Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Ben was trapped in a falling elevator!

Episode Date: August 13, 2025

On today’s show: Why Ben is gamma scanning his wife Megan’s toddler is ready for a tattoo Ben got stuck in a falling elevator We need Jason Kelce to introduce our show The first time my ex met my parents, he crashed their car!!! Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The John O'Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Hello Fresh. Your home advantage for delicious midweek dinners, everyone will love. Welcome to the podcast. Today, we're just about to head off to Tauranga and take the work car, the new brand-new SCOTA SUV. We're taking that way with us. The one that we're giving away. Yeah, I'd have been a bit nervous about driving it.

We all were, so we've landed on Megan, taking the role of captain on the ship, and she will be taking us in the SCOT. Now, it's SCOTA. Skoda. Skoda is how it's pronounced in the Czech Republic. Yeah, I know that because my ex-husband was Czech. So I actually know a bit of Czech. Yeah, but we say Shkoda here, mate.

Well, yeah, it feels like for a while it was Skoda, but now everyone said, you know, I said, told us we need to say Shkoda, right? Yeah, Skoda, but yeah, you say Shkoda. What's the Downwards Arrow? What's that called? No idea. But I think that's the short. That's the shh, shh, the sound.

Oh, right. The short off, rather than it. But yeah, we are just talking because we are borrowing the car When borrowing cars goes bad Lynn, welcome It's lovely to have you on Good morning

Good morning Was it you borrowing the car or someone else No, it was me This was over 37 Probably about 35 years ago I don't know But then every boy had a dream car In the backyard

You know, tutors to get it going Yeah My brother had a Ford V8 and I had just got a job in a calf I was actually just early stages of pregnancy and he, that morning I didn't have a car and he said, I'll take mine. I said, nah, nah, it's a V8, I've never driven.

Nara, you'll be right. And anyway, I went around around about and I kind of skidded, yep, on the white lines and I looked to my left, to my right, sorry, and there was water and I've got a phobia about water other than the shower or the bath. And on my left was a car park with an entrance and an exit. And I thought, oh, private one, I can do it around there

then I'll come back out, you know. Well, I raised off three cars in that park, car park. Three cars? You were three cars on that same at that day, that moment. Wow. That moment. When I, someone come running finally, I still had before I'm accelerated, but I couldn't go anywhere. You still have to the car still go, run.

Yep, yep, yep, yep. And everyone was, you're all right, you're all right, and I'm like, tell with me, I'm worried about these three cars, you know, and my brother's car, and had just got back on the road. Oh, Lynn. Yeah, yeah, I was so shamed man And would you believe it He is a panibular display painter

And he got talking to someone Probably less than six months ago And they worked at this They still, they work at this particular building That I tried to do a, you know, whatever They still talk about it Wow, still to this day The lady who rode off three cars

Yes, yes, yes Was your brother angry? No, he was just worried about me I think that annoyed me more You know, like he said, oh, it's only cars, don't worry about it But I knew it was his pride and joy man And even to the day if anything happened to Well, it has happened to a few other cars and that

And he's like, fuck of the cars As long as you're all right Oh, that's so sweet That's very nice Oh, but I'm so shame day Good on you, Lynne, love your work mate Legend, Lynn, the legend we're going to call you You have a great one now, actually producer Troy

It's coming here. You got a bit of a cough today, babes. It's been lingering for the last week or so. But Patricia Troy, you, thank you, Lynn, appreciate it. You borrowed a car, a rental, and it went bad. Rental, I was my first time ever renting a car in Hawaii a couple months ago. I just wanted to get a real, it's a podcast, I can say, the shipbox. Yeah.

Like just the Toyota Corolla. Little vits or something. Little bits. Because I was worried that if I crashed it, it was first time left-hand drive. on the right hand side of the road, first time renting a car. You do veer towards the middle of the road, I find. Yeah, you do.

