Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Best Of The Week: Punishment by Terrestrial TV
Episode Date: August 23, 2025Missed Jono, Ben & Megan this week? We’ve got you. Catch the best bits from the week, all wrapped up in one bite-sized piece.Hear about the funniest punishments after Megan makes her son wat...ch terrestrial TV and why she’s mad that the boys are praising Producer Troy for something while they hate on her for it. We also visit the world’s first AI cafe, try to hype up Ben who’s feeling self-conscious about his legs, and dive into Jono’s wild Putin fact. Plus, one of us discovers they have a nicer copycat out there!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Something that happened to me over the last couple of days,
so we've got a cafe up the road from home that sometimes I'll pop in and grab a hot drink or whatever.
They know your order?
Yeah, we're at that stage, yeah, they know the order.
But, you know, not that I go all the time, my family will pop in from time to time.
My daughters will go with, like, their grandma, or sometimes they even pop in by themselves and stuff.
It's like the Friends Cafe.
Yeah, it's a cafe you pop into.
There was, there's someone that worked there.
They've got many people that worked there.
There was a lady that worked there.
My daughters have said to us, they're like, oh, there's someone in there that looks exactly
like, like, mum.
They thought at first it was my wife Amanda and, you know, and their mum.
And so I was like, oh, we were like, oh, okay.
And every time I popped in, I was like, I wonder if that person is there just to see.
And I haven't actually seen, haven't seen that person.
So you want to see the doppelganger?
Yeah, I was like, oh, yeah.
And my wife's as well, say, what do you want to see?
And my daughters were talking to me about the other day.
And they were like, oh, we just saw, we saw the lady that looks like, mom.
and I was like, oh, okay, and they're like,
do you want me to take, no, I was like, I had a half listening
to them, I was like, oh, cool, and then they were like, do you want me to
take, should, should we get a photo next time?
I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, whatever, whatever, we're back to my,
whatever I was doing.
Well, this is the thing.
And I, they came home yesterday and they're like,
we've got a photo of the lady.
You're like, what was the backstory?
Yeah, and I was like, oh, maybe they've taken one, you know,
one of those sneaky photos or whatever like that, you know,
and they're like, no, no, we went up and said we go.
Oh, God.
Can we get a photo with you?
And then he's like, yeah, why's that?
And they went, for Dad.
Because you look like our mum.
Yeah, and I said, did you say, because you look like the mum?
They had, oh, being kids, they're like, no, we didn't get to that part.
We just said, Dad wants a photo.
Oh, no.
My daughters are in the photo with the lady, but still.
You'll Photoshop them out.
Wait, does she know that you're their dad?
Like, do they connect you guys together?
No, maybe because we've been in together.
Never go in together again.
Yeah, that's what I feel.
I feel like I can't, I can't step.
I can't do it again there
because it's like
oh there's the guy
that wanted the phone
of me.
I know I don't know
it's worse
whether she thinks
she looks like
the kid's mom
or whether she
thinks that
you just want to pick
at her
yeah exactly
at the moment
all she thinks
is that I was like
thanks kids
you could at least
said the backstory
that you look like
you know
that's a fine
backstory to go
okay you look like
the mom
because then what happens
if she's into it
you go in there
and this woman
that looks like
your wife starts
flirting with you
they missed out
some pivotal information
they really did
it's a no win
it would be nice to have
that next sentence
But anyway, in their minds, they got what they needed, and that was all right.
What did your wife say about this?
Well, she doesn't know the back story.
She doesn't know the back story that.
She doesn't know that dad wants a photo back story.
Oh, no.
So she might not be across all the details.
Oh, God.
So you're leaving some details out of my story.
They're leaving some details out of their story.
There's a lot of mystery.
You need a new cafe.
Yeah, I definitely do.
That's for sure.
New cafe to send your kids along to take a photo of that hot barista.
New wife, whatever, you know.
No.
Oh, is that not what you're saying?
John O'Benn and Megan
The podcast.
The Hits.
I have discovered a punishment for my son,
which was something that I used to really enjoy when I was little,
and it's really kind of a sign of the times.
