Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Best of the Week: Uber Eats Fails, Celebrity Pranks, and a G-String Mystery

Episode Date: August 9, 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.Ben somehow sends his Uber Eats to a restaurant instead of his house. We prank Megan into thinking we landed her dream celebrity interview without her. We investigate the curious case of the G-string in Jono’s pocket... Plus, babysitting disasters including the time someone accidentally set their niece on fire.See 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 team. You know, a busy weekend. This weekend was really busy. We worked on Friday until late and then had a lot of things to do over the weekend. So normally on Sunday I would go to the supermarket and get some stuff on the weekend. Just ran out of time, didn't get to go to the supermarket.

So last night we had nothing to really make. And so we're like, that's just order Uber Eats. It's not something good would normally do on a Sunday night. So it's just easier we'll order Uber Eats. And so as a family, we're like, what we feel like and then my wife was like oh hey what about this place

we've got it's like it's I'll go say walk a noodle it's a great place as Asian cuisine comes you know those cool little box Does they have walks and noodles and noodles and I was like I don't think you can do Uber Eats to our place it's a bit far bit far away from our place

but I have a look anyway so I had a look on Uber Eats put it in there and I was like no it was too far away couldn't get it so I was like well maybe there's another place another walk related place that I could find and I was like I don't want another one you walk express I'm like sounds good It looks similar. Oh, like, great.

It'll get there faster. Closer to our place. It's cool. Order that. Great. Went and carried on my admin. Things to do, ticking things off my to do list, other stuff like that. Then I get a, I could, you know how Uber sends you Uber each?

They send you the updates. They're preparing your food. The driver's on the way. I'm like, cool. They kept getting these on the phone. Then I get a call. I'm like, oh, where is this going? And I got a call.

Was it a walk-based call? Yeah, it was. It was an Uber each driver. And he's like, I've got your Uber eats. I'm outside. I'm like, great. So I kind of walked out to the door and I was like, oh, we're about saying, I can't see you.

I know what you've done. I'm outside the address you gave me. And he said the name of the address. I'm like, I'm not at that address. And then I thought on my head, oh, God, have we been at a friend's place or at Uber Eats a previous time? I'm like, no, but that's not in my head. I'm like, that's not the address of any friends.

I said, the man to my wife, I'm a phone. I'm like, would you know anyone at this address? She's like, no, she Googles it. She's like, oh, no, guess what? That's Wokanoodle. He'd taken the food from Wock Express, the Wokanoodle, which is too far away from them to come in a little bit. Oh, no.

Was walk and noodle like, oh, thank you. That's a lovely. He's taking another walk-based food, do it know? What was he thinking? And he'd be like, he was very confused, the poor guy, because he's like, why am I taking this into another restaurant? Probably the walk-and-noodle people would be confused too. They're like, we've sorted it on this front.

Yeah, actually, we're doing a great job. He's like, are they testing the competitors or something? Maybe they saw it as like a little torn, a little like, yeah. You know, have some express, buddy. we're all over you. To know it was too far for the original Uber to get from there. I'm like, oh no, now I've made this digital driver all the way over to that. I wonder if the Walker noodle people ate that for dinner.

What did you do? I ended up, well, like, is there any chance you can bring out? You drove to them, didn't you? No, I said, I could drive to you or any chance you can bring it. I'll pay you some extra for your gas mileage and he's like, yeah, sweet. So we did that. We negotiated a price for that. What did you haggle him down to?

Got some Disney disc? Oh, he was so lovely. He was like, five bucks. Oh, so we're going to have $10 cash. And we go, you know, so it was like, fine, yeah. And how warm was the, the heat? It wasn't quite as warm as it had just come out of the walk, Megan. That's a funny prank, though.

Like, we should Uber eats like McDonald's to Burger King and vice. I've seen these people do it online. It's quite funny where they get Uber Eats from the store they're in. Like, there are so they'll get the Uber Eats driving and come up to the counter and then look at the thing and then realize I've got to deliver to someone in the restaurant. I mean, it's probably wasting someone's time. But it's funny for 30 seconds on Instagram, though. They still get paid.

They still paid. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. You went to a, you know, you celebrate your birthday for the second weekend. That's fine. When's the, hey, when's the Netflix documentary coming out on your birthday? It's been two weekends.

Yeah. High octane. No, it was the second weekend. Yes, fine. Me and my husband did a little steak at a hotel. You wish you could see Ben's face. He's happened. Yeah, fine.

It's still happening. gifted. I don't know how it annoys you so much. Birthday gifted or just gifted? No, it was gifted. Gifted, gifted. Okay. So we went to a lovely hotel and it's quite new.

