Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Celebrities Doing Mundane Things | THE GREATEST HITS

Episode Date: July 12, 2026

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The John O'Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better tea. Great story. Producer Troy has just told us about what happened to you. You were making a way back from a family wedding Sunday morning, Troy? Yes, yep. Early flight out of Christchurch, and I had to go and get a coffee.

Right. Because, you know, what early flights are like. Domestic airport coffee. Domestic airport coffee. $9 for black coffee. Wow. Nine. She's an extortion at the airport.

isn't it? Yeah. And although it'll cross your airport, a lovely airport, isn't it? A beautiful airport, yeah. They, I feel like they could do more, uh, more with the food stuff on the other side when you get through the,

the security gates. Have they put another something in there? There's not a lot. There's a relay. Oh, you love a relay. Love an airport relay. Yeah. Okay, so you've got yourself a coffee.

I'm sitting there having a coffee and then I see this guy in a black t-shirt, you're a gold chain and aviators. And I was like, that's a cool looking guy. Yeah. What kind of gold chain? Like, just like a small. Cuban one or a little taste A little tasteful one

Yeah right And he orders a thing I'm like that guy He looks too cool to be just An average Joe in an airport Right And so I kind of looked at him A little bit more and I was like

Hang on That's Ronan Keating Rohn and Keating Life is a roller coaster Just got a lot You and Ronan Keating First thing

Sunday morning at Christchurch domestic airport Now what's Ronan ordering He was He got a big sort of bowl of coffee I don't know what it was some sort of Like a latte bowl

A big latte bowl I would not have put Ronan for a latte God And He was there too by the way Because he did Salwin Sounds Okay Weekend and Lincoln

And as well as his big bowl of latte He got a panini Was there A chicken cranberry brie pinini Oh lovely Was there Was there? You know how sometimes

You get a pinnini Because there's literally nothing else Was there other options That was chocker Yeah it was full ass went for a pinnette? Yeah. That is such a...

At 7.30 in the morning. Early morning, a depressing airport pinini. He went a bowl latte and a pinini. Okay, Paul, Bennett. He's got the taste buds of a menopausal 60-year-old. We've got the music for them. Wow. But what I love about this is Troy has got imagery of Rodan Keating

from a distance too, so it's like surveillance push. I took a photo. I'm not kidding. Ordering the pinini or eating the panini? This is in line. So you didn't capture him, Rolly, he's having his chicken cranberry pinini.

He looked too vulnerable. Yeah. I mean, you don't want to, yeah, I mean, it's a bit intrusive, isn't it,

to film someone while they're eating? I was going to go up to order, sure, but not eating. I was going to go up to him, but I was hung over. He was probably hungover. I thought that conversation

was just going to be grim. Yeah, what had you planned to say to Ronan, like, what were you going to? I was going to go up and be like, hey, going to get him to make a comment on your race your track stars.

This is all good in hindsight, Troy, but like... Yeah, no, it was all... As I said, hungover, a lot of information to convey, a lot of context. He was... Albo deep into a pinini. He had no time for you.

Well, hopefully he was loving each... As if it was his love. You know, there would have been probably a time in Ronan's career. This is not a dig by any stretch of the imagination. He stretched the imagination. There would have been time he would have been on a private jet having an actual Italian hand feed in Panini.

Now he's having to go to Christchurch airport and paid 25 bucks for a Panini on Sunday morning. Was he getting on the same plane as you? No, he didn't come up to Auckland. He must have gone maybe to Queenstown or something like that. Yeah, Rob. Oh, good on your own. Okay, so this is what we want to open up.

What is the most mundane thing you've seen a celebrity doing? Can we beat eating a pinini? Have you seen a celebrity vacuuming their car at Wash World. Supermarket shopping. Yeah. I've seen a celebrity not wash their hands

in the toilet. Okay, we'll get to that. We'll get to that after 9 o'clock. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. You can trick yourself into thinking it's almost like a Tuesday with a short week for a lot of the country. Good Friday on Friday, of course. Well, there's some weekday math. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Welcome to Tuesday. Yeah, well, it feels like a Tuesday, you know, in some ways. We like to do this Well, this is confusing Because we do this every Monday Which is... Made it confusing, am I? Celebrities doing mundane things

We started this a few weeks ago And just some great start Like some examples This came through last week on the text I saw Adam Sandler Flicking Snott at Vince Vaughn In real life Oh, that's cool

That's great Someone texting? Really? Wow, we should get them on I saw Saddle William Having his breakfast It feels like we need to get them on Oh, we can do

They're on our Instagram account, Troy Yeah, we'll harass them to come on I saw General Ortegas sitting in my Uber at 5.30 a.m. in the morning. Well, she filmed here, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Wednesday, yeah.

I saw Pink catching a train in Dunedin. This is the sort of stuff we love. So, celebrities doing Monday things. She just get driven. She feels like a person of the people. She's one of the battlers. Roger Tuovars is Shek, are you familiar with him, Ben? Yeah, yeah, he's leaving the Warriors going overseas to the UK,

which is, yeah, I'm a good on him. He's been an amazing servant for the Warriors, you know, like an amazing player. No one that has to run away from me. It's probably my fault, guys. It's a big fan of Roger. But, no, awesome for him. Well, there's a reason why Taylor and Marcello Montoya had to leave. It was getting weird.

But I remember I was on a jet star flight. It was a couple of years ago. And Roger was one of the last few people on the plane. And you know that really stressful situation where you're trying to find a place for your luggage to go on the overhead compartment. Oh, yeah. Now, I was watching the poor bugger three. Truggle trying to get his bag in. And then the attendant came up to him and said,

oh, listen, I can take it for you. And she had to put it in another location. But that is a really anxiety-fueled moment for me, is when your bag is a few rows behind you? Because all you're thinking about is when you land. You're going to have to go against the tide. Yeah, it's very hard to get that. To get your bag.

