Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Best of the Week: Exes, Elevators & Italian Eats!

Episode Date: August 16, 2025

Missed Jono, Ben & Megan this week? We’ve got you! Catch the best bits from the week, all wrapped up in one bite-sized piece.The most awkward “ran into my ex” stories, including “she was in my Uber Pool”! How did Ben handle an elevator suddenly dropping? Jono apologises to the Mayor for stealing a woman’s bag. We finally meet our Italian correspondent, Daniella, who reviews Kiwi versions of Italian meals.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The John O'Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Hello Fresh. Your home advantage for delicious midweek dinners, everyone will love. We have producer Troy in the studio who we're getting to know more about. She's been here for two or three weeks now and shared a harrowing, harrowing story about this. This is when you realise you've shared too much with us because you're now talking about this on radio. But you're okay to talk about it. We're like laughing with you. Are you okay to talk about that?

Yeah, it's been long enough. It's been long enough. And you're very happy now. I'm in a very happy relationship now. Okay. So we just want to front foot this and say, oh, 800, the hits, four, four, eight, seven, awkward encounters with the X. Yeah.

Okay, that's the headline. Can you beat this? Can it be more awkward than this? Okay, I don't know. Okay, so you broke up with your partner? Yeah, this was when I was living in Wellington, and you being in Wellington this week reminded me. We were living together on the main street and Cuba Street.

How long have you been together? Two years. Okay, so it's decent, yeah. And my workplace at the time was right across the road from our old apartment. windows facing each other right and so we broke up I moved out and then for the next couple of months I'd turn up to work same hours that I do now early mornings 4 a.m. arrive at work and you're working at the breeze at the time that's right yeah in Wellington and a couple of times a month I'd get to work I'd look out the window and the light was on and I would see things

that probably an ex shouldn't see. She was entertaining. So you had a friend in the breeze and she had a friend. Multiple friends. A friend over. Okay, so right. Okay, fine. Okay, so you see that, that's tough.

But then the case. What was your preferred friend? The radio station friend or actually human contact? That is devastating. That was one of the catalysts of me leaving Wellington. Was it? That was up there. Oh, that's all good.

That's all good for everyone, right? Everyone involved. Did she know you had a direct line of sight? Absolutely. Yeah, she knew. Sheen, yeah. Do you think there's a part of you where she would set the alarm and then wake herself up and turn on the mood lighting like the candles and do like shadow puppet hands? It could have been just to get inside your head.

Do you think she was just like moving the sheets by herself? Yeah. There's a, it's a possible. Great play from her if she did, right? Yeah, that's something I'd do. Okay, and then the kicker though. So I left Wellington, moved to Auckland, been here for a couple of years. I went back to Wellington for a mate's engagement party, had a great engagement party, went out for dinner,

had some drinks and thought I'd Uber home and I'd never tried Uber pool before which is where you get an Uber and someone else hops in the Uber with you to save money. You share it. It's carpooling out, yeah. So do you pick them up after you've jumped in the Uber?

Yeah, so I got in first and then it said picking up one rider along the way and about five minutes into the ride, we stop and someone gets into the car and a look over and it's my ex. Oh my gosh. What of the chances? I know, of the chances, really.

What was that interaction? Like, oh, this is awkward. And she goes, do you want me to, should I get another one? And I was like, ah, it's okay. Yes. And she got in and we're just so happy. How are you being? Okay, so you couldn't get much more awkward than that.

Did you ever, like in that Uber ride, think about Commando rolling out of the passenger door on the motorway? So close. I bet even the driver's like, damn, this is awkward. I was thinking about rolling out the front door. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. No, we just heard from producer Troy

Very awkward encounter with his With his ex-partner Not only did he have to work across the road From their apartment See straight in the window After the relationship it ended Ended up in an Uber pool Situation with the two of them

Just in the back of the Uber some months later She's this when you realise New Zealand's too small at times Isn't it? It's too small Next time Troy if you're always in a relationship now But I'm sure he checked whether She lived directly opposite his place of work That's a good prerequisite

Let's get Ben on the phone from Wellington. Welcome, Ben. We're talking running into your ex-partner, the awkward moments. What happened? Yeah, yeah. So first of all, I just want to say our commiserations to Troy. I know how we feel. Oh, really?

Oh, no. So it was 2018. I was living in Melbourne at the time. I broke up with my ex who I'd been with for four years. Obviously, COVID hit. I came back to New Zealand. And 2021, I went to, came back here at a way. Wellington and 2021, I went with my partner down to Christchurch for a dance comp.

