Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: An ethical dilemma of working from display couches...

Episode Date: May 6, 2026

On today’s show:  How Jono failed the simple task of ordering a pizza... We throw it back to when life was good and TV trolleys were rolled into class How Jono's mate ended up with hot tar all over their rental car! Jono's ethical dilemma of working from display couches. Are we scared to look after Megan's kids? Listener birthday requests that were taken way too far.... Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFAST Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Jono Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better team. Welcome to the podcast. Today we got talking about movies that, well, maybe producer Troy hadn't seen. You've got over 500 movies. You've logged onto Letterbox. This is a bit depressing.

I've just seen on Letterbox, it breaks down your stats of the movies you've seen. I've watched 95 hours of movies this year. Oh, this year. Over 500,000 movies according to Chat, GPT, has been made. and but then on the IMDB which logs all the series and movies and stuff over millions of titles

but they reckon at least over 500,000 feature films have been made since the 1800s she was so you got you know there's a long career ahead of you have you watched a movie every day it takes you over a thousand years to watch just the non-films out there in the world

as of now wow and then by the time you get there yeah there's more there's more someone's actually someone's messaged in saying does Troy prefer the original of movies or remakes

i.e. Willy Wonka O.G. compared to the wild Johnny Depp Willie Wonka. I'm an original guy. Are you? Yeah. This is really popping off on the text machine. Some movies that Troy might not have seen. Okay, we'll list these ones.

Have you seen Freeway starring Reese Witherspoon? I don't think I've heard of that. No, I haven't heard of that. She does a good movie old Reese Wenderspoon. All right. Nightmare on Elm Street's come through? Yes. Yeah, we've seen that. If he hasn't seen Bad Boy Bubby, he's still in movie training.

Have you seen Bad Boy Bubby? Bad Boy Bubby? I haven't. I remember that is a. teenager. Is it like an early teen? I feel like I've seen that too, yeah. Yeah, I can't remember the content of it, but I,

you know, I can actually remember the content of. Meet the Feebles, Peter Jackson's one of his early ones. That was one with the sort of like, almost like Muppets. Seen that? Yeah, I haven't seen it, but I've seen clips of it. Yeah, I haven't seen the whole thing of that either. But yeah, we've got someone on the phone here who wants to try and stump you. Rachel, good morning.

Good morning, how are you? Yeah, we're doing well. Movies that Troy may or may not have seen. Take it away. The Ron Clark Story. The Ron Clark story Who was Ron Clark? I guess that's so in the movie

There's a story Ron Clark is a teacher based in New York who goes in and turns schools around so children that are given absolutely no hope and told they're not going to do anything

He turns them into award-winning students Oh I love it I love us turn the students around Strait Oh yeah Is Coach Carter? Yeah it's a good one

The lead actor is Matthew Perry Oh Oh very nice That sounds good I haven't seen it, but I'll add it to the list. It sounds really good. The kids are watching all the other day. We've seen, I'll try to get the name of it with Matthew Perry and Zach Ephron,

and they swap places. I have. 13 going on 30 or something like that? It's like along those lines, eh? Yeah. What's the best movie you've seen in the worst? 17 again, there you go. But 13 going on 30 is exactly the same premise, I think, with Jeff Begarner.

That's right. Yeah, I think it's exactly the same premise. Let's just do it with male genitalia. My favorite movie is probably interstellar. Christopher Nolan and Matthew McConaughey He's got a big one coming out this year, right, Christopher Nolan It does. Least favourite.

Least favourite? There's a movie with Jason Statham a couple of years ago called The Beekeeper. I saw that. I really hated that movie. You walked out of a movie recently? What did you walk out? I don't mind the Bekeeper.

I was just like, you know what you're going to get? Statham, he was a beekeeper. He was keeping off the grid and he came back in and he was like, kicks the ass. I just hated the line. He was like, you've got to protect the hive. Yeah. Oh, yeah. But the lady

That was so lovely to him And she got Yeah That was sad Was he a former assassin Turned bee keeper? I think it was Yeah

I think from memory He was kind of off the grid Making you know Making honey Yeah But he had lots of bee puns Whenever he killed someone He's like

Oh that's stung And things like Yeah That's exactly right Yeah Fun one's right I reckon I would have dreamed

I'd have dreamed I'd put some more bee puns In there We're like Bloody bee puns Say it'll be real funny All right, so there we go. That's some for the list.

Some for the list. Thank you for listening to the podcast. We do appreciate it and thank you to our partners. Dilma. Yeah, Dilma, T. Signed on for another year. Yeah, well, great, had they? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, that's awesome. Partnership, the friendship continues. Oh, we love Dilma T, and we love doing the podcast. So enjoy. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The hits.

Sliberties in the country at the moment. It's pretty cool to see. Likes a Jack Black in New Zealand for the new Minecraft movie. doing a second one? Filming in Huntley. Yeah. Which I did it for the first one as well too.

It's pretty cool seeing Huntley on the big screen. It is good. Seeing Huntley on the Hollywood of New Zealand. That's what we've always called Huntley, haven't we? I wonder if they stay in Huntley or if they transports every day. That's probably an in-in-out-and-out, isn't it, every day? Maybe, yeah. Well, yeah, hotel-wise, maybe it's more of a Hamilton, you know?

