Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Ben finds himself in an awkward pantsing incident… with a woman!

Episode Date: March 22, 2026

On today’s show:  Ben finds himself in an awkward pantsing incident… with a woman! Jono learns the hard way why leaving your window open at night isn’t a great idea. What’s the unhealthy habit you do every single day? Megan gets an exciting surprise with a Russell Hobbs pressure cooker! Who really gets surveyed in the ‘Top 10 Happiest Countries’? We dig through our bosses’ bags and uncover some… unusual items. Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFAST Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The John O'Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better tea. This is the John O'Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better tea. Welcome to the podcast, Monday morning here in New Zealand. And Megan, you just told us you did something over the weekend after we were working at the Wheatbeck's Kids Triathlon.

Great event around the country. They run for all kids to get out there, run, swim, and science. Michael as well. It was a record number of people there. 3,200 kids were getting amongst it. But anyway, as we drove home, you always joke that I live really far away. It took me an hour and I'd get home.

I live completely on the other side at Auckland. And I listened to one song, the whole drive. One song and one song only. My hum's for the backer-off piece. Because I just put it on Spotify and then I just like repeat. Oh, yeah. So this is when you love a song, you just... Yeah, I hyperfitting.

on it and I'll thrash it until I've had enough. How many days is it usually? It can last like a week. Yeah. So it's Harry Stiles' new song, well, pop. It's from his album. Okay. You're a big fan of it, I've been a big fan.

If I was a bit more organised, I'd have it. I can play it off my lapy. Yeah. I haven't heard too much from his new album. Obviously, Aperture was the first one, was it? Yeah. It's a grower. It felt like aperture was a little bit like that for me as well.

So grow on me eventually. I do feel like there's probably not a lot of songs on there that are going to be thrashed on the radio. Oh, really? But I like it. I like it. He's not succumbing to commercial radio. Yeah. He's doing one for his art.

Yeah. You have to go to the chorus. That's nice. It's a nice song. Yeah. Waiting. It's like three minutes or something, right? Right.

And then I wonder how many times I would have listened to it in an hour. On loop. Just constantly. Do you find yourself like intently listening? and singing along would you kind of like go off with your thoughts and stuff as well and then come back into it you know like is it constantly there? I probably

sing along to it more than I would I think it's a way for me to relax because I don't think about, you know how you watch TV you don't think about anything else so I listen to the song I don't really think about anything else. It's always good to think of driving when I'm driving. Yeah I don't think about anything else just Harry style. I've seen you drive

I've seen you drive you're not thinking about driving you're all over the bloody show Well, that's nice. We have to give that a listen. Harry Stiles, would you pay the exorbitant prices to go and see him on tour? If I didn't have children, yes. Children holding your back. Can't justify that when I need to feed children.

It's a lot of money. It is. Concerts are getting wild now, aren't they? You really have to like an artist. And for the most, for a lot of cases, it might change Nell Eden Park and do a few more gigs. If you want to see a big, big banger, it's a trip to Aussie. accommodation. Yeah, for some of them right, yeah.

You're potentially looking, I'd say, minimum $3,000. Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, well, depending on how big people are going with you, I guess. But yeah. Yeah, yeah. But it's get a couple of grand, wouldn't it be? Yeah. Or particularly, they know, too, when they're...

The flip the airline knows. And the hotels go up and stuff, yeah. I can't think of anyone I would do that for. Really? No. 3,000 bucks? No. Harry Stiles?

No. No. I love Harry, but I'm not going to pay nonstop 60 minutes just this one. Same song for you. over and over megan. You know how much I like him and I'm still not going to do that. But then by the time he's willing to do that,

you'll be sick of the song anyway. Yeah, I'll be like, oh, don't play that one. That's great. Okay, you wouldn't say, okay, would you pay, okay, how low we go? $2,000 to see Harry's sales. No. Oh, who's your favorite artist?

Lana Delray. Well, I did fly to Atlanta to go see Lana Delray. So, I guess. Was it something you paid for, or was this like a hashtag thing, you know? I paid for Los Angeles to Atlanta. Right, oh yeah, so there you go, you'll pay for the little part of it, so you didn't, yeah. I was telling you the other day, you need to go to the Formula One, you know, in Australia.

You're, oh, your best friend of how are he goes the whole time, you know? Yeah. You need to do it. It's your things. You'll look back and go, oh, why didn't I do that? I mean, someone flies me over the out. No, you just do it yourself. That's why we work bloody hard.

You've got to try and, you know? Oh, yeah, yeah. Do some things. If you can, I know it's tough times, but it's always going to be tough, bloody times, isn't it? You need to do, the only trouble is you need to do something that your partner wants to do too. Because if you're spending like $3,000 and your husband pays. And he's probably not going to see Liam Lawson or something. And he's like, I'm not going to let you pay $3,000 to go ogle their goodies.

Yeah, I see your point. Well, you and Ellie need to go and he needs to go and he needs to go do something. Yeah, what's he into? Yeah. Singing. Okay. Musical theater. You go to point one.

He goes to see somebody. What's a good musical? Yeah, go see Hamilton. Broadway or something. Yeah. And that sounds like a really. a really expensive trip. He goes to musical theatre and I go to car racing.

Yeah, maybe my advice is terrible. Actually, save your money. Right now, I do save your money. It's bad advice. I know what I was thinking. Enjoy the podcast. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The hits. He as well over the weekend, which was epic as well. Although, what was an epic leaving sympathy and when you try and get an Uber and it's the surge. It's not about 20 bucks in my house, probably, I would imagine. But it was $81 when I had a lot. look at it and that wasn't the end of symphony. Was walking ever an option for her? I know you like

a long distance walk. Well it was for me, my family and not, you know, my wife and daughter who were with at the end, probably not as much. But we did walk and get some food and I thought maybe it'll come down. I didn't come down much. Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, where that happens. That's even if you can get one. Exactly. Yeah. So Cynthia over the weekend, but what was

the most, well, embarrassing. It was actually embarrassing for me, but more embarrassing for my friend as well. We were walking across the road to Synthony on our way there. And I was, you know, I was a responsible adult that night. He said he had to have a conversation with themselves Saturday morning about what went on Friday night. Yeah, I caught up some mates and some beers, you know, on Friday afternoon. You overindulged.

