Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - DOES GETTING BANGS MEAN YOU'RE NOT OKAY? | FULL SHOW

Episode Date: June 14, 2026

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Dono Ben and Megan on the hits Megan you've been awake all night I have I thought I would watch the Formula One Grand Prix Live and then Where was it this weekend? It was in Barcelona Barcelona

So not great for us time-wise right? No, it started at 1255 So I had great intentions of going to bed at 8 o'clock And that didn't happen Right So I got into bed about quarter to 10 and set my alarm for midnight. And, yeah, so I've been at a lot of sleep.

She's, I reckon Liam Lawson's this committed to Formula One. Yeah. Because I came into work, and so I've literally been in at work since 1230. So the grandiose plan was watch Formula One and then record your podcast with... Straight afterwards. Anthony Capaldi, Anthony Capaldi is your co-host. Yeah, in Glasgow. It was a great time for him.

He was like, it's the afternoon. Right. and what happened? Well, I was by myself, and it was the first time that I'd been talked through how to set it all up through the studio. Technically, yep. Technically, and it was going fine. We recorded like 15 minutes, and then the Zoom threw us off, and I couldn't get it working again.

And there was no one here, and I was like, oh, no. So that's it. Yeah. Is it going to be a podcast? Yeah, but it might be late now. Okay. I wanted it to be early, like, I wanted it to be up. straight after the race.

I guess it was keeping in the theme of the race. A lot of cars didn't finish. Your podcast didn't finish. Good on you. Seven DNFs. So you can where the podcast did not finish. DENF. I'm like,

Shell LeClerre. I was racing towards the finish line and then just like... Why don't you just put out the 15 minutes and go and then just cut it off and go, sorry, didn't finish. Yeah, did not finish. DENF. Yeah.

There you go. Yeah, it ties on in. Yeah, football World Cup on over the weekend as well. That's kicked off. I kicked off on Friday and Elmo. You would have heard. Almo got a bit of grief from Sesame Street because he didn't pick aside for the NBA finals. Everyone was like, Elmo, you're from Manhattan, Sesame Street's in New York.

Pick aside. Don't forget your roots. Yeah, Alma got asked about what team or what player he wants to support at the World Cup in football, and here's what Alma had to say. Do you guys have a favorite player? Oh, that's very difficult. Elmo has learned that Elmo should not pick favorites for online consumption. Elmo learned that.

That was a new thing Elmo learned. Now, I've got issue with Albo again. I'm sorry. You're going to crack off it. You're going to start an online bullying campaign. I agree. I agree with you, Ben. Well, yeah, the problem was last time Elmo didn't pick a site.

That's what frustrated all the New York people. And now he's again, he's like, I can't pick anyone. It's like, Elmo hasn't learned anything. No, no, you're right. Elmo can learn. Yeah, exactly, yeah. Why didn't he just say Tim Payne? Yeah.

Like everyone else. Yeah, so. Then we would have been like, Elmo's up with current events. And all the comments are like, Almo's learning. Good on Elmo for learning. I was like, no. No, he hasn't. You should.

Get on there, mate. Sway the comment section. I want to bully a Muppet. You just do it on air. You won't do it on. I'm just making a point. I mean, now that I can do whatever. He can sit on the fence, but I feel like he hasn't learned from that.

It's also coming from our show's fence at it. I would do exactly the same answer. Exactly the same answer. Speaking of the New York, the Knicks, they won. Yeah. He tries a three, puts it up, off the mark, Ananovi the rebound. It's over. It's over.

Nick fans, this is not a dream. Your long, long wait has ended. Go ahead and cry after 53 years. The Knicks are finally NBA champions once again. Yeah, epic stuff. And we're going to catch up with Nicole. She's our New York correspondent. What is going on in New York?

Who knows? She changed her name to Nick Cole just for the team. But it looks like the town is burning down right now. Funny side up. Jono Ben and Megan on the hits. We, Jono and I were at the Mystics and Magic game at the weekend. night. Also Ben, do you know, Jono, I drove past him.

He was walking up the road. And when he got in there, I was like, do you know that we have a car park here? No, what's he ever told us about that? No, I always ended up parking like five kilometres away. I'm pretty sure it was in the email. Oh, well, I read the, oh, I didn't we get a car park. He's a good email, Rita. He's a prolific email.

Because the only said last time, she's like, you don't get a car park? Every time. I just park in that you say you name. You park with privilege anyway. No, you say your name and they're like, yep, go in. Do you know what it was funny? So I went through the ticketing area and I said, oh, you know, I'm just working here. And then Janet and Melinda, two lovely people on the front door there.

And then I turn around and see Megan with her wonderful family there. And I see her going, you let him in. You let him in. And they're like, you've got to go around to the other door. No, she was like, he's working here. And I was like, yeah, but so am I. But you were like, again, got corporate privileges. She was like, oh, he's doing like three quarter time.

I was like, so am I. She's like, you let him in pointing at me. I was like, I don't know her. I don't know that crazy lady. My family were very excited to go along. I didn't know my dad was going to be such a fan girl. He stood up and was cheering them on the whole way through. I had my niece from Nelson with us as well, and she's a big netballer.

It was a wonderful atmosphere. It was great. Yeah, they are so good. Yeah, they are so good. And after the game, the Mystics had won, and they were, it's their home court, so they were doing their stretches and things. And then I think one of the players had her 50th game. So there was a little ceremony happening on the court,

and it was just the mystics and their team. And they'd said all the signings and photos were going to happen afterwards down at the other court. And we were like, okay, we'll just wait because my niece, Chloe, she wanted to get a photo. And I was like, we'll just have to wait to go down there. Everyone else is waiting on the sidelines, and my dad's like, we don't have to wait. And I was like, no, you do. you do. They've literally just said.

They just, this is their team. This is their, like, you see how no one else is on the court. He moves one of those cardboard signs from the side of the court, and he's like, come on, I'll take you. And I was like, I am working here, and I have interviewed some of those players. This is my dad, but I... You want a photo, man? What do you go out there?

Middle-aged white man, I'll do what I want. And he's like, come on, come on. We'll just ask them. You can only ask and I was like, yeah, when they're over there. At the signings. Doing the signings, you can ask. This is their time. They're stretching.