And I then did this event called Dance with a Stranger, and I actually had to walk out onto the floor with my ex-partner and dance with her for about 30 or 40 seconds. Oh, my God. So you both walked down on stage and went, uh-oh. Dance with the Strangler, you're like... Yeah, yeah, I saw the line up, and I didn't realize that she had moved to Christchurch on Melbourne. Oh, my God. To see her there, but the real, the real thing on the cake was that my partner was filming this reaction and cackling, giving commentary the entire time.

Oh, she knew. Did she know, obviously, that was out there. That is so. Well, we're not strangers. We can't doubt. We're with each other. We know each other, yeah. Was there any chat? No, I got very much the frosted stare the entire time.

and she was very much back leading herself to do things. Yeah, right. So how you been as you're holding having to rock back and forth? That is brilliant, Ben. Thank you so much for your call. Really appreciate you listening. No worries, thanks a lot, guys. Yes, Grace, good morning.

Good morning, good morning. Lovely to have you on there this morning. Grace, awkward ex-en counters. Went in to go see a friend who was, we were at a social gathering and she was like, I'm going to go have a moment in the bedroom. I'm like, you know, come and check on me in 5 minutes. We need to go check in on her. And three of my exes, who she didn't know were all my exes,

were all sitting on the bed. And they were like, come on, we'll all have a group cuddle. She needs a group cuddle. And so I'm sitting there hugging three of my exes and my best friend. And none of them realized. Oh, wow. Far out. That's a lot.

It was all trying to keep a straight face during it all. And I'm there for my friend and I'm trying to support her while just in the back of my mind being like, I wonder. And so no one knew. She had known that I dated one of them, but she didn't know I dated the other two, and none of the three knew I'd dated any of them. So you're the only one that knew the connection?

At some point the penny didn't drop? No, no, the penny dropped after everyone left, and I turned to my best friend at the time, and I was like, oh, that was horrible. I was like, I got a full-way cuddle with three of my exes. But how are you doing? You okay? Well, you know, I'm great now, and I've gotten through that. You made it through, but if you can get through that, you can get through anything in life, right?

Well, thank you for sharing that story with us. We're going to hook you up with a double pass to the brand-new movie The Naked Gun, which looks very, very funny. It's in cinema's August 21st. I can't wait to see that. Only two tickets, though, so you can't take... All your exes. No, that sounds better than having a cuddle with three of them.

John O'Benn and Megan The podcast, The Hits But something I do I like to switch I switch switches off Powerpoints off I get a bit funny Now and again

I can let it get away On myself But I usually reined in But He got on it Have I told you About the thing he bought The uh

Oh that was the That was when I read He bought a device Time with it He bought a device online Which measured the gamma rays Or whatever When he walked into a room

Measure you basically I got too intense You go around the house And you go like You know, when you were, anyway, I'm not going there. I'm not going there. I said bring it into the radio studio one day, and it was ping him. Yeah, I'm like all the electricity.

What are you going to do there, though? Sit outside, wrapped into him for oil and do the show from it. And I had to put it away. It's like, I don't even know what it's, because I was, when I was walking around the neighbour, holding it up. It's interesting. I was just like, were you? Yeah, no, because I was interested.

I was like, power lines. Oh, walking out of power line. Whoa. And then you go over there. Whoa. Amanda, my wife's like, come inside. Please don't do that. You can't laugh at him.

You walk around the neighbourhood talking and muttering to yourself. I do, I do. So I don't do that anymore. I'm sorry about my friends John. I put it away anyway. So I sometimes like to turn switches off. My daughter, Indy has now started to do it.

But I don't think it's more a power saving thing that she's really gone into the power state. Somewhere it's been drilled into her that we need to save power. And she goes around. And that means what's turning everything over there. Sometimes you're like, well, I was just here and the lights off. It was bag or whatever. Yesterday I put my phone in the charger that I usually leave on.

And then two hours later, I came back and, I was like, switched off. Switched off. Now, I don't think she switched off when the phone was in here, but she'd obviously just switched off beforehand going around. And I was like, this is in my room. This is like you come in and switched off. Yeah, so she's really...

Or she'd literally gone around into other people's rooms and switched off. Yeah, she's like, if you've gone past, sees a switch. It's off. Yeah, so even just to switch on... Oh, if it's unnecessary. I mean, obviously, if it's something like the fridge or the... Boom! If it's like, we're not seeing grandma at the hospital or anything,

she's not going on. Keep her away from Nana. On life support, geez. Yeah, so that was worried me. Do you know how much power this is taking it up? Bang! There we got to save some power on the power pole. Yeah, so yeah, so I think it's probably my fault, actually.