Yeah. I don't know. Fancy little Airbnb in the Waukato somewhere. Yeah, I'm sure there's some great places around there. Yeah, no, that's lovely. Hunley, that'd be amazing If you're in Huntley 4487 have you seen

Jack Black, Mamoa, wandering around the streets I mean there's only one street Isn't there one main street? We're doing something there And a guy literally stopped the car In the main road Got out of the car, left the car running

And came out to us and had like a 10 minute conversation And we're like, is your car just And there was like three or four cars behind him In the main road And he didn't seem two-faced No, no, that was Huntley that was something. It was fun.

Yeah, traffic jam. Last night was put in charge of just getting some takeaway pizza for the fam. I was out and it was requested that I'd do it. And I was like, great, got the app, jumped on there. It was kind of half concentrating and walking to the car at the same time on the phone, making the order. Just got it for delivery and got home. It's like, okay, great. Pizza's on the way, team, job done.

Hunted and gathered. Foraging has been done. and then the pizza turned up the delivery driver and he had one like minuscule box of like a tiny tiny box of pizza and he handed it over

I was like is this all and he's like yeah that's all you ordered and I'm and I somehow screwed up the order and got a little snack size cheese pizza were you think it was cheap when you or did you not really look at what it costs

I was half yeah you did the double tap yeah yeah and I was like can I have some more. He's like if you order some more, you can have some more, sure. Yeah, he hasn't really got a supply in the car that he can give you, right? And took it back of the disappointment when you bring back a tiny little four piece. And I was like, what do we do? Do we divide this between four of us? One piece of each? Kids went half on. I had to fill them up with toast.

And soup. So how do you fail at the basic function of just ordering pizza? It happens, though. I mean, sure. Actually, 4487 on the text when you've ordered something and, you know, like a lot of people ordering bigger items? I don't, that's what the problem with ordering. And especially if you go

to a new place for takeaways, you don't know the scope and volume of what they're providing in each dish. Right. So I always tend to

and it's a shocking mis-sort. Like, I tend to over-order and end up with leftovers for three days. Yeah, well, leftovers is always good the next day.

Yeah, it's why we get, supposed it's better than under-ordering. Yeah. I have one, sometimes when you go away for work and they're like, oh, just Uber eats

something for dinner and work will pay you back. You have it, you order it to the hotel or whatever. But then sometimes when you order it for the family, I did this a while back, your address is the previous place because you haven't switched it back.

So I ordered something for the family. I was like, counting down, I was like, 20 minutes away, guys, don't you worry about that. He should be here now. And then I was like, get this call from the guy. He's like, I'm outside. You're like, you're not outside. And he was like, yeah, it was outside.

I think it was Hamilton or something. I'm like, oh, mate, I've had a shocker right here. What do they do? Well, I guess I'd, but... Does he get it, I guess. I was like, mate, you have it. So, yeah. Thank you.

It was a place that obviously was in, you know, in Auckland and other places around the place. Yeah, I was like, oh, that's a shocker. Geez, the Uber drivers, the Uber East drivers, they must get a lot of free food along the way. Are you an Uber East driver? Geez, I'm chucking out a lot of questions on the test. Too many questions. Too many questions. Are you on eBaystriest, do you get free food?

Don't answer that one. Have you misawordered, 4487? Are you having a good morning, four, eight seven. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the heads. You know, when you ask people were like, how was your day and, you know, mind, times out of 10 people just say, we're good. I was thinking we just need to eliminate that from our interactions. How you going?

Yeah, good. Yeah, not bad. It means nothing. It really does mean nothing. No one is ever good and no one is ever not bad. There's always stuff going on. And I thought about that yesterday because I picked up my daughter, Andy, from school yesterday. And I was like, how's your day?

And she was like, it was great. And I was like, and it threw me because you don't normally get that response. You're like, oh. You do want to know more. Yeah, yeah. I was just normally, it was like, it was good. And I was like, how's your day? Good.

I was like, oh, it was great. I was like, wow, you've really thrown me with it. It was great. No one really ever comes up with it. It was great. No one's ever having a great time. And I was like, oh, okay, well, why was it a great day? And she was like, oh, we just had English and we got to watch a movie.

I was like, oh, that's good. That is a great day. And they were watching 10 things I hate about you. And I was like, oh, okay, what's the time for English there? And she was, oh, it's like loosely based on a Shakespeare book. And they're all speaking English. Yeah, well, true. Doing a pretty bang up job of it.

Yeah, I was like, okay, teacher, you win this round, okay, that makes sense. But I was like, did they wheel in the movie on a screen, you know, on a TV? They were a little trolley and they wheeled it in, and she's like, no. How did they watch it now? Yeah, they're just like, it's hooked up through the system. I think they're playing off a laptop and goes up onto a screen and stuff. Yeah. Way more sense, yeah.

Oh, I love the television trolley. I know. And that was, and I thought, and I said to it, I said, that was the best day at school for us when the trolley would be either in the room or wheeled in. You're like, oh. Every school would have one, maybe. Maybe two televisions on trolleys max and they get wheeled all around the bloody classrooms, wouldn't they? I know. And that was like, when that came into your room, you're like, oh, it's going to be a good day.

