Neal has passed away. But when he was in Jurassic Park, you know, filmed in Hawaii and stuff, and he was traveling many years after filming Jurassic Park, booked a rental car, picked it up from the airport, and they said,

would you like to pay extra for the Jurassic Park experience? Did he pay? He was like, oh, it was so polite and said, no, I'm okay. But he's like, he's kind of already had the Jurassic Park experience. He's been in the movies. If you can think of the best experience you can have a Jurassic Park. He's at it. They paid me.

Yeah. I didn't have to pay them? But have you, like, run into a celebrity and later you've gone, oh my goodness. I had no idea who that was. Even at the start, I mean, sometimes you get a chance to my dad. We've talked about this before. He was out for lunch. He was on a boomer tour of America,

and they were out for lunch, and someone went, that's Brooklyn Beckham over there. What restaurant would have Brooklyn Beckham and your father? I've always just wanted to ask that. And then my dad being my dad, didn't know who he was, but went on over and sat down and had a chat.

So this is just someone said, oh, that's Brooklyn Beacon. And he was like, well, that's a door opening for a conversation. And he says Brooklyn Becum couldn't have been more lovely, like, sat down, chatted and stuff like that. Tell that to his family. Oh, Jesus. Kevin Boyce's team Brooklyn on this one.

He might be, yeah. It has to be now, but he's a homie of his. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. Worried about a lack of incident in your household. Well, not so much you, your daughter, Indy Ben. Well, she never really read the warning label on a pack of chewing gum. And she was like, oh, of course, laxative effect.

She was very worried she'd had a couple over the course of the day. It turned out it was fine, but I guess when you read it, it feels quite confronting. And it does lead you to believe that some hero along the way had to discover that. What do you reckon have brought that on? To learn that harsh lesson. But producer Grace, you overdosed on Eclipse mints. It was, yeah, I had three packs within probably like five to ten minutes. Like three whole packs of them.

That's a lot of mints. Yeah, see, I didn't know about this whole laxative thing. It was back in 2017. Your breath would have smelled amazing. Oh, I would have. I should have kissed all the boys. but I was young and I didn't realize. And I remember I was sitting in chemistry class

after eating all these mints. And I was like, I don't feel good. So I walk, I start going to the toilet. On my walk to the toilet, I faint. You fainted. I fainted. From just like tummy, I was so sore. Like I felt so sick.

Like in my friend, she was doing like, I'm paramedicine. Walked past, she's like, you're fainted. She got me a wheelchair. Ended up in a wheelchair. Got taken to the nurse's station and then had the best poop of my life. Okay. That's where it's too much. The end.

A little too much information there. And that's how it's funny. So you might be the first person in history to overdose on breathmids. Well, because I didn't know you couldn't have them. Yeah. Three bigots. Yeah, I really like min. Wild.

John O'Binn and Megan. The podcast. The Hits. A polar blast. Hitting New Zealand right now in the south snow. School delays, road closures, ferry cancellations around in Wellington. as well. Yeah, just looking at the snow in Dunedin out there at the moment.

Yeah, geez. Is that what you do when it's snow? Do you say thinking of everyone? Yeah. I like thinking of everyone. Yeah. It's a nice thing to say to people. Did you ever snow in Marston when you were growing up?

I don't really think it's... Would have got cold? Yeah, yeah. I mean Christchurch when I lived there for a couple of years, yeah. I woke up the other morning and there was literal ice on the deck. On my deck. Yeah. I've never seen...

Yeah, but Zaneda, mate. It's like, oh, sorry about that, but we're going to blanket it in snow. Like, I went to one hell. We've got a bit of ice at me. We're just trying to relate. Yeah, well, like, you can't, really. Yeah, no, I'll stay out of that conversation. One conversation I'm getting regularly, though, at home.

And you might be suffering the same fate, Ben, as, you know, the kids are getting a bit older. And, you know, sooner rather than later, they're probably going to be. move out and be gone. But a huge bug bear for me is people arrive home, walk through the door and everything explodes off them. School bags, shoes,

lunchboxes, sports bags, boom! Just ejects off their body and just sort of lands in a giant pile in our kitchen. So we walk through the door and we're in the kitchen. Right. They're done with all that stuff. They're like itself. Huge health and safety hazard.