So, yeah, I'll keep that little gamma ray. Well, she might be saving you a power, actually. That's right. Yeah, you know, I need to get better of that, but switching a light off and then coming back, you know. Can you bring a gamma ray reader in again? Go find it. Do you still have it? Somewhere.

I don't know. I don't know. I don't pretend you don't know where it is. No, I haven't touched it for a while. I've kind of, I've left those days behind me, Megan. Okay. But I can try and find it in unless my wife is thrown out, which is a good chance she might have. He's like, he's like, he's like, I can't.

If I just have one, if I just measure one gamma, if I can measure one thing. Hey, we're not yucking you yump. You can bring your gamma ray in. You definitely are, but that's all right. It's a real eye opener when you bring it into a place like this. You're like, wow. Yeah, you go around the house, you're like, the wall is a, we're being sizzled. Did you put it up to Amanda your wife?

She was electrically charged when I had it out, that's for sure, but not... Wait, the gamutniks? She's like, let's get readings of low sexiness from your partner, that's for sure. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, The Hats. It's in the foyer of the Taaronga City District, Regional Financial Council, and I think we're going to be talking to the mayor soon. Mahi, Marisdale's coming. Former Olympian Mara.

Oh, there's Mahe there. We'll be talking to you shortly, mate. How are you? Bloody good to me. That was good timing. Yeah. How are you, ma'i? As soon as someone says mayor, he just appears.

He's like, do you want me to cut a ribbon? What's going on? We'll be with you shortly, ma'ha. Thank you. I actually need to make apology to the mayor since he's here in the city of Toadongra. Oh, you can bring him in actually now if you want. Okay. Okay, we'll do that later.

We'll do the apology. Come, grab a seat, Mah. Well, you can apologize to the mayor. You know, he's here. Do you know what happened last night, ma'am? Chuck those on, mate. We were here last night, and I stole a bag. I stole a lady's handbag.

Without a word of a lie, there is police over there, Joddo. That's why they're here. Oh, there are the police there. They've come for you. He's here, guys. You can take him away. The back story, Mahe, was we were leaving, and the waiter said, oh, who's is this bag in jacket? And I thought, well, this must be Megan's, and she's forgotten it.

Because I'm a female, you know, just a bit bag attached to me. Yeah, and so what I did is I took it. But now if you see me on CCTV, it'll show me having it behind my back because I didn't want Megan to see it because I had a routine plan. Oh, no. So in my head, I was like, okay, this is how to play out. We'll get to the lift of the hotel. And then I'll be like, Megan, where's your bag?

And you'll be like, oh, my God. And then I'll pull it out from behind my back. So I'm sneaking around the restaurant with this bag behind my back. And a pink jacket. The pink jacket. Which wasn't Megan? And I walk outside and Megan's like, who's? whose bag and jacket is that?

And I'm thinking, it's yours. And it wasn't hers, mate. So I need to apologise to you. He then had to run back in and try and find the owner of the bag and jacket that he had swiped and taken outside. Sounds like a good story. Oh, you're just talking to my face, mate. Talking to my face, yeah.

It sounds like a good story. I'm not sure I'm buying it. Okay, we're going to get Mahe's. Mike sort of who's going to join us there. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. We park, well, we park our car, Jono. Geez, can I just say, thank you so much this car parking building.

It provides so much content for this radio show. It's about three blocks away. About, you know, sort of, you know, 30 minutes walk away from where we are. See, Jono appreciates it. Well, particularly at the moment, it's providing a lot of content because at the moment, as we mentioned before, they are doing some renovations in the whole parking building section. It goes into, like, a hotel and other stuff as well. So there's a lot going on there.

there's a lot going on. They're testing alarms every day and they're doing stuff. Please exit the... It's an odd feeling when you're walking into a building and all you're hearing is, please exit the building. And you're like, is this legit? Is this legit or is this like an alarm test yesterday? But there is the elevators aren't always working.

Which is, you know, you understand, there's all stuff going on and there's a loving lady that sits outside the elevators. And she normally tells you if you can use it or if you have to go around the stairs just to keep everyone, you know. She's doing the job of a sign. Yeah. But, well...

