Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Ben gets busted at the club... with hand sanitiser

Episode Date: June 11, 2025

On today’s show: Megan has an awkward encounter at the airport We chat to Jemma from Ambury Farm about what attire we'll need for Cash Cow tomorrow Megan get's changed on the toilet... is she the only one? We ask: what do you reuse that maybe you shouldn’t? Can cows dance? We talk to a cow expert to find out! Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The John O'Bannon Megan podcast thanks to HelloFresh, your home advantage for delicious midweek dinners everyone will love. Welcome to the podcast, where it's been a lot of fun one today and one that you feel validated. I feel so validated. Because you brought something, you shared something. You know, radio, we talk about vulnerability, human connection, some of the things that will keep radio alive and well after AI comes through our jobs.

He's just talking about that because we had our conference recently. Those are all the buzzwords of the things that will keep radio alive and well after AI comes for our jobs. He's just talking about that because we had our conference recently. Those are all the buzzwords of the conference. AI doesn't have vulnerability. AI doesn't have human connection. Yeah, but I could do a better job at most things that I do. But anyway, you shared something. It's something I do first thing in the morning and I never really think about it because I've just done it for 10 years and I wanted to know if I was the only one.

Do you know what? Turns out I am not. You pooh-poohed it straight away. You were like, that's weird. I did. I was surprised and I thought no one, yeah, no one would do this, but it was amazing how many people came out of the woodwork or came out of the bathroom as saying that they did do that. And they hadn't shared it with other people either.

Yeah. I've no, I've never told anyone that before. So you'll hear that on the podcast as well as that. We set a pretty ambitious task for producer Grace to track down Sonny Bill Williams. We were talking about this and you and I have both never met him. No, well I've never interviewed him in any capacity.

I might've said hi to him briefly, but never actually, I don't think I've, yeah, I'm a huge fan of Sonny Bill. Never interviews. Yeah, huge fan of Sonny Bill. Never had a conversation with him. You've been around forever. Yeah, I don't think I've, I'm a huge fan of Sunny Bill. Huge fan of Sunny Bill, never had a conversation with him. You've been around forever, like years and years and years and years.

If anyone did, yeah. Interviewed everyone. So we did a funny thing when we had the TV show, Guy Williams, we used to send him out and about to do stuff and one of the first things we did was send him along to a press conference that Sunny Bill was having for the All Blacks. And Guy got up and sang to him. I think Sunny Bill was leaving New Zealand rugby at the time and he got up and in those environments,

you know how I like. It's so serious. So serious. Especially the rugby ones. Yeah. And he got up and he was like, I think he was like, I'll say goodbye, even though I'm blue. And tried to get everyone to join again. No one else joined in, but Sunny Bill appreciated that at the time. And it was a great bit of content. And then Sunny Bill ended up going to Japan and we were like, how funny would it be

if his first press conference, Guy Williams turns up in Japan? And then I think it was E! New Zealand at the time went, okay, we'll give Guy like a grab a seat flight. And he got up in the middle of Japan and sung to Sunny Bill again. And Sunny Bill had no idea he'd travelled all the way over there and the journalist had no idea who the heck, what was going on. But then since then I think guys kind of made the relationship a bit weird by going too far.

Did he sing, I'll say goodbye? I think he might have sang it again. He should have sung welcome back, welcome back, welcome back. I can't remember the second song he sang, but yeah, so it was less awkward the second time, but still one of those occasions you're like, wow, you know, those press conferences are very, very awkward if you've been one to those. I hope that doesn't tarnish our chances of getting him on the show. I don't think so.

I don't, I don't think, well, who knows? Who knows? I think the fact that he's just a global superstar, that might be be the drawback I guess, Sonny Bill. Yeah. Trying to get him on the show but he seems like a lovely guy and I'd love to chat to him. Yeah we need to ask him permission if we can call our cow the Sonny Bill. Yeah Sonny Bull. Bull.

Other texts have come through as well just since we've been talking about names for cows. Moogan Markle. I'm thankful that no one said that about me. I keep thinking someone's going to call me the cow. Marilyn Muro has come through as well. Someone said you have more luck getting Richie McCow or Richie McCaw on the show than getting Sonny Bill Williams. So, yeah, and maybe we will, but we'll find out. You'll find out tomorrow if you just listen to the podcast, if Sonny Bill will be okay with Sonny Bull. We'll find out there, but enjoy the podcast.

Over the weekend, just quickly, I went to a birthday party, a combined birthday party, and then afterwards a whole lot of other friends were like, should we go out somewhere else and should we venture in towards the city? I'm like, yeah, okay, that's not- Were you at a house initially? No, we were at a private function type thing at a bar. So then we wanted to go, that was wrapping up, so let's go to another one. I was like, okay, cool.

