Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Ben comes to Megan’s defence in an awkward moment

Episode Date: February 26, 2026

On today’s show:  Jono accidentally gifted something sentimental to his wife… can he take it back? A listener who met Oasis and the funny fake name they use at hotels Bruno Mars is hosting a live iHeartRadio album preview! We decide on our question to submit (and you can too!) Can you ever guess someone’s weight? Age-guessing and weight-guessing etiquette gone wrong Why Ed Sheeran took an 11-hour train to please his wife Ben stands up for Megan in an awkward social setting The hat-backwards experiment: does it make men look hotter? 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 tea. It's podcast, heading into a weekend. It's been busy, just frantic, frantic around here. Honestly, I reckon it's March next week. I know. I can't believe it.

Yeah, this year is flying by. It really is. It's crazy. Anyway, we won't be old people saying how quickly it is going. And autumn next week. Awesome, yeah. Autumn for our people in the Southern Hemisphere. I reckon autumn might be my favourite season.

Really? Yeah. What fashion-wise? Because I know I like jackets and things in winter. You know, sometimes getting dressed up nice and warm and cosy's good. Yeah, fashion's probably part of it. Like a layer. Yeah, right.

You can start layering. But I do appreciate you to factoring in the Northern Hemisphere. Yeah. I'll be out of northern hemisphere contingent. Assuming that there are some. You know, they too, you know, I said it's Friday heading into the weekend. Not for you, it's not quite yet. You can tell you the future is looking bright, though.

It is, it is. 24 hours ahead of where you are actually in Christchurch, for our Southern Island listeners. Electric Avenue happening, huge festival. Biggest in the Southern Hemisphere. It is, it is. In the Northern Hemisphere, I haven't done the stats on what's the biggest for you. Glastonbury might have a single two to say about that.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, but it's very cool. Two-day event in Christ. It used to be one day. Now it's just, it's massive. 90,000 people over two days, amazing lineup of artists from around the world.

There's nothing in Australia that's bigger. I feel like it's a bold claim. I'm happy for it. I mean, I wasn't the first to make it, but hey. I'm happy for it, but yeah, maybe there isn't. Maybe there isn't. But you went to Laneways was the last festival you went to, Megan. Well, that's just one day at Western Springs.

Yeah. But that's pretty big. That's big, yeah. It's pretty big. geez the big day out there was one called the big day out a few that was right that was in australia and new zealand yeah that was good Auckland sort of acted as the dress rehearsal for all of the uh the Australian leg of the tour but that was amazing the big day out such good memories you know did you

i reckon that was probably greatest festival I'd been to big day out yeah I reckon yeah it was just such a massive part of our formative years you know yeah it was so sad towards the end it really petered out like we had bloody sad downed garden on the main stage and the stadium was empty and there was like about three or 400 people just sort of smatted around the lawn sitting on the lawn. Do you think that's because it got too expensive? Why did it peter out like that? I don't know. I think, you know, the, what do they call it, the bell curve of popularity. You get that little sweet spot and then, you know, what goes up must come down eventually. Well, just looking right now, splendor in the grass.

That's the one I was thinking of. Now, that was massive in Australia. Now that's been cancelled for the last couple of years. So it feels like that would have been potentially laying claims to the biggest festival in Australasia. They were going to get around about 40,000 a day. Quickly jumped on it being like, no, we're doing it.

We also cross over to our statistician and Chinese New Year consultant, Troy, producer Troy, who's across all those things? Happy New Year. How do we say that? Shottom, come on, mate. She's our correspondent. Shenying quai lew.

Yeah, Chinese New Year consultant. A semi-problem problem. that he's just like a white male and he's our Chinese correspondent. His partner. I know, I was just leaving that tidbit out. She's giving it the seal of approval. Half Chinese.

On behalf of all of China. Thank you. A lot of people too, in China too. A lot of people. A lot of people she's got the backing behind them. Well, speaking of a lot of people and circling back to a previous conversation in this podcast, I thought I just give you a bit of an update on where some of our listeners

of this podcast come from. Oh, that's great. Yeah, no, I see from the northern hemisphere listeners. Is there any? Quite a few. Yes, yeah. So we've got eight listeners in Finland. Oh, we should track them down here.

We've got eight listeners in Puerto Rico. Do we? Yeah, yeah. Bad bunny territory. Yes. Seven in Guatemala. Have we? What, are they purposefully listening?

Or is it accidental? You know, some people leave the radio on for their pets and so. Yeah. Two people in Uganda. Wow. There go. So we do have to factor in international times. Sometimes I do one of that.

We talk about the days and some. and I'm like, that's not for everyone, you know? Yeah. And shout out to the one person in Namibia. Oh, well, yeah. Wouldn't it be wonderful to track down all of the international audience? And then we do that as the podcast intro. Yeah.

