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Episode Date: August 7, 2025

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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. Welcome to the podcast. We got talking today about a new All-Black who was about to head off with the team, put his passport and his retainers on the bedside table, and, well, this happened. I got my passport out, take a photo to send to the manager, and I just left it on my bedside table, and then, yeah, my partner went to the gym

and left my dog home alone, and then it's gone down the hallway and jumped on the bed, and then just chewed up passport and my teeth aligners. So, yeah, it was a bit of a shambles yesterday. I was trying to get an emergency one, but I think it's all suss now. So there's Leroy. Got a gym flex in there? We went to the gym. I don't think he was bragging about going to the job.

I think it's just the main role with his job. Yeah, true. Yeah, true. I think if anyone's going to the gym, we're like, I'm not surprised that he is. There's an all black and a professional regular thing. Oh, he goes to the gym. Oh, flexing. It's always at the gym, yeah.

We've got Sue, oh, morning to you, Sue. Atamari, how are you? Atamara, do you go to the gym? Not anymore, no. It's too well for that. Now, Sue, dogs eating passports. Is a dog eaten yours? No, it wasn't a dog, and it was a cat

and not a passport. Okay, so nothing I just... No, no, it's animals eating things. I mean, you got an animal-related story, yeah, yeah. It's a cat-related. What'd your cat eat? I got home to find a whole lot of, like, what I thought was cardboard on the floor because she loves biking cardboard.

And it was a $500 scratchy ticket that I had won. No. Yes, the barcode, the numbers, everything just munted. Oh, Sue. What do you, like, again, like, the cat, like, was it next to some bacon or, like, something on the bench? No. Like, why? She's just always loved eating.

boxes. Like, you put a box down, she jumps in it and starts eating it and spitting out the cardboard pieces. She's, yeah, weird. Now, I don't want to go dark, but did the cat use up one of its nine lives that day soon? Oh, she's used up a few of her lives. Yeah.

Jeez. So no way you could get the money? No. Not without the barcode. If the barcode had been wrecked, that was okay. But if it had the numbers, they would have been able to do something. And I was like, walking past all time going, I love you, I love you, I love

you, I love you. $500 worth? Well, she's already cost me four and a half grand, keeping her alive. Oh, jeez. Oh, good on you, Sue. I mean, they could just take your word for it, too, as well, the Lottery's Commission.

Oh, in that case. I won first division, I said to have lost my ticket. Yeah, I could have said it was a $250,000. I've never heard anyone that winning that much on the scratchies. No, that's impressive. No. And you kind of didn't. Good on you, Sue.

Have a great weekend in Hamilton. Yeah, you too, guys. Thank you. See you later. Enjoy the podcast. Thank you. Bye. John O'Benn and Megan.

The podcast. The heads. He's one of the new All Blacks that's made the team, Uncapped All Blacks, the Chiefs halfback, Leroy Carter. And he was getting his passport out to send a photo to All Black Management after you made the side. And, well, something happened. I got my passport out to take a friend. to send to the manager and I just left it on my bedside table and then yeah my partner

went to the gym and left my dog home alone and then it's gone down the hallway and jumped on the bed and then just chewed up passport and my um my teeth aligners so yeah it was a bit of a shambles yesterday I was trying to get an emergency one but I think it's all suss now oh so this is what the day before they had to leave yeah panic stations too panic imagine that if he couldn't have gone and played for the all blacks because the dog eating his puff sport. And he's now had to go overseas without his invisaline as well.

Yeah, I know his teeth are going to move. They're going to move. They will shift around over a couple of weeks, those teeth. So you want to get some emergency invisibleine over there in South America as well. Especially to get through all the meat over there, too. They'll really shake about inside your mouth. Yeah, right. Actually, he says, yes.

That'd be the more bigger pain in the ass to me. I've gone backwards in my invisible line tree. Like, what's the dog? It's not like you left food out or anything. Like for the dog. No, but like maybe the teeth aligners, like, smell like food or, like, a crack at that, you know, like you come over. Maybe the passport is, but he's seen everything else in the house, and he's like,

oh, this is new. He didn't seen this little blue square thing. What does this feel like in my mouth? Yeah, so what has happened to your passport. This is what we'd love to open the phones on this morning. Our text number is 4487, 0800, the hits, telephone number. Nothing really happened to mine. I just had a real shambles with passports because I've got dual passports because I was born in,

oh, it must be nice. It must be nice. I tell you what, it is nice, if you're asking. So I've got a US one and a New Zealand one. But what I didn't understand was that you needed to enter the US, if you're born there, on a US passport, or else it's terrible. And it was like the day before we were going at the US Embassy. And I was just doing light banter.

