Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - CAN A BABY PREDICT THE FOOTBALL RESULT? | Full Show

Episode Date: June 11, 2026

On the pod today: We confirm if Jeff McTainsh is related to Ben... Can we get a baby to predict the opening game? Megan's parent got an awakening at a theatre show We find NZ's most stressed out person... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The NBA finals are on right now in New York. Haven't won for over 50 years, and they're in the final against the Spurs. They're a really good team, really good young team. And yesterday, the next... Do you know someone compared the age of the Spurs or the NBA to the age of the Michigan University team? Yeah.

And then the same age. Oh, wow. The entire NBA team. Yeah, because three of the best players are like 22, 21 and 20. One of them can't even buy alcohol. So they're going to be a good team for years in the future as well. But they were up by 29 points yesterday over the Knicks, and the Knicks came back and won with pretty much a second to go, and it was wild in New York. Brunson gets it, fires up a three.

Shot no good. The chip, it's gone! It's gone! It's gone! With 1.2 remaining! The greatest comeback in NBA playoff history. The Knicks pull off, the miracle comeback. And the crowd, the celebrities on the court, we're just going wild.

You got like John McEnroy, Jerry Simon. He had a great pun t-shirt, Stevie Nix. She had written on that. Her friend had Nicole, Nicole, with Nicole Kidman, like, Spout Lovernakes. It was like... You would have been at home in that trio. They looked bespoke, too. Like, they'd made them, like, they'd gone to the mall and made some t-shirts.

I was like, wow, hey. And she was next to Ben Stiller, who was filming everything on his phone. That final shot you showed me is, like, it was in slow motion. That's like a movie. Yeah, yeah. They shot it, it was like a three-point. me through three. Someone missed it and then another guy came out of nowhere and just sort of tips it in.

Yeah. Like, that's amazing. And they all stayed for like half an hour afterwards. You know, the whole crowd, you know, they were saying on the coverage that people just normally leave to beat the traffic.

And they just stayed. They were like, Franks and Archer was playing songs over the big, you know, the big audio speakers. It was, yeah, incredible. Timothy Shalameh took a shirt off.

He's an OG fan. Like, he's been a fan for a long time for the Knicks. He won a competition when he was a kid. He found Knicks players. They were like, fight the players. and they were at the subway station

and he came down and was like, congratulations to 14-year-old Timothy Shalamato. I saw he won tickets to the game. Yeah, so he is actually like a super fan. He took Kylie Jenner along. Obviously, she goes to all the games and she hugged Taylor Swift. And someone said the Knicks are bringing world peace as well.

Squashing some meat. Yeah. Of course. Yeah. Yeah, with the Kim and Kani, I think. Kylie didn't do it. No, that's true. Kim's her sister.

So where does that leave it now? 3-1. So it would have been two all. Yeah, so 3-1, next game in a couple of days in San Antonio but yeah just so they need to win first to four yeah so one more one for the Knicks and they've got the first finals won in a long time have you I know you've played a wide range of sports megan uh you know you roller derby years your cricket years your volleyball years I didn't do cricket uh what does yes hey that's yeah what are they get netball yeah I did

water polo briefly have you ever had a clutch have you ever had a clutch shot clutch moment where you just won the game for the team uh no I really don't think I have. And you're a teenage sporting cat. Maybe getting a wicket to win or something like that. That's nice. I wish. I've done a couple of shots.

They didn't clinch a win. But you know a netball when you're like, you catch the ball as a big throw and you catch it right on the line and you're off balance. And so I had to shoot it up as I'm off balance. And got it in. Lovely. That's good. That's good.

Yeah. Okay. We can throw this over. Text 447. Your greatest sporting achievement. You know, social sports would be a big one. I remember I was working at the Rock. We were the social cricket team.

And it was like the quarterfinals, and they shoved me out on the boundary. Terrifying place to be when someone hits the ball really high. Yeah, yeah. It's going for a six. Oh, God. I managed to catch one hand on the boundary. Oh, absolute fluke. That was.

Take it. You've never been cooler. Thank you. And I know you hate cricket. She used to play. She's a big fan of cricket. 4487 on the text. Your greatest sporting achievement this morning.

Can it rival the next? No, Ben and Megan on the hits. Talking about the New York Knicks and an amazing comeback from 29 points down. They won with just like a second to go. The biggest comeback in NBA finals history to take the lead 3-1 in the series. Rosen gets it, fires up a three. Shot and no go of the tip. It's gone.

It's gone. One point two remaining. The greatest comeback in NBA playoff history. That commentator did really well. I would crumble in that situation. Yeah. I'd be like, Get it to the ball!

The ball is at the thing. Yep, look, it's up! Yeah, it'd be terrible. He does a good, like, Mike Brains is his name of thinking, he does a good, bang. If someone gets his thing, it's his signature thing,

if you get a bang, it's like a big shot, it nails a shot, it's like, bang! It's like a boo-ya. And he's like, don't plan it. When it comes out,

it's just like, oh, yeah, he's like, how many bags tonight, mate? And he's like, well, I don't know, you know, but it's one of those big moments he'll bust out a bang. We're talking to your greatest sporting achievements.