My mother-in-law was born in Namibia. Oh, there we go. So maybe it's her family. I don't know, maybe it's her family. That was great. I thought it was interesting. Oh, well, you tell us, if you're in Namibia, our one listener, then, yeah, tell us if you found that interesting or not.

Well, to our international listeners, we hope you enjoy this podcast. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast, the hits. And a bit of a wine scandal at the moment. A friend of ours kind of did us a favour, and we thought we'd repay the favour by dropping a nice bottle of wine over. As you do. Now, I want to front for this, and so I'm not a wine guy. I don't know anything about wine, but just over the years, for whatever reason, I've managed to accumulate bottles of wine.

You know, through people at work going, hey, you have a bottle of wine. You just end up with lots of bottles of wine. And they sit on top of the fridge in the garage. And I was like, I'll just may as well grab one of these. This looks nice. It had a nice, you know, it was a red wine. Nice label.

A nice label. I blew the garage dust off it. Have you seen that sometimes they put like gold circles on the label and you're like, oh, it's one of gold medal? And then you read it. And it's like, from Hawks Bay. Yeah, it looks a bit fancier with the gold circles. with the gold circles,

it looks like it's won an award. Maybe that's what we need to do with our marketing. Just slap a gold, something like it. So anyway, just go. It was on my to-do list for weeks. It dropped it off, put it in my friend's letterbox. He's away overseas with work. Said to Jennifer, job done, tick.

What a great husband. And she said, oh, what one? Did you drop over? And I said, oh, this, you know, red one with a nice label. I think it had a gold, something on it. She said, no, not that one. that was given to me by my family for my 40s. And I'm like, why hasn't it been drunk in there?

It's special. Now, my friend who I texted and said, hey, there's a little something in a letterbox. As I mentioned, he said, hey, I'm overseas with work. I don't get back until Saturday. But thank you. I look forward to now I have an opportunity. You do, yeah. Do I replace it for an inferior bottle?

Yes, no harm, no foul. But then what if there's like security camera footage he's saying? You put a bottle in? went away for two days and then had sick of thoughts and replaced it with a little less of a bottle. He's like, you know, he's quite a way away. He's sort of half an hour drive away. Just say to him that you gave away your wife's special bottle.

Yeah, got the wrong one. You got the wrong one. If he does call you out, right? You still got to leave him with a bottle of wine. Honesty is always the best, but I don't alert him now. No. Honestly, it's only the best policy when you get caught. Is that really so?

Yeah, maybe. Yeah, maybe just swap out of it. out for another one. Okay. I just wanted to get your... Okay, thank you for your... Because it's in my car, the lesser bottle. Don't go there, take it away and go back later.

Like, go there and switch and walk away. Listen for me, though, if you do have a nice bottle of wine, I've got to give one on my 21st from a family, a friend of the family. And I left, I was, I saved this. I saved it. When I went to drink it, it was turning to like syrup. You can leave it too long, you know?

So I don't know. I'm not, again, I enjoy wine, but I'm not a wine expert. It's They also have to be stored in like the right temperature On the fridge Might not be the great

I don't know In the steaming hot garage Yeah no I probably just left a bottle of poison Yeah It may not be a great wine For them either It's like 40 degree heat

All round It's not how you're supposed to store it It's been festering It's been festering It's letterbox For another couple of days as well No you guys aren't

You guys aren't gonna Just leave it with him now I've changed your mind Just leave it with him John O'N and Megan The podcast The Hits Next week, of course, we keep talking about it because it's very exciting.

Liam Lawson, Megan, you know, a hero of yours, right? Yeah, you know, you love what he does and you're going to get to meet him for, well, over Zoom for the first time. You know, that's pretty cool. That is pretty cool. Are you nervous? Yeah. They do say there's that saying, don't even meet your heroes. But it doesn't always ring true because sometimes you meet your heroes.

And it was like, man, that was, I'd go the opposite of that saying. I've seen interviews with him. He's a Kiwi dude. He's so lovely. I think I'd really have to come in like a creep for it to turn bad. So please don't let me do that. No, I think, yeah, I think you're going to be fine. I think he's going to be fine.

He seems lovely, right? So I think you're going to be fine in this occasion. I mean, you have got me saying that opening stalker line. What's the line you have to say? A long time fan, first time stalker. I mean, talker. Yeah, that's good. Do we get to pick your outfit?

No. Please. No. Please. I'm thinking... You're going to put me in one of Ben's bloody questions. No, of course. I was just thinking like a subtle, big oversized t-shirt with his face on it.

Oh, no. And a love heart silhouette in the black background. So have you met your heroes would love to know? Oh, Andrew in the Hats for 187. I love The Rock, Dwayne Johnson. You've met him? Got to meet him. That was pretty cool.