I was like, I was born in Seattle with the dude behind the counter. He's like, what? I was like, yeah. He's like, you need a US passport to get into the US. 24 hours, I had to get that one sorted. So you can't, if you're born there, you can't use your Kiwi one. No, not go into it. So I have to leave.

And this is what I stuffed up as well. because I'm meant to leave on my New Zealand one, arrive in America on my US one, leave the states on my US one and arrive back in New Zealand. But if you get it all wrong, I messed it up. I left New Zealand on my US one, arrived in America. I just travelled on my US one.

Then I came back here and then I'm like, you don't have a visa. I'm like, I bloody live here, mate. So then I had to go to play customs for three hours. And I was like, listen, I'm here, listen to my accent. Listen to me. No, mate, it's on you. That's on you.

That's your shabby management. I do remember a friend of mine in Chairman Management as well Because back in the day They used to have babies You didn't used to have to have them have a passport So for some reason he thought that It was still the rule Him and his partner turned up at the airport

They were going on a holiday with their newborn And they went Where's the baby's passport? They're like oh it doesn't have one And they're like well can't fly And so one of them had to fly The other one had to stay around With the baby

Yeah Who told them that babies didn't need a passport Where did that? I know exactly Conversation at a bar You know what baby You just had a baby And he was the one that he ended up flying, and his partner stayed back with the baby,

and that was not a great situation for a couple of days. Yeah. How did he end up going? How did he? Well, yeah, I guess the baby was quite new breastfeeding situation, but really. One of us has got to go. I was seeing Fiji in a couple of days. Oh, my God.

You get that passport sorted. Jeez, it was hot in Fiji, but he got a frosty reception when they landed. Yeah, for sure. Okay, so what's happened to your passport? Have you lost it? Have you added a dog eat it? What's the best passport story would love? to hear from you.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the heads. There's brand new all-black. Lee Rokata from the Chiefs. He's a halfback. He's one of the new all-blacks. And unfortunately for him, as he was about to head away with the all-blacks, he had this happen. It's stalled on the hall. No, no, the computers.

All right, the dog ate that computer. Basically, the dog. I got my passport out, take a photo to send to the manager, and I just left it on my bedside table. And then, yeah, my partner went to the gym and left, um, The German left my dog home alone, and then it's gone down the hallway and jumped on the bed and then just chewed up passport and my teeth aligners. So, yeah, it was a bit of a shambles yesterday. I was trying to get an emergency one, but I think it's all suss now.

There you go, double kicking the guts. The straight teeth and the passport gone. Yeah, so what happens to your passport? That's what we'd love to know. A lot of people have had, you know, situations very similar, losing them, dogs eating passports. Yeah, and dogs love aligners, it turns out. Yeah. You're right.

Dogs do love alias. They're a bit stinky, though. I had a retainer and don't sniff it. Yeah, they're sexy. They are sexy, sexy little devices, aren't they? You've got some in your household at the moment, don't you? Yeah, my biggest ick with my partner is every time he takes out his aliners, he has to do the slurk. Yeah.

I mean, the alternative is he's got the strings of saliva. It's like, click, click, click. He's trying to keep it as classy as he can. Laura, morning to you. What happened to the passport? Good morning, yeah. So about a year ago, I was going on a trip of a lifetime to Uganda to go guerrilla trekking with my dad, and we had to have a visa to go.

So I filled out all the paperwork online, submitted the visa with heaps of time to spare. Visa all came through, not a problem. I went to check in at Auckland International Airport to fly out, and Emirates said, your visa is invalid. The passport number doesn't match and wouldn't let me fly. No. It was an R-R instead of an R-A and everyone had missed it. So I'm at the Tekin Desk, frantically trying to create a new visa application through to Uganda so that I was allowed to fly.

Oh my goodness. Yeah, I had to take a website. Finally, I got permission to fly, but I still didn't have a visa. So here I am flying off to Uganda. No idea whether I was actually allowed in the country or not. So you could potentially land in Uganda and they'd be like, welcome. Time to turn around and go home. Time to turn around and go back, yep.

Oh, but it all worked out at the end? They did let me go through with the email confirmation that I was allowed to fly, and then two days into my trip I actually got a proper visa approval. But, yeah, it was a very, very scary moment. I'd been waiting to go on this trip for about 30-odd years. Oh, my gosh. If you're a nervous flyer, that would make you more nervous about the fact that we're left. And my watch that I wear is that I had had a demanding day.