A sign could do you. we did say that but yesterday i was like well maybe this job is important you know like really important because uh well but you know like i really thought you were going to say she's doing the job it was saying or something no a sign like the other day there was there was tape there was caution tape and jonah just walked over it so that's why you did do a sign yeah right yeah i don't pay attention to signs it's right so yeah maybe it's important it's important to have someone there yeah so yesterday i had my daughters in here we were going and uh going to go somewhere and pick up my car and as we walked in there

she was there and I was like lifts working she's yep yep all good went in there and as we went down everything power went off and the lift just dropped oh it actually dropped not hugely but just enough to drop and then stopped and power off everything off just pitch black darkness my daughter indy is she's not a fan of lifts at the best of time so normally I just

I'd take staircases with her as well but yeah and so she could tell her she's deep she's deep breathing I'm like it's gonna be okay it's going to be, in my head, I'm like, I don't know if it's going to be okay. Oh, God. You're just to say, it's going to be right, we're going to be right. Then you had to hit the emergency button. Someone pretty quickly was on there, you know, going, are you okay?

And it felt like a few minutes later, the power came back on and we got off on another floor. But, yeah, but very much like it. And especially for Indy, if that's her thing, like now, she's definitely not going to be taking another lift with you. I know. Yeah, when we came back after, because we had to drop some of the car, was like, we're definitely taking the stairs this time. I get that. Yeah. It's like, when you get on a lift and you hear it go, gring.

and you're like, are we going to make it? I know, I know. Unusual environment's the old lift, isn't it? You know, sometimes you could be crammed in there with 10 or 15 people. No one says a word. That's also awkward, didn't it? We could not be any closer and no one is saying anything. There's a lot of trust too sometimes.

You got quite high. So why do we check this out there? Thankfully, you're only in there for a short period of time. Yeah, it wasn't long. The longest amount of time you've been stuck in a lift. It sort of surged a little bit as well. That was a little bit freaky. It's when you realize, oh, geez, this is, you know, I'm not in control right now.

Yeah, stuff that's designed to, you know, maneuver us from one level to another level. It's been quite confusing, too. You took your dog on the escalators, it's really through them. Yeah, the tramulator at Bunnings, and that really blew his mind. That's a lot of sensory overload, isn't it? A lot of confusion. Yeah. Too much for a dog to handle, and so the elevator yesterday was too much for me to handle.

He'll finally got out of there after a couple of minutes. But, oh, Andrew, the hits, 4487. How long did you spend stuck in an elevator? Yeah, I'd love to get your calls on. We've got producer Troy in the studio. Jeez, it's great to have you on the team, Troy. He's coming with all these great stories. He had one yesterday about he broke up with a girl

and then he had to look in her apartment from your office. You looked into her bedroom for two years. That story needs more context than just I looked into her apartment. He just kept in her window for two years afterwards. I was trying to give a brief summary. He shouldn't have probably gone there. You're right. But we don't have time to elaborate.

Sorry, so we'll just leave that there. Binoculars were involved. Police, it was weird. But anyway, move on with the other story. The other story, elevators. Me and my current partner were apartment hunting, and we went to this place. There was a guy there who I think,

he was just trying to get as many people through this apartment as quick as possible so they could get on with his day. And so there was about eight of us, and he's like, just everyone get in the lift. We'll go up to floor two. Everyone gets. He's going to take you all at the whole competing team.

Yeah. And as the doors of the lift were closing We see max load seven people And there's eight of us in there Oh, okay You've done the numbers Surely there's some wiggle room We'll be okay

You'd think so You're like, and also what weight You know, humans vary a lot in weight It was the average They've factoring in there Yeah Well, we were too much Because we got to the second floor

And there's a big drop Oh no And it's grinding like break sound And then we pried the doors open And we couldn't get out Because there were two sets of doors There's the interior doors And we had to call the guy

From the lift And he was really like abrasive and angry What was he all salty? He was angry because he had to drive From East Auckland to West Auckland He was going to take me ages Make you not just Tell you what's going to take your age

It's getting out of this lift And he was trying to talk us Talk us through like this latch That was like we had to reach inside the elevator And out and flick this Because when you're hanging, you know, between floors, you really want to be flicking random latches. You don't know what you're doing.

Dealing with a frustrated lift technician. So were you the one on the phone to the technician, were you? I stepped up and I said, guys, I'll handle it, I'll call them. Good on you. And I was sending him photos. We ended up getting out about half an hour later. Did you get the apartment? No, we decided that was a moment.