Before we got to meet him, I put a love heart as a radio thing tattoo on in my bottom, saying I heart the rock. And we did have been to you with him over Zoom. told him about it, Jono, and he was like, wait a second, I've seen that. And he got out his phone, and he had the video on his phone, he goes, look, look, and that was pretty cool. And then when we got to meet him, it was about

six months later, we got to interview him, he was like, where do I know you guys? Like, he was trying to piece it together. You know my bum. And he was like, the tattoo. And that was pretty cool. That was pretty cool. He has your bum on his phone. He texted it to, he texted it to Kate Winslet as well. You know how you guys sent each other, like, you know, bloody, look, look

this DMs of like videos. You're like, well, this this is it. You know, that's what he's doing with my video. Kate Winslet has her bum on your phone. You text that to me. So she's still got that clogging up her photo stream. Oh my lordy.

One of her still is in a Winslet stream. Yeah. You never clear it out, do you? I don't know if it was actually Emily Bluntz. I don't think it's in Winsleth. I don't think it's in Kate Winsleth's funny. It might be in Kate Winsett's funny stream, but that would be to go quite far. Getting my charming British actresses next up.

Is that racist? No, no. It's better to deal with her than they're wrong. That's for sure. Have you met your heroes? We'd love to know, 4,48, 7. Even in the interview we had, because we had only a few minutes,

and he was like, how long we got? And we told him, he was like, double their time. So that was pretty cool. And that never happens. How often does anyone ever say? Never. Yeah, it was a really nice gesture,

but you could hear the whole crew go, oh. Yeah, everyone was like, oh. It's the end of the day, the rock. Want to go home. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast. That's.

I mean, when have you met your heroes, Megan's going to be meeting Liam Lawson over Zoom when we get to interview on next week the show gets to chat to hum so we wanted to know was it a good experience

or a bad experience when we met your heroes someone said I met John and Ben in October and Hamilton October Fest yeah 12 years ago 12 years ago

and I said you were my heroes and then we said you need to get better heroes which is true I stand behind that statement even now you know right

She'll go to the phones. Anonymous. You met your hero. Yeah, mate. I, um, I'm about 10, 15 years ago now. I met Christian Callan. And, you know, through the early 2000s, he was a bloody hero of one growing up. Oh, great rugby player, yeah.

Yeah, that was, like Carlos Spencer was your hero. Yeah, I mean, they were great players. Who were you, Megan, you loved? Andrew Murdens. So what was it like meeting Callan? Oh, mate, it was, as you do, I was a young fellow through Wellington on Courtney Place and bumped into him in a bar. and I was with my mate at a time

and I thought we would have a few beers so we shouted him a few beers and of course the post came out, it was ridiculous, and then the night actually went on, he was still with us, so he bought some bloody shots and then we bought some Jagaboms

and then... As you do. I think things were getting messy and he vanished, but then it turns out he left us the bar tab, unfortunately. Oh my God, shrieggy! Was he going, hey, I'll get this round,

or was he... Yeah, yeah, he just said, He said just took it on the stair and he was a hot steper on the field and on the field as well. Don't your heroes always let you down. Yeah, absolutely. It's so good. That is very funny. Well played from Cullen there too.

Yeah, well, great play. Mark, you met your heroes, Oasis. Yeah, I did. What happened? How? So, way back in the day, you remember in Wellington, the Intercontent Inton tool used to be called the Park Borough Hotel? I didn't know that, but I... Oh, it's a nice one down.

by the water there in Wellington, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they were touring. This was when they were actually still together, and they were staying at the hotel. And it was ridiculous, because every time we had somebody famous stay at the hotel, the book under stupid names. Oh, do they actually do that?

Yeah. Do you remember what the Gallagher brothers' names were? I think off the top of my head they booked under Donald Duck. That's almost drawing more attention to themselves, I wonder, like, you know. As soon as you saw the list, it was like, oh, okay, somebody's famous. Yeah, cool. You got Michael, Grant. He's picked her like a John Smith, you know, or something, just something to stop standing.

Superman and you're like, yeah. Oh, it was just silly. And so I was on room service the next day after they had their show. And there was a big uproar because when they did their show the night before, I think we both got pretty wasted. and they had an argument on the stage. That's on brand for them. Yeah, and it was in the news.

That was the worst show. Everybody was really upset. And then about 9 o'clock in the morning, get a room service call come through for some fish and chips. So I go up. So I walked in with fish and chips, and oh, my God, they were dusty. They were so dusty.

The room was a mess. I tried to, like, spark up a conversation with them. They weren't having a bar of it. They were just dusty as a. So they are right, so they just wanted the fish. It was fish and chips for breakfast, was it? Oh, yeah.

Oh, okay. It must have been a big night, really. Yeah, that's not really a breakfast food normally, but hey, if you're... I'm surprised they didn't order a few beers as well, but hey. They were probably on opposite time. Well, it's true. You're right. You're right.