You know, it's a big one with the watch is, that's the feedback. That was demanding. Thanks, you're cool. I appreciate it. Gary, whatever, dear passport. Well, when I was first coming to New Zealand originally and put all my stuff in packing cases and trunks and stuff, I packed my tickets and my passport in one of the trunks

that was going to a shipping company to bring it to New Zealand. Oh, so you didn't even have it on you? No. What did you... I rang the guy. It was a Friday night because I flew out on the Sunday. Yeah? I rang the guy and that's the only time he doesn't switch his phone,

didn't switch his phone off at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. So you got your passport? Bombed over there, got my passport, got my tickets. To relief. It's so much strict. Like, it really, I know, I'm kind of against it, but I, in many ways, for it. Put a chip in us. Put a chip

in us. This won't be an issue anymore. There's such a, we put so much on a little booklet. We do. It's too much responsibility for the average mountain, isn't it? Just Gary! It is. Oh, thank you for phoning through, Gary. We're glad to have

you here, and that you arrive safely. You have a great weekend, my friend. Yeah, you too. Thanks, Gary. Great text coming through. I was at the airport, confidently handed my passport to the customs officer. He opened it, raised an eyebrow and said, ma'am, this says you're a 62-year-old man from Canada.

I looked down and I grabbed my dad's passport by mistake. Brenda, morning to you. What happened to the passport? Some great calls coming through. It got stolen in Hawaii. So, we had gone around to watch the blowholes.

My mum and I, I was only 18, so this was back early 90s. And, you know, naive Kiwis, we just chucked our purses under the seat. You know, locked the door, went down, had a view. came back and someone had popped the lock and took our passport, our credit card and all of our money, and our plane tickets.

Did you, so you got rinsed? They took your identity. How long does it take to get a replacement one? Well, we couldn't. That was the issue. We were stuck in Hawaii where there's no New Zealand embassy. Must be nice. Yeah, I know.

I know, it'd be nice. We got back to the hotel. They were really good. Back in the days, they took a swipe of your credit card so they could give us some money. so we had to stand next couple of nights and run around trying to get paper tickets because it's paper tickets

we're in the embassy and actually they led us out of the US and told us never come back yeah never come back I've been back land in Australia and New Zealand and we turn up to there and say

we've got all this information and said we've got nothing on that so we were literally on New Zealand and Auckland and I'm like oh my goodness I can't even get into my own country and so how long did you spend at the at customs? Oh, a couple of hours, and then they sort of

out, and they said we'd come in, the dates who got mixed up with us, you know, been back with across the date line. So, yeah, we got it, and we got our now, our delayed plane down to Invercargall, and yeah. And you're like, we are never leaving Invercargill ever again, family. John O'Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The Hats. There are some amazing pets around, just telling you guys about a story about a parrot in the UK that was a parrot of some drug dealers and learnt the phrase two for 25, which is apparently a common cocaine phrase over there.

So when the police came and did a raid on the place, the parrot was just squawking, two for 25, two for 25. And parrots helped bring down the, well, I don't know if the parrot really know. No, you bloody snatch. So you can teach birds to do some wild stuff. There was a story that there was

a whole suburb in the States which had a lot of drug dealers, but they had taught the pigeons to fly. A meal? Delivery. No, not delivery, but to warn when the police were coming. Oh, really? So then the pigeons go, brop-p-prop-pru-p-pru-and, and then everyone, yeah.

Oh, wow. So amazing animals, and this leads us into amazing animals on the internet, because Megan, you sent a video to the group chat yesterday. Of these people overseas, making this noise and the cats come running, their cats come running. Now, it's incredible. We'll put the video up on the hits breakfast on social media. Apparently the noise means, like, come here and cat language. And they are hoofing it.

I've never seen cats move this fast when the owners do it. Here's some of the people doing it, the noise. Which means, come here. And the cats just go. Like from one end of their house, they run across yards, they are running. Like a dog, if you were like, want a treat? Want a treat? Yeah.

Yeah, okay. So this is the whistling for the cats, and you decided to do some cat whispering. They put on the group chat, and you said, could someone with a cat, please try this? Yeah. because you don't have a cat. So I was like, well, I can try it with my cat bubble. The cat, very indifferent, you know, isn't it the best of time? So he was lying there.

He was looking himself as you were doing it. He could see me. I was like, this is a five metre little run if he needs a gum. So this is me having a crack. On TikTok, cats come running straight away, like really running if I go. Me-e-mm-e-mm-e-ha-ha-ha-ha. Anything? Nothing.

He just looked up. He just looked at you. He was like, you right, mate? And went back to licking himself. The cat's just looking itself. still and no I was thinking maybe pronunciation is slightly off you know if you're saying and they're like

I don't know what you're saying and then you're like oh maybe so I tried it in different ways but no like when some boomers say Taupai Yeah yeah yeah you're like Topor yeah yeah there was a one later Where it slowly walked to you Yeah so maybe just checking on you Are you okay

Can you me to call someone? Mentally are you for do you want me to So yeah I got the reaction that pretty much Who do you want me to ask for? Both the cat and the dog looking at me like, what are you doing? The family are like, why does he keep going? My wife's like, I'll come to you if you shut up. Do you think your cat loves you?

