Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Ben accidentally ran over his daughter's packages...

Episode Date: June 23, 2025

On today’s show: Megan's son asks the age old question... where do babies come from? We revisit big travel insurance claims. Listener Sharon received $1 million after her husband fell ill overseas!  We ask: What white lies did your parents tell you? Dear Megan: Help I have to pick between a funeral or a wedding? Megan bought a belt for the first time  Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The John O'Bannon Meaghan podcast thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better tea. Welcome to the podcast. Today, we are here. We have a winner. Someone finds the golden ticket, the golden teabag ticket.

Say one of. One of two. Because I don't want people to give up thinking they've missed out. No, you're right, there's two. You know, we went to, as we say, you know, I know you get sick of us saying we went to Sri Lanka.

We went to Sri Lanka to physically hand. And we put the tickets in, but there was a We went to Sri Lanka physically, hand in hand. And we put the tickets in, but there was a small part of me going, oh, what if they don't come to New Zealand? Well, what if something happens along the way? But they are, they're here in the country and someone won. So that's incredible. So someone today, but you're right, there's one more ticket out there.

One more ticket to find. So keep looking in your boxes. I regret it. Yeah, well, in the segue, I don't know how to make the segue to a conversation that you had. So keep looking in your boxes. It's sad and I regret it. In the segue, I don't know how to make the segue to a conversation that you had. Oh yeah, no try, do your best. Now what's coming up next in the podcast? We're going to start with a conversation you had.

Your son, Basti, put a question to you about... How he got in my tummy. Yeah, in your tummy. Yeah, there we go. I'm not going to make the obvious link there with the podcast intro. And you'll hear Megan's response to that question put on the spot. Good on you for recording this. It's pretty pretty awesome. I'm stoked just to have it for the memories. Maybe I'll play it as 21st. And the analogy that my husband gave wasn't stoked about it. Andrew needs a take too on that one. He does. But you'll hear that in just a moment. But then someone else has texted her. A couple more people have texted her after you talked

about this on the radio. One said, my four year old was in the car seat listening to that and said, that's not how it happens. So they obviously know a bit more than, you know, Their four year old? Yeah, four year old. Okay. And then someone else said they were pregnant with their son, sorry, pregnant and their son was four and a half and had all those questions as well. So he was four and a half. And so they decided, they talked about the egg, the dad had the sperm, how they come

together in the uterus and that's where the baby grows. And then they said it was a good couple of years before the question about how the sperm got in there. That was a couple of years later. So maybe you could have that conversation. And then, you know, and then. But also that scares me because they're both four year olds and that's my son.

I'm like, I thought it was early, but maybe it's not. OK, so there we go. So let's see how Megan handles it first up on the podcast. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Dame Jacinda Ardern and her partner Clark Gafford overseas at the moment.

And he made a pretty impressive cake for their daughter, Niamve's seventh birthday as well. A jelly cat diner which is like a jelly cat toy. Jelly cat's a toy yeah. And smash cake as well it was all over the news yesterday pretty impressive. And then it showed Neve and he got this reaction. That's great I love it how do you do that? Did you like it? Careful you're going to touch it. Still standing. Okay. Full of treats. Did dad pass the test? Yes. Hey I got it, how do you do that? Did you like it? Careful, don't touch it. Still setting. Okay.

Full of treats. Did Dad pass the test? Yes. This is your cake for you to smash, but don't touch it yet. Not yet, not yet. The timer's not right. Well he passed the test, but did you pass the test? You got a recording from inside your household.

Good on you for recording this bit. I actually recorded it so I could remember it because I could feel where we were going with this conversation and I was like I'm gonna record him asking and this is the question and there is an explanation but not you know. It's for another time. It's for another time. There was no full-on explanation shall we say. Well because your son Bassey is four. He's four. Yeah. So I didn't, I wasn't expecting this but he was confused we were looking at old photos and he saw me pregnant and I was like well I was pregnant with you and then I fell into it and he started by asking this. Did you eat me or put me in your mouth? When you were in my tummy?

Yeah No I didn't eat you baby What did you do? You grew in there But how did I get in there? You know how we grew the sunflowers? Yeah You know how there's a little seed and we had to put it in the soil?

Huh? Excuse me We had to put a seed in mummy's soil. And then you grew into a beautiful sunflower. You're trying to bamboozle him with a sunflower. He's like a journalist, isn't he? Like a little mini John Campbell journalist just going, no hang on, hang on. Well you didn't eat me then, how did I get in there? I shouldn't have seen the look I gave my husband.