It's going to be a great day. You really had to commit to a viewing session back then as well. You would have had to put the order in for the TV on the trolley. Yeah. Get the VCR, the tape and get someone to wheel it over, plug it. It would have been a nightmare to set up. Even the most boring, like, historical, like, doco was still good to watch off the screen. You're like, oh, yeah, I can handle this rather than.

than just doing work. Watching a black and white grainy docker on World War II. This is the best day ever. Not a great day for the people in the war. No, but for me right now. It's a great day. The last two hours of school.

I always thought it was a great day too because not that my mum Annie ever did, but everyone had a friend whose mum worked in the tuck shop. Ah, yeah. She'd always slip some Chelsea buns, Sally Lund buns out the side door. Yeah.

That was a great day. That was a great day. You said it was a good day because you were in the Widerapu on the river would flood. Oh, we'd flood when we were living, yeah, at the back of the gorge out there in Carterton, yeah, the Wahanee Gorge, and then, yeah. Not a great day for the farmers, but a great day for you. And my mum, we can't risk it. We can't risk it. The gorge. Stay home, we've been flooded in. We didn't really be flooded in. There's just a river a little bit

over the road, but hey, it was enough to get out of school. It's almost just like putting a hose in there from your house. Yeah, exactly. Now you're just like, AI, a pitcher. You're like, look at this mom up the road. Can't do it. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. rentals are going wrong when you rented a car or a house or back of the day a DVD, whatever, when it went so shockingly wrong. Yeah, 0-800-the-h hits, telephone number 4487 on the text, because we've got my friend Tiff on the show. Happy New Year, Tiff. Happy New Year, we're halfway through the year.

We're trying to see how long we can keep it going for. So it throws people like yourself. Now, Tiff, you message saying you had an absolute nightmare with a rental car, you and your friend. Oh yeah, it was terrible So we were headed down to a funeral in New Plymouth So we flew down, picked up a rental car We had to drive through to Haurah, is that how you say? Yeah, Haurah, yeah

And we were driving along, okay? My friend's driving, I'm in the passenger seat And we're going through some country roads Getting out to the right out the wops And we get into this lane And we are driving along And we hit some roadworks, okay? we get to the road work and she gets all flustered.

It's already been like, you know, a bit of a traumatic time. Anyway, she's like, what do I do? What do I do? We can see this truck is ahead with obviously laying like just fresh tar seal, okay? Fresh, like, part is going down. Okay? And she's like, what do I do? And the guy holding the stock sign comes over and he's like, oh, you need to stay on the right side of the road. Okay.

So she's like, oh, okay, okay, just the right side. He's like, yeah, stay on the right side of the road. So then she just starts driving. And I can see, I'm like, what are he doing? She's just driving straight ahead into the path of this truck and there's wet car just going all over the car, okay? It's going everywhere. So the truck spraying tar all over the rental vehicle?

Yeah, all over the rental vehicle. And we're just driving straight ahead and I'm screaming at her. I can see the guys are all like panicking, running for us. Anyway, I'm like, get off the road, get off the road. She swerves onto the correct side of the road. And I was just like to her, oh, my gosh, she stops cars. I was like, what are you doing? They're all running over to us.

And she was like, he said, stay on the right side of the road. And I was like, yeah, the right side. Go over to the right side of the road. And she was like, I thought he meant the correct side. Oh, I can see how she got there in that moment going, oh, well, I'm driving on the right side being the correct side. Yeah, but also the truck that's vomiting out. Yeah, it could be a good deterrent. Yeah.

It could be. And the man that had stopped us. Anyway, the car, she was like, can you get out? Can you get out? By then the road work was around us and I got out of the car, this white car. And she was like, how was it? I was just like. It looks like a Dalmatian.

It's okay. It was black. Because we'd swerved onto the outside road, it would be gravel. Everything would just be stuck on it. Oh, no. So what's the deal with the rental car when you bring that back? You're like, oh, no, all good. What I do is I'd do it after hours.

You know, you can drop the key off and to go. So, yeah. Luckily, it was her for her. I left her to deal with that. I'm that kind of friend. No, I had to fly out before her, so she had to deal with it. There must have been a write-off, surely. Yeah, it was a write-off, I'm pretty sure.

And I think we had to pay extra or something. I can't really remember. Oh, geez. I've still probably focused on the trauma of that moment. So that's what we want to get on to. Rentals gone wrong. Can you beat that being showered in Tarceal in the rental car? It's a tough one to beat.

Thank you so much, mate. Thanks. See you. You're a bloody... Yeah, we go. Oh, 800 of the Hits. 4487. If you've got a rental story

that can compete with that, it's pretty up there. Although I can see the confusion, but you're right, the big tar truck is... There'll be a lot of Airbnbs that are gone wrong. Maybe you had a rental.

You own the rental and what took place in there. I'd love to get your calls and text off. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. We're just talking about rentals gone wrong. My friend Tiff, she rented a car.

and ended up getting drenched in tar seal through some new roadworks. They drove on the wrong side of the road behind the truck that was, you know, evacuating all the tar out of the back end. That's what can happen. Remember we were in Parmi we were filming something, like a TV show at the time

and we got picked up by one of the team, the production team, and they were in a rental car and they didn't quite judge how close... The wall. Yeah, and you could hear along the drivers and passenger door at the back. Yeah.

and we didn't get out and check. We're like, I'm sure it'll be right. You were like, I'm sure to be fine. I'm sure to be fine because this person's obviously embarrassed. They're feeling a bit bad. You're like, I'm sure it'll be fine. Well, there was the first time we'd met them too. So I was probably in the mode of just making them feel better.