So just before everyone comes for me, they don't have iPads.
So this is the only screen time they get.
You're quite good about this, aren't you?
What?
In the weekend, they're allowed to watch something, right?
Yeah.
Oh, you actually pleased that, dear?
Yeah.
Oh, geez, it's one of the greatest parenting times.
ever go spend an hour or two on the iPad you do stuff you want to want to want to buy one so
they don't have those but he enjoys watching like Netflix also knows how to use it knows how to use
all the streaming services which is terrifying yeah you know what I really enjoy watching as
younger kids think everything's a touchscreen I know yeah and they go up to there's fingerprints
all over the TV nothing more disappointing to that child then we're like oh even with a laptop
or something and they're trying to scroll the pinch in and slower, you're like,
but you can't do that.
Ha, ha.
Actually, my two-year-old daughter can barely like string a sentence together,
but she was like, I need a laptop the other day.
I was like, oh my God.
You do, I.
Mum will buy your one.
No.
So he likes watching Netflix.
He likes the streaming services, but hates terrestrial TV because he can't control it.
He's the problem.
He's the problem terrestrial TV, but he's just keeping its mouth above water.
During the week, he knows that he can watch whatever is on TV until he has to go to daycare.
He can watch, you know, just whatever's on there.
But he hangs out for the weekend.
It's the first thing he asks me, he's like, can I turn Netflix on us at the weekend?
But if he's, you know, not behaving or not going to have a bath or a shower, you're like, I'm just going to put on normal TV.
And he's like, no!
That's child abuse in 2025.
Not Master Chef complete with funeral insurance commercial.
You're putting me through three minutes of the ads.
Or like, I'm going to put the news on, and he's like,
I don't want to watch the news.
It's confusing for a kid.
I do remember the first time watching it with my kids,
so they're like, where'd the movie go?
Like, all of a sudden, watching a movie,
they're like, where'd it go?
And there's his ads.
So they're going to wait three minutes for it to come back.
Can you skip them?
No, no.
You just appreciate them.
You just sit there and watch them.
You can go do something else and try and time it to come back.
It's like, wait, you're telling me, I have to watch what they're telling me to watch.
Yeah, yeah.
What is this?
there's something very peaceful about that though
you know sometimes it's just like oh there's too much stuff to choose from
sometimes you just want to turn on country calendar
and watch some betler make marmalade out of kiwi fruit
do you find like at the weekends when there's a movie on
like I watch it because I don't know
like I could get it without the ads probably on another streaming server
but it's kind of comforting watching a movie on the TV
well you know the ads they factor in a bit of toilet break stuff
He needs to a little clean up in the kitchen, have a breather outside.
It's like a little time out.
I don't think we're going to get TV back from this conversation, guys.
We're trying our best.
So an unusual form of punishment, making best you watch.
Terrestrial TV.
I'm free to eat TV.
I'm with them now.
I'm like, oh, geez.
Get it done.
You're watching things in double speed, being in yourself, right?
That's true.
On streaming services, just to get it done.
How painful is that?
You're saying to read.
So, 800 of the hits.
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We'd love you to call through this morning.
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487,
the most creative form of punishment
that maybe you received
when you were growing up,
maybe you're handing down now.
A boss was saying the other day
that if he was sick,
his mum would make him stay in bed,
couldn't leave the bed.
That was the rule for being sick.
That's calling your bluff, isn't it?
So if you're sick, you stay in bed.
A creative form of punishment.
That sounds like an absolute dream.
No, now it does.
I'm sick, okay, you have to stay in bed all day.
Oh, you got me.
No tablet, no tablet.
Oh, no.
Oh, okay, yeah, yeah.
John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, The Hits.
So, O-800, The Hits, just creative kid punishments.
Megan is a form of punishment.
You're making you some best, you do what?
Watch terrestrial TV.
Normal TV.
He can't choose what's on.
Monster, monstrous act from you.
We've got Nicole with us on 0-800 The Hits.
How are you this morning, Nicole?
Yeah, not bad.
Creative punishments.
Was this when you were growing up?