And it's just an allergy about a seed and a bear. The soil? Grim mate. I was just going no, no, no. It's one of those conversations as a parent you want to try and distract. There is a time that you need to talk about that sort of thing, but sometimes at four years old maybe that's not quite the time. I just bamboozled him with more photos.

I was like oh look, here's, when you're a bit older, there's an ice cream. I'm like, oh, move on. My wife, Amanda, I remember when the girls were younger, she had the same question. She was in the back of like an Uber and she got asked that by the girls. And she was like, this is not the time or the place.

And she just- What was the Uber driver doing? Well, he just remembers his look. He didn't say anything, but she could see his eyes looking back at her in the rear vision, you know, like just going, oh, how you gonna answer this? There you go. Didn't know I was going to be part of this conversation today. Lucky was about to eat the popcorn and wait for the answer on that one. But again, she distracted in that moment. She's actually very good because she's a teacher. So she's

actually, those conversations she's used to having, but at that stage, the girls are quite young. So I was like, well, maybe we can wait to have that conversation another day. I think so. I think fours maybe. When you do have that conversation can you record that though? Like a follow-up, a follow-up. You, Andrew, Bastie. I just love to see where Andrew plans to take it because that was terrible. He started with a sunflower analogy. Where's he going to go to next? John O'Bannon Megan. The Podcast. The Hats. We wanted to know on 0800 The Hats 4487, what's the most you've spent, you've claimed on travel

insurance? Because one of our big radio bosses, Mike, he's recently travelled and he clocked up a rather large unexpected bill, Mike. And he joins us in the studio right now. Mike, great to have you here. Great to be here. Thanks, Ben. A few dramas, shall we say, on a family vacation? Yep. So we headed to Bali. There were at 1.17 of us because we were there celebrating a big birthday.

Oh wow. So quite a lot of people, you're right, yeah. A lot of people. And we got hit by, and we were there for three weeks. So it was still a great holiday. Oh my, oh la la. I hope you don't want us to feel sorry for you. Yeah, well we were there for three weeks. So it was still a great holiday. Oh la la. I hope you don't want us to feel sorry for you.

Yeah, well, I think we do eventually. But right now we don't feel any sorrow. Okay, we'll cop this. Seven Covid's. One broken collarbone. One cracked rib. Far out. One suspected fractured finger.

Are these all separate people? These are separate people. Jeez. I think half of the 17 had a bit of barley belly but that kind of happens. Right, okay, yeah. What was going on with all the, do I ask for the cracked ribs and all sorts? 70 year old men should not go surfing at Changu. Oh wow, surfing, okay. Yeah, so that was the, that was my dad, the broken collarbone and the cracked rib. And at the very end, which meant we had to delay our trip home because she couldn't fly, my seven-year-old daughter had an infected small intestine. Oh my god.

Yeah, so- Because we know that when you go to America if you don't have travel insurance, it's a huge cost. Is it the same in Bali? Not so bad in Bali. It's nowhere near what you'd get stung in America. However, I have to say the Bali health system, you pay for it, but it's great. Oh really? So you stayed longer than you planned?

Yeah, we had to extend by two days because my daughter was not fit to fly. So in an estimate for travel insurance amongst the whole group, I mean you'd be paying thousands right? It was thousands. Thousands to claim back on. Yeah and the claim is in and jeez I hope that's it. Now you wait. Now we wait. Is there anything you want to take back from what you just told us? No, no it's all 100% legit and truthful. Because this is when you tell you it's actually an undercover sting for something gross, no? We're talking of course about the biggest amount that you've spent that you had to claim back on travel insurance.

So one of our big bosses here spent many hundreds of dollars on family, was sick over in Bali recently, couldn't get back. I felt like everyone either got sick or broke bones. There was a whole bunch of them that had to make claims. It's crazy. That trip was cursed. You give me a bit of grief because we got stuck. Stuck was actually a great place to be in Orlando, Florida. The global IT crisis meant the planes weren't flying out and the airline that we were on didn't book us for a couple more days. A couple more days. It was like a week.

We could have paid for another flight but there was no guarantees we were going to get that money back. Did they give you the money back? Well, we didn't pay for the other flight but they did cover some stuff. Yes Megan, you're right, they did. The whole time me and Jono were just like, is he back today? We can see flights are available. It's taken a while.