It'll pop out. You're like, it'll pop out and it'll be fine. So we just got to the location. This is without looking at it. They dropped us off. We walked down to the car. We turned back and we're like, it's definitely not going to pop out. Like half the car was all just like crunched and scratched and it was a big job.

Yeah. You're like, yeah, that's not going to pop. But at least they hadn't seen it at that point, so they did feel not too bad about it. I didn't notice, didn't notice. Yeah, no, we noticed. Bronwyn, welcome. Happy New Year. And happy New Year to you.

Good to have you on, mate. Rentals gone wrong. What happened to you, Brony? Okay, so we went to the car, all good. That was fine. And then we were going to meet up with some friends, and we went in. We had a couple of drinks. And next thing, there was a knock on the door, and it was just a little.

very disgruntled neighbor coming and said, do you have a white car? And I was thinking, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's our rental. He said, well, it's kind of landed up in a tree and we're like, oh, yeah, no, don't be silly. And then we went outside and, to as Bob, this car had rolled down the slight slope because, of course, I forgot him to put the handbrake on. And it had rolled down the slight slope and it landed up in like one of these low kind of shrub bushes. this is back in South Africa and it just landed up on this tree

It was sitting on top of a tree It was like, yeah sort of like a shrub bush That is pretty impressive And so what, like, okay, so first thoughts in your head then? I was like, oh, gee, what have I done? I was like, oh my God,

this neighbor was like not impressed and we're like, oh shit and does the rental car company come and get a was it a tow truck, is a crane how do you sort that problem out? I had to get two tow trucks to come and get it out because the first one came and then it wasn't thinking of or something and then they had to come and get another one

which was stronger to get it off the tree. That's a shambo. And you're like, oh no. When the second one arrives, you're like just end it now, end it now. Any sentence that begins with your cars up in a tree. You're like, what? What? Did I not put the handbook on?

Oh, no. Oh, my gosh. It was, yeah, I've never done that again, to be fair. Thank you for sharing, Broan. That's a great call. I was just remembering a guy I knew. He took his family away. and I was sort of in a resort thing,

but it was an apartment situation, and he was looking after his little sort of three-year-old went into the bathroom momentarily came out. The three-year-old was pushing through the railing of the balcony. It was throwing magazines over, ashtrays, and then when he came out, the phone cord was like dead. The phone was dangling over, you know, the one attached to the cord, and he looked over, and it was a pool area.

Oh. So all the patrons were just being rained upon with items from the hotel room. Very dangerous. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. And, well, Winslet will be here shortly too. Yeah. Filming...

New Lord of the Rings moving in Wellington. Too much, too much famous. Now, someone phoned through the show the other day, and they're like, I've just come from a wheel alignment. Remember that? It was like Monday. And it reminded me that I had taken my car for a wheel alignment about a year ago, and then the guy did a bloody bang-up job on me. He's like, you like your wheels aligners? I guess so.

He's like, well, I can sell you nine wheel alignments for the price of blah, blah, blah. Oh, so you got like a one you can keep going back to. And I forgot I had them. And so then when she mentioned it, I must get my wife's wheels aligned. A lot of aligning to be done in my life. Anyway, I did it yesterday. And I was going to take a couple hours. So it's down the road from the mall.

Now, I had a bit of work to do. Now, I took my laptop, and this is where I want to question the legalities of what I did. I went to a cafe, had a coffee. That was fine. And I was like, I felt like I've overstayed my welcome here, you know, when you're just sort of lingering around. So I left there I was like

Oh, farmers The department store Yeah They got like 12 different lounges Display lounges So I ended up sitting on a display lounge On my laptop Working away

You can't do that But the good thing about a display lounge No one ever questions Why you're sitting on a display lounge They would have just gone Oh he's got the laptop He's given that a good test run No that feels weird

That feels weird to me I did move lounges I didn't stay on the same lounge I don't show there's seats In the middle of the mall If you're really that desperate They're all full. Or buy something from the cafe again.

Then I moved to another furniture shop and I sat on that couch. So it's about two hours of 45 minutes. Jeez, I tell you what, it's like the comfort of being at home but without chores sort of staring at you. You know, I've got to get that done, got to get that done. You can just relax.

I wouldn't relax because at any stage someone's going to come over and go, you're okay there? What are you doing? Yeah, I'm fine, man. He's clearing some emails. You're okay. I mean, but the person of farmers doesn't care if you're sitting on a couch, do they?

I don't want you in the store, mate. You're coming along. Do you want this, some weird guy on a laptop? Like, what's he doing on a laptop in a store? Administration. But they're not part of the store. They're not an internet cafe. So, oh, wait, 4487.

Do you work at farmers or maybe sort of a Kmart, Ikea? Do you frown upon people coming in and treating your display loungers as actual loungers? Absolutely. We don't even need anyone to text for this. Like, if you're going to buy one, that's fine. But you're not in the unmarket at all. You're just sitting on their seat, which is not for public. It's their business.

Wow. they shouldn't make it so accessible. They're doing that so you can buy something. Like, at least buy something. So, four, four, eight, seven, please text poll open. There's no need to do this poll. This is a redundant poll. Like, you can't make yourself feel better for doing this.