And I don't know how many times I've like unpack your bag, take it to your room it takes under a minute 30 seconds to do this. Put your lunchbox on the bench. One kid, I'm not going to name it, very good at it, the other one, shocking.

I think we know who. Shocking. Shocking. Admond, we're taking a lunchbox out of a bag, shocking. School holidays with that lunchbox, just sit through. If I didn't go get it in the holidays,

yeah, it would. Let's sit there. And so that's... I'm dumb of school. I don't have to think about that till tomorrow. What a freeing way to live, isn't it? And then so I keep banging on about this

day and my frustration continues and my wife's like well one day they're going to be gone and you're going to miss this and i'm like i'm going to miss i'm going to miss them yeah but not the people who've created this tripping hazard in the front door i'm near i don't think i'll ever but like absolutely i'm going to miss their being in the house but you're right yeah yeah no bitning over picking up shoes and school blundged boxes and going for you guys just too you know too i don't there's no part of me that's going to miss that but yeah and i yeah i get the same it's like why do you going on about that. It's like, well, I wouldn't have to. Like, I wouldn't have to. Like, this could be the last

time we have this conversation. If you just took it out, and then I'd never bring it up again. I wouldn't be that guy going, hey, the lunchbox. And you try nicely, don't you? Hey, guys, try and reason. So this is the last time we can have this conversation. It's on you. I tried every variation of emotion to do with this topic, and none of it lands.

And the good thing is, we can just rest easy than knowledge. So one day it'll come back. Well, it'll come back and bite them. Oh, exactly. John O'O. Ben and Megan. You were given an ultimatum yesterday. Sorry, over the weekend by your wife Amanda, weren't you? There's costumes.

Basically, your garage is just full of impulse purchases that you've made. Yeah, a lot of costumes, particularly over the last couple of years, but a lot of them have accumulated over time, you know, with TV shows and various things we've done over the years. But just recently, bought a whole lot of costumes, put them in the garage, and it's taken up quite a lot of the room in the garage. My wife can't park your car in the garage anymore. That's not all me.

It's not all my costumes. but it's taking up a large percentage rise what do you reckon is I would say 25% of the garage is my costumes the rest is other stuff I would have thought of you okay that's not too bad it's definitely like a whole yeah maybe encroaching more 33% yeah anyway I might get Amanda's gauge on the percentage system 25% you'd probably say a lot more but this was the both of you clearing out the garage on the weekend yeah what am I doing with all these costumes it's terrible

these are my pride of joy oh my gosh you should get rid of them No, I'm not getting rid of this one. There's a horse and platable horse. Ridiculous. I'll use them again. Use them or lose them then. I need to tidy it up, granted, but yes, I will use it again. Don't, take.

There's so many, like it goes right down to the floor. Look at these so many great. Yeah, like, more landfall. It's not landfall unless they end up in the landfill. They're not landfall. It's like, it's not, I'm using it. At the moment, the only land they're taking up is the land. in your garage.

Yeah, and I, you know, I've used them and I would love to use him again, so that's where I need your help. We need to come up with a great reason. He's got to use him or he's going to lose him. Some good suggestions came through yesterday. Well, you know, I think maybe do a theme and let him wear one a day

and maybe even look at using that to maybe raise the money for a charity. You know? I think that he should be a bit savage and give them away to the listeners. Oh, okay.

I'm sorry, I'm my 40th coming up in November. Kim's 40th? He's like, oh. Now, you can tell by the high-pitched tones in Ben's voice, he wasn't entirely on board with both of those. Well, no, they're not, they're not bad. They're not bad. I mean, I'd love to keep them afterwards if we do give them away,

momentary, you know, I'd love to hold on to them, but yeah, I'm open towards providing them for things. Okay, so... Although I am a bit... You know, I don't know, I get a bit funny about... Because I have had many loaned out over the last years. They never come back.

So you don't want them to go off-site. You want to be... Well, if I could be there, great, if I'm not just the trustworthy people. I'm sorry, Ben, I didn't realize use it or lose it came with... Yeah, conditions, you know? Yeah. I'll try to be chill and relax about it, you know? So, I won't happen with the hits. Okay, well, let's go this angle today.

