Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Ben is gonna be Tauranga's new mascot!

Episode Date: August 14, 2025

On today’s show: Jono apologises to Mayor Mahe Drysdale for stealing a random women's purse! Why Ben wore a CONE to a work function... Daniella reviews kiwi version of Italian food! We chat about our drive down in the Cash N Car... We test out the AI called Laura Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Jono Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better tea. Welcome to the podcast. As we yell loudly in the corner of a cafe in Tauranga, you're really conscious, you know, when people are in a cafe and you're doing radio over the last three hours that you are talking quite loudly.

The problem is that we've got headphones on, so you can't really gauge how you're allowed you're yelling. Yeah. Are you allowed to talk? My wife always says that to me when I'm on the phone. She's like, you're yelling. I'm just talking loudly and, you know, like, projecting. You know that I always like to have my headphones louder

I don't think they were turned up very loud today So I was yelling We'll hear about that We'll have a meeting Nothing's more annoying than someone telling you when you're on the phone You're like, you feel like the boomer couple That's bickering and arguing You're like, don't tell me now, I'm just talking

So that's why I wander I go for like a 20K walk from on the phone He has to get 20Ks away So you can't hear him Now the reason we are in Tohanga Broadcasting from the wonderful Florence Bistro and Cafe If you're ever in Tohongongue

Please visit this place It's wonderful The Noki Noki Oh, good pronunciation. Usually people say gnocchi. Nochi. It was amazing last night.

We had some incredible food here. Yeah, and we're here because our Italian correspondent, Danielle, who we've never met face-to-face. We wanted to come visit you and make you some of the New Zealand's finest frozen Italian food. Pizzer, spaghetti, from a can. What an experience to forget. Yeah. Not a spirit.

To forget. She's yelling again. They're like spaghetti. She's yelling again. Oh my God, sorry. No, she's not. She just got a good tone of voice. Yeah, she's really getting into it.

She's not yelling. Now, well, thank you for having us here. No, thank you for invite me. It's a, it's such a small place. Why you're laughing, Megan? I just love your English. It's fantastic. Me and Megan just, oh, stop, stop to fork my microphone in my mouth.

They're sharing a tiny little microphone, so they have to keep... I don't know, I'm one of my lipstick is on your microphone. That's my present to you. They're getting very close. We've been hugging each other all night yesterday and today. And you're off pillow shopping today. as well yeah we got a shop here in Taronga near Target furniture call I don't remember sorry you started with confidence yeah unusual name for a shop is a it's a mattress shop in front

of Target you cannot miss and um you lie on a mattress they got sensors I did that two three years ago and they test your pillow then which one is for your neck oh so you get the right pillow then when the spine look all green on the screen and you watch the screen means that the right I love it. And I did it two, three years ago I'm going again to see if he's the right

because when you said I'm going pillow testing today I was like oh that's an unusual task but you don't test your pillow It's probably actually

quite a smart idea because you know we all different living side belly up belly down whatever you do I don't know

Is this a solo thing? And we can laughing again Are you taking Danieli with you as well? Danieli Danieli there you go Is he like

no he's like no he's shaking said of me he's like please God I don't want to go to the pillow shop. Daniela's husband is, you're getting a massage today. He's getting massage. I know. The life of Todonga.

I know, he's a lucky guy. That's what happened when you're chefing and you're crook, you know. You need to fix your body somehow. Yeah, no, he's a wonderful chef, your husband. Really good. So do you have like restaurant quality meals at home all the time? I need to be honest, yes. You need to be honest?

Yeah, he's cooking all the time. That's amazing, yeah. But the compromise here is I'm doing shopping. I'm cleaning and I do the garden and it's cooking lunch, breakfast, no, breakfast and dinner, I will say. And and real pizza. Real pizza. Because you got a nice pizza oven. Oh, have you.

Next time you guys come in Tarong, are you coming for dinner in our place? Yeah, of course. And they make all their own pasta. Do they? From scratch. Yeah, yeah, we're about to open a business called Cache Pepe and we come made fresh pasta. Oh wow. And pizza.

Oh, you're going to sell pasta? Yeah, then we do like the lazy Friday night. come and we will cook for you and you come and pick it up from our place. That's clever. Oh, very cool. Yeah, that's really good. What's one thing if a New Zealand was going to go to Italy, what's one thing you would recommend? I mean, there's so many amazing things to do in Italy, but what's the one thing that you couldn't?

Food-wise. Yeah, let's go food-wise, yeah. Yeah, you need to go on this little restaurant on the little street. You know, that not everybody go. You follow the residents, the people that live there, the locals, yeah. And you go in this tiny little restaurant and the one that's, you know, Nana make the pasta still. Yeah. Onana supervising the kitchen.

That's the one. You were saying really interesting last night about the, we're putting bleach. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. We bleacher flour. Yeah, I don't know. You guys are wet, though. I don't know why, but you bleacher.