So venturing into the Auckland city- You did kick-ons. Kick-ons. Whoa. I don't mind going out in a bed, but I hadn't been out in Auckland city for a while. And this place that we went to, is it coming up there, I thought maybe it was a bit of a joke

that the guy said the bouncer at the door, he was like, hey guys, just need you to lift up your tops to check for weapons. I was like, where were you? Yeah, so I was like, what's going on here? I'm like, okay, fine, that's cool. And I thought, oh, yes, and I'm like, I don't look like the sort of person

that's gonna be carrying around a weapon, like that. And he was very thorough in the bouncer, he's like, do you mind if I just check your pockets and grab from the outside? I'm like, yeah, sure, do what you need to do. And then he grabbed and he was like, okay, left hand side, that's your wallet. And I'm like, yeah, it's wallet. And he went over to the right hand side and he goes, oh, is that, it's a vape. Is it vape?

And I'm like, oh, a vape? I don't vape. And my friend looked at me like, vape? Is that a vape? And I'm like, no, I don't vape. And then I went, me like, vape? Is that a vape? And I'm like, no, I don't vape. And I went, wonder what that is? I went inside my pocket and I pulled it out. And I was like, oh no, that's my hand sanitizer. Which I'm carrying right now.

And you can see. Considerably less cold than our weapon. Much healthier for you though than a vape kids if you're listening right now. Yeah. And I was like, really regret pulling that out of my pocket right now in front of everyone. And so I sanitized my hands and went on.

And he's like, yeah, you can go on. You don't have to worry about that. You're no threat to no one. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Right. We each like to, well, don't like to.

It gives me a bit of anxiety when you bring something to the show and you're like, I think I'm the only person that does this. Well the whole point is so you don't feel alone. Yeah and it's great when people do respond on the text or on the phone and say, hey no, I do this and you're like, oh yeah exactly, I don't feel like I'm the only one. Yeah. So you've got something. But I actually think I might be the only one.

The only one that does this. And my husband doesn't know I do this. I know I've done this for 10 years because I started in 2015 and it's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning. I go into the bathroom and I go to the toilet and I get dressed on the toilet. You get dressed on the toilet? Yeah. So the reason I started was because I had hip surgery.

And so I found it hard to lift my leg up into pants. So I started putting my pants on while I was on the toilet. I'd just put them on the floor, and then I'd lift them up. But I've never gotten out of the habit. So let's say you're wearing, I'm not trying to pry too much into what you're, you know, but say you got pajamas on, right? Yeah. So you go there and sit on the toilet with them and there's yours.

Yeah, I take my pajamas off while I'm sitting there. And then replace it with clothes. Yeah, it's kind of just like a seat. And so it's a seat in the bathroom. It's like a seat, but it's not a seat. And so I'll take my pajamas off and then you pull your pants up on your legs. So when you stand up, you really just pull your new pants up.

Wow, no, not me, not me. I mean, I'm, yeah. But it's just become a habit and I do it every single day because I get my clothes out. We get up early in the morning. I get my clothes out. I shower again.

Yeah, so I'm showering. So that's after the shower. Obviously you're a shower night. Night showerer. Yeah. And you're getting up, so that's after shower. So obviously you're a shower night. Night shower-er. Yeah. And you're getting up and you're getting, okay. Getting dressed on the toilet. Please, New Zealand. Okay.

Does anyone else get dressed on the toilet? This is a real Hail Mary. This is a real like, you're putting it out here and. But I had a reason why I started. Yeah, I see a reason as well. And now it just is comfy and it's easy. Do you have one of those hand railings next to the toilet just helping help yourself get back up again?

I was waiting for that, no. Another one in the shower as well too? When I had my hip surgery, I had like one of those frames on the toilet though. You must have been the youngest person with a hip surgery ever, eh? Yeah, probably. Thank you. Getting a hip operation around. Normally that's happening in about 10, 15 years' time.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, well, so far not a lot of people come with year eight that I can see. I want to know if I'm the only one in New Zealand who gets married, gets dressed on the toilet. And they get married on the toilet. Someone's called Doreen under the hoods. Doreen, good morning.

Good morning. Good morning, Megan. Please tell me that you're not ringing up to ridicule me. No I'm not. Do you get dressed on the toilet? Exactly, exactly what you do. When I get up in the morning,

and I go into the toilet, and then I take my clothes, my clothes are all ready for the morning because I pick up children for school, and I'm sitting there, take my pajamas off, and at the same time, put my pants on, put myself on school and I'm sitting there, take my pajamas off and at the same time, put my pants on, put myself on and I'm all ready. Wow, I did not think anyone's coming through.

It's comfy, right? It's just- Yes, it's very comfy. And I put the heater on in there too when I go in, so I turn the heater on so I'm nice and warm. It's just another seat, Ben. But you know you could just stand up and get dressed like the other people.

I just feel comfortable that way. For some reason it's just, yeah, you just take everything off and then you put your clothes on and then when you're done, you know, you just go on with business and you just come out with your dress. Yeah, once you're done, you just stand up and you put on your clothes like they were the clothes you were wearing. It's great. Jono, Ben and Megan.

The Podcast. The Hats. Now I had no idea what you're about to bring to the radio and you were a little nervous about opening yourself up. That's the whole point of this is that we discover when we think about something odd, we do and we bring it to you and we want to know if we're the only one. I truly thought that I would be the only one who does this every morning. My husband doesn't even know I get dressed on the toilet and I've done it for 10 years. It's just comfy. I did it because I had a hip operation and I never got out of the habit.