Like at times, but, you know, he always hangs out with me in the morning, like 4 o'clock. But I think he wants, you know, like, if I'm making, like, yeah, exactly. But he's still spent a lot of time at the neighbours. Oh, yeah. He's got a better class of people he hangs out with. Yeah, hear all the stories and like, oh, that's your cat. Oh, he was over at my, you're like, man, this cat's. This cat's so lively, charismatic.

You're like, not when he comes home. Expends all his energy out on other people. Yeah, so if you've got a cat, you can try that noise today. Maybe. What I like to hope now is, ma'er, hordes of cats are just running around. I feel like I'm a Muppet or something, you know. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast, The Hats.

We've been talking about what happened to your passports. Great text coming through from someone who said, I'm a terrible person when it comes to Valley Bulls. When I was younger, I lost three passports as well, two I needed, plus an emergency passport as well. Then most recently, I lost another passport. Then I got a letter saying I was on my last chance and they were going to investigate me for fraud if I needed another one. Is that what happens?

Are you bloody Jason Bourne? So, yeah, make sure you keep hold of your passport. Very important document it is. So it was actually this time a week ago. I was just reminded of it driving into work this morning because we are lucky enough to host the MIT of 10 awards last Friday night. And they had, geez, it was a bonanza, people dangling from the ceiling with, you know, in silk stuff. It was an entertainment. Oh, performance.

Yeah, it wasn't just people after a few drinks. A total was like an epic night. No legitimate circus sort of people. Right. Yeah, it was great. Then they had the cast of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, which is going to be doing a run very shortly. And with the actual, there's costumes,

a set of costumes that they just fly around the world. Incredible. Because they're very specific costumes with the big, the wide leg pants. Yeah, they're cool. Almost like little, like they were standing on sort of Swiss balls or something. They're kind of bouncy at the end of it as well. It was very cool. So, yeah, they were opening the show, which was a, you know, a bad part on our behalf because then we had to follow them.

Well, they had a lacklust of performance. But, you know, they did a wonderful medley of songs. I love the nightlife. Finally, it is happening. Yeah, great song. And so we're sort of standing on the side of stage, just watching, mesmerize. Yeah. And then I was like, oh, one of the performers is coming off for a, you know, mid-performance costume change.

And I tell you what, there were three people there. It was like a Formula One pit stop. Really quick. But then, so I was just watching this go It was interesting to see, you know, the inner workings of what happens on a stage show Just met, I was just kind of had my eyes locked on this And then I went, oh, this is like a full on, full costume change

As in the actors, the performers in, you know, underpants changing fully And then I was like, I really shouldn't be watching You're standing here watching this, you know, it's gone from interest To, you know, pure interest to pure purvert So it's like, what do I do? And then so I just turned around and panic and I just stared at a pole I just investigated the pole

I don't know what else to do and you don't know when it's all finished as well so I don't know how long I was staring at the pole for just looking at the mechanics of it the construction of it the engineering that's like when you're in amongst it though you don't really think about who's around

they're just like on yeah like get on get on get on no but I don't want her afterwards as she's lying in bed at that night going that guy who's just sort of standing there staring I think I've seen him before He was one of the MCs

That was weird Yeah so anyway A lot of interest in that poll John O'Benn and Megan The podcast The Hits Population of Japan last year We're down by almost a million people

They're apparently not They're not creating enough children over there People are choosing not to Almost a million people But don't worry They've still got 120 million in the country They're fine They're right

So yeah Well I say like a conscious decision Just go through life without children I think it needs to be In the government We need to get more We need more kids You know

Watch the notebook or something romantic You know Like do something but no Oh there you go Well done Japan Yeah One Direction Wow

Keep saying one direction It's one republic One Republic Coming to New Zealand February next year On the sweet escape tour They're going to be in Spark Arena

And Auckland February 4th All the tickets and details At livenation.como NZ It'll be incredible concert We've got our last double pass to giveaway

on the show And if you want to win it Is it too late to apologise for something you did to a stranger? Now this was you and your husband? Yeah, it was both of us. We turned up to, it was a little gig, and we were there before the doors had opened. So naturally there was a line outside.

Right. And... Jeez, I hate lines, don't you hate lines? Yeah. Just a nightmare. There was a huge line at the Nepal final. Wow, are you phoned me? You said, this is a big line.

That was huge, yeah. One of the biggest lines I've seen. Really? Yeah, it's a big line. And it's like, it's cold, too. So I was standing outside in the line, and we thought we had joined the end of the line and we're standing there

we're just talking amongst ourselves and everyone just kept looking kept like almost like glaring you could feel the eyes burning I could feel the eyes and you know when it's like not positive and I was I said to my husband I was like is it just me or is everyone like glaring else they're talking about us

they're talking about us I was like what have I done have I got something on my face like what is it and it took us a wee while it probably took us about 15 minutes before we realised we had jumped in right at the front of the queue. Oh, you've gone... We've gone straight to the front door.