Right. So when we were in the middle of the night, I was in this hotel and it wasn't a noise, but I woke up to a tickle on my face. And I was like, what the hell was that? Ben? Is that you? What are you doing in here? My God. Get out of here.

it was me hashtag gifted how did you get this deal and I wasn't sure if I like dreamed it so I just rolled over and then something tickled me on the face again

and I was like oh my God like my husband's asleep and I'm like what the hell how much of the mini bar had you drunk and buy this I had been out and having drinks just to get the setting

but there was something tickling my face And I was like, oh my God, is it like a ghost? I couldn't see anything. And there was not, there was no body there. Very trendy ghosts to move into a brand new hotel as well. Yeah. In a city. Yeah, I couldn't figure it out.

So I was like, okay, I'll roll over. And it tickled my face again. And what had happened was, is I'm sitting there, literally my heart's racing and I'm freaking out. When I got there, they had a plate with, like, treats on it and helium balloons. and the helium balloons and the night had fallen down and the strings of the balloons were like

tickle tickle tickle so you weren't imagining things something was actually tickling your face and every time I moved it was like ticu-pico pico and I was like oh thank God but yeah my my treat ended up like freaking me out in the middle of the night we did one once in Topo didn't we out for like a spark conference or something

really nice hotel yeah lovely as we're going to bed he's like The guy behind reception, like 11 o'clock at night, we're heading off, he's like, hey, by the way, that wing's haunted. With the final words he said, where you were going to sleep. We were like, we probably didn't need to know that as we were going on.

So have a nice night's sleep. By the way, that route. And what, did anything happen in the night? No, I was, well, fine for me. But, yeah, I didn't sleep, I didn't sleep at all. He made sure nothing happened. Yeah. I'd be quite like staring at a ceiling fan all night,

waiting to be attacked. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. But we are back into Wellington and we were here at the end. Towards the end of the last year we came down as a show, right? And here in the Wellington Studios, which we were at the end of last year. And it really reminded us of something going through the airport, Megan. Yeah, we walked past a particular part of the airport yesterday.

And when we landed last year, we witnessed someone have a heart attack. Getting off the plane out of the gate, saw someone collapse on the floor. and I initially thought that they had fallen over. But it was quite scary because they didn't get up. And everyone's kind of looking around, wondering what to do. And in that moment, I think everyone freezes and you're like, oh, well, someone's doing something. I don't need to.

But, yeah, my parents always just said to me, don't, don't wait, just jump in and do anything you can. So I jumped on the phone to 1-1-1 because it became apparent that the person was in trouble. Yeah. Oh man, it still makes me emotional. It's almost a year later. Like I rose back for you,

so I came off the plane probably a few minutes after you guys, and you guys were right in the thick of it. There was a lot going on. It was just one of those scenes that just will eached into your memory. You're right. You never know what to do. I just kept going to the shop going, can we get more water?

And I just kept giving water bottles too. Yeah. The last thing he needed was a water. Yeah. Because he was having a cardiac arrest. Yeah. Yeah, and yeah, it's really difficult because you don't know the person, but suddenly I felt very attached and his partner was there

and I was trying to comfort her and you don't know them, but you suddenly feel very responsible for them. And I actually had to touch him and see if he was breathing. Because you could work on the phone to one my mind and they were talking through the things to do, right? Well, we were waiting for like an ambulance or turn out to other people from the airport to come and help. Yeah.

And without going into too many details, in a very bad way, in a very bad way. He did not look good. We left here. And he might remember from on the radio the next day, we spoke about it. And it was very emotional for you. We all sort of sat there and we thought, I don't think he's going to make it. Because you're leaving the airport and there were just ambulances, hooning, hooning towards the Wellington airport.

Yeah. Yeah. Everything indicated to me that he wouldn't make it. And so you just leave, and I was like, we, you know, we had to leave the situation when you don't find out what happened. Didn't know his name, didn't know anything. You just wanted to know that he was okay. And I was just, I thought about him every single day and I was just like, I just hope, I hope that he made it. And then we got a message from the emergency services that he had made it and that he wanted to reach out to everyone who had helped.

so that included me because I did the one-one-one call like very little in the scheme of things you're a part of that you're a huge part of it and there was a doctor there too there was a doctor who helped and just like step away and just boom boom straight into it so shout out to that doctor she was amazing yeah they

a lot of people worked long and hard on him and he made it and has made a full recovery that's amazing wow did you text him yesterday I did yeah yeah I did text him yesterday and he's just it's lovely because he wanted to reach out to everyone to make sure that everyone knew that he was okay and to say thank you

so he told you had less than a 2% chance of making it crazy yeah yeah yeah life goes so fast and can just happen like that you know so it's such lovely that it was a good thing came out of it and we must pay tribute to the real

hero that day Ben Boyce who went and got up the bags he got our bags I bought water like you I'd run and got some people and then I was like There was two people, yeah, you're right. And I was like, I'm going to get the bags. Did he mention that in the text?