You're sitting down anyway, taking your jammies off, put your clothes on. Your people are coming through. Your people are like, if you told me what you're going to say, I would have said no. I would have said no one would come through. Someone has said I get dressed in bed sometimes in winter because it's too cold to get out. I like that. But people getting changed for the gym as well too on the, on the

bathroom as well. And it's not like you're doing, you know, like it could be like, it's obviously a couple of options you could be doing on the bathroom, but it's not like some people think you're doing the latter. No, it's like first thing in the morning. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And also who cares what I'm doing? Yeah, exactly. You have to do it at some time during the day. Good morning, Charlotte. You're one of these people who do it, is it at the gym? No, I do it at home before going to the gym, just getting ready. So why? So I don't turn all the lights on. Why? Why are you doing this? You

didn't have a hip operation like Megan, did you? No, I don't even all the lights on? Why? Why are you doing this? You didn't have a hip operation like Megan, did you? No, I don't even know how it started. I think it's just like, I don't want to wake my husband up. So I just go to the bathroom and then I just sit on the toilet and you just get changed. Do you feel seen now, Megan? I absolutely do. Do you know, I actually do it at the gym as well.

Cause I go to the like toilet cubicles to get changed. I haven't done it at the gym yet. Maybe I'm missing out. Maybe I'll try it tomorrow. It's comfy. Maybe we're just lazy. I don't know. But I'm glad that you called Charlotte. Have a great day. Brenda has joined. She also gets dressed on the toilet. Good morning, Brenda. Good morning. What, when did you start?

What time of the day? I don't know, early in the morning because it's cold when you get out of bed. When you're dressed, you just get dressed quickly and then you're dressed. Yeah. I guess it's, I like being efficient. Like I like taking things off my list.

And maybe it's, like you say, it's doing two things at once Megan. Well, you take your jammies off if you're wearing jammies to go to the bathroom. So then you just put your other clothes on. You're mostly in that form. You should see Ben's face. I just, yeah, I'm surprised.

It's not down for it. Well, like sometimes the text machine blows up and sometimes we get one or two texts. This is blowing up Megan. There's so many people in your camp right now. So relieved. Someone said I get dressed, undressed every morning on the toilet, but then I get in the shower. Okay, okay.

That would kind of make sense. You could try that because you're a morning showerer. Okay. All right. Thanks, he called Brenda. Also on the phone is Tilly. Good morning, Tilly. You get changed, is it in the afternoon?

Yes. Mine is a little bit different. I work away from work like I'm away it takes me an hour to get home so the first thing you want to do when you get home is go to the toilet so I do the opposite I take my work clothes off and put my jammies on. On the toilet? On the toilet. I love it. He's just shaking his head. Look there's so many of you who have done this. Have you talked to anyone about doing this before, before sharing it with us?

Before sharing? No, nobody knows that I do that. See Megan, you've just opened up. And I've got time constraints because I've got to get dinner organised. I've got my elderly parents living with me. So I've got to get dinner, I only get home at five, so I've got to get dinner organised by six thirty. So it's like bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. It's two birds, one stone. Toilet and change. Done. Love the efficiency.

Absolutely. Work smarter, not harder. Exactly. And we're lazier as well too for both of you. Tilly, thank you so much for sharing. Jono, Ben and Megan, the podcast, The Hits. We love catching up with Nicole. She's our entertainment reporter. She does a radio show out in New York. How are you this morning, Nicole?

I'm okay. I'm trying not to concoct a murder scene when my husband gets home at the moment, because he said he was going to play golf with clients and seemed to have time for another nine. Oh, really? So this is very busy. Extended was a bit longer than you thought he might be. Seem to have time for another nine. Oh, really? So this is very busy. Extended was a bit longer than you thought he might be.

Who cares about work and making money? Let's just golf all day. Oh, it's business stuff though. He's talking about, he's networking. Oh, totally. Oh my God. If I could count the amount of times my husband like swarmed off and was like networking, networking. Yeah.

You know, you don't know what's going to happen from this relationship that he's building right now. Oh my god. You know, he's putting the time in. He's doing it for the family, Nicole. I thought you were my friend. Not Matt's. I'm on your side.

I've never met Matt before. I don't know why I'm suddenly sticking up for him. No, they're all the same, Nicole. I did see your family though during the week all dressed up. Were you off to a wedding? Yes, we went to our niece's wedding, which was, it was the kids first wedding. So it was kind of funny just to see like the little one in like a little suit. Yeah, we went to a wedding. We had a blast. It was so much fun. Was it the same wedding that Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift went to?

No, no. But did you see the girl? I'll send it to you if you haven't the girl who's going viral i believe on tiktok because she was talking to her husband was like oh my god can you believe that taylor just showed up to this wedding and like she was at this wedding and the husband apparently said that they were invited a while ago and he said no and had no idea she was going to be there she was like i could have been at this wedding with taylor swift and he said no and had no idea she was going to be there. She was like, I could have been at this wedding with Taylor Swift and you said no. Oh, freaking out. She is not pleased. Oh, he was like, I don't know.