0800, Megan hasn't thought of any but has said that she hasn't won an award that Kim you're claiming you won multiple times. Lovely to have you on the show. Oh yes, good morning. So I played netball as a child and I loved a netball but maybe I wasn't the greatest player on the team. But I can proudly say I won the most improved player in the Sportsmanship Award. All in one price giving, but... That's good, that's good.

Sportsmanship, Migan, did you ever get that one or not? No. Most competitive player, maybe? Yes, I did get told off a few times for, yeah, yelling. Albows to the face of the opponents. Yeah, I was a lot of... I was a very contact heavy netball player. They're seven-year-olds.

Oh, well, good on you, Kim. Great sporting achievement. Lives on with you forever. Thanks. This is a great text on 4487 from Tristan. Huge catch last night. guys at my daughter's hockey game. The ball skyed out of the turf.

I reached over on the sidelines, caught it one-handed, felt pretty proud of myself, raised the ball above my head like the Lion King. The crowd shared. What can I say the greatest sporting achievement of his life? That's great. That's great. That's great. We've got Ollie with us on 0800. The hits. Good morning.

How's it going? Good mate. Greatest sporting achievement. Give it to us. So it's a local beach cricket, sort of like a one-off competition each year. and took five for 11 off seven overs and steady to not out for a win. Oh, five wickets. Geez.

Yeah. Very economical bowling, two, five for 11. That's good. That's good stats. Yeah, I like those stats. Oh, do you know. And, like, football didn't bounce very much, so it was kind of tricky. Well, that's the hard thing, beach cricket, yeah.

You kind of got to do it on the fold, do you? Yeah. And it was a player of the match, too, so that's even better. Well, done, that. How many years ago was this, Ollie? This is this year, actually. Oh, wow. Fresh, fresh in the memory.

Are you back in January for another one? We'll be, hopefully. What beach are we talking? Bailey's Beach. Bailey's Beach, there we go. Those are some wonderful stats there. How many times have you told that story? Thousand times.

That's done it. Yeah, fair enough. You're dying out on that forever, as you should. Thanks, Ollie. You're going to have a great weekend. I had a strange experience So we're out somewhere And a lady came into the men's bathrooms

Because the queue was long Yeah for the women's bathroom She's like not looking, not looking I just heard that while I was at the urinal And I was like oh okay And she went into the cubicle and used it Do not begrudge Yeah

I'm gonna do that If you guys are like chill Well the thing is with the bathrooms here at work And we've talked about this before The urinal situation It's too close But there's two urinal things It's not a long trough situation

It's just two and they're very close. You could actually aim in the next one, couldn't you, if you wanted to. They've really packed it in there. And normally I would have thought it's just a one person. Even though there's two, it's just a one. It's just a one, you know. You're there the courtesy of like, okay.

I'll go to a cubicle. Yeah, right. So if someone's there, you're not going to go on the other one. Well, I thought that was the general rule, but not for someone like Mike Lane from the ACC. I was in here yesterday. And I was using a good thing. He bowls in there, Mike Lane, sports commentator, radio Haraki.

He does some stuff as well. you know, he came in next to me and he started using big dog move from my plane as well. And I was like, oh, okay, I was towards the end of a little rattled, I'm a trough coward, I'm a I feel like that tells me a lot

about both of you. It's a good, it's a good alpha much. I was like, I needed some conversation to just, you know, just to feel like, just to lose the awkwardness. For me, anyway, he probably wasn't awkward, but I just felt a little bit of awkwardness. I know Mike for many years as well.

All I could think of us the other day, you were putting some money into her account for a school fundraiser for Mike Lane. I was. And you were talking about how, you're like, Jay, Jake, Mike. Well, Jay, you were confused about his name, started with Jay. Oh, because you only had a partial match on me. J.M. Lane, and I was like, what's the J? When you were, did the transfer.

And I didn't know that. I've known Mike for many years when Max and I didn't know his first name. Yeah, started with that. So, I know I was Googling that the other day. And then I didn't find out information about it starting with Jay, but found out that Magic Mike's name in the movie is Mike Lane. I did not know this In the movie is his character's name,

Magic Mike. Oh God, Ben. That is the most, that is the most ordinary run-of-the-mill name for a stripper of his caliber. Magic Mike is Mike Lane. I did not know that. And so, as Mike stood next to me in the urinal,

all I said was, Sterey Magic Mike's name is Mike Lane. And he sort of looked at, he did a double-take-up. You brought up a stripper movie. And he was like, I did know that. Someone has mentioned that. And he's like, but why are you even watch it?

That movie's been out for a long time. And that's all I can think of in the moment. Geez, you'd really gone through a catalogue there. Like Megan, account, name, real name, my Google search. I know. And my head, that's how I got there. But I didn't want to go, well, Megan was trying to pay you for the thing. And I was like, oh, this is an awkward.

I made it awkward. Thank you. I was just trying to buy fundraiser protein bars. Protein bars. I know. And I wanted a conversation while I was awkward at the urinal. And I, that's why. Mike Lane was a stripper.

