Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Ben Does Megan’s Bidding

Episode Date: September 10, 2025

On today’s show: We reminisce about where we were when big world events happened How Ben ended up doing a shot to get more listeners Jono sings the South African anthem in person to a South African fan How Ben turned into Megan’s assistant for an hour Did you know there’s this version of the NZ national anthem Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thanks to hello fresh cookies, delicious dinners, the whole family will love because nothing beats dinner time. Welcome to the podcast. And another one done, another radio show. We do this at the end of the radio show after a few hours of radioing hard. You can tell by, this is fresh steaming post-radio.

Just finished radio, this is like a workout. There's still a bit of sweat dripping from the forehead. Sometimes I really struggle to remember what we've done in the show. It's so weird. We've just done it. and you're like, what do we just do over the last, it's like... My father-in-law always talks to me.

He's like, oh, it was funny what you talked about something. You're all like, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, I don't remember that at all. And other times I'm like, I don't remember. And then you look back at our run sheet because we have a sheet of stuff that, you know, you're like, oh, yeah, that, and I hear that. And that's what's all coming up with the podcast.

It's like trauma. I black it out. It's a really unusual thing. But it's all just in general. Breakfast Radio. Hey, don't get me wrong. This is a bloody great job, dream job. but an unusual concept, isn't it,

that you wake up first thing in the morning, you're like, good-a-goy, go ahead. You know, it's just an unusual, unnatural way to be at this hour of the morning. And then we get to this, because this is time, this is really pulling back the curtain,

so it's nine o'clock right now, you know, the show's just finished. And then, so this is Thursday right now. It's Thursday's done. Like Thursday, now we're talking Friday. At 9 a.m. Everyone else is getting into work. And we're like, Friday, okay, Friday show,

blah, blah, blah. It's like, all of you're like, most people are just starting. Thursday's done for us. We're like, we moved on for Thursday at 9 o'clock. What I struggle with, and again, this isn't on anyone else too, is that after the show, people obviously, in normal office hours, they want to have meetings, they want to be, blah.

I'm like, this is my 6 o'clock. I am immediately checked out. You know? Yeah. So many meetings. And sometimes you're like, oh, I really excreted a lot during the show. So you're like, eh. Why don't we pick this up again at 5 o'clock tomorrow?

Yeah, but that is no one started their day there. That's when we're hitting. it hard. Yeah. Maybe in those meetings you go, you should see us at flight. Ideas, pinging, pinging, baby. It's an unusual job, though, wasn't it? Mike Hosking, who is up to his News Talk, ZB. No matter what you think of Mike Hosking, he's actually a lovely person, but he gets here

at two in the morning. Yeah, that's... Two in the morning. He's out the door at nine, fair enough. Yeah. I get up, on Formula One days, I get up at 3 a.m. to watch it before our show. How do you find that? It ruins me for the day.

It's just that extra hour. It ruins me. Yeah. No one should be waking up at two. No one should be getting to work at two. Yeah, his body clock must be all out of work. Do we know what time he goes to bed? For surely he's not hitting 7 p.m.

I did speak too much. I think he goes home at 9. He's got a pretty strict schedule, obviously, and then he sleeps for a couple hours. Oh, is he nap? Yeah, and then he gets back up. Because I think he's working all day, obviously. Yeah, the news is constant, right?

He probably couldn't plan a show for the next day at 9, because something would happen over day. Then he has to know so much about everything. He's like, and I don't even use it all. Because a lot of stuff they wouldn't even cover in the show, but he's had to research all the details. Because you can't go on there and go, hold on, let me just have a quick Google. Yeah, you're right.

Oh, I'm not over that topic. Hang on a second. Yeah, what's that all about? Oh, okay. Tell me more. You know, you can't. Yeah. I'd be terrible at it.

Yeah. Well, just ask Chapman, GPD. Okay. Yeah. So that's why he's doing what he's doing, and we're doing what we're doing, and you can enjoy the stuff we've all. already forgotten what we did on today's podcast. John O'Benn and Megan.