Didn't know this. So that's why it can be quite carb heavy in New Zealand and Australia. All the allergies, tolerance. Because you think about the Italian people, they're eating a lot of pasta. You're saying pretty much every day you would eat for lunch. Lunch, lunch. It's quick and fill you up. We are like carbs, it's too many carbs in New Zealand, but over there.

Oh, no, I don't know. I'm not sure why. The Italian flowers look like, it looks a bit more like sawdust. It's all got lots of different colours. Brownish, shame. Do you have for like for breakfast, like bacon and eggs? Is that a meal over there? No, no.

Just, you know, yes. What would you have for an Italian breakfast? Um, croissant, that we call cornetto, yeah. Capucino and Corpuccino. Oh, so just like a cross on then a cappuccino. Yeah, yeah. I need to say I change when I,

you know, travel overseas and now I have my eggs, my piece of avocado, and a little bit of fruit. That's my breakfast usually. Yeah. But yeah, I was croissant and cappuccino every morning. Okay, so that's morning. Lunchtime, pasta? Pasta, with even just simple tomato and basil. Oh, yeah, just a simple pasta.

And then dinner time, is it late dinner? Late dinners? It felt like it was very, when I went to Italy. It's very late dinners, that had. 7.30, 8, 30. Yeah, yeah. And you're having whatever is protein you choose. A lot of fish is cheap in Italy.

Yeah, right. So something fish. Fish, fish, three, four times a week. and your veggies and bread and then gelato afterwards right yeah yeah geez we're eating our dinner before the chase at 5.30 I know yeah that's okay I enjoy that you must you must come to New Zealand go sure this place is boring and now I thought yeah this place is very organized organized that's a nice way of sake yeah we can find the positive on that we are very organized. And your digestion is good.

You guys don't have digestion problems, you know? Those are two of the finest compliments you can pay to New Zealand. We'll take it. Organising good digestion. We'll love it to meet you. We'll have to plan another trip back. I feel like we're going to burden you guys for dinner at your place next time.

Yes, please. Crash in our place. Bring producer Grace as well this time. Oh, yes. We need to bring out. And Megan needs to get a warrant of fitness tomorrow. It's just popped up on your computer too. So don't forget that. You have yourself a wonderful weekend. Good luck with that, Megan.

And enjoy the podcast. John O'Benn and Megan The podcast The Hits In the floor of the Taronga City District Regional Financial Council and I think we're going to be

talking to the mayor suit Mahe Mahe, May, Drisdale's coming former Olympian Mahi Oh there's Mahi there We'll be talking to you shortly mate, how are you? Bloody good to me

That was good timing How are you mate? As soon as someone says Mayor he just appears magically He's like, do you want me to cut a ribbon? What's going on? We'll be with you shortly

Mahat, thank you. I actually need to make an apology to the mayor since he's here in the city of Toadongra. Oh, you can bring him in next year now if you want. Okay. Okay, we'll do that later. We'll do the apology. Come, grab a seat, Mahe.

Well, you can apologize to the mayor? You know, he's here? Do you know what happened last night, Mahe? Chuck those on, mate. We were here last night and I stole a bag. I stole a lady's handbag. Without a word of a lie, there is police over there,

that's why they're here. Oh, there are the police there. They've come for you. He's here, guys. You can take him away. The back story, Mahe, was we were leaving, and the waiter said, oh, who's is this bag in jacket? And I thought, well, this must be Megan's, and she's forgotten it. Because I'm a female, you know, just a bit bag attached to me.

Yeah, and so what I did is I took it, but now if you see me on CCTV, it'll show me having it behind my back because I didn't want Megga to see it because I had a routine plan. Oh, no. So in my head, I was like, okay, this is how to play out. will get to the lift of the hotel. And then I'll be like, Megan, where's your bag? And you'll be like, oh, my God. And then I'll pull it out from behind my back.

So I'm sneaking around the restaurant with this bag behind the back. And a pink jacket. The pink jacket. Which wasn't Megan's? And I walk outside and Megan's like, who's bag and jacket is that? And I'm thinking, it's yours. And it wasn't hers, mate. So I need to apologize to you.

He then had to run back in and try and find the other. of the bag and jacket that he had swiped and taken outside. Sounds like a good story. Oh, you're just talking to my face, mate. Talking to my face, yeah. It sounds like a good story. I'm not sure I buy it.

Okay, we're going to get Mike sorted. He's going to join us next. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. The hotel we're staying at just across the quest, just across the road. It was like, and four or five steps

and we were there. Amazing. And I still turned up late. I was still 15 minutes late Travis the nightmare guys Five minutes away You're like five minutes away How's that good way?

It's literally 10 seconds away But anyway Last night we were at an event Enzmi, the company we worked for Put on a lovely event With all the NZB clients and sales reps Around the Toirang region Also our big boss, our CEO

All the bosses were there Yeah Spreading the good word Ben Z-Me, the company propaganda. We're getting it out there like the disciples of media. And we got to emce it to talk in between our big bosses. Yeah, Tony Street wasn't available. No, I think that's the thing.

Neither was Hosking. You always wondered that. You're like, how many people did they go through to get to us? A few, I'd say. Jeremy Wells, Mike Hosking, other people that work in the building. Yeah, they got to us eventually. We were available. Who could be bothered going to Tauranga?