Nah, it's one I created for my niece and nephew
because they were little brats
It's called Training Day
So I'd go and
My sister would be like
Oh, they're out the gate
I can't deal with them anymore
You know, one's flung something over here
And this is happening over here
So alright, I'll take them on training day
Is this like from the Denzel Washington movie
Sort of, but not as much aggressiveness
Yeah, good
So I dial it back a couple of levels
We drive to town
We drive all the way to town
It's a 30 minute drive
and we drive up to McDonald's
and we have a look at all the kids playing
and we wave to them and they get to see
how much fun they're having and then we carry on driving
and we go to their favourite park
and we see all the kids playing
and we give them a wave till we carry on
love it this is so sadistic
then we head back home
and ask them how they've enjoyed
their day and they say they didn't
enjoy it because they didn't get to get out
and go and do the things and I say well that's what we call
training day
training you guys into being better human beings
when you behave you get good things
when you don't behave you get to watch everyone else have good things
showing them what they could have
yeah look that kids smiling laughing
that could be you
one day if you play your cards right
that's like that line game but all this could be yours
the blackguard yeah one day Simba
hey good on you now Nicole appreciate your time
yeah no worries mate at least
with us on 0800 the hits
creative punishment
your morning how are you
we're doing well mate what was the punishment
Well, when we were little, my parents used to put us in the toilet when we misbehaved as timeout.
And so I've just carried that on with my kids.
So the first time my mother-in-law saw me put my son in the toilet for timeout.
She was horrified.
So you meant in the bathroom, not like dunking their head in the...
No, no, not dunking the head in the toilet.
You should definitely rephrase that.
Okay, so they're in the bathroom.
You gotcha.
They can go to the bathroom then if they want and then they're stuck sort of in the bathroom.
Yeah, exactly.
She was horrified.
I said it's time out.
It's not meant to be fun.
What if someone's just been to the bathroom beforehand?
It's more of a punishment.
But again, though, back to that one we're like calling the bluff if they say they're sicky,
so we've got to stay in bed all day.
Being locked in a bathroom sounds like a dream.
Doesn't I?
Do you?
Quite a time.
Yeah, four hours in a bath.
This is like a great dream to me.
Can I have a bath while I'm in there?
The dream would fade eventually, obviously.
Georgia, good morning.
Good morning.
Creative kid punishments.
Were you the victim growing up or were you handing down the justice?
No, when I was little, I remember I went to the shops with my mum,
and I stole a lolly from one of the shops.
And then my mum made me stand in the, like, when I was really busy,
like middle of the food court, kind of it,
and yell out to everyone what I just, how naughty I was.
I'd stolen the lolly.
Oh, so, okay, let's do a reenactment.
So this is back to a little nine-year-old Georgia,
yelling in the food court, take it away.
Um
No
I
Please don't
Are you around
People
Yes
Okay
Which makes us even better Georgia
We're
We're in the van on the way
The pickleball for a sacred heart girl
Okay we'll yell it out Georgia
Tell them you're on the radio
I stole food
You stole food
You stole food
You yell louder Georgia
You own that crow
She stole food
And you're a naughty what Georgia
That sounded weird
That sounded weird
Yeah like it feels like when people get
They got weird in the years
Sorry, sorry
George
Come on mate
Georgia we're going to hook you out with a prize
We appreciate you playing the game this morning
Tell them you're on the radio
For goodness sake
Shut up, shut up
Johno Ben and Megan
The podcast
The Hits
It is a bone I have to pick with John and Ben.
And everyone else will be aware of this to a point as well.
So I like to cook things.
I like to make things from scratch.
I made butter from scratch out of cream.
And we did last night or something.
So last night I made little dinner rolls.
I made the buns.
Oh, you're talking about the jellies.
Yeah, it was a jelly.
I made protein jelly and mango coconut.
Your husband, Andrew, posted it.
It was like, yeah, is there anything that you can't do?
And then I dropped it in the bed.
I was going to reply.
each stuff of sugar in it.
She can't do that in the moment.
So anything this woman can't do?