And poor Roger was in that same situation. He probably waited. He'd be like the sort of person that's lovely. He would wait. He would wait for everyone to go off and then go back at your bag. Put it in front of me. Don't put it behind me. I thought it was a...

Yeah, I did think it was a controversial decision. Yeah. But you spend the whole flight stressing about having to get you back. It's only a metre away from it. Everything's going to be fine. It's on the same pencil that you're on. Yeah, so I weighed 100 the hits. I saw Tana humonger at the movies once,

which was pretty cool because I'm a big fan of Tana. Was it fast and furious? I think it was, yeah, it was going along to that. Yeah, it was. And I was like, and I think I met him like briefly years ago, but he was like, I was in the line. line to get some snacks or whatever and he turned around big smile and I was like

me and I waved and I was like oh he was coming towards you. He started coming and came over I was like this is so cool and you heard angels yeah and I was like wow it was amazing and then I realized his wife was sitting behind me in the queue but to Tata's credit what he just said and he talked to me and I was like I

he really wants to be talking to his wife right now yeah and I was like a lovely conversation all the way through I was like I don't work out you just your wife is behind it did you really think that his face had lit up up like that to see you. He's looking at me like he's married to me. He's in love with me.

He's coming over and then I was like, but he did. He stuck her out and it was pretty awesome. I knew that he just wanted to join his wife behind me in line. Your story is about celebrity spotting, but we just want celebrities doing mundane things. Just your everyday average things

that you and I do, right? Someone's just texting, we must get them on next week, but they sold shaved ham to some of New Zealand's finest people. That's great. Sir Peter Blaine. bought shaved ham off this person.

Timorida Morrison, Robin Malcolm, boom. Shaved ham. So there we go. That's the sort of stuff we want. Andy. Hey, how are you? We're doing well, mate.

Celebrities doing mundane things. Who was it? What were they doing? This was probably about 15 years ago now, but I went to my mate's barbecue, and I looked across at the barbecue and Brett McKenzie from Father Kongwards was just turning sausages.

Oh, wow. Like the rest of us turn sausages. Yeah, yeah. Did he run a pretty good barbecue operation, Brett McKenzie? He was across all the meats? I, he looked pretty tired. It was just after they got back from America from doing the HBO series. So it was pretty, it was right on his peak.

So it was pretty cool, but he didn't look like he wanted to be there. Yeah. What was he turning sizzlers? Was it double cheese sizzlers or the butcher sausages? The old Chinese honey. Oh, the honey soy ones. Yeah. That's a classic.

Like when I'm hosting and I don't want to talk, I'm busy myself in the kitchen. Maybe he was doing that, you know? Oh, no, it's a good spot, though. Because you can chat, but then you also have the distraction of the buff. The buffer of the sauce. Yeah, like, it's good, yeah. I can't imagine you'd be too comfortable as the barbecue person. There's a lot of pressure on the bar.

I'm going to do it from time to time, but there is a lot of pressure on it. Especially when you put the steaks and stuff on. And people all stand around and start going, oh, you know, you know, mate, well, do it, you want to do it. You know? Yeah. And so did you eat? There's not too much pressure, though. There's not too much pressure doing a pre-cooked sausage.

Sausages, no. I can handle the sausages, that's okay. Turn it. And so tell me, Andy, the quality, the texture, the warmth of Brett's sausages, were they delicious? Sausage wood's delicious. Yeah, soft in the middle. Well-cooked, not burned? No, not burned.

Purfully cooked. Nice and tender. I'm going to hook you out with 100 bucks so you can buy yourself as many. Well, actually it's for your gas tank, sorry. You can buy your own sausages for your own money. Enjoy the petrol, mate. Appreciate it. Appreciate it.

Thanks, guys. Bee, welcome. Hi, guys. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Hey, celebrities doing mundane things, B. Who did you see? I saw Stephen Adams at a Korean barbecue in Wellington.

Eating Korean barbecue? Yeah, it was really weird because, like, he's a really tall man. So, like, it's not really hard to avoid him. Yeah, and was he eating with his hands, or was he using your teeth? tensils, how was he going? Yeah, just some tongs and like the really tiny grill. It looked really tiny. I have, but, yeah.

So they probably cringed when he walked in. They're like, oh, my God. We don't have enough Korean barbecue to feed this man. Get all the meat out. Yeah. They would have, he would have eaten them out of the whole bloody restaurant. I think he eats a lot of, yeah, like a lot of meat steak, but yeah. I mean, it feels like he's the caveman diet type sort of person, right?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Good thing. I like, it was just, I was just. I was about to leave so I ate as much as I can. You tried to get as much in before Stephen Adams started eating. Yeah, I was walking out and then I just, like on the corner of my eye, I was like, oh.

And did you find yourself just watching at him chewing? Or you played it pretty cool, B? Yeah, I think because I think that's the same kind of month where there was a talk so he doesn't really take photos, so I didn't want to pop with him. Oh, good on you. That's a nice thing, though. So I was like I'll give him privacy. The memory lasts on.

And it lives on, on our radio show right now. Yeah, yeah. I feel bad now because I got a photo with him on the street. I didn't know that he didn't like photos. Oh, he seems like a lovely guy. Yeah, no, it was nice. Just Google, like, for breakfast he eats a pound of beef and six eggs. Jeez.