You do. So rent of that, that was fine. And then when we went to pick it up, we got a free upgrade to a very flash convertible BMW. Oh, wow. Nice. I couldn't really tell the guy who had gone through all the trouble to get me this upgrade that I didn't want it.

You're like, to be honest, I'm worried about crashing. Give me the crappy one. He sold me too. He was like, oh, you know, you're here with the misses. You want to put the top down, get the wind in your hair. you get like yeah i do you live in the tree and so we took it out it was a beautiful day why was he trying up sell you on a free upgrade no i think he was just trying to make me feel good and give him a good review yeah right so took it out put the top down he's doing you the favor yeah put the top down

driving sun was out it was really nice and we went through a tunnel this massive tunnel kind of went under like almost like a mountain in hawaii and as we're starting to come and and see the light at the other side and come out of it it looked quite like hazy and like quite like oh it's a bit like a white light and as we got close

I realized it was absolutely bucketing down on the other side of this mountain and we had the top down and so we came care careening out of this tunnel at 100Ks an hour and just got wrenched

and the screaming me and my partner who tried to put the top up don't touch it! So your partner's trying to pull it up as you're driving to pull the top up as a driving it just became like a parachute

so we had to pull over on the highway, put the hazards on and put the top up, which came up so slowly as we're still getting churrent. That was the wind in you hear. You love it. You and the buses feeling good. To be honest, so when you're on the motorway and you see some asshole and a flash converter on it's raining, you're like sucked in.

It's the universe giving the every person a little wind, isn't it? We couldn't look more like tourists. I will I hope you enjoy the podcast and have a great day John O'Bennon and Megan The podcast The Heds

But something I do I like to switch I switch switches off Powerpoints off I get a bit funny Now and again I can let it get away On myself

But I usually reined it in But He got on it Have I told you about the thing He bought The Oh that was when I Really

He bought a device He bought a device online Which measured the gamma rays Or whatever When he walked into a room. Basically, I got too intense. You go around the house and you go like,

you know, when you were, anyway, I'm not going there. I'm not going there. I said, bring it into the radio studio one day and it was pinging. Yeah, like all the electricity. What are you going to do there though? I sit outside, wrapped in tin foil and do the show from me. And I had to put it away. It's like, I don't even know what it's because I was,

when I was walking around the table. Holding it up. It's interesting. I was just like, were you? Yeah, no, because I was interested. I was like, power lines. Oh, walking out of power. I'm like, whoa, and then you go over there.

Well, you know, Amanda, my wife's like, come inside. Please, please come in that. You can't laugh at him. You walk around the neighbourhood talking and muttering to yourself. I do, I do. So I don't do that anymore. I'm sorry about my friends John. I put it away anyway.

So I sometimes like to turn switches off. My daughter, Indy has now started to do it. But I don't think it's, I think it's more a power saving thing that she's really got into the power state. Somewhere it's been drilled into her that we need to save power and she goes around. And that means what's turning everything off. You know, sometimes you're like, well, I was just here and the lights off. It's bag or whatever.

But yesterday, I put my phone in the charger that I usually leave on. And then two hours later, I came back and, I was like, switched off. Switched off. Now, I don't think she'd switched off when the phone was in there. But she'd obviously just switched it off beforehand going around. And I was like, this is in my room. This is like you come in and switched off. Yeah, so she's really.

Or she'd literally gone around into other people's rooms and switched off. Yeah, she's like, if you've gone past, sees a switch. It's off. Yeah. So even just to switch on. Oh, if it's unnecessary. I mean, obviously, if it's something like the fridge or the. Boom.

If it's like, we're not seeing. grandma at the hospital or anything she's not going to keep her away from nana on life support geez yeah so that's worried me do you know how much power this is taking it up bang there we go save some power on the power ball yeah so yeah so i think it's probably my fault actually so yeah i'll keep that little uh gamma ray she might be saving you a power actually yeah yeah you're right yeah i'm yeah i need to get better of that but switching a light off and then coming back you know can you bring can you bring a gamma at ray reader in again yeah go go find it do you still have it somewhere

I don't know. I don't pretend you don't know where it is. No, I haven't touched it for a while. I've kind of left those days behind me, Megan. Okay. But I can try and find it and unless my wife is thrown out, which is a good chance she might have. He's like, he's like, he's like, I can't.