Yeah. Exactly. But no, they were dusty. Thanks for you cool, man John O'Benn and Megan The podcast The Hits Hey, there's something really cool

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Run the gauntlet. So it's all on IHart tonight between 7 and 8, Bruno Mars, hosting. All thanks to the new album, The Romantic. We thought, why not we try and see if we can get a question in each of us? Now, this is, we're competing with the rest of the world here. So you really want a good question. It's tough, isn't it? Yeah. Do we do one each, you say?

Well, I don't know. We reckon, I guess we're more chance to have him sleet-y one. We compete against each other. Okay. Like, I've got to make everything in comedy. It doesn't need to be. I was just more going for volumes so we had better chances. Oh, he did your bets.

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Yesterday really, it was a minefield of a conversation. I ran into a friend from school. And he's on a weight loss journey. Okay. And he's like, oh, you know, I'm 97 kilograms now. Okay. I was like, oh, that's awesome. You know, well done.

Congratulations. Like, doing what jelly roll did. And he chucked out a question, which it really, it's through me. He said, how much do you think I weight? So this is in the past. And I just, you know, I'm not a great set of human scales. No. And I think just guessing people's weight is, because I didn't want to go, in my head, I'm like, well, don't go.

too big because you don't want, you don't want to offend him, and don't go too little because then you don't want to give him a complex about how much weight he's lost and visually if he appears a lot thinner. Like if I went, oh, 101 and he's like, four k-gees. I've been working my ass off for six months, you know. Yeah, that's a tricky question. I didn't know what to do. No, I haven't never been asked before how much you think of away. How much do you think we're like, Megan? No. Come on. No. Should we guess Megan's wake? Yeah, it feels like fine if you do it to us, but I don't feel like it's fine if we do it to it. Megan, they're like, well, Megan's looking a bit.

That feels weird, you know. What did you say? I'm fine if you want to guess my weight. That's fine. I'm not offended by that, but, yeah. What do we reckon he is, mate? No, I'm not guessing. Oh, you know, I play the game.

Yeah, I should have let my lesson from yesterday, to be honest. But, yeah, I just said, hundred and I was hoping he would then pick it up with, the final figure, but he didn't. And so I landed on 107. Right. Which I thought was, you know, not too offensive to go, geez, I thought you were 182 or something. Right.

And I thought, well, that's sort of 10 or so KGs he's lost on his journey. That feels like a good sort of. Yeah. And what was the result? He was 122. He was 10012. Yeah, and now he's what? He's 97.

Jeez. Yeah. That's incredible. Yeah, it is incredible. So don't ever ask me to keep your way to get it. age when people go, guess how old I am? You know, you always feel like, yeah, and you always have to go younger. So you don't overshoot it.

But then you don't want to go too young in case that, you know, they want them to go, no, I'm such and such. You're like, wow, are you? It's a little game you play. It's like, just, if you want to say it, say it. I have that with an Uber. Should we guess? Jono. 60.

Oh, jeez. I had that with an Uber driver. And he was, he was 60. Yeah. But he looked 60. but I had to pretend that wow man you buddy you're 60 you're kidding

bloody look for it in you're 40 I said 47 48 he's like I'm actually 60 you're oh wow you look like John O'Benn and Megan The podcast

We just want to talk about the lengths you go to for your partner and you know the sacrifices you make on behalf of them because Ed Shearan is he doesn't even escaped the antipities yet

we've still got him kidnapped in Australia touring. I felt like he was in New Zealand so long ago. Now, he's gone from New Zealand to Australia. He is still in Australia performing concerts around the place. Now, Ed Sharon's worth, I just look for it, worth like 700 mill or something like that, something crazy like that. Wow.

It's great. That's her passion. Yeah, and because of this, I mean, Ed Sharon, I mean, he may believe this as well, but it feels like he's got an obligation now. He can't be flying private jets and things around the place. So he flies commercial. Just with you, average months like us. Yeah.

You know, and now. But like business, right? Well, you'd think, but hopefully. Yeah, hopefully. I'm going on the plane that everyone else goes on, but I'm not sitting in those seats. What do they do the seat next to the pilot? Surely he gets that seat. The jump seat.

He's only he gets something. But anyway, so he does that. He does this for her to lower his emissions. But to be more a man of the people. Yesterday, he arrived in Melbourne from Sydney, where he's now performing in Melbourne by train, overnight train, 11-hour train. He arrived at the train station.

He shot someone with a hoodie and a cat, and people go, hello, Ed, hello, Ed. He's kind of, yeah, he looks like Kenny from South Park. He's now with the hoodie, pulled right over his phone. Like, you're not just almost in the bottom of his nose and his mouth. And he's like, bloody cheering. You're going to imagine he's just thinking, Cherry, when I get out there, they're going to, no, they'll be fine here.

They're not going to, they're not going to arrest me. Who do you think you are? You're not that special. Was there not a flight? There would have been flights. Multiple flights. Why couldn't he go on a regular flight? Admissions, mate.