Probably did. And then, of course, we got up with the family for dinner and it was good. But, you know, when I was, you know, his family with the kids and stuff like that as well, we'd gone out. And then end up doing sake shots with some random next table because of his birthday. And I was like, why am I here? What am I doing this? Was there your children who were like, do you want to slow down? Yeah.

No, because I came back later. I thought, what'd you do more shots? My daughter's went, no, he's okay. Cut him out of me. Were you operating on a different level at dinner? Yeah, yeah. My daughter's like, no, leave him me, leave him be. Dad's going to sit this one out.

Fair enough, fair enough. Next morning I'm like, no, I'm going to be good at symphony. So it was, it was, didn't drink at all. It was fine. Had a great time. It was awesome. It's amazing, symphony. But what was kind of awkward is we arrived with some friends who were walking across the road.

And one of my friends, she was wearing like a long, I guess a long skirt. it sort of went down towards the ground. You know when you walk close to someone? The skirts that go towards the sky. Oh, sorry. I mean, like quite close to the ground. Okay.

So, you know, like it's not a mini skirt scenario. It's one thing just above. It's one that goes close to the ground. Megan, close to a foot. A long skirt. Yeah, a long skirt. A ground facing skirt. Yeah.

You know where the ground is, Megan? Well, this was close to the ground. And this is pivotal for the story because you know when you sometimes walk behind people and you're close in front of somebody, you sometimes stand on the back of a jand. or a shoe or whatever it is. I stood on the back of her skirt, ground-facing skirt. So it wasn't a dress, it was a skirt.

Scurt. With an elastic waistband? Yes. So ground-facing skirt, a shoe onto the skirt. My, and he sort of digs into the ground and that sort of stopped there. And as she walked forward, walking. You down-trailed her. Yes, she did.

And that was like one of those situations where I'm like, I am so sorry. And she's like, did you see him? And we're like, no, no, no. But you did. You saw. Oh yeah, I mean, I didn't get into panic situation, but you're like, no, it was fine. He saw, but he didn't digest. No, I wouldn't put that in the bank.

No, but you're like, of course, because you're, like, what's that? Oh, yeah, and it was all on display, but it was all like. How far did the waistband go down? Probably mid sort of butt, meant to low buttocks range of G-string, sort of, you know, like, yeah. And I was like, oh, this is nice. And we're close, friends, so we're like, we'd laugh about it, but the same. time you're like, I'm so sorry. You're even closer now.

Were there witnesses? Yeah, well, there's some people are around in the facility as well. And you're like, they're all on the way in as well. And I'm like, oh, this is humbling for her, you know. And I'm not even like three sarkies deep or anything. It's the age I'm sober. When you put this in our run sheets, he's saying he had a skirt incident. And that is a sentence that never ends well.

It's a skirt incident. Exactly. Well, investigation pending and good luck. Yeah, that's my story. That's frightening experience over the weekend in my household. Obviously it's really hot at the moment and the windows. You sleep with those open? Are you windows open family?

No, I can't imagine you would be there. No, I'll never sleep with the window open, don't you? No, you get mozzies in. Yeah. You get bugs. Yeah, you get bugs. We stayed in Northland one night and Ben was getting all antsy that the door, the sliding around, the slide a door was open throughout the evening and there were bugs.

The bugs came in. Lots of bugs, all sorts of bugs. Big bugs up there Big bugs Ben will even keep the the doors, windows shut throughout the heat of summer

You know Just keep flies out Yeah, that's weird Yeah Yeah I mean yeah I'm a windows open Guy

And And You do love a window in the car Too away You have window Open the car And Uber's and stuff The Uber driver

It's not gonna be Like in this With the aircon cracking No So one or the other In it It's on The aircon on

Or you have the Windows open Yeah What about Aircon Or like a fan Or something I don't

I know No no Just like a window Open Just that wind blowing through my hair. Just nothing quite... No, like at night. Oh, window open.

Oh, I just call like the breeze of the... I just like a window open, okay? And I also like to keep it open to visitors throughout the night. Now, you know, when you're in a deep sleep and... I thought it was dreaming that there was something on my face. Just lightly tickling my face. Okay? And it was there for quite a while.

And I slowly woke up. And then now it was just on the top of my life. lip and over part of my nose. This is on you for I keeping the window open. This is 100% on you. This would not happen if you kept the windows, yeah. Without a word of a lie. Did I please, was it your cat?

It was a cockroach. I don't have a cat. Your dog. How much you listen to me? What have I ever said? I have a cat. Your dog. It was a cockroach and without a word of a lie, 1.5 to 2.5 meters long. Without a word

of a lie. No, it was massive. though. It was really big. It's definitely an inch and a half. So then I'm like, because I didn't know what it was when it was on my face, obviously, so then I flipped whatever it was on my face. Then it was sitting on my forearm. And you know when, as a human you sometimes make noises that they just come out of your body. It's like, who! It was like I was speaking nine different languages it was. Walk up, Jennifer. He's like, oh, crouched in the bed. And then it flicked off my arm and it was rolling around the sheets.

Lights were on. I grabbed some toilet paper and was trying to find it in the middle of the night You can't go back to bed Until you found it You need to right Yeah Thankfully after 15 minutes

We found the cockroach I flush it down the toilet And it was a win It was a win for the humans Isn't it nice when you know The person you're with Wakes up When you're screaming about bugs

Isn't that like Is she referring to me Yeah Yeah With a huge cricket in my room And I'm like Jado Jado!

Jot! Ket your doors wide over in the windows, open the lights, a lot of my guys, this is, this is going to be bad. These are the consequences for those actions.

So you're going to shut the windows now when you go to sleep? Yeah, I'm going to have to now. Yeah, that was really... As soon as the lights go, you know, we're time to put the light on that feels like the window. For me, that's the time to shut the windows.