If we haven't settled on how we can use them, what do you think you need the costumes for? Have you got a school production? You know, is there someone who is wanting to propose to their partner and you want to do it in an inflatable ATM machine? I'm just maybe, is there, oh, I've got no other examples. He started strong and then you've got to fade it out. What does he need exactly costumes for?

So yeah, I 800 of the hits. Give us a story a decent reason as to what you could do with these costumes and Ben will probably go, oh, yeah, okay. Well, hey, I need something, though. I need to, we need to agree on. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. On a mission to help our dear friend, little sweet, sweet Benjamin Boyce,

who is just a little boy who grew up dreaming of one day owning a garage, load of novelty costumes that he purchased off Timo. What happens if you're not allowed to buy any more costumes? Timu's going to bloody, you know, the backbone of Timo. It's not always Timo, but it's, you know, it can be, you know. Look around. So use it or lose it. That's been the ultimatum at home.

Use them or lose them. And we need to cover the really good reason that we need, that we can use all of these costumes. It needs to be, once you tell Amanda, she can, there's no holes in this. Some great suggestions coming through already. Yesterday, there was, you wear one a day, every day. Yeah.

But again, she kind of has to deal with the pain of going to dinner with a guy dressed as like a caterpillar or something. Yeah, she's not going to like that. Someone said about putting on, it's fashion week coming up. I've got to put on my own little fashion week's the show, you know. But I just don't know. Fashion week, I don't know.

They might look down their nose at your costume connection. Yeah, I don't know if they're ready for, you know, an inflatable koala. Trelis Cooper sharing the same runway. I don't know. Coming out. Give us up a big round of applause at the end. T.S, great to have you on the show. Happy New Year.

Happy New Year. And Narawahia. You're coming to the brainstorm. What's the solution? Use it or lose it? The idea is on a full production. every second year, hands on some costumes. I can make up any story to fit with whatever you've got but fed.

Oh, you can crowbar in any costume to the storyline of your production. Okay, what have we, what, give us some. Okay, we've got, a loose. What, there's, like, something that looks like you're writing, like an inflatable shrimp. You're like, you're writing along like a shrimp? What would you do with that? Awesome. We could have an under one scene that one class can do an underwater world.

You're good. Something from Nemo, maybe. There's an ATM machine, isn't there? Yeah, I think I've got an ATM machine somewhere in the garage somewhere. That would be good. Someone needs to get money out for something else, you know? Yeah, yeah. Absolutely, the kids could be, you know, on the search for money.

Yeah, great. Pineapple? Yeah. A bit of an underwater theme. Hey, this is writing itself, isn't it? Love that, Tess. You're going to have a great day. Awesome, thanks.

Appreciate it. Laurie, solutions for this costume dilemma. You could be a saint and help us out with our book character week. Every year, schools have to do book character week, and the teachers are tortured trying to find, make blue gun costumes together on our poor little salaries for book character week. So you can come along, you can judge for us, you can do whatever you want. That's a good suggestion, Lori.

How do you feel about, you know, random kids wearing all your costume? Oh, that's true. I mean, the kids, I feel like that. No, I feel like that. They're safe. Forget the kids. It's for the teachers. Oh, for the teachers.

Forget the kids. Book Week is not about the children. Exactly. It's not what they invented it. I've got 30 staff members dying for costumes. Oh, Lori. Well, we'll keep your details, may. You're going to have a great day.

John O'Bennon and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Now, it's funny these things, well, warning labels. You know, it's not something you're often. I mean, maybe we should pay more attention to, but should and terms and conditions i feel like we're doing to pay a lot more attention to i always feel pressure when someone's like just so you know kamo wise very good at reading through

things but someone's hovering around or like have a read for this i feel like yeah yeah yeah so if you're getting a rental car Amanda will read through will she she likes have a good read or sometimes how awkward is that oh yeah it's awkward as well she's very good at well you put it into put it into chat chippy tea now too summarize this for me it's a great hack oh that is a really good yeah i don't think i've ever once read any terms of condition you are you're like It looks pretty standard. Even my radio contract, I don't know about it. I've read the terms and conditions of that.