I know, but. I hope the train was electric. Yeah, if there's a train option, you've got to take it. You've got to take it. So good on him. Got on him for doing it, but he could tell him that moment, even though he couldn't see his face, he's probably like, oh, God, cherry.

What am I doing? He's like, we've got the compost at home. I'm doing my part, man. You're not the one jumping up on stage here tonight. I take it the soft plastics to the supermarket, putting him in that bin that no one else possessed up in. She's probably got to pick it up all the rubbish after his show, too. Sorting it all out into the green bin.

That's not the wrong bit. It's three o'clock in the morning. I'm still at the stadium. Just soft plastic. I don't know if you need a degree to figure that out. Sometimes it is very tricky. But what are you doing? for your partner that you know the extra lengths you're going because that's something that they're

passionate about it too I mean he seems like he would be but yeah let's just say in this case he's not as passionate sometimes you have to be now you just have to take on their hobbies and interest like is Andrew sharing your passion of Formula One your husband absolutely not okay so maybe you don't have said he doesn't even let me talk about it he just like glazes over and rolls his eyes but I'm sure there's stuff that you do for him that you you know what are we talking here because I mean you book all the guests you're just like you're going to for his podcast. Yeah.

Don't you? That's what you do. And it's his podcast. I do try and find guess. Yeah. I ended up in a producer role for that and I was like, oh, I don't want to do this anymore. Where's your podcast? You should get a podcast.

And Andrew's your podcast for that. There you are. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. We just want to talk about the lengths you go to for your partner and, you know, the sacrifices you make on behalf of them. Because Ed Shearron is, he doesn't even escaped a... escaped the antipities yet. He's still, we've still got him kidnapped in Australia touring.

I felt like he was in New Zealand so long ago. Now, he's gone from New Zealand to Australia. He is still in Australia performing concerts around the place. Now, Ed Sharon's worth, I just look before, worth like 700 mil or something like that, something crazy like that. A net worth of 700 mil he's got. And his wife, she's very passionate about saving the planet. That's what she does for a job, right?

Yeah, Jerry. I think she does it for like the big corporate companies and how they can lower their emissions and be green companies. That's great. That's her passion. Yeah, and because of this, I mean, Ed Sharon, I mean, he may believe this as well, but it feels like he's got an obligation now. He can't be flying private jets and things around the place.

So he flies commercial. Just with the average munters like us. Yeah. You know, and now. But like business, right? Well, you'd think. Hopefully. Yeah, hopefully.

I'm going on the plane that everyone else goes on, but I'm not sitting in those. What do they do the seat next to the pilot? Surely he gets that seat. The jumps thing He surely gets up But anyway So he does that But he's in Australia

He does this for her To lower his emissions And but to be more a man of the people Yesterday he arrived in Melbourne From Sydney Where he's now performing in Melbourne By train Overnight train

11 hour train He arrived at the At the train station He shot someone with a hoodie And a cat And people go Hello Ed, hello Ed! He's kind of

Yeah He looks like Kenny from South Park He's now with the hoodie He pulled right over his phone Like you're not Just almost seen the bottom of his nose his mouth and he's like bloody cheering.

You can imagine he's just thinking cherry when I get out there they're gonna no they'll be fine here they're not gonna arrest me who do you think you are you're not that special weird Was there not a flight? There would have been flights

Multiple flights Why couldn't he go on a regular flight? Admissions mate emissions I know but I hope the train was electric Yeah if there's a train option You gotta take it You gotta take it

So good on him Good on him for doing it But you can tell him that moment Even though he couldn't see his face She's probably like, oh, God, Cherry. What are I doing? He's like, we've got the compost at home. We're bloody, I'm doing my pop.

You're not the one jumping up on stage here. I take it the soft plastics to the supermarket, putting it with that bin that no one else possessed up in. She's probably got to pick it up all the rubbish after his shows, too. Sorting it all out into the green bin. That's not the wrong bit. It's like, geez. It's three o'clock in the morning.

I'm still at the stadium. Does these cups go on this one or that one? I know if you need a degree to figure that out. Sometimes it is very tricky. But what are you doing for your partner? You know, the extra lengths you're going because that's something that they're passionate about. Maybe he's passionate about it too. I mean, he seems like he would be.

But let's just say in this case, he's not as passionate. Sometimes you have to be. You just have to take on their hobbies and interests. Like, is Andrew sharing your passion of Formula One, your husband? Absolutely not. Okay, so maybe you don't have said. He doesn't even really let me talk about it. He just like glazes over and rolls his eyes.

But I'm sure there's stuff that you do for him that you, you know. What are we talking about? talking here because... I mean, you book all the guests for his podcast. Don't you? That's what you do. And it's his podcast. I do try and find guests. Yeah. I ended up in a producer role for that. And I was like, oh, I don't want to do this anymore. Where's your podcast? You should get a podcast.