No. To me fair, I'd forgotten and even had a bag. So, thank you. I got the bags. You are the true hero. Thank you. There was a lot of heroes that day. Who's to say more of a hero than others?

But I got them. We had a lot of luggage that day, but I got it all with fun. Bless you, Ben. Yeah, so thank you. Thank you, guys. Thank you all. Thank you. I appreciate it.

John O'Bennon and Megan. The podcast. The Hits. about AI. It seems like every day there's another news article. Yeah, it's moving at a rapid pace. It really, really is. There's a lot of people just harboring dirty little secrets out there that they've been using AI and probably passing it off as their own material.

There's news today about doctors. Using it to transcribe patients' consultations. So not like to diagnose. It sounds like it's just to do the notes and stuff. The laborious task. Well, they're just about it at our work, you know, how much it can save you from day to day. And you can get more appointments in. They can actually see more people potentially.

So there are some good things about it. But then the concern is, I guess, if you're a doctor and you're putting in patients, you know, private details. Into chat, GBT, and it's, like you said, it breeds off information. Dave's herpes is flaring up. Yeah, that's, great, thank you. Well, you're in my, we're my, go public today. But with the Swedish Prime Minister at the moment, he's coming out of fire,

under a bit of fire in the news, because he uses as a second opinion, which I guess I've found it really helpful in a lot of situations like this but I guess he's probably openly admitted to it A second opinion for what? For running a country Yeah running a country So he's like okay I'm going to put the taxes up

Is this a good idea? And AI's like no mate don't do it So then he won't Well it doesn't say he's agreeing with it He's just getting their advice I guess as well As a second opinion A sounding board Again they're saying if he's putting in sensitive

Yeah Information about Sweden Into chat GPT That's a concern But do you what How do you feel if Luxo's like mate you know the last 12 months

AI's just made all the decisions I thought you were going to say it was like he was helping with the speech writing or like I didn't realize the robots were making world decisions now that's a worrying because if he's using that then why aren't the robots just running the world

makes the sin for us all how they're getting smart is because we're putting all the information in that's how they learn by the information we put in we're going to look back on this we're going to look back on this time and go And there were many read flags that we ignored.

We had a chance to... We do this all the time, though, don't we? We always look back on something. We do. Yeah, you're right. I, yeah, from a personal point of view, because I really worry about creativity. Because a lot of, you know, it does everything wonderfully.

If you're like, write me a 30 second commercial. Do this, write me. You could even go, write me a movie, it'll spit you out a movie in about three minutes. Yeah. But then you're like, I try and just keep that creative side of the brain going, and try and just lean on that. Because if you rely on ChatGBTGPT, what's going to happen to the world's creativity?

Yeah. There's going to be none. It's going to go online. Yeah. You download our brains into ChatGTVC. So what are you using AI for? Maybe it's, you know, like, last night, we talked about this at work the other day.

I had to, we had a whole lot of my daughter's friends over. They were going to Disney on Ice and we're like getting a whole lot of pizza for a whole lot of people before they left. And I was like, oh, we can put it in for a pizza code. Is there a pizza code for this pizza place? And yeah, it came through 20 bucks off. I was like, oh, mate, chippy. Yeah, thank you.

It's your friend, your therapy. You're like, I don't know, this will work. I'm going to do that before I buy anything on my now. You should do. I'm going down from, yeah, like 90 bucks to 70 bucks. I was like, oh, there we go. There is no better relationship in the world that you'll have than the relationship you have with AI.

Yeah. You know, it'll help you. No human could do that for you, you know? Like that, bang. Yeah, the discount going for you, my friend, Ben. Good morning, Jono's wife. I hope you're having a great day. John O'Ben and Megan

The podcast The Hats AI, chat GPT It's been used by pretty much everyone Even world leaders Using it as a second opinion From time to time According to one Swedish Prime Minister

Yeah, it's not necessarily saying It's running the country You're just using it as a second opinion And it's a good thing's running things past Artificial Intelligence About the future of a country Any advisory's got in the office Gary

What do you reckon? I guess there's no bias maybe there's no bias you're right yeah so many texts pouring on this 4487 what are you secretly using AI for as we mentioned before I got it to write my entire CV if you want to make yourself feel better

about your career get chat GPT to write your CV another great one here on 4487 all the meal plans for the week it's great with that sort of stuff itineries you can do nutrition plans you can set like limits for yourself and do like all kinds of things even like workout plans my husband does that sometimes

It's great. It's a great tool, but it is a bit scary at the same time. I remember I had to use it because there was, in our sort of friend group, one of the guys has moved on with another partner, but we were introduced to him through his ex, and he was like, let's all catch up and, you know, I'll introduce you to my, and I was like, how do I get out? Like, what's a text I can design to get out of this one? Put that into chat GPT, man.