Yeah. In your fairness, you don't know where the line starts or ends. Yeah. You know? Everyone's probably like, who do they think they are? I love a getting excuse me. No, no, no, and said anything. I would have preferred that. Oh, sorry, sorry. We suddenly realized and we're like, oh, my God, we look like absolute tools.

And so I walked down the line and said, I'm sorry, we didn't realize that was the start of the line. Sorry, I'm sorry, guys, I didn't realize. Sorry. They're like, it's fine, we'll just be bitching about you for 15 minutes. Let me remind you of a fast-pass fiasco where you've got a fast-pass for the theme parks overseas. Yeah, but I was allowed to do that. You're probably used to that sort of like, treatment. Yeah, treatment.

Well, the rest of us are to get a line for hours. You're just bitter because I've got a car park downstairs. You do, you do. You don't have to wait for anything. A fast pass fiasco. Okay, so what? He just never left that go, isn't? No, I mean, you could have paid for it and got one.

Did you pay for yours? No, exactly. I wasn't going to say no. And what I love about is every time the fast-pass fiasco is brought up from the Australian theme parks, it's the same conversation. You could have bought one. Did you get one? We paid for our trip.

John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The heads. A little bit of rain around the country, potentially this weekend. The things are going to get pretty cold over the next week. But it's too late to apologize. One Republic coming to New Zealand's sweet escape tour in Auckland next year in February. our final pass to give away

all the details and grab your tickets right now LiveNation.coma at Ented Okay so Megan you just admit that you had to apologise to a large group of strangers for Jump in the queue I went straight to the front of a very long line

thinking it was the end everyone's just like Oh does she think she is That's an honest mistake People have done that And glad you realised the errors of your way And thank God otherwise No one was going to say anything

Yeah true It'd been worse if you hadn't been And I would have just like rocked in As soon as the doors open I would have realised Yeah true And then just walked in anyway Yeah

Maybe they weren't actually worried about you being at the front of the line. Maybe they're like, oh my God, how young is that guy? So when did you have to apologise to a stranger? I love to hear from me this morning. Yeah, Val, morning to you. Welcome to the show. Good morning. Great to have you on.

This was in a bank, we understand, the setting? Yes, when my son was three years old. Right. We went in there and I was at the cashier, and he turned around and saw a couple of, elderly ladies he went up to them and asked if they were twins because they had the same wrinkles.

I can see the logic. Kids logic, I guess. Yeah, so I was highly embarrassed. They kind of giggled and inside I was just laughing. So you had to apologize. So yeah, yeah. But they understand. You know kids, yeah.

Kids, they get away with saying anything, kids. I know, my kids did a similar thing. It was fortunately family member, one of the grandparents, but they're like, why do you have stripes on your face? Oh, yeah. Well, why is your face falling off? It's like, sagging. And they're just curious.

They're like, you know. I'm in that territory now where I'd be asked why do I have stripes on my face too for the kids. Humbling. So, Val, there we go. You hold there because we've got one more call. When you had to apologize to a stranger, Denise, for these one republic tickets. What happened, Denise? Denise!

Oh, jeez, you give me a fright. Denise! Denise! Denise! I don't know. Hi! Where did you go? I was here.

Okay, well, Jello was yelling at you. I don't know if you heard that. I'm a bit of motivation to get her on air. What happened to you? When did you have to apologize to a stranger? It was quite a long time ago. My daughter used to be a bit of a runner when she was little, and we were in quite a crowded space,

and she sort of took off, and I, like, spun around to chase her, and it was quite busy. We were in, like, a market or something, and I knocked this woman. over and dropped her drink. Like, she was holding a drink. And it was so embarrassing, and I was so sorry.

And I literally couldn't even say and apologize for long because I was going to lose my child. Yeah. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Stuff you drink, my kid's gone. I always wondering about those chase scenes and the action movies. All these poor, innocent, boy, satire and bowled their cars. We never come back and explain what was going on, do they?

I'm sorry about it. And it's like, I'm so sorry. And I had a pram and everything, and it was really bad. The other one as well, when they just take people's car and they're like cops. And they're like, what happens in there? Insurance and all the stuff of their car where they had to go to. I was off to a mole map appointment. What do I do now?

Ben's sitting in the theatre thinking about the logistics of this poor person. Their day's been heavily affected. And that person you knocked over, Denise, had their day affected. Sorry, what's that? Denise. Denise! Are you pressing mute, Denise? What has happened?