Well, us. We love it here. But I thought, you know, because at home I have a vast selection of costumes. and, you know, Tadong has had a lot of roadworks over the last few years, right? Particularly along Cameron Road, yeah, for at least two or three years. The whole thing was just littered with road cones. So we said we did a little bit of comedy. Yeah, yeah.

I was like, I'll bring the Roadco costume about, we'll do a reveal where I whip away. I come back out, we're like, hey, we've been working with the council for a new mascot for Tauranga. Here he is now, and I come out as a road cone. You had the gag about not Tony Street, but... Coney Street. And the crowd went silent. As the people arrived for the event and I knew because I came pre-prepared in tights and orange tites and an orange top under what I was wearing so it could be a quick change like a Beyonce concert. As I was sort of standing there and watching the crowd, I was like, oh, is this a guy going to go down?

You know, like I'm okay to embarrass myself all my daughters in costume, but just in my head I was like, is this the right place? In front of the corporate community. Yeah, it's just the right. But then we're like, no, no, we'll possess, we'll do it. And it's like, it's not going to bring the house down, but at least it'll come in the full. front door, I guess. And so you came out with these very crotchy, crotchy

orange tights, didn't he? Yeah, there's no shorts or nothing underneath there, just my underpants and tights. And the row cone doesn't quite go over the sort of, it does just over the sort of crotch region. Because after we did the gag, I'm sitting in the front row with Ben and he brought the house down too.

Yeah, he's rapturous. He leans over to me and he's like, shall I get changed? Should I take it off? I sat there and now, a big boss talked and the other boss talk that I'm sitting in an audience of corporate, so I'm in a road code costume. And I couldn't quite turn my head around the whole way because of the visibility. He didn't have peripheral vision, no. So I had to sort of like maneuver around, and I just had to me going, should I get changed?

She looked at me like, you're like, okay, but no, you should stay, but I didn't know if that was. No, I was like commit to it. You're here now. The problem was, it was one of the first things we did, and it was an hour and a half long at the event. He was dressed like a ride. Pop me back up on stage and pop me down again. Everything in my mind was like, if that was me, I'd definitely get changed. But I was like, no, Ben, yesterday, you're great.

I could see our bosses when they talk to the speeches. They'll be talking to, walking around the room. They just look at me, and we're almost like an ugh. And then they go back. Do you know, it backfired on me, though, because there's like a little step up onto the stage, and we were in the front row. So when Ben went up to do his, like, bit by himself, I was in an angle where I saw what was under. You saw his little road cone.

Yeah. Were there, like, velour hot pants under? No, that was just my boxes pulled. Oh, lovely, I saw those. Great. So, anyway, unofficial mascot for Ta-Daga. If you want to, if you want to look at the bonus, we're not going to be asked back to do another one, so...

Look at the what? The bonus of the whole situation. Oh, the bonus. No, that's what you said. She wasn't looking at my bonus, that's for sure. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast, The Heds. Also exciting for us, we got to meet a Daniela. Now, we stumbled across Daniela when we rang the quiz.

West Hotel in Tauranga about a year ago and she's amazing. She's great and we talked to her every week, every second week. Yeah, and for 12 months we've been saying we must treat you to some of New Zealand's finest Italian cuisine and that is in the form of frozen pizza, spaghetti in a can and that sort of thing. So Daniela, it's lovely to meet you face to face. Nice to meet you guys. Originally from Italy, living in our in New Zealand, our Italian correspondent and now we were

worried that you were catfishing us. You know, maybe you weren't going to be quite like your profile picture or anything like that. But, you know, it feels like everything worked out last night when we met. Did you see how much fake I am, yeah? How much fake? You could touch me on the flesh. We could touch me. No, in the flesh, okay?

On the flesh. Yeah, you said that yesterday. You were like, well, I love to meet you on flesh. And we're like, yeah, close enough. Yeah, I know. It's my English slash Italian. You need to forgive me, guys. And the big one we really enjoyed, we said, you know, what's your favorite dish?

and it was the soup a bowl. A soup a bowl, yeah. A bowl for soup. It was also a super bowl, yeah. A super bowl. So we got to meet you last night, and we got to go to Florence Bistro, where they make it a wonderful Italian food, but we've got to bring our own food from New Zealand along for you to try.

An appetizer, shall we say, you know, before the main course. Producer Troy went to panicked because we realized we hadn't got the food. He went down to the dairy, into the frozen section of a dairy, which is always an interesting space. And we pulled out a frozen pizza, we got some minestroney. And a sort of cup, yeah. And a can of spaghetti. And we presented it to you in our tuxedos, and we got a super bowl and put the minstroni in it, and here's how it went.

Daniela, we're going to start with minestrone in a cup. Okay, there we go. Traditional minestrone. Bon appetites. Is that what you say? No, that's French. Can you try better? Good apatito.