The podcast. The Hats. Of course, New Zealand's date today is September 11, and that's a date that we're always, every time you say September 11, you think of that horrific thing that happened many years ago, 2001, when the World Trade Center,

well, here, here's the news footage. This is as close as we can get to the base of the World Trade Center. You can see the firemen assembled here, the police officers, FBI agents, and you can see the two towers There's a huge explosion now raining debris on all of us. We better get out of the way.

Just harrowing scenes from the September 11 attacks, of course, you know, will be remembered for years and years. Happened in New Zealand more on the 12th, obviously, but with September 11 in the States. One of those moments of history, just remember where you were exactly what you were doing. What were you doing on 9-11? I woke up. I was still at high school. I woke up on my day. It was like, you need to watch the TV.

And I didn't even really understand. I was like, what is this? How was the plane flown into that? It looked like a movie. Yeah. Yeah. I remember I was just started in radio. It would have been 18, 19, and they made me, I was at the rock, and they made me tie around this giant, A-frame billboard.

But the billboard was, it was like tying around a tiny house. It was too much billboard for the Jeep. And then I got stuck on a hill, and the Jeep didn't have the power to take the, so I was just stuck there. But I was listening to this going, geez, I've got problems, but these guys. Yeah. This could be a lot worse. It puts pales in comparison. I remember getting a call from Amanda's dad who just passed away last week,

but he called us in the middle of the night. And he was like, there's been a plane crash. And you're kind of like, why is he calling? Why? This is in the middle of the night because he was watching the news. And then we turned on the telly and it was just like, oh, my God. Whereabouts in America was he? Well, he was just watching at home.

Yeah, he just couldn't sleep and was watching the news. He was like, oh, he's like, turn the news. I was like, this is weird. He's calling us because of a plane crash. And then you realize, well, how to the magnitude. of what it was and then the two planes and then it was just, yeah. It's funny how you remember exactly what you're doing.

Yeah. Can't you remember the bloody Wi-Fi pass when here at work? No, not at all. This is 24 years ago. Yeah, and there's those moments, you know, not just September 11, people talk about Princess Die, they talk about when Michael Jackson passed.

There's so many of those moments in history that you all remember, and you'll go, I remember there where I heard it. Sam, your phone through early on this one. You remember where you were? For September 11th here, up by the parents, classic. But the one I was calling up with that was the passing of Steve Irwin.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, I was fast asleep in my boyfriend's bed at a fresh age of 18. And he gets, we get woken up to a text message from his friend saying that Steve Irwin unfortunately passed away. And my boyfriend at the time just turns into a puddle. And he's just sobbing. Oh. Long time.

Yeah, so it didn't last long after that. Yeah, I was like, did that. This is weird. Did that give you the ick? Yeah. I just poured out his emotion. He was being vulnerable. I know that's sweet, but you don't want to be with him.

Your guys can't win. You're like, this guy is just like, yeah. You never want a guy crying after making love, do you, Sam? Oh, no, just, he cried for too long and too hard. You don't know this man. I thought he'd wet the bed or something. You're like, that would be better. He'd be sad about it, but, you know, I'm with you, Sam.

Oh, no, guy, I'm with. We can't win. I've got the egg for you. That's exactly. pouring out his heart. And so he's grieving and you're like, I think it's over. I'm just going to let myself out.

Yeah, I'll just leave you to it, mate. Okay, I'm under the Hats. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. Welcome to the podcast where it's, what, day three of John O'O trying to learn the South African anthem. He's got to the end of the week. You'll hear some of the help he gets from some people,

frustrated people trying to teach him some things, although one good hack to do with the melody that will come up on the podcast. You're actually reading a text that came through after we spoke about that. It was quite interesting. do something before you go to sleep? Yeah, they were saying that one of the things they find when they were trying to

remember something is the last thing about they before they go to sleep is to read it and try and have nothing else, no other distractions before they go to sleep, read this particular thing, try and hold it in their memory and then go to sleep. And then they reckon that during the night, maybe you retain some of that information. They will do it over multiple nights as well, just little chunks of something. And then, you know, no distractions, no phone, no nothing afterwards. That's the last thing that's in your brain. could work

I mean there's different ways of people remembering things just got to guess find the thing that works for you oh the matter so I was like chat GPT

mold will give me 10 different ways I can remember stuff and I've worked systematically through them just sometimes I think you know I've reached an age