I knew Travis was going to be there, but like, I didn't think she would be there. She was like, you idiot. Oh my goodness. You idiot. Travis is going to be. So a lot of people are talking about that wedding, not just for that TikTok, obviously, but about the, uh, I guess the name tag, the invitation that said, uh, Travis and Taylor Kelsey together. Now, what are we thinking?

Any chance they got married or not? I don't, I mean, listen, do I want it to be true? Yes, I want it to be true, but because it wasn't an actual, like, it wasn't like the wedding invite, like if we had seen an address to that. And one unit, the girl normally doesn't go first. Right. Like it would have said it would have said Mr. and Mrs. Travis Kelsey. Right. Usually it would be right. Would have said that. But also, I feel like Taylor is like Taylor.

It's like Madonna. We don't need the swift. It's just Taylor Travis Kelsey. So I'm assuming it was just that. And there's no way that there's no way that they secretly got married. And that's like I just I'm not buying it. I that's like, I just, I'm not buying it. I want it to be true, but I'm not buying it. They looked, you know, like it was like a wedding was pretty relaxed. They look like they were sitting on a table with other people as well.

You know, it wasn't like they're off into their own better place, which is kind of cool. They seem like, you know, very normal. I mean, you've hung out with her a couple of times. Seems very relatively normal for someone who's a superstar. Yeah. And everybody was talking about like, you know, everyone was sort of like, oh my God, like, how could you have her at the wedding? Like that would be cool. You'd want her at the wedding, but at the same time, it's like supposed to be all about the bride, right? Like she's supposed to be the center of attention. It's supposed to be about her. And like, did she

take away from that? Cause everybody's like, oh my God, Taylor Swift's there. I saw this one thing online that was hysterical. Um, it said if Taylor came to my wedding, I wouldn't care if she wore a huge white dress and slow danced with my husband. And I don't think I would either. Oh, well, thank you so much for your time. We can't wait to see what you get next week and whether your husband gets back from his, uh, his networking golf game that he's currently on. I actually just got a text message from him. He said that they're playing instead of having dinner. So it'll still be, he'll still be home at the same time. Likely story really quickly before I go.

I, the warriors beat the sharks. Just saying, just saying. Well, hey, yeah, Nicole, of course you went to the first warriors game, which to be fair was the worst game of what has been a pretty good season for them so far. So probably one of the better seasons. So it's all good. I love that you're still on the bandwagon. That's so cool.

Feeling it. Oh, we're loving to catch up with you. We'll catch up with you next week. Yes. All of the better seasons. I love that you're still on the bandwagon. That's so cool. Feeling it. Oh, we're loving to catch up with you. We'll catch up with you next week. Yes. All right. Bye guys. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hits. Some very unusual, well, unusual news. It's making headlines at the moment.

Now the actress, Sydney Sweeney, she's in quite a few things. You may have seen her in. Euphoria and the movie with Glenn Powell. Anyone but you. Anyone but you. Yeah. And beautiful, talented actress. And so she is now, you know, with Glenn Powell. Anyone but you. Anyone but you. Beautiful, talented actress. And so she is now with a company. Her bath water has been reused and made into soap. So you can wash yourself with bath water that's been made into soap.

Like a bar of soap. Yeah, like a bar of soap. It's like Sydney Sweeney's bath water. I mean, obviously there's a lot of guys that would probably want... Heaps of people have wanted to buy it because it is sold out in seconds. And going on eBay now, some people are selling it for $2,000 for a cake of soap. $2,000!

That's like, I love her and I think she's talented and beautiful, but no one, why, why does anyone want anyone's bathwater? And do you even know it's, I mean, obviously the property is legitimate. How are they doing that? I don't know. I don't know the science behind it. And I don't think, no one would buy mine, but I don't think I would want to do that. Reusing bath water.

If you could just soak in here for a few hours and then we're going to make some bars of soap. Did your family have to do that back in the day? I remember very little. Sharing the bath? Yeah. The bath water and someone would go in and you never wanted to be the last person in the bath in that situation. No, I think it's fine if they both go in at the same time, but it's when you stagger them.

So you have to go in after your brother and you're like, oh. Leave the water in, your sister needs a bath. It's all milky. Your sister doesn't want a bath in my bath water. You're not making baths of soap out of the boys' family bath water, that's for sure. But then, yeah, how is it any different to a public pool really? Well, yeah, yeah, in some ways. A little chlorine maybe helps.

So yeah, I'll 100 the Hats 4487. Obviously they're reusing bath water to make into soap. Yeah, okay. You're trying to be eco-friendly on this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But what things are you reusing that maybe isn't intended? Shouldn't really be reused. Maybe it's for a good thing. My mum, again, we've talked about this before, she doesn't like throwing anything out, which is great. She'll keep

crumbs from cake and fish juice from, you know, to put into, I don't know. And then she keeps those little sushi, you know, when you buy sushi and there's little fish that have the soy sauce, she'll keep those. I'm kind of glad she's doing that because otherwise they just, all those fish get chucked out. She's right. What does she put in them? She says, I tried mouthwash.

I've got little things in mouthwash I can take out with me and just have a little swig of mouthwash. Either that or she's got a drinking problem and she doesn't want to admit it. You're definitely her son. You're a step away from filling up those fish with mouthwash. I am, you're right. Eugenio, Ben and Megan. The podcast.

