Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Ben meets his first “freegan”

Episode Date: May 5, 2026

 On today’s show:  Ben meets his first "freegan" Jono was asked to move for ruining a building’s sale potential! Megan's husband shares insider tips on surviving the kids’ morning routine (and crucial breakfast rules) Producer Grace relives previous babysitting chaos with Megan's kids... Why Ben found a sign saying “You selfish b*****d park your car straight” Producer Troy witnessed a man watch a movie with his pants off! “Brickman” joins the show and discusses how NZ immigration doesn't believe Lego builder is a real job AI turns random listener texts into a bizarre song called Potty Training Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFAST Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The John O'Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better tea. Welcome to the podcast. Here on a Wednesday morning. Now, producer Troy, can I bring you in for this? I know you have some time out clearing some emails and stuff, but you do a wonderful job by helping us in the morning with stuff that's going on,

not just in New Zealand, but around the world to talk about the show. And some days, or most days, we don't get to all of it. Like, what was one thing today that you're like, damn, I really wish they'd talked about that, and we didn't. So here's your chance. Okay, let me just find this email. Pick out. Your favourite thing.

We covered off Piers Brosnan, who's in New Zealand. We, uh, what else do we tell us about the Tigers kid? Uh, yeah, so we talked about that. We talked about a few things as well. West Tigers, uh, little fan who was devastated they lost. And he'd only ever watched, uh, then win the premiership on Loop. He'd only ever watch that game. So I didn't quite comprehend that they could lose.

They could actually lose the game, yeah. I'd have got two good ones. Okay. Firstly. More than one. What's your big banger? Okay, what's your one that you really? Well, what's the one for you that holds a special place?

in your heart. There's this guy overseas who was missing, who's a hotelier. Yeah. And charged a lot of hotels. And big conglomerate guy. And he just went missing. No one could find him. And then they found him inside of a crocodile.

What? Like, they literally airlifted the crocodile up and there's the shape of a human. And like the crocodile ate him whole. Wow. Did he die? Yeah. Yeah. You're not making it out of that.

No. It's not like that. What was a Moby Dick situation? No, they mobidic got out, didn't they? But yeah, the crocodile, you're not. That's really good. See, I think, well, these are we great, but these are like, well, to really get technical into the behind the scenes of the stuff.

Some of these were not meant to go on too long, you know, and get into something else. So if we want to have a whole break on that crocodile thing, I think maybe we should schedule one break a day for something that we could just really lean into. Yeah. Because that's great. That is great story. But that's not, John is not going to stop talking after 45 seconds on that. Well, if you tell me, a man's been, yeah, exactly.

Yeah. Yeah. So many questions. But if I say the weather's getting a bit rough, late in the week he's like oh yeah whatever you know that's the you know i don't like you could do sub 60 on this saint johns uh have been told they need to pick up the slack on cleaning from the ambulance union they're too messy around the uh around the offices oh not in the ambulances not in the ambulances no no just around the scalpels all over the place well they're like

sorry we're just out here saving lives do you think so you could get someone else to maybe wipe the coffee off the kitchen bench there's been like a lasagna in the work fridge for five weeks. Oh, yeah. I just brought nine people back to life today. Sorry, buddy. A little busy to bloody dead. I'll wipe the old kitchen bench today.

I'm sorry. Yeah, I mean... You know what's crazy is there's not government funded those ambulances. No. That's wild to me. Yeah, you've got to pay for those. Yeah. Which, you know...

What happens if the, you know, the generous donors? They stop donating. Do we just not have ambulances? No. Well, I guess it will be probably having to pay up front. You know, rather than getting a bill later. Don't you have to do that in the state? Maybe, yeah.

If you're dying, they're just like, sorry, mate. Before we put the paddles on you, what's your credit card number? Oh, we don't take pay wave. Oh, sorry. You can back transfer it? What's your longer? Oh, actually, we'll leave him to go and wipe the bench back at the year. Yeah, it's a shocking back at base.

Yeah, yeah. All right, enjoy the podcast. That was fun. John O'Bin and Megan. The podcast. Yeah, over the weekend, we went over to Friends Place Sunday night. They cooked, you know, winter's getting here and they cooked a bit of a Sunday roast. They had people around.

It was like Sunday roast. It was lovely. Yeah. Was it a lot of high pressure a roast? A lot of juggling, I find. You want everything coming out at the same time. A lot of moving parts. Yeah.

Although it's not, it's pretty easy not to screw it because you pretty much just chuck it all in. Yeah. You're like, great. But you're right. Were they boiling greens and doing that sort of stuff? It was nice. It was lovely. And they had a few of their friends around as well.

There was a whole lot of us eating the roast. It was lovely, lovely roast beef. and I was sitting next to someone that I just met that night. And I was having to chat and I was, you know, small talk, you sit next to them and you're like, oh, do you like roast? Yeah, you're lovely, lovely, beef, they're lovely, isn't it? And the guy next to me said, yeah, it is lovely. I don't normally eat it.

And I was like, oh, okay. And I was like, oh, what are you vegetarian or vegan? He goes, no, no, I'm a friggin. And I hadn't heard this to me. He's a friend. He's like, I, yeah, I said, that's what I said, what's a friggin. And he's like, I only eat meat if I don't pay for it, if I get it for free. So if I pay, I won't go out and buy meat, but if someone provides me with meat and it's there for free, then I will eat it.