I'm like I've learnt I've learnt you're maxed out you're maxed out you're maxed out no no but I don't believe that

you can't because you will pick up like I said before you learn scripts memory that's just a memory yeah you've done acting and your TV show so there is a way

maybe it's the other language that's tripping yeah it's a reason behind it and I'm in my head I'm like don't make up words because you can easily just go you can make up a sound and try and sell that as a word I'm like that's yeah that's probably in the back of my mind I'm trying to so hard to not make up noises or sounds yeah so it becomes across offensive yeah you see why they with everything's on the line at the schools at the moment eh with the way things are you know like with uh you know because some people go on tests other people don't you know it doesn't just mean that you're not

Because you can't do a test, you're not going to succeed in life. Not everyone learns the same. Yeah, and that's been the thing as well, this current system that debating at the moment kind of does give opportunities for people to learn in all various different ways. Because like, I don't know, my brother and lots of people are handy with their hands and really smart at building and creating things. It's not good at sitting down at the test. No, I couldn't do that, you know?

I could not be handy with my hands. Yeah. No. In fact, I don't know what I'm quite handy at. Still learning that one. But you're right. those people could probably go off at age 15 start apprenticing in trades

and have a wonderful life running their own businesses and stuff but some systems make them stay there to 18 yeah that's true get three years behind as well as that what's the one thing you always take when you travel we get into that but actually very shortly

some really interesting things that people travel with and something you don't want your daughter to take yeah but maybe I'm like maybe just later you know you say it's not you're all taking one suitcase One bag, each. It's on her, really. Yeah.

Yeah, true. She's got the space letter. Fill it how she wants. Although you know whose bag they'll go in if they don't. Mine, yeah, but I'm going to put my costumes. Are you taking costumes to you? Maybe, maybe not, you know. Have you a Knifle Tower costume?

No, I haven't. No, I've got a Mona Lisa one, so, you know, and the family doesn't know about that. Family doesn't know about that. Oh, Jesus. There's a few, there's maybe three that the family don't know about, so they'll be in the bags. You have to stand in a massive, like, media,

scrum like thing to get to the front of the Mona Lisa you're going to be seen it for ages no I'll do it outside I won't do it like next to no because I don't think you take photos I don't think you can take photos I've been there and seen the motor Lisa before you're not meant to take photos of the Mona Lisa yeah you know technically you're not yeah so yeah I won't do it there I'll do it outside how many costume hit points have you got through the tour three or four um so you're taking costume yeah but that's essential megan it's essential it's for its I think the family don't listen to the podcast

to be honest so yeah that's fine it's so funny it's so funny and so you're just gonna surprise them like in yeah yeah there'll be like my wife would be like oh god what's you doing now like in yeah we went to Raritonga

I came back in the starfish costume she's like oh my god what are you doing yeah I bought that over and then a dog barked to me and that was the video it was really disappointing for the money I spend on it I was like this is not how I saw this going but you get one chance

one chance of those things so you gotta just Trying to grab it. Pack the essentials, baby. Pack their essentials. So maybe I'll let it take the egg boots. Enjoy the podcast. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast.

The Hats. Tell you, well, this is a banging phone topic, team. She's a text machine blowing up. Everyone remembers where they were when these things happened, right? Someone working at the chateau in Tongariro, when Tongarero erupted. Yeah. Doing the night shift. Oh, God.

Someone's text through about September 11, I was a teen watching it on TV with my parents. My parents had friends in America. One was a flight attendant. on American Airlines, she was in New York and had flown on the previous flight from L.A. We waited all day to hear that she was safe. But I guess just communication was not what

it was. All down. Yeah. And someone else said, when Steve Irwin died, I was in a job interview and my daughter kept ringing to tell me I didn't know how to turn my phone off, hence I didn't get the job. Double kicking the guts. Yeah, I know. I mean, yes. Yeah, Sam, morning to you.