I can be gone next week. Yeah, well, I'm, you know, a big fan of gum and mints and stuff like that often. Yeah, I carry around gum and mints and things like that. And my daughter, Indy had, she'd given her some gum at some stage. She's taken a packet to her. And she'd heard a couple over the course of the day. And she comes up to me in the weekend. And she's like, oh, no.

She's like, it says a laxative effect on here. And I'm like, warning, laxative effect. And she's like, I've had like three or four pieces. And I'm like, well, how do you feel? She's like, fine. I'm like, well, you're probably fine. But she's like, well, what will happen? Will it just come on?

Will it just. And I'm frightening if you haven't experienced it, I know. And just the big warning of like laxative effect. And she was all day, very nervous that things, nothing happened. And I was like, nothing will happen unless you really. But I guess, yeah, she was very worried that things were going to like take it to. How many mints and how much chewing gum do you have to eat for it to really? Yeah, well, I haven't had it.

I haven't had it yet. I haven't reached that point in my chewing gum career. Horrible way to have it happened, though, wouldn't that, mate? You're just, you're like, chew it away. It's like, oh, uh-oh, uh-oh. Uh-oh. We did a sausage tour of... Yes.

New Zealand. We went to actually every Bunnings store and had a sausage. And you can only imagine the... It was like 50-something sausages over the course of five days, six days, yeah. Yeah. You can only imagine the digestive system after that. And I went to the chemist and got some host. hospital grade ones.

Lachshundives, yeah. And again, I've the same with, I'd never taken them before. And I'm like, what happens? Does it just... When does it kick it? And boy, it just... No, I don't have to finish, you know.

Yeah, when it kicks in, it kicks in. When it kicks in, it kicks in. Yeah, they're still sitting in my cupboard, though. If she wants to give them a go. I mean, it wasn't, what, wasn't... No. She's not really...

No, it was just like, oh dear... John O'Benin and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. Costumes. Too many costumes. Taking up a lot of real estate in the garage. My wife can't put the car in right now. She's saying I need to use them or lose them.

I'm now scrambling to come up with something I can do to use them again. I mean, there's probably plenty of things. We want something worthwhile that justifies the costumes. So maybe a beautiful suggestion is coming through. School plays. Someone saying you should wear a different costume every day. Others saying you should hold some sort of museum exhibition. Yeah. I might call to Papa tomorrow and see if they're interested. I mean, start at the top and we'll work our way down. I think we do know the answer to that question. but we can't call them regardless. Blair, who works for the hits in Hamilton.

Legend. He's got something he wants to pitch for the costumes, Ben. A bit awkward because I thought this was like an internal call, and then it's kind of like I've ended up in front of the shop with you guys. Oh, was this big to be a backroom conversation? A bedroom deal. I was listening this morning. I'm like, oh, they won't get any calls for this.

And I was just thinking maybe off air we could do a bit of a deal because I've kind of got something I want to use the costumes for and just, yeah, wondering if that would work. Like, how many have you got, Ben? Oh, lots. I mean, lots of inflatable kind. You've probably got 20-something inflatable costumes. You've got lots of other bits and pieces.

But what is this mysterious thing that you're doing? Well, I know it might sort of a bit weird, but I can't really tell you what it's for. I can tell you where it's going to happen. It's going to happen in Hamilton. Okay. I can tell you, I can just confirm a couple of things. Costumes can't talk, right? No, you don't normally...

No, well, no. They're normally... Is this PG, whatever it is you want to do with it? That's all I want to know. I don't know what that costume is. I don't know what PG is, but it's just going to... Well, it's going to be a bit of driving. They're going to be able to fit in a van.

It's going to be a little bit of filming, and that's... I can't really say anything else about it. Do you want your costumes to be associated with whatever this event? So what here is Hamilton, a van filming? I don't know. I don't know. Don't paint, hey, don't you paint me in a box.

Jono, you just asked that Bunnings lady for table ties, heads as a side, and duct tape. So you just, you take that back, Johnno. I did too, actually, you know. You're like, what is he doing? I mean, watching too many crime documentaries on Netflix. Oh, mate.

Have you seen The Punisher? Wow. Amazing. Well, Blair, listen, I don't, are you going to lend your costumes to this very vague event? I think we need to talk a bit more back, more backroom conversations. Take you to the back of the shop.