That's... What are you reusing after actor Sydney Sweeney's got her bathwater made into soap? It's gone nuts on the internet. $2,000 a cake. Now, is what it's on eBay. That's what people are selling it for. Are people texting through saying vacuum cleaner bags? Oh, I used to do that, yep.

Empty it out, reuse it. Someone's using a teabag, three cups. They reckon they get three individual cups out of a tea. Don't like their tea too strong. I like to reuse the teabags on my eyes. Once they're cooled down, obviously. It's like, oh, I must. Some people do cucumber, I do tea.

You've got some teabags on your eyes. Yeah. Okay. Okay. We wanted to know what you're reusing that maybe isn't normal or usually reused. Kayla joins us on 0800 Hits. Good morning, Kayla. Hello. What are you reusing that wouldn't normally be reused? So I had my breast milk made into soap.

Oh, into soap? Yeah. Okay. So who, who did this for you? My auntie. So I'm down in Taranaki and she lives in Whangarei and one of my work colleagues, her family's out there. So one Christmas she took a big supermarket bag full of, of breast

milk and we got got made into soap. So sometimes breast milk like it goes off, you can only keep it for so long. Is that what had happened? Yeah, so my son had quite severe reflux and allergies and so I wasn't able to reuse it. I had also had a recent surgery and I don't scar the best and somebody had said to me like breast milk is really, obviously with babies you can put it in the bath to help them with conditions and stuff and you can actually use it on scars as well. So my auntie even made me three bottles of Moisturiser with scars as well. So my auntie even made me three bottles of moisturiser with it as well. Because I was going to say I'm totally down for this, but I reckon that's a great idea because

I put breast milk in my eye when I get like, styes and stuff. Yeah. And it helps. So did your skin feel really good when you used it? Yeah. So we actually, my son is now seven and we've only just finished using it. So we got 175 flops. Wow. And the whole family, people come around to stay, you're like, guess what? You just washed yourself with my breast milk. Pretty much. Pretty much.

It was a bit of a running joke. Oh, I love it. Does it actually smell nice in soap form? Like you get out, you're like, hey, this smells great. Yeah. And she made, my auntie made, I think from memory, there was about five or six different types. So they had different essential oils in it as well.

Yeah, she was putting oils in it to make it smell nice. Yeah. Yeah. And there was some ones with oats in it. So they were a little bit exfoliating. Oh, stop it. That's amazing. Maybe this is a little bit.

A new thing. It was where the Sydney Sweeney bath soap, uh, your bathwater soap. You've got a whole nother field you've opened up. I'm down for that. Kayla. Good work on recycling that. Awesome. And still in the beauty regime. Um, Trina's got something that she reuses.

Good morning, Trina. Good morning, Megan. How are you? Good. Um, Trina's got something that she reuses. Good morning, Trina. Good morning, Megan, how are you? Good, Trina's just from my hood in Nelson and Stoke. Oh, you guys are talking off air about all sorts of, yeah, like, and I smiled along, you know, politely. Shout out to Stoke and Nelson where I grew up. But anyway, Trina, we wanted to know what you're reusing that you maybe shouldn't be.

Well, it's a little, maybe, I don't know if that's embarrassing or not, but it's pretty damn handy. When you buy face masks that you put on your face and look a bit weird, like a zombie, you know, I find that they've got so much serum in the little pouches. So I reuse these face masks about five times. Oh, four times? You find them interesting when you put them on. You're talking about the sheet masks, eh?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. I've always, because you're right, they do have so much in the eye, usually just end up squeezing it out on my face and then it just doesn't all soak in. So maybe you are onto something. Absolutely. I have been known to wash the sheet mask and then put more serum on it and use it. Oh really? So you're using it as your own sort of base that you're adding stuff to?

Absolutely and I put them in the fridge and they're nice and cold. Oh you've kind of sold me on that. That's cool because I was like do they get dirty but then you wash them in the washing machine? No no no just rinse them out into some nice warm water, soapy water or just warm water and then just you know get the serum out of the again once out of the pouch if there's lots left. I still wouldn't use yours, Ben.

Okay, fair enough. I can't, well, it's an option. I'm fine with that. Yeah. I'm a pretty clean face, but it's all right. That's fine. I understand. Oh, it's a hack.

I'm going to try it, Trina. It works. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Three people winning over $300,000 in last night's lotto. Big lotto draw, but no Powerball struck. So 20 million up for grabs.

Splitting a million, eh? Yeah, three ways. Not to sound ungrateful, but if you won, and you're like, oh my God, I won, and then you realize you have to split it with three people, and it was a million, like if it was 10 million, you're splitting it. Yeah, fine, we can split that around.

Again, not to sound ungrateful, 300,000, more than what I've got. That'd be nice, wouldn't it? That'd be nice right now, wouldn't it, yeah. Now, I went on a trip at the weekend, so I was at the airport and, god, airports are chaotic, hey? I haven't done travel for a long time.