If I just have one, if I just measure one gamera. Hey, we're not yucking you yucking you, you can bring your gamma ray in. You definitely are, but that's all right. It's a real eye opener when you bring it into a place like this. You're like, wow. Yeah, you go around the house, you're like, the little wall. It's like, we're being sizzled. Did you put it up to Amanda or what?

She was electrically charged when I had it out, that's for sure, but not. Wait, the gamutniks? She's like, there's reading of low sexiness from your partner, that's for sure. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, The Hits. How you're some best. He wants to get a tattoo? What's to get into the tattoo game early? Yeah, so he's been putting on, like, little, you know, the stick-on tattoos.

We were never allowed those women were little For this very reason Because my parents Yeah My parents were like You want to get a tattoo And to this day I've only got like one tiny little one

Entry level Yeah But he's got a smurf tattoo on his arm At the moment And he's like We were talking about tattoos Because Andrew my husband's got one And I was like

Do you want one? Turns out He does He's thought about it He's very serious And he knows exactly what he wants Okay I don't feel like this

change ever. This will be the worst. Absolutely. This is, yeah, this will do unto adulthood. Yeah. Hey Basti, what do you think of tattoos? Good. Do you want to get a tattoo? Yeah. What do you think you would get?

A sonic one? Sonic the Hedgehog. Yeah, like to stay on for it every day. You want it to stay on every day. And where would you put it? On my tummy. Like a big sonic on your tummy. Yeah, like a big one.

Okay. Cool. So you want a Sonic and a Māori word? Yeah. What Māori word do you want with your Sonic? Sonic the Headhog Vine. Okay. I don't know if there's a Māori word for Sonic, but we can look into it. Don't laugh about that.

Oh, sorry. Oh, okay. It takes a simple. Right, yeah, don't, yeah. Fair enough. Did you love about my Sonic the Hedgehog? So on his stomach. He wants a big picture of Sonic, and then he wants Sonic the Hedgehog.

and Māori. I like it. He's got a vision. He wants to bring it like Sonic but make it Kiwi, you know? I've just chat GPT to be Sonic Te Kuri Ronaki 5. Oh, okay.

So he wants the fifth one too. That sounds fancy. Yeah. It does sound fancy. Rimu. Yeah. Tahrirua, Torufa, Rima, yeah. That's, that's going,

your belly button could be Sonic's a little bottom. If you get a... He was like pointing right up and two. His chest In between his pets Starting down below his belly butter I was like This is why

You have to be of certain age Yeah that's right You're right Also if you got it done now Sonic's gonna be like Quite stretched Yeah On time you get

Sonics let himself go No there's I just Google Does anyone got a full chest piece of Sonic A hedgehog No images coming up He could be a world first

He could be a leader pioneer But I did think They were joking around I take it back No there's a lady here Maggie Maggie's got the whole Sonic cast on her chest. That's on her decoletage.

Yeah. Wow. It's just above the boobs. So maybe Bessie can take that into the artist. Wow. Yeah, I thought we were just kidding around until he was like, don't laugh. Don't laugh about this, man. No, it's serious. He's serious. Good Lord. John O'Benn and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. We park, well, we park our car, Jono. Jeez, can I just say, thank you so much this car parking building. It provides so much content for this radio show. It's about three blocks away. About, you know, sort of 30 minutes walk away from there we are. Yeah, Jono appreciates it.