Yeah, no, you're right. It ended up on my left move for a while there. I was like, this is a really disrespectful place for that cockroachin. Crawling over my Arioli. John O'Benn and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. You're everyday unhealthy. routines. You know, we're bombarded with constant health messaging, aren't we? Let's celebrate the unhealthy routines that you're getting into. 0,800 hits telephone number if we call it, it makes it to air, gets $100 free fuel today. Because we have someone who's on a bit of a mission at the moment. Social Media, Superstar Cosmos joins us in the studio. How are you? Good. How are you going? Yeah, good. It's lovely. That lovely to have you in here. I honestly feel like you're on my social media

a lot, very popular. And I thought so much that I've followed, you know, I just check I don't. So you must be steaming it on social if you're everywhere. Yeah, no, it's good pies are trending at the moment, you know? Yeah, so that's what you're doing. Your backstory is pretty cool, like from Wellington, right? And you've got like a food truck and a coffee truck, is that right? Yeah, yeah, actually the Greek food trucks my dad's, but I started Cosmos coffee about three years ago now.

You've started making social media clips and stuff, but you've just got into something, what, the last sort of 55, 56 days? Yes, this is day 55. I've eating our minced and cheese pie every day. You took me on a date yesterday. I did. I felt pressure because you're like, hey, do you want to meet up and go, you know, get a pie?

I'm like, yeah, sounds good. Okay. And then you're like, where do you want to go? And I was like, oh, there's a place up the road that maybe I would, you know, go to more often than not. And then I was like, well, maybe I should, you know, bring something to it. So I had a little, well, I tried to find a table. I had an ironing board in the end with, like, the tablecloth over the top.

I had some roses. I dressed up in a sort of tux sort of thing as well, you know? And I waited there, like, I was on a date for like, I was on a date for like, beforehand getting it all sorted and, you know? That's like, creeping for an engagement. I hope not, with the ironing board. Outside Muzers Pies, outside the Pie Shop. If you guys haven't seen the video, you need to go check it out.

It's on our Instagram, Facebook and TikTok now. Yeah. So I felt like I came on a little strong in a tuxedo and stuff. You were like, does he want to hook up with me? What's going on here? What did you think when you turned up? I was shocked. He didn't open the door for me.

Yeah, that was where I let things down at the end. It would have been a no. Because I said, how was it? How was it? When we get a second date? It would we catch up again? And you were like, well, you didn't open. the door and I said, oh yeah.

Is there been a standout mints and cheese? You probably get this all the time. Daily bread, Wifetu. It's still on the 10 mark. Wow. What made that one so good? Mints and the gravy ratio was great. Pastry's beautiful.

And then it's like double cheese now. I love the cheese. Everyone knows I like my cheese. So you must be getting invited to bakeries, are you? Yeah, a lot. A lot. It's funny because I go to their bakery and then maybe two, three weeks later, they invite me back.

but I'm like, oh, I can't. Should have been good the first time. Exactly. How are you doing, though? Because, you know, it's amazing thing you're doing. Yeah, yeah. It's going about, you know, they're eating a pie every day. It's, you know, that's a lot.

How's your heart is what he wants to say. How's your ticker? Yeah, I was worried about his heart. Yes, my heart's broken, Megan, after I said that before. That's okay, you know. I try to be sensible. Yeah, yeah. Get a feel for it.

And so this is going on for how many more days? Yeah, where's this going to, so where's the man that's going to stop? There's no end date. No end? No, no. Well listen, congratulations. You're a Kiwi hero, my friend. You go out there, you're doing God's work, having a pie every day. Well, I just wanted to say I've been, it's so weird I'm here because when I was a kid, I used to watch you guys on TV. I was saying this just at 10 o'clock at night. I know, it's like, stood up late as a kid watching us at 10 o'clock.

You're like, oh, Jesus, we're all. He was like, yeah, because you used to swear. I was like, yeah, we did. Looking back, it was like, because we could, we did. And we're like, why do we swear? He don't even swear that much in real life. I know, somebody got on TV, we're like, this, this. How long ago was that now? Well, it was probably, yeah. Probably 10 years, nearly, yeah. Honestly, there's a lot of people now that come up,

I was a child when I watched you, and it really, really makes you feel old. Well, it makes me loud. No, it's longer than 10 years. But maybe, yeah, well, our memories, we're getting old, mate, our memories are fading. Dementia's kicking in now, like 20 years ago, that's right. Hey, all right.

Do they look in different? Wrap them up. Shut up. Brinkley, yeah, all right. It's all right. It's all right. One of us does. It's always lovely and humbling demean a fan.

There you goes. Cosmos, who's eating a mince and cheese pie every day. So can you beat that? You're unhealthy every day. Everyday routine. What have you got? Megan's got a routine, but not unhealthy. You know, your everyday.

You need the same thing every day. My pancakes that you say are. Sad and boring. Sad pancakes. Blueberry protein pancakes that they bring. They make our hearts. So we want to go the opposite of Megan. John O'Venn and Megan.

The podcast, the hits. I wish things on social media by eating a mince and cheese pie every day. I hope he's eating vegetables for the other. You can cancel it out. Can't you with the food pyramid? You can cancel it. There'll be a lot of truck drivers who are like, that's just breakfast. There'll be some truck drivers who are probably having three pies a day, I imagine.

I don't want to generalise the truck driving industry, but I just have. You have, you have. I remember my radio school tutor. Yes, Megan, I didn't get a degree like you. Or Ben. Okay, I went to a grueling six-month course. Did they give you a piece of paper of something, like a certificate of participation? They gave us a sticker saying, you radioed good.

But yeah, the radio school tutor, who was a lovely guy. But boy, he loved Coca-Cola. Geez, and not like, not the, full-strength? Yeah, full-strength, not the pussy-bloody sugar-free stuff. It was full-strength Coke, baby. And I would say this would be no exaggeration, probably nine cans a day. nine cans of I think his teeth were just like

floppy bits of enamel just dangling Would that be like two liters? It's a lot Oh, chuggeray But I imagine there'd be some And again another generalisation

A lot of building sites They'd be pounding back 1.5 litres of Coke a day Happens Yeah Yeah Well, yep

I'm not here to judge Hopefully he's still with us That guy from radio school Which is a sentence That never sounds good Does it? But I hope he's still alive and well I never saw him have water.