And my daughter, now she thinks she manifests that too. She's like, because she's like, I said I didn't want to go home and I manifest. Now she believes in manifestation because she's like, I made that trip happen. I made that trip get delayed for us. The global IT crisis made it happen, but that's okay. Exactly. So how many hundreds or thousands have you spent and had to claim on travel insurance?

Let's go to Sandy. Good morning, Sandy. How much did you spend in travel insurance? Good morning, everyone. It was probably in the region of about $8,500 to $9,000. Okay. So what happened? Well, it's a similar story to yours, but we got stuck in Singapore when the floods happened in Auckland. Oh yeah. Yeah. So we were flying with NZ Land and they cancelled the flight and

didn't put another one on. But we were stuck in Singapore for nine days. Oh, so nine days. Nine days? How could it be nine days, Megan? I was back before nine days. You just got to take the flight when they give it to you, right Sandy? Absolutely. So that was the problem is every day we would pack up, go to the airport and see if

we could get on standby. Oh, that's annoying. And then no, then we had to go back, find another hotel. We had, there were four of us, so two kids. And so we had to find an adjoining hotel room at the last minute over Chinese New Year, which is never easy. So yeah, we incurred quite a few costs on that one. And you're just putting it on the credit card, hoping that travel insurance is going to come through. Absolutely. Well, the problem was is that we had taken a COVID holiday and we had been in Africa for two months. So we were

very desperate to come home. Suns were dwindling. Not the best time to be stuck anywhere to be fair. It sounds like a dream, but it's really not. It does, but it's not. Sandy, we're going to hook you up with some Dilmati. Hopefully you open that up and get a golden ticket for a trip to Sri Lanka and not get stuck over there. That sounds wonderful. I reckon no one in New Zealand is going to beat Sharon's story. I reckon this is going to top everyone. Oh really? Good morning Sharon, how are you? Hello, yes, hi. This is quite the story Sharon. How much did you spend on travel insurance? Well we only spend our 300, whatever it is that you

contribute, that ends up costing them about a million New Zealand dollars. A million! on travel insurance? Well we only spend our 300 whatever it is that you contribute that ends up costing them about a million New Zealand dollars. A million? Did you say a million? Yep, we'd gone, we'd flown to San Francisco, my partner and I, we were supposed to be catching a cruise boat, I don't know, to Hawaii, cruise back to New Zealand via Tahiti. My partner got sick in San Francisco the first day and I didn't know, the second day I was a bit weary because we had to catch this long cruise. So, talked to the hotel guys,

they said take them up to the hospital, we did. You have to sign them in, they won't even let you in the door till you sign your travel insurance saying you've got it and I did. Yeah. Put my partner there, that night he didn't come home. The next day we were supposed to be checking out to catch the cruise ship, go up and they said

we're not releasing him. He ended up being there for six weeks. He had kidney failure. Oh my goodness. Like there's a whole division. They come and say, Oh, your bills up to like 700 us dollars. And I thought, well, I'm not buying a seat. I have insurance coverage. And I'm still here.

And I was sleeping at the hostel hotel because there was no accommodation with a big conference on in San Francisco. And they put me up to the dead and dying on the top ward. It was just amazing and even then when they flew us home we could, first we were going to be on a ledge yet, we had two nurses fly down and they were going to come in the first night, I don't know, some bad weather then the pilot was sick and then the end I just put my foot down and said we have to go on Friday, it was up to like, I thought well I'm going to be going to the New Zealand concert I won't be able to get home and we flew home first class with um New Zealand with the two nurses with the two nurses all this

collab and stuff and yeah so yeah and even when we got back to New Zealand we hadn't paid anything and um we got I got called Mike was hospital, he went straight to North Shore Hospital. They said we're disputing this bill with Hydro Lawyers. So that cost even more. Did you get it all back? Well it didn't cost us anything. It cost the travel insurance company a million dollars to pay the American bill. All we got back, I'd paid for food, Fair enough, I'd stayed at the hotel the three,

but all that food and a couple of nights spent at the hotel, we got that back and the cruise because they said that's what you should have been doing. So, yeah, it was okay. Oh, nice. But he might have been allowed to go from New Zealand to New Zealand. Travel insurance companies still existing after that one. It's the highest claim they've ever had. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The hats. You know, getting courier packages delivered, something I know that's very close to your heart. That's my rhythm in mind. Yeah, true. That's very close to your heart. And often, you know, like it can be a bit of a pain if you get a courier when you have to sign for a package, you know, like, and then, you know, you get the card and then

you have to go somewhere else and pick it up and coordinate that. So now, if there's a chance, I'll just be like, we've got a gate and fence, I'll just pop it over the gate. Usually that means there's a little ledge behind our letterbox and normally that's what people do. But I'm just writing the thing and it's my fault, just put it over the gate if no one's home.