What's what producer Grace has done, right? I think this is the best way to use it, but also the worst way. I might be a bad person. My friend was going through a breakup and I didn't know how to reply to our messages so I was just going through chat chippy tea and I replied fully with chat chippy tea.

Like with emotional support messages? Yeah, with emotional support because I was like, this is a lot, I don't know what to do. You know, and it was actually really helpful. Don't laugh. It was helpful. It was scary because we're turning to it now

for like advice on world leadership for how to talk to our friends in times of crisis for like work. It's tipped over. It's a tip-over. The slope has started. Yeah, I think kids are using it around the country. There was an article the other day, you know, for almost like in a friendship way to run

things past them, you know, and I get that. Sometimes you're like, I can't talk to my parents about this. I don't want to talk to anyone else. What I want to run out past is a second opinion. That's actually really smart. It's made you a better friend. I'm a better friend, guys. Well, you can pick what you, you go, actually, I agree with that.

Or not, you don't have to send it onto them. Yeah, maybe there were a couple that were fully copy and paste, but, you know, some I use just inspiration. Fair enough. Hope you didn't have the prompt. If you'd like me to write more of this up until all, thank you. Oh God, my friend's going on and on and on. What do I say?

Zoe, good morning. Good morning. I'm good. How are you? We're doing well. Listen, thank you for coming in and clarifying what doctors are actually using AI for. Yeah. Just for writing notes.

Yeah, right. So, like, obviously, like, you see a patient and you need to document the consultation. and that takes heaps of, like, time remembering what they said, typing it, typing it between patients, but if AI writes it as you go, it just saves you a job. So it's just, it's more time efficient. So you have to type, like, everything that we chat about afterwards. Oh, God. Like, medically, there has to be a record of the entire consultation.

Right. So it made me laugh, Megan, when you were like, yes, doctors can see more people. Well, no. There you can't. Well, that was, because you remember there was a one period in life where there was a comedic trope where it would be like, doctors handwriting is shocking. It's because they having to write so much. Yeah.

Yeah, totally. Like the difference between my handwriting now and 20 years ago, I can't even read it. I know it like getting like a moles checked and now they run it through AI. They'll take the photos. I'll send it to AI. I don't know whether I agree with that. I don't like the idea of AI diagnosing stuff. And then if it alerts anything, then it will go to someone like the, you know.

No, but what if they miss? What if they miss is it? Yeah. I'm not the mole industry, Megan. I'm not the mole on the mole industry. I'm just telling you what I know. So would you see a world, Zoe, in your profession where you could use AI to diagnose you? Where patients could just go on to a website of doctor.com and it would diagnose you.

I reckon that probably will happen. I don't think it should. And I definitely see patients already who say that they've done their own research through chat GPT or ask chat GPP. And you're like, here we go. Yeah, like, there it is. And that's not, I don't think that's safe or sensible or, yeah. But I think in terms of using it to write stuff, I think that's great because it's a time saver. But writing what the consultation is not writing like clinic letters or whatever.

That still needs to be a real human doctor. You're a legend, Zoe. Appreciate your time. All good, guys. Have a nice day. Here we go. I'm just one text to go out on the AI text. I use AI all the time in my work to type my business emails.

I am a complete bogan. But it's made me sound a lot more professional. It does. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast. Megan, you're away yesterday and there's no secret you're a big fan of Formula One and Liam Lawson. It's your dream interview to have him on the show, right? Yes. which I've spoken to you guys about it all the time.

That was your mistake, really. No, we do want to make this happen for you. We haven't been Ardu so far, but we thought yesterday with you being away, what if we pretended, and if you're listening yesterday around this time, you're all in on the joke that we were going to pretend that we had Liam Lawson on the show.

We got interview some things of him talking to Mike Hosking, right? And put that together. And it made it sound like he was on the show, got some great reactions from listeners playing the game, but you didn't know this, and we played it to your first thing this morning. Have a listen. Can we just say, we need to be honest too.

Megan, who we mentioned at the beginning, huge fan of yours. Like, we'll just be absolutely devastated she's missing out on this. A little obsessive, shall we say? Yeah, like, if you want to block her from your Instagram, that's over to you. But what do you want to say to, you know, the likes of Megan and all your thousands of other fans back here in New Zealand? Thank you. And to, yeah, I mean, to everybody listening. And to everybody who's stuck with me for all the years leading up to this, yeah, thank you because obviously it's a,

a huge journey and for me this is this is what i've dreamed of doing since i was a kid so um i just want to say thanks to everybody um because i appreciate it a lot oh my god i cannot believe that you guys have done that without megan she is going to kill you i know she's got to be i know but we had to take it i think it would be even worse news telling megan hey we had an opportunity and we said no oh my god that was awesome guys megan will be gutted the time i know it was so good to have them but i also feel really really bad about that Fresh off that Liam Lawson chat, very exciting. I can't believe you guys got Liam Lawson on the show.