Not one glass of water. Natalie, morning to you. Hi, guys. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Great to have you on, Nat. Your everyday unhealthy habits, what have you got? My tea's in the morning. Why at all?

No, I just have a coffee and just go straight out the door. Back into, rip into the day. Doesn't it feel like kind of weird wake up in the morning and not doing it at some stage, either before or after us? I have made bed and up in the curtains and just get on my day. Get on your day. Get into it to get stuck in. Roll your sleeves up and get stuck in.

You obviously brushed them at night, right, before you go to bed. Yeah, brush them at night. Don't have any fillings or anything like that. So, yeah, it must be working. Yeah, these people with their lackluster oral hygiene always like to boast about how long it's been since they've been to the dentist, too. You know, they don't have any issues. Do you floss?

Nope. Okay. When was the last time you went to the dentist? Oh, maybe six months ago. Okay, so they're all right. See, all right. And do you lie to do you lie to? the dentist? They like you brushing your teeth

morning and night? Oh they like to but you know, never tell them the truth. No, they know that. They know too. Some of the doctors are like, how much alcohol are you having? And everyone like, quarters, they know. Hey, well, Natalie, well, you're not going to have any time to brush your teeth because you've got to get to the petrol station. $100 free fuel,

all yours. Oh, cool, thanks guys. Hey, just give it a go. Just give it a go. One morning, give it a go. See how you feel. She's like, no, I've got my sister. We get into my day. Hey, Mark. How are you? Good day, how's it going? We're doing well. You sound like you've got an unhealthy everyday habit.

What is it? Yes, I drink three cans of V every day. Have you read the back? No. I try to avoid that. So are you doing like a coffee or anything else, caffeine-wise? No, I am. First thing in the morning, I have the can of V, then lunchtime and the afternoon.

Okay. And then I'm shattered at night. I'm a caffeine in V? Yeah. I'm pretty sure it says maximum two a day. But, you know. Is that all teeth? I better read the back.

He says that he refuses to read the back. Give it a go. Again, like Natalie. Just get brushing your teeth and going on the morning. Hey, Mark, try reading the back of a can of V. I read the front. It says V. I carry on.

That's good. All right, we're going to hook you out with a hundred bucks. So you can spend that. Make sure you spend on gas and not a V over the counter, all right? John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Morning here?

We like doing once a week. Every Monday. Celebrities you've seen doing mundane activities. 0800 that hits the telephone number. Don't forget every caller that makes it to air this morning. It wins $100 free fuel. Producer Troy, it all spawned off producer Troy seeing Ronan Keating eating a very sad Sunday morning airport pinini.

And a bowl latte. A bowl latte. Yeah, a crushers to airport. Just with the plebs. Yep. And producer Troy took a long-distance surveillance photograph of Ronan. Purchasing the Pinnanini. Pernini.

Pan-in-n-ni-n-n-n-ninn-nini. These exotic words are really hard to get your tongue around, aren't they? Phenaii. The finaii-i. But you didn't get footage of him eating it, you thought that was too intrusive. It was too far. We're both in a state at the airport at 7 a.m. Yeah, right, leave and be.

But, you know, your long-distance surveillance footage hasn't stopped there because Friday we get sent a group photo on the chat from producer choice saw John Campbell respected journalists doing a mundane activity. Yeah, she was walking back to the car park and he was crossing the road

walking with a, you know, like he does in a nice suit looking dairass. He went to see John Campbell not in his suit. Yeah. Like, you know, like he always.

I don't think I ever have a head. No. Has anyone ever seen John Campbell's legs? No. I don't think I've ever seen his legs. Like him in shorts in a t-shirt just on a single-out imagine.

So what if he wear to the gym? I feel like if he went swimming in the beach he'd be in a foots. Yeah. So he was walking across the road doing a mundane thing. He was just holding a pizza box. Oh, it's a big pizza too.

It was too much pizza for one John Campbell. He'd definitely be sharing. Must be an office shout. Yeah, so we have footage of that. You don't get more mundane than a big lunchtime pizza. You papped him, sure, didn't you? You didn't pat Ronan Keating, but you papped John Campbell. It would be like a little photo insert at the beginning of a woman's magazine.

You know, like, what celebrities have been up to us week? John Campbell, cross on the road with a pizza. Or in the big expose documentary in 20 years, it'll flash across the screen. screen. Yeah. Tyca, buying something at Baker's Delight. We want anyone you've seen who's remotely famous

doing a mundane activity. This is what we've had in the past. Michael J. Fox is working for an elevator when he was filming in the Thrizeners in Wellington. Kiera Knightley was one of them. She was out shopping with her mother at Southbridge's department store.

I was reminded of one. Over New Year's, Coramandle, New World, really tiny New World. I am. Carl Urban. Famous Hollywood actor. Urbarn. Is it Urbarn?

I think so. Carl Urban. Pna-nan-nan-N-N-N-I-N-N-Han-N. Carl Urban looking over prime beef mints. Oh, was it? Comparing fat percentages on prime beef mints in the supermarket. No, he was going, God, this is expensive. Yeah, he was.

Even for me, he's like, well, this is expensive. And I'm a Hollywood actor. I wanted to talk to him, but I was like, now it's not the time. I'll leave him big. He needs to find the perfect packet of mince. So there we were. go. That's what we want. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast.

The Hats. Celebrities doing mundane things. Yeah, boarding a plane. Checking in for a flight, you're right. That's what we do every Monday. Who have you seen? How famous are they and what mundane task were they doing? For some reason, you know, you spend years thinking that these people,

you put them on a pedestal, don't you? And then when you see a Ronnie Clark eating a lasagna topper and wild bean cafe, you're like he's one of us. He is one of us And they're bloody good Those lasagna toppers at Wellbeing Cafe So 800 that hits the telephone number Every call it that makes it to wear this morning

We'll give you $100 free fuel Morning to you Lisa Happy New Year Hello, good morning Great to have you on Who was the celebrity? I saw Lord and her mum buying vegetables at a Sunday market

Oh, all the old organic veggies Were they? No, they weren't organic They'd been sprayed with pesticides Some of New Zealand's finest Besterisides. Everyone needs veggies. They do, yeah.