I feel like Wayno didn't listen to you. He didn't. I ran away and he took them onto the court and bless, like, the players obliged. Of course, that would lovely. Absolutely. But he didn't see once he walked away and went to the next player, they were like, yeah, yeah. And almost like, what the hell was that? Did he go?

He went up to Maya Wilson, didn't he? Like, she was so lovely. Are you related to the Wilson's in Stokey? Yeah. She was so lovely, but she turned around and was like, huh? Are you? Are they supposed to be?

Maybe they thought they were friends and or family. Oh my God. I wanted to be not friends or family. I ran away. Funny side up. John O'Benn and Megan on the hits. We mentioned earlier this morning. Megan got up super early for the Formula One overnight.

It was technically yesterday. It was true. I got up at midnight. Got him at midnight. Got in here at 12.30. Yeah. The plan was watch the race, rip into your podcast, Talking Pit with Lewis Capaldi. Get it all done.

Get it all up. That's a productive overnight. What happened? If it works. Because I was here doing the technical stuff. Troy showed me on Friday. I was like, what could go wrong? I even recorded a little video.

But yeah, I feel like everything went wrong. It didn't work. I could have get it to record. Did you try turning it off and turning it on again? I actually didn't. Oh, there you go. Let's try it now and see it works. It's too late.

So is there going to be a podcast? Are you releasing a podcast? It'll just be later. I wanted it to be up today. Yeah, no, fair enough. I see what, yeah. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, you didn't do it.

That's annoying. Now, producer Troy, it's lovely to have you in here. We sort of learn about a month into Troy's tenure that he was into some stuff. I like it, though. You've got to be into stuff. He's passionate. Yeah, that's good. You've got up at two o'clock in the morning.

Makes buying gifts a lot easier too. We're like, what are they into? You're like, I know, I know, I put Troy's into. Great. Oh, we'll just go to the... You guys set a 2 a.m alarm. I was there with you, Megan, in the trenches. But not for Formula One, though.

Not for Formula One. I set my 2am alarm to wake up and buy IMAX tickets to Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. Now, that's not even out yet, right? I can stand between me and home. I'm not even at the guard. Sounds like every other trailer I've heard, but sounds good. Sounds good. Doo do, do, do you know.

The thing, not that I want to yuck someone's yum, but the Formula One race, like, happens. but the movie is like going to be there you know what he's passionate about why do you avoid spoilers for the race then oh so spoilers you don't want to see any spoilers you want to be the opening night this is this Grand Prix Megan yeah yeah okay no I get it I get it

that makes a very good point actually yeah I want to be row H in IMAX because that's a big screen you don't want to be too close is that your preferred row when you go to IMAX is how many other people Dude you have a preferred row so this is booking for like a New Zealand screen in iMacs the first one right so how many other people would have been online you reckon at that

time well with other seats taken or there's four other seats that got booked wow so someone else yeah there were other people but it wasn't like the cinema wasn't like fully sold out no no no not even not even now i probably could have got the seat yeah i was just thinking like if i look now would it let's see if you can get row h now me just have a look if you could have saved this two a m alarm so how long did it take you from waking up to actually booking the tickets 15 minutes hard to get back asleep? Yeah, it was. Because you're like, I got them.

It's coming in a month. I wanted to wake my partner, be like, I got them, I got them. Why this movie? Christopher Nolan. He's just like, banger after banger. Oppenheimer was the last one that he did. Oh, that was a good one. Interstellar, one of my favorite movies.

I actually bought two tickets for the Thursday opening night and the Friday, because I know I'm going to want to re-watch it. Oh, are you going back to back? Yeah, going back to back. Yeah, yeah. So 800 of the hits. We want to check this open. Four, four, eight, seven,

on the text. It may not be ideal if we had tickets of the Odyssey to give away but... Oh, we do have some tickets. Should we give those to winions?

Oh yes. I thought you meant my tickets as I'm not having those. Oh yeah, you look at me like don't talk about tickets. What's the crat, the funniest thing you've said in the alarm for?

Was it to watch the Formula One? Was it to book tickets that he probably could have booked during daylight hours? Minions and monsters? Yeah, we've got to... What is it? It's family past

Minions and Monsters. Not producer choice tickets. I've got one that keeps reminding me in my phone And just because, you know, sometimes you write what the alarm's for, and then you don't change that later, we had to feed the neighbours rabbit about four years ago. And we didn't want to forget, obviously, feed the bunny. And so now everyone, all my alarms will say bunny.

Feed bunny. And I'm like, okay, that buddy. It seems like a code word. Yeah, no, they've left. The body's gone. Fee bunny's gone to a better place? Feed bunny reminds me every day again when I see the alarm. I'm like, feed bunny.

So you get some dramatic music because producer Troy got up at 2 o'clock in the morning to book his favourite row in the IMAX theatre, which is row H now. That's the wrong music. That's better. Ben, over the commercial break, has been onto the website to see if he could also book Ro H and whether waking up a two in the morning was completely redundant and pointless producer Troy. The results. Live.

Is there tickets in Row H? Yeah, quite a lot, actually. One, two, three, four, five tickets have been booked for Ro H. Currently for that session there's 412 tickets still available Hey no that makes me feel better because we both got up in an ungodly hour for no reason 26 people have booked that session Yeah so you know but there's still 412 seats in that session available

Wow And you'd think it's a 130 viewing right You'd think you'd be pretty soon you can probably even book it the day before the morning off Still get ready I mean some of the other sessions the original is not IMAX I've got 50 available and stuff like that So they're almost they're doing alright but yeah But yeah, it's right

It'll sell out You've got it early That's fine Yeah, hey I've got my ticket You were You didn't want to risk it That was the choice you made Because you didn't want to risk it

Exactly Yes It's like you know The Warriors released a new top Ben You'd get up at two in the morning And buy that Wouldn't you?

Which is the ones you got I can book right next year Right now I'm on the left I'm on the left I'm on the left Okay that's you You know

Better be like good seats Good seats He's a great seats All right We're going to go to the phone So 800 of the hits The funniest thing You've said an alarm

For Happy New Year to you, Lisa. Good morning, happy new year. Lovely to have you on this Monday morning. Start of a new week, Lees. Where are you heading today? Heading to work at Auckland. Oh, good on you.