No, no. It was a great race. It was a great race. And it was great to get him. Yeah, so there we go. That was some highlights. It just came through last minute. Well, the other option was saying no.

Yeah, what did you? And we don't want to put it out, because normally we were to put it out on social media yesterday. We're like, well, no, you're sick. So we thought we didn't want to give you another aspect. We front foot it today. Thanks to the listeners for having my back. Everyone was... Like, in so much trouble.

Why? Why? What's the option? Like, what else could we have done? He's going on a summer break. Surely there is one other time. One other time. They said he's only doing a round of interviews, very quick ones, before a two week break.

He did morning rumble. He did a few other... He really quick as well. So, yeah, it was like... He did Hosking. So, we jumped on the bandwagon of that. We jumped on the piggybacked on them. So, yeah.

But at the same time... As soon as you said, I had a confirmed. profession, I knew exactly what it was. I knew exactly what you've done. No, hey, I haven't gone behind your back already. I'm not even like angry. I'm just like really sad. I'm just really disappointed.

Don't bring the vibes down. Yeah. Hey, we had Liam Lawson on the show. Yeah, like silver lining. Don't say you're sad. I don't say sad. That's so, that's like my dream. You know that's my dream.

And we could have like, well, we thought, well, should we ring you and get you in? And we're like, well, no, you're sick. So, yeah, so honestly. also you did think about that but you still didn't do it you're in a sick day yeah you're a sick day and it honestly came through you called me you called me after the show yeah I did and he's like she sounds awful

I don't know Megan's gonna be in tomorrow we might not be able to do this confession wow so yeah apologies I know that's a bit awkward but hey but hopefully that means we'll get him again as a show in the future did he say anything about seeing my comments on Instagram no that's all we had that's all we had honestly it was about 90s

Yeah, so. All I wanted to do was not disappoint you in my knowledge of, I put in Max Verstappen's name. It's hard one for me to say. You're calling a Max Verstaffin name when he was Roos. Yeah, so I was like, Vestappen. So that's what I didn't want to mess it up for you. It looked like I didn't know what I was talking about.

It's not AI. No, no, it's not AIA. Hand on heart, it's not AI. Grace. Hand on heart, it's not AI. It's not AI, is it? Who organised it? Was it you, Grace?

No, it was Troy. It just Troy. It came through. Yeah. So anyway, Liam Wilson. Tell you what, Troy, that is some award-nominated producing right there, my friend. That'll get you nominated at the Radio Awards.

Brilliant get, Troy. If I knew, I could have got it when I was here. Sorry, mate. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Okay. So that was the idea this morning. That was awkward, too. Yeah, there was awkward.

It was tears. Yeah. You walked out of the thing and we're like, oh, no. I'm a little bit embarrassed to say. It'll be crying. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The Hats.

I'm Liam Lawson. there's no bigger fan of the Formula One driver than Megan. She was away yesterday. And we had a last-minute interview from Liam Lawson come through on what's happened. Yeah, now there's a large part, Megan, there is a large part of me that feels really guilty. We were undeserving of the interview without you being involved in it. But there's 10, you know, that's a large part of me. But then there's 10% of me really enjoying the entertainment value of you missing out.

So this is what happened yesterday. Can we just say, we need to be honest too. Megan, who we mentioned at the beginning, huge fan of yours. like we'll just be absolutely devastated she's missing out on this. A little obsessive, shall we say? Yeah, like, if you want to block her from your Instagram, that's over to you. But what do you want to say to, you know, the likes of Megan and all your thousands of other fans back here in New Zealand? Thank you.

And, yeah, I mean, to everybody listening and to everybody who's stuck with me for all the years leading up to this, yeah, thank you because obviously it's a huge journey. And for me, this is what I've dreamed of doing since I was a kid. So I just want to say thanks to everybody. because I appreciate it a lot. Oh my God, I cannot believe that you guys have done that without Megan. She is going to kill you. I know, she's got to be gut.

I know, but we had to take it. Now, just before you said, you did ask us if that was AI. Promise it was an AI. Okay. But it wasn't an interview. It wasn't an interview with us. It was an interview he did with Mike Hosking a while ago. So we didn't get Liam Lawson yesterday.