What a pettito? You interrupted me. I was just about to put the toe on the end. So Danielle is going to put a bit of salt and paper on the minister or net. But don't take away its natural flavor. No, just to make better. Okay, here we go. Okay, here we go.

This pasta inside? No, I'm just asking. We call it noodles. Yeah, noodles. It's noodles. You're right. It's noodles. Planes eat noodles.

No, we eat the spaghetti. The trick is just don't think too hard about it. There we go, we'll put some little garnish on it. Oh yeah, I think it off the garnet. And? Not common. No comment, okay, a good, good start, good start. Good start, guys, good start, good start, okay.

We've got some lovely, well, it was frozen pizza, but guess what? It's no longer frozen. Oh, good. Hawaiian. Hawaiian. Pizza. In New Zealand we put fruit on our pizza. No, why is so dry? Why did it not? As you would say in Italy, panapoli.

Look how white it is. It's good. It's all the goodness. Are you sure? First thoughts of the frozen pizza. Mmm. Bellissimo. Yeah. That's fantastic.

Oh, she didn't go for two. Oh, she's been a second bite. Oh, McCain, you've done it again. Yeah, that's nice, that's nice. Okay, good, great. Okay, and the final course? Yeah, no way. Is it something yummy delicious?

It's a delicacy in New Zealand, this one. This is spaghetti. I'm making it a straw. It's with a sausage. Can I have this spoon a place? That's scary. Look, someone die inside my plate. What is this spaghetti?

They're all broken. Why are you eating it with a fork? Here we go. Yeah. Oh dear me, I'm a shabotis. Good luck. Mom, forgive me. Mom, forgive me.

She loves that. Woohoo. Very good, very good. Would you believe that came from a tin? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. She did believe it came from the tin. There we go.

So you actually like the pizza. The pizza was your favourite out of the three. the three. Yeah, if we want to say that. Yeah, yeah, that's a compliment. You can see the video. We'll put it up on the hits breakfast of Janiela. Yeah, trying out the food. I love how you like literally almost choked on that spaghetti from the can. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was thinking, you know, in Italy, if you break spaghetti, they break your harm in hands because you cannot do that. Like, you cannot break spaghetti. All right. Well, we have. We've broken it here. We're putting it in a can. I know.

With some little sausages, question mark, in there. Yeah, question mark. Yeah, yeah, I'm not sure about that. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. To meet Daniela, who's originally from Italy. We stumbled across her about a year ago.

We've been talking to her every week. We're calling you our Italian correspondent, and we've loved chatting to you, and we loved meeting you last night. Nice to meet you guys. I think now I can really picture myself when I talk with you. You, me, us, Dina. Producer Troy as well. You know, I finally met him, the legend.

You met the legend. The man, the myth, the legend, producer Troy. And what did you, like, honestly, what did you think of everyone when you met us in person? Yeah. Like, do they look older than what you thought they were. You look stunning. You were all dressed up and cute. When I saw you from the windows, it was like, love at first size.

But we don't tell that to my husband. Well, your husband's sitting right here. Stay with us. Stay with us. Well, speaking of, your husband is actually a chef in the restaurant. that we were in last night giving you the frozen pizzas and stuff. He wasn't making those. He was making some amazing Italian food here at Florence Bistro.

But then ironically, once you had left, you know, 95% of the frozen pizza, all the chefs were like smashing back the frozen pizza going, I was like, you guys are making far better food than this. We learned something about you both, that you have almost the same name. Right, yeah. Then in English you would say Daniel and Daniel, but the real name is Daniela and Danieli. So your husband's Daniele. Bravo.

Good pronunciation. Chao, chao. You become so Italian with my influence. And you're Daniela. Yeah, one L. Both of us, one L. So there's only one letter that separates you both at the end. Yeah, we meant to be cute.

You meant to be. Oh, that's pretty cute. That's probably one of the greatest couple names you'll ever hear. Yeah. Is it confusing or not confusing? For you people, English people, yes. For us people, yeah. Not for Italian people, it's very normal.

The male and the female version. That's all. Yeah, so we're after New Zealand's best couple names, okay? 0,800 the hits, we'd love to get you on the phone. 4487 on the text. Sure, there's like a Trev and Bev out there. That'd be nice, we'd love to hear from that. We know a Lee and a Lee.

Yes, don't we? They're both. Yes, it's spelled slightly different. Yeah. Lee and a Lee and a Barbie out there. Oh, that would be great. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast. The Hids.

We met Daniela, who we've been talking to for a year, hadn't actually met you, and we learned a lot about you last night. Firstly, you like frozen New Zealand pizza. Yum! Hawaiian, nonetheless. Yes. Yeah. And also that you have a very cute couple name, you and your husband.

Daniela, Daniele. Daniela and Daniele. To Kiwis, it just kind of sounds like you're saying the same thing. Daniela, Daniele. Yeah, so we are after New Zealand's best couple names. And there are some stonkers coming through on the text machine here. Chris and Trish is a good one. Simone and Simon.

Oh, that's good. That's good. There's a Sam and Cam. Some great ones out. We're going to go to the phone. 0800 that hits. Helen, good morning to you. Good morning.