Oh, I've heard of it. I've heard of Auckland. All right, Lisa, what's the funniest thing you've sent an alarm for, mate? So this has been going on for years, my partner and I, pinching the punch of the first of the month. He always gets me, like every time. So I thought, right. So I set my alarm.

for five past 12 a night and just pinch of the punch in the middle of the night So he was sleeping Yeah sleeping Did he wake up? He did, yeah

Jesus is good What are you doing? This is so good He goes, oh you got me Yeah that is What's he going to do next month though He's going to go 12-01 Yeah maybe

That's very funny Lisa Good on you We've got tickets to the Minions Yeah we're going to give you the family pass of the minions. You can enjoy that brand new movie. Minions and Monsters. Great.

Thank you so much. Good on you, Lisa. Have a great weekend. Kimbo! Happy New Year to you. Oh, happy old Nicky here, guys. Lovely to have you on, Kim. Funniest thing you've sent an alarm for?

Oh, they've set three times a day at the moment for World Tour. Oh, for the competition. I didn't know what you said for instance. Have you got in the drawer for one yet? You picked your performance. third artist you'd like to go see? I haven't got in the draw for one yet. Okay, who do you want to see?

Just you and I talking right now, who do you want to see? It's a toss-up between Ed Shearron and Footh fighters. Well, okay, because you've got Olivia Dean, you've got Ed Shearing, you've got Food Fighters left. Bruno Mars, giving away Friday. I'll be a few fighters, because I've never seen the foe fighters. Okay, let's put you in the drawer. Let's go. Let's go rogue.

Let's put you in the drawer, all right? Kim. Kim. It's exciting. Be honest, was there an ulterior motive to this phone call, Kim? Um, not really. No. Hey, it was a good play.

It made me, tugged on my heartstrings as well. You know how to play, Ben. Yeah, yeah. Hey, good on you, Kim William. That draw Friday. The new one is going to be draw. We don't know if it's going to be food fighters, Olivia Dean Oridge here on this Friday, but good luck to you.

Thank you. Such a softy. Oh, no, no. Such a pushover. As soon as she said, I could see him looking over to produce Troy. But I give her the Minion tickets away, too, the first call, because it was so good. And I was like, oh, it'd be nice to do something. Sometimes you can just talk to someone

and then just go, hey, thanks for you're cool. Sometimes. I don't know. Funny side up. John O'Ben and Megan on the hits. Yeah, I was walking across the right. Friday, you finish the show.

We do a bit of tidying up, admin. You walk across the road feeling like a million dollars, don't you? Yeah. Another great week of radioing. That's what I was telling myself. And the brew union bar just across the couple of blocks away from us.

There's a lot of trees and stuff outside this bar. on this main road. I walk around the corner, boom, flock of pigeons coming in at head height. Like, pigeons, you know your lane, you're up there. You're up there, not down here. In front of people who are just sitting down for lunch outside, head-on collision with a pigeon.

Oh, so straight into it. Straight into my forehead, on the top of my forehead. I was looking this pigeon dead in the eyes. It was coming towards me. And I can tell he was like, uh-oh, uh-oh. Uh-oh. He tried to his credit, he tried to swoop up. caught the top of my head and I mean there's no coming back when in front of people too

they saw what happened I heard it whoa I know whoa are you okay mate and you're not you're not you want to pretend it didn't even happen did you get like pinched anything in your mouth no I didn't get no nothing it was all kind of top of the forehead probably my big shiny dome might have bloody been blinding the four thing reflection it's like ah yeah it was a feathered missile coming and I could tell all the other pigeons are like oh they're old mates taking a wrong turn there. Was it okay or did it like? Oh, that was a little rattle but it continued on.

The carot-on-oh, that's good. Don't worry about the pigeon. You know, you'll be fine. You know? I can see you're fine. Yeah. And out of all the birds too, they're kind of like the rats of the sky. The yuckiest one.

That's why I asked if you got any pigeon in your mouth. Yeah. I really think, yeah, I feel like maybe they've got a bad rap of late. I remember going overseas to Europe and Maui and, you know, this place that you can stand there and they'll be all over you. On your arms. And your arms and your head and your head and I'm like, did all that.

Now I'm like, why did I do that? Did you have like dozens of pigeons all over you, did you? I didn't even have food. They're just like, land. You're like, now you're like, why did we do that? It feels like the European pigeons might be cleaner. Yeah, maybe. Maybe the Europeans.

They're doing stuff differently. You're only accepted over there. Yeah. Mind you, there's a rumor that's a bird flu started over that part of the world, was it? Maybe that's how. Do they relieve themselves on you? Well, it didn't happen at the time, but again. They did on me.

Oh, it did, right. Yeah. So that didn't happen. It's like an attraction or you just stand there. It's just like big squares I remember through and heap. I guess some people would feed them and stuff. We didn't feed them. But they just would land on, you know, if you stood there.

I don't know about other places. But like in Venice, they have like signs and stuff that are like, please don't feed the pigeons. Like I don't think they like them because they pill on their old buildings and it like erodes them. Old man over here turns up. He's got his arms out. Come here. Like, Ace Ventura out there. Jono Ben and Megan on the hits.

Football World Cup's on at the moment, and Elmo from Sesame Street was asked, which was his favorite player, who's he supporting, and after he didn't pick a side in the NBA finals, with the Knicks, who are from New York where Sesame Street is, and all the fans were angry at Elmo.

Elmo said this. Do you guys have a favorite player? Oh, that's very difficult. Elmo has learned that Elmo should not pick favorites for online consumption. I'll learn that. That was a new thing Elmo learned. But then you're getting...

I feel like he's learned the wrong lesson. Exactly. Because people will like pick aside Elmo. You're from New York. You should be supporting New York. And Alma hasn't learned that. He's still sitting on the fence. He's the Ben Boyce of Sesame Street, Elmo.

Yeah. Well done to the next. Elmo's team. Off the mark. And it'll be the rebound. It's over. Beat the Spurs on the... Yesterday.