Nothing would make me happier if this pole swings against Ben's unusually aggressive starts on this. I'm just like, this is an instantly thing to be talking about. Four for eight seven, yeah, it gives a text. Do your care. If I come in and use my laptop on your display couch. For two hours, probably. But we'll find out. Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits.

Tomorrow morning, we're going to go look after Megan's kids, give her in the morning off so she can go get a massage. A little something to do before Mother's Day? Oh, not all heroes wear Kate's Ben. Some heroes wear headphones and laugh for four hours every morning. That's us tomorrow, helping Megan out for Mother's Day. We're going to send her off to be treated, pampered. And you say it's weird when I say full-body massaged.

Yeah, I know. It just feels like you're thinking a lot about Megan's body. No, it's just for the duration. Yeah. We need her out of the house for a long time. I mean, you actually, we're doing it for content. Let's put our hand up. If we were really genuine, we'll be there on Sunday morning.

I said that. That was my first thing in the meeting. I said, that's being the thing off. I'll go on a Sunday. I don't care for radio. And you're like, no, let's make it into content. Absolutely. Let's do radio.

I was like, okay. Well, that's like, what's the point of doing a Sunday morning? No one's going to hear that we're good people on a Sunday morning. So that's why we're there tomorrow. And we want to go away for a few hours. We want to look after the kids' routines, get them dressed, get them fed, take them to school. We're going to be doing radio and, I guess, driving at the same time. That's a lot.

That's a lot in the mornings. But there's a lot of people listening right now that have to deal with a lot in the mornings. And that's what we want to know, who's got the most chaotic, the most stressful morning routine. Angelique, apparently so busy, she's only got a minute and a half left to talk to us. Oh, about a sick, including a two-year-old who wants to do everything himself. and two-year-old's so they should be

banned from doing anything yeah they just got to go along for the ride but they don't know that that's the problem right yeah he's got to come outside with me and feed us a very very stressful morning every morning but we get there

hold on so you've got three children two hornies two two hornies I don't know who's horny in the morning there's no time for that it's a new animal a byproduct of the horse and the pony yeah

oh yeah And are you going to work as well? Oh my goodness. Multiple animals, kids as well, getting run out the door. That's a lot. That's a lot every morning. It is a lot. It is.

Sometimes there's lots of yelling. Sometimes everything is quite all right. What's the one consistent thing? Is it tying up the shoes, doing the shoelaces? No, it's taking the lunches. Put your lunches in your back. Yeah, definitely. We're going to go feed the hornies.

All right, we're going to leave you. back to it. Good luck this morning. So that's what we need. I don't know if we can get something more chaotic than that. It's struggling animals and children. I'm doing something at the moment and it's my own fault. Like I've got back into helping the kids and the family

with lunches as well and I'm kind of like every day it's like sandwiches and I'm like trying to eliminate process meats. And then my head I'm like that's not giving them the same. You know, like so this week I've like cooked steak. I made steak salads. This morning I made sausage rolls. Yesterday I made a pasta. I'm like

why am I doing this in the morning at four in the morning? For something to just travel out of the house and come back about six hours. I said someone's pastor on the bench. I was like, oh, I could have just chucked some ham in it. Are you cooking steak at four in the morning? Yeah, I'm going to cook some steak and made a steak salad. And it was, but yeah, I don't think any of it's appreciated. Just so I'm like, I'm not just giving them the same bread and then process me every day.

One day they'll understand cooking steak at four in the morning. They've not. They're like, what's this? Why is Dad give us this weird food? Yeah, probably not appreciated at school. Bring the steak in for us. We'll appreciate your early morning steak. John O'Benn and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. Why is your morning the most chaotic, the most going on in the country? Because tomorrow we're going to be looking after Megan's kids while trying to do a radio show. You were cooking steak at 4 o'clock this morning trying to get the food pyramid into your children. Oh no. That's, yeah. That'll stop in a week or two.

It's quite nice that time of morning, though, nothing else happening in the world, isn't it? I love those earlier. Sometimes I just sit on a dry. I don't do. I just sit on the driveway, look up at the stars for a few minutes. Right. It's a nice peaceful time, is it? And then you're like, actually, we don't have to deal with anyone else at that time of morning.

Yeah, or the admin of the household. And that's what we want to know right now. You know, people have some busy schedules in the morning. There are. Yeah, we're going to get Jenna on, 0800. The hits. Happy New Year to your J-Dog. Happy New Year.

How are you guys? How we're doing well? How's Parmi this morning? Chaotic! It is, but it's peaceful now. So I'm done for the morning. I was up at 4.30. Cheers.

Is this when you start, do you start every morning at 4.30? Yeah, every morning because we're all out of the house by 7.7.30 at the latest. Okay, let's rattle through the to-do list. What are you doing from 4 in the morning? So I get up, I have a coffee, squeeze a coffee in there. I prep dinner. Unloaded dishwasher, fold a load of washing, hang out a load of washing, feed the rabbits and the cats. Wow.

I squeeze in a shower, make two school lunches. I then have to their after school care or after school sport gear and snacks into their bag and then get them breakfast I'm just trying to think

maybe I've forgotten things I'm exhausted just listening to the shopping list of stuff you're doing in the mornings that's wow hopefully you haven't forgotten the names of your children that is busy and that's all before 7 o'clock yeah and then they go to two different

schools so they go to two different drop-offs in the morning and then do you just come home and just sort of sit staring in silence. I've got to work. Then you go to work. It's going nice and peaceful though. Nice,

quiet time. Yeah, well. I've done a lot. There'll be people listening right now going, yeah, it's my morning too around the country. So yeah, that's amazing what you're doing. So, yeah.