Hey, morning, guys. How are we going? It's really good to have you on the show, mate. We're doing well. Was this the Christchurch earthquake? Yeah, yeah, so I was, me and my brother were actually at home alone and my parents had gone out and obviously the whole thing had happened and I was sitting on the toilet and, you know, the whole place is shaking or whatever

and my brother comes running into the toilet while I'm doing my business and just stands, I'm in the doorway and I'm just like, because he had friends over as well I'm like, oh, what are you doing? And, like, everyone's here. You've got the door open. I'm very vulnerable right now. Yeah.

Yeah, so it wasn't the best situation to be in, but we're all okay now. Oh, yeah. And so you're away from your parents. That would have been frightening. Yeah, yeah, definitely. I had to make a few phone calls after that, but it's all good. Jeez. Yeah.

I know my mum was in that. She's had long-term effects from that. I think a lot of people can have been. Yeah. A lot of trauma. They've got their kit ready to go at any moment now, Eni and John. Okay, thanks for you, cool, Sam. Appreciate that.

Thanks, John. See you, buddy. Have a great day. We'll take Kate. Morning to you. Good morning. Big event. You remember exactly where you were, Kate.

What was it? Well, it was Princess Diana's funeral, not a death, but her funeral. And it clashed with my wedding. Oh, how rude. How rude of Diana had to clash with your wedding. Stoddy of thunder. Wow, yeah. Apparently, a whole bunch of.

of people who got married in the UK on the day cancelled or postponed their weddings but no we went ahead with our You weren't going to get your bond back You had to get you to plough on with it Were people sort of half interested in your nuptials And half interested in watching the funeral? Well somebody did actually ask

If we were putting a TV half in my sense On TV on to watch it I mean it was so sad but you're right Yeah Streaming the wedding live I guess we couldn't watch on our phones you know Yeah. Well, that's right, because it was 28 years ago, so.

And you're like, you're up there. You're like, I know most of these people want to be at home watching the funeral, but they're here with us. Maybe. Hey, good on you, Kate. Really appreciate you, cool. Have a great day. John O' Ben and Megan, the podcast.

The Hats. Yesterday, yeah, well, so my wife's father sadly passed away on Friday, so we've, you know, had a whole lot of stuff going on with the family. Is that sure anyone would understand going on that same situation? There's a lot to organise. Yeah, a lot to organise. and yesterday evening we went down just the four of us my wife and my two two kids and I just went down to say our last goodbyes at the funeral home as well and you know just to the casket and

it was lovely we sort of sat there for a sort of half an hour to an hour and sort of told some stories talked and then you know a lot of tears a lot of conversations and it was you know it was a really nice way to sort of mark that occasion and then Amanda's my wife's brother had come back from the states he sort of went and after us and had some time by himself and we sort of said our goodbyes and And after that, we're like, well, no one felt like cooking dinner or anything like that. We're all pretty emotionally drained. So we decided we'd go out and, you know, grab some dinner. And, you know, the evening had got back on track and we'd been having a bit, you know, a few more, more fun conversations, I guess.

And some, you know, there's these sort of loud people around us. You know, they're having a good night on a Wednesday night. Yeah. And suddenly like, he's saying that with a tone of like, on a Wednesday night. I'm like, good on them. I was, I was like, good on them. You used to go out on a Wednesday when you were cooler. But at some stage, you know, at least we wouldn't see anything the whole time we were there.

but I just hear, your radio guy. I'm like, yeah, and I'm like, I guess that's at me. Well, you're hoping there's another radio guy in the restaurant. Yeah, your radio guy look up. They're like, come here. I'm like, all right, I'm coming here. What's happening? And what's happening, guys?

He's three lads at the table. He's like, hey, we've just, we've, one of those systems where you book, your order from your phone, you know, you scan the little QR thing, and it orders the years, like, we've double tapped. We've got two rounds of shots that we didn't, we weren't going to get two rounds of shots. So guess what? radio guy radio guy one of these is for you and I was like well that's lovely but you know like you guys are having a big night on a Wednesday night my night has been considerably different yeah and also I've got to get I was like well I've got to get up at four o'clock in the morning I was like you know like they don't care they don't care when you say that

and I was like yeah they were like well maybe this will be the best decision you'll make it for a clock in the morning having this shot with us I'm like guys there's no part of me to fix it come on radio guy that's going to be a good idea at 4 o'clock in the morning having the shot what was the show I think it was some sort of I don't know

it was a green sort of looking thing as well so I wasn't entirely sure but I was in the end I was like and they'll like you do the shot we'll make sure we get up and we listen to you in the morning

I'm like there's no part of me that thinks they're going to be listening right now oh 800 the hits if you were the shot guys yeah let's do that and you're up and listening

this morning and I was like there's no part of me that thinks you're going to listen to right now but anyway I'll have the shot with you And I went another one? I'm like, no, I'll go one.