And New York is going crazy. That's on the streets in New York. Sounds like a full concert, wasn't it? Oh, yeah. And then there's... buses burn in. There's buddy, oh, it's all go. Bit a wholesome family mob mentality.

Love it. Yeah, so that's going on. As we said, the Football World Cup is going on. And we've been looking for a baby to try and predict the results of the Football World Cup. Now, we started our betting baby on Friday with the South African and Mexico opener. Kelly's sweet, sweet little baby. That'll live on in our hearts forever that baby. Don't ask me the name.

we've had to leave because of your brutal elimination format brutal you've made it seem brutal we just thought that maybe because when they get it wrong they get knocked out well there's so many babies that people wanted their baby to be part of it so I thought we'd share the love around to babies and that was the way to do it but now you're like savage knock them out you know so poor poor sweet little baby uh picked south africa but a little baby opener baby opener uh picked south africa to win and unfortunately two nil wasn't it to mexico yeah it was in the first result. So now we say thank you to that baby. Thank you for the good times and we'll go on to

another baby. Just mowing through the babies here. Grace, good morning and happy new year. Good morning. Happy New Year. Lovely to have you on, Grace. Now you want to put your baby forward, the betting baby forward for our next game. I sure do. Why not? Give us some stats on the sweet baby of yours. I've got a boy called Arthur and he's 10 months old. That's good. Arthur, you know, know, into sport? Totally. He's built for sport, I reckon. Gambling?

Gambling. Okay, so we're going to do, but the next game we've decided we want to pick is New Zealand's first game, the All Whites, they're playing tomorrow against Iran. So we thought maybe after the show we can record something with you to hopefully get a prediction from Arthur. Absolutely. I'll get him ready. Okay.

Can we hear from Arthur? Any noises? Anything? If we can't, can you just make back? noises. Oh, Arthur, say hi. No, he just wants to push the end button. Now, what sort of toys or something that can we put in front of Arthur?

Is he, you know? I think a little car and a little helicopter. Oh, okay. Okay. So the helicopter be Iran? Okay. Yep. And the car can be New Zealand.

New Zealand, okay. Yeah, sure. Perfect. Okay, we'll get onto that. We'll get a prediction out for tomorrow. And then, unfortunately, you know the way the competition works, though. If Arthur gets it wrong, we say goodbye. Oh, that's okay.

We fire Arthur. Tell Arthur never to call us. We'll change our email addresses and everything. Grace, you go and have a good day. And good luck to Arthur tomorrow as our official betting baby. Perfect. Have a good day, guys. Funny side up.

And Megan on the hits. Saturday, geez, I, netballed hard on Saturday. So it started in the morning. My first daughter, Andy, well, my youngest daughter, Indie, She had the first game. So we got up, her and I early Saturday morning. Foggy, she's foggy conditions. She had the age grades.

Okay, starting with the early ages. So we went out there in the netball. She's had an early game then. What's early? Well, we're sort of leaving, I guess, just before. Up around 7, 7.30. Yeah, now getting out there. She had to be there just after 8 o'clock.

Are those the courts where we did the handball once? Yeah, so outdoor courts. Outdoor courts as well. Very foggy conditions as well. She had her game. Then afterwards she coaches a game. And then my other daughter had another game. So she's always netballing hard.

morning. So what are your enthusiasm levels? I mean, good on you. What a sweetheart coaching team. I don't watch the coaching game. I said, nah. I walked there's a cafe down there. Actually, to be fair, there was a cafe on the road.

I'm going to go there. Good luck to the team. Good on you for coaching. That's great, but I don't need to, you know. I have zero interest in this game. But they've got a new addition, actually, for the netball that they've just introduced here. And I don't know if this is right around the country as well, but they've got like a loud

speaker thing that plays before every game as well. And it reminds the team's 30 seconds to go, five seconds to go. and have a listen to this. 30 seconds till game start. It's like 30 seconds to get, five seconds to game start. It feels like you're in the middle of the squid game. Yeah, it does.

It's like, when I first heard it, I was like, what? Still game start. Yeah, like, prepare. It's clearly AI. And there's like, five seconds. You're like, what's going to happen? Don't need. Do you want to count.

And five, four. I know. I was a little scared when I first heard that, but I had nibble. And then after that, we went to the A&Z premiership, my daughter and I as well. So you've gone from,

from amateur to professional. Yeah, so it was a day of just netballing. I think I started at 7 and got home at 7 and I was like, well, I pretty much went, I mean, I did go to the cafe, that's on me, but I was like, I'll be 12 hours of netballing. We love the A&C premanship at the hits though, and it's great to go along and it's really cool. You guys went to the evening game and your dad went out on the court.

Afterwards, yeah, my niece wanted to get photos, and there is a time set aside where they go to a different court and people line up and they do photos and autographs. But Wayno wasn't having any of that. He decided he'd just stroll onto the court and ask them while they're doing their stretches afterwards. What I love is he's also slid across the sponsor court flute that's on the side of the court, just so he can walk on there.

Move that out the way. He's like, it's fine. I was like, it's not though, because everyone did that. Where did you hide? I ran away. Did you? Because I was like, I've interviewed some of these players. I don't want them to think I have anything to do with you, let alone related.

So that might be a blemish against the hits for that happening. And then also in the afternoon when my daughter, Siena and I were doing our three-quarter game, you know, it's a giant hits ball that they're. gets a couple people to roll. We didn't quite start the first lady, I think, middle of the court enough. And so they're quite a big sort of novelty-sized ball as well, but they do get a bit of speed and get out of control.

It reminds me of the scene from Indiana Jones when that thing's coming towards you. And as it was, she was sort of going, I was like, uh-oh, the teams are in the middle of a quite intense sort of team talks at three-quarter time in the game. And I was like, this is going quite close to one of the teams. I'm like, so I sort of sprinted out and just managed to tip it just before I hit the first team.

and then I was like, uh-oh, the second team, I couldn't get there, the second team as well, and I was like, oh, bang, and you could see that one of the players, too, and I was like, sorry, sorry, what the heck was that? Like, sorry, sorry, that forgets more as well. Then she got down the other rear of the court, and it came back out, and then I sent to my daughter to see it,

I was like, just stop it from getting towards the end, you know, they come in quite fast. Where was she? Not at all, not there, bang into a TVNZ camera. Oh, no. I was like, oh, I mean, fortunately, they're quite light in some regards, but I'm like, uh-oh. It's definitely, we're definitely going to hear about it.