So ethically, he's against all meat stands for. But he's like, oh, well, if it's died already and someone else has paid for it, then my conscience is clear. Is that what he's saying? Pretty much. I was like, pretty good. Yeah. That's like being morally against gambling, but going, oh, someone gives me some chips, I'll bloody get into it. Yeah, someone's

I said, I'll just put 20 bucks in to sit here, sit here on this pokey machine, it's all, yeah. But yeah. So they're not against meat, they're against the receipt. Yes.

They're against getting charged for meat. And his head is conscious is clear. He's like, my wife, see, she's vegan. That's what he was saying. You need to be a friggin, Amanda. Yeah, yeah, I'm so friggin. You get the meat, free.

You didn't, yeah. There's a loophole, vegans. Look, yeah, because you could get someone to pay for your meal or whatever, couldn't you if that was your way? Oh, you get me this, just get me that and I'll get your one. But surely the core belief is you're against what, you know, the eating of meat is all about?

Like my wife, it's your own. My wife is not, yeah, she wouldn't be frigning it like that. I saw something similar. There was a Tesla and it had a sticker on. And it was like the anti-Elon Tesla Club. So they were obviously against what Elon stands for. But still driving in one of his cars. Yeah, like if you're really anti-em, sell the car.

You're not making a stand by putting a sticker on your back windscreen. Put a little sticker on it. I like the car. That'll teach him, yeah. I did still pay $80,000 for the car, though. Oh, yeah, he learned good. I got that Elon guy. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast.

The hits. Today is my son does some basketball training. It's kind of like in an industrial area out of Mangari there, and it's a series of warehouses. It goes for an hour. Sometimes I'll sit in the car, clear some emails, and then eventually after 10 minutes my head just starts rocking back and forth.

So then I was like... Sleep in the car? Just a 20 minute, I allow myself. Really, it is a powerful tool that 20 minute nap. It really puts you back in the game. So yeah, reclined to the seat, Ben. And I don't know how many minutes into my 20 minute nap. Now, bearing in mind, it's only a 20 minute nap.

It's not sleeping beauty or, you know, my unconscious situation. I hear a... On the window. I honestly thought I was dreaming. and then just keep going and I wake up and I was like, oh, there's a well-dressed gentleman and a suit and a tie knocking on the

window. So I opened the door I was like, gillow mate and you know when you're like Yeah, you're just a bit groggy trying to piece things together going, is this reality? And he's like, hey, I'm really sorry to do this to you but can you move? I know, yeah, I guess I don't know, I can move. There's plenty more parks around the street and stuff.

He's like, thanks man, it's just, you know, the warehouse next door's empty. I got a couple of buyers coming in and I don't want them to think this is an area where people squat and sleep. A guy sleeping in the car is not a great. I just became like an unwanted piece of furniture. And he's like, oh yeah.

I was like, no, it's fine. And he kept going, I really appreciate it. You know, I've had this on the market for a couple of years. I really need to, I really need to impress these people. And I was like, well, I don't sleep here all the time. It was just going to be a 20. Once a week. It's a once a waker.

If you can. If you can make them aware that I might be here sort of every Tuesday afternoon, that might put them off the purchase, surely. Yeah, but true, do you really want someone to fall in to sleep outside your potential house? No, or your place of business. Oh, there's old mate having it a little snooze again. So then I kind of had to degradingly move my car 100 metres away from where he was selling. I hope he made the sale for his sake.

You can see the desperation in the poor fellow's eyes. I need this, not the sleepy guy in the car. So, yeah, that was. And then I couldn't get back to sleep. I was like, oh no, was I over that person, like a squatter. Like, can you please you're an eyesore? You look a little homeless as well outside that. You never want that.

Hey, John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. This day on Sunday, want to do something nice for Megan and, you know, let her get out of the house while she's solo parenting for six weeks where her husband Andrew's away, so we're going to babysit the kids on Friday and we're like, well, what could go wrong? Quite a lot. A lot, according to the text machine, 4487, Claire, who said she was always in charge of babysitting her younger brother, multiple things went wrong over multiple occasions, but the straw that broke the

camel's back for her parents, while she played a game where she thought she would try and throw peas into his mouth. Oh yeah. And then he ended up having to heimlich. It had to heimlic him. Oh, he's choking hazard. Yeah, so then the parents were like, I think you might be done. The babysitting career is done for you.

Someone else texting, I was in a new relationship babysitting my new partner's kids. They were out on the lawn. I was making dinner, watching them out the kitchen window. Next minute they were gone. full police search oh my goodness five hours to find them three blocks away

well this is frightening and um yeah that's how bad it can get so hopefully that we got the worst out of the way as I think Andrew Megan's husband's joining us right now um good morning Andrew good morning how we doing

lovely to have you on Andrew uh now this is a this is not comforting news uh all these things no that's what I think we didn't need to hear any of that right you know like we're gonna go in your kids

spastien I'm in Nothing like that will go wrong, right? Right. Right. Listen, if we're not calling the police by the end of the show Friday, that's a huge win. And if no one's having to be heimliched, again, chalk that up as a great babysitting session. Right, okay. Now, we wanted to get you on the phone, Andrew, because, you know, we're giving Megan the chance to go and get massaged away from us.

As you're not going to be there. We're just kind of covering your back, bro. We're wingmaning you. Yeah. Yeah, thanks for that. You're welcome. You're welcome. No worries.

But you do the morning routine normally. Now, what sort of things? What should we be most concerned about? Right. Well, Bassi's pretty chill. Okay. He's pretty chill. He's pretty straight to the point.