So the thing is, you missed our Liam Lawson interview, but so did. Liam Lawson. We did play that out on the radio yesterday. That was the listeners' reactions. They were on board with it. They knew we were doing this to get you. To be honest, I was like so happy that the listeners had my back. And they were like,

you guys are me. Well, they had your back, but they were just playing a role. Yeah, right. It was like the one freaking day. So if we also, actually, if we want to thank anyone for this prank, Mike Hosking, thank you very much too. We're actually getting Liam Lawson. Yeah, he's the one, he's the one legitimate radio show that did get him. You know, it's been a really long two hours because Paul Megan was quite upset that... It's just sad.

I just missed out. I did have a weak cry. I'm sorry. You've made to bring the vibes. No, it's not. Like, it wasn't, because I was angry. I was just, like, really sad. I missed it.

Yeah, I know. You're sick, and then obviously you miss out on Liam Lawson. But the good news is no one got Liam Lawson. Hopefully we'll get him now in the future. Who knows? Orio just really, like, increase that restraining order. One of the two. So listen, sorry,

let's blame the steroids on the On everything It's all the steroids fault Hey, have you ever wanted If I was a true fan Yeah, big fan Can I just say steroids In relation to Megan?

Yeah, it's been sick Have you got to explain the steroids? Yeah, not Liam Morson Yeah, no Steroids help Liam Lawson Yeah, true I don't know Unless you puts the car on steroids

Yeah I'm just like for anyone else going Well, we're blaming steroids It's me, I'm on steroids Yeah, for a sickness Yeah, so well there we go Another prior boy's prank production It was a good one

It was good It reminded me at the point Where we once got Guy Williams And we did a hidden camera thing on him And he was talking about a boss And it was meant to be a whole thing But then it turned into a serious work meeting And Guy was giving

Honest feedback on the show And we're like, we shouldn't be listening to this No, yeah Yeah And it's like okay, what are we doing You have a crisis Like we did this morning You have a mid prank crisis meeting

What are our options available Yeah How do we get out of this with a clean nose we had to reveal a guy but hey guess what that meaning that you thought was private

wasn't so private weird old thing were you dumped on everyone we had to walk away from the media I was like I can't listen to this we won't play that anywhere else

but oh my god hey well anyway Megan no one got Liam great to have you back and maybe we'll have Liam in the future John O'Benn and Megan

The podcast The Hats We just want to explain to you and everyone listening right now we don't park in the same place as you in the morning we don't get to park in the building I think we should get a coin jarf

every time that Ben mentions it Mike Hoskin parks in the building you know the Megan parks in the building Just the important ones The important people do We have to walk across It's got closer The dregs were a few blocks

There's a new car park There used to be a bit further away That there's a new one we do get to park in it So we are lucky to get that You know when your grandparents tell you They had to walk 20 miles to school And be a feet That's us

That's us we're having to When it's pouring with rain I turn up dry And they're like Horse and cars Don't we bed? Past all sorts of unsavory things at that time of the morning. But it is a new car park and they're all, they're still working on stuff.

And it feels like maybe they opened the car park a bit early. They did because you walk into this building and it is honestly, every day is a surprise. I know you've had that dance party the other day. That's awesome. They're testing screens. There's all sorts of weird stuff that pops up on screens. It's just that, you know, they're testing fire alarms. There's all sorts of stuff.

They've got 50 million judder bars. This was the music playing every sent to us. plastic five o'clock in the morning remember when we first started parking there it's like these mills yeah it's not a lot when we first started parking there this is Monday morning

first started parking there someone's it was logged on to someone's computer screen and everything they were watching on YouTube and you're like this is a right with the lifts you can see that on the screen but yesterday they were not only testing the fire alarms but everything was going was kind of felt like it was malfunctioning yeah and everything went dark Pitch black

We're trying to drive out by the barrier arm To let you out Swiping our car It just would not go This is the beginning of one of those movies Vila Maybe a movie called car park And you can't escape the car park

You can't escape What's what happened This guy's coming The power is gone They turn it off They turned it off They turned it off Can't get out

Then this thing starts going For whatever one this is This is different to the fire Al Is it What is that saying? They're saying Get the hell out of the building

And we're trying, but the barrier arm won't come up, you know? And it's dark. Yeah, it was dark momentarily, and then the things came back on. Yeah, so it was, yeah, very, very unusual situation. I honestly, I looked across, Ben was parked in his car next to me. I looked across, I was like, I could eat him to survive. I could eat him for survival. He'd be a little bony, like, you know when you get the last little bit of chicken bony?

He'd be a slow cook. Yeah, you'd definitely would. A bit sinewy. He could eat me first. I'll be more of a meal. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The Hits.

I haven't done this recently. So I do want to know if it's too late to apologize. But before I had children, I was looking after my niece. And the signs were there that I wasn't going to be great, because first of all, we put her nappy on backwards. We weren't sure which way they go. Oh, they're very confusing. I think they say back on them now.