It's timely that the protein bars were being paid for the morning after. the radio awards. I know. I was like, I'm just doing a transfer to Mike Lang. Had a little pep in your step. You guys are like, what are you doing? Prote, Prote, Matt. Funny side up. Dono Ben and Megan on the hits. It is a huge weekend of sport. We got the Football World Cup. It's starting, but also the Super Rugby and the big semi-finals. It's an all-ki showdown. Yeah, last week, listen, we'll just recap to last week. We spoke to expert commentator Jeff McTainch, rugby commentator, and I had, I ballced up the entire interview. I I had ill-prepared super rugby questions.

I was referencing players from the 90s, Carlos Spencer. You're saying the New Zealand teams don't play the Aussie teams. He was like, what? And then at the end, well, let's bring them on. They just bring them on. Because at the end you threw it like a, if that wasn't enough during the interview, off there. Yeah, afterwards, you even had ill-prepared personal questions.

Oh, God, hi, hi, Jeff. Good morning, Jeff. Thanks for coming back on. We thought we'd never see you again on the show. Well, we're not going to see him again because he's only doing this by phone. Look, it's permanent. It's phone from now on. That's right.

So as you went to leave, Jotto asked you, what question? He asked me, I think he said, do you have any, I said, how's the family, John? I said, you're good, mate. And I go, I don't have kids, John. So, real. I do have two cats, though, but, you know, they're fine, mate. Shocking, sorry, Jim. So, sorry, so thank you for coming back.

Now, we're very... A traumatic 10 minutes for you, mate. Yeah, very excited. All Kiwi super rugby semis. You've got the Chiefs take on the Crusaders tonight. The hurricanes take on the blues tomorrow. This is pretty exciting. Is this the first time all four Kiwi teams have been in the semis?

That's a really good question. I think so, yeah. I think so. Yeah, that sounds about right from memory. Hey, I'm glad you've done your homework. So 15 players, obviously, each team. Ben's getting redemption for my shockers last week. Who are you picking to win this whole thing, Jeff?

Good question. There's one straight at the game. I think, I just think this is the crusaders' time of year. It pains me to say that being from Highlanders' country, growing up in the deep southern Dunedin, but they know how to win semifinals, what, 22 semifinals. No teams played more semifinal rugby. They've won 17 of those.

They know how to do it at this time of the year. But they're three very good teams that are in the semifinals. Although the blues, the blues have snuck in the back door, they've had the best meme this week, as I've seen the means on Instagram, but the one of, with Caddy rocking up, to the car and they say get in on the mean girls mean. Hey loser, we're off to the semi-finals.

Oh, that's good stuff. Yeah, because they had like four losses in a row, but they're still there in the semi, so anything could happen. The hurricanes have been really good all season, but there's a big campaign about a filled the tin, you're like, like, because they haven't had the hugest crowds for some the games, which is really surprising. Mate, that is, like, good on the great people of Wellington, because it is difficult to get to that stadium of the best times, particularly the other day when it was,

rain was coming and sideways. So now there is a campaign to Philbott's in. I think they've sold about $15,000. They'll get a decent walk-up crowd as well. Hopefully sell some more today too. But the cane train has been phenomenal this year. I can see maybe at getting derailed if the Blues pull one under the bag,

but you'd have to say if the Canes play as whatever as they have done this season, they should get that done. But I've just got a weird feeling. I don't know. Now, we actually have an ulterior motive for this phone call. Yeah, we love plugging the rugby on SkySport. We do. I just think after this

He's never coming back I love you John and mate I love you buddy I know well the ulterior mode Yes firstly I did want to apologise For the catastrophe last week But Ben has a personal A personal approach

Now don't be worried about this But my dad We spoke to my dad Kevin who Turns out you do have children No And he was like He gives me all my rugby knowledge as well So we had him on last week

And he was talking to you about rugby But over the weekend I get a text from my dad And he'd been thinking about you Jeff He'd be thinking about you? Am I his? Am I your brother? Maybe.

He said, well, here, here go. And he said, this is a typical dad text. Hi, long shot. But next time you're talking to Jeff McTange, ask him if his father's name is Grant. If so, we may be related. Nana had a cousin who married Ken McTach, and he married Nana's cousin,

Myrtle, and they had a son, Grant. Long story, he said. So any relation there, or can I put this to bed? Is David Lomash about to come on and tell us to be weird brothers? and that I do have kids and there's this weird connection here. Grandma Tach doesn't ring a bell. Oh, there we go.

Oh, you're not brothers. We're not brothers. One of the boomers' favorite hobbies in pastimes is trying to connect people they've just met to people they've met in the past. Yeah. Why? It's like if you're from a massive student, it's like, say you're from London. It's like, hey, do you know Steve? Yeah.

They love it. They love it. But then I hate it when you're like, oh, I do know Steve. Hey, Jeff, for good luck this weekend. call as they say and thank you so much for your time mate. Anytime you want to talk rugby mate I'm your man. Jono Ben and Megan on the hits.

Earlier in the week I had a cute little dental appointment that I haven't had one for like 10 years. You need to stop putting the word cute before. Oh no. It's starting to lose it's cute and especially now. You came back and you're like all I needed was a cute tiny little filling and it was, it sounded like it wasn't even to do with not brushing or anything because you do brush it. No, I've tripped my tooth

ages ago and everything's just getting in there. So cute little filling. A little, a little bit of ginger. Yeah, a little bit of Tartre build up, which you don't understand. 10 years is a long time. I tried to get that hidden from us. It's fine. Ben was like, okay, stop saying it.