Yeah, no. Like the lift isn't great. Oh, 800 of the hits. Rochelle, welcome. Hi, how's it going, guys? We're doing well. It's lovely to have you on New Zealand's breakfast this morning. set the scene

where are we what building I'm in Delta Hotel in downtown Vancouver Okay so you're in care You're offshore You've taken this in the international waters And what happened

So a little story beforehand We just arrived And I was absolutely busting To go to the bathroom So I ran through the lobby The reception lady growled me So did you put a check in first I was like

Nah no time for that Checked in Got in the elevator go up, stops, halfway between floors. And they open the doors and they're like, do you guys want to crawl out? I was like, have you seen the horror movies? Yeah, well, yes. So that was an option.

I didn't know that was an option. I thought that was something they only did in the movies. You can actually crawl out. Well, they were like, do you what? I was like, hell no. There were four of us in there. And they said, sorry, it's peak hour traffic and the technicians at least an hour and a half away. So, yeah, an hour of 45.

And you're having your bladder bags full to the brim? No, lucky I mean lucky I ran through and went to the toilet. Oh, thank God. I thought you were going wheeze in front of some strangers. Got all bare grills on it. And a lift. Oh, thank God. And so how long were you in there for?

An hour 45. Jeez, that's a long time too. Yeah, that's a long time. I imagine every minute feels like half an hour. We were like, we're actually a couple of us nodded off and we were like, Oh, we'll sleep. And they're like, oh, we're really sorry, guys. Please go and have dinner on us.

Do you need any dry cleaning done? And it was like, okay, whatever. And then the funny part, we came back to get on a cruise, and we were supposed to stay in the same hotel. And we went to check in, and they had double books, and we had to drive an hour and a half outside of Vancouver to go to their sister hotel. Put a bed in the elevator.

It would have been a little bit of sleep there. I love that dry cleaning is a good apology, too. I don't do anything, dry cleaning. I guess so. I guess you're going to have a dry collection. John O'Benn and Megan The podcast. One of the biggest songs in the world right now.

Thanks to that movie, it's from the K-pop is from the movie. My kids were watching that, but then they'd lose interest and keep turning it off. So one day, well, actually when I was sick, I watched it by myself. And I loved every minute of year. We did that.

You did that with Dora the Explorer, didn't you? You got swept up in the... Dora, Dora, Dora. I'm like, guys, where you going? Backpack, backpack. She isn't... Dora never went number one, though. She did know.

The Koreans pump them out. Don't they? They pump out. They hit Squid Game. This one. Why did I start a list? Don't have a third example. Two great examples though.

Oh yeah, there's another one. Great. Yeah, great examples right now. Gangnam guy, that's the Kerskoy. Si. Now, Megan, in your relationship from time to time, you've talked, you've mentioned that, you know, sometimes exchange sort of racier photos. Sexy pics.

Sexy pics. You've got to keep it spicy. You've got a folder on your phone, have you? Yeah, but it's been a while. But also we did like long distance. We lived in different countries for like seven months. I've just got photos of me taking pictures of my moles. Sending that to the doctor, if you want to have a peruse through those on my phone.

Yeah, never really been our thing in our relationship. I'm each of their own. But I think my wife sent me one without even realizing over the weekends. Now, so obviously we were emceeing. Lovely event. House of the Year event. House of the Year event. We'll emcee anything.

Available for anything. Any end of year award. Saturday night, MC and it was the time that the Warriors were on. Now, she was at home, I was out and about, and she sends me a pick. Oh, she's like, wait till you get home. Her in a warrior's top, firstly. And behind her on the TV, you can see James Fisher Harris from the Warriors, just on the screen. More James than Amanda.

More James and Amanda. It says, Wish you were here, X, X, X, X.X. I'm like, Jesus, this is doing stuff to me, guys. This is doing stuff to me. Just Amanda with James Fisher Harris. Just my ultimate fantasy. she knows too that she's just like quite to the you know there's a lot of James Fisher Harris which makes you happy yeah it makes me very happy do it do love James Fisher

Harris Captain the Warriors so there we go I was like well maybe maybe this is what it's like when you get racing photos yeah I saw that while I was like Jesus wrap up this event but I need to go home watch the Warriors you've seen that the Warriors jersey is akin to sexy lingerie I know and this is I because I would I did say that sometimes when I'm watching in my Warriors top or hoodie she'll put it on and come back and watch I wasn't even there. This is unsolicited. Yeah.

This is like something comfortable. It's like, whoa, I'll put on the Warriors vintage jersey. 1995. Anset New Zealand sponsorship on the sleeve. Yeah, well, there you go. So, wow. Wow. So, wow, we're asking for the weekend.

He did leave there really quickly. He's all, got to go home. We got to watch the Warriors. And that was disappointing, actually, the Warriors. It was a bit of a shame. But anyway. Was she still wearing the jersey when you got home? No, it was really late.