He'll tell you what he likes, what he doesn't like. He'll usually have like weepic fights, you know, like those little weeby. Oh, yeah. Great. Can do that. He eats 11 of those in the morning. 11, okay. 11.

Not 10, not 12, it's 11. Okay, we should put these on notes, Ben, you're lucky to do list. Yeah, okay, right down. 11. Okay, yeah, good. I know she's a little bit more intricate. She'll tell you what she wants for breakfast, and then when you make it, usually she'll say porridge,

and then she'll gaslight you into thinking that you were wrong. So that's not what I asked for sort of thing, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you will start questioning yourself with her, and you'll be like questioning what's reality. It's kind of like the vibe. Okay. And what about getting them changed, getting them organized,

you know, doing here as a concern, your eyes here? How's that going to be? Yeah, yeah. She won't let you do anything. So, yeah, like, good luck. Hang in there. He's got Book Day. Book Day on Friday.

Book Day. Always got to dress up as a character from a book? Yep. It's nonfiction, but you're going to have to explain to him that it's nonfiction. So he wants to go as Black Panther. So good luck with that. I'm sure there's a book around, Black. Well, Ben, you've got a garage load of costumes.

I don't know. Black Panther's a great costume, yeah. Is it a book, Black Panther? Yeah, well. I know. It's not nonfiction. No, nonfiction, yeah. Okay, okay. Well, that's good. This is right into your wheelhouse. Perfect.

Yeah. And then also, they've got the books available to buy in the hall on Friday morning, which Basti is very much aware of. So you guys are going to have to take a credit card and just, yeah, you're going to have to sort of... How have we ended up at some shady book sale? Yeah. It's babysitting. It's babysitting. You're the parents now. Oh, geez. Getting them dress seems complicated to us.

It's something we probably don't really want to get involved. Can we just get like a tiny little hazmat suit, boiler suit for Ayer, maybe? Yep, yep. She's definitely going to love that, yeah. Send her along like a little crime scene cleaner or something today, Kier. Unless it's got to be fine, Andrew. Don't worry. And hey, yeah, you can thank us for saving your marriage.

No worries at all. Yeah, thank you so much, you guys. This is going to go really well. I can't wait. I feel like a lot of sarcasm and that. Anyway, we'll see how we go on from. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits.

Sunday as we keep saying and we're helping out Megan, well, are we helping out or just creating an extra thing to add onto us, already busy schedule? Yeah, sir, for the second consecutive year, her husband Andrew, not going to be around absent father on Mother's Day, but a lot of texts keep saying, well, Megan's not your, you know, you're not Andrew's mother, Megan, that's what people keep texting on the message machine. But we thought we'd step in and hold Mother's Day for Megan, and you know what they say, if you want to give a mother a break, you turn up to her house at 5 a.m. on a Friday morning.

and do a radio show. Yes, we're going to do a radio show in the house, look after the kids, take them off to school, and Megan's going to go out and have a message. That's what, that's the plan. It's the game plan. That's the game plan at the moment. It's all good intentions.

Megan's, she's okay with it. She knows that our hearts are in the right place. Yeah, but she also knows radio. Yeah, she also knows what's required. And producer Grace, welcome on in, who's had previous experience babysitting these kids. Yeah, two nights I've babysat them, and it was a whirlwind.

Let's just say that. First night, Megan arrived home you were passed out on the couch. Not due to any alcohol or anything, just tired. Just tired. And Aya had both her legs down one trouser. Yeah, she was like sleeping sideways on Bastie's bed when she wasn't even meant to be there. But I was like, I just let it be. Yeah. Well, you've gotten to sleep.

Yeah, that's what that is. You've even got to sleep as well. Put yourself to sleep? Legend. But apparently there's some audio that we've got to play right now. Yes. Well, me and Megan were texting and we're trying to make a game plan about Aya, because Basti is very chill.

But Aya's the one who's probably going to be a bit more chaotic. We are the game plan. Well, we were trying to make a second game plan. plan to you guys and I was like maybe like if she lets Jono and Ben try do the hair maybe I'll give her an elsewhere so we were messaging back and forth and then she sent this audio Jono and Ben are coming to our house on Friday I like Johnno you like Jono yeah do you know which one Jono is no are you going to let them do your hair yeah they can do your hair for school yeah are you going to be a good girl or a naughty girl

So you're excited about them coming? Yeah! Can you say good luck? Go luck! I feel like she's just saying what she thinks. Your mum wants her to hear. Definitely, definitely. She's really enthusiastic about it at the start.

She has no idea who we are. The other day we met her. She was like, oh, that's Jotto and been. Very confused. My thoughts are maybe you approach her one by one. You know, too scary. But one by one, we can maybe manage that. Yeah.

Well, we even got told when they did the ghost reading, There was a ghost in her room, apparently, and the clever one was like, can you go? You're wearing the ghost child out. Exactly. The ghost child didn't want us in the room. Maybe it's the duo thing. You're right. Coming on strong.

Okay, so that's all happening. It's all going down on Friday. Are we still doing her hair with the vacuum cleaner? The trick where you can put the... We'll have to see what I think. You can try it, but... It's great. We'll pitch that one to IRA from.

If not, we'll do your hair with the vacuum cleaner. Okay, I'll give you a question. Someone's hair is getting sucked in a vacuum cleaner. John O' Ben and me. The podcast. The Hats. A former James Bond, Pierses Brosnan, spotted in New Zealand yesterday, dining with family at a trendy bar and restaurant. Oh, a trendy bar and restaurants, you say.