Good on you. Jenna, have a great day. You keep up all that stuff you're doing, all right, mate. Thanks, guys. It's a good day. Dedric phoning through in the middle of his chaotic morning.

I start my day at 4.30. Get my cows in. I milk them, get them already. How many cows have you milked? 300. 300 wow how long does that take a couple hours yeah well i can imagine okay then after that you feel like like you've done pretty much the day's work well then what do you have to do after that then i get home get the two kids ready for school and daycare eight and two and yeah mr eight

always likes to take his time and never be ready what's easier to wrangle in the mornings the cows or the kids cows definitely yeah cows 300 cows easier than two children wow we and so uh Once you drop the kids off, do you have some time alone or you're back to... Back to the farm, back to the evening or work. Jeez. So to feed the cows, the car, to the cars, make sure they go to everything they need. And then you've got kids coming back home in the evening? Yeah, then I've got to do it all again in the afternoon.

Wow. All the 300 cows need another one in the afternoon? Yeah, yeah. And obviously the kids coming back from school as well. That's a lot. That's a lot of wrangling. Yeah, yeah. What time do you go to bed, dead?

Oh, about 10 o'clock Yeah, so you're not getting that much sleep either La, that Wow, you race car on the red, this guy Racecar on the Red, this guy I'll keep up the good work We're, well, it's amazing what you're doing Hey, do you guys give me away

a Fletch Fort and Haley Life tickets? Do you know what, Dedric? Yeah, we are We are giving away Fletch Fletch Flaw and Haley Live tickets Congratulations, you've got a double pass to Fletchford and Haley Live. We've got no authority to give that away Yeah, no, hang on, I'd love to

In fact, no, Dedrick, family pass. Family pass. Awesome. Kids are on here as well. John O'Ben and Megan, brought to you by Fletch, Vaughn and Haley Live. Okay, well, we're saying some stuff that we may not be able to come through with it. We're going to pop you back to Troy, and he's going to have to deal with that. To be he's going to have to share it. Chaotic mornings, he's going to have to do that.

What have we told you you could come along to John O'Ben and Megan life? What? Yeah, exactly. See you, Derrick. And we want to know the most outrageous birthday request. Maybe your child's given or maybe someone you know is what wanted and requested for their birthday. It could be the theme of the party, could be the location of the party, or in this instance, it could be the cake for the party and we are joined by the master who created it, the artist,

Haley from the hits. I can't take all the credit hubby help too. Okay, so this is, fully tell. Okay, set the scene here. It's your twins. Birthday, fifth birthday, is that right? Yes, yep. One wanted a Spider-Man number five cake.

Great. Now that's not out of the realm of cakes for a five-year-old. Sure, that's the second year in a row we've done a Spider-Man cake. Totally normal. Safe. Okay, and then the other one, slightly curveball. What was it? Yeah, so this is the twin that could turn out to be lovely or a psycho.

Could go either way. Is it the nature or reverse nurture thing? Are you in that period at the moment? Well, they've been nurtured the same way, but they are very different. Yeah. Yeah, and then this one decided that he wanted a toilet cake. So this is a cake that looks exactly like a toilet. Yeah, with a ginormous log in the middle.

And this is where the realism comes in, because you know how sometimes when kids eat corn, we actually, sorry to be poo chat. We actually cut up like little bits of dried mango and mix. and with this chocolate cake fondant mix and it came so realistic. Oh, your attention to detail is second to none. Like it looks like there's even like drops of yellow stuff, shall we say, on the toilet seat and on the floor underneath.

Yep, lemon jelly. An exact replica of what my daily toilet looks like with twin boys. And also the big large brown thing in the middle hasn't quite made it into the toilet as well. So hopefully that's not happening at home. It's sort of sitting on top as well. But yeah. How do you miss?

Like, how can you miss in that situation? I ask that daily. Okay, so if people want to see it, they can text cake. They can text cake to 4487 and they want to see it. And it's also on the Hits Breakfast on social media at the moment. What do that taste like? Could you get over the fact of what you're eating? Well, it's interesting.

It divided the room. Half of the people couldn't make eye contact with a cake and didn't want a bar of it. But then when we were cutting it, a number of people, mainly the kids were chanting, poo, poo, poo, and they all wanted to try it. Oh, so it was a party cake too. It was a party cake, yeah.

What were the other parents thinking? Well, my mother was horrified because I didn't know most of the parents there, and she was like, you can't do this. This is so embarrassing. He's the birthday man himself. Can we talk to him? Can we talk to him? You had to try the up.

Did your toilet cake taste yummy? He's got over that now. He's moved on to the fact he's got to tidy up. There's a lot going on this morning. Well, listen, as I said before, it would have been an absolute nightmare on that show, Is It Cake? It was so detailed, and we're going to, yeah, if you want to see the photo of Haley's toilet cake, you can text Cake to 4487. Good luck, Haley. We better let you get back to it.