Ben was like nine years. He's like, just give us something that we can sign out on. Yeah, a little bit. Cute, a little bit of gingery. And I feel like gingery makes it better. Yeah, it does. Sounds cute. And what was the other thing?

Oh, I've got a cute little wisdom tooth, which actually is little. It's just like she calls it a pecky. tooth or something. And she said, I can just flick that out. Just flick it out. So it's not like one of those ones where you have to like cut it from the bone. Like it's not a hectic wisdom tooth. So right, she can So I was like, everything sounds cute and little.

Cute little cute little. One of Francesca, who really did look after you said it was a remarkable place. Oh, it is a stunning place. I don't, I obviously don't know what dental practices are like these days, but that was beautiful. And she didn't charge us for that as well. Yeah, which is awesome. Yeah, really awesome. City Dental Lounge. go and see the lovely woman there.

So what have you received overnight in emails? Email form. So she's like, I'll be in touch with, you know, like the details of getting all that cute little stuff done. Treatment plan. The cute treatment. Also, I said to her, because as soon as she said it, a tooth extraction, I was like, I need to be sedated. She was like, you don't have to be. And I was like, I need to be because that's full off.

You're like having a sleep too. Yeah, and I was like, a forced sleep sounds divine. And I can't be in charge of children for the rest of the day. So I was like, this is all coming up roses. She's supposed to neglect the kids and be sedated. No, it's a, it's a turn. Yeah, he's been there six weeks. He used to pick me up and look after me for the rest of the day.

I was like, yes. And drop you at a hotel at the end? Would that be preferable? Oh, that's a good idea. So, here comes the in-boys. And look, I know dental work isn't cheap. It's a quote, you'd say. It's a quote.

Yeah, because you're being charged. No, no, no, no. So it's like $1,800. Oh, that's. That's not cute, Ben. That's not cute. But you have added a huge, whacking part to that quote. Yeah, well, $800 of it is the cute little nap.

Yeah, so if you didn't do the nap. That she said wasn't necessary. Yeah. $800 just to be knocked out. But can you guys and everyone listening? Just let's all agree that she said it was necessary. That the wisdom tooth thing is going to be full on. Yeah, okay, yeah, sure.

So, like, no one tell my husband it's not. necessary. Well, Troy actually, producer Troy Cowat with a wonderful alternative. He's like, oh God, I thought you're going to say he's on the phone. Why don't you just get chloroform yourself just before the procedure.

Save yourself, you know, that $800. Just pull out a tissue and I'm like, ready, go. We go for a drive around the block, you'll fall asleep. So why don't you do that? Just drive me down there. To be honest, all they need to do is lay me down. You have no trouble. She's out.

Okay, I guess we can do it. I don't think you snore when you get put under the anesthetic, though. I'll be like, And for nearly a decade of not attending the dentist, you average that out over 10-year period. Not bad, hey, next. The Football World Cup has just kicked off. We just saw the first goal, actually. Mexico, just got a goal over South Africa.

The Football World Cup kicks off today. The first game going on right now and joining us in the studio. All right's goalie, Ollie Sale, who's injured, sadly at the moment. But Wellington Phoenix Legend as well, Paul Eiffle, now also TVNZ commentators. Thanks for coming in. Thank you, guys. And now, we're just talking about the timing. Does the timing kind of work for us here in New Zealand?

If you're watching it, probably not if you're working it. Okay. So you guys are working at what time are you getting up in the morning for the next year? It's probably normal for you guys, but I think it's a four o'clock. Right. In Studio 4. In Studio 4 getting dusted and pampered for the makeup. The All Whites being in the tournament.

Explain like how monumental this is to maybe those who aren't involved with football. Yeah, it's huge. It's 16 years since we qualified for the last one. It's only our third one in history. And I think it's as good an opportunity as we've ever had to, to get out the group and do something special. We've got an unreal bunch of players. Still young, but very hungry and, yeah, I'm expecting good thing.

Now, New Zealand, we need to talk about the thing that the whole world is talking about. I mean, Tim Payne, obviously, the story that everyone knows. I mean, how old is that? I mean, Ollie, you know it well, you know. How is that to have a mate of yours, someone you played with to go from, what, 4,000 followers to how many million is it today? It's crazy, isn't it? It couldn't have happened to a better blow.

Yeah. And I said this earlier on breakfast. it couldn't have happened to someone least but more prepared for it. Like it's not going to bother him at all. He's not going to be phase by it for the tournament. If it was going to happen to anyone pre-tournament, it should be him because he'll just put it aside. It won't mean a thing and then he'll really crack on with it later on.

That's what I was worried about. It's great, but like is that going to distract him? I think others it would. I think others would. But well, he's right. He's so chilled. He's so relaxed. I think it'll just park it for now.