You're back, Denise? Yeah, hi. Yeah, good to have you back. What were you saying? I don't know, babe. Mate, you're screwing this up. I tried to go back and find the person. Okay.

And you did say sorry? I did say sorry, but I had to run off. And then when I got my child, I tried to go back and find her. And I was trying to sort of say, look what happens if you run off to my three-year-old. Oh, well, there you go. You try to turn into a life lesson. All right, you got Denise or Vell. Who's winning the one Republic tickets?

It's over to you, Megan. Oh, don't put it on me. Megan, you're going to have to apologize to once? stranger again because they're both on the line they're both on the line we'll get some dramatic music oh did it help

if I'd love one in the public no Denise no it doesn't no it doesn't Val or Denise oh this is hard I'm gonna like Val because she

she was there the whole time John O'Benn and Megan The podcast The Hits They're heading into the weekend and we thought we'd try something right now your little wins of the week Yeah, we, no matter what, got money on my mind.

I'd like to kick this off. Yesterday we got home from Wellington. And, you know, one of the, I think one of the great things about this job is you do get home earlier than probably the majority of the workforce. And so you're around the house to do things. So, you know, we take it upon ourselves. I'm sure you two are the same to look after a few of the household chores throughout the week. Yeah, yeah. And so I have this mental to-do list.

So every week, I'm like, I'll just get this stuff, you know, sort of done in. increments throughout the week so we don't have to do on the weekend right gotcha you know so doing all the sheets the bed sheets now nice what threw me out what threw me out was going to wellington okay because Tuesday Tuesday Wednesday those are my bed sheet days I spread them over the three beds in the household do the two kids ones one day then do ours the following day I'm like oh oh oh it was really it was sticking you know when you got something hanging over your head and it doesn't really like at the end of the day who cares if you go three weeks without changing your sheets but it's become a thing for me and so then I got home he said

I have to power through these the sheets will usually be done by now during the week so in two and a half hours so two single beds one double bed all sheets dried back on the beds in two and a half hours that's good that's good yeah you dry of them

yeah you know what the trick is though because usually I just jam the dryer full of them and they can barely move just put one sheet in at a time 15 minutes boom dry bang do that in order do the fitted ones first they're all on and it's just two and a half hour I mean that you could that's definitely a domestic record you know on short yeah but you take that offshore that could be the cleaning olympics the laundry Olympics some real sexy chat that was my win of the week yeah god I had lead an

exciting line I go I get like I took a breather this time because when I you know I'm not good at a lot of things most things to be honest and but one thing I do when it when it comes to something the girls my kids school that I go I can actually help with this. Sometimes they get a little too excited. But this time I pull back. My daughter, Indy had a speech competition. I was like, oh, I get out for the speeches too. But she was

like, I get it. She's like, this is my speech. This is, you know, like I don't want this written by AI or you. You could have it all gag there. And normally I would put stuff in. She's like a difficult client and she'd take it out and I'd put stuff in. I'd be like, this is the thing and she'd take it out. But this time I listened and I went

with her through it and I made sure she was happy. I helped a little, but very, very minimal. And I was actually got the end of it, I was like, I felt good. Rather than me taking it and going, oh, geez, I got a gag. Yeah, that's up. I was like, hey. Got some props for that bit there. She's comfortable with this rather than me going, well, this is what I would do.

Okay, she's comfortable with it. That's not what I would have done. But that's not the point. It's not my speech. So it was perfectly average. No, it's good. I was just like, we can really get, we could get a cold play couple gag in there. I had all sorts.

And she's like, Dad, I'm not doing that, you know? That was the win, not stayed out of it. So, yeah, stayed out of it, and it was good. It helped where I was needed, but not getting too involved. Have you had a little win this week, Megan? Well, a highlight of yesterday was the fact that I managed to get two naps in during the day. I don't usually get any naps in. Two naps.

One was a very public nap. Yeah, we're going to talk more about that one. Yeah, I wish hadn't happened. Ben actually got footage of that nap, too. Got great footage. And the other one at night, tucking the kids into bed, right? Yeah, you know, I don't know if you used to do this, but like I'd lie in bed with them to get them to sleep and some days you're like don't fall asleep don't fall asleep don't fall asleep

and i woke up to my husband being like are you all right mate and it was like 8 30 i'd been in there for i don't know maybe an hour having a little power nap did you wake up and pretend like everything was normally you've been awake yeah i was like oh i'm just waiting for her to go to sleep and i was like i think she's you've both been asleep for a while two naps well up the little ones in the week or what are yours you can text us four four eight seven or you can call us oh under the hoods so we'll get to that next Everybody have gone John O'Benn and Megan

The podcast The Hits I'll talk about AI It seems like every day There's another news article Yeah it's moving at a rapid pace And there's There's a lot of people

Just harboring dirty little secrets out there That they've been using AI And probably passing it off As their own material There's news today about doctors Using it to transcribe Patients' consultations So not like to diagnose

It sounds like it's just to do the notes and stuff. The laborious task. Well, they're just about at our work, you know, how much it can save you from day to day. And then you can get more appointments in. Yeah. They can actually see more people potentially.