I appreciate that. Thanks for your call, mate. We've got Anne-Marie with us. Great to have you on. Thank you. All right, you've got something these costumes could be used for. Just kidding. I have.

I was just thinking sort of an artistic way of using them. One is, like they've just had the 48-hour short film thing. I think it was just in the weekend. Oh, yeah. But something like that. Like they have props and stuff, so there might be some kind of like arts project. You need to use a costume as part of it. your short film.

Crops department at a film competition. That is smart thinking. I think that would be really cool. And the second one is also cool, and you could possibly make some kind of competition out of it. Music videos. Higher them out for music videos.

I know they're filming a new Lord of the Rings. I wonder if they could... Movie quality. Movie quality. A inflatable one. There's one that looks like you're sitting on a bathroom. It's inflatable. There's all sorts, you know.

Like they'll add a few more gags into Middle Earth. There's an inflatable Hulk and... of the rings so they could they put all that sort of stuff in there you know a lobster inflatable lobster just coming out of a pot yeah i'm thinking music videos in front of what's okay i could see a band doing a cool music video on them so could i yeah that's really like you could get them to put in like applications or something with their ideas and you could choose which one you don't you donated some or i like it you could set up the whole video thing if you guys are in the loop right well well we're not with cool bands and stuff we're definitely out of

There, mate. Very smart here, Mary, you going to have a great day. Thank you. See you, mate. So, you know, two days with the pitching ideas at you. Has anything landed? Oh, there's a few good ones there so far. I think there's a few more. John O'Bin and Megan.

The podcast. This morning. We've got the message around about 4 o'clock this morning. Yeah, she's... Hi, team. This is what I'm dealing with at the moment. So... Performed with the cough.

You're really... She was really forcing them. the cough out there. But no, hopefully she'll be back at work. Ben's not convinced. And also Tuesday, her least favoured day of the week as well. So it's not really adding. And we're off to Wellington tomorrow to do the Alpha Quiz Live at Parrot Dog Bar and do

the show the next morning from Sixers and Sevens. We'll see. Now producer Troy, yeah, what I love about you, you're always out doing stuff. I love doing stuff. And you're out there, you're seeing movies, you're seeing shows, you go into orchestras and all sorts of stuff. You know, it's great. I just love to fill my time.

I hate sitting at home with you nothing. Drag, drag poor Nive along to some sort of Chinese orchestra. Maybe you and I need to start going out and do some more shots. Because I feel like both her partners are probably like, I could probably give that one a miss, but you and I are like, let's just do some stuff. I'm hearing ads for the celloist who performed at Harry and Megan's wedding

coming here for a tour. Maybe you two could go and have a date night. Yeah, I'm good. A theatre. But you went to, well speaking of Neve, she took you along to. Yeah, this was something she dragged me along to. her nephew's high school production. This was in Henderson in Auckland,

and it was the Henderson High, a mid-year production. Of what show? They did a, a Kiwi show called For Today, and it was kind of like all Kiwi songs, you know, Four Today.

That was in there. She had songs in there. It was really good. Oh, nice. It was kind of like kids' talents that were amazing, oh yeah, oh yeah. And yeah, we loved it so much.

And what you said, the talent was incredible. and we were like, can we just keep going to other high school productions, even though we have no familial connection. I don't know. I don't know what the legalities are. I feel like you and Eve maybe could do it. I can't. You and me, maybe we're...

We can't do that together. I'm just a fan of high school theatre. But they are really good. I'm sure they'd love the ticket sales. Exactly. And it's cheaper than a normal show because, you know, professionals. Maybe someone does it, but yeah, you're right.

You're safety in numbers in that environment. There was in this musical for today, there was this one girl who played every minor role. So I think they obviously didn't have enough kids that wanted to be a part of the show that she would play like the dad, she would draw on a beard, say one line,

then she'd run off stage, rub off the bed, come back on, and then she's the mum. And then she'd run off stage, come back on, then she's the bully. She's probably the hardest working actor on the stage.

It really was, yeah. You'd really have to remember what role you'd come out to play too if you're doing a quick transition. I love the minor roles because they want the theatre teacher needs everyone to be involved. When you're,

When you're resorting to people playing shrubs and trees, and you say, I had a friend, friend played a shrub. Worst thing was, he couldn't scratch your nose. You just like, having to stay dead still.