He'll have a team of people around him. Yeah. And then when it comes the back of the World Cup, in a few weeks, then he can start concentrating on that. And maybe a move is in the future for him. Have you actually spoken to him about it? Yeah, plenty. He's almost annoyed at the start.

He couldn't get on his phone. He couldn't contact his family. He couldn't reach out. It was just going to. It was going nuts. Phone's hot for all the notifications. He literally said to me, this is actually annoying at this point. But then obviously, once it suddenly he realized the magnitude of it and what could come

of it, he was just buzz and he was like, this is pretty cool. And surely someone's told him to turn off notifications by now. I'm sure someone's got out of the control. He's on 5.6 million now. He's done really well. I mean, up until that point, he wasn't posted too much. A few random photos, he's in a kilt there.

He's still answering your phone calls. He, believe it or not, he is. He's probably doing a bit of a social media cleanup, just to make sure everything looks like in the same, you know? You never know what you've liked in the past. Could you, would you text him now and he would text back? I think so, yeah. Can you just go, hello, mate, how are you?

What time is it in San Diego? It's Sefi text back? Oh, San Diego. What time is in San Diego? They might have finished training for that? Because Wednesday, your first game. they're playing iran as well Tuesday Tuesday yeah

yeah so maybe if you text and go hey John I've been a mega from the hits say hello oh yeah it's cool it's gonna be who from where yeah he'll be like where was that text and like that three weeks ago yeah now you want to

he's just gonna ask you know you want to say hello yeah yeah I know because on the I mean you've got to be great to even make the tournament so any team could win on the day right is that the dumbest cliche that I've just thrown out Anyone can win on a day in a single game.

Winning the tournament is different. You've got to be consistent over a number of games. But I think for New Zealand, can they get out of the group? That would be the big thing. Can they get out the group? Who in the group do we need to look out for? Who's our biggest? Belgium.

Belgium would be tough. But they're all going to be equally tough. Like the other two, Egypt and Iran, they're going to be hard games. But yeah, definitely Belgium is what a top 10 side in the world. So that'll be a tough one to me. Hey, well, listen, thank you so much for coming in. Did Tim Payne text back from a hello? Oh, yeah.

Let's have a look. Is your arm and training pitch? No. No. He's busy guys. The hero's always there. He's changed. He's lost my number.

Hey, we're excited about it. Who is? Football World Cup. You catch. All right now. Love to talk to you guys. And the thanks to your time. And please pass on our good luck and well wishes to the team.

Yeah, we'll do. John O'Ben and Megan on the hits. Hamilton set to get its first ever skyscraper, a 25-story tower, going to be on the banks of the Wakato River, which is very exciting. They haven't been scraper. scraping the sky and Hamilton, just sort of lightly caressing it. Now it's ready for a full scraping on the banks of the Waikato. It was it going to be businesses or apartments?

I don't know why I'm asking that question. Five-star hotel, rooftop bar as well. Oh, lovely. Lovely. Yeah, la-di-da. Good old Hamilton. Very nice. Always said it was the sitting at the future.

Well, now it's, yeah. The future has arrived. You two would know this. You've hosted a few things in the past. And I'm sure there's plenty of people listening who have emceed weddings and that sort of thing for friends and family members as well. I've got one this weekend and we're doing a friend's wedding in a few months' time as well. What I really worry about is when you're in that role, I'm a horribly disorganized individual,

but because you're doing a lot of talking, people assume you know every intimate detail about what's happening during the day. Yeah. Like I had people come and go, are they gluten? I was at a rugby luncheon last weekend. What are the gluten-free options available? I said, I don't know. I'm sure there's plenty out there. You go find, you kind of become a sort of a human lost property too.

Do you know where Uncle Derek's gone? I don't know. I haven't seen Uncle. Do you think the photographer can take a photo of Aunt Nancy wandering down the beach in her toll? I'm sure. A lot of stuff that you end up just making up answers for. Do you do that?

Yeah, you're not covering the whole. Yeah, you don't know everything. I don't know all the details. Yeah. But they all think that the emcee has access to all these secret information. I mean, probably it has been told to us at some point. Yeah. But you completely forget it's, yeah.

All you're really doing is, yeah, a bit of like banter. Bit of like toilets. Yeah, toilets, I feel like that's a little bit redundant. Most people will work out with the toilets are. Yeah, but I mean, that gives off a false perception that you know what's happening. Yeah, that's true. The fire exits are over there. Yeah, everyone's like, oh, the door.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, okay. Okay. The most obvious. I love handing out the most obvious information. It pretty much is, right? But the most part. You know the one you walked in?

Just sprint out through that and a panic. That's the fire action. That's the door. The toilet's over there where it says toilet. If there's a fire, make your way out to that grassy patch. Do you know if Uncle Ron's catheter bag needs emptying? They all get flung at you. So, yeah, just they're going to be preparing for that this weekend.

And shout out to all those that are emceeing weddings. Whose wedding is it? It's not a wedding Well, what, Ben and me Our friend Andy We're doing that in a couple of months' time But yeah A duo is a good one

Because when one's, you know Mind wandering the other one Can you keep it Yeah The toilets are over there I forgot where they are I feel like he can cover up Your own appropriateness

If you have too many beverages You know You've got your safety Well this smokes A good tactic Just to Jotto put him in front of the mic He can't have too many beverages That's right

It actually does control Yeah it does It keeps on your game. You don't have done alpha quizzes you don't seem to. Yeah, true, actually. Train it in. Hey, coming up next, the Football World Cup has started, and we are in desperate search of a baby.