Yeah, pretty cool. It was always exciting when we have A-listers in the country. I don't know if he's just here for work reasons or holiday reasons. Do you think Pierce's wandering around the streets go, show me to your finest trendy bar and restaurant? Yeah, probably. He sat next to us. We mentioned this a couple of times before, but we were interviewing some celebrities for a movie, which he was in. felt like he wandered into the wrong room

because there was no other stars and he sat next to us and ate a little tiny dessert little chocolate buffet buffet yeah I was going to say Turamisu you know how they put up in a little mini jars but he doesn't enjoy that he said he did actually love New Zealand he lives in Hawaii

legend Pierce Brosnan doesn't look like anything would stress Pierce Brosnan and he's been James Bond he's been some pretty stressful situations well yeah he wouldn't be getting angry at the supermarket you wouldn't imagine right My wife went to the supermarket the other night with my daughter Kind of later shit night

They had to get some snacks and stuff For school things coming up And then she came home with this note Now she says she claims she found it on the ground Not on her car A little bit of card That says You selfish bastard park your car straight

Or someone had put that under a window wiper or something She's guessing She claimed she found it on the ground I'm like She wasn't the selfish bastard Yeah wasn't on your car But yeah A very, I mean, a lot of work has gone into, like, finding the piece of place.

Well, because you've got to go, you're in your car, you're frustrated. Yeah. Clearly, they haven't been able to park next to it. Yeah. They've had to go then find another park. Yeah. Get a piece of cardboard. Which may, they may have had in the car.

They may have to get it from the supermarket. Get a pen that it's done with a vivid or it looks like a whiteboard marker. Yeah. Write the note. Place the note at many points through that probably five, ten minute exercise. You could go, oh, is it worth it? Am I that angry? I know, this person's going to come back and go, oh yeah, you know, well, they clearly just threw it on the ground.

You're like it affected their day, no way at all. But they got it off their chest. Actually, if you want to see the note, we've started a private group on Facebook called the Itty-Bitty-Hitty Committee. You can text group to 4487 and we'll bounce you back the link and you can join in. I've never, well, I've never, yeah, I've never written a note to leave on a car. No, that's just slow transformation into man-caroning is when you do that. There was a friend of ours whose car was hit by another vehicle

and it was kind of in front of a cafe but he found a note under his windscreen wipe but he wasn't in the car at the time and the note just said sorry bro and clearly the person who had hit the car wanted to look like they were leaving their details

putting it under the windscreen wipe in front of all the cafe patrons That's quite genius isn't it? It is really safe It's alright I'll leave a note Sorry bro Because you're not going to go over and check the note are you if you're passing by

You're like, oh, he's doing the right thing, he's stopped, and he's... Great, and in that moment, too, to have that sort of thinking and planning is masterful. Yeah. I wouldn't be a smud. I'd just drive off, hit and run. I hope no one catches my license plate. But, so there you go. No good can come from a note being left on your windscreen.

Is there any ever been a positive note left under a windscreen whiteboard? Yeah, you park really well, you know? You couldn't get more even between those two white lines. Yeah, maybe. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. Movies out at the... the moment, Devil Wears Prada too, the Michael Jackson movie. The biopic as well seems to be doing

big things. No shortage of new cinema you can go and watch. But producer Troy decided to go and watch an anime movie that is what, 15 years old producer Troy. 95, so it's that 30 years. 30 year old, yeah, yeah, all this great new cinematic entertainment that's on offer. I mean you have seen the Michael movie. You've seen the Michael movie, yeah, no, I've watched all the new ones and I've run out of content. You can see Devil Wes Prada as well, right? Yeah, watch that one. All right. Tick those box.

You're a big anime fan. Yeah, and it was an IMAX re-release of this great 90s Japanese anime, Akira. And it was sold out at the IMAX here. And so I was like, great, it's going to be a good audience, big crowd. We really need to dial back the nerd on April Troy every day. You know, every day he's doing Star Wars days at an anime movie. I like it. I like it.

You'd be you, you know. I'm passionate about stuff. We can just, we can drip feed it through. Not every show. I see. Yeah. There's another thing Troy's been doing. Okay, so you're busy though. You're out there doing stuff.

Out of they're doing it, yeah. And so I got to the movie, wanted to see the trailers, so got there a little bit early. And as I was shimmying into the row. Can I just say what I love Elsa about you as well was like, you'll just do this by yourself too. Like leave your partner. It's like great, good on.

You want to do it. You don't let the fact that she doesn't want to go along to this thing. Hold you back. Well, normally I'll try and drag her, but a 90s re-release anime with subtitles to Nimex. That was, I didn't even ask. Did she know your love of all this stuff before you? No, she didn't. No, I really kept that hidden until month three.

Did you have to leave stuff behind from your previous life before moving in together? Yes, I don't have lightsabers anymore. Oh, that makes me a little sad. We do, oh, I suppose you can't move in with a lightsaber, can you? No, and I had them above my bed frame as well. Oh, you're a little sweetheart. So, I said, people were in the cinema. I was shimmying along the row.

Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, people moving their bags and their popcorn. him and I was just about at my seat and I was just shimmying past the guy that was next to my empty seat and as I looked down at I thought I saw something strange and I forget about it and sit down in my seat and then as I turned next to him I'm like this guy's got his pants off oh he's abandoned his trousers they're down by his ankles was it a was it a trouser optional screening no not that I saw everyone else had their pants on and I just was it packed packed Okay. And he was with his mate.