Hello, how are we? Welcome to Tauronga, Helen. Oh, I'd love to be in Tauranga at the moment. Yeah, I'm welcoming you. You're here via audio. You're here in spirit. What's the best couple name you've got? Is it your partner and you?

Yeah, so we are Helen and Alan. Oh, Helen and Alan. I love it. Yeah, rolls off the tundas. And when people hear Helen and Ellen or meet you for the first time, is it always a type of a conversation? Always, you know. Oh, that's cute.

Yeah. It is cute. It is cute. We can't argue with it. Cute, cute, Danielle. Cute, cute. Cute, cute. Good, good, good.

Hey, thank you, Helen. Well, you and Ellen, have a wonderful weekend. You too, see ya. All right. Olivia's on the phone. Welcome to New Zealand's breakfast, mate. How are you? Oh, good.

How are you guys? Yeah, good. Are you like Olivia and Bolivia? No, unfortunately not, or thank goodness, but my husband's grandparents were Arthur and Martha. Oh, that's cute. No, I know that's, yeah, like my dad will go. I don't know if I was Arthur or Martha, like a saying, like, you know, if you're a bit confused. Oh, yeah, confused about it.

Yeah, so that's good. Yeah, you can't make up your mind which one you are, but no, one was Arthur, one was Martha. Oh, that's pretty cool. Great combo. You've got to have a good, wonderful weekend. Olivia, appreciate it. You too, guys. And Kirsten, good morning to you.

Hi, good morning. Yeah, great to have you on. Are you the person with the cute name or you're nominating? No, no. My son and daughter are North. Because they are Daniel and Janica, so Danny and Danny or Dan and Dan. Oh, very similar to yours, Daniela. Yeah.

Competition. We've got two Denny's right now. That's very cool. We did joke about it, but we have got a Ken and Barbie coming through on 487. No way. Yeah, that's a really good one. A gay and a les. We've got a James and a Jules

There's a Fred and Red That's a great thing The greatest topic we've ever done It's popping off on the phone there Hey we're going to hook you up Kirsten for a double pass to the Naked Gun movie That's in cinema's next week Enjoy that

Awesome Thank you so much Hey we're here too mate Well hey I'm the one I'm the prize out of the prize Don't give him all the credit for me John O'Benn and Megan The podcast

The Hits But we got to drive the Schoda down, the brand new car that we're given away, $57,000 worth of car. We made Megan drive because, well, we just thought it was better. Because I'm the best driver. Yeah, and you did a great job, we stayed on the rows. And we tested out all the functions of the vehicle on the way down. There was two glove boxes, so many glove boxes, well, two. You put so many gloves in there.

All the gloves. All the gloves you need. Camandu wouldn't have enough gloves for those glove boxes. There was there There was the heated seat As well as a heated steering wheel Which would be lovely On a cold morning

But it was quite warm yesterday And there was a feet heater Yeah Was there a fit? There's like a fan And a cool and a hot Your feet and your hands And it's all like

There's so many things on there When did we get so soft That we needed every part of our body When it charges your phone It even cools your phone Yeah they thought of everything You can put an umbrella in the door There was a light thing at night

we noticed that megan and i thought we were going crazy because we saw it had been scota a schoda on the footpath the logo next to the car and then we went come out of the car to show you and then it wouldn't work because we did something wrong and then you're like yeah cool guys he's definitely a lot and then we got it for you so that was pretty cool yeah it was cool and i tell you what was cool the uh the AI aspect of it you can talk to the car you can talk to someone called laura now laura doesn't you imagine what a laura sounds like yeah have a listen to this this is us talking to other Hi, what's your name? Laura.

Hey Laura. Okay. Can you change the background to red? I think I have to press it again. Can you change the background to red? Oh, that's something I still need to learn. Is the tire pressure okay? The tire pressures are okay.

Okay, okay, all right. Hey Laura, clear my internet history. Sorry Yeah, you will be if you're checking out Got it. Thank you, nothing Laura won't do. I feel like we thought that maybe Laura was away on annual leave and someone was filling in for Laura.

Didn't quite know what he was doing. A little frazzled, but cleared your internet history made him more frazzled. You come down and see us this morning and get yourself a free hot drink from Florence Bistro in Taarung. Our reason we're here is we came to visit our Italian correspondent, Danielle,

and get her to try some local New Zealand Italian cuisine, frozen pizzas, spaghetti from a can. How did she enjoy that? Well, you'll hear the results very shortly. But the Taylor Swift interview she did on the New Heights podcast with Travis Kelsey, her partner and his brother, Jason Kelsey, it is blowing up the internet.

Their Instagram alone went up by 1.4 million followers over 24 hours. You dream of those insights, wouldn't you? Just 1.4 million, just over 24 hours. Now, as Megan went afterwards, I told her that. She's like, yeah, but how many of those Swifty's going to listen to the next podcast they do? Yeah, because usually they're... That's not what I sounded like.