We have a betting baby. We want to have a betting baby through the Football World Cup. Yeah, we've had a lot of people wanting to supply their baby. We're not, you know, you still get to keep it, obviously. We'll return, baby. Yeah. John O'Ben and Megan on the hits Friday morning

There's a lot of great sport going on Right around the world at the moment The New York Knicks One yesterday came back for 29 points down We've got Rworeas this weekend Super Rugby semis And of course the football world Cup that the whole world is talking about

Yeah they just had the opening ceremony Now Mexico And South Africa Game 1 of the Football World Cup in Mexico 35 minutes down It's still 1-0 to Mexico That's stadium over 80,000 people just erupted.

Amazing looking stadium, eh? Yeah, they do it well, don't they? So... Where are the horses? We're the horses. You know, come out. Horses at the stadium. You're right.

You're right. Been more horses. Don't start. Don't troll the can't have. Yeah, now. Yeah, well, they have the World Cup, though. He's just trolling you because we know the Crusaders are going to win. Yeah.

But we're going to have a betting baby. Yeah, there's some moral of, you know, complications around the whole campaign, but we're rolling with it. And the first betting baby for the Football World Cup, Kelly, good morning to you. How are you, Kelly? Good, thanks. How are you?

You're not the baby, I just want to clarify. No, not the baby. Yeah, so, you know, other people have had, you know, animals predicting results of sport matches before, but we thought a baby is very unique. And so you've got a baby. Describe your baby to us. She's a seven months old.

months? Yeah. What's the sweet little baby's name? Avery. Avery. Is she crawling? Not yet. She's doing up on all fours, though.

Oh, cute. Not long, not long. Very cute. Yeah. So could we use sweet little Avery to be the first betting baby for the football World Cup? Would you be willing to involve your baby in gambling? That's not gambling.

We're not winning. Absolutely. We're not gambling on here. No one's betting towards the... So what we want to do is place two of Avery's favorite toys in front of her, and whatever one she grabs will be representative of what of the team. So one will be Mexico, one will be South Africa. You tell us which is which and what she grabs.

All right. I'll pop them out in front of her. What toys have we got there, Cal? So we've got like a little ladybug thing. A colorful ladybug, which can be South Africa. Okay. And then a little pink bunny for Mexico. Okay, all right.

Now the moment of truth. Avery's like, give it to me. Yeah, okay. Here we go. Round one of the bedroom. She's gone for South Africa. Oh! So this is...

Currently, they're one-nilled-down. But okay. Avery reckons South Africa's going to take it. We'll see. The beauty of a baby, you know, there's no bias. No. sort of, you know, not getting clouded or complicated by all the statistics of the teams,

just going off raw baby instincts. And that was like decisive, you know? Yeah, yeah, she like lunches herself. Oh, okay. South Africa, that would be an upset win of this game. So she said to come back from one-nil down, as you say, Megan, but hey. It's the 80,000 plus Mexico supporters. It could happen.

It could happen. Kelly, we will call you back after 8 o'clock when this game finishes. And if South Africa win, well, we have found a lot. little prodigal daughter here. All right, well, thank you so much to Avery and yourself. We'll keep in touch, Kel. Cool. Have a good morning.

You too. I appreciate that. John O'Ben and Megan on the hits. Well, I ran into you and your parents just a night or two ago at the musical The Heathers. And I was in the middle of filming something for social media with my daughters. They made me do a trend where you close your eyes and you go, you can go to like an op shop or a thrift shop. We went to a costume shop.

and where they said stop I had to grab whatever item that was next to my hand at the time and so I had a very very flamboyant outfit on yeah because you looked you showed us the picture of the outfits and you know very fashion forward

ironic we just played Harry's style something he would wear on stage you had the look of someone who didn't care what people would think about his outfit but I know you and deep down you'd be caring a lot of what people would be able big sunglasses I mean yeah big hats as well like very purple green cheater print shirt on with a purple fluffy jacket.

Sparkly pants as well. Sarkly pants. Maybe would we be... Yeah, you can put it up. Yeah, we'll put all your photo of it up on the Hitsbury's Instagram. I did... I didn't not like the jacket though. I literally have a jacket very similar to that.

Yeah, I think my wife does. Well, it's very like, as I say, like, you need confidence to pull that. I'm not... And I did it for the gag or whatever, but... Elton John in his prime. Yeah. It's very Elton John sunglasses as well. I kind of felt like, you know, Lady Kravitz, Jason.

and mama those sort of people could pull off something either. Harry Stiles. I think the more famous you get, the less you have to care about what you're weird. Yeah, yeah. So I had that moment, but I just, as soon as I had it on and turned up on the street, lots of people out and about, I ran into you and your parents, Megan. And you always run into someone from work, don't you? Bloody someone from work.