And I just said, what's going on here, bro? He says, I've, I spilt my drink all over my pants. But he's taking the whole things. Did he, like, cover himself up with the pants? Nope, just full bearing it all. For me, that's like, okay, I might cancel the screening. I'll reschedule. Go and watch this 1995 anime thing on YouTube.

You know, you can pull your, he had the option not to do that. He'd got to go on home. Or just sit there and wet pants. Yeah, wet pants. I would have, yeah. No one else can see it. The cinema's dark. Why have you got to take them off?

Everyone was, well, obviously you're not comfortable. Obviously his mate was comfortable with the fact he just went for that option, taking his pants off. No, what was still conversing? They were still like, oh, what do you think of that, man? Wet pants, take him off. An hour and a half of these, like, all he's feeling is soggy pants. I can get it from his point of view. You want to remove that feeling if you can.

No outside food, no inside trousers. That were the rules of that movie theatre. And so, but at the end of the film, credits rolled, he pulled him back up, pulled him up, did his belt up and off he went. Legend. Okay, problem solver. He's a doer.

It was just, I couldn't focus on the movie the entire time. I had one eye on the movie and one eye on like, what's this guy is he doing anything shift? He knows fine. And you're like, thank God I didn't bring Neve here. It's the last thing she needed it. Yeah, she definitely wouldn't have been down with that. You take your pants off you want, Neve, that's fine.

He wants off. Yeah, what it's doing it. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. Now, you know, I love Del Mati, big supporter of the show. And, you know, do enjoy a tea in the morning and tea at night as well. And I made my wife a tea yesterday evening. And she was like, what's with us?

And I was like, what do you mean? She's like, it's not in the cup. Oh, she got a cup. And it's just, and I didn't really know. But then I, thinking back, there is a certain, we've probably got two in the style of this cup that she will, like, she'll gravitate towards. But I don't know it was such a thing. I was like, well, still the time. it still tastes good.

You're right. Yeah, maybe it's the contours on her lips that she enjoys. Mugs and cups, really? Yeah. They just arrive. I don't think I've ever purchased one, but I've just got a shelf full of, you know, various promotional mugs. You do get a lot of promo mugs.

In this game, that's one of the perks of the job. You want a promotional mug? I could help you out with, you know, a Nestle, a bunnings, I think I got a Bunnings mug in there. I was like, wherever they just arrive. And you don't use 97% of your mugs, do you? you do stick to a tight turnaround. Yeah, and I was trying to think about it.

I was like, oh, you may be, you know, it's a bit weird last night. I was like, just drink it. It's the same. I could tap the same tea back into that mug. You're still the same tea. But then going to make my tea in the morning here at work. And I was like, I do gravitate towards a certain style of mug. If I've got the choice, but it's not like I'm not going to drink it if it's in the other one.

But some people won't. My wife, Patricia Troy, can we bring you in as well? What I like about our mugs too in the kitchen here at work, just a wide range of witty slogans, like genius at work and world's bestest boss and things like that. We had our own John O'O and Ben Dilma Mug's when we first arrived, remember that. And the places they ended up. They started in our kitchen and ended up like five floors up. Yeah, and I think they're now in another building about 10 kilometres away.

I think it's one in there that says John O, New Zealand's fifth best radio host or something like that. That's when you were fifth. Now you've really slid down. Now I'm eight. That was something to celebrate back then. You get a month for that. Yeah, like 50. He's made fifth.

That's great. Got a mug. Neve, your part. She's the same as Amanda. She has this mug. It's like a clear glass mug, and everything's got to be in that. If I make her a tea, a coffee, anything,

and it's not in that mug, she'll make me pour it into the right mug. Yeah. I have to. She won't drink it otherwise. And even this is happening this morning, I put everything in the mug, got the tea ready,

and then she goes, what are you doing? You haven't put that in the new Mandalorian mug? Oh, there's a new mug? We got new Burger King's special edition Mandalorian mugs. Of course she did. And those are the new mugs

that I have to use, apparently. This is good for... You take that. I mean, you love Star Wars. Does Neve love Star Wars as much as you love Star Wars? Not at all. But she's obviously wanting to drink out of the mug.

She likes the cute baby Yoda. And it's a cute baby Yoda mug. So that's her new favourite mug. Everything's got to be in that. To be honest, when you think about mugs, you only need four max, don't you really? In your household. You end up with just so much cutlery and mugs and plates.

I said, we don't know this many people to drink out these mugs. When we're never going to be in a situation where 30 people are here. 30 people are here. And if so, you probably go to the trouble getting, yeah, something, occasion or something. Why are we doing this to ourselves? And, you know, the ones for the, you know, the back four rows, they're just full of dust.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. There's amazing exhibition coming to Wellington's Exhibition Centre in June tickets on sale. Now, Lego Star Wars, it looks incredible. And the mastermind behind it all, you'll know I'm from Lego Master. on TV, the brickman, Ryan McNaught, all the way from Australia, joins us. Thanks for being here. Have me. Now, a brickman as well. Do you put that on the customs form when you come through to New Zealand? Do you know, it's funny you say that.

New Zealand is the one country in the world that gives me the hardest time when I come here. Oh, really? Because they don't believe that it's a job. Do you actually write Lego Master? You can't lie on a customs form, can you? No, you're right, yeah. So, yeah. Can you imagine that as a job, though, like, you know, when you were growing up,

Not when I was a kid. I mean, you think you want to be a footy player or, you know, open the batting for your country or whatever, but not a Lego master, no. When did you know you were good at Lego?