Looking after herself. What do you reckon Lord was buying? I'm picking some potatoes, Kumara? Yeah, it was a bit of everything. Like, yeah, greens, potatoes, everything. Was she the type of veggie shop who likes to pick up, give it a squeeze, put one down, have another crack? No, they were just, you know, grabbing everything.

Scooping and buying. Their poor avocados get it. They get a real, like, handling, don't they? The little thing that you can push at the end. Yeah, push the little knobule thing is a good little hack, right. Oh, well then, and so did that make your life better? By how much percentage, Lisa? Ah, it's pretty awesome to see her.

So she's buying vegetables. Yeah. Hey, well done. We're going to give you $100 free fuel, eh, for this crazy fuel crisis. And as a radio station, it's our job to capitalize on a crisis and turn it into a promotion. Awesome. That's amazing. Good on, you. and have a wonderful day.

Appreciate it. Maria. Yes, hi. Welcome. Celebrities doing mundane things. Yeah. We saw Andy Circus. We stopped at the zebra crossing for harm.

We were driving. And he ran across following a rogue napkin that he dropped. So this is Annie Sigris who was Gollum. You know, he does great motion capture work around the world. But, of course, most famous for Gollum. And he's like running after his precious, his little napkin. Yeah, it was a yellow guy. like my precious.

It's so embarrassing doing that in public. You bend down and you put something up and it blows away and you're like buddy hopping along. You got to keep going, get chopping your foot on it so you don't look cooler

than bending down, yeah. Was this in Wellington? It was. Yeah, really windy napkins. Yeah, napkins blow up for doing that, right? Yeah, he didn't want to litter. Yeah. Well done, Maria.

And for that mundane celebrity siding, we're going to give you $100 free fuel, mate. That's amazing, thank you. You would be so mortified. I know that now made it of radio. All the things I've done, all these amazing movies, directed, acted. He's chasing a bloody napkin. And Sean, welcome to celebrities doing mundane activities.

How you guys? How you going? We're doing well, Sean. Who was it? So you have to listen to the back story. I used to drive into city up and down the country and the coaches. And one of our stops with Taupo. And they have, do you remember the summer concert series, they used to hold in Taupo? Yeah. Yeah.

So I thought, well, in my time off, I would go down and have a look at this big marquee. And there was this guy kicking the pegs, checking the pigs to make sure they were secure. And I said, gee, I hope that thing doesn't blow over in the night. And he turned around and he said, yeah, I hope so because I'm performing here tonight. And it took me a while to recognise him. And I said, you're Huey Lewis, aren't you? And he said, as a matter of fact, I am. Are you coming tonight?

Yeah, Huey Lewis from the Huey Lewis in the news. Shoe Lewis was checking the tent hole pegs on the marquee, just making sure that was... He was secure for the night. I feel like there should be someone else doing that, but... Yeah, he surprisingly said to me, so are you coming to the concert tonight? And he said, no, I'm driving for into city, so I've got to go have an early night so I can get away. And the morning goes, well, enjoy your drive. And I said, enjoy your concert.

And then I walked away. Thank you very much. Shui Lewis, you keep checking those tent pegs, my friend. Oh, that's pretty impressive. He was just checking the pegs. Maybe he didn't trust the people putting him in. Oh, he'll hook you out with a hundred bucks. He'll put it in your field.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. This is what I like to call John O's Conspiracy Corner. The end of the show where I say some pretty salacious things, Megan fact checks it, and generally undercuts the false information, the misinformation of broadcast.

Yeah. In the past, we've had some big bangers, haven't we? What were they? I've even forgotten what they were. She's did a lot of stuff that has proved to be not true Yeah Honestly you do you get to the end of the show sometimes You're like

What do we just say for four hours Just forget don't you But today I thought You know I feel whenever I Say any information about like Oh you won't believe what Google's now doing With AI and what jobs are going to be replaced That you guys don't believe me

So I've bought it in a third party Yeah Okay who said something And that you've spouted that information to us And probably to other people as well Correct. Now, producer Troy will come on into Conspiracy Corner. Good morning. Happy to be here. Lovely to have you on. Now, this is in relation to Pokemon Go.

Yeah, everyone's favourite app in 2016? What was it? How long ago was it? Oh my God, was it? Was it 10 years ago? It's still very popular, according to the cycle. Some people still play it. The Nurb is still out there. More than 100 million players a couple of years ago. We're still playing the game. So that's a lot of stats. It's a lot of old hundies in Japan. Yeah. Is it? On the train that everyone's got the Pokemon Go out.

Yeah. It's a lot of fun. You sort of could go around places, right, if you never did it, in the sort of virtual reality world but you'd go track down Pokemon that were in locations you could like scan the sky tower and there'd be like a Pikachu hiding behind it I jumped a fence and went onto a farm in like rural Auckland

at 8 o'clock on a Saturday night and I was like too much this isn't what I want to be doing with my life it was all fun in games Troy 30 billion scans it ended up in that app the company sold

the company basically for 3.5 billion sold the app to a third party. Did you say 3.5 billion? Billy. Wow. And I guess they're just buying information. Is that?

The map info, the data info. That company then spun into a spatial AI company for delivery robots, like your Amazon bots and your drones and everything like that. They'll be coming soon. Your pokey walk is now considered classified infrastructure and is used to train those robots on how to walk around your city. Never get the footpath. Perfect drumbeat.

Perfect drumbeat. Perfect drumbeat. It was, okay. And then that article finishes with, you were never the player, you were the product. Okay, okay. I'm going to step in here. This is all me, Megan's job.

I have been looking into it, looking into it. Now, this is something that has been introduced, not at the start, but you have to opt into it. You have to opt into it as well to help out the company. And you have to reach level 20 in the game to, you know, anonymous me, basically use your scans and stuff as well. And it helps the robots with delivery and food, delivery around cities and stuff.