I was like, well, yeah,
like she's intolerant to a lot of foods, actually.
There's quite a lot of she can't do.
But I was like, I don't know if it was late.
I was not ever get the joke.
It might take a fence store.
I just had in my head and I played it out.
It was funny.
It was a funny joke.
So, yeah, like I make a lot of things.
I made jellies last night.
I made some dinner rolls.
We like to mock you for it.
We love to mock you.
Mocking from these two
Even though I brought you in scones
We brought us in the blandest
pancakes that I've ever had
They made my heart sad
Those pancakes
I'm with your son who was like
These are all
Yeah I'm with you bestie
Is there anything that you can't do
Make pancakes?
I made you full sugar scones
One time
They were good
They were good
You are honestly
No
Don't try and
Like brownise me now
It's what he's trying to do
It's too late
We'll try and back pedal now
Yeah that horse is left
Here's my issue, is that producer Troy, lovely producer Troy, has started with us.
Now you know, I know.
Yeah, yeah, no, I know.
He, we are kindred spirits because he loves to cook, and he makes beautiful food.
He does.
From scratch.
It's a foodie.
Impressive.
And when he's brought it in, the boys are like, wow, Troy, that's amazing.
Oh, my God, it looks delicious.
Good on you.
All of the praise.
Is anything Troy can't do?
I can't think of anything.
He gets all of the craze
Looks incredible
Good on you, how long that take you
Oh, get up a taste
All of it
And then I don't get the same
I don't get the same treatment
You're right
You're 100% right
That's exactly
Double standards
And it's double standards
But you know
In fairness
Troy's new
We've got to pretend
To feign interest
In his hobbies
For a little while
Anyway
You know like a month or something
Yeah
Then eventually
He'll be like
Oh look at this cockovana
Maybe
Right
Troy brought in a roast dinner yesterday
And both of you guys are like
Oh, that looks amazing, man
Did look good
But it was your base level roast
So you're right
It's not like you've
You're like a hand-reared
Jelly
Am I wrong, Troy
Would you agree
There's a bit of a double standard
Going on?
Well, yes
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
You're no shock at coding that
Yeah, there is
You know, admit it
I'm sorry
I'm sorry, but you are very impressive
I can't say that
I can't say that
I made him a little pizza bun
but I didn't bring you any in.
No, I noticed that.
You gave in, you were like, yeah, you just cut us out of it.
Cut us out of the loop now.
Fair enough, though.
Can I just say, a bit too peppery.
A bit too, yeah.
Joy with it, like, joy with it, no.
Found another thing she can't do.
Pizza buns.
John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast.
The hits us any time on the show.
We love your text 4487's a text number.
Someone's just text in saying, I liked your radio show.
Now, I don't know if that's past.
Past, yeah, past.
We'll keep you able to speak.
with that one.
Oh, at least we had a fan.
We had a like.
I'll take that.
It's never no likes at all.
Hopefully it's a typo.
They added a D.
Yeah.
I'd rather a past like,
you know,
than no likes,
you're right,
Bip.
Now you want to pay homage
to Grandos.
Yeah.
If you just give me a minute,
you know when you go
to talk about something like hard
and you hope your voice
doesn't betray you?
I hope it doesn't.
I hope it doesn't.
But this past week
has been tough for us
as my family said goodbye
to my nan and Natalie.
When I was little,
I didn't think
I realize how special grandparents really are.
Now that I've said goodbye to my last one and I have my own kids,
I see now how grandparents give them something that parents can't always manage.
Parents have the jobs of raising us, teaching us, keeping us on track,
but grandparents get to be the fun.
They do.
They really changed from when they were parents too.
Right.
They come in as high-impact sugar distributors.
Yeah, you're like, where was that when I was a kid?
They're the ones who say yes when mum and dad say no.
They've got endless patience for games for answering the same question 10 times
or for listening to a long meandering story.
They laugh at the mess instead of worrying about cleaning it up.
They bring family history to life with stories of when your mom was your age.
They hold traditions and recipes and wisdom that would otherwise be lost.