One, and then I'm done. I want to, on a Wednesday. He did that for radio. He did that, so radio's credibility. I don't even know probably what station I work for, any of that. It's a yo, radio guy. Well, it doesn't help they didn't know your name. Yeah, it wasn't like yo, Ben, from the hits.

No, exactly. Hopefully they just tune on and are listening to some radio somewhere this morning. So thank you very much for that shot that I didn't need, but hey. What did your wife say when you went back to the table? Was that necessary? Did you need to engage in that? She knows. Once I get over there,

and it's, you know, a conversation. I'm a people-pleaser. She's like, it's what my dad would have wanted. Exactly. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. And now yesterday you were out without your laptop.

Nice for some. They get work laptops to take home. You know, things that wind up about Megan. Her two loungers. Fast past at the Gold Coast on the movie world. Yeah. The fact she gets a car park downstairs. The privileges.

The privileges. Phone, laptop, car park, you know? Excuse me, middle-aged white man I've got to get up to speed with some privileges You know, for a while there We had you under a bloody glass ceiling And everything was just fine I'm still banging on the glass ceiling

I've just getting some perks along the way None of those get mentioned when they talk to us about Anyway I get all these things I don't have to pay me I'm in the free intern Anyway, this is your dog legging guys So Megan's perks dog leg

Okay so she was out of the They were fixing a laptop Because they fix it for her Because it's a work laptop That's what I was going to get to You know Grace has a work laptop This is on you

What I did enjoy though And to be fair to you Megan I find that if you forget your phone Or you're without a device You don't know what to do nowadays Like your hands are just Sometimes I'm at a cafe or them out of phone If I don't have a phone

And I'm across the road I just stare people in the eyes And you know like we have lots of like Groups and spreadsheets and stuff That we do on the work Like Wi-Fi So my phone wasn't able to do all that kind of stuff So I did feel a bit left out

you were all looking at your laptops in silence and I was like so guys yeah we're trying to play in the show and stuff yeah and then she was used then she started using ben as a human search engine yeah she'd be like Ben and then do flicking things with their fingers and Google that for me and then I do it and then she go down to do this with this and I was like well actually and I stopped was like why do I can't do that in to chat GPT and tell me this like with the hands why I don't know why I was doing the hands just can you just do do do do do that my boss coming down and go just and book me my three o'clock and get my dry cleaning. I'm like, okay.

Can you just call, yeah, just call the dry cleaner. You're like, you've still got your phone bakes. I don't reckon you bring your laptop in any day. Just keep using bed. You kept doing it, so I kept asking you. Well, you're right. It was swimming for me to keep doing it. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast.

The Hats. Just saying what the song was playing, Jesse Jay, who's a pop star, all about the money, money, money, she's one of the writers of that song. I think she wrote it. It was all about her moving to America. Yeah. And her and problematic Dr. Luke,

who is one of the year and another person there was three of them I was just looking into it but if you wanted to mention all the people he's problematic he didn't know he was problematic at the time no he wrote and produced it and she was one of the writers on it so I hope when he meets anyone now and he introduced himself he says hello problematic Dr Luke

shakes their hand hello good good evening problematic Dr Luke exactly yeah not an official doctor is he either no maybe that's what's problematic about doctor of lyrics yeah it's medical credentials how paid a rent for three years she reckons when moving to America

that song yeah well I guess and one of the original lyrics she said was jumped in the cab and the driver's on the left side but obviously they changed it when Miley got to sing because she would have known what yeah yeah yeah so they had to change some stuff again when myelie came along there something about a cup of tea or something in there right yeah around the original one very British yeah now she's like got rid of that so how's everyone doing all right we're doing all right now you how are you doing because today is a big week for you you've got to learn what was meant to be by memory but I think we've scrapped that thank you thank you The South Africa