She said, like, hey, I'm going to go to bed now. Is that right? You know what? Sidgy, like, yeah. I said, I just saw the results. She just, yeah, it's not good. I watched some highlights. Should we sleep in separate breads again?

John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast, The Hits. The hotel we're staying at just across the quest, just across the road. It was like, and four or five steps and we were there. Amazing. And I still turned up late. I was still 15 minutes late. Travis, the nightmare, guys.

Five minutes away. You're like, five minutes away. How's that it work? It's literally 10 seconds away. But anyway, last night we were at an event, NZME, the company we worked for, put on a lovely event with all the NZB clients and sales reps around the Tadong region.

Also, our big boss, our CEO. All the bosses. All the bosses were there. Yeah. Spreading the good word of NZME, the company propaganda. We're getting it out there like the disciples of media. And we got to emcee it to talk in between our big bosses. Yeah, Tony Street wasn't a very big boss. Yeah, Tony Street wasn't available.

No, I think that's the thing. Neither was Hosking. You always wondered that. You're like, how many people did they go through to get to us? A few, I'd say. Jeremy Wells, Mike Hosking, other people that work in the building. Yeah, they got to us eventually. We were available.

Who can be bothered going to Tauranga? Well, us. We love it here. But I thought, you know, because at home I have a vast selection of costumes. And, you know, Taurong has had a lot of roadworks over the last few years, right? Particularly along Cameron Road, yeah, for at least two or three years. The whole thing was just littered with road cones. So we said, we did a little bit of comedy.

Yeah, yeah. I was like, I'll bring the Roanco costume about. We'll do a reveal where I whip away. I come back out, we're like, hey, we've been working with the council for a new mascot for Tauranga. Here he is now, and I come out as a road cone. You had the gag about not Tony Street, but. Coney Street. And the crowd went, silent.

As the people arrived for the event, and I knew, because I came pre-pre-prepared in tights and an orange top under what I was wearing. so it could be a quick change like a Beyonce concert. I was always sort of standing there and watching the crowd, I was like, oh, is this a kid going to go down? You know, like, I'm okay to embarrass myself all my daughters are costume, but just in my head, I was like, is this the right place?

In front of the corporate community. Yeah, it's just the right. But then we're like, no, no, we'll possess, we'll do it. And it's like, it's not going to bring the house down, but at least it'll come in the front door, I guess. And so you came out with these very crotchy, crotchy orange tights, didn't he? Yeah, there's no shorts or nothing underneath there,

just my underpants and tights. And the row cone doesn't quite go over the sort of, it does just over the sort of crotch region. Because after we did the gag, I'm sitting in the front row with Ben and he. Brought the house down too. Yeah, rapturous. He leans over to me and he's like,

shall I get changed? Should I take it off? I sat there and now, big boss talked. Other boss talked, I'm sitting in an audience of corporates, so I'm in a road coat costume. And I couldn't quite turn my head around the whole way

because of the visibility. He didn't have peripheral vision, no. So I had to sort of, like, sort of maneuver around, and I just had to me going, should I get changed? She looked at me like, you're like, okay, but, you know, you should stay, but I didn't know if that was. No, it was like commit to it. You're here now. The problem was, it was one of the first things we did, and it was an hour and a half long at the event. He was dressed like, oh, right.

And they kept popping back up on stage and pop me down again. Everything in my mind was like, if that was me, I'd definitely get changed. But I was like, no, Ben. I can see our bosses when they talk to their speeches. I'll be talking to, walking around the room, they just look at me, and we're almost like an, ugh, and then they go back to... Do you know, it backfired on me, though,

because there's, like, a little step up onto the stage, and we were in the front row, so when Ben went up to do his, like, bit by himself, I was in an angle where I saw what was under... You saw his little road cone. Yeah. Were there, like, velour hot pants under it? No, that was just my boxes pulled.

Oh, lovely, I saw those. Great. So the new Unofficial mascot for Ta-Daga If you want to look at the bonus We're not going to be asked back to do another one So Look at the what?

The bonus of the whole situation Yeah, that's what you said She wasn't looking at my bonus That's for sure John O'Benn and Megan The podcast The Hits Now we're taking away

Killer Swim! He 100% popped a hemorrholy Yeah You can hear it The Skoda that we are given away we are taking on a bit of a road trip today we haven't decided who's driving

I think all of us have decided it's not Jono oh yeah Johno's decided it's not Joe I don't want any part in driving this the last time I drove a work he's sleepy yeah he speeds because what happens when we have we've got the company vehicles here and if anyone goes a bloody K over the speed limit 1K it pings to the wonderful Joe Riddell's email

who Joe managed she's the backbone of this place Joe and she was like who was driving between Wellington in Palmerston North. And I said, I was, Joe. And she said, look at this. A million emails. Because I remember you saying at one point, because it beeps. And it was like, if you just stay over the speed limit, the beeping stops.