So there are some good things about it. But then the concern is, I guess, if you're a doctor and you're putting in patients, you know, private details. Into chat, GBT, and it's, like you said, it breeds off information. Dave's herpes is flaring up. Yeah, that's, great, thank you.

Well, you're at my, um, we're my, go public today. But with the Swedish. prime minister at the moment he's coming out of fire under a bit of fire in the news because he uses as a second opinion which i guess i've found it really helpful in a lot of situations like this but i guess he's probably openly admitted to it a second opinion for what running a country yeah running a country so he's like okay i'm going to put the taxes up is this a good idea and i always like no mate don't do it so then he won't well it doesn't say he's agreeing with that he's just getting their advice i guess as well as a second opinion a sounding board again

they're saying if he's putting in sensitive yeah information about Sweden into chat GPT that's a concern but how do you feel if Luxo's like mate you know the last 12 months AI's just made all the decisions I thought you were going to say it was like he was helping with the speech writing

or like I didn't realise the robots were making world decisions now that's a worrying because if he's using that then why aren't the robots just run in the world making the sin for us all how they're getting smart is because we're putting all the information in

That's how they learn by the information we put in. We're going to look back on this. We're going to look back on this time and go. There were many read flags that we ignored. We had a chance to. We do this all the time though, don't we? We always look back on something. We do.

Yeah, you're right. Yeah, from a personal point of view, because I really worry about creativity. Because a lot of, you know, it does everything wonderfully. If you're like, write me a 30 second commercial, do this, write me. You could even go write me a movie. It'll spit you out a movie in about three minutes.

but then you're like I try and just keep that creative side of the brain going try and just lean on that because if you rely on chat GPT what's going to happen to the world's creativity yeah there's going to be none it's going to go online you download our brains into

chat YouTube so what are you using AI for maybe it's you know like last night we talked about this at work the other day I had to we had a whole lot of my daughter's friends over they were going to Disney on ice and we're like getting a whole lot of pizza for a whole lot of people before they left and I was like oh they can put it in a for a pizza code.

Is there a pizza code for this pizza place? And yeah, it came through 20 bucks off. I was like, oh, mate. Chachy-pity. Yeah. Thank you. It's your friend, your therapy. You're like, I don't know.

This will work. I'm going to do that before I buy anything on my now. You should do. You should do. I'm going down from, yeah, like 90 bucks or 70 bucks. I was like, oh, there we go. There is no better relationship in the world that you'll have than the relationship you have with AI.

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

Johno, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The HIT. AI, chat GPT. It's been used by pretty much everyone, even world leaders, using it as a second opinion from time to time, according to one Swedish prime minister.

Yeah, it's not necessarily saying it's running the country. You're just using it as a second opinion. And it's a good thing's running things past artificial intelligence about the future of a country. Any advisory he's got in the office? Gary, Gary, what do you reckon? I guess there's no bias. Maybe there's no bias, you're right, yeah.

So many texts pouring in on this 4487. What are you secretly using AI for? As we mentioned before, I got it to write my entire CV. If you want to make yourself feel better about your career, get chat GPT to write your CV. Another great one here on 4487, all the meal plans for the week. It's great with that sort of stuff, itineries, meal plans. You can do nutrition plans.

You can set, like, limits for yourself, and do like all kinds of things even like um workout plans my husband does that sometimes it's great it's a great it's a great tool but it is a bit scary at the same time i remember i had to use it because there was uh in our sort of friend group uh one of the guys has moved on with another partner and we were introduced to him through his ex and he was like let's all let's all catch up and you know introduced you to my and i was like how do i get out like what's a text i can design to get out of this one put that into chat GPT man what's not producer grace is done uh right i think this is the best way to use it but also the worst way i might

be a bad person my friend um was going through a breakup and i didn't know how to reply to her messages so i was just going through chat chippy t and i replied fully with chat chippy t like with emotional support yeah with emotional support because i was like this is a lot i don't know what to do you know and it was actually really helpful don't laugh it was just scary because we're turning to it now for like advice on world lead like leadership for how to talk to our free in times of crisis for like work like we're not

it's tipped over it's a slip as the slope has started yeah I think kids are using it around the country there was an article the other day you know

for almost like in a friendship way to run things past them you know and I get that sometimes you're like I can't talk to my parents about this