Thanks, guys. Thank you. Great work. And, 0800, that hits 4487 on the text, too. The most outrageous birthday requests. They don't necessarily, don't need to be cake-related. No, they could be, though. Maybe you spent hours making a cake

Like that, or something just as wild Or maybe it was another request that you want to, Megan. We need to talk about this next for her birthday. What she requested? Especially the big 40th, too. That got out of hat. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The Hats. You can text Cake to 4487 and see what Haley from the hits had to make her son for his birthday. One of her twins. One wanted a Spider-Man, Kate. The other wanted a toilet created. Too much detail for me. Too much detail for me.

A lot of detail. I mean, but when you asked for a... a toilet cake. As a child, you're wanting all the trimmings. That's probably what you want as a kid, you're right. Yeah, and he got all the trimmings.

He did. All the trimmings. They did a good bloody wipe down that toilet, didn't it? It did, it did. I feel, I don't know, I feel uncomfortable even looking at the image of it, let alone eating it.

It was at a party with general consumption. Cut it up and eat it. Yeah, you're like, well, I'm okay. I'm okay for cake now. Parents that they had never even met before. I'm sure it tasted great, but it just looks a bit. You know, you know, all the other parents are going to call them the toilet cake house now.

Oh, yeah. to the car, like, I was with that cake? Oh, you're going over to the toilet cake house? You know, that's going to be their brand for many years to come. Now, producer Troy, we are talking about the wildest birthday requests. It could be a theme, could be a location, could be the cake. But yours, you want to take off shore. Yeah, mine's a pretty tall order for my birthday this year.

I'm asking my partner to come with me to the Middle East. To Jordan. I hear things are pretty good over there at the moment. Pretty stable. Good time of year to travel. I just really want to go to Jordan. but, and I planned this trip before things kicked off. Are you still wanting to go to Jordan?

Yes. The bombs are flying over Jordan, not in Jordan. Well, that's a good selling point, yeah. You just got to get there. And you can have romantic, you know, wines on the balcony, just watching like a game of tennis. Between its fireworks. So is that trip going to happen?

Well, the government says no at the moment. The government is stepping in. Okay. I'm not advised to travel there at the moment. Fair enough. Some people actually go to war-torn zones on holiday directly after the conflict has ended. Yeah. The theory being that no one will want to go there.

And you get everything cheap. You get pretty treated like a prince. So maybe there's something in it, Troy. Maybe there's something in it. Oh, 800 of the hits. Wildest birthday requests. Anthony, it's good to have you on. Happy New Year.

Hey, happy new year, guys. Talk to us. Was it your birthday, someone else's birthday? It was my birthday. So my wife and I on a Friday night We had some drinks and had a party and things to go to Which is all good and she said I've got a surprise day for you tomorrow Unfortunately when we woke up the next morning

She was too hung over to drive was to a hell of a lot So I had to drive myself to Hamner Springs for the day out that she planned Oh so you drove yourself to your own surprise party Yeah You're like where am I going? Where are taking us? She's like I'll go this way So I'm in this way and I'm like just this way to Hamness she's like

Oh yeah Oh, that's... Was it a nice surprise, though, Anthony? It was lovely right up until, you know, I had to drive. Yeah, yeah, and she's a little hungover. She's like, you go, you go swim and stuff. I'm just going to say. I might have a snooze.

Yeah, yeah. Thank you so much for sharing. Oh, they keep this coming through. There's some more Texan calls coming through at the moment, including what someone was made to do on the morning of their 40th. Oh, wow. Wow, I'm reading that now. I know.

I know. That is not a way to. spend a birthday. Jono Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. Stories in the middle of his stag do at the moment. Well, he spoke to him about that. He was a little worried.

It was going to be a four-day bonanza. I just saw them driving in the car. Him and his mates all singing along and stuff. And he said he wanted to do it quite close to the actual wedding day. But his partner, his wife to be, he said, no, no. There needs to be at least a month between, which was wise on her part, too. I think so, right? Now we're just talking about parties, birthday party requests after Haley, who works at the Hits,

wild request from her son to have a toilet-themed birthday cake. And really, I don't know where you'd start to even design a cake like that. There's no blueprint for a toilet-themed birthday cake. That's very impressive, actually. You're right. Megan, who we work with, normally, she's off at the moment. She demanded for her 40th. It was like an extravagantia that went on for days and days,

and multiple parties, multiple occasions. Now, it was because if we... Photo up in the middle of a reception. There's a big screen and reception, you know, it was a multi-level building, five, six stories. There's a big screen that had happy birthday, Megan. It was on there all day, all day, and then it felt like a three-day bonanza.

Oh, it went off ages. Yeah. And then poor Rachel had her birthday. Same week, nothing. None of the fanfare. Yeah, exactly. Didn't even get a bloody streamer, not even a depressing balloon cellar tape

to the corner of her computer screen, nothing. But she likes, Megan likes to drag them out over multiple weekends. Remember, we had an event, and she's like, I can't make it. I'm celebrating my birthday This was a month after her actual birthday And you were really throwing by that Your birthday was like because we did

We'd given a presents to everything else She goes on our occasion with someone else's The in-laws or something I'm like It was like a good experience This is a screen and reception Susie, good to have you on Oh hi, thanks thanks guys

I'm happy new year Happy New Year to you too Tell us your birthday request What wild one was it Well my son When he turned 13 That was a big Minecraft craze Minecraft, Minecraft, Minecraft, everything, Minecraft.