I just said it will be interesting to see if all of these people that listen to this particular podcast will carry on. When they're talking to Joe Burroughs, the buddy quarterback from some... You know? NFL strategy, but you said it with a tone. I don't know. I did not. I did not.

I also said, I love Jason. Okay, he's really fun. You keep saying Jason, you love Jason. But Travis, you've been a bit on the fence about. I'm just not, I've never been, like, fully sure that he's just not, like, using her. You're that one problematic friend in Taylor's group. And I'm okay with that, because I'm looking out for Taylor. Travis is like, this girl is just busting my child.

Say, what more can I do? What more can I do? But there was a moment in the podcast. Does she have to come for the wedding? Can we sit her at the back? There was a moment in the podcast where the two. Two of them see something very cute. And I was like, guys, I think Travis has got me with the numerology.

So you don't know what numerology is? I'm assuming something with numbers. Yeah, like I'm 87 and she's 13. Yeah, literally it's that simple. Just numbers. And 100. Yeah, 13 plus 87 equals 100. That's numerology.

They sound crazy. Her favorite number is 13. She used to ride out on her hand all the time because it's the day that she was born. and then his jersey number is 87, which if you add them together, makes a hundred. I know, but you can take any number. I'm like, I've got 42 parking tickets. Yeah, I think once you plant that into the universe, though, things start to, I feel like the, yeah, all roads lead to those things. She decides to put it on the 13th and stuff like that.

I get it. It's different because she's always made a thing of her number. Right. And now she's met a man who makes her 100. Oh. There's also a very emotional moment from her as well when she got her music. back the rights her own music back for the first time from the podcast I get a call from my mom and she's like um she's like you got you got your music and I just like

very dramatically hit the floor for real like honestly just started bawling my eyes out and I'm just like just just weeping and kind of like unable I was just like really aren't really really makes me want you well there we go and I'm that would mean a huge amount to her. But she re-recorded her own music too, which went bigger than the original music. So now we can play Taylor's version or the original version and she gets all the money for both.

She's got to be fine, guys. Don't worry about Taylor Swift. He's double the money off the same music. Genius. John O'Bennon and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Taylor Swift is making use again.

She doesn't probably need any more news. I really thought she was going to have a rest after the eras to her, but she recorded an album while she was on in the Europe leg of the Erez tour. Marathon tour and also a marathon two-hour podcast as well with her boyfriend Travis Kelsey and his brother Jason who run a bit of a lads, lads, lads podcast. Her first ever podcast that she's ever been on

and we're saying just before, it jumped up there, Instagram jumped up by $1.4 million followers in 24 hours just for her being on the podcast. Yeah, we were saying two hours is long. We were in a meeting yesterday, go and keep your podcasts. That's a daily podcast, mate. It's a daily podcast. And the rules don't apply for Taylor Swift.

And they also said the same meaning if it's gold, keep it going, and this is obviously gold. Yeah, but then Troy, producer Troy's saying she goes on a rant about how much she likes bread and how much she's eating sourdough at the moment. I'm like, could have probably lost that. That sounds like me rambling. It does. But some interesting stuff that we've taken away from the podcast. Firstly, why didn't we not listen to it?

We drove to Ta-Rongue yesterday. We listened to her album. Full album, the Torture Pilots. The depressing album, too. It was not. It was fine, but it wasn't like the fun, upbeat. Yeah, you're right, yeah, yeah. Instead of actually listening to the podcast, I slipped down minds.

I was like, shit, I'm about to open the door and roll out on the state highway too. But I do have a couple of theories. Okay, so her album is called The Life of a Showgirl. Now, we know that there's been between her and Kanye. Apparently, she has named it the Life of a Showgirl so that when you go to Spotify, and when we search Life of, it no longer comes up. with Life of Pablo. Which was the Kanye album.

It comes up with the life of a showgirl. Wow, that's a good theory. Her next album is going to be called Teesis or something. Just trolling him for the rest of her career. Taylor Swift's Kanye West album. You're like, oh, that's interesting. Also, Orange seems to be a theme of the album. She's made a big deal about everything's orange.

All the teasers were, all the billboards and Times Square are all orange. Everything about this album is Orange, right? Now, I am about to go deep, but stay with me because you know she loves Easter. You've gone quite deep on this, but anyway, yeah. So orange is the colour of LA, right? It's Orange County. They grow oranges there. All right, we'll give you that one.

A lot of people think that maybe she might be doing the Super Bowl finally. She might be finally going to perform at the Super Bowl. How have you gone from oranges to that? Well, is that where it's going to be? Well, we don't know. Well, look, carry on. They do announce it up front. Also, red and yellow, the colours of the cheap.

If you mix them together, what do you get? Which is Travis's team. Travis's team, red and yellow. You get the colour orange. The president is coloured. Orange. Oh my God. You're right, yeah, yeah.

Super Bowl is in California, yeah. That's her home. Well, it's not her hometown, but it means a lot to her. So she could be doing the Super Bowl you're picking. Yeah. Okay. And why else would she do a sports? I mean, her boyfriend is Travis Kelsey,

but she's doing a sports podcast, an NFL podcast, to launch it. Do you know they're that weird couple who are into numbers? You know, if you go to dinner and they're like, oh, we're into numerology. You're like, God, end up me now. Yeah, because she was saying that her favorite number is 13. He plays 87. That's his number. He put them together and we make the perfect 100.