I didn't see that at the NBA finals. They're in the timeouts, big balls being thrown into the teams. A lot of fun, though, at the A&Z Premiership, and that's all part of the fun. A complete balls up from start to finish. All around from that. And you were demanding, we need two balls out on the court. I was thinking that. I think that's the reason why they didn't want two balls, and you can't even handle one.

For the final, we should, though, shouldn't we? We should. I do know. I think this might be. I think the end of our partnership's already occurred, so we may as well go out with a blaze. our balls anymore. Roll the balls into everyone. Funny side up.

Dono Ben and Megan on the hits. Now Megan, you said you got an issue with something Ben posted on the internet? I offended you, did I?

He's, you know, he hits a lot of content over, you know, 24 hour period. There was something that you posted. It was actually a video of me and Ben.

Right. And I was so offended, I deemned him. What was the video? Oh, this was where I was dressed in a silly, you know, a silly, flamboyant

outfit as chosen by basically last. by closing my eyes at a costume shop for like walking the red carpet for a musical we both attended the other night and i ran into your well-dressed like that yeah and i like comment on his outfit i said he stole my look we had a little banter and then he put it up as a story eventually and he says when you run into your work colleagues you know well i thought it was a funny thing he was like always run into someone from work that wasn't the gag i was like oh you're always you know when you're on holiday and embarrassing you're running it's

into someone from work. I said, wow, work colleague. Maybe one day I'll upgrade to friend. Genuine, we're not the genuine friends. Oh, we're not genuine friends? No, we are. One day you reach the peaks of genuine friends. Only some radio shows can be genuine friends.

I was like, I'll miss you back and said, I hope you realize I was joking. I went for the gag, but I don't know. Did she reply back to that? I think it was like a rolled eyes. Like a rolled eyes emoji. Lost the room. Did you jump, did you jump the cue on the red carpet this one? Yeah, because I missed that.

I missed that because we are filming. what we were filming with the family. I didn't watch Megan's little show she does to get to cut the line. Oh, did you? I don't actually don't know what to say. You did? She did. Just say you did. I got asked again to go.

Because I wasn't going to get a photo because I was with my parents. Hand-picked. Listen to me. Listen to me. I wasn't going to because I was with my parents and they didn't want to get their photo taken. And then we got invited to. They were like, come, come and.

Miss Pappas, we need you on here. The Pappas, the Pappas, we need you on here. The Papper. Ratsy. And they, I wasn't going to, but they opened that velvet rope. Oh, the velvet rope, and you can't go, you know. Do you know, and as soon as I walked through, I looked for Ben, I was like, oh my God, I can't have him see this. Because last time I was standing with a queue, very long queue with my family as well.

And, yeah, and you worked straight through, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. I'm like, oh, you're like, Megan, Megan. That's my work colleague. That's my work colleague. All the faces blend into one, don't they? She was at the A&D Premiership, too. She had on a corporate table. I was behind the rope.

I was going, Megan, over here. Don't lie. The security guard was like, don't talk to the better class of people. Can't talk to those people over there. I invited Jono. She actually did, to be fair. And he was like, no. But I wasn't allowed to talk to her anyway.

Fair enough. Miss Papas, Miss Papas. Over here. Oh, my God. Funny Side Up. Dono, Ben and Megan on the hits. Just Troy in with us right now because, well, I don't think this is. is a dilemma but Megan thinks there may be something going on.

Yeah, you told us that your partner, Neve, has made a drastic change in her life. Yeah, I got a message from her. She didn't tell me about this beforehand. I got a message saying, hey, I'm just at the hairdressers. And this was about 5 o'clock at night. She's like, can you pick me up around 7.30? I was like, that's a big, it's a big stint of hair. Big session, yeah.

And so I was like, okay, there's going to be a big change here. I was anticipating like a new colour or like a, maybe a shorter cut than normal. Tell everyone what you told us. what you're doing in the car. Oh, I did record, record the... We've got some audio that we've bullied them into putting. I was practicing my reaction. So you're recording it so you could do your reaction

and then play it back and go, well, that sounds convincing. Yes, that's a good... Wasn't intended for broadcast. No. Okay. I'm going to pick Neve up now from a hair cut and I'm just practicing some reactions.

Oh my God, that looks amazing. No, that's... That doesn't feel real. I feel good coming out. Oh. Oh my God. No, too much, too much. Oh, my God, that looks so good.

No, too much. Oh, that looks awesome. No, that one was good. That one was good. The last one. Oh, that looks awesome. It doesn't feel like a word that's in my vocabulary. It's just social media trend, like sarcastic.

Now do it. Yeah. You look great. So what she did was she normally just has like long curly hair, ties it up quite a bit. But she went and got a real. Every guy. I'm trying to describe your girlfriend.

tears. Tides, up quite a bit, brushes it from time to time. Sometimes it's brought over, I think, shampoes it.

That was grey mouth. You just sounded more grey mouth than that's here. Your roots, back to your roots. Gros it. What she did was she cut a fringe.

She cut a fringe, which she hasn't had since she was in primary school. So what? So you had just been sent a photo of hair, mysterious photo of hair on the floor of the salon.

Yes, as I was driving to pick her up, she sent me a photo of like the mop that was just on the floor and she's like, get ready. And you did. You prepared yourself.

I did, I did. You looked awesome. What was your reaction? Awesome. I was driving. I was driving down the street. She had started to walk towards me. And she was waving out to the car for me to stop.

And I was like, who's this a crazy lady? I didn't recognize it. Oh, really? I thought it was some lady with a weird wig. It was like waving me down. Oh my God. Is that what you said to him? I thought you're a lady with a weird wig.

I did it. Oh my God. I did pull over and when I realized it was her. I was like, hey, she looks really good. Oh, that's good. Oh, that's good. You said weird wig now. I'm glad you think it's awesome, but Megan, you think that something may be...

I also, he showed me a picture. I think she looks great. But the joke is, or the meme is, when you get a fringe, it means you having a breakdown or there's something going wrong in your life. Is there anything going on? I think so. She's got her hair, she ties it up sometimes. It's all pretty good.