I mean, I loved it as a kid. And then, you know, about 14 or 15 stopped playing with it. It wasn't cool anymore. You know, it was about sport,

girls, you know, study and all that kind of bits and pieces. And it wasn't until we had kids. My mum gave me my Lego back. She's like, here's all your junk back. And I'm like, oh, yeah,

I remember. Like, how awesome was that? It was cool. And, you know, you want to introduce your kids to it. So that's what I did. And I'm like, this stuff is amazing. And started doing some more and more and did some crazy stuff.

And it kind of blew up a little bit and went from there. And then I did some work for the Lego company on a, not related to Lego, a technology. And they're like, hey, do you want to do some stuff together? I'm like, yeah. And eventually I was doing so much. I was, you know, trying to do Lego as a job and my normal job. I was in IT.

I'm like, no, I've got to quit and play Lego for a living. Wow. At what age was that career change? That was 35. Really? A bit of a pivot. Quite a pivot. The bank manager wasn't happy.

No, I'm getting into Lego. Yeah, so that was an interesting day. But it's all worked out so well. People would know you from Lego Masters Australia, which plays here as well. And this exhibition that's coming to Wellington looks incredible, Lego Star Wars. I mean, this stuff at least seems life size and tell us some of the things that people can see. Sure, no, as well, to give you an idea of how big this exhibition is, it's currently on the water, sailing over at the moment. It's 14 shipping containers full of Lego.

We were wondering how you do you transport it as a whole piece? Depends. Some of them are so big, particularly some of the vehicles. They're broken into sections. And we kind of treat them just like Lego bricks and we put those sections together. So, yeah, there's a fair bit of a similar. It takes us about two weeks to put it together once it lands in Wellington. So they're not glued? It depends.

Some of them are. And the reason they are is because we call them full public contact. So you can get a selfie with it, you can go and give it a hug, you know, all that kind of stuff. So we have some models like that and then some that, of course, are just a normal Lego that we've hoped that, hope that the journey's smooth. It's crazy, yeah. Hope that the straight of Humus opens up and your leggo doesn't get caught out on the waters. The Wellington Straits open up.

Yeah, exactly. Doing a new exhibition must be a pain in the ass. You must be like, oh, we've got to do some new content. You know, it's funny to say that. Here's the thing. I've got a bit of a golden rule is I never build the same thing twice. So I'm absolutely, I love building the same thing, you know, the first time because it's all challenging and all there is, but I'll never repeat it.

That'll do my head in. Have you had it all fall down before? Like if you got close on something, not with this exhibition, but anything in general. Yeah, well, the worst thing that's ever happened from a Lego wise is I made it the Coliseum, you know, the Coliseum, quite a large one, sort of, you know, two or three metres long. And when it was being transported, a forklift went through the crate. Yeah. Well, it's kind of like, if you've been to the Coliseum, it's a little bit, like,

these days it's a little, was it like the Coliseum now or a little bit run down? It was supposed to be half and a half as it was supposed to, as it was, as it was ended up mostly as a ruin. Can we actually get our producer Troy in who is a mega Star Wars fan? Oh, okay, sure. And I'm gathering you are as well. I like my Star Wars, yes. Producer Troy, who knows a lot of niche facts about the Star Wars franchise.

I want him to say some facts. Well, I'm far from the font of all truth on Star Wars. Yeah, we love it, but not as much as producer Troy. Okay, okay, did you know that in total across all the films, 12 limbs get chopped off by lightsabers? That sounds... I'm going believable. Okay, he's not well about that.

Not wow. No, it's unbelievable. Okay. Wedge Antilles, who's one of the pilots in the original Star Wars. The actor is Ewan McGregor's real-life uncle. Wow, that's pretty. Are you well? It's a well.

Take it, take it. That's a wow. John O'Benn and Megan. It's a podcast. The Hats. Cool to see James Bond, Piers, Brosnan, in the country right now. He was dining at a fancy restaurant yesterday, which is pretty cool. Not sure why he's here, but it's his business.

We'll talk about it on the radio He's welcome to come into the country and leave You know, within the allocated time he's allowed to be here It was, yeah, don't say a day over though If this was 10 years ago, you put a bounty on his head, eh? You'd be like, call the radio station Get everyone harassing for pairs or something Get a piercing, yeah, Ben and get a couple of nipple piercings for pierce

I'd get nipple piercings if he came in the show Would you? Yeah, absolutely Wow, wow, wow, that's Get him into the studio and I'll get nipple piercings Yeah, I'll get two Both nipples? Yeah, I'd be it. I'd be it, yeah.

I'd be it'd, yeah. I'd beckle piercings, yeah. I mean, I'd probably write a professional doing it, not Pierce Boston having a crack. Wow, Pierce Bros. If someone sees Pierce Broson, please pass that information. He's not to come in the studio. I feel safe at the knowledge he's not going to come in. Imagine, oh my gosh. Imagine if it was one of those moments.

It's not going to be, but imagine. I'll put it out there into the universe. There you go. We're after records that maybe you currently hold or used to hold. We spoke to after 9 o'clock, you stay on the show. We're just talking about if you thought you peaked at school. And Lucinda phoned through. She had a very funny story about a high jump record.