It was like five years or something. Well this was international travel with two little kids, right? Yeah, and it's busy. And the kids, they were great, but they were running, you know, running around, interested in everything, and were in security, and I'm trying to tell them

this isn't a place for you, for shenanigans. Yeah, gotcha. And that's when a guy behind me, lovely gentleman, tapped me on the shoulder, and he was like, excuse me, you've dropped something. And I was like, what if the kids drop? Like, have we got everything? Have they got their toys?

Like, what could it have possibly been? Passports as well, too, yeah um stuff so i was like oh thank you and i turned around and he had picked up um i had dropped it um one of my one of my he know what it was? Carrying suitcases. I don't know. He was a mature man. So maybe he didn't. But he'd seen it on the ground. Obviously came off my hand as I'm picking up suitcases and stuff. He bent down and picked up my fake nails.

I was like, eww. You're like, thank you. But hopefully there's a conversation about what exactly that is. Yeah, I don't know if he was trying to embarrass me or if he really thought that I needed it back. But I was like, ugh. It's a low point. Just another low point. It reminds me of a low point I had on a plane where I often chew gum for time to time, particularly when flying, I find it quite good on my ears. But I wanted to get rid of a certain bit of gum and I was sitting in my seat and I had my ticket and I was like, oh, put it in the ticket. I don't need this

anymore. I'm sitting in the seat. And then suddenly there was announcement on the plane looking for a passenger and it really sounded like my name, like a Ben somebody. And I was like, did that say Boyce? And they only do it once. And I said, my daughter, and she's like, yeah, I'm pretty sure that was your name. So I was like, oh, put, press the little thing and said, you know, I've got the stewardess to come over. And I was like, I put, you know, put the little thing and said, you know, I've got the stewardess to come over and I was like, Hey, I think that was my name. And she's like, can I check your ticket? And I was like, Oh no.

And so I had to get the ticket out and I went, it's got some gum in it. And she opened it up as the gum and it was all like to look at the name. And I was like, Oh, I'm so sorry. This is something. Was it you? Yeah, no it wasn't even me. It was like Ben Boyle or something like this or something. It was very close and then I was like, oh I've just made you do that.

All that for nothing. So my gum, you've got a nail falling off at the airport. Yeah we're classy. Classy when we travel. Jono, Ben and Megan. The Podcast. The Hats. Calling it the cash cow.

We've drawn up some grids on that paddock and if the cow does its business in one of the grids, $5,000. Yeah. Well, I hope it's going to do its business in one of the grids and whoever's got that grid number, that prize is yours. And wins that and a smartphone thanks to One New Zealand, but we wanted to get some advice ahead of working with a cow and Mark Vetti is an animal trainer. He's taught dogs to fly planes, to drive cars, he's been on movie sets, TV sets, he even did the bugger dog. They taught the dog to say bugger in that commercial. He's done everything and we thought he could help us out ahead of us working with a cow tomorrow. Mark, good morning. Yeah, hi. How are you? Good.

How are you doing? Good. Thanks so much for your time. Appreciate it. And now normally we talk to you about some of the amazing things you've done over the years. You've taught dogs to what, to drive and to fly planes and things like that, right? That's right, that's right. Of course they taught cows to dance. This is the thing, we were like, because we are going to be working with a cow for the first time on Friday. It's happening. And we want to know from someone that's worked with a cow

before and we were surprised to know you've worked with cows. Yeah, that's right. I had another job that I nearly did a few years ago where we literally about teaching them to, because of the calving credit, to show you that they wanted to run the business. So they wanted you to toilet train the cows basically to see if cows could go to an actual place to go to the bathroom. Did you give that a crack or not? No, I mean I have trained cows to do similar kind of things.

So what have you trained cows to do? I used to do, we used to do a whole series called California Cows for the US and it was and we trained cows to dance, you name it, we taught it. What does a cow, when you say dancing, like how is the cow dancing? Well, actually it's a little bit of a cheating one sense, you know, because it was for the film of course, so we'd get them working their teeth, swinging, and then we'd get them swinging the legs left to right, and then the back legs, and the hips, and then the head. Oh my god, who?

And it was all pieced together. It was pretty cool actually. That's awesome. So we are trying to get a cow to poop on a grid. How do we get the cow to like us straight away? Sweet feed. What? They love sweet feed.

It's got molasses and it's a cow feed, you know, but it's sweet and they love it. They work all day for that. Sweet food. And a clicker to get them to walk to a mark if you want them to go on a mark. As an animal trainer, that's kind of a lot of what you do, I imagine, is with a clicker so they know they're doing the right thing and also rewards with food is the most common thing?

Yeah, that's right. That's right. It's all reward based. And it's a matter of just teaching them a simple routine. You work them when they're a little bit hungrier. So you keep them, put them in a pen for a little while, and then they're ready to go. That sounds exactly like Ben. Routine, keep them fed. I do like my routine.