No one of the breakfast. No one of the Koreans were nervous. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. We wanted to dodge the traffic because I had a whole family with me. Welcome to a new chapter of life. Wanting to avoid the crowds and dodge the traffic.

Yeah. So we were walking down the stairs, no one else, obviously, because the game's still going. And as we're walking down, another couple come along. Older couple, and my son and daughter were with me, and my son's meandering down the stairs, unaware of anyone else. He walks in front of the man, and I just hear it, and I was like, move out of the way, Bastion. He's trying to get down the stairs. and I just see right beside me in the corner of my eye

it's Sir Graham Henry. Sir Graham Henry. Wow. But I recognised the tone of the grumble. But it's kind of his charm. He's kind of got that little bit of thing, but he's actually very funny, Graham Henry. He is.

He's very dry. Listen, I wouldn't have begrudge Sir Graham if he had pushed Basti down the stairs with his foot. I don't condone it usually, but you get in Sir Graham's way. He walked off and I said to Basti, I was like,

There was a sir that you walked in front of. He was like, oh my gosh. We always wanted him on our TV show for years and years. We tried really hard. You know, we was the coach of the All Blacks. And remember we had him on the radio, but this is so good. And he left and he came back into the studio. And he's like, right, your worst nightmares here.

And we're like, what's something? He's like, I'm selling these tickets for a raffle for spa pool. So how many are you guys buying? I'll put you down for five each. You can't say, no, it's so great. I don't think. No. I don't think they ever did the draw for that spa pool concert.

He kept asking him. He's like, you guys don't need a spa pool? Why do you keep asking me about this? Why'd you sell us tickets to a spa pool? I've seen him since then. I was like, what happened to the spar pool? Mate, don't you worry about the spar pool? I'm like, I am.

You charged me a lot of money to worry about the spar pool. Did you win and he's got it at his house? Potentially. Raywin and Graham, bloody soaking up a storm in our bloody spartle. That's why they're in a hurry to get home, Megan. So Monday and Monday, it's something we like to do on a Monday. When did you see a big celebrity like Sir Graham Henry doing something Monday? Walking down the stairs, grumbling at my kid.

Yeah, we are. this every week and it's amazing the celebrities from New Zealand or around the world that we get. Yeah, there's been some beauties in the past. I went to my mate's barbecue and I looked across to the barbecue and Brett McKenzie from Father Concord was just turning sausages. Michael J. Fox says, so I keep waiting for an elevator when he was filmed in the Thrizzan in Wellington. Oh, I served Orlando Bloom in a supermarket back in the UK.

So those are some of the highlights. Now, I'm pretty sure I saw John Key, former Prime Minister, do something on Friday. I won't tell you what I was just yet. Pretty sure, but I can't imagine him doing this. He told us before the show and we're like, I'm 80% sure it was Georgie. I hope it was that. Megan's witnessed Sir Graham Henry.

Walking down the stairs at the netball. He was escaping smidgely like we were. Yeah, escaping the traffic in the crowds. Yeah. And your son, viciously walked in front of Sir Graham. He, you know, kids are unaware, just stepped in front of him. As I would be annoyed too, but I heard the unmistakable tone of

Sir Graham Henry going, move Bassy out of the way And I was like, do not walk in front of a sir No, exactly. Now, you were in you saw another. Sir, John Key, former Prime Minister. Friday afternoon would have been 250, 250pm, main arterial.

I am 80% sure I saw Sir John Key riding a lime scooter. What was he wearing? Just casual polo chinos combo. And he wasn't on a stand-up line scooter. It was the one to sit down. sit down, which would be my preference, but no one looks cool. No, they're comfortable.

She's a comfortable. Everyone looks retirement age. Yeah. No matter how old you are when you're sitting down on one of those. I try to take one all the way back from a Warriors game one time. My family picked me up and I go, oh, you look like you're 75. So comfortable, though. I know, but I'm comfortable.

So great. I'm pretty sure it was him. And it's like, oh, technically it could be him. I would have expected like a motorcade of Lime scooters following him around. But no. Oh my gosh. I hope it was. He could have been out for a lunch or, you know.

You don't know nowadays, do you? Yeah, so we want to know on Oh, 800 the hits of 4487, the celebrity that you saw doing a mundane thing. Rachel, good morning to you in Hamilton. Good morning, guys. How are you? Happy New Year, Rach. We understand another all-black coach.

Yes, and I actually, just remember there was two times that I saw Mr Ian Foster. The first one was on a golf course, which was about 10 years ago in Morinsville. And the second one, I served in that Cambridge New World when I worked there about six years ago, so I've seen him twice, guys. Two Ian Foster sightings.

Now, what was he doing on the golf course? What was he doing? Playing golf, maybe. I thought you were going to ask what was he buying at New York. No, he had his one question, and that was it. We'll never know what he was buying, because Jono asked what he was doing on the golf course. He was right in front of our group,

and he had, I think he'd just taken his shot and went to get his ball, but remember he did turn around about Tracy and Follars. You're happy with that, Jono? Yeah, happy. We had crazy hats on that day. It was one of those fun days. Oh, was he buying in the Supermarket?

No, no, we're not going to know. We're never going to know. Now we're going to move on. Thank you for your call. We appreciate it. Jerry, celebrities doing mundane things on a mundane Monday and Monday. Mate, I ran into, I went to a concert with an ex-partner. I was Justin Simbelake.

And we're in this VIP area. And I looked over and I was like, oh, my God. And I said to me, miss us. And she said, what? And I said, Jennifer Hawkins. Miss Universe. And I was like, man, she's unbelievably stunned. She goes, screw that, look.