And Andrew should book guests for that. Yeah. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Sharon making the news because he took a train, an overnight train from Sydney to Melbourne or Melbourne to City. whatever, it was 11, 12 hours, Ed Sharon in the train because, you know, his wife is an eco-friendly.

She's in the business. Doesn't let him catch private jets, planes. He's like, we could just buy one. We can buy private jets and we can maybe make it. Can we get an electric one? You know, there's options. And then you were saying maybe he wrote that song. After he took the train.

I used to love you. Now every day I hate you just a little more. Life got a little bit when I lost you. It's just a little bit. No, no, no, no, no, mate. Why don't he broke his leg and castle on the hill? You know, I know. It's got nothing to do with you making catch through, you know, 12-hour trains or anything.

It's all good, it's all good. So the links you've gone to, Terry is obviously very passionate about the environment. Good on her. And the links you're probably is too, you know. We're just making some fodder, aren't we? A bit of banter. The links you've gone to for your partner's hobby. Good morning, Hannah.

Good morning. Links you're going to for your partner's hobby? Yes. So my husband's real big into various adventures. Into what, sorry? Various adventures. Oh, various adventures, yep. And he wanted to organise a rafting trip for himself and some of his friends

to go down the length of the Clarence River, which is like 156 kilometres long. Oh, Jesus, sounds like it. A long adventure. A long adventure. So he needed, they had this problem. We live in Ashburton and Timoroo sort of district, all of us, and so they need someone to drop them on.

off. So I said yes, organized babysitter went with them. We only got five hours sleep and then had to drop them off early. And there was a ford along the way, a gravel ford. The van got stuck in it

with the trailer and of course seven guys managed to push it out so that was great. But on the way back it was just me and I'd had these instructions to sort of hit it hard and fast. Oh no. Those are shocking instructions. I'm not going to be other way back?

You'll be right. Hard for us. So then I got bog and some people came along and helped me push it out. And then we discovered it had a flat tire as well. So they helped me change it. That was great. Lovely. On my way.

So then I had to drive it from the Hanma Springs area all the way around to Kaikora, North Kaikora, to drop it off for them. Oh, my gosh. And when I got there, still having to get home, they'd previously helped me put my very heavy motorbike. onto the trailer behind the van, but then I had to get my motorbike off my trailer and then bike all the way home again, which was about 430Ks and took me five hours.

Oh, my gosh. This is... All and all, I started at 5 o'clock in the morning, and I finally got home to my family at 8 p.m that night. Oh, my God. Now, I hope the rafting was... Did they enjoy it? Yeah, I think so.

God, you're a good woman. It's amazing why you did be your partner. It's a hard no from me. Well, you know, sometimes you've got to do these things to get a couple of nights of peace and quiet. John O'Ben and Megan is a podcast. That's hand over to Megan. You're a white saviour apparently. Yeah, what did I do yesterday?

We had a very busy day yesterday. We were shooting, we were filming stuff after the show. So we're in the presence of each other for a long time. Not pornography. No. Thank you for clearing that out. Promo stuff for the radio show. Yes.

We'll be coming out at some stage. Yeah. And someone had to say my name. Yeah, true. And this happens, you know, it happens often. So I'm not worried about it. It's also, you know, a last name that I adopted. So we say peppers for the last name.

But lots of people all the time always call us puppers. Oh, for many years before we got to work together, you know, it's having a puppas. Yeah. It's sort of in the potato, potatoes. category, isn't it? Yeah. And it wasn't until I heard you would say, you know, at the end of your news, you were

Megan Pappas, they've been saying it wrong the whole time. Yeah. Pappas doesn't feel right. No, it's all. Well, it comes from Pappadopolis. Right. So it's Pappas. Is it Greek?

Yeah. Oh. Greek? Is it Greek? Yeah. Greek South African? Yeah. She was.

You've got a good combo there. Good co-lab. Great co-lab between the Greeks and the South Africans. But yeah, I'm not, I'm honestly not too bothered about it. But yesterday someone had to say my name in the script that was being, you know, filmed and kept saying Megan Puppers They said at the start

We're doing like a little rehearsal And I said you quietly I said you're gonna say something And you're like oh no I don't know You know because it was like are you gonna create I'm gonna say something You're like that's not how you say my name And I was like no it's fine

I wanted a big dramatic scene He wanted to do a break this morning going What a diva you are What a diva? You're gonna stand here and take this Megan What this guy said? No I'm the opposite I would just stand there and like

Let her have me I'm fine I was chill I didn't, I was like, whatever. So that was in the rehearsal, and I was like, okay, fine, you've let that go. Ben's like, yeah, okay, you know, I'm just anything. And then we got into doing, you know, actual takes, and they were saying meek and Puppers. And I was like... Multiple times, kept saying, kind of.

It wasn't until near the end, like, last few shots, and Ben's like, um, are you, are you going to say it or shall I? I was waiting for you. Yeah. Like, that's bearing of mind, there'd be like 15 takes of Puppas. And then he chimes in on the finish lot. Yeah. I'm pretty of my place to say.