And came home yesterday and opened the gate, drove into the driveway and heard this crunch. Oh no! And I was like, what is that? Because I didn't see anything. So you have to open the gate to your driveway and drive in. Yeah, and drove the gate and drove by the driveway and heard just this crunch. And then the kids are in the car and they're like, what have you just run over? And then I was like, oh no. And came out and run over two, not one, but two courier packages. Something that the

kids had got. And I'm like, oh my God. Tell me it was clothes. No, no. It was like a, yeah. And no, no. They're broken. These things have crunched. And I'm like, oh, it's my own fault. That's really good aim as well, because it could have gone under the car. Well true, yeah. So perfect, perfect aim if you want to call it perfect aim. Trying to find silver linings.

I don't know if the Liam Lawson and the F1 are going to get in touch with me and go, hey mate, I put you on because you ran over two packages in your own driveway. But then I was like, well I did say put it over the fence and that's exactly what they did. So I destroyed a career package. You've got to be exactly what they did. So I destroyed the courier package. You got to be careful like that Megan. How much was it both packages worth? Or do you not want it to look like that?

Probably about 60 bucks all up. So not crazy amount of money, but right now it's like, you've got to rebuy these things and say, yeah, one of those, just a really disappointing, just a, you know, when you're like, oh cool, that just happened. I need to find an area where they can put the packages because I kind of need to hide my packages. I'd race home to get home first to clear anything from the doorstep.

So your husband doesn't find out. So he doesn't find out. Cause I have to stagger them out. Cause if he comes home and there's a pile of packages, he's not gonna be impressed. What happens if a courier turns up? Are you really trying to like it? Like it's an affair,

you're trying to get them out the door pretty quickly? I generally, I'm like a dog, I can hear the van pull up in the driveway and I'll run out to the door and be like, thank you, yeah, no, it's alright. I don't want them to knock because he'll go and answer the door. But I can tell, I can hear the van sound and I'm like, off we go, quick, to the door. My worst occasion, which happened actually at the old radio station as well, I was talking to a courier who delivered a package for ages. I was talking, and on my defence, I was talking about our TV show.

And then as he left, he was like, I better get a signature before we leave. And I went, oh come on mate, I'm not that famous. And he went, yeah I know, I just need you to sign for the package. And the whole office heard, and they're like, this guy thought he was going to get a signature. I'm like, Oh cool. But in my defense, we were talking about the TV show. Yeah man, do you want a photo too? Yeah, of where I left the package. Exactly.

Jono, Ben and Megan. The Podcast. The Hats. Now producer Grace, you mentioned something after the show yesterday, now his parents and you know, there'll be people listening right now, when they were kids, their parents would say little white lies. And then what happened?

It's one of those things. I think we turn a blind eye to it. It's okay. His parents, right? God, it's hard enough as it is just to get them out the door. So sometimes I feel like the little white lies are just to get you through. Yeah. Yeah, fair enough.

Just to help you out. And your dad told you a good one. Well, this didn't help him out at all. I remember when we were driving. I don't remember. I was probably like six or five. We're driving through like the farmlands and you know, those big poles? You know, the big power poles? Like sort of big sort of pylon sort of things. Yeah.

I was like, oh, dad, first time seeing them, I was like, oh, what are those? And he's like, oh, they're Robert's Grace. His name's Robert. And I believe that until I was about 16 years old because I didn't question him because why would he lie? Why would he lie? You're right, why would he lie? Yeah, about something, the Roberts, great thing for him.

So do you reckon you ever, are you going back through all those things going, geez, I must have told someone about it or gone, have you seen that Robert down the road? I think I remember the moment I told my friend and I was like, oh, the Roberts, and she was like, Grace, what are you talking about? And I was like, oh my gosh,

my dad absolutely got me for the last 10 years of my life. It was a good one. A good long play. So many Roberts around here. And you're right, it's one of those things you probably never get to Google, you never get it, you know?