Look who she's standing next to her. And I was like, who's that? She goes, it's Hugh Jackman, you idiot. Oh, wow. Wow, great combo there in a Justin Timberlake concert. Yeah, and he was awesome. Like, he bought us a couple of rounds. Oh, Jackman, really?

He was just a normal dude, and she was like, she was okay, but she was Miss Universe so she could do whatever she wanted. Yeah, but you were talking to Wolverine. And he should, what, did you just go up and approach him, did you? Yeah, because we're in this, like, little VIP area. The stage setup was unreal. It was like an oval shape, like a football. And on either end that they had these things called Sexy Back Loungeers

because that was his album, Sexy Back Love Tour or something like that. Something about a sexy back. Yeah, something about that hairy back or something. Oh, thank you, Sugar. I was a back or something. Wow, that is impressive, Hugh Jackman. Yeah, should we take one more? Yeah, she'll go real quick.

Okay, all right. Let's get Sarah on the show. Welcome, Sarah. Happy New Year to you. Oh, happy new year to you guys, too. How are you all? We're doing well, Sarah. Celebrities doing mundane things. Well, I met two people. I'm going to throw one. I'm sorry. The first one is Summer Fatigal, going with the Sears that you were going with. Okay. Now, do you know Summer Fatigal?

No, but I pretended I did. No, good aren't you. He was the Admiral of the New Zealand Navy. Oh, okay. He was pop it off to the doctor. Oh, there we go. Sir Thomas, getting nibble. checkup at the doctor. A full old service. Hey, well, good on you, Sarah. Thanks so

much. There's a wide range of celebrities doing mundane things. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The head. Morning, slow moving thunderstorms bringing very heavy rain to parts of New Zealand this morning. Flash flooding slips affecting a lot of Wellington. The thunderstorm warning has been lifted, but more rain expected this

afternoon. And a thunderstorm morning for Bay of plenty until 9 o'clock this morning. Pretty rough stuff. It sort of passed through yesterday right in the middle of the Auckland FC game in Auckland. And just that they're players, they all had to go off and not surprisingly, after this, have a listen.

I'm not sure if you picked that up, but that was a huge cracker thunder. We did, yeah, we got that. A cannon or something goes up. Yeah, it sounds like a sound effect. So, yeah, it was about a 50-minute delay, I think, because of the fans and the teams all went off for a bit and then they had to come back out and warm up.

So, yeah, rough weather-hitting New Zealand. We have more with weather-heather from. Met Service before 8 o'clock this morning. Just make up a time. Yeah, I was trying to work out what time she was in there. Just make up a time. She'll be here this morning sometimes. Oh, 800 of the hits of the telephone number 4487.

We do this every Monday. Celebrities you've seen participating in mundane activities. We like to label it Monday and Monday. And I've actually, because you kind of think about things you've seen in the past, it doesn't have to be over the weekend or anything. It can be from years gone by. We've had Baby Spice buying a Louvre. A Louva.

A pink lufa. What else did we had? Harrison Ford. Putting toast down in a toaster. Yeah, I know. Oh, that's so good. Because surely he would have someone to do that for him. He's at the breakfast buffet, wasn't there, at the hotel and put his own dice.

Yeah, true. Yeah, good on you. And Harrison also, on that same journey, it was seen doing the conga as well. I know. That's pretty cool, actually. A vacation conga. Yeah. So today I've got a bit of a newsreader special.

Two things I remembered. First one, and funny you have mentioned, terrible weather, is across the road from work, TVNZ is located, you know, just a block next to us. And I saw on a torrential downpour, Jack Tame, who your mother wishes you were. Yeah, I know, yeah. He's the lovely guy. I know, and just successful. You know, yeah.

We're just a suit. Yeah. He's not running around in a bloody pineapple costume. No, exactly. Charming. Yeah. Everything might you're right. Eloquent.

And you set him up like this, which is why this makes this whole scene more enjoyable, is I saw him holding an umbrella as we all do, like one of the normal people. Okay, and then a gust of wind, as has happened to us minions as well, blew the umbrella inside out. God, that's embarrassing. Surely they need to design an umbrella that's got structural integrity that can anyway. There's a blunt umbrella.

Oh, does that hold its own, does it? Very good. Very pricey, but very good, yeah. Well, obviously, Jack Tame needs to us for a pay rise because his umbrella collapsed, and then he did that thing where you try and push it against the oncoming gust of, winter get it to blow it wasn't doing it it was gone it was gone shards are metal broken that was chucking in the rubbish bin situation and how was he because i can't imagine him like swearing and

he wasn't swearing he was i could tell he was flustered because the rain's hosing down on his lovely designer italian suit and then he's like well i'm stuck out of here now was you know an umbrella doesn't function so you're right with those metal things go that they're done you got to kind of hold one up you know but it's not it's not the same So, yeah, 0,800. That's how it works. Mundane, Monday. Celebrities you've seen participating in mundane activities.

As John, I said, it doesn't have to be from the last weekend. Can be any time, let's think the biggest celebrity doing the most mundane thing. Harrison Ford putting toast in the toast. That was a ripper. That's the sort of thing we want. Welcome to celebrities doing mundane things. It's become a fixture on a Monday morning, Monday and Monday. Any famous people you've seen, partaking in, you know.

Everyday activities. Yeah, like the rest of us. Paying for partying. with the machine where you've got to put your license plate into. That would be one of the activities. They're so humorous, like humanising these, like big celebs, like Harrison Ford putting toast in the toaster. That's right. Have you seen Mike Hosking?