So he requested a Minecraft cake. Now, it involved, the top of it involved 64 precise squares of fondin icing. Oh, my goodness. And I've sent you guys a photo. With my background, I've got a printing background, very precise with color and placement in things. So the pressure I put on myself to make it perfect was probably more the thing. and getting the colours all completely accurate to the legit. 64 identical cubes.

Did you text it through, did you? Yes, it's squared, like it's flat. Yeah. But yeah, and all the colours were the exact colours where they are on the Minecraft person's head. Wow. So all blocks like the movie and, of course, the game. Okay, we'll put up on the hits breakfast as well, yeah. Phil's texting as well.

I made my six-year-old daughter. She wanted a Bob Marley cake. and I had a special little surprise dangling out of his mouth at the same time. I don't know how appropriate that is for a six-year-old, but anyway. Hey, thanks, mate. That's what she wanted. That's what she wanted. Came through with the detail, I guess.

Yeah, Bob was Bob. He was doing his thing. Yeah, exactly. Margaret, good to have you on. Maggie, how are you? Happy New Year. Happy New Year. What was the wild birthday request?

It was my 40th and my really great friend decided it would be a really great idea for the first time ever that she and I did a beginner's triathlon to start the day right. Oh, shit. Yeah, yeah. She was very convincing. But when we got there, the weather was horrific. The swim part, the organisers said it was a lady's only event, and they said you don't have to do the swim. And we went down to the water and the boys were thrashing,

Summer got loose, the waves were so high, but we thought we'd do it anyway, and she was having to try and warm me up. I was getting goosebumps when we started. The waves fresh us down. People kicked me in the face. You're like, happy birthday. You're like, welcome to your 40s, just being smashed in the face by other people. And that's your 40s? That sounds like your 40s, yeah, yeah.

Did you complete the triathlon, Margaret? I've never done another one. Fair enough. One and done. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The hits. The work perks that you have in your workplace.

Something you're like, well, I get to work here. Like someone had text through yesterday and said they work at a doggy daycare and one of the perks is having like 40 dogs just to be with at all times. Oh, that's lovely. It's a pretty cool. It also sounds like a nightmare. There's 40 lots of things to pick up after. That's what I'm thinking.

It's a lot of dogs to juggle. Yeah, we got on to this after a friend of ours has a sworn. in her workplace, which just feels like a really hot meeting room. It does. Just, I just don't know what we're factoring in sauna time. I mean, maybe. Who knows if we put a sauna in here, people would put it to use? You're right, though.

Let's find a quiet place to chat. It would just probably just turn off the sauna part and have another meeting room. Or turn it into a place where you can record podcasts or something. Oh, 800, that's the telephone number. Your work perk, Mark. Happy New Year to you. Good to have you on. Now, what's the perk of your?

your work, Mark? Oh, well, it's actually a place I worked at about 10 year ago. It's actually closed down now, unfortunately. But yeah, we had our own social club, and we had a beer vending machine in our smokeball room. So you had a beer vending machine. Is that any correlation as to why the business is no longer operating? Well, maybe.

So do you have to pay for the beer? No, we had a staff account, and we had a touch. screen, we had a touchscreen on the machine and we had a beer account and the money got to go out all edges each week. Wow. Dangerous in some ways, you know? Yeah, there was a, I think there was a $40 limit on it. Yeah, I mean the problem is once you have one, then you have another, then you're like, oh, I can't be bothered. You were at a boat building yard, wouldn't you? I can't be

bothered building super yachts anymore. Since there's some bears. Yeah. Look at the ocean. What's the biggest boat you ended up building there, Mark? We built the biggest bolt built in Australia at the time, a book called Verdego. I think that was over 52 metres. 62 meters, did you say? I think so, yeah. 52 metres, 53 metres it was, it was absolutely enormous.

Wow. Did you build boats for any famous people, Mark? We built Michael Hillsboat, VBS1. Oh, nice. We built a lot of overseas buyers, obviously. I bet a lot of billionaires, a lot of billionaires. And how long does it take to build a super yacht on average? It'd be years, wouldn't it?

Oh, no, we normally from start to finish it or two years. Okay. That's not as long as you think. Well, there's a few beers in between, and you're right. You thank so much. Share that with us. That's awesome, I appreciate your time. Kelly, what's your work perk?

We have a golf simulator. Oh, really? Do you work at a golf shop? No, not at all. Yeah, right. Does it just some, is there some golf mad, Golf Mad employee who's demanded a simulator gets installed? That would be the boss, yeah.

All right. And how often are people using it? Quite often, accept myself, because I'm terrible at it. Is the boss not allowed a golf simulator at home? Probably no room. No room, so he's put it in the workplace. Really smart. I can imagine productivity drops.

Remember we had a foosball table at work. The TV show, yeah. Yeah. That really took the distract. The productivity dipped massively over that 12-month period. We actually had to remove it. it, didn't we? It was nice for morale, but not good for productivity.

You're right. Yeah, exactly. Team building, you know. Yeah, exactly. Have you given the golf simulator a bash, though, Kelly? I have, yeah. And, no, I'm not going to take it up. Are you near it at the moment?

Not too far away, yeah. Should we give one go live on the radio now? It's not turned on. I just have to take your word for it. And then everybody had an honesty system too. You're like, I had it good. I didn't have it. Yeah, no.

Okay, well, enjoy your golf simulator all night. And thank you for sharing it with us.