Yeah. If someone's like, oh, you're like, oh, that's a Robert. That's a Robert. Yeah, you just believe. You told your son, Bastia, a bit of a white lie to do with trying to get him to wear some shoes, right? Well, just, he has like specific school shoes that it doesn't matter if they get ruined. And so trying to get him to wear some shoes, right? Well, just he has like specific school shoes that doesn't matter if they get ruined. And so trying to get those on in the morning is an absolute nightmare.

Just trying to get them out the door is a nightmare. So we got not even asked because I don't feel like you wouldn't believe us. My best friend came over, came over Auntie Ellie and she told him that she put a magic spell on his shoes to make him run really fast. So she's like, it's only these shoes. These are your magic shoes and you put them on his shoes to make him run really fast. So she's like, it's only these shoes. These are your magic shoes. And you put them on and they'll make you run really fast. So he put them on every morning and was like, right, I'm ready to go. It's great. Whatever you need to do.

To get it done. Yeah, well, that's a great little lie. I remember my mom, I don't know if your mom was the same, you know, when you were driving along and you put the light on in the car, and she would always go, you know like, you wanna see something, she'd go, turn it off, it's illegal. I don't know, I don't think it's illegal. No, they don't. My mum would say it was illegal.

Why were they, my mum, my parents are really weird about that too. Yeah, like you wanna see something in the back, so you put those, you go, turn it off, it's illegal. Yeah, she was like, it's illegal to do that. Especially if you're in the dark, like at night, and you turn the light on and they're like, no! I know, it's like, it's illegal to do that. Especially if you're in the dark, like at night, and you're turning the light on and they're like, no!

I know, it's like, how distracting is it? You don't want anyone to see in the car. The shame of driving me around, maybe that was it. Jono, Ben and Megan. The Podcast. The Hats. Little white lies that your parents has told, or maybe you've told as a parent some great texts and calls coming through. 4487 on the text, my dad told me he invented Velcro and handball as well.

What is the point? I feel like the dads are just telling yarns to make them sound good. There's a constant one keeps coming through. As a kid I was told when the ice cream truck was playing music it meant they were out of ice cream but I used to tell other kids running into the street and be like, don't be fooled, he's got none. If your parents are telling you that now kids, that's a lie. Play-Doh only works when the sun's out. That's another one as well.

Because you've got inside things. Yeah, Play-Doh does make a heck of a mess but let's get to the phones on our 100th hits. All right, joining us this morning is Sarah, or Sarah, good morning. Good morning, how are you? We're good, what's the lie? My name right, I appreciate that.

Sarah, welcome. We like to be like 50% correct most of the time. So we got- I really edged my bets to be honest. So was this the lie that you told, or it was told to you? No, it was actually my best friend, but I've never ever forgotten it,

because it was quite traumatic for everyone in the situation. But it was a lovely, I just need you to picture this. It was a lovely Sunday afternoon. We were all outside playing Chooks and Hazards. It was really awesome. And then suddenly down the road came Mr. Whippy with the beautiful jingle jangled and my best friend.

She just ran inside. I was like, oh, she's going to get money. But no, she was like bawling her eyes out. She's like quick, quick run, quick run. It's the man, it's the man who's coming to get naughty children. Oh so they didn't say it was out of ice cream they said it was getting naughty children. No, her parents had told her that he comes to collect naughty children and take them away. And I was like and then I was all upset and I was horrible. It was awful. Poor Mr. Whippy too, just driving around going,

whoa, what's a little? Why are these kids running away crying? Oh, it's so good. We're going to send you out some Dilmati. Open up that box and you get it. You might win a luxury trip to Sri Lanka. That's some trauma from the parents. Pippa, good morning.

What's the lie that you were told as a kid? Oh, morning. Morning. I was told by my dad, well I used to get really bad car sickness and we had a Gemini car, this was a long time ago, and it had on the glove box it had a Gemini button, you know, like sign. Yeah. Yeah. He said if I look at it, it's your special button. And it stops you from being cast.

It's actually been installed and it's not you've been cast. So I just just see it there the whole time in the car. The whole trip, you're just watching a Gemini logo. It's a Gemini logo because it will stop me being cast. I put it was a special logo. It was installed into the car and I believe that. So did it actually work? Yeah. Yeah, but also very boring car terms.

Oh, God, it must have been bad. Do I just steering at the same level? I thought you meant he would push the button and you'd be OK. No, no. You'd just steer at it. Just a little logo. Maybe you look at it.