I mean, which is not a bad thing in the grand scheme. Do you really care if the robots knew which way you went and hunted out of bloody Charzard? I think it's a genius. It's a genius play from them. So I'm not anti-ed at all. So, yeah. Is that what was in the terms and conditions

we were like, I agree, I just want to play Pokemon Go? Well, I think you had to opt into it at some stage. And I think it came after when they sold it. When they sold it and you reach level 20. So if you're a real person... I mean, you would have got quite high in this game when you tried. Why do you say that? What do you mean?

What do you mean? Just thinking of the biggest nerd in this room? Megan's just been calling more nerd burgers for 10 minutes And then Mr Troy I know I'm a nerd burger too All right enough I'm wearing a PlayStation 5 t-shirt So yes I did get into Pokemon Go

John O'Ben and Megan The podcast Thank you for bringing some content There's some concern out there Yeah I got this random email Last night From someone called Lee There was no body to the email

There was just an audio attachment Okay This is to do with us, obviously. This is to do with you. I had to listen to the audio, and I'm just going to cast your minds back to it. I think it was Friday. You told a story, Megan, about an incident that happened in your home. Yeah.

About a sort of incident you had with your soup. Yeah. Do you recall? Can you share this? Oh. Can you pick the ball up and run with it? I was cooking soup in my pressure cooker and I poured liquid through it, and I shorted my.

house got the turn the power out a couple of times yes and completely wrecked your pressure cooker I did yeah with all the ulterior motive of getting a replacement pressure cooker that's yeah I love that thing it's the Russell Hobbs and it's she was doing she was doing her own baiting her own baiting to Russell and or Hobbs but I was transparent about it you were you were you still doing it though yeah yeah I know yeah I know because I haven't got one yet yeah well the bait has uh it's got a little little hook on the a little something on the hook a little nibble you don't really know fishing you yes.

The bait has got it all a little... A little... A little... A little... A nibble. It's a nibble. It's a nibble on the hook.

Well, this message is from none other than Tammy Wells. The Briscoe's Lady. Oh, stop. Wow. Hi, team. The Briscoe's lady here. Now, I couldn't help but overhear you this morning talking about pressure cooking.

Meg, you sound like a bit of a pro, but Ben and Jono, not so much. So, Briscoes have decided to... Can I just... Sorry, I'll just stop it. I know where this message is. going, why she have to have a dig at us? About pressure cooking, anyway.

The nicest lady in New Zealand having a dig at us. Step in and we're going to help you out. We're sending over three brand new Russell Hobbs and multi-pressure cookers, one each, but there's a catch. You're going to do a little Russell Hobbs pressure cook-off. You're going to make the same recipe, a yummy massam and beef curry,

and then get one of your producers to judge and crown a winner. So good luck and made a best cook win. Tammy, the risk goes lady. Why we played this at 6.30 in the morning? This is the biggest guess we've had in years. We always talk about Tammy. We've always loved to hear on the show. So we've got to have a Musa Mum cook-off.

Why did she choose so many questions? Why did she choose Musa-Mong curry? Because I also, I love to make. I don't mind a Mus-a-Muh. I love Mus-M curry. I've never made one, but yeah. Give it a bash. Good luck.

I'm going to win that, easy. So we get to ride the coattails of your pressure cooker influencing. Are you giving me crap now? Not so much. Not so much. Oh, Tammy. This is brilliant. Did I mention I was in the market for a replacement Lamborghini?

This is how this works, is it? My one broke down. If there's one out there. Oh, that's lovely. Thank you to Tammy. That's very kind of briskos. Can we just take the pressure cooker and not do the muscle mum cook off? No.

All right. I don't know how it works, though, how we work with, yeah. Who's judging? Are you judging Troy? I guess so. Yeah, I'll judge. Yeah, you're a culinary expert, too. I'll just act against you, I'll be honest.

Odds are sacked against us. Yeah. I mean, Megan's a... Yeah, thank you, Troy. And I do cook Cranski's in a microwave. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. Morning, exciting day here on the Hits.

A lot of doom and gloom around petrol prices, gas prices at the moment. Rumors that it was getting over $4 a liter in some places in Auckland. Although that might be unfair. Maybe untrue, right? Yeah, a lot of people using the GASB app. If you don't have that, you can check fuel prices around where you are. And it's user generated, so people who use it verify the prices. Oh, we're trusting the average muntar, are we?

Yeah, it seems like people were inflating the prices on GASPi. I am one of the average muntas. I can't be trusted. Let's just go off the official prices. But also, you can see why they're doing that, because people are going to petrol stations and just filling up jerry cans and stuff. So your local will just literally there's been some that are just empty. Yeah.

They've got no fuel left. Remember when they said, don't worry, don't panic by, don't panic by, just makes you want to panic by, remember? We've got seven weeks, seven weeks at the moment. And ships are arriving, which is good. Yeah. It's a chill. It's a chill. And you can chill even more because we've got free petrol to give away today.

Even better. That'll be coming up very shortly. Ben, you went to Sinthony over the weekend and your naked outfit. How to go? Very cool. Symphony's amazing experience if you haven't been along. It was very, very cool. But yeah, I kind of felt like, because last week I had a shirt and shorts combo,

and my wife, as I walked past in the house, she was like, you look naked. And that got in my head. I came to work and we tried it on. We got you guys to decide. 70% of people said I didn't look naked on the pole, but that meant, as my daughter said, 30% of people still thought I looked naked. That's all right. And it was always going to be a torrent of mockery and, you know,

when you throw it out to the people. Just like the gaspy people. Can't trust you. We can't trust the average mantra. So you weren't going into symphony with much confidence. And I had a lot of people come up to me. And say, you look great? Some people will come up and go, you look naked, you know, out of nowhere.

And other people go, you don't look naked. So it was good. It was like a lot of... Was it a 70-30 split, you think? Probably, yeah. But people quite enjoyed coming up and going, oh, geez, you look naked. Just out of nowhere, you're like... So it's cool.