Maybe they didn't say back then. Ben does that with my incontinence ones every time. I was the wrong way. I remember asking her, like, is this the right way? She was like, yeah, it looks good. I'm like, oh, she doesn't know. You asked the child if it was the right way. They weren't.

the wrong way around so that was the start um but then i she was scared of our little dog so we've got a little um it's very friendly it's probably more likely to hump your leg than bite you but she's uh she was little and our dog was very excited to see her so she got frightened and i was like oh save you picked her up and chucked her on our dining room table and i was like there you go out of reach for the dog. And then I started to smell something. A burning smell. Oh, not the nappy. Not the nappy.

I smelled something burning. And we were like, what is that? And I literally saw flames behind my knees. You set her on fire. We had set her jacket on fire. Oh my God. And so, I mean... This girl is on fire.

Alicia Keys. Oh, my God. She got wind of that event and wrote a song about it. We put it out, obviously, and it was just the jacket. But I was like, well, I saved her from the dog. Does that count? Yeah, bad news, you set a little child on fire. Good news is you're probably relinquished from further babysitting duties.

No, they definitely left her with us again. Was that a, let's just keep this between us, shall we? Well, not, I should have hidden the jacket, but I gave the jacket back and it was obviously burnt. So we had to explain what happened to the jacket. Is it too late to apologize? these people? Sorry. They did look after our children

at the weekend. Oh, they did? My brother and sister-in-law. Did they set your kids a light? No, they did a great job. You've set the bar very low, haven't you? I know. So I'm sorry.

Okay, babysitting story. It's your best babysitting story. Maybe it's too late to apologise. We've got that double pass to one republic and they're coming to New Zealand to February next year on the fourth. Very excited about that. So double pass could be yours

with your best babysitting story if it's too late to apologize. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hit. Uh, yes, too late to apologize. Thanks to One Republic. Who are coming to New Zealand.

Uh, Megan, you kick things off with a horrific babysitting incident that took place. I was looking after my niece and I was trying to get her away from my dog. She was just scared of my very overly friendly dog. So I picked her up and put her on the table. I forgot to say that there was a candle on the table and that is what ignited her. I was thinking before. I was like, how did that happen? It wasn't spontaneous human combustion.

She, um, she sat. next to the candle. Yeah, gotcha. And caught fire. Then as soon as the ad started playing, you're like, did I mention there was a candle on the table? I don't think I said no. Seems quite pivotal to the story.

You know, I sat her by a candle. Anyway, you still babysitting from that point on Ford? That she survived it. That's it. I don't think I'll be telling the story otherwise. Treat it as an experience. Charchi, good morning to you. How's life?

Oh, then. Yeah, life is good now. Yeah, good. More than you could be off to one republic. Is it too late to apologize? What happened? Okay, so I just revealed this to my sister yesterday, an event that happened 10 years ago while they were sitting, her child.

So her daughter had come to stay with my children. She was about 13 at that time, and she had come with this fantastic experimental idea to share with my kids. And they tried to do a, well, you know how you would have a hairspray. and lighted on fire and it would create some sort of... Flamethrower situation. Yes, yes, exactly. Well, they didn't have hair spray, but they did have a lighter.

They had hair serum instead. Oh. Hair serum. Listen, it's like an oil... Right. Yeah. Yes. And it had gold flecks in it.

So they assumed it's going to be quite sparkly and pretty when they light it. Yeah, right. They're doing some homemade pirate techniques here. Oh, my God. Come in a can. No, it was in a plastic bottle. Okay. You just squirted it out.

Yeah, how did... We know this. Yeah. Yeah. But they tried it anyway, and I had no idea what they were doing. They were in the room, and it didn't go the way they planned. It lit on fire, but it fell straight onto the floor. Oh, no.

Oh, no. This is all of this ruckus happening, stomping and such. They come flying out the room. We meet eye to eye. we have a, you know, kids to mum, mum to kids stare down. I find out what's happened and I absolutely hit the roof. I ripped into them. My niece is crying so loudly throughout the night and I'm thinking,

oh my God, she's burned to herself. I think son's hit on her skin and, you know, she's hurt. So I pull her up and I'm like, are you okay? She says, yes, I'm fine. I run her under the cold water just to make sure she is okay. and the very next day I speak to my child who was the oldest

at that time she was 14 and I said you know was she burnt and she says no she's just hurt because you growed her

Oh A metaphorical burning Yeah well Charchy I'm glad everything worked out fine in the end and you waited almost a decade

to tell your sister what went on That's the thing That's the thing is that I had to say To my sister Are you sure I haven't told you Because

everybody else Gaslight into thinking you've told her. Oh, it's too late to apologise. Maybe, I don't know, but you have apologised and we're going to give you a double pass to One Republic on their sweat escape tour. They're coming to Auckland in February next year.