Well, particularly at the moment, it's providing a lot of content because at the moment, as we mentioned before, they are doing some renovations in the whole parking building section. It goes into a like a hotel and other stuff as well. So there's a lot going on there. I understand there's a lot going on. They're testing alarms every day and they're doing stuff. It's an odd feeling when you're walking into a building and all you're hearing is, please exit the building. And you're like, is this legit? Is this legit or is this like alarm test yesterday?

But there is the elevators aren't always working, which is, you know, you understand. And there's all stuff going on. And there's a loving lady that sits outside the elevators. And she normally tells you if you can use it or if you have to go around the stairs just to keep everyone. She's doing the job of a sign. Yeah. It's a sign. A sign could do.

We didn't say that. But yesterday I was like, well, maybe this job is important. You know, like really important because, well, but, you know, like, how many thought you were going to say she's doing the job. It was a saint or something. No, a sign. Like the other day, there was tape. There was caution tape. And Jono just walked over it.

So that's why you did it do a sign. Yeah, right. I don't pay attention to the signs. It's right. So, yeah, maybe it's important to have someone there. Yeah. So yesterday I had my daughters in here where we were going and going to go somewhere and pick up my car. And as we walked in there, she was there.

And I was like, Lyft's working. She's yep, yep, all good. It went in there. And as we went down, everything power went off and the lift just dropped. Oh, it actually dropped. Just dropped. Not hugely, but just enough to drop and then stopped and power off. everything off just pitch black darkness my daughter indy is she's not a fan of lifts at the best

of time so normally i just i'd take staircases with her as well but yeah and so she could tell her she's deep oh poor thing she's deep breathing i'm like it's gonna be okay it's gonna be in my head i'm like i don't know if it's gonna be okay but you just just say it's gonna be right we're going to be right then you had to hit the emergency button someone pretty quickly was on there you know going are you okay and it felt like a few minutes later the power came back on and we got off on another floor but yeah but very much like it just and especially for indy if that's her thing like now she's definitely not going to be taking another lift with you yeah when we came back after because we had to drop something the car was like we're definitely taking the stairs

this time i get that yeah it's like when you get in a lift and you hear it go groin and you're like are we going to make it i know i know unusual environment's the old lift isn't it uh you know sometimes you can be crammed in there of 10 or 15 people and no one says a word that's also awkward didn't it we could not be any closer and no one is saying anything yeah there's a lot of trust too sometimes He got quite high. So why do we check this out there? Thankfully, you're only in there for a short period of time. Yeah, it wasn't long.

The longest amount of time you've been stuck in a little. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Sort of surged a little bit as well. That was a little bit freaky. So when you realize, oh, geez, this is, you know, I'm not in control right now. Yeah.

Stuff that's designed to, you know, maneuver us from one level to another level. It's been quite confusing, too. You took your dog on the escalators, which really threw them. Yeah, the tramulator at Bunnings and that really blew up. was mine. That's a lot of sensory overload, isn't it? A lot of confusion. Yeah. Too much for a dog to handle, and so

the elevator yesterday was too much for me to handle. Finally got out there out of there after a couple of minutes, but oh, Andrew the hits, 4487. How long did you spend stuck in an elevator? Yeah, I'd love to get your calls on. We've got producer Troy in the studio. Jeez, it's great to have you on the team, Troy. He's coming with all these great stories. He had one yesterday about he broke up with a girl and then he

had to look in her apartment from your office. You looked into her bedroom for two years. That story needs more context than just I looked at her apartment. He just kept in her window for two years afterwards. I was trying to give a brief summary. He shouldn't have probably go on there, you're right. We don't have time to elaborate, sorry.

We'll just leave that there. Anyway, binoculars were involved. Police, it was weird. But anyway, move on with the other story. The other story, elevators, me and my current partner were apartment hunting, and we went to this place, and there was a guy there who I think, he was just trying to get as many people through this apartment as quick as possible. so they could get on with his day.

And so there was about eight of us, and he's like, just everyone get in the lift. We'll go up to floor two. Everyone gets everyone. He's going to take you all at the whole competing team. Yeah. And as the doors of the lift were closing, we see max load seven people.