You steer at that logo and it looks like you've been cast with a special logo and built into the car for your cast. It looks like a, oh, really? Yeah, we bought this car so it wouldn't be cursed. Okay. Yeah, you're like, why was I such an idiot? But anyway, we're going to send you out some Dil Marti as well. Let's take one more real quick with Megan. All right, Matt, good morning. What was the lie you were told?

Good morning. Good morning. I was told by the lie the radio industry was bought into it as well. Don't bring us into it. Yeah, well, hey, for many years I thought you were in on it. That if kids were quiet in the back seat of long car journeys, there was the $2 pro and $2 in the late 80s and early 90s went a long way. But the radio station was judging if I was being quiet enough. And as you went through different towns and the radio station got weaker and it dropped

out, that was the judgment of I'd been too noisy and I wasn't going to get my two bucks. Do you know what? I'm going to do that. That's actually really, really good. That's actually genius. Radio should be running this. It's a great way to get people to listen to the radio as well. Well, maybe we'd have to up it for inflation nowadays, you know, like 10 bucks, 20 bucks.

You'd have to buy Minecraft in- game coins with some rubbish like that now. Roblox or something like that. I have bought something for the very first time. It's the first time I've ever owned one of these and I would say most people have won and have had one quite early on. Now can I just stop you there and say is this some sort of flex? Is this some sort of flex? Why? What's the flex? No, you know like you're on this new like I'm not having sugar in my diet. I wasn't going to say anything about that.

And now you've brought it up. And now all of a sudden you need one of these items. That's kind of true. I've never actually needed one because my pants always stayed up. My pants were under duress, shall we say. Now not so much. I've bought a belt. So you've never owned a belt? I have never owned a belt.

This really surprises me for the fact that it's not, you're very fashionable. So I would have thought a belt would have been an accessory that you would have had. Yeah. Yeah. But not really. No, because I just never wanted anything tight around my waist. Yeah.

And then I wasn't really tucking anything in. I don't know. I've just never, I've never owned, I've never needed one. They're a bit of a pain, aren't they? Really? Like how you found using a belt for the first time. So I bought this really cute belt, which I love and I'm wearing it today but the admin so you go to the bathroom and taking like undoing your button and then you zip and everything is something

in itself when you're busting but see then I've realized okay now I've got to get the buckle undone and I'm not used to it and it's not a normal buckle it's got a little hole that the knob pops into. So I'm sitting there struggling away with the belt trying to get it off to go to the toilet. I'm like this is too much. This is admin central. Yeah my one, I've got a few different ones but the one I'm wearing today is just like a little like if you're tying down like your trailer you know like it's like loops it through you pull it across there's no buckle it's like if you're on the way to the dump and you've got a lot of time. What do you call those?

Those straps, the strops? Yeah, strops, it's like a strop. Literally looks like you've got a strop around your waist. I know, it's not the coolest looking thing, to be honest, but it's actually just. With your hoodie on and your strop, you look like a teenage boy. Sorry.

So you never, never owned a belt? No, I've got to this age and I've never, ever bought one. Oh, the hygiene about the belt too, like I feel like. Why? I don't know, it feels like you're always touching it in situations that you don't really want to be, I don't know, it just gets in my head as well. But you're doing that with your pants as well.

Yeah, well true actually, you're right. You mean after you've been to the toilet and you've had to do it with your pants. Yeah, I don't know, it just feels like the belt is, you know, like it's just an icky, it's an icky thing. I'm never wiping down my, but I'm washing my pants, I'm never washing my belt. Oh, that's true. You know, that's's just an icky, it's an icky thing. I'm never wiping down my, but I'm washing my pants. I never wash my belt. Oh, that's true.

You know, that's one of those things, but don't let that get inside your head. Can I use your hands? That's why I was giving away white. Give a little white, polish your little buckle on the front of it. 4487 on the text actually. I thought you were about to say 40 and you've never,

I was like, shush. I know. Yes, I've got 40 years without a belt. How long have you gone without trying something? Persimmon. Now I didn't even know about persimmon. I'd walk past the persimmon many times in the supermarket, not knowing what it is, but I've just suddenly got into persimmon as a fruit and damn, it's good. I don't know what I thought. I've never heard one person in my life say, man, I love persimmon. Yeah, I didn't even know what it was.