And maybe the best thing is the way they make kids feel like they're the absolute center of the universe.
The unconditional, unhurried love.
even though my grandparents are gone
I see that
in the way my kids look at your grandparents
it makes me grateful for what I had
and for my children get to have now
so grandparents help raise us
they steady us they spoil us
and they teach us
and they love us in a way that stays with us
long after they're gone
so I love you Nana
just rest up now
Well, it's beautiful words, Megan.
Good on you.
Thank you for sharing that.
So true.
Yeah.
So true.
Yeah.
I'm sure everyone listening right now is thinking about there, you know, the grandparents.
Hopefully you get to be one and hopefully you got to experience yours because they're really special.
I think a large part of being grandparent too is you probably have perspective on life at that age.
You know what's important.
That's beautiful.
Yeah.
Thanks, Megan.
Thanks, Megan.
Thanks, guys.
John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast.
The Hits.
Talk about artificial intelligence.
AI at the moment, chat GPT, lots of people using it to help out with assignments, help out with their jobs.
There's fear that could take over a whole lot of jobs.
Yeah, I was watching a clip before of a teacher.
I should try and find it because it's probably better than me just regurgitating it.
But she was going, well, you can't stop the kids from using it to write essays.
What you can do is go, okay, we'll bring your chat GPT essay into class where there's no AI and you try and improve it.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, that's a good tool.
With nature's chat, GPT, your mind.
It's not a bad take on it.
We spoke to Justin Flitter, who's the founder of New Zealand AI,
AI New Zealand, one of the two.
Can't remember which way it goes around.
And he was a really interesting podcast if you head to IHeart Radio
and his take on AI and how it's really going to better the human race.
What about the please and thank you, you know,
when you ask GPT to do something, do we need to say please and thank you?
No, there's no need to be polite to AI.
In fact, you know, your pleas and thank yous are just taking up more.
data center, processing time and energy supply to complete that request.
It's moving faster than anything else ever has.
It is creating tension and anxiety because it is hard for people to keep up with this.
He's just like, get on board.
Get on board now.
Don't be left behind.
Yeah.
And we thought this week, well, let's go out and see what a threat these robots are to us.
That's right.
So if you do know of any AI around the place, let us know 4487 on the hits that we can go test out
because we heard about a robot cafe, a little place where they make hot drinks and you can
go down a robotic arm or make the hot drink for you.
No, not a human inside.
No.
Only us, we were the only humans.
On our quest, road testing the robots this week, we've arrived at what claims to be the
world's first robot cafe?
Yeah, the world's first AI cafe.
Now there's a robot arm and that's going to make a whole thing.
hot drink for us right now. The music is blaring in here though, isn't it?
Who do we complain to about the music being so loud at the cafe?
I don't know, but it's not very social.
It's just asking the cat. Well, I guess it's just like take it and go.
Alright, so we're going to order something for the robot.
So we're looking at a giant glass box and inside the machinery,
but I assume makes whatever drink you want.
It's got a robotic arm that looks like it's going to do all the work.
It's like a giant vending machine, you're right.
But making hot, hot drinks and it's going to come out, I guess,
through the little, well basically like a vending machine.
machine okay so we'll press order what do you want to hear this is it we'll just go a
a tea shall we okay it's three dollars 80 swipe your card
oh it's accepted oh good on you you got money in your account oh no okay so the arm is oh oh oh
the arm got the um oh dropped the cup in the arm he's caught the cup it's frozen oh no
It moves over to the coffee-making machine, I assume.
It's exciting the first time round.
I don't know about, you know, if you hear every day.
Yeah.
If the novelty ever wears off.
You know, right, there's no sort of conversation, is there?
There's only drips of liquid coming out.
Should there be more than that?
No, it's going, it's going.
Woo!
Maybe it's got a little prostate problem,
but it's just dribbling out.
Would you say a barista, a human barista,
would be beating the robotic barista
in terms of a time trial?
I don't know.
Maybe, but it's hard to know.
The hot water's going in.
Oh someone's coming out.
Are you guys coming to use the world's first robot cafe, are you?
Yeah.