I remember as a kid, really young kid, our school did Wizard of Oz. And I was a jitterbug as a part of that. And I was just looking at it before. It's like a deleted scene for it. It didn't even make the cut for the movie of Wizard of Oz. I just remember being a,

like, we did this musical number about jitterbugs. Not in the movie. Don't even know why we're there. It's really just filler. That's filler on stage. And they're always like, don't worry, every role is as important as the next. It's like, you're not playing a branch, lady.

Yeah, the gentleman got cut from the original Wizard of Oz movie. They didn't need it. It did it. It was superfluous. Okay, so what we want right now, 0800 of the hits, 4487 on the test. Minor roles that you've played in school productions. Yeah. Yeah, that's your chance.

That's your chance to get out there. Did you play the role of something that could have been a prop? We need to talk to you. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. We're just talking about your minor roles and school productions over the years. Ah, yeah, that's the beauty's coming through to people.

A lot of trees. A lot of people being played tree. And you get typecast as a tree, don't you? Yeah, it's about one tree. You know, you end up being Groot and the Galaxy or something. You know, that's what happens. And you understand that, you know, everyone needs to have a role on stage. Yeah.

You really, you do. It's a harsh lesson in life where you're like, oh, there's a pecking order here. One of my favorite ones, I remember my daughter did a play. You know, early on, primary school as well, and they'd left the mics on while the kids were backstage, and that was one of the funniest, unintentional things, where they just, sure, you're going to be to go on that, nose, and then they'd know us and like,

are we coming over the lesbakers, so yeah, you definitely are. Are we coming out of there? Shh! It was very good. It was one of the funniest, but it's unintentional, but very good. I want to say happy New Year to you, Olivia. Oh, thank you. Lovely to have you on.

How old are you, mate? I'm 10. 10 years old. 11. Oh, it's very important at that age. to get that right. When you get a bit older, you're like, I'd rather not say. So what was the role you played?

Minor role in the school play, Olivia. So we are going into doing a Narnia play, and I'm one of the witches, like, mean old people on her side. Like, I'm like a troll. Oh, you're a troll. So there's a Narnia, like the line of the witch in the wardrobe. That's very cool. Uh-huh.

Have you got a speaking role? Do you say any lines, Olivia? No, but we all had to sing. Oh, can you give us a little line from the song? I don't think so. No, fair enough. You're going to pay for that, John. You can't just get it for free.

Yeah, we'll come to the show and see you sing, Olivia. No. Please don't. Please. I was just trying to wrap up the conversation. Olivia, well, good luck for your show. We really appreciate it. Lovely to talk to you.

Yeah, thank you. Good sport. Someone texts through saying a drama teacher here. One year we had a student play the cricket ball. He was dressed in green light girl one piece as the grass. And his job was to move the cricket ball when we bowled. He was moving the grass. It's pivotal though.

Yeah, it is. It is pivotal. Yeah, you're right. I mean, how do you do that on stage? That's genius. I played a grasshopper that just sat on the stage, lifeless for an entire hour and a half in a theatre show. So Patty Gower, actually, Patty Gower shows on tonight.

Patty Gow has got issues. He's coming in next. Patty, do you mind coming through here? Patty, were you ever featured in a school play, Paddy Gower, when you're growing up in New Plymouth, mate? No, I failed to get into Oliver Twist. Oh, I want to be one of the orphans. Oh, you didn't get it? No, no.

No, I didn't get it. Please serve more. That was the whole thing. You couldn't even get a roll. I didn't get it. They had heaps of them as well. So many orphans. They had about 50 orphans, but apparently there wasn't room for one more.

One more? Yeah, please sir. One more is literally what I was saying to the cast director. You're like we've got 50. We're about 50 or 15. What was one more, what we're going to hear? John O'Bennon and Megan. The podcast.