The sort of orangey sort of fruit looks slightly bigger than an apple. I was like, no I think... It looks like a big orange apple-y tomato thing. And I'm like, that's going to be like, oh it's just not... I mean I love my fruit, but that's... I'm like, persimmon, my persimmon game is good at the moment. I'm having a lot of persimmon. So you got to like 60 without trying a persimmon.

Alright, 55. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Dear Megan. Someone has slid into your DMs Megan again with a dilemma. This one is really, really tricky and you really feel for this person and this predicament. I think the best thing to do is probably put yourself in the issues and try and see what you would do if it was your best friend. But it reads, I'm stuck in a heartbreaking dilemma and I need your advice.

A close friend's dad has passed away and the funeral is on the same day as another good friend's wedding where I'm a bridesmaid. I care about both of them. I want to be there to support my friend through her loss, but I also know how much this wedding means to the bride and I've been part of every step leading up to it. The funeral is in the morning, the wedding's in the afternoon, but they're in different cities, so I can't do both.

What should I do? That was my initial thought. Usually like a funeral would maybe be afternoon and then you could go to the at least the reception of the wedding, but they're in different cities. Oh, yes, I can't think. are they part of the bridal party? We don't know. Bridesmaid. Oh, they're bridesmaid, right. But not maid of honour and one is your best friend

and then one's like a close friend. So the best friend sadly, her father's passed away. Right, oh. It's weird because if I think about my best friend and her dad, I would absolutely be there for her. But then if it wasn't- What about my wedding? I'm like, you're one of the bridesmaids. But if it was me and it was my family member. I can answer that then, why don't I go?

Like why are you getting married again? Weird. Oh yeah, are you reading me on your vows? Cause like, oh my god. If I didn't anyway, you'd be married. Sorry to that person. But if it was me, I'd just be like, go to the wedding. Like my dad would want you to go to the wedding.

Yeah right. Is it a conversation? Like do you need to have a conversation with your friend and say look at... Yeah but your friend's gonna be like, go, go do the fun thing. Yeah right. But then you wanna be there for the... Maybe the situation's happened to you. Maybe you've had to choose between...

It's a pretty heartbreaking decision to have to make, right? Yeah and you're not gonna be able to ask either of them to move, move it. Can you just move the funeral to another day? OK, so yeah, what should they do in this situation? Attend the funeral for their best friend's father or attend the wedding that they're a bridesmaid of for their friend. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The Hats. Dear Megan, when someone slides into your DMs with a dilemma. Dear Megan. Oh, and it really slides into my DMs with dilemmas. I don't know why people's, well, I do now because we're asking them to, but they've always kind of asked me for advice and I'm like, why are you asking me? I'm terrible. I get a lot of things for jobs.

Sorry to bug you, but the $23 an hour job, I'm like, is this coming from our bosses trying to get rid of me? I don't know. Oh by offering you jobs? Yeah, I don't think it's legit though. I definitely don't think it's legit. I thought they were asking for advice on jobs. I was like, his TV show got cancelled, don't ask him. Don't ask me for advice, that's for sure. So the dilemma today is a wedding or a funeral. It's a heartbreaking decision. A close friend's dad has just passed away and a funeral is on the same day. They are bridesmaids to the funeral and both of them close friends.

So which do you go to, the wedding or the funeral? I think you're kind of an integral part of that wedding. You're a bridesmaid. And that seems to be the general consensus on the text machine as well. People saying that a lot of money's been spent on the wedding, you're part of that, and surely your friend who's having the funeral

would understand. Yeah, there is one person that said attend the funeral, you never forget who was there for you when you lost a parent, it's devastating. But then the general consensus here is that there are a lot of people at the funeral, including friends and family, that will support you. And maybe afterwards is when you need

a lot of support as well. Yeah. So what do you think? Oh, 800 The Hits. Alison, good morning. Which do you think she should go to? Hello. Hi.

Hi. Well, I myself was unexpectedly widowed with three littleies and you're really grieving. I say go to the wedding because you get so much support around the time of the funeral and you're sort of in a bubble and to be honest you don't really know who's actually there at the funeral it's afterwards that you need the support and the help so no matter where she goes whatever she attends she's still going to feel torn there's going to be a part of her that's still if she goes to the wedding there's part of her at the funeral and vice versa but I just say look your friend will definitely understand and it's going to be afterwards that she needs her

Your friend will definitely understand and it's going to be afterwards that she needs her You're right. It's my two cents. Thank you so much for calling that it really means a lot I'm so sorry to hear what you've gone through, but it really will help out someone else your advice and from experience What's the most helpful thing say after the funeral what what would help you the most? What did it mean there for someone to listen to you, you you. You know, like people surround you at the time, you get given meals, you get, you know, flowers, cards, people are there, but it's at night when you're home alone

and you've got to put the kids to bed by yourself and cook the meals. The hardest thing for me was the children meeting their milestones and not having someone there to share that. Do I have to do that all on my own? And it's just having, you know, I had friends that stepped up and said, look, I'll come with you on that first day of school, you know, rah rah rah.