Vacuuming is Lamborghini at Washworld. Relatable. Oh, 800 of this. Charlene. Good morning. Great to have you on. Celebrities doing mundane things, Charlene. Yes.

I was back in South Africa and I was having breakfast and Michael Jackson and his team were a few tables down from us and I wrote on a surveyed how much I absolutely loved him and gave it to one of his bodyguards and then he invited my mum

my sister and I to have breakfast with him so we all sat at a table and yeah he was just having scrambled eggs on toast like you know as you do like the rest of us wow Yeah. No, it was really, really cool. I didn't expect that.

No. When was this? What year was this? Oh, this was a while back. I was probably about 13 years old. I'm now going on 40. So was he? Was he performing through South Africa at the time, was he? Yes, he was. And we had actually booked in at the same hotel as him. And it was at Sun City. He was there. And he was doing a show and all. And yeah, so we just were having breakfast. It was like a buffet breakfast.

What a gesture. What a gesture from his, you know, mid-scrambled eggs on toast. And he welcomes in some random children, unlike Michael. And what did you discuss? Oh, we were just, he was telling us about his favorite song. And it was the thriller one, which he absolutely loved doing. Oh, that's very, very cool. He was asking us about school and, you know.

Yeah. What a guy. Yeah, what a guy. He was really sweet. He was really sweet. And did you get a photographic evidence of this encounter? I do actually. I do have a photo.

I can send it to you, but not right now. I'm on my way to work. That's right. That's a great story. Thank you so much, Scheringer. That's really blotted us away this morning, that one. Michael Jackson eating scrambled eggs. There we go.

There we go. Thank you so much, Charlene. We'd love to get that photo if you can fire it through to the Instagram. I dare to say he didn't go up for like, five plates of breakfast though. Yeah, he ran a slender operation, didn't he? Pip, okay, we're coming off Michael Jackson. Good luck, eating eggs, getting his protein.

What have you got? Happy New Year. Yeah, that was a big one, Michael Jackson. I love him. Yeah, so when I was a nanny years ago in London, they had lots of small playgrounds that kind of tucked away behind places. And one day I took out the two young kids. children I was a nanny for

to this playground and John Cleese was sitting there looking very bored watching his two cats with a couple of kids playing on playground and I was a huge Monty Python fan so I was yeah pretty blown away but just did small talk you know how's it going

Oh you started talking with Cleese on the park bench did you? Yeah yeah well there was literally only him and myself there and our kids because it was a small playground so yeah probably wanting privacy probably didn't want to talk to anybody actually Did he engage in banter? Yeah, a little bit, but yeah, really gave the messages quite clearly that he's in the answer. He's not like, yeah.

The opposite of Michael. He's miserable right now watching his kids. He's like, uh. Mind you, he went in on Palmerston North too, so he might be just a generally miserable person. He didn't like Palmerston. He said if you're going to end your life, Palmerston North would be the place to do it. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast. The Hats.

Monday, we call it. It was basically just celebrities being. seen doing mundane things. Had some amazing calls since we started this a few weeks ago. Oh, I served Orlando Bloom in a supermarket back in the UK. I saw Henry Winkler at the Fonsie in the 80s hiking in Wyoming. He was coming down the hill and just had on his hiking boots and some short denim short. Went to my mate's barbecue and I looked across the barbecue and Brett McKenzie from Father

Kongwood was just turning sausages. Oh, wow. So that's just some of them. We've had, you know, Dame Judy Dench buying cheese being seen buying cheese as well. It's just really, really famous people doing, like boring things. It brings us so much joy. It does. Now, Harriet, who is our boss here at the Hits, it's lovely to have you in here, Harriet.

Hey, thank you. This one's topical, too, this celebrity being caught doing mundane things, because over the weekend they just made history. Saw Chris Mac flung to Christchurch last weekend. So, Chris Mac, making his way to Christchurch. For the gig. over the weekend, the member of 660. Now, what's the mundane thing you saw Chris Mack doing?

I just noticed or observed that he was really low riding his pants, and I didn't know that was still cool. Well, maybe he didn't have a belt. Maybe the belt malfunctioned? Well, I'm not sure, but surely you realised your pants are that low. He was having to walk along holding them up. How much of the cheek was sort of on display there, half? Well, it was the underpants.

I would say about good 10 centimetres hanging out. Maybe that's cool now. Yeah, maybe it's come back around. He's a fashionable guy, so he'd be up with the play. And did you seem having to pull his trousers up? Yeah, walking along the... Yeah, right. So there'll go Chris Mack pulling his trousers up.

That doesn't get... After a flight as well, they might have just slid down in the seat too. And that's the sort of stuff we're after. Oh, 800 the hits. What mundane thing have you seen a celebrity do? It's the true equalizer, isn't it, when you see someone struggling with an EFOS terminal or self-service check out?

The more famous, the better. The more mundane, the better. I saw Shaquille O'Neal getting into a taxi in New York City. Would he struggle and... He would really have to fold himself to get inside the back of a taxi. Yeah. Imagine his knees would be up by his nears, ears the poor guy. Oh, 800 that hits the telephone number.

Let's get Bion. Welcome, happy new year, B. Hi, happy new year, guys. Bia, sorry, Bia. In brackets, they said, say Bia. That's how you say your name. Me, you just ignored it, yeah. Who have you seen, Bia?

I served Julian Denison when I was working at McDonald's. This was a couple years ago. Hunt for the Wilder people, Julian Denison? Yeah. Served a drive-thru or was this over-the-counter? It was on the drive-thru. Great option. Yeah, no lovely guy, Julian Denison.