Rock solid. It's like when you're going through a divorce or a breakup or like you're a stressful time in life, you make an, what do you call it, impulsive decision to cut a fringe? Oh, really? Is this a thing? Yeah. I've never heard of this. So when your friend gets a fringe, you have to do a welfare check.

Does it just want a fringe? Who just wants a fringe? Some weird lady in a week walking down the road. The fringe crisis. Yeah, okay. Well, I don't know if I'm buying into this. Okay, so 800 of the hits. Is this fringe crisis a thing?

Do you know what? I got a fringe after I had hip surgery and it was the worst decision ever and it takes ages to grow out. But that was like a stressful time. Okay, so have you been in the middle of a fringe crisis? Have you resorted to this in the moment of crisis, cutting a fringe? I'll tell you what's a big result. Megan mentioning fringe crisis because the feedback we've had on the text machine, 4487, Troy's partner,

producer Troy's partner, Neve, just went and got a fringe on a whim. Yeah, a surprise fringe. And my response was, is she okay? He says, yeah, but maybe he's a problem. Maybe it's a. He's a very problematic, Troy. The fringe crisis is a thing If you go out and you get an impulsive fringe

Or you change your hair dramatically It's literally a coping mechanism For things that feel out of control in your life Apparently the male equivalent According to one text is Someone growing a beard And I'm looking at producer Troy right now You're going to be a pretty much the whole time

I'm not now You're okay big guy Actually you've all got beards I don't know Maybe if it's a long bed I guess. Yeah. I'd say the male equivalent is probably leaving your family and buying a sports car.

Yeah. Which is not a great equivalent, to be honest. But Saraya joins us. Happy New Year, Saraya. Happy New Year. The fringe crisis. Merry Christmas. Happy Hanukkah.

Is it a thing? Have you been a victim of the fringe crisis? Yes, many times, but once quite recently. Have you still got your fringe? Yeah. Yeah. So what happened if you don't mind me asking? So I went through a separation.

Amicable, everything's fine. I'm thriving. Live in the Vita Loca. Then it was like first happening and I moved out and I got my own apartment and I'm living with my son. I was like I need like something new, fancy, exciting. And so I FaceTime to my best friend and as she answered the phone, I was just like hacking away.

Oh, you did it. yourself. Oh my god that's full that's full breakdown. Or she got bang, she got bangs. Were you happy with the result that you did yourself? Yeah, yeah, it's not like a full front like bluntercross, it's just curtain bang. So nothing too dramatic.

Yeah. But I have in the past like chopped a full bob myself too. Oh God. It seems to be a running scene. Done a few crosses here cut. So at the moment you've still got the forehead curtain? Yes. And you're loving it.

Yes, I am. Good on you. Hey, Saraya. Well, I hope everything goes well in your life and you keep thriving and living Lovita Loca. Lovely chatting with you, mate. Look after yourself. Dale, morning to you. Good morning.

The fringe crisis. Has Megan stumbled across something here? Well, I mean, the first time I kept my fringe there was nothing going on. I perfectly find it another couple of times. I thought, yeah, I can do this. this fringe thing. And then I decided I was going to let it out, grow it all out, and get all without a fringe. And then I popped on an outfit I was wearing when I was pregnant.

And then because I had a miscarriage and then I chopped my fringe in a panic. You did it yourself too. I did it. And then I instantly regretted it because I was like, no, I was growing it out. Oh, see. It'd be great. It's like glue or something. I just went to the hairdresser and I was like, can you fix it please?

Because I don't want a fringe. I want to grow it all out. Like, make it normal again. Did they? Did they fix it? They've tried to. That's good. That didn't look bad, but.

It's funny. I don't know why, like, going to the hairdresser to cut your fringes is one thing. But so many people do it themselves. Impulsive's the thing. Yeah, maybe you're right. Maybe there's something to this theory, Megan. It's like, when I start hacking away at a Zit on my face, I'm like, this isn't getting any well.

But then I'm like, I'm in too deep now. Keep digging, maybe. We'll keep this coming through. 4-4-8-7 on the text as well, but I think, Megan, you've cracked the theory. The fringe crisis. So if Jono comes one day just with a fringe. We'll know what's going on. Funny side up.

Dono, Ben, and Megan, on the hits. Geez, I tell you what, guys, I don't know if you've noticed. Like, I've come to work in a puffer jacket. Now, when I put the puffer jacket on the studio, it's too hot. I take the path of jacket on, I've only got a t-shirt, too cold. There's no middle ground for me this morning. Was it manopause? Man, I think it is man-o-paws.

They never set the air-on right in here, do they? No, you're always complaining it's set to man mode. It is. It's freezing. I'm not surprised. Now, my husband comes back today after six weeks. You may have heard me going on and on about it. He's been on tour for six weeks. Playing Romeo and Juliet. It's a hugely successful smash hit stage show.

And hugely successful with him as well. He kissed the multiple... people on stage night after night. Thank you, Ben. Six weeks of relentless smooching. All scripted, all scripted. Yeah, sounds like a horrible time he's had. So in hotel rooms away from the kids.

It's been hard for Angie. Yes, so hard. What's he coming home to? Like, what have you got lined up for Andrew when he walks in the group? Oh, jobs wise. Just like, yeah, like, I imagine you're like, there are you all kids now off you go out the door? Oh, yeah, absolutely.

There's after school activities. I'm going to go to bed. How many weeks or months of referencing he was away for six weeks Do you think you can get away with in your household? Like, I still haven't caught up from last time he went on tour. He's been on tour multiple times. He went on tour when our daughter was four weeks old. So I'm in, he's in the red as far as I'm concerned.

Was that a smooching tour? No, no, that was a kid's show. Less smooching of that one. Not so much. But you've got an idea. I don't think this is a great idea, Megan. I think it's funny. So he's yet to come home.

He's flying home from Christchurch today. So I thought my agent, we share an agent, I thought maybe they could tempt him with an amazing experience if he could just stay in Christchurch a little bit longer. So she's going to go, oh, hey, what if we, you know, do this thing, these clients want to take you around a vineyard and a helicopter ride? Luxury accommodation, that sort of thing.