So it's just, yeah, just be, just being there and she'll know if it's her best friend. She'll know when she's needed. Oh, thank you, Alison. Yeah, all the best and sending lots of love your way. Thank you for that. DJ, good morning. Is it DJ or Die? Oh, it's Die.

Die. I'm borrowing my glasses, Megan. Shut up. Shut up. No, it looks like it's the capital. Anyway, Di, what do you think? The same as everyone she should attend at the wedding? I think the same as the previous lady because I lost my children's father when they were very little.

Oh my God. And the funeral is very overwhelming and there's so many people there. And even at my dad's funeral recently, I've been there. My children's father when they were very little and the funeral is very overwhelming and there's so many people there And even at my dad's funeral recently, there's so many people and we have so much support But it's afterwards. It's afterwards that everybody goes home and gets on with their life and you're still stuck remembering You know Passed away. So yeah, I think definitely afterwards,

even before and afterwards. Yeah, it's really good what you passed on because I think you're right, probably people do kind of not move on with their lives, but they probably carry on and the person that has lost someone, that's the time when they need them most, I imagine. Yeah, yeah.

Thanks so much for sharing, Di. Really appreciate it. You're welcome. Thank you for all the calls and texts. I feel like that's the consensus. Attend the wedding? Yes. But the other thing is someone said a lot of the time they do live streams. Ask if there's going to be a live stream at the funeral. You can watch that potentially before the wedding.

And one person also said the hits should provide a helicopter. Great idea. But have you seen the hits budget? We'll get a showter. There we go. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Yesterday, Megan, after the radio show, we had to do a photo shoot for something. Yeah.

Always one of those things, a photo shoot. We do them from time to time for our work, but I always find I just, you start thinking about what I do with my hands. What am I doing? You've done a million of these. I know. And you, they just say move, so I just keep moving. You're good, you had little like legs,

sort of movements and stuff as well, like sort of popping the hips and stuff like that. I feel like women kind of know how to like, move their body to make it look the best. I'm like hands in pockets, thumbs up, maybe fold arms. That's about the three moves I've got. So at one stage they gave me a ball to hold. Like a prop. Yeah, I think it was just like a distraction thing for me. So I had one of our handballs when we did 24 hours of handball last

year, raising money for Kidscan. And so I had that for a while and that was quite nice. And then Larissa, who's from the Hits here was like, oh, maybe we'll get rid of the handball. So yeah, I felt like, okay, okay. Choke it back to me. So I bounced it back and I don't know, I had a shocker. I don't know, how did this happen? I don't know. It didn't go towards Larissa, it went towards the photographer.

Who we'd just met. Yeah. Did you meet her before? No, I hadn't. Hope was in the lane, she's lovely, lovely lady, but she's holding an expensive camera and it bounced off the ground and then it bounced into, well, you know, It's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's not that it's? No it didn't. That's not what I'd call it. You forcefully bounced the hand. Don't say forcefully.

It was pretty, you were like, here you go, Larissa. And I don't know why, because Larissa was standing probably a meter to the left of the photographer. You're a terrible shot. And it bounced up and hit her in the crotch. And she had a camera. You know, she was probably looking through her lens. She wasn't expecting that. No. She was so lovely. And she had a camera, you know, and she was probably looking through a lens. She wasn't expecting that.

No. She was so lovely, and she was like, it's fine, it's fine, and I'm like, I'm so sorry. She bent over though. I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. And she's like, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine. But you know, with those moments, we're like, is it fine?

I don't know. You were so apologetic, but I was just crying with laughter. I didn't stop to see if anyone was okay. No, you were no help at all. That was so funny. And I would love the photographer to know that we were laughing with her, not at her. Because she wasn't seriously hurt. But it was embarrassing for all, least of all me, and I was cry laughing.

So there you go. So just when I thought I couldn't make photos any more awkward, I've got it made things a whole lot more awkward.