So it's cool to see lots of hits fans there actually. Nice. Enjoying symphony. I think the darker it got, probably the more naked you look. Yeah, probably. Daylight, you can see the separation. Yeah. It was also, it was like a colour of sort of Caucasian,

Caucasian skin. You know, slightly tan Caucasian skin, wasn't it? Yeah. Yeah, but hey, it was, once you're there, once you're there, it's fine. I kind of felt like I had to wear it. Once we've done the whole thing and got enough people, enough confidence to go along. So, yeah. Did you get many photos?

Well, I didn't, of me, like, did I take many photos? I took a couple of photos, but that's nothing too exciting. You're like, nah. No photos. It's outfit. I took a couple, yeah. Feel like you want to see photos, Megan? No, I'm just meeting he was...

Yeah, I'll see photos. You can get him. It looked exactly the same as when I wore it last week. If you want to see a photo. Imagine him now, imagine him there, in the naked outfit. That's the photo. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits.

A lot of bad news around at the moment and bad news that we're out of the top ten heaviest countries in the world for the third year running, right? Yeah, we've dipped out of... Who does these surveys? And who are they asking? That's what I keep thinking. There was one the other day last.

speak of why kids are, you know, less happy now than they were back. I was like, well, I never got surveyed back in the day. No, my kids can get surveyed these days. Who are the people getting surveyed? It's a really good question, Ben. That's the investigative journalist you are. Who's been asked how happy they are? You're right.

I haven't been. I boost our average up. No one's come up to me ever. Yeah. Bloody gleaming, mate. Running at 120. Couldn't be happier. Yeah, so we're not in the happiest countries in the world.

No. We're just out. We're a place 11. And a worldwide survey, if they did it properly, they'll be asked A lot of people. You're right. And also, we beat Australia, so whatever. They're 15th.

Finland, number one. Finland. A little bit of patronising advice, says producer Troy from the Finland representative, who said, we just need to complain less. Is that what they do? Yeah, Finnish people just get on with life. We spend too much time complaining, says this guy. That's how we get over things.

Complained to our mates and never do anything about it. And then we move on. The backbone of News Talks, ZB? Exactly. Wouldn't be a radio station if we weren't allowed to complain. Well, we have a weekly meeting with a lovely guy called Craig, who's in Aussie. He joins us by Zoom once a week. You know, we love to catch up with Craig.

But, you know, the basis of these meetings is that all three of us, we come to the meeting with some content. Content that we want to talk about on the radio. Now, ironically. Yeah, stuff that we can bring out and people go, that's good. You should talk about that or we should do this or change this. And we brainstorm it. Yeah. Now, I'm making content out of the content meeting.

I know. I've gone deep Come to meet a speech The school speech on making the speech It's done it's been dumberable Don't it But I found myself in a hole

The other day Because I've got like little notes On your phone You just write down odd random thoughts And collections And I'm trying to come up With content that I haven't used

Or wasted or banged on about On the radio And it's amazing how much you chew through It's like doing four hours of radio a day Yeah And I'm getting deep into my list I'm like these are not good topics Like I don't

And Craig's waiting for me to come up with a, I'm like, oh, you know, when did you... Well, you've gone first. You've done one thing and then you were waiting for your second one. And this is what I want to bring up with you. Well, it's not what. The system is two, two, too, too. That's how it works.

I know, I know. It doesn't go one, one for one. We can change the system if you want. Here's my thing, okay. If you ever in these meetings, hear me do one solid one, which went down, okay, we had some banter around it. If you ever see me scrolling my phone and going, hmm, oh. What was your excuse?

There was nothing to talk about in my eyes. You were saying something like, oh, my phone. Oh, what's my phone done? He played his phone or the Wi-Fi or something. I was failing. This is we knew as my wing people. Come in and you're like, hey, I've actually got something that I would like to, and I'll be like, great.

Take the emphasis on me. I did, maybe, but it took a while. It took five minutes. If I'm honest, Ben and I were looking at each other having a little chuckle because we knew exactly what was that man. Come in and save me next time, guys. Feel free. Because your theory is that we're going to, I'll pick it up,

or Megan will pick it up, and then we'll forget about coming back to you, looping back to you. Amen, brother. Amen. I just enjoyed you flailing at the time. Yeah, well, I'll let it be. He's got, let them. Amel Robbins there.

Let them. If you want to fail. Someone went to the convention centre. I just wanted you to straight up say, I'm done, actually. I don't have any more. I don't have anything else. I was too much pride to say that. Instead, I spent three minutes flailing.

John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. I'm quite excited about this. Yeah, boss, Jason Winstonley. Stano, as he's known in the industry, joins us in the studio. Now, every morning, Stano. We see you walk past the window here at work

And for years We've just assumed you're on your way to catch a flight Because you're wheeling a suitcase into work Are you always flying somewhere? Yeah I fly nowhere Just to be clear I fly nowhere

But it looks like at the airport You know when you see the stewards are walking to the plane They're all walking together They're wheeling a little bit I'm like he's off, he's on a plot He's on a flight 100% But it's just the easiest way

To transport everything I need to bring to work Every day So you're not going to the airport You're not representing yourself in court You're not an international hitman But like what do you need, apart from like your phone, your laptop, your wallet?

I'm always prepared, always prepared. I love the sound of that. And when you see what's in here, you'll understand, this is the preparation. You have the look of a man who's ready to start a new life at any moment.

Yeah. There's multiple passports in there. All the company's imported files that you can tread at any stage. Are you not Jason Winston Stanley? Are you Jason born? Jason born, Stanley. All right.

Okay, can we look at what's in the book? He didn't ask if I have gloves. Like, who's going through this? I haven't cleaned it for. I normally clean it twice a year. Okay, it's quite personal to ask you, especially our boss, so you can cherry pick some things. No, no, no, no.

It's open book, open bag, policy. Okay, I'll go through it. Do you go through it? Can I go through it? How long have you been running a suitcase operation, Jason? Oh, 10 years? Wow. And what was the, what was the catalyst?

What made you change? The old bag was just too heavy with stuff, so now I can just roll it through, do you know? With wheels, yeah. Gotcha. I guess that makes sense. The only thing I've taken out of it, I'll just tell you, is my laptop. Okay, all right. I'm excited to plug it in when I came in this morning.