It was Megan. Was he more excited to see Ray, Ray and Wayno? Well, no, I think I read all your parents a little bit because your mom just stopped and it tracks. Sorry, I'm just really offended by. You're so much of work. No, because you warned me that this was happening, plus nothing you do surprises me anymore. So I saw you in your sparkly pants, and I was like, oh, I think I grabbed you from behind. And my parents are like, who is that?

Who's that? Who's that? They've met you before, but they were so, like, bewildered by what. No, no, they're up the guts, Nelsonian people, mate. They've come to the big smoke and what do they see? They see me in an outfit. I'm doing it for comedy purposes, of course, but yeah. Yeah, also, like, my parents are very understated in the way they dress,

which might surprise you, because then I left the house and, like, a leather skirt, a fur, jacket, my heels on. I think my parents were even like, God. How did they handle your big night out? And they see Ben. And then, yeah. You started the night, Ben, in your outfit. And my mum was like, we literally walked away and she was like, what was going on there?

Yeah. Did you feel like people were talking behind you back after you left them? Yeah, well, because before I understand the context, I get people like, oh, that's funny. but if not they were like wow he's really what is he doing yeah what's going on there and I was like oh it's been um but always run into people from work yeah someone from work we got in there and you know it's a theatre crowd it's an eclectic um crowd everyone's like very confident and outgoing and then progressive liberal people yeah yeah yeah my parents we ended up in a line for drinks behind some drag queens and of course they turn around and of course I know the drag queens I was like oh hi

and get, like, chatting, and my mum and dad are just kind of like... A lot for them to download. Wow, oh, wow, like tall as well, wearing huge heels, like very chatty and outgoing. Yeah, and a lot of questions were there from Ray, Ray and Wayne? Well, my dad, in the end, was like, can I get a photo? Can I get a photo of them? Awesome. And then when we sat down in the seat, dad was just kept looking at the photo.

Was he pinching? I'm not sure. Like, was he a namid? Or was he, like, Just wow. Mom was like, the lipstick was incredible. Yeah. So they were, yeah, there was a lot to take in.

Was there an awakening? An awakening. Maybe. Yeah, right. I was witnessed. I started it. This is how I started. You're the entree.

John O'Benn and Megan on the hits. Speaking of weekend of sport A&Z premiership netball going on. We've got the Warriors playing at home for the first time in a while. The Super Rugby semifinals and, of course, Football World Cup. Just to name a few. Still one nil to me. Mexico we had our betting baby. I predicts the winner of this match at 7.30 this morning.

The betting baby picked South Africa. Still half an hour to go. Yeah, still a bit of a comeback required for our betting baby. Because Ben, you've incorporated a ruthless knockout system for the babies. It wasn't yet to be ruthless. It was just to put more babies. Give more babies the chance as well. They cut to a lady eating grapes and she's spinning out the scenes.

She'll be stoked. She'll be stoked. counting to be on that. I'm telling us. Worldwide audience of cabillions watching that. So, yeah, we'll keep you up to speed with the ruthless elimination

of the bending baby. So Ben and Megan, next week we're on a bit of a therapy mission, aren't we, for your relationship with producer Grace, who coincidentally has taken the day off today. And how nice is it? I haven't been baited.

It feels very chill. You two have tumultuous friendship and relationship. We like it. love each other a lot, but she she's nipping at me like a little chihuahua. I likened her to like a little sister. Yeah, you do.

You have that sort of, yeah, right. People that would have siblings would probably know that, you know. She's, you know, mid-20s and, you know, got a real feisty, real feisty person, Grace. And yesterday we actually had a meeting on the show and we were reflecting on audio from the program, from the broadcast. And our Australian radio coach was like, too much energy when Grace is involved on the talk break.

You know, she's, you, you look. just bring her in when she needs to talk. Yeah, too much. Yeah, too much. She's great, but too much. Yeah, alive. So next week, someone reached out saying you and her are more than welcome to attend the rage room. Yeah, it's called Rage Out where you go along and you can take out your stress and your stress relief and everything going on. Yeah, a little bit of anger that you may have inside for producer grace. You can smash some things, some plates, there's even a couple of cars. You can attack with baseball bats and hammers and stuff.

It sounds like a dream. Do you know, I, I used to live in a house that was being demolished for like a big tunnel. And I asked, because we had to move out, I asked if we could have a demolition party and just smash everything up. Oh, wow. But they said no, dangerous. Too dangerous. But I was like, it's going to smash up anyway. This is a place that you can go along and do this bigger, you know?

It's a dream. So, you know, you can get your stress out. Producer Grace can get her stress out. And hopefully we can move forward as a show. And yours, the audience can move forward as well. Not moving forward? Today, great. So they're great.

But that's the other option. Well, option A, we go to Raid Room. Option B, one of you, doesn't come in for the show. Let's go to Raid Room. Because this is your eye. It's been lovely. You know, I don't like vacating my seat. That's all right.

So if you want to roll a woman in this industry, Megan, that's over to you. Can only have one woman on a show. Another hard working way now. So 800 of the hits. What we thought we might do, too, is bring along, you know, some of you. You're listening right now. It's Friday. What a year it's been.

Petal prices, cost a living. You name it. Wars. Yeah. Well, yeah, there's a lot going on, right? When you put it like that. A lot of stress happening out there. So what is causing you the stress at the moment to right now?