So you've got a double pass and joy. Thank you. No worries. Have a good one, mate. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. There's a video doing the rounds.

Filling a lot of people, AI, getting very, very good these days. And some bunnies, some rabbits, jumping on the tramp in the dark. It looks very, very cute. I watched it last week, and I was so, well, don't tell me that was it. That's AI, yeah, apparently. You fooled millions of people around the world, though, this video of the cute little rabbits.

We'll put it on the hits breakfast on our Instagram story, jumping on a trampoline in the dark. And you're like, oh, they're so adorable. It was called on the night vision camera. Yeah, the rabbits are jumping on the tramp. And I'm sure rabbits would love to jump on the track. And you're like, well, that's why I thought, well, this is plausible. Yeah.

You know, why would AI do us dirty on such a cute setting? Yeah. And then producer Troy was actually telling you before that if you look at the bottom of the screen, two of them disappear. Just kind of disappear, yeah. AI getting very, very good, though, as we said before, it used to be like, oh, it's six fingers on this person's hand. Stephanie AI, now you can barely tell.

That's been in the space of under a year that it's advanced. Hey, no Megan today. She's off with respiratory issues. On the steroids, too, we can't actually have her in here under steroids. She's a bit volatile. She's a very volatile. Yeah, rips down the curtains. She's like working with a W.W.E. wrestler.

Smashes her head through the studio door. Keeps called me, you know something, brother? And I'm like, I don't know why, because she keeps calling me brother. You're going down, brother. Okay, okay, so it's just best. Let me tell you something, brother. I'm like, okay, you're just talking on the radio like a normal person. So, yeah, we had to stand it down for 24 hours, wait for the steroids to...

To wear off the effect of us to work its way out of her system. A leathery, brown tan skin, it was kind of scary. She's not quite vainy in the neck, too. Anyway, so we wish you the best in her steroid abuse recovery program. Listen, I, it's shocking. This is probably happened to a lot of people. It happened to me yesterday. The old static electric.

from the washing cycle with the drying. It gets quite clingy. It does, yeah. And so I've gone through, but the majority of the workday yesterday until I noticed something in the lift going to my case. Oh, there's something poking out the bottom of my jeans. And I was like, oh, it looks like another shoelace or something. And I pulled it out, and it was someone's gesturing.

Someone's g-string. I've been someone in your household, otherwise you're going to love. She's playing to do it. She's probably my daughter's gesturing. I don't know. I'm getting it was Jennifer's. But the worst thing is,

it's my wife's one, is the guilt's come on you. Like, how am I going to transport this home? So you put, I pulled it out and then I was like, oh God, there's cameras in the lift.

You've got underwear. Yeah. I've put it in my back pocket. And the last thing I'm hoping is if you get pulled over and it's an empty-your-pocket situation. Don't do this, Mr. Officer, but you don't want to see the results of this.

Can I see what's in? Yeah, that'd be the worst thing that if you ever take a flight or something, Yeah, it was in your pocket. You're like, put all your stuff out there. You're like, oh, he's got his G string. He can get changed into it at any stage throughout the flow. There's all sorts of assumptions that come when you've got a G string.

Hey, it's to your own. If you want to wear a G string, you wear a G-string. It's fine. Sometimes it's a little thrilling, I imagine. But then I got at home and I was like, what pile does this go? Do I put it back on the spare bed with the mountain of laundry that needs to be? Yeah, it's been washed, but then how was it? It's been with you all day.

It's been out and about. Yeah, it's been in my grubby pocket. So I decided I just keep it in my phone. pocket just for safe keeping for the time being good to go yeah that's the back story i'm johnno ben and megan the podcast the hits so this morning uh we park across the road mentioned us multiple times uh are you right megan yeah poor lady's a bit sick today with asthma sucking away i think that's getting a lot of people all the producers have got asthma at the moment yeah well uh something's trigger in us look after yourself then i keep telling you cut back on those cigarettes yeah there's sucking away on a bong over there what is that green device is

steamer it's steamer okay Yeah, whatever. Does the steamer make any noise for radio? I can try. Sounds very bong-like to me. I don't know, I don't want to throw stones, but... Tiffany incriminated yourself. All right.

Anyway, so it's coming out of the lift this morning, and maybe old Snoop Dog over here, you might have appreciated this. You might have appreciated this. Hop out of the lift, and the most intense drum and bass techno music is playing at an air-bleeding level. Have a listen.

this is a lot early on a Monday morning just like ejected into the week it feels like you're in a fast and furious movie blasting over someone is having a good well waking themselves out is it like 5 a.m. Yeah I like to think that some

battler went and had pre-drinks on Friday night and has forgotten to turn the thing off all weekend Yeah.