Anthem Which I've learned a lot about South Africa Over 60 million people 11 official languages In the country But only five of those feature in the

National Anthem Yeah so there's an all black They say five But I'm only learning four I think there might be two dialects of the first One A bit of a bit

Yeah So yeah It's just I've tried every method Last night tried Okay look Read this in my head Before going to sleep

And it'll subliminally sink into my minds over and I don't feel any better the morning after that to be honest like I said you started playing the song so much that even my kids my kids know more of the lyrics than me now

now can I just tell you on a part that I am tripping up oh Megan Megan is this your brother-in-law Megan's brother-in-law's just arrived because we needed a South African jersey Megan's married to Andrew Pappas who's South African he might be able to help me he's South African I'm gathering

Yes, yeah. Because I'm stuck on the Afrikaans part. Oh, you speak Afrikaans? Oh, great, perfect. This couldn't happen better timing. So who we bring you into the studio right now? Doe. Because we need a South African top for later today for Jono to wear.

Hey, Doe? Hello. How are you, mate? I'm just throwing you in and said that you can speak Afrikaans and you can help them with the South African anthem. You know, can I, can, sorry, Do you might have asked you a question because I am stuck on the, there's a couple of, sort of parts. A flame in the throat? Yeah, the old flet.

So, um, there are the Oron Zevach Burt, hey? Wow. Is that, is that a line? Well, I've broken it down phonetically. Oh. This, it's kind of like the third line

in the Afrikaan section of the Oronzeeva. Do you not even recognize what he's saying? No, we're not even close. Is that not even close? Do you know what I'm trying to say? Not. No.

No. We do you want to start. Uh, well, you're probably. Well, I've broken that down phonetically, so does that mean anything to you? Because I've kind of broken it down into sounds of... His mouth is open right now. There's no dialect coming out at all.

Afrikaans, English, anything. He's very... No. It's working for me, though. It's working for me, though. Is it working for you? Can you... Can you...

Can you do a little run? Do you run through it? Yeah. Okay, let's do a quick run down of what? Okay, Nkose, Sekelele, Africa, Malupakhanisu Pondolwayo, Yizwa imitanda zo yetu. Is it?

Is it? Tina, Loppo, Lu Sapo, how's that gone? It's good. It's not bad. Yeah, that's just the, in the Africa. That's part I need to really get me. We can take this offline, though, don't.

Okay, you guys have a quick little session. Thank you for bringing in the South African top as well. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. We've been challenged by South African Radio Station 5. If you, Mike Palesa and Aaron host the show over there in South Africa. They're learning our national anthem, and I shot my mouth off, and I'm having to learn the South African National Anthem and performing that later on today.

We started off thinking by memory. now we're just like just give it just like just get through it just get through it and try and offend as few cultures as you can yes that would be nice i mean there's going to be a couple of victims along the way i'm going to front foot it but you're trying you're trying it's all about intention you're trying you've actually written it down you've broken it down phonetically right i have yeah the english the end of the english is all good i've got that you know sounds the cool come together and united we shall stand right live in strife for freedom south africa our land got that boom it's all the other stuff you know the four other languages that are trimming me up yeah but The Afrikaans, they've got a couple of... Yeah, right. When they enunciate words, which I'm trying to just get my throat into. Various people throughout the week trying to help you. You're going to perform it after the show today. We're hoping to go to Eden Park, or at least the car park at Eden Park,

and get you to perform it. Hopefully we can go to the car park. I mean, you know, it's quite hard. They only have 12 concerts a year. They're like, is this going to be one of the ones of your user? I'm sorry, Eden Park. Only 11 left now. Yeah, so this is that...

We're in negotiation. Oh, I should have bought my kids' little microphones. Matalika wanted to do a second night and they're like, oh, I don't know, Metallica, we've got a Jono singing the anthem. So, you know, so. We'll work on that one. I'll do a second night if they want me too. Yeah, that's right.

But I was just on this journey, just been looking at the New Zealand National Anthem. I was playing it to Pop, well, probably was playing it to me when we were driving in my daughter. And she played this version. It was like eight minutes long. I was like, this is a really extended album track of the New Zealand National Anthem. And then so after the God, do you know, New Zealand or the Ote, Ottawa, after the Māori part. There's a whole other world.