You can drive through it, you know. Can do attitude. A positive way, Kiwi can do attitude. Stay over the speed limit. Turns out it didn't. Don't worry, Joe, and you run at work. John is not driving. I don't want to, oh, well, I don't want to crash it.

I don't want to end up. Because it's the prize that we're going to do. It's an amazing car that we're given away So yeah So I don't want to Yeah me I don't want to drive

Okay I have taken this car away From the weekend And it is a beauty to drive Producer Troy You are new to the station Yeah how do you feel about driving

I don't want a bar of it Oh really So you're all just gonna beat her Yeah you're driving Okay This wouldn't have happened Back in the 70s mate What are you saying

You should be lucky You should be lucky You're letting you drive Back of the day We'd take the wheel Wouldn't we? Now we're a very progressive show. Aren't we just?

That's very true, actually. You're right. Three very capable males here. Oh, you've made you me drive you, cook your dinner, do your laundry. Oh, we can't win. We're trying to give you all these opportunities, Megan. There's amazing opportunities. We just want to know when borrowing the car went bad.

That's the topic, okay? Oh, 800 that's. Why don't we want to know this before we've taken a car? Yeah, I feel like we're putting it out in time. the universe. What about when borrowing the car went well? Well, that's boring. Yeah, all right.

For entertaining radio. Okay, you're right. It could be like a warning for not what to do. Okay, okay, I get it. I imagine a lot of rentals. Rentals. You're borrowing your parents' car as a teenager. That's always going to happen.

John O'Bennon and Megan. The podcast. The hit. Tell you what, Schoda have given us this car to give away the cashing car and we are taking the car away. The actual prize we are driving today and all of us are too nervous to drive so we've made Megan do the driving. There's a lot of responsibility on me.

I am the best driver, though. You are? John, I was the worst. I won't disagree. We're at opposite ends up the spectrum. It's not what we need. Not when you're driving a price. No.

So we're doing, borrowing the car going bad, which is making Ben very nervous. It is. I don't know why we're doing this, guys. But anyway, we're doing it. These are worst case scenarios. It's what not to do. Yeah, okay. Nick, good morning.

Good morning. How are you? We're doing well, my friend. When borrowing the car goes bad. Yeah. A friend of mine, he was meant to be invalidating my car and decided he was going out for a drive. And I got a phone call from him to say, I've run away from the police. Oh, no.

I tried to tell him over, and he escaped him. The very next day, I had the police knocking on my door. He's like, good news and bad news. Hey, so. The police were chasing me. And he got away from them. He did. He did.

It was a pretty fast car. What did he done? It was actually an average of 127 miles an hour. That's what they tracked him at. Oh, my gosh. This is back in the UK. He actually got three months in prison for it. Oh, really?

Wow. Yeah, they made an example of him. Gee whiz. Thankfully, they believed that it wasn't you. Well, it was basically it was proof of it was or you'll get in trouble. Right. So I see problems on him. So Nick, okay, your friend calls you.

He says, I've been on the, you know, I've run away from the police. What do you say? Your first words? Yeah, I thought it was a joke about, I really did. It does. It does. It does. Yeah, the next day, and mum says, the police are at the door for you?

Oh, no, no one wants to hear that from that mom. He's really committing to this prank. Oh, mate, well, that's, I'm glad you're okay, and I hope he learned his lesson. Thank you so much, Nick. Thank you. No worries, mate. Let's get Brooke on the show.

Good morning to you. Good morning, team. How are we? Good, how are you? Lovely to have you on. Good, good, good. Borrowing a car, how did it go wrong for you? So my very good friend in high school, we were all at age of getting our licences. She had got her learners, passed that, done all the time to get her restricted.

And on the day of her restricted, she got borrowed her mom's car because she had no gas in hers. So she took it to the AA place, got in the car. The instructor said, please, check your mirrors. make sure that you pop it in reverse, and she popped it in drive instead and ran it through the front window of the AA building. Oh, no. He instantly went, I can guess that you would think that you're not going to get your license. Good luck next time.

