Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - BONUS: Megan Papas Recommends The Best Shows To Watch

Episode Date: April 26, 2023

This week our mate Megan Papas suggest two epic shows to catch up on!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Megan, Pappas, welcome back. Hello, good morning. Nice to see you. Nelson's third favourite daughter? What do you rank on their list of... Oh, well done. Well, well done. Who comes from Nelson?

Broods, Georgia might be up there in the top five. Broods are from Nelson. Who else do we have? Guy. Williams. Guy Williams. That's about it. Yeah, Guy Williams.

His dad used to own the McDonald's in Nelson. Did he? Yeah. I had many a late night roll through the drive-thru there. If you had a loud, obnoxious guy yelling at you through the drive-thru speaker, it would have been Guy Williams. Didn't even need a speaker, though, did he? Guy Williams, his voice is so loud.

Hey, what have you been watching this week, mate? This week, it's in the top ten in Netflix in New Zealand, but Ben's actually watched this one, too. The Night Agent.'s in the top 10 in Netflix in New Zealand, but Ben's actually watched this one too. The Night Agent. Oh yeah, I enjoyed The Night Agent. Welcome to the White House,

Peter. So you want me to be a night agent? God, no. I want you to answer the phone for them. It rarely rings. Yes, go ahead.

Oh my gosh. It's really good. I really enjoyed it. And a couple of Kiwis as well. The female lead, yeah, Lucienne Buchanan. She's awesome, isn't she? So good. Great American accent.

It's a whodunit. There's a traitor in the White House. And it's just a really good action drama. She said the phone never rings and then the phone rings. And that's the thing. Could be a terrible show if you're just sitting there waiting for the phone to ring. She was right. It is very boring.

There's 10 episodes of this. This guy just sitting there waiting for the phone to ring. She was dead right. The phone never rings. The main guy's pretty cute, too, I thought, for like an all-American, you know, like... What's his name? Let me rank him. What's his name?

Yeah, Gabriel Bessar, I think it is. What did you think, Ben? I think he was good looking. He was good in the action scenes as well. I think what I enjoyed about this, because I watched this with my wife when I had the week off. I always fall asleep when I'm normally doing breakfast hours with my wife and she gets ahead of me. So this time we had a show together. The two of us watched together.

We had watched an episode or two at night and got through the whole thing. I was like, this was great. You stayed awake. This was great. I stayed awake and I really enjoyed it. It saved Ben's marriage, this show. The night agent.

Now I'm looking at Gabriel Basso. Great eyebrows. Yeah. Big. Good eyebrows. Big, thick eyebrows. So he's the lead in that and what would you rank it out of 10?

Oh, the show. I thought you meant him. I was like, oh, he's an 8. He's a 10. He's a 10. I reckon it's a good nine. Miss Maisel is the next one. Who gives a toast at her own wedding?

I do. I love this man. And yes, there is shrimp in the egg rolls. This looks funny. So this is the marvellous Mrs Maisel, and you may have heard it's into its fifth, it's the final season on Amazon Prime, and it's won heaps of Emmys.

It's one that's really hard to explain to people and make it sound like something you'd want to watch, but it's in the 1950s. She comes from a nice Jewish family, and she starts doing stand-up comedy, and she's quite out there. Like a lot of that trailer I probably couldn't play on the radio comedy and she's quite out there. Like a lot of that trailer I probably couldn't play on the radio.

So she's quite shocking and she gets arrested a few times and it's just, it's really good. I can't explain why, but yeah, it's up to the fifth and final season. But yeah, you have to watch the show. It's really good. Five seasons deep.

Yeah. Am I too late to hop aboard the train? No, I don't think so. Long episodes, though. It's one of those shows, and I think there's a lot per season, but I think you should jump on the train. Very late. You always talk about that.

You were like Tiger King. It got away on you. I find the intimidation of sometimes when there's too many series is quite hard for me to get across. That's why I like that Night Agent, because there's one series, they'll probably do more, but I'm getting on board when there's, what, 10 episodes or whatever. Whereas this one's five series deep. I'm like there's one series they'll probably do more but I'm getting on board when there's what 10 episodes or whatever you know whereas this one's

five series deep I'm like there's a commitment Prison Break was like that wasn't it really got out of hand I need to watch that there's a lot of episodes how many prisons

can you break out of by the end of it they did well though for him spoiler alert breaking out of prison then going back to prison again to break out again did it finish with him

in or out so first one finished he was out then the next one he was on the run in the next series. But then he got caught at the end and back into the, you know, so it was like back and forth, back and forth. And then the third series was another prison break again. Like the simple message, you go to prison once.

If you manage to escape, stay out. They're getting you back in again. They can break out again. Oh, Megan, always love catching up with you. Now, before we go, As we always like to do You give us a fun fact About yourself Today

I've had multiple dreams About Harry Styles One last night Have you? Have you? What sort of dreams? I don't know why There was nothing

I didn't see any Harry Styles stuff yesterday But then I had a dream Where I was like Hey baby And he said Did you just call me baby? He came up and gave me a hug.

And then my alarm went off and I was like, no. Where is this going? No. I'll never know. Did he say, like, did you just call me baby? Was he offended? No, he was into it. That's why I was really upset when my alarm went off.

Then the alarm goes off. I know. I hate that. My husband is on tour. Megan Pappas. I love your work. You have a great day. Thanks.