You're like, have a listen to it. Do you don't know what numerology is? I'm assuming something with numbers. Yeah, like I'm 87 and she's 13. Yeah, literally it's that simple. Just numbers. And 100. Yeah.

13 plus 87 equals 100. That's numerology. And then they're like, what's your star sign? Jason Kelsey's like, better wrap it up there, right, mate. That's really sold it for me. I'm like, that's pretty cool because she's always had the number 13.

That's when she was born. She wrote it on her hand for years. That's her thing. And how crazy that his number is 87? It would have been more crazy if his number was 13. That's all I've got to say. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast. The Hits.

Marhi Joy Star was here. Nice to see you. Oh, good morning. It's great to have you in our beautiful city. It's really nice to be here. Now, a real change for you, you know, Olympic champion, you know, as well, from rowing for many years. And now you're here as mayor. How's that been for you? Yeah, quite a change from, you know, most people loving you as a sportsman to 18 years of mayor. You were just saying that your family's still in Cambridge. They move over soon. But you live with your mum.

Yeah, well, I come over and live with mum. so it's actually nice to have a bit of time with her. My wife doesn't think it's so fair. I get in love with her kids while I'm swanning myself in Taranga. When I stay with my mum, she still does my washing. Does she do your washing? Be honest. Sometimes.

I know that's a very New Zealand story. The only mayor in the world gets his washing done. It must be cool, like getting out and about, though. I mean, you must have to open quite a lot of things. Is that part of the job? Oh, it's very busy, yeah, your meetings and, getting out and in the community. It's awesome.

You know, it's exciting to see what's happening here in the CBD and, you know, right around the city. It's really coming to life, which is great. I don't know if you know me, Mahe, but, like, I actually went to rowing nationals when you were there as well. Oh, excellent. I probably didn't know.

I probably wasn't as successful as you were. Could have been that right, Megan. But can you please tell the boys that you saw me there? Oh, yeah, absolutely. I'm sure we had a good few drinks in the, top part and twasel. I've heard about these rowing parties. Now, what was your specialty?

Like rowing? Yeah. I don't know, like... Don't you do like singles or double? Oh, I was in a four and an eight. I never did sculling. Yeah, always a good way to start. It's good sport on them.

Yeah, it's a good way to start, and that's how I finished my rowing career too. There we go. Well, Mahi, as the mayor of Taodong, we actually, we've brainstormed a new mascot for the city. I think he knows what's coming up here, but I need to go. Ben is actually got a costume.

Ben Boy's lover. of costumes. He keeps Timu alive. Wait, does Tauranga have a mascot? We've got Horibop. Wait, what? It's for the Bay of Plenty Seamers. Yeah, but he's about as close as we get to a mascot.

Okay, well, we're going to present you one because for a while there, Cameron Road, the main road, was covered in road cone, so please if you turn around and look at Coney Street. Oh, that is awesome. The new Taolonga mascot. How much does he charge?

Because we're always looking for value for money, and cones are quite expensive. I would love to say that Ben has bought this specifically for this, but was this just from your costume? He's come out in tight orange tights with an orange road cone. We'll put the picture up on the hitspeg for social media. What's under the cone? What's inside the cone? Oh, okay. A smaller cone.

A colder cone. Hey, Mahe. Lovely to see you, mate. Thank you. If the radio doesn't work out, you've got a job in traffic management. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hits. I wasn't a win the other day, though.

I did some online ordering, you know what you do these days, a click-and-collect option. When you bought something online, it's getting a bit colder. It's been colder in the last month or so. So I need a winter jersey. So, you know, I saw one online, thought, that's great. And then they sent you an email saying, it's time to come in and pick it up. You're welcome. You know.

Do you not like perusing them all? No, I don't mind it. I just find sometimes it's easier. It's like in Jersey and I like that one. I'll just, you know, buy it. I like, more with my daughters is kind of like, that's Saturday and Sunday for me. But I was just like, maybe in the situation or just get it and then I know I can go pick it up. Efficiency.

Yeah. And yeah, so go in there pick it up. And then this bag, the lady hands me in like quite a large bag. I'm like, it's all sort of secured up. And I'm like, this is my bag? She's like, it's got your name on it, Ben Boyce? I'm like, yeah, it does. It's not like a puffer jacket or anything.

a jersey. I was like, I put a lot of packaging around this jersey. I was like, one jersey, there's a lot. And so I was like, do you mind if I open it right here? She's like, that's fine. Open inside, not just one jersey, but 11 jerse. Has you ordered 11? Yeah, so what I think I might have done is just putting, instead of putting just the one and the order. I double hit the thing. And she was like, she was like, did you mean to do that? I was a no. She thought maybe it was like some sort of like, a football team. Yeah, we all get dressed in our jerseys guys. You could have a team of cricketers in those hoodies?