Oh, that was cool from the instructor. Those were some good words. I reckon that would happen more often than you think around those buildings. Oh, that is She was not happy And AA also does insurance as well Which would be useful It's a one-stop shop

Gary coming out from out the bat Going oh hello Does she get it next time? No she didn't She had to do it three times She was all getting it So she wasn't the best driver I guess And now you can rest safe

That lady's now on the road With children Oh God Hey Brooke appreciate you listening Have a great day You too thank you very much John O'Ben and Megan The podcast, The Hits.

It's also exciting for us. We got to meet Daniela. Now, we stumbled across Daniela when we rang the Quest Hotel in Tauranga about a year ago, and she's amazing. She's great. And we talked to her every week, every second week, yeah. And for 12 months we've been saying we must treat you to some of New Zealand's finest Italian cuisine. And that is in the form of frozen pizzas, spaghetti in a can, and that sort of thing.

So, Daniela, it's lovely to meet your face. face. Nice to meet you guys. Originally from Italy, living in our New Zealand, our Italian correspondent. And now, we were worried that you were catfishing us. You know, maybe you weren't going to be quite like your profile picture or anything like that. But, you know, it feels like everything worked out last night when we met.

Did you see how much fake I am, yeah? How much fake? You could touch me on the flesh. We could touch you. No, in the flesh, okay? On the flesh. Yeah, you said that yesterday. You were like, well, I love to meet you on flesh.

And we're like, yeah, close enough. It's my English slash Italian. You need to forgive me, guys. And the big one we really enjoyed, we said, you know, what's your favorite dish? And it was the soup a bowl. A bowl. A bowl for soup. It was also a super bowl, yeah.

A super bowl. So we got to meet you last night, and we got to go to Florence Bistro, where they make it a wonderful Italian food, but we got to bring our own food from New Zealand along for you to try. An appetizer, shall we say, you know, before the main course. Producer Troy went to panic because we were. We hadn't got the food. He went down to the dairy, into the frozen section of a dairy,

which is always an interesting space. We pulled out a frozen pizza. We got some minstroni. And a sort of cup, yeah. And a can of spaghetti. And we presented it to you in our tuxedos, and we got a super bowl and put the minstroni in it, and here's how it went.

Daniela, we're going to start with minestrone in a cup. Okay, there we go. Traditional minestrone. Bon Appetit, is that what you say? No, that's French. Can you try better? Bon Appetito. Bon Appetito.

You interrupted me. I was just about to put the toe on the end. So Daniel is going to put a bit of salt and paper on the minister or... But don't take away its natural flavor. Not to make... Just to make better. Okay, here we go. Okay, here we go.

This pasta inside? No, I'm just asking. Yeah, noodles, yeah, it's noodles, you're right, it's noodles. Do Italians eat noodles? No, we eat the spaghetti. The trick is just don't think too hard about it. There we go, we'll put some little garnish on it. Oh, yeah, I think it off the garnet.

And? Not common. No comment, okay, a good, good start, good start. Good start, good start, good start, good start. We've got some lovely, well, it was frozen pizza, but guess what? It's no longer frozen. Hawaiian pizza. In New Zealand, we put fruit on our pizza.

No, why is so dry? Why did he's not? As you would say in Italy, panapoli. Look how white it is. It's good. It's all the goodness. Are you sure? First thoughts of the frozen pizza.

Belisimum. That's fantastic. Oh, she didn't have potato. Second buy. Hey. Oh, McCain, you've done it again. Yeah, that's nice. That's nice.

Oh, you're good. Okay, good, great. Okay, and the final course. Yeah. And away. Is it something yummy delicious? It's a delicacy in New Zealand, this one. This is spaghetti.

It's with a sausage. Can I have this spoon, please? That's scary. Look, someone die inside my plate. What is this spaghetti? They're all broken. Why are you eating it with a fork? Here we go.

Yeah. Oh dear me. Homoshabotis. Good luck. Mom, forgive me. Mom, forgive me. She loves that. She loved that.

Very good, very good. Would you believe that came from a tin? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I do. She does, you did believe it came from the tin. So you actually like the pizza. The pizza was your favourite out of the three.

Yeah, if we want to say that. Yeah, yeah, that's a compliment. You can see the video. We'll put it up on the Hits Breakfast of Janiela. Yeah, trying out the food. I love how you like literally almost choked on that spaghetti from the can. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was thinking, you know, in Italy, if you break spaghetti, they break your harm and hands

because you cannot do that. Like, you cannot break spaghetti. All right. Well, we have. We've broken it here. We're putting it at a can. I know. With some little sausages, question mark, in there. Yeah, question mark.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not sure about that.