I don't want to talk to anyone else what I want to run up past as a second opinion that's actually really smart yeah it's made you a better friend I'm a better friend I'm a better friend guys

well you can pick what you actually I agree with that or not you have to send it on to them yeah maybe there were a couple that were fully copy paste but you know some I use just inspiration. Fair enough. I hope you didn't have

the prompt. If you'd like me to write more this up until you think. Oh God, my friend's going on and on and on what do I say? Zoe, good morning. Good morning, I'm good. How are you? We're doing well. Listen, thank you for coming in and clarifying what doctors are actually using AI for. Yeah. Just for writing notes. Yeah, right. So like

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

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

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

And then if it alerts anything, then it will go to someone like the, you know. I know, but what if they miss? Yeah. What if they miss is it? Yeah. I'm not the mole industry, Megan. I'm not the mole on the mole industry. I'm just telling you what I know.

So would you see a world, Zoe, in your profession where you could use AI to diagnose you, where patients could just go on to a website of doctor.com and it would diagnose you? I reckon that probably will happen. I don't think it should. And I definitely see patients already who say that they've done their own research through chat GPT or asked chat GPT. And you're like, here we go. Yeah, like, there it is.

And that's not, I don't think that's safe or sensible or, yeah. But I think in terms of using it to write stuff, I think that's great because it's a time saver. but writing what the consultation is not writing like clinic letters or whatever. Like that still needs to be a real human doctor. You're a legend, Zoe. Appreciate your time. All good, guys. Have a nice day.

Here we go. I'm just one text to go out on the AI text. I use AI all the time in my work to type my business emails. I am a complete bogan. But it's made me sound a lot more professional. It does. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The hits. Nice to moon. Early in the week. a halo around it at the moment, which is pretty cool. Surprisingly common, often happens in winter. When light passes through ice crystals in the atmosphere means usually there's bad weather, maybe on the way. I don't spend enough...

I don't spend enough time looking at the moon. Do you to notice this stuff? Ah, but a little halo around it. If you did notice it, well, yeah. Thank you. I was singing it in my head. It's just a promo for Beyonce. That's exactly.

She's enlisted the moon now. Beyonce's big marketing tool. A big marketing tool for a promo. Hey, no, yesterday we came back from Wellington. We had a wonderful night, Wellington. Visa Wellington on a plate, so we went down there. It was awesome. And on the way back, Patricia Grace actually requested a sleeping photo or video of Jono on the plane.

And Megan, we'll see how long this takes to get this. We were still on the tarmac waiting to depart. We were. You had a huge conversation with the guy. Punished the guy next year. I got a video of that too. Right off the bat, he sat down and started the punishing chat. But you're right.

We hadn't even flown in the sky. He had a huge chair and then he was fastest sleep. Can I just say he was equally engaged? Yeah, you guys were talking about. He was in the defense force. I don't know what he did. I didn't want to dive too deep on the plane, you know. And then fell asleep.

And you tucking yourself out. Before we didn't even take it off. Exhausting talking there. Yeah. As soon as he stops talking, no, that's the thing. That's the way he talks all the time because as soon as he stops, he goes to sleep. Yeah. You did look very peaceful.

Yeah. A little bit dead, but like real peaceful. Yeah. Yeah, I do. I give off of a deceased vibe when I sleep It's the pastiness too So yeah I've just witnessed I didn't realise that you'd take in that image

But that's okay because there's a special Sleepy Jono category on our Instagram hits account In the highlights you can look at all the Me sleeping all over New Zealand Yeah So Megan you could I was feeling very cheeky and I showed Ben And I was like he he he

Great delight in filming Johnno sleeping And then it felt like just a few moments later As they say in that meme you see around I turned to talk to you who was sitting next to me and I was like you were fast asleep like head back

mouth wide open oh you're all mouth open just full wide like catching flies like big mouth open and just for the whole even when we landed you're like didn't wake up

I was like am I going to have to step over you and get out to get my back give me a gentle shape and it was it was a bit of a thump when we landed too just full asleep I remember we first started working with you. The first, pretty most the first thing Megan said to me is like,

never take photos of me or videos of me sleeping. That was the real. I know why now. Because my mouth drops open. I can't control it. You've heard me snore, too, in the back of a car. I've been like, oh. Yeah, just to keep.

Yeah. But I was like, well, you just was taking a video of Jono. I didn't post it. I put it on the group chat. You know, what producer Grace does with it? That's up to you and producer Grace to sort out. I didn't even. All I saw when we landed on the group chat was producer Troy just

wrote and mouth open too wow and i was like oh i saw you read that message and you just looked at me you didn't even see it was of you i haven't even seen i just knew yeah i was like ben he's just like i just i just provide the content what people do with it that's that's out of his i thought we were a team we were like teaming up on johnno and then