I was pretty good at high jump. But I still hold every record, actually. At your school? Yeah. Oh, that's pretty impressive. That is impressive. Yeah, so that's like 1990. So every year since it's 1990, she's gone back after athletic stay

to make sure those smug little kids haven't broken her her 1990 high jump record. That's pretty important, given technology too. Oh, and the shoes being bounced out. Yeah, the leaps and bounds. Literally that kids are going to these days. It feels like, you know... Still holds that high jump record from school. That is really impressive.

So we want to know this morning, you know, don't have to be a current holder of a record, but have you at any stage, school, adulthood, have been a record holder? I know there's a lot of like eating challenges and restaurants and stuff. Maybe, you know, someone who devout, you know, five tomahawk steaks in 20 minutes.

Or maybe someone who started a job and then left the job the same day, the quickest to start and finish a job. it would be a record. Like, thank goodness for Google, because I was like, I'm sure we've done some stuff over the years, over our, well, not illustrious career. Most amount of niffle piercings for Pierce Brosman. We haven't done that, but yeah, I just typed it in, and Google came back with New Zealand

Comedy Duo, nice of them to say that, Jono Pryor and Ben Boyce. Several unofficial are at World Records, 23-hour, 39-minute Zoomathon. Remember we did that here on the hits? Yeah, non-stop Zoom. You had a moment at about 3.30 in the morning where I quickly dotted off for the shower, I came back and you thought you were talking to someone and there was a lizard in the background. Yeah, it was the lady we were talking to in America, right?

Yeah. She'd be on TV in New Zealand tomorrow. You're like, is that an iguana? And I was just looking at going, I'm hallucinating from lack of sleep. And I was like, sorry, I've got to stop me. Do you have a lizard anywhere or my hallucinate? She's like, yeah, I do.

And she walked down and it just was wandering around her house. It was a lizard. Yeah. So that was very good. Also, it says we did a bumper car, 30-hour bumper car world record, driving bumper cars around Rambo's End, and 30 hours of consecutive interviews as well, nonstop.

So we've done three. That's right. It was just when Jacinda became prime minister. That's right. Oh, she was running.

Oh, she's just got the leader of the Labor Party. Yeah, that same way. And we'd booked her in as part of our 30 hours of consecutive interviews. She'll like,

she'll never turn up. She did, actually. And she told you off because you had a rampant, I had rampant conjunctivitis. And I was like, sorry, Cindy, I got buddy, got conjunctavitis, mate.

And she's like, you're on antibiotics. I was like, I started them, and then I stopped them. She's like, you've always got to see the full course through.

I just remember her bloody roasting me for not finishing my course of antibiotics and she was right. She was right. Then she was roasting us for not bloody getting jabbed for COVID. Not letting us go outside for picnics. John O'Ben and Megan

The podcast. The hits. Do you hold a record? We just mentioned a couple of random ones we've done over the years and then we got reminded about the fact that we broke the record when we're on the edge radio station

with our mate Sharon. Most amount of people inside a G-string. That's right. It was a bloody big giant G-string. Huge. We flew to Nelson to Don. I don't know why. And we went to, meet up with us at a park.

We need more than 169 people to break the record. 32 people came down. Jesus, we smashed the record. No, over 500 locals to tend to the event. Sorry, 32 was, ended up fitting inside in the end. Oh, and we had extras. If we could have squeezed more into that G-string, more junk in that trunk, we would have. It was at full capacity at the moment.

Everyone was fully clothed, but there were kids. There was children, yeah. They were all, like, jammed in a giant, string in the park that someone made. We flew down with it and then I think we, according to this article, gave it away to someone and they walked home with the giant C string. It was like just huge elastic pink G string.

That's right. What a random thing to do. That is. Well, shout out to all those people who helped us. A lot of those children will be adults now. There's no photographic evidence though. It's been wiped from the internet. Yeah, there's an article on stuff, but there, no one needs to see this photo. New Zealand doesn't need this brand damage.

But, you broke our record at school too. Yeah, when frozen yogurt was a massive thing. Remember when those stores were popping up all around the place? Yeah. It was when so yo'd opened in Christchurch and we went in and they said, we'll give you a free frozen yogurt if you can make it the heaviest frozen yogurt in the world. Okay, what was the current record? It was 1.1Ks in terms of, because you have to stack it in the cup

and so you've got to build like wafer barriers and basically you're an architect of this. Engineering it up. And so we stacked all the wafers around the side, put heaps of ice cream in, and then we took it to the thing. and broke the record. 1.2KG. Scott for free. It's pretty good.

Really, okay. I really wanted a bigger reaction. No, I mean, it was good. We've just come off a world record breaking G-string. We stuffed kids into a G-string, mate. We've got a free yogurt, guys. We've got a free yogurt into a cup.

All right, what's your record? Shelly, happy new year to you. Happy New Year, guys. Lovely to have you on, Shelly. Current record holder, former record holder. What are you? Oh gosh, former record holder I'm 66 now

And it was when I was 13 In 1973 It was a New Zealand secondary school's 400 metres record Nothing is out there as some of the ones you've mentioned Were you wearing a two string? That's not a 13 Don't answer that, don't answer that

What was the time? My grandmother flew it was 57.3 It was in 1973 impressive. And my grandmother flew down to Christchurch with me and I actually passed out at the end of the race and had to get some smelling salt from the St John's. You're unconscious.