How do you find it compared to a human?
Better.
That's all right.
Yeah.
It's coming, it's coming.
We dropped in.
Oh, where's it going now?
It's putting a lid on it.
Look at this.
Look at this.
The robot arm puts it onto a stage which then...
It's hot.
It's with a lid on there as well.
Is it secure?
Yeah, the lid's secure.
Which is genius.
Now, Tate's skeleton.
Very hot.
So what was your, what was your, you know, what, it was a, it was, yeah, it did a good job.
It did a good job, yeah.
Like, you're like, you would say sort of mid, mid-level job compared to other hot drinks you get from around the place, right?
Yeah, as long as you're not expecting too much.
Yeah, it was quick.
So low expectations, you'll be happy with the robots.
Like, imagine if it was quick, in and out sort of thing, you know, you, you're...
It wasn't that quick.
So, yeah.
The cafe across the road is quicker.
You don't have to have a banter as well, I guess.
Yeah, that's true.
But we're nice to have banter, wouldn't it, from the robots?
Pretend it cares about your day and things like that.
As being mentioned, if you are using AI robots in your place of work or even at home, day to day,
apparently there's a farm dog.
Someone's texting.
There's a robotic farm dog.
Oh, that's terrifying.
We want to check that out.
John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast.
That's.
Okay, how are you going to segue from costumes to Putin?
Well, over the weekend, obviously, the big piece.
I've got a Putin costume.
Put it away.
You should get a Putin costume.
No, I'm not that keen.
I've got a Trump mask.
No, I'm not that keen on that either.
You know on that as well?
He's got morals when it comes to costumes.
There's a line in the sand.
So, yeah, they had the big peace summit, didn't they, in Alaska?
Which I didn't realize it was part of Russia, once upon a time, Alaska.
Right.
Now, US, of course.
And so Trump flew Putin over there, and he arrived in his plane, and there was a big
crazy jet.
Do you see that stealth jet flying over his head when he landed?
Insanity.
But anyway, from what I gather.
I don't think much happened.
No, I think it was meant to like negotiate a ceasefire, but it didn't happen, right?
Putin said, I want to keep everything that we got from the Ukraine already, and I want a little bit more.
So I don't know where that.
And Trump went, oh, I can't do that.
Trump was like nothing less than peace.
How about a snail costume?
So anyway, I'm on Instagram, okay, and I want a disclaimer of front foot this that I haven't fact checked it.
And I only even fact checked.
This has been in our run sheet for three days.
This has been in a thing going.
Jono's got this crazy fact, so you haven't...
I've avoided fact-checking because I want it to be true.
Okay.
Okay.
So this is when Putin...
Megan's already typing.
She's on her, bloody, what is it?
Perplexity.
Perplexity is the most factually correct piece of AI in the market.
That's what she always says, didn't she?
It sounded just like Megan, too.
So this pops up on my Instagram feed.
Putin, so when he travels abroad,
Putin's bodyguards collect his excrement on trips aboard
and take them back to Russia with them.
them now it sounds so that like you're on a camper van holiday correct and so once he's done
something they put it in a bag and it travels in its own special briefcase back to russia and
this sounds crazy on the surface right but the reason being is there's been long-standing
room is that he has terminal cancer so he doesn't want everyone like who's sifting through it like
if international relations have got to the point where we're sifting through putins let's let's reset
Let's push the reset.
Yeah, true.
He'll come out one of those things.
He'll come out in New Zealand.
There's still COVID around this area.
Meth usage is high.
Oh, and Putin's been here.
Okay, Megan.
Now, they do this for security reasons.
I guess, in theory, it would be like, oh, he's not well.
You know, if we just buy a time, he'll die soon, and we can...
Seems like a lot of effort to go to.
But, Megan...
A fact checked.
Yeah.
Oh, please don't let me down.
Don't let me down.
Yes.
It's true!
They put his poo in a tin.
They do.
Oh, it's a win.
It's a win for prior.
And they collect his feces and his urine and they take it back to Russia.
Wow.
It is done by the Russian Federal Protection Service.