And there's eight of us in there. Oh, okay. You've done the numbers. Surely there's some wiggle room will be okay. You'd think so. And also, what weight? You know, humans vary a lot in weight. It was the average they've factoring in there.

I don't know. Well, we were too much. because we got to the second floor and there's a big drop and just grinding like break sound and then we pried the doors open and we couldn't get out because there were two sets of doors

there's the interior doors and the exterior doors and we had to call the guy from the lift and he was really like abrasive and angry what was he all salty he was angry because he had to drive from East Auckland to West Auckland and he's going to take me ages mate you're not just

tell you what's going to take your age He's getting out of this lift. And he was trying to talk us through, like, this latch that was like we had to reach inside the elevator and out and flick this latch. Because when you're hanging, you know, between floors, you really want to be flicking random latches. You don't know what you're doing. Dealing with a frustrated lift technician. So were you the one on the phone to the technician, were you? I stepped up and I said, guys, I'll handle it.

I'll call him. Good on you. And I was sending him photos. We ended up getting out about half an hour later. Did you get the apartment? No, we decided that was a moment. Yeah, no. Like, the list isn't great.

Oh, 800 of the hits. Rochelle, welcome. Hi, how's it going, guys? We're doing well. It's lovely to have you on New Zealand's breakfast this morning. Yeah, I'll set the scene. Where are we? What building?

I'm in the Delta Hotel in downtown Vancouver. Okay, so you're offshore. You've taken this in the international waters. And what happened? So, a little story beforehand, we just arrived, and I was absolutely busting to go to the bathroom. So I ran through the lobby, and the reception lady growled me. So did you put a check in first?

I was like, no time for that, checked in, got in the elevator, go up, stops, halfway between floors. And they open the doors and they're like, do you guys want to crawl out? I was like, have you seen the horror movies? Yeah, well, yes. So that was an option. I didn't know that was an option. I thought that was something they only did in the movies. You can actually crawl out.

While they were like, do you what? I was like, hell no. There were four of us in there. and they said, sorry, it's peak hour traffic, and the technicians at least an hour and a half away. So, yeah, an hour's 45. And you're having, your bladder bag's full to the brim? No, lucky, that's what I mean, lucky I ran through and went to the toilet. Oh, thank God.

I thought you were going wheeze in front of some strangers. Got all bare grills on it. And a lift. Oh, thank God. And so how long were you in there for? an hour 45 geez that's a long time too imagine every minute feels like half an hour

we were like we're actually a couple of us nodded off and we're like oh we're really sorry guys please go and have dinner on us do you need any dry cleaning done and it was like okay whatever and then the funny part we came back to get on a cruise and we were supposed to stay in the same

hotel and we went to check in and they had double books and we had to drive an hour and a half outside of Vancouver to go to their sister hotel. Put a beard in the elevator. It would have been a little bit of sleep there. I love that dry cleaning is a good apology too. I don't do anything. Dry cleaning?

Yeah. I guess you're going to have a dry clean. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The heads. A wee teaser on her partner, Travis Kelsey's podcast. He does with his brother, Jason Kelsey. They're both great footballers,

American footballers and the States. They've got a podcast that's very popular called New Heights. It was a little teaser clip We played yesterday announcing the new album It became the most viewed video on Instagram Ever in 24 hours Just the teaser It's her first ever

First ever podcast appearance She never done a podcast Never done one And her first interview since 23 So she hasn't done an interview for a good couple of years as well So yeah it's gonna be huge They're drip feeding some stuff

They're milking it They're trying to get the most out of it for their podcast And I'm loving it I am lapping it up Now, Jason Kelsey, as a said, a former footballer, but his introduction for Taylor Swift, very hyped. I love it. Have a listen to some of that.