Did he have good manners? Did he say his pleasing thank you? He did. He ordered something and I made it like a pack for him and he was very grateful because it was like slightly cheaper. Oh, good on you. Good on you. What would he go?

What would he go, Julian Denison? Some chicken nuggets? It was like some sort of like a Big Mac combo, like big order. And then I made it into a cheaper option. And he called me a legend. Oh, you cut it down to the combo for him. Just save him some money. That's great.

I'm not going to lie. I feel pretty cool if Julian Denison said I was a legend. Absolutely. He's a DJ now, isn't he? Is he? No, wouldn't he? Yeah, it does DJ? stuff now, Julian. So hey, thank you. That was a great celebrity doing Monday and things sitting

in a drive-through. Tanya, welcome to Monday and Monday. What do you got? I've got two, actually. I'll start with my first one. I was working for a law firm in London, and I had to go to Mexico a couple of times, Mexico City, and we were staying in the four-seasons hotel and working outside of there as well. And we're having dinner one night, and Benicio del Toro and Naomi Watts, they were filming 21 grams there. They tried to come and take out, you know, those freestanding gas heaters. We had the fire table. Oh, yeah.

To come and take it because, you know, they obviously thought they were famous. And we were like, sorry, no, you can't take our heater. Oh, they tried. So it was a bit chilly in Mexico at the time? Oh, at night. Yeah, no, I get it. And did they ask or were they just going to wheel it off?

Well, they're just kind of going to whirl it off. It was a bit weird. I don't know if I could say anything to Benicio. I'd be like, ah. Well, I was in my 20s then, so I was a little bit more. confident. Yeah. But my second one, and probably more famous, is I won Cincinnati tickets off you for the Auckland show.

And you know how you had the thing about Ben and his festival get-up? Oh, yes. I saw him standing outside the toilets on his phone. So he must have been waiting for his wife. And I went up to him and I was like, you don't look naked. But, you know, then I'm not a real big celebrity thing. So I didn't even say who I was or anything. I just kind of ran off.

Ben, not waiting for the toilet on his phone. He's never not on his phone, that guy. Yeah. Speaking of it, you'd feel naked without it. Yeah. Thanks so much, Tanya. Appreciate your call. All good.

Thanks. See you, mate. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast. The hits. Although I did see the Netflix decided it was a good weekend to put Twisters on Netflix and shot to number two on the Kiwi's most watched on Netflix. The original twisters. Yeah, I think, well, it might have been the new one.

The new one. Yeah. Do you know what really? How? I have seen that pop up on Netflix. You know what really frustrates me about the imagery. of that particular movie is you've got the three core cast,

three or four core cast members. They're looking towards the camera, but behind them is a whacking great twister. Are they like running away, though? No, they're just like stereo, like, where's the twister? It appears to me. They're going, where's the twister?

I'm like, it's just behind you, you idiots. Can you see it? Maybe they needed a whole movie to work out where it was coming from. It was pretty big, too. Pretty big by the looks of it. Now, over the weekend, obviously a lot of people were stocking up on supplies and the things for the pending cyclone.

Yeah. And something that I saw on Instagram, Rita Orra, famous international pop star. Does she reside in New Zealand now? I think she spent some time in New Zealand, yeah. They have a house in Huron Bay. Yeah, her in Taika. What's the executive director there? I don't know.

Everyone knows. Just leave them made. Everyone knows. There's another region, but anyway. Oh, is it? I don't know. Everyone knows her at 23 Standin Street. She posted on Instagram

Inside Bunnings. Rita Oura, inside Bunnings Warehouse. You imagine it's a New Zealand Bunnings? It was a Kiwi Bunnings. I can't imagine it's over in the UK or anything. No, I'm in, Ozzy. Yeah. No, it looked local.

I'd been into that bunnings. I was like, I've bought screwdrivers from there. What was she buying? I don't. She didn't have anything that she was, I didn't. I don't know, maybe some petrol line drummers or something. I don't know what she was after. A brush for cleaning the gutters, you know?

She might have been on the roof. Bunnings is the great equaliser though, isn't it? Yeah. Really, but everyone's on the same level when they're in Bunnings, wandering around looking for one thing, but they can't find it. It's too big. It's huge. But then they're store members.

They all know where everything is. Exactly where everything is. That's incredible. I almost feel like just saying something to test them. Yeah. They are pretty, yeah. I've never had a failed answer from a Bunnings employer. They do a big, apparently before they start their shift, they do a big team chart.

Oh, do they're like, Bunnings, all three, one, two, three, but... You find the same stock time, we'll be to my 50%. That's a great place. So, yeah, Rita Orra, doing a mundane task inside of Bunnings. That's what we like to know. You know, we love to see that, you know, big celebrities doing things that, you know, us, common people love to do, you know? Us meatheads. Yeah.

We've had some great calls in the past, too. This is one of them. G Fox, they're soaking waiting for an elevator when he was filming in the Thrizzaners in Willingson. Kiera Knightley was one of them. She was out shopping with her mother, Southridge's department store.

I went to my mate's barbecue, and I looked across the barbecue and Brett McKenzie from Father Congords was just turning sausages. Oh, wow. Lovely, I love it. It's just me every time, like, a celebrity, that's all you want to know.

Wow us with a big celebrity doing a really Monday. The more mundane the better. Yeah, we call it mundane Monday. And who I saw struggling, I remember this. It was a couple of months ago, struggling with an umbrella. You know when the umbrella blows inside out? Why is that so embarrassing?