Make sure he's got trees. You're a whiner. But you must have so much patience, you know, to be working with animals. Because I mentioned, like, you, like, as we talked about before, you're teaching a dog to drive or a dog to fly a plane. I mean, how long is the most amount of time you've spent with a particular animal? Probably flying dogs. Yeah, we spent eight months filming that series in

England and so the dogs started, I mean they started learning to do things like play drums and playing a band and do a lot of crazy things and then worked into an aircraft rig and then slowly into a full rig. It probably took us two months to do the flying part of it. I just can't even stop my dog from barking. No, mine pooed on the carpet the other day. Yeah, like the things that the, you know, your average dog, I'm in no disrespect to my dog who I love, but he's an average, you know, I'm an average human. Yeah, I think it's more the average human that's doing the proper thing. Yeah, it probably is actually.

It's probably on me rather than the dog. Well, that's really fascinating. Okay, sweet feed we need on Friday, Megan. Sweet feed, you click it, maybe you've all on the stick and you're away. Okay, we've got a lot to fascinating. Okay. Sweet feed we need on, on Friday megan. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Clicker. Maybe you've all on the stick and you're away. Okay. We've got a lot to do. Yeah.

But now hopefully the cow will have a great time. Get fed, get some sweet feed and hopefully poop on the right grad. What's the price? Yeah. Well, $5,000, $5,000 for the cows can get a long way and $5,000. The cow doesn't get it. You imagine the sweet feed you could buy with that. The cow just gets a clap. Yeah. The cow gets some sweet feed. We'll look after it.

Hey Mark, we always love catching up with you. Congrats on all the amazing work you've done over the years and thanks for your insight. Okay, always good to catch up. We appreciate it. Cheers. Good talking to you both. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The Hats. Strawberry Moon was seen across New Zealand last night. I saw some pictures online of it. What does that mean? Well, it's come from indigenous America. It's a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very,

very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, The hit. The strawberry moon was seen across New Zealand last night. I saw some pictures online of it. What does that mean? Well it's come from indigenous Americans and it signals the time of the year that strawberries were harvested apparently. So it's the moon that looks a little bit of like a strawberry tinge to it I guess.

Cute. Yeah it looks cute. Like a pinky moon. But it's one of those things, if you see it and you try and take photos on your phone it never looks that good right? I know and you're like wow that's Like a pinky moon. If you see it and you try and take photos on your phone, it never looks that good, right? I know, you're like, wow, that's a big full moon, and then you take it on your phone, you're like, oh. It's like fireworks.

Every time we go to take a photo of fireworks, it never, never looks good. How many times have we filmed fireworks? I've never looked back at them. I know, you're like, wow, fireworks. I'm not a huge fan of fireworks in people's backyards, but yeah, public displays, you know. Amazing, and you're like, ah, and then, no, it doesn't look good at all. No one cares. fan of fireworks in people's backyards but yeah public displays you know amazing

and you're like ah and it doesn't look good at all. No one cares. Now you got caught out. Yeah I'm saying this early because then my husband won't hear it because in our house we don't, what's a nice word for it? Well my mum used to call it windy pop. Yeah we don't do that in front of each other. Well, my mum used to call it Wendy Pop. Fluff. Wendy Pop. Yeah, Wendy Pop. We don't do that in front of each other. Yeah. Haven't for like the whole 12 years.

I respect. Yeah. But I now have children. My two year old's still in nappies. And at the weekend, he was like, does she need to be changed? In your mind, right here, had something gone on from you? Had a little something slipped out? A little sneaky sneaky.

And so straight away I was like, she doesn't need to be changed. She doesn't need to be. She's all good. But I was like, oh, let me check. And I was like, are you doing parties? She was like, no. And I was like, no, she must be. She's like, was like, no. And I was like, no, she must be. She's like, no, I'm not.

I'm like, damn, she's getting too old for this. She can tell him the truth. But I was like, oh, she must need to go soon. That's the problem. As soon as they can start talking back. I know, talking. That's why people blame the poor dogs and animals get blamed for a lot of stuff, I'm sure.

Sometimes it is the dog and other times it's like. If they could talk, good Lord, the stories they'd have. You get to that age as a parent too, like I was, I remember getting called out once, you know, it was like an under fives things are free and one of my daughters had turned five so you're like, and two under fives and then they're like, I'm not under five. You're like, shut up. But then also how do you do that? Because as soon as you tell them it's a secret, just be like, don't say anything. Then they even want to even more.

Oh, exactly. There's no way getting around it. And then you're not setting a good example because you're trying to get them into like the museum or something for free. Like, just pay a donation, you cheap bugger. And I'd be like, I wear two under fives. No, I'm not. Yeah.

And for a kid, that's the thing. You don't want to mess with the age as a kid. You know, the kids always want to be older. Five and a half. Yeah, exactly. Five and three quarters. Yeah. So you reckon Andrew knew or not?

No, I don't think he knows. I'm going to carry on. It's great. He's like, I'm, yeah, I maybe just, maybe slip one out. She didn't know about it, right? Yeah, yeah. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The Hats. We want to talk to Janine, who is at Ambry Farm. Good morning, Janine. How are you? Oh, very good. Thank you. How are you? We're doing all right. We're filling out the grid. People are getting places on the grid. And then we're hoping, you know, it's all still good to come Friday

and do the show from there, Ambry Farm. Oh, yeah, no, we're really looking forward to it, actually. Are the girls all good? Oh, the girls are always good. Now I have a question. I don't think it's a surprise to anyone. I'm a bit of a city girl. What's the attire?