Why are you stressed and you know, and you could be joining us next week to be a bit of stress relief? Yeah. So the most stressed out person on 0800 hits. What's going on? Are you a race car in the red? Have you got time to even call a radio station? Yeah, well, that's the other thing. Do you get stressed out, Jono?

Ever? does anything like your heart racing? Yeah, a bloody parking tickets turn up you know, that really gets me going. But yeah.

Generally, pretty chill. Yeah, for the most part. Very calming anything. Ben's done a lot of the stressing for our duo. He's done enough for both of us. What I find when people

around people that don't stress, you have you stress out more because they are so casual about stuff and then you start worrying about them. So this partnership. Same thing at home. And I was like, that'll be fine. like, oh yeah, because I've organised and got all that.

So the poor bugger, he's got it at work, goes home, his family's not stressing. So his anxiety levels is partly your fault. Honey mine, and I imagine there's some home contributions to that as well. And the poor guys, buddy. We're on now. Where you want to take, producer Grace and Megan was suggested someone's phoned up from Rage Out, which is a rage room, and you can go along and you can break stuff and relieve some stress.

Been a bit of stress happening you would have hurt on the airways and behind the scenes. We're like, hey, feel like we can ease that stress with something and go into a rage room next week seems like a fun idea. We don't dislike each other. No, no, I know that. No, you don't. But you're just kind of like... We just bicker.

Yeah. I like two neighbouring cats just sort of vying for, you know, real estate. Like a jug, yeah, a boiling point, and then it's off. And it comes. Yeah. And it'll kick back up again. Look the jug back on before you go out. It's probably more stressful for people witness to it.

Yeah, yeah. You guys are after all, you're like, hey, we're cool. You kind of get it out and move on. Yeah. Maybe that's healthy. It's always over emails and things Megan hasn't done. And the timing of Grace sending the email for us. Anyway, we're taking it at you next week to rage out.

They very kindly offered up their place. So we're thinking maybe Tuesday, but we'll get back to you exactly where it's happened. But we're like, let's bring some people along with us. Yeah, let's do it. Let's relieve the halfway through the year stress. Bianca with us. Happy New Year. You're stressed out, Bianca.

Talk to us. In my car that I've spent $2,000 on in the last two weeks What else? On my way to hospital for the second time this week And Sidney walked on traffic while that's happening Oh, Bianca I hope you're doing okay Well, it sounds like you're not doing okay

But I hope everything's okay at the hospital But geez, you're not going on in your life Yeah, about to have a heart surgery Another one, so I've already had one of those as well But I don't think everything's appropriate for radio So I'll just leave it there Are you driving yourself? Yeah.

Are you going in for heart surgery now? No, no, no, no, no, no. It's just a before, it's a before appointment to meet the surgeon. Oh, I see, just a bit of a check-up there. I thought you're just bloody driving yourself in to get heart surgery. I mean, it could be possible. Yeah. Any family in Auckland.

Oh, I know. Well, Bianca, listen, our thoughts are with you. And I'm sorry to do this, but you said there's a lot of stuff not appropriate for radio, and I'm just like, what is that stuff? She did not appropriate. She's betting it for you. Yeah, for you. Yeah, like she's doing the job that we should be doing.

Makes me want to hear it even more. Hey, well, listen, would you like to join us at the Rage Room? How's your heart going to handle the Rage Room? I've been waiting to go to the Rage Room for ages. The only reason I haven't been able to is I work at Kura, and we have lost our funding for the part of the work that I do there. So you don't have money to go? Well, listen, we could take you, do you want to come with us maybe next week?

I'll try. I'll have to see. Yeah, you've got quite a lot going on. Hold off the heart surgery. Yeah, maybe don't put off the heart surgery. Yeah, yeah. All are you doing, a radio promotion. Let's keep in touch.

We've got Bella with us too on 0800 the hits. You want to join us at the Rage Room, Bella. You want to rage out? Yeah, happy new year. Happy New Year. Bella, it's lovely to have you on. What's stressing you out at the moment, mate? Bruno Mars draw.

Oh, today for the concert. Why is it stressing you out? Just trying to get in there? Um, yeah, just trying again. I've called several times this whole week. I think yesterday I called 32 times. 32, wow, because we're doing a Bruno Blitz. So that was the one that you wanted to put him for,

before you even knew it was going to be given away today at 5? Yeah. So you need to get to London, do you, Bella? Yes. Let's put her in the drawer. Let's put her in the drawer. Well, technically we've already done our caller for this out. Sure, we can do this.

Good luck with the calls later through the day, Bella. No. Bella, we're going to put you in the drawer, okay? Just this once. Oh my God. Thank you so much. You can hear the stress just relieving. Look at the pride.

It's nice to do the way. That is. He loves looking like a great guy. We got you, Bella. Oh, thank you. You're in the jaw from Red of Bars. Hey, good luck. You could be off this afternoon.

Is it 5 o'clock that drawer? Yeah. All right, Bella. Oh my God. Thank you so much. She loves you. There you go, see. He's a man of the people.

John O'Benn and Megan on the hits.