I kept looking like, me, I know. I didn't say anything yet. I was like, oh, hey, can we get one? But I looked at you and I was like, no, no, in front of a set, all of the people. And he's like, oh, you don't say her name like that. They're, it's bad. They were mortified.

They were all modified. They were all. They felt bad. I didn't want them to feel bad, but I did also want you to go, you know, when this ad plays. I know. Your name to be right. It was very sweet that you were like, okay, I want them to say her name right. But I was, everyone was like, oh,

Why didn't you say something at the start? Yeah, I get that. It's a very New Zealand thing. You don't say it, but slowly fest, so go away and talk about it behind everyone's back. Yeah. It's like when you go to a restaurant and you don't like a meal. Are you enjoying this?

Yeah, it's lovely. I mean, I thought the main part was Megan, you know? Like if they were calling me Reagan or something, I'd be like, I would have said. But thank you, Ben. You're welcome. I went up to them afterwards and I was like, she was roperable. She's really ropedable.

Sorry, guys, thanks to shoot for us. He's going to roll. Yeah. Heads are rolling. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. To interviewing Liam Lawson. Which is. One one driver, that was my manifest.

Well, we've been manifesting it for a long time, for years. Yeah. It's coming to fruition because after a creepy social post, Liam Lawson saw it, he commented on it, and he's like, I'm going to go and do a Zoom interview with this show next week. Who says stalkers don't prosper? They do. It's a really good advert for stalking, isn't it?

Persistence pays on. So it's happening. Tuesday next week, after the show you'll hear it on Wednesday. We'll be helping you prepare for this, getting you all ready. And Johnny, you got a bit of a quiz. Oh. To test your knowledge of Liam. Well, we don't want you to embarrass us in front of Liam.

No. Not our Liam. No. We feel that you need to be well-versed in all things Liam Lawson. Just going to run through a lot quiz. Don't tell them that I call him our Liam. Okay, all right. And by that I mean, like, New Zealand's.

Okay, anyway. Well, it would be weird if he said my Liam. Yeah, our Liam is fine. Okay, question number one. Where was Liam Lawson born? Hastings. Oh, well done. Ew.

That's pretty good to know that, actually. Yeah. Yeah, and slightly disturbing. How old was Liam when he made his F1 debut in 2023? Well, that was, he's 20, is he 24? He was born in 2002. Do you know his birthday? 11th of February.

Oh, you do it because we're on the 10K tour. You're like, guys, it's Liam Mawson's birthday. Happy birthday, Liam. Great, great. I mean, yeah. He made his debut in 2023. So if he's 24 now, what is that? It's 21.

21? And well done. Yes. Congratulations. Before Formula One, he raced in the FI's F3 and what was the other category you race in NASCAR, Formula E, F2 or Moto GP? F2.

Makes your way up. Seems like a natural stepping zone. What was the name of Liam Lawson's primary school teacher's cat? You call yourself a fan. Whiskers, Mr Pickles, Nitro. Nitro is a cool name for a cat. But I'm not trying to lead you anywhere as well. I went to Pookie High.

She's dancing around the teacher's name. No, I don't know the teacher's name. Oh, we'll ask him. We ask him that. That's quite a question we asked. What's Liam Lawson's favourite cloud shape? No, I feel like you're fit. I know his favourite colour. I've learned that recently. It's like orange. Oh, dear God. What else do you know?

What else do you know? Do we even need to do the interviews? It sounds like you know everything already. His parents sold his house. We know that. Yeah, that's pretty cool. To fund his career. Pretty amazing story, right? Yeah. If anything we might tell you to dial back the information.

Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hats. So today, big day in fashion, isn't it? Oh, yeah, well, yeah. I mean, I did say that backwards hats on guys are more attractive. No, you're taking it back, eh? He bullied Ben into wearing his hat backwards today. I said I'd come in with a hat backwards and wear it all day. So I've got to that.

I maintain that when you got here, everyone gave you compliments and said it looked good. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, producer Troy was like, hey, he did. He was like, yeah. He thought subconsciously you said, I look cool or something. You didn't realize why. And then you're like, oh, he's going to get a cat backwards. Well, obviously you're an influencer now because you've influenced Professor Troy into wearing his hat backwards today as well.

50% new claim. These are the claims from Megapap. It's a gentleman becomes with his hat backwards. And then I've discovered it's weird when you talk about your mates. People, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Are you magnetized to Ben now by 50% more? Yeah.

Yeah. But we did, if you want to see the picture of Ben in his hat, so you can get an image. for yourself, just text a hat 4-4-8-7. Some great feedback coming through. Oh dear. Let's like over that. Anonymous. Not wanting to put their name to this feedback.

Welcome. Hi, how are you? Good. Hi, anonymous. What do you want to say? You have seen the picture of Ben with his cat back? Yeah, I have, yeah. And what are your thoughts?