The Hats. On three and three now, Pat Agar has issues returns, and he's joined us in the studio right now. We're probably adding to his issues. No, you're definitely not. Just a little bit of news reading. Made you come and contribute to a phonotopic. news and now we're going to interview you. Apart from the big stuff on the show, what's one

personal issue that you've got going on? Forgetting a password, you know, gym membership, lapsing, anything like that going on in your personal life? Oh, mate, don't talk me about passwords. You know, like you're trying to get in and out of my social media and then obviously the office office ID? Well, who can actually

use all of their passwords for their socials and stuff like that. You change it all the time. And internet banking, you know. That's a huge issue. That's an issue. Massive. Massive. Big issue you got at the moment is in your hand right now, you have something that's illegal that you've purchased offshore and smuggled into the country. Yeah, what I'm holding here actually with you, John, I'm with you, Ben, is they are illegal drugs.

I've smuggled these into the country. I imported these from China. Are we part of this now? Yeah, yeah. I'm sorry, guys. Guilty by association. It's good to spread a problem. Like you'd ask me if I had any issues before.

Yeah, I've got some legal ones. So these are peptides. I've heard the name. To be honest, I don't know much more than just hearing the name a lot lately. Okay, so what they are is they're actually a medicine or an illegal medicine or an unimproved medicine. This is what's called Reta. It's Ritter Trutide is the official name.

This is a weight loss drug that is said to be more powerful than Wagovi and the likes of those ones and Ozempik. It's a kind of a next generation drug that hasn't been clinically approved. But what is happening is that New Zealanders are just ordering this straight from China, mainly through social media, of course. And there's not just weight loss peptides that people can get. There's one for tanning. There's one for a skin glow up. There's one to remove acne.

There's one to improve your injuries, which is very, very popular in this country at the moment. Something called the Wolverine stack because of its regenerative nature. That's my mate's on that one. A lot of people battling injuries will be on Wolverine. It helps your recovery. So it's very popular with people with sore backs or sore knees in this country who are looking for answers. But obviously risky if they haven't been sort of passed by the medical association. Yeah, that's right.

So this MedSafe, which is our medicines regulator, has declared them illegal. You know, they haven't been through all of those clinical tests that people will be familiar with where you've got to test them on animals and test them on humans and test them on humans again. and then eventually you've released the drug into the market that skipped all that. But, you know, to get these, I got them by going through an ad on Instagram, and then I started talking to a woman in China on WhatsApp, who showed me photos of her lab. I then ordered them, and these were through the New Zealand border,

through our customs, within five days. Why, they're not getting stopped by customs? It's pretty hard to stop stuff like this coming through customs, as people will be aware. it's very hard to stop methamphetamine and the big illegal drugs coming in this country if you've got lots and lots of New Zealanders and I can tell you right now

they are stopping thousands of these vials at the border right now thousands of thousands of these vials at the border right now but they are just seeping through because so many people are ordering them people aren't treating them like an illegal drug people are treating them like a medicine and are just ordering them

and they're so new that no one has actually been caught or punished yet, don't really know what to do. And it's hardly like your mate with a sore back is a master criminal who needs to be hung, drawn and quartered and locked up inside. He just wanted some pain relief. He just wanted some pain relief. So the authorities have got a very, very complex problem on their hands tonight. And when you watch, Patty Gower has issues at 7.30 on 3 to 9, or it's going to be on 3 now

later today, you'll see, I speak to one woman who swears bipeptides. a personal trainer who's used to recover from a difficult injury. And we also speak to another young lady, 20, 21 years of age, who has body image issues and crashed to, crash to weight by about 14 KGs in just three months. On this stuff that I'm holding in my hand, Rita Trutide or Retta.

A lot of your listeners will have heard of it. And if you haven't heard it by now, you'll hear about it now or soon. These are going to be, mark my words, these will be absolutely massive in New Zealand. The tanning one sounds interesting to me. I'm a very pasty white man. I can do with a little glower.

Give me a couple of those pepies, man. Chuck him in my coffee. So 7.30s at night. I've three and three. Now, Pattyga. You can't put them in your coffee. That was the one thing I had to say. People are injecting these themselves.

So you have to get the needles, mix them themselves, and then inject yourselves with them. So I can't just slip it in your coffee. A whole lot of legalities around that. But not about bringing them into the studio. Oh, fun, sponge. out of here all the order is a tan mate oh it sounds very fascinating catch the new series tonight on three and three