Do I need to wear gumboots or can I wear my heels? Well I would like to see you wear your heels. Okay. But otherwise I would definitely suggest gumboots. But if you want heels, get heely gumboots. Oh, that's a thing. Is there a thing? Heely gumboots, but if you want heels get hilly gumboots. Is there a thing? Hilly gumboots? I'm sure you'll find some in Constance. Okay, so Anne what about the, you know, the the bowel movements or the cow movements?

Now which cow are we going to decide? Which do you think? Because you had some options the other day, right? Totally, but I think we might have time for you to see if you can build a rapport with which cow you like, you know, and then you could pick whatever feeling you get from each cow and we can play it by ear So how do you build a rapport because I was gonna ask what treats do you bring a cow like? Do they like chocolate or I don't know If you bring them chocolate, they'll make chocolate milk If you bring them chocolate, they'll make chocolate milk. So we just want chocolate milk. I'm like, is that a thing?

But maybe I won't ask. No follow up questions. Honestly, a good scratch on the head, behind the ears. They can't reach that part of their body ever. So they're pretty partial to a good old scratch. I'll have my little buggy filled with halage. So they'll pretty much do anything to get some of that. Okay, cute.

And how often would they get, because we're looking up online, they go to the bathroom quite regularly, right? Normally. Yes, yeah, yeah, they do. So you think there's a good chance in the morning when we're doing our radio show that the cow that we choose will go bathroom in one of the grids? Oh, they're definitely going to go bathroom at some stage. We hopefully they've got up early themselves and had a good snack beforehand so that they've got some bowel movements going. But otherwise, like I said, I've got the halyards there that we can whip out. Great. Okay. Well, we're very excited about doing it. Although it's going to be quite

cold first thing in the morning out there, I imagine. Yeah. And probably quite misty. We might not see much either. Okay. I'm actually really concerned about my farm attire. Oh, yeah. I just don't... Get a checkered shirt. Yeah.

We got Hitz jackets. I guess they're warm and appropriate, you know, but yeah. I don't... I'm not really... I'll get a bale of straw if you like, and then you can have a bit of straw dangling out of your mouth. Oh, nice. Very nice. Okay. Feel a bit nice. Do we need some sort of...

What's a wadi? Well a wadi is a stick that we just use to gently persuade the cow. So we'll need to do that to move them in and out of the grid area. Okay. All right. We'll have some wadi for you that'll get you feeling farm-y. And the hat, does it feel like some sort of cowboy hat type situation or not really, or more of a beanie or it doesn't matter? Oh, you could wear a beanie if you want to feel like

you're in Montana without a cowboy hat. Not great for headphones, are they though? We're headphones to the radio. So maybe I'll leave the cowboy. I don't feel like I'm a cowboy hat person. Maybe a nice woolen beanie. That's the farm thing. Oh, we're very excited about it. Well, thank you so much. And it's a lot of money. It's a very silly, fun thing that we're doing, obviously, with the cow to go to the bathroom. But there's a lot of money up for grabs for someone.

It's very exciting. Yeah, it sure is. All right, well, we'll see you on Friday. Nice and early. Thank you so much. And if people want to go visit Ambry Farm, because as I said before, I went on a tour with my kids and stuff when they were at school. It's a really great place, very

educational. Yeah and free. So you can just come along and have a really nice interaction with animals and it doesn't cost you a single cent. Oh amazing. Well thank you very much. We can't wait to hang out with you on Friday. John O'Vannon Megan, The Podcast. The Hats. You know yesterday, as I said, I went to the supermarket next to the mall and as I was

walking out on the way to pick out the kids, someone walked past and goes, oh, I love listening to you guys on the radio on the heads. Oh, that's nice. And she said, but I've got something that I need to talk to you about. So I'm like, uh-oh, what is this? She's like, my husband and I, we all year we were like, we're going to have a trap and we're going to go to Vietnam. And then she's like, but I heard you talking about Sri Lanka and talking about your trip.

And then I went home one day to my husband. I was like, we're going to Sri Lanka. We're not going to Vietnam. We're going to Sri Lanka. And he's like, well, where did you get this from? She's like, Jono and Ben on the radio. And he's like, you're listening to Jono and Ben on the radio over what we'd planned. And so she's like, it looks incredible.

We're booked for two weeks. And I'm like, we had a great time, but she's like, the pressure is now on you because... Well, to be fair, that probably has more to do with the beautiful country of Sri Lanka than it has to do with your guys' recommendation. Exactly. You're right, Megan. So good. So this is on Sri Lanka. This is not on us. Okay? But I hope that person, no, no, I didn't get your name. I'm sorry. I had to go rush off and pick up the girls, but I hope you have a wonderful time and please let us know. If you do, if you don't, we don't want to hear from you ever again.

And also let this be a lesson to everyone else, don't take any recommendations generally in life about anything. Yeah, but this one, I mean we did have a fabulous time. No, I mean the videos spoke for Sri Lanka. Yeah, they did. Just don't wear a gold suit, that's my only tip, because they're quite hot and they don't breathe.