I know. I know, but it's one of those things. It's not your fault. It's the wind. Yes, we love doing this on a Monday, finding out the mundane stories of celebrities doing mundane things. I saw Henry Winkler, the Fonsie in the 80s, hiking in Wyoming. He was coming down the hill.

and just had on his hiking boots and some short denim shorts short shorts for the Winkler Daisy Dukes I hope Winkler's a little

little just the bottom of his cheeks The little Winkler wasn't popping out Is that Henry's Winkler dangling out the end of his Fonzie I don't come about that I do I love short

Genover shorts on guys You can pull off some short denim shorts Probably seems like an internet video I'd do or something All right I don't know

celebrities doing mundane things. Brendan, lovely to have you on for Monday and Monday. Who was it? Gidey, mate. James Rollison. Oh, boy. Boy. Boy, yeah, Kiwi.

What was he doing? I'm just sitting in a cafe in Ellesley. I went in to go get a cup of coffee with my mum, and I was like, oh, he looks familiar. And he was sitting there chomping on a muffin and a coffee, and went over and said, oh, Mr. Boy. He was like, good-day, mate. And he could tell his girlfriend was used to people coming up,

so she was like a little bit, oh, God, he's going. Especially when you said Mr. Boy. I see you chomping on a muffin and sucking back on a coffee. Mate, it was a bit of a buzz actually. He's a cool dude. It's funny how someone's partner, instead of being, like, proud of them, like, oh, yeah, he's done really well with his life.

Lots of people recognising, like, they immediately just go, oh. Oh, here we go. Yeah, old Mr. Boy's not cracked up. Hey, Brendan, that's a great story. Appreciate that. James Rollerton, how chomping on a muffin? Love it. Claire, good morning to you. Morning.

Good to have you on. Monday and Monday. Celebrities doing mundane things. Who was it? So I was in line. I was nannying in England, and I was in line to see the children's production of cats. And I was talking to this elderly gentleman thinking is there to see his grandchildren in their production. And, yeah, my boss came up to me later and she said, oh, do you realize who you were just talking to? and she's like That's Andrew Lloyd Weaver What? And he was going to the...

Oh my God, that's so sweet. He was waiting in line to see children do a rendition of his musical. He's like, this better be good. But... And he thought they were very good, yes. When you spoke to him, though,

was he not seeing any grandchildren or anything? No, no, no. He'd come to see the show. He was like, I'm going to watch these kids butcher my bloody masterpiece. He's not like, excuse me, I've written this. Why can I get to the front of the kids? Yeah, I reckon

What a lovely... And it's the sort of school that you go to the cricket. I wasn't a cricket person, but I'd sit there, my boss would email me and say, oh, how's the game going? And I'm like, I'm not sure, but I can see Bear Grills and I can see Ron Atkinson. Oh, my God. Bear Grills watching cricket, Ben, that is your...

Love it. Love it. He survives cricket as well as surviving the wilderness. On the piss of the cricket. All right. Diane, welcome. Hi, hi. Yeah, good, mate, good. Talk to us.

Celebrities doing mundane things. So we'd gone down to Dunedin for a concert, and we were at the railway station market, and this SUV pulled up, and pink got out with their two children. Pink. And so, yeah, that was really exciting because we'd gone down to see her,

and we just sprayed all her hair, pink and everything, and she just got out with her two children, and her security and she just strolled along the market and was very friendly and most people left her alone but she yeah she just strolled along

someone went up and gave her some flowers and she just chatted away with everybody and had a coffee and grabbed some other things and then she got back in the SUV and we went to see her that night in Duned Oh wow there you go So you left her alone as well You didn't go and get a photo or say

Oh I got really close to it because we were just strolling on and I did like turned around and I thought oh my god that's pink and I wanted to go up to her but I thought well she was so relaxed

I thought she probably gets sick of people doing that so we got a we took a photo but some people went up and had bought us some stuff in the market and she just grabbed a coffee and good on her that's the classic New Zealand thing

get a surveillance photo yeah sneaky photo just yeah that they don't know that's happening yeah that's good great you know we're two metres away from paying completely. Oh, you're sure you were? Yeah. You can prove it. You did the same to Jack Black, Ben.

I did. You're right. A sneaking surveillance photo. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. That's... Monday in Monday in the past. We've had someone who witnessed Michael Jackson eating scrambled eggs with his own mouth. Yeah, we've had Harrison Ford putting toast in a toaster at a buffet, sort of, you know, a hotel breakfast. Someone saw Dame Judy Dench buying fresh produce at a market.

Yeah, and so this week we want to kick things off. where the really, really cool story. Now, you may have seen because we've been following it, like his itinerie, blow-by-blow itinerary, a pierce brosin, who was James Bond. He's in the country right now. Oh, geez, it started last week. Oh, he was at a fancy bar and restaurant.

And then he was at the museum. Then he had a photo next to a picture at the art gallery. He was making a knife somewhere. I thought, sorry, doing a knife-making class. It was pretty cool. And then over the weekend, he did this. He went and ate fish and chips in Northland. And we are honoured to have.

have the owner of the fresh and tasty takeaway in Monganui. Fiona, good morning to you. Good morning. Is this the same, the mouth you're using right now? Is that the same mouth you use to talk to Pierce Brosnan? Yep. Wow. That's pretty cool.