Yeah, so unfortunately she was very lovely and let me, she gave me the money back on the other 10 jerseys that they didn't need. At first I was like, she was like, do you want still credit? I'm like, uh, probably not for the 10 jerseys worth. But yeah. Maybe she just thought you were, you know how some guys just love like one thing and they buy a whole wardrobe?

You're like Mark Zuckerberg. Yeah, Elon Musk is another. I'm sorry, Steve Jobs did that, didn't he? Jobb Cowell did that? Yeah, same clothes, same shoes every day. Maybe it's me, a grey jersey. all I'm going to wear from now until the end of the year. And what has been your shocking online orders?

It can go, if you'd had had another one as well, you could have ended up with 111 of these hoodies. Thank you, yeah, that's how that works. Enough of the sarcasm, thanks. I don't know what Toong has done to her. Turn her into a monster. A fashion emergency, one-one-one. So, it probably, it happens quite often when you try and get food, you know, like...

Online shopping. Yeah. Because sometimes you can hit quite. quantity or you can hit weight. That confuses me. Sometimes you're like, cool, I got a single banana. That's all I ordered for the family for a week. A single banana.

That happens a lot. Yeah, we did that with an apple. I remember I wanted to enter my cowboy era. And I saw an authentic cowboy shirt online. Remember? Yeah, that's right. Turned up, and it was incredibly flammable. I think it was kind of made of asbestos and pink bats.

And it was odd. Yeah. It was odd. We got it away, though, didn't we? We did. The cowboy didn't have a head. I feel like you could have rocked it, but we gave it away. Yeah, it gave me a rash just looking at it.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, The Hits. We'll be live from Tohunga at Florence Bistro and Café. It's in the foyer of the Tohunga District Council. An amazing morning here over the bay, isn't it? The sun rises. We watched the sun rise over the water. It's stunning. We've gone from having a, you know, at our studio where we do that, no outside view.

We don't have windows to the outside world. If anything, the sun just straight in my face at the bar. I remember, well, too much, son. Okay. It looks like, as I'm looking at you, both drenched in sun, it looks like God is flashing you. He's like, open up his town. He's like, have a look.

Yeah, that's impressive. I like what he's packing. I love what he's packing. So we want to know this morning, online shopping. When it can go wrong, I accidentally ordered not one, but 11 jerseys. Lovely jersey, by the way, but I don't probably need 11. 11 of them, you know? So, yeah, so that's what happens.

They must have double-click the button. We did the same thing with wine stoppers from Teamu. We only wanted one, but then honestly, we ended up with like 76 wine stoppers. How much did it cost you five bucks? Yeah, it was about $4.50, but we've just got them all in a bucket. But they break every week or so. I mean, it's one of those things. You keep dipping your toes back into Teamu.

You get what you pay for. But then you go to return something like the other day. I was like, hey, the wrong colour. They're like, yeah, just keep it. You know, the admin of them sitting back, you're like, well, I don't want it. They're like, eh, that's fine. I know this is creating a huge amount of landfill, and there's no part of me that feels guilty. And there probably should be.

So online shopping, when did it go wrong? I love to get your calls on, 0,800 of the hits. We've got Jason with us. Thank you for joining us this morning, Jace. How are you? Yeah, good, thanks. Yeah, great, great to have you on. What happened online, Jase, your online shopping shocker?

Well, it actually wasn't online. I went into a shop and bought some containers and I got seven small, five medium and three large and she swiped my card and I just, you know, went back to the van and I thought, oh, I'll just check and see how much that cost. And I want seven and a half thousand dollars. Seven and a half grand.

Was it supposed to be like $750? No, it was meant to be like $70 or something like that, but she had charged me $750. three times. Oh, wow. What sort of containers were, like stuff to put stuff in a cargo ship, or we're talking like stuff to put your luncheon? No, no, they were just storage ones for my, for my workshop.

Oh, wow. Must be nice. Yeah, it's like, didn't it accept you, high roller? Not a lot of empty out, yeah. They were playing out. Surprise you noticed, no. Lucky you, Jake. Hey, good on you, Jay.

Hey, we're going to hook you up with a Canbury Prize back. Love you, cool. morning, you can get that price back. He also can win a share of $50,000 if you hit the Cabri Tritime.com. We worked with a guy who was getting his pilot's license, and he was doing some perusing late at night online. Must have had a few drinks, I think. Yeah, and he woke up the next morning, and he bought himself a plane.

He got an email saying your auction is successful on Trade Me, and he was like, well, auction. Wait, who's selling a plane on Trade Me? Oh, like a Boeing 747. Yeah, like a little, yeah, but still, I think it was like $90,000 or something. He's like, I don't have that sort of money. Oh, my God. Yeah. So he didn't follow through then.

No. No, I don't think he even got his pilots. Did he even get his pilot's license? Yeah, no, got his pilot's license, yeah, but didn't get the plane. Didn't get the plane. What happens then? I thought it's like a legal thing once you win the auction. Yeah, it's probably a lot of admin that you don't really want to deal with, right?

Yeah.