Yeah. There's three other verses. They're covering all sorts of stuff. Did you know this? No, I didn't. You started playing it to me the other day and I was like, oh my goodness, I remember at school for some reason we learnt the second verse. Yeah, listen to this. There's a whole other

We've been playing the radio edit This whole time There's a whole lot there So yeah I was like I didn't remember The men of every creed and race Gathered there before Before thy face

And I was like a little bit sexist You know Just focusing on the men Maybe we can update it 25 Man and woman Oh my No Gene, I want it No it's got to be

What have you identified with? Yeah thanks And it's only one syllable So you can't be like people You could just be like peeps Of every creed and race So there's actually five verses to the New Zealand National Anthem.

It gets, later on, I think it gets to... It feels something about guide her to... Sorry, guided in the nation's van. This is without a word of a lie. That's just some poor bugger who's starting to run out of stuff to run with New Zealand. Here we go.

Guide her in the nation's van. Off in the van. There's something wrong if you're saying guide her into the nation's van. Yeah, I mean, Preaching love and truth to man. It's the official end. God's deep and New Zealand.

Although, what version is that? Because that's quite good. Yeah, that's... That makes me feel things. That's someone who's gone to rhymezone.com and used everything that could rhyme with land. I reckon I'd get in the van. Now, we put on to chat GPT.

Could you even update the National. anthem of New Zealand now. Is there a better version? Make it a bit more 2025. Now chat GPT sort of casually talks back to you. We asked it to sing. It's like I don't stand it. But this is occasionally, this is the new lyrics. Within a matter of seconds

it came back with us. Let our land be a place of courage, strength and grace. With liberty and peace, may our spirit never cease. May our environment thrive in its beauty we strive to protect and sustain.

nature's gifts are gain. Both five let our diversity shine in every... It sounds very uninterested in its own thing. Together we stand strong. And unity we belong. And unity we belong. So that's AI. That's a robot talking.

It doesn't need the a-s and the a... I don't need the sarcasm. If she was in the office, she'd be like, God, I hate the way she speaks. You know, we'd all be talking behind her back. And she's always like, in meetings. And everyone's like, oh, fuck. You know, she would be really annoying in the office that voice.

That's great, John. No, I am. See how John I goes with that. You'll find out tomorrow around about this time with the show. John O'Bennon and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Terry has apparently arrived at King Charles's London residence for the first time

they're going to catch up in over 20 months, which is nice to see that. It could be a bit of a step to mending their sort of rift that I've had. When I read that and like I don't want to speculate, but do you think? She loves, she's always, I don't want to speakulate, but I'm about to. Yeah, that's what I'm speculating. Does, do you think, but someone else will say that, yeah. Do you think that that's because the king's got like ailing health?

Oh, you're definitely speculating. That's good speculation. It's all radio is. You're just shush them bend, John is into it. Yeah, that's all speculation. Yeah, but he's got cancer and we don't know details about it. Well, listen, with what we learned with father's there and what's happened with you recently, or your wife, Amanda, with her father passing, it's important to patch those relationships up.

Yeah, true, you're right. Yeah. See his dad before he can't. Yeah. And either way, even if he is, you know, like, okay, but it's still, you're right. It's good if you can. Anything can happen. In those relationships, exactly.

He could also be like, so, we're a bit tight on cash. Yeah, yeah, the bank account's a little low. What do you reckon, Daddy? I do that all the time. Now, I'd say probably a shocking, well, one of my top ten worst starts the day ever. You know, I've had 44 years on this earth, and I'd say, well, this is definitely made top ten. We have a bin here in the studio, and it's just a little one. You know, we fill it up with bits and pieces.

Yeah, I don't know where the bin has come from. I feel like this is a Maddie and PJ initiative. All right. Do you think it's a hint for us to like... I don't know, because there's bins just out of the studio. It feels like unnecessarily we need one here, but we use it. What I love is you put a bin anywhere, people will use it 100%. The bloody council's taken away bins from the street.