Well, it's definitely better. Oh, better. Firstly, I've got to say happy year, by the way. Oh, happy a year. Happy year. And it's definitely better. Like it reminds me of my 31-year-old son. That's got to be a compliment, right?

Yeah, I do feel like I'm about 10 years too late to be wearing my hat backwards in the workplace. But hey, that's all, it's okay. Would you go to a parent-teacher interview like that? No, no. Hey, Anonymous, really appreciate your phoning through. Have a great weekend. You too, thank you. So yeah, now, Grace, you come into the Facebook comment section blowing up.

Yes, well, someone said that you can wear your hat backwards, but just don't get all Gen Z. Oh, yeah, true. Okay, don't. But I don't think Gen Z is with a hat backwards. I don't think that's an us thing. No, I don't think so. But I just say, Ben, you do look sexier. Oh, there we go.

Wow. Work place of race, man. Yeah. We're all here for at this point. Another great text here. I've seen the picture and I believe he should rock it for the rest of the day. I can't be a camp backwards. Oh, yeah, the rest of the day is fine.

I thought it was going to be for more than that. I'm not a cat backwards guy. Yeah. Oh, here he comes. Level of credibility no one can reach. Maybe that's what this radio show needed it. I don't know. They needed something.

They're cool boys. Harriet, our boss. Do you like his hat? She's giving a little. The 50-50. Yeah, no, I'm with you, Harriet. She's outside in the office. She's like, don't come to a meeting dress like that.

We're not meeting any clients. We're not talking to agencies like this. No, Tiffany. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. But a lot of talk about music worldwide with the rock and roll hall of fame. So they nominate people every year for the rock and roll hall of fame.

they kind of publicly nominate like a kind of a list and say these are all the people that are up for it this year and then they narrow it down. Which seems a bit. I thought it was always just like, here's Billy, Billy Bass and. Billy Bass. That's our fish. That's our fish in the studio. And he's been nominated this year. We're going to induct him into the rock.

No. Is it like a, yeah, they basically say, well, yeah. So 25 years after your first album or whatever release, you're eligible to be up for it. You know, and yeah, but they nominate people, and then they choose from that list. But you know, like, Oasis, for example, this is the third time they'd be nominated but haven't got through. It's a bit tough. Just keep that behind closed doors, because even if they get in and they're legends, they'll be like, oh, how many times do we miss out? Oh, it's like us at the bloody radio awards.

How many times we get nominated and lose somebody, Fletchford and ailer? When do you stop? When do you pull out and go, clearly, they don't like us? Clearly we don't have as many listeners So I feel a bit bad for Thay and, like, you know, Elasus and Iron Maiden and Legends of the Rock game Is Iron Maiden not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? No, they've been nominated multiple times

So they're in this year again Yeah, they're back again, mate Yeah Do you know he's a bloody commercial pilot? Bruce Dickinson, the singer from Iron Maiden I didn't know. They've got their own 747 and he flies the band around the world Wow.

Wow. Yeah, so, and the other thing I'm a bit like, is this, it's called the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but they're really like, legends of music, don't get me wrong, but now it's like, you know, this year they've Lauren Hill, Mariah Carey, Pink, Shakira, Wooten, Kling, they're all up for it. Yeah. Which are great, they're all legends, but it's rock. Like, change the name. Just call it the Music Hall of Fame.

Like, why is it? Yeah, because it's rock and rock and roll. Yeah. You're right. Yeah, I think Wheateng deserved to be recognized in some form. Yeah. Exactly, but... Didn't we have...

Didn't we have two halls of fame here in New Zealand? I felt like we had... For what? For music? We'd open to two halls. What puts things up out? I think some people were in both halls. That feels like a let's amalgamate and just have one nice little, one tidy hall.

What's the better hall? Well, exactly. It's a, yeah, a more prestigious hall? A cleaner hall? A shinier hall? I can imagine Oasis too if they do get in, like almost shutting it as well too, because that's the kind of time of here they are. This is actually quite interesting. I heard the other day of Oasis.

This is talking about, one of them was on Howard Stern's show in America, and they were talking about why they became so popular at the start with their music, and this was one of their takes. So you bring in the guy, you bring in a new guy to produce the album, right? We're bringing a lunatic from Wales called Owen Morris. And he somehow, tell me how this works, he figured out how to make the band sound louder. Yeah, I don't know. but I do think he's turned up.

He just turned up the sound. I mean, there's lots of people that go on about stuff going on. They do this and do that. There's a loud button. He's a loud button and he's like, we just tuned it up. So when they play our song on the jukebox, the radio, it was just louder. It's like the ads. The boomers complaining about the ads.

It's so loud. It was like, well, he should somehow made it to the maximum. This is a secret, just turn up the volume a bit. It made me past the volume that he'd run the one. You're like, ours was just louder.