I mean, he came in and I saw a photo over the weekend. Like, who spotted him and who was like, oh my goodness? I mean, because that's pretty surreal for that to happen, right? Yeah, I said, I went into the, Monganui Hotel to use the toilet and he was um he had his back turn to me but I saw his friend and he just we just look at each other I just say kiyoda he said keura and then Piers Brasen turned around and that was it so I saw him eating our fish and chips I went up and asked him if he could come in and have a few photos with my team wow and uh

mate did you get to go to the toilet in the end Fiona no I didn't He was quite distracted by the fact Pierce Broson What was he like? I mean we've met him briefly before once And he seemed just like the most lovely Genuine guy He is

He's very down to earth What did he order? That's the big question Because I saw on the news article Was it no one knows what exactly He ordered from the fish and chip shop What did he get? Let's give us an exclusive Fiona

Yeah sure he ordered a snapper And a dollar's chips A dollar scoop of chips Yeah right So Pierce Brosden And does he eat like the rest of us eat? With his mouth?

Yeah, yeah. You know, some fandangled celebrity diet. He was hands, I imagine, two fish and chips as well. What did that send him back for a snapper and a dollar's chips? Sorry? How much did that cost him? What's the snapper going at the moment? A snapper up here is $11.50.

Okay, nice. There we go. Yeah, he's gone fancy fish, too, but I'm sure it's really good in Northland. Did he pay cash or card for? No, it was actually his friend they bought it. Oh, right. Okay, mootian off the friend. Is that the most famous person you've had in the fish and chip shop?

Yes, definitely. What did he say? Has he been enjoying New Zealand? Did he have any favourable comments? Oh, he just said he's up here for holiday with his friend. His friend's also a builder. So he's building a house up here, and he said he's having his birthday, I think it's on the 16th. He's having his birthday here.

Is he building a house for Pierce Brosnan in New Zealand? No, no, no. He's building it for himself. Unrelated building project. Oh, okay, that's very cool. That's awesome that you've got to photos. Awesome you had them in the store. Thanks so much for talking to us.

No worries, thank you. You can text chip to 4487 if you want to see Fiona's photo with James Bond himself at the fish and chip shop there, 4487 on the text. Lovely to talk to you, Fiona. Have a wonderful week. Thank you very much. And that's how it works. Monday to Monday.

What have you seen celebrities do? That's Piersne. He's eating fish and chips. Buying fish, his friend shouting him fish and chips? Incredible scenes. Okay. We're talking Monday, Monday. Something we'll love to do on a Monday. When have you seen a famous person doing something that everyday people do?

And the Pest Bosn over the weekend. Former James Bond, a great actor and Mrs. Doutfire as well. Too many, many good movies. But he was eating fish and chips. He ordered fish and chips in Northland. Just spoke to Fiona, who served in the fish and chips. He said he was delightful. His friend, builder, shouted the fish and fish.

and chips for P.S. Broson, if you're wanting intimate details. He's got a snapper running at about $11.80 at the moment up north. But that's it, you know, that's the nice. He's got a premier fish and a dollar chips as well. Yeah, so he'll be happy. And, geez, I can't think of a celebrity in recent times who has been more documented

on their trip throughout this country. He'd be over here, too. He seems lovely, and I'm sure he's, like, fine with it, but he'd be like, wow, they really are, like, invested in money. Like, he doesn't need to send photos back to his family or anything like that? They follow him on the New Zealand Herald.

He's like, oh yeah, and Pierce went there. Oh, did you see Piers did that? Did he send you her a text? No, no, no, though the Herald had documenting everything he's doing. Everything he's doing. I'm like, he's not here. This is purely obviously a personal trip, too. It's not like, I suppose sometimes when they come for movies,

they probably expect a bit of PR. Do I need to update them? Just use the bathrooms off State Highway 2 or something? No. I'm just here to see my builder, mate. But, uh, New Zealand, just play cool. That's just play cool. That's back cool. Celebrities doing Monday and things.

Got a great text. Sam Neal ordered some fish and chips. And my nannas fish and chip shop was browsing DVDs in there as well while he waited. Her granddad went over and talked to him and said, sorry, we have only got one of your movies here. So, but that's cool. That's love. Now, second Sam Neal fish and chip sighting we've had on Monday, Monday. We've had him eating fish and chips alone in Dunedin previously as well. Lisa, happy new year to you.

Morena, good morning. Morina, you have seen, you've seen a big, celebrity doing a mundane thing? This was in international waters, we understand Lise. That's right. It was kind of a few years ago now, being, you know, lucky enough to travel the world a little bit. Actually,

my partner at the time was doing a year abroad in the States. So we were in L.A., kind of roaming the city and going to some clubs there. And that's where it all happened. It's probably the only time in my life that it was happy to queue for the toilet, you know? As women always have

to kind of wait ages and ages. Yeah. Kind of waiting in this kind of, it was actually a reasonably small club and like a narrow corridor, you know, we're kind of waiting in line. And then, yes, just walking past is Dennis Rodman, who's obviously a very impressive man. Oh, he's very tall basketballer, where flamboyant did he hit, was he rocking sort of earrings and crazy colored hair? Oh, absolutely, yeah, yeah.

No, he was his usual kind of Mnigiferson's self. So, yeah, that was kind of a, definitely a moment to remember. Dennis Robin. Now, do you think he was heading to or he had just been to? Good question. He was heading to. He was in a bit of a rush. Yes. Do you know, Ben once died his hair like Dennis Robin. Yeah, I try to go through a Dennis Robben. I used to love his flamboyant nature as well. I know, yeah. Yeah, it was pretty cool how he just, you know, I had my hair pink and then I had hampros and orange and all sorts.

But didn't quite pull it off like Dennis Robin, that's for sure. I know. I don't know if anyone else can pull off his style like he does. Well, not a skinny little white kid from the white at upper. No, that's for sure. That's quite as cool on me. Hey, thank you for sharing for Monday, Monday. You have yourself a great day, Lisa. Yeah, brilliant.

We always love listening to you on the way to school with my kids.