God, the amount of stuff I was dumping in those bins. Can't do that now. Anyway, see, every now and then I just empty out the small bin we have in the studio Into the bigger bin outside Because it overflows I know, because I was always like, who empties that? Because it's a rogue bin. This hasn't been sanctioned by the company, I don't think so.

They don't, it's not part of the daily pickup. Anyway, so I'm emptying it into the big bin. And then I look down, I can feel liquid going down my socks. It's binjews. Binge juice running down my pants, down my leg into my sock. And you're like, what is it? A bin juice is just a collection of tuna juice and broken, the tears of stuff. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, I mean, this bin won't be as bad as sometimes probably home bin juice. Home bin juice is bad, eh? You look at the bottom of your green bin, oh, you take the bins of bags out, and it's just like, sometimes they drip. You're like, go, go, go, go, go. Like chicken juices. That juice is like syrup, and you're like, oh, wow. It's quite vinegary, isn't it, the old bin juice? Yeah.

Do you hose out your bins? No, not the... No, I don't. I do clean the ones inside that we have. Not the outdoor ones. I reckon that would have been if, you know, radio ever ends for me, which, hey, it could be happening in the next six months. It's hard to think where you're like, bin there, done that,

and you go around with a portable water blaster, spraying bins. So you're like, you know, pay this person a monthly fee. Go around, water blast the bins as soon as they're emptied, so you know the schedule of the rubbish truck. We don't have a lot of skills, but I think he could probably do something else. I can do you want your bin-water blast into me? It doesn't really affect me outside. No, because I'm putting, the next day I'm putting more crap in there.

Like, I mean, yeah, like, you're like, what a bin-water? I'll be like, oh, do I have to pay you? Yes, of course you had to pay me, no. I thought you were just some vagrant who's going around, like, shall I water baths. But would you like it if I did it for free? Oh, maybe. Yeah, I'm like, if it's going to fill up your day or something. My wife had, she lost her keys the other day.

A lot going on, as you said, with her, with dad passing away, and then she went to that stage of going through the bin outside and that was like through the bin juice where was where were they it wasn't in the bag that she checked like three times as well i've done that so many times it emptied out the entire bin yeah the bin is the last result I thought I was like wow we've got to hear we definitely have got to hear jono ben and megan the podcast the hits just quickly before we head to the seven o'clock news there's a lady in america gone viral uh who was filming herself uh you know while driving while singing along kind of car carrioki style.

You always watch those carpool karaoke. You're like, he's going to have an accident. He's not concentrating on the road. James Gordon, yeah. Do you know what they did, though? They're on a trailer. Sometimes they would tow them around, yeah. They'll be on the back of a back of a film trailer.

I did see that, yeah. Which kind of takes away the jeopardy of it. Like, oh, you're waiting for him to have a bumper. I think it was a bit of a mix in between, I think, for what I hear. But you're right. I think it was probably some bits where he's like, he's definitely not looking at the road. Great out gig. Can you imagine health and safety, though.

They're like. Yeah. You got Justin Bieber in the car. you probably yeah yeah smashing into the back of a toy at a highlux at a hundred k's an hour uh so we had this lady in america she was singing along to brittany spares hit me baby one more time and then uh i don't know i'm trying to work out if she's pranked us all for this but seems very legit yeah um and then her car uh skids and flips and she rolls she's okay baby baby one more time

Great out gag That's her going down a bank Yeah it kind of flips and lands Yeah upside down and in some sort of bag What I mean so good as she was like Oh baby Baby at the end of it all She's just bids her bag

She's so stunned though She just looks at the camera like Yeah she really missed their timing on that But you'll put the video up on that She's okay apparently if it is legit Apparently just a concussion So she's very very lucky and no one was hurt I don't know how you'd fake it

it. Yeah, well, these days I'm so sceptic away. I am with you. Well, you could just have someone holding the camera and just flip the phone around, you know, and then add sound effects. Easily done.

I'm with you being... I don't think so. You reckon it's legit? No, it's like you can hear the impact. I mean, but I always talk about these things and then someone will be going, you idiot, that's fake, you know, so that's what I'm my thinking. And then to get concussion, to prove she smacked her head

against a brick wall just to commit to it. And be like, look, I did get concussion.