Oh, okay. I thought it had secrets in there. And 0800 of the hits, too. We want you to call us up and tell us the most interesting. The most interesting item that would surprise us in your bag right now. Maybe you carry it around each day in a handbag or a backpack or a suitcase. We'd love to hear from you. And you can, every caller that gets on here, gets $100 fuel.

Oh, my gosh, babes. You're so healthy. First of all, there's a salad. Organized. And this is a cisternourclat container. This is very weird that I'm going through your bag. What on earth is that? My goodness, don't say that.

We work in radio. Is it a old transistor radio? It's a specialised radio that I can tell lots of things about what's going on with the frequency. Is that from the war? It does. It's pretty new. It's so clever. Why is it so specialised?

What can it do? I can tell all the messages that it says on your car radio on there, how much the frequency deviation. It looks old technology. We'll put photos of this up on the Hits Breakfast's Instagram so you can. can see for yourself. What else have we got there? What is that? It's vape juice.

I remember smoking a long time ago. You've got so many cables, like a bag. What is this? Is another weird gadget? Oh, that's another radio. Is that just an actual listen to the radio radio? Yeah, that's a listen to the radio one, yeah. How old is that?

No, that's only a couple of years old. Oh, that looks like it's one in the 19. I'll pull the cables out. Megan, would you like a cable to charge any of your phones? Oh, that's the burn of fire. You've got a burner phone? Well, you are. are living a second life.

No, no, no, I need the burn a phone. It's not charged at the moment, just when I need to test things. Is that the one that's connected to a US number? No, no, no, that's just connected to a... A New Zealand number. But I need a... I need an Android phone because I run a... He's got batteries.

Wait, wait, wait. He's also got... He's also got lots. He's also got... Five packs of smints or they are clips of mints? Oh, one, two, three, four, five, six. I like to smell good. Right, I love it.

I've probably got about two of those in my bag, yeah. What is that? Oh, that's... Oh, more mints. That's more mints. Stronger. More cables. There's a random mouse.

Redmond. You need a mouse. If you're working somewhere and you haven't got a mouse. What is that? The other things for the... Oh, you're vape. Oh, you're vape. These, if you wanted what...

Collin, he's got some collins. You got clugs. That's eternity by Calvin Klein. You've got some nasty glasses. All right. So there's a lot going on there. Okay, so what would surprise us about your bag? Yeah.

Can you beat Jason and Stanley our boss? John O'Ben and Megan. podcast, the hits. We just had our boss come in because we were wondering why he's carrying around a bag that he wheels everywhere, like he's on a flight. Yeah, a little carry-on wheelie airplane bag. And in it, just the most eclectic mix of items.

He's got a charger cable for every phone on the market. He's got multiple litres of vape juices. He's got seven packets of breathments. It's a lot, eh? A burner phone. Yeah. I've been told he had a burner phone connected to a U.S. number as well.

He's pretty vague on that burn of phone. He didn't say what he needed it for. It feels like he's good to go. Good to leave the country at any stage. Yeah, two transistor radios. And seven passports. One that looks like a police scanner.

It looks like he's a hitman or something. Yeah. Something going on. Anyway. More questions and answers there, Jason. I want to know what the most random thing is that you carry around in your bag. Yeah, you can please call us.

And every caller that makes it to air obviously gets fuel. We're giving away free fuel today. $100 fuel for you, Rose. Morning. Yeah, free gas, mate. That's amazing, especially right now. Thank you.

You're going to put that in your car? Definitely. Good option. Lawn mower as well? I suppose, you're right, yeah. But the car is probably the highest priority. She can't take the lawnmower to work. All right, Rose.

Craziest item in your bag. What do you got? Surprise us. I've got quite a few. I've just realized I'm pretty bad. So this morning I have some ham and pastrami and pesto. But also with that, I have some. some shoe orthotic inserts. Is this just in a handbag?

No, it's like a little, like a beach bag, but it's my work bag. Like a tote bag. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And some things just seem to live there forever. Some things come out. Some things don't.

Okay. Do you remember what the insoles went in there for? It's just to swap out if my feet get sore, but I actually, they've probably been in there over a year now. Yeah, that's the thing. And you know what I appreciate, well, just, you know, from my own experience with Jen, my wife, her bag, shocker block

with stuff but if she goes in diving blind with her hand she knows exactly where it is in the bag yeah yeah it always confuses me

because it all just sits in the same big giant pocket alright you got pastrami you've got all sorts of dips in there shoe soles anything else rose I just found a cake decorating nozzle

plastered a bottle of lens cleaner that the lids come off so it's leaked through there's a letter here that I was supposed to post quite a long ago. You just found that.

Wow, okay, you've got a lot going on. We're going to give you a hundred bucks, as John I said before. You can enjoy spending that. Thank you so much, guys. Thanks for sharing what's in your bag. Also, if you want a text-fueled 4487, you go in the draw to win some this morning as well. Craziest item in your bag, let's get Simon on. Good morning. Good morning, how are you?

We're doing well, Sy? Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Now what sort of bag? Describe your bag you're carrying around? I carry around like an Oakley backpack. Okay, backpack. Stock standard stuff?

All right, and what's in it? Hand blender. Oh, you walk around with a blender? Yeah. What? How often are you? I'm trying to get away from the sugar, you see, so. So having a blender in your bag is the obvious solution.

So you're making what, smoothies, and you're making all sorts of stuff? A bit of fruit, a bit of yogurt, throwing a bit of milk, banana. job done. Wow, a hand blender. Okay. So are you using it daily? I try to. I try to.

Not are you? Well, the weird thing is, like, you have your, I have some protein powder as well. I have my little protein shake, but even now and then I'm like, oh. Oh, we lost them. So that's when I go and get the pipe. Oh, now, Simon, does it a plug-in job, or can it actually go right now? Can we hear it? Okay.

All right, let's give us a. This is the ninja blender. Hang, I've got to get it out my bag, yes. Sorry, I've got to plan this off here with Simon. Alright, I don't know if you're going to hear it or not in my hand. Turn in and on. Yeah, doing that little light-up thing. Did you hear that?

It's got some power, Simon. Damn it is.