When you signed up to the special service, the secret service in Russia, when you're a child, you're like,
one day I'm going to work for the secret service.
You never would have imagined that in your wildest dreams.
How do they?
No.
I really hope it's like when I walk the dog.
They just, he starts sniffing around.
You're like, oh, here we go.
This is not what I thought I'd be asking the AI this morning.
I'm like, how do they collect it?
They get out a bag, and they're like, oh, yeah, the bread bag from home.
They're like, okay.
The bread bag, the tip-top bread bag.
Put it in the suitcase.
So they get back to Russia.
They have special packets that they've been seal.
Oh, my goodness.
And there's their dedicated suitcase.
It's called the stool suitcase.
The whole time I'm thinking.
And it's guarded.
Has you not heard of flushing?
Just flush it down, mate.
There's not someone in the US waiting for it to come down the tube.
There it comes.
We got it, guys.
There's six or seven security personnel dedicated to the storm.
Wow, what a wild fact.
You think you're having a rough day at work.
John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast.
Now, it seems like, you know, everyone's out there trying to scam people these days.
There's a lot of things online that you'll find that's not quite legit.
And from time to time, there are people trying to impersonate other people, you know,
whether they're members of companies, you know, your packages there, your road tolls, that sort of thing.
and sometimes people get impersonated
if they've got a bit of a public profile
it's happened to us a couple of times over the years
So they send messages going
Hey uh times are tough
Can you just send me your credit card number
Just so you know that's not a scam
That's actually me
Yeah times are tough
And times are tough
And I would love your credit card number
Yeah so my daughter
You know she spends a little bit of time
You know on TikTok as well
I've got you know a TikTok account
But she was like hey dad
She came home
The other day she's like
Did you know there is a binboys
A private Ben Boyce account
have you started one.
Someone's cloning you.
And I was like, well, first you asked, it was me.
I was like, no, it's not me, private Ben Boyce.
And then it had a picture of her when, it's something we put online, but from a couple
of years ago as the profile pick.
I was like, oh, it's not me.
And you had to get accepted into this private Ben Boyce account.
This is weird.
I love it.
I would join Private Ben Bois.
Like a thousand people.
Really?
Yeah.
And I was like, oh, hey, it's not me.
It's not me.
And so they were like, oh, we'll report it.
So we try to report it.
But then they were like, well, let's see.
so her friend decided to see what would happen if they, you know,
try to send a friend request to this person.
To private Ben Boyce, yeah, that's right.
And got back a lovely message from Ben Boyce.
So Ben Boys, so private Ben Boys,
Responded back here, saying, this is the message.
I've got a screenshot here.
We'll put it up on our Hits Breakfast.
Hi, it's Ben here, smiley face.
Oh.
Yeah.
I just wanted to say a heartfelt thank you for being such an incredible fan.
Your love and support truly means the world to me.
It's what keeps me going every single day
One of those stars, you know
It's like a shedding star sort of thing
Feel free to send me a direct message anytime
I'd love to hear from you
Stay safe and take care always
And then like a rose pedal
And a heart
I love that fake Ben Boys is more engaging
Than Real Ben Boys
I'm like don't send me a message anytime
How many unanswered DMs
To host charity gigs
Primary School fundraisers
And he's never responded to them
Well, someone gets her, but sometimes I'm like, well, not any time.
Fake Ben Boyce even uses emojis.
He's a lovely, whoever this is, a lovely person, hey, lovely person.
I'm not going to lie, I think I want fake Ben Boys in here.
Private Ben Boyce is, he's the one you want, guys.
He's the one you want.
It's not often you get upgraded when someone's scam.
If it's a scam, it's a weird scam because he's like, he's doing a better version of me.
It's like, this is, it's not meant to up, you're right, you're not meant to upgrade from a scam.
Maybe you're meant to be like, well, that's not New Zealand Post.
Well, this guy's great.
Yeah.
I might just join private Ben Boyce.
Unfollow real Ben Boys.
Unfortunately, the count has been taken down.
But, hey, maybe it's time to start it back up again.
This guy's great.