Well, I had passed out for a few minutes. Wow, that's the commitment she had to the 400. Sheesh. Impressive. But my grandmother took me out for dinner that night and we had a couple of glasses of wine. I was only 13 so I was just about now I'm going on the stairs of the bus getting out. I was getting a wetter out by my G-string reference,

and you're a bloody on it. I was like, yeah, a couple of charnasse or something. Different time, different time. All right, thank you for sharing that with us. That's great. The 400 is, it's a lot further than, it sounds, it sounds short, but it's quite deceptive. That's a hard race. It is.

That's a hard race to last year. Clearly, you passed out and you got on the wines. Thank you so much. Appreciate it, Shelly. Former record holder, 400 metres secondary schools, Aaron, can you beat that? No, you went on the wines at 13 with your grandma. What were you the record holder of there, Aaron? Probably still am, is most canings in third form.

Most canings at your school, okay. Yeah, probably seven to ten a week. A week? A week! Yeah, that was a bad liverishet. Oh, my goodness. Okay, wow. And the second one I'll probably still hold is the most half days at school.

Which resulted in a lot more canings, I imagine. It was about six to seven half days for the whole year. And you still hold that real well. I hope you still hold that record because they can't be doing that nowadays. But you know, Tim Finn, famous musician Tim Finn, we spoke to him a few weeks ago. He said he currently held the record for the most canings at his school as well. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast.

What's the coolest thing at your workplace? Tell you what the coolest thing in our workplace is. It's a colour printer, which we print on black and white too because, you know, colour print costs are crazy. but we don't have access to that we don't have printer privileges and if I had privity so I just look at that printer out the window

of the studio every day Ben never never printed a single document in seven years on that sucker no you have to ford it to someone right yeah not trusted not trusted with the printer privileges fair enough too but it does feel like there's something it makes me feel like I'm above someone like fording them something to print

can you print that for me you know even though you're like they haven't given us even though we're well below them because they've got printed privileges it's just something it feels like even our boss I'll sometimes email her and I'll be like, can you print this for me? And it feels like a little bit like she's doing admin that I should be doing. Yeah. But you're not trusted.

You're not trusted. And those people, those people, it's a privilege. So for you to forward an email from them to print, to put that on their to-do list for the day, that is a privilege. And you know what the problem is? There was a time in a lot of offices around the country and around the world where Friday night drinks, someone's getting their butt cheeks on there. No, probably, yeah. Photocopying the butt cheeks. And so now there's a system.

You can't do that. So that doesn't happen. You can sit on it, but you can't take a bit, you know. You just have to imagine what those butt cheeks look like. Geez, that was a popular thing, wasn't it? Back of the day. It was just like two dark blooms. Yeah, no.

And it was like, oh, look, it's Gary from accounts. A random thing. So we want to know the best thing at your workplace, because someone we were just talking to the other day, started a new job, and they've got a sauna at their office. Now, there's a couple of things that spring to mind with a sauna in the office. The first one is, do you want to be saunering with middle management

at lunchtime. Yeah, I just move the other sauna, you're like, oh, good-o, mate. Imagine Stano, who is our boss? Have you joined him at 1230 for a sauna and you're both sort of sweating your sweat and your jacketies off sitting in your...

Yeah, anyway, how's the show? Oh, yeah, good, yeah. Like, it's not a relaxing sauna. No. And secondly, who's making use of this? Like, who's actually... It feels like, you know, when you drive past a house with a tennis court?

You're like, geez, those guys must really love tennis. I've never once. one seen a house or a tennis court and anyone playing actual tennis on that tennis court. Have you, when you drive past? No, I want to, like, yeah, people's houses years ago in the Wadarapa where they had. The kids would run around and run and mark and do all sorts on there. Probably played less tennis and just use it as just a big playground. So, which also grass could have done the same job, too.

Exactly. But they could play tennis. So the same thing for me, if you've got a tennis court slapped on the back yard, it's like having a sauna. The novelty of a sauna in the workplace is going to wear off pretty quickly. Okay, best thing in your workplace, oh, 800 the hits, 4487. Didn't we know someone who had a slide? Yeah, it was a workplace that had a slide. But I think, again, the novelty wore off pretty quickly.

They're like, well, I could probably just take the stairs now. Like an adult. Like an adult. Rather than go, guess what, Gary? Wee! Yeah, you're redundant, mate. Here's the forms to fill out. You know?

Yeah. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. We love your texts and calls. You can text us any time. 4487 on the text. Yeah, it's a real spectrum of messages, too. It's just a lot of people's in a monologue, just vomited out via text.

And a lot of the times I like to, because there's other shows, obviously, that happen around the country, try and figure out what topic they're talking about. Like, you know, I always use mayonnaise and rub that on my bunions. You're like, how on earth had they ended up there? You know, just random messages that arrive. Well, you can check all the texts that come all 24 hours a day, seven days a week, on the hits machine, you know? Yeah. There's a bit of a popular trend at the moment using AI to turn internet comments into song.

So thought we could use a lot of the text messages that we've received. This is just over the last 24 hours for various shows and put them into a little song called Potty Training. Okay. That's the name of the track. Enjoy your messages from 4487. Hi, it's Adam. If I need to go to... I'm in bed

I just go Jono Ben and Megan I kinda like your show Sarah you are more than just a voice Don't let the bread bully you Jono You actually kinda look like bread I don't know why I look like bread

No And this text just said Potty training guys play some prints you have to get a heat pumps you should say was a crime against you man don't know

you actually kind of look like bread train and that's it potty training for the last party training wow makes it in about 45 seconds wow wow

yeah technology and aren't we using it for good that's what I was designed for