You just got to stay a couple more days to put it out on social media. Basically, I wanted to dangle the carrot and see if he bites it. What's the point of this? What is the point? I want to see if he's feeling the pull of responsibility to come back or whether he will try and wrangle to stay longer. I don't feel good about that. Oh, no. No.

It's not a pay thing, but he's getting an amazing experience, right? Yeah, well, he thinks. It's not real. Okay, not a real thing. Not a real thing. He has been out in the trenches sacrificing his lips night after night for your family. Trenches. The trenches.

He's been going to restaurants. He's been doing zip line to it. He's been sleeping all night with no children. So he's already had the lovely luxury. Exactly. Does he need more of it? Okay, we'll find out next. We're going to put him on the spot.

We've got someone from your agency, the agent's going to call him up. Yeah, who he knows. And she would be the person to call him if this experience was only real. He's just played Romeo. Is he going to be cast as ex-husband? We're about to find it. Yeah, he's been away for six weeks. He's coming back today.

I thought I'd dangle a carrot. of an amazing trip for a few days in Christ, which if he'll just agree to stay down there longer, the trip isn't real, I just want to see what you say. Okay, so you've roped in Amanda from, who's your agent and Angie's agents. She's waiting right now, we're going to connect her through, and she's hopefully going to see what...

If he sees used to the job, what is he? Is he a terrible husband if he says used to this job? What's the end is it? Yes, absolutely. But that's a great trip. If he's saying yes without consultation, you know, like I've been at home with the kids for six weeks. Okay, we're going to go through now to Andrew.

Good luck Amanda. Hello. Good morning. How are you? Hi, who's this? It's Amanda. Oh, hi. That's so weird.

Hi, I'm good. How are you? Your thing didn't come up as like who, you know what I mean? Random. Anyway. That's weird. How are you? How's Christchurch treating you?

Good. It's all good. Last couple of days, hey. Oh, good. You'll be glad to be getting home. Yeah, I can't complain. But it's all good. Oh, good.

Yeah. Yeah, no other audiences here are good. But what's up? Oh, good. I just have a bit of a random one for you, and it is because you're down in Christchurch. I have had that agency that looks after Christchurch, NZ, reached out to me, asking if you would be interested in doing, like, this exclusive Christchurch experience in the next day. Yeah.

Be like a day trip to Akaroa, visiting wineries, five-star restaurants and bars, hotel, massage, massage. or covered. It's contra. Which, you know. But you would come back until like Wednesday or Thursday. Right. Um, shit.

Do you just call Megan and ask her? Do you think you'd want to stay? I'd want to. The only thing is I don't know what we'd do with the kids. I don't know what I'd do, yeah. I mean, I want to do it, obviously. But.

I don't know if I can get it across the line. I might get shot by someone. You absolutely would get shot. Yeah. Damn it. If it was paid, I'd be like, all right, let's make it happen, you know. Andrew. Andrew, it's your wife.

Have you forgotten what I sound like? Really? Are you joking? Andrew, can I just say for the record this is Megan's idea. None of us thought it was a good idea, including Amanda. Oh my goodness, that is crazy. Andrew, I felt like we shouldn't have been listening to this. No, it was very tempting.

I feel like I might get shot. But hey, listen, he's right answer? Yeah, it was a pretty good answer, Megan. No, she was like, do you want her? And he was like, I want to stay. I want it. I want it so bad. No, because in his mind he was like not paid though, hey.

Because he was like, if it's paid, I could probably get it across the line. Wow, wow. That was hectic. That was hectic. Full rollercoaster. Wait, so there's no trip? No. Andrew, get your ass home. It was entrapment, Andrew. Stephanie entrapment, yeah.

The trip is flying back home. Yes, that is the trip. And that's what I was trying to tell Amanda. I was going to get to that point. You were like, oh, I don't know what I do with the kids. Plus, I miss my beautiful wife so much. I think it was a pretty good answer in the spot, I think. But that's maybe just taking the brocode on this one.

Thank you so much, Amanda. Convincing performers. And we'll let Andrew hang up and come to terms with what's just happened. That's why her phone number didn't come up because we called from the studio. A lot to get you head out. I understand.

I didn't even follow. That was crazy, guys. It was crazy. We were not involved with it. That was crazy. The timing of this is crazy. I'll see you soon. Will you?

Will he take up that trip? It sounds great, that trip. I'll be there. Thanks guys. Funny side up. Jono Ben and Megan on the hits. Very excited about New York winning the NBA championship yesterday over the Spurs.

Wemby tries a three, puts it up, off the mark, Ananovi the rebound. It's over, it's over. Nick fans, this is not a dream. Your long, long wait has ended. Go ahead and cry after 53 years. The Knicks are finally NBA champions once again. And geez, the six.

scenes you see on Instagram with all the fans in the street. It's just unbelievable scenes. And we crossed our live to New York, Nicole, as she's American correspondent. She does a radio show in New York. Nicole, are you still alive after that? I mean, barely. I think I told you guys before we came on that we've slept maybe a total of between 10 and 15 hours the past two weeks. I've exhausted.

My blood is made of alcohol and I need a vacation. But we're happy. that matters, it's worth it. Unbelievable, yeah. And what does this mean to this city? I think the whole world was rooting for them. Yeah, I mean, honestly, I think like we talk weekly or we try to talk weekly. And yeah, it feels like America's on fire sometimes because it's just you can't believe that this is not a reality show.

And I really feel like New York City specifically has just been kind of going through it a little bit. And these past two weeks, everyone's walking a little different. Everyone's smiling at each other. like this noticeable buzz. It was so fun, like you couldn't be in a bad mood. It was honestly weird. It felt surreal. It was just, it was everything. It's pretty incredible for a city

as massive as New York, and I feel like, no offense, you guys are always like, you know, walking on your way and you're, you know, very straightforward people. Yeah. Have you seen anything like this before in New York? No, I'm, no, no. And I mean, I've lived here for, I mean, a little over

20 years, and no, and I think we joke sometimes, like literally, like, it was, It's weird because the U.S. Open's open. The U.S. Open? The World Cup. The Football World Cup. Yeah. Yeah, that little tournament.

The World Cup. That thing, it's almost like that got buried in the mix. And obviously people are coming from all over the world here. And, like, I worked right by Times Square. You couldn't even really, like, no one cared or cared for, like, that much because we were just trying to get through the next. But, yeah, like, I think this is the first week that I didn't say to a tourist, get out of my city or, like, just walk faster. Like, not because I don't love you. But like, you've got to abide by the rules.

Yeah. Let's go. No looking up. No stopping in my way. Come on. There's a way that we move around. Yeah. Everyone's welcome, though.

Everyone's welcome. I love you all. So what's the reaction on the streets now? We see some wild scenes. We just played some before. They're all singing songs. There's a few people going a bit too far as, as is the case. Liding buses on fire.

Yeah, but it seems like it's pandemonium out on the streets. Yeah. It is. And when we were walking home, but we were going to attempt to take a cab home because we were out of friends with a bunch of friends you couldn't get into any bar and we had had um like reservations for dinner at this place that it was like hard to get into so we went and like like raced out of there but you're not getting into a bar people are waiting and lined it was unbelievably you couldn't get it anywhere so went to our friend's house and then when it was done we're like oh we'll take a cab home because we're all the way

downtown there was no taking a cab home like everyone was like the streets were flooded with like happiness and joy and partying and like like blasting music every car was like leaning on their horn the police cars were leading on their horn and screaming, all the, all the, um, fire engine. It was like, it was not real. And it was just like anything went. So, yeah, there was just a general sense of like, we did it. Yeah. And you said your husband was crying.

Oh. You know what? For such, uh, for such an a hole. I don't know if I wanted to say that, but sorry I just said it. Yeah. Like for such a jerk of a husband that I have, I love very much. I do love him very much. He cries very, very easily.

and this just destroyed him. Being a New Yorker, seeing, like being a New Yorker, being in New York, seeing it with his kids, he looked at both of our kids. It was just like, you're like, this is a straight, you know. So, yeah, he was in his fields, okay? And emotional scenes as well, players crying, Jalen Branson, the star, too, his dad is one of the coaching staff, and when they hugged, that was like getting everyone in the fields as well, you know, so.

Oh, my God, yeah, and especially for him, because he played basketball, all him and his brother did, and his dad was his coach. yeah like it is there's just like it feels like everyone's like a family they're like it really like united the city and I think that we kind of needed it I know this is so cheesy and so cliche and stuff that I don't normally say but I can't help it like it's just we needed this and it's just it's just so cool and we're not done celebrating I mean I need to do long nap but then we'll continue hang on for it as long as you can yeah the New Yorkers tomorrow be like hey I'm walking you get out of my city Hey Nicole, well congratulations

and so happy for the entire city and we'll catch up with you next week. Absolutely, bye guys, thank you. All right. Funny side up. And Megan on the hits. Plenty great sport on over the weekend. Gutting though for the Warriors.

Real heartbreaker for their first game home for a while. But they move on to Christchurch this weekend. Very exciting to have the Warriors and the brand new stadium, Christchurch. Takaha, one New Zealand Stadium. And we are lucky enough to be heading along to the game. and producer Troy

who's South Island hard grew up on the West Coast the rugged West Coast although every time we talk to someone from the West Coast they have never heard of Troy so yeah so was he from there or not has you just picked a small town just to say I feel like they should know you

yeah yeah it's just on the radio there for a year they've forgotten about that were you on the radio on the West Coast did the day show on the hits did you apparently not made a big impact big impact to the market clearly Troy so you are preparing

for Christchurch by buying the limited edition Warrior's Canterbury top Yeah the O3 top Yeah A nice long sleeve one Not one for Waz merch normally

But this one had a big O3 On the bag Cool colours It's very cool And it's good And you would spend so many years In Christchurch So it's

Formative years Yeah Formative years So it's personal For you this jersey Yeah I thought if any Waz jersey

It's this one Yeah Now you keep looking Around the office And you're like Oh Fawn's got the same jersey Yeah

And every And then Oh Charlie's got the same jersey And No one else can have the same jersey. Dynasty just sent out a whole bunch of freebies. I paid full price.

So you're getting... True family. You're getting frazzled that there's other people wearing your special jersey. Yeah. Because I've got a connection to this jersey. I'm from Christchurch. That's true because the people I've seen wearing it are from the North Island. Yeah.

I see him but everyone can jump on the bandwagon. We're allowed all. You know, it's a warrior's fast fine. You've got the more than wear. You've got other warriors jerseys. Don't use... Don't take the South Island one if you've got no connection. What I do love,

though you were wearing it and someone has bailed you up in the street to talk to you about in-depth warrior stuff yeah the security guard the security guard sees me wearing it last week and he goes what do you reckon about this weekend and then you're like oh dear god i'm now entrenched in game banter i was like yeah i reckon we've got it and he goes really and i was like oh yeah and i remember we we won against the panthers last weekend so i was like we won against the panthers last week well no no no we lost we lost I was like, we only lost by two last week, and he goes, yeah, but who was in that team? And I was like, oh, no. You tell me, mate, you tell me.

He's like, the origin of taking this person and this person. And what about the wars? Who did we have? It's like, oh. Please tell me. And it turns out your security guard was right. They didn't have it. Oh, it was very close, yeah.

But we are heading along. Troy's going to be where we're there on Sunday as they take on the Cowboys won New Zealand Stadium. It's all sold out. It's sold out really, really quick. Tell you what we're going to get, Troy to do. Do you go to walk around the stadium and engage in game day banter. But we have got, I don't know how we got a family pass.

We've got a family pass. So who deserves that? We're going to take a couple of days of this 4487 on the text and find a deserving family. Maybe missed out. Maybe need to come along. Why do they deserve it in Christchurch this weekend? Yeah, because it's completely sold out in record time, didn't it? Yeah, and we're going to be doing some other stuff as well on Christchurch that will keep you updated.

Before the game as well, where you could be winning $1,000 just by listening. I show the following morning. She's working our asses off in Christchurch, guys. Tell you what, we're going to win Christchurch. Yeah, I can't wait. 4487 on the text, though. Deserving family that need to go to the Warriors this weekend. Dono Ben and Megan on the Hits.