Yes, today is a singer, songwriter and producer and director from Nashville, Tennessee. That's bullshit. She is from Redding, Pennsylvania. Just 14 Grammy Awards. Making your podcast and debut, the most of Christmas of guests in the history of shows, Taylor Swift. That intro, Jason. Oh my God

I've seen this before No look his soul has left his body It went on for quite a lot longer than that Yeah we cut it down Poor guy out of breath by the end of it But very hot All I'm talking is the mic Absolute nightmare

Who's running the levels on that mic No one's working harder than that microphone And a little nod that Taylor had Because you know she gets She gets put on the screen Every time she's at a game Supporting her partner And she gets...

She gets booed sometimes She gets a lot of crap from sports fans Which is ridiculous But anyway, she had a little bit of a gag to do with that. As we all know, you know, you guys have a lot of male sports fans that listen to your podcast. And I think we all know that if there's one thing that male sports fans want to see in their spaces and on their screens. It's more of me. Good gag.

Does it? Dang, digger, dang, music play under the whole podcast. No, that's their teaser stuff. That's cool. Online. They do that. And then it cuts in with a new height. Ding, ding, ding.

Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, it's cool. You tell Ben loves to know. It's a big fan. He's like, ding, dinga, ding, ding, it's cool. It's cool. It's cool. We need that, guys.

We did that for our stuff. I do like the... I mean, so funny, they're like, ding, do you know. Shut up in a bit of Megan. That's what we're lacking. I've always said that. We're lacking that. The guitar riff.

Yeah. I do like that they've embraced her, knowing that some of their fans are like, ugh. But they're like, no, stuff it. I mean, with those kind of views on your teaser clip. Yeah. That'd be stupid not to. What did they actually say?

You know, we've had some good ding, ding a ding a ding, we've had some hype. What sort of content have we pulled out of this podcast? Well, at the moment, I don't think it's actually been officially released. Oh, they're just doing teaser clips. I think so, yeah, as well. So the episode's dropping, I think, within the next 24 hours as well. So yeah, tease it, mate, they put a teaser out, put another teaser. I'm like, I'm hyped.

I'm ready to go. Dang, digger, dang, dang. It's going to be the most listened-to-podcast ever. Probably break history. It'll probably break records. Well, yeah, you're right. It never done a podcast before. Like, it's baffles me as well.

She hasn't had the time, Ben. And she doesn't, yeah, I know, she doesn't... What about Ben Cieners when I grow up? Yeah, she's replied to any of those emails. Oh, no, she's doing them now. See one over? Yeah, yeah, yeah, just what is it? You know.

Now that you've broken your podcast, drow. She's a little busy for that. Maybe... Some cool guitar riff behind. You can put that in for the podcast. And give her a hype. I'm trying to out-hipe that intro, eh? John O'Bennon and Megan.

The podcast. The Hits. Oh, what a beautiful song for Thursday morning. It is from the Lion King. Elton John. Can you feel the love. love tonight. That's your throwback Thursday. We're just Googling what a vagabond

is and hoping it wasn't a racial slur. It's not, because of course that's one of the lines in the song. To make kings and vagabonds. Someone who is you know, it's a bit of a wanderer, maybe doesn't have a home. It could be a vagrant another term as well as well. So it's like extremes, kings and vagabond. Also a bit offensive to the vagrant community

potentially. Or it could be someone who chooses not to have a home. Yeah, you're right. Yeah. So two ways. That would have been nightmare so it's a racial slur in the song, wouldn't it? I'm just entertaining the team with Elton John. So during COVID, there was like a let's bring the world together sort of concert as the word always is during those times. I don't know how I've never seen this.

Have you not seen this? No. So he's at his house. They're crossed to all the celebrities' houses and they do performances from their homes. Amazing. You know, in theory, great idea. Great idea. But it felt like Elton forgot to put his teeth in during this performance.

This is I'm Bill Danding. Enthusiasm. Yeah. Have it listened to him. This is him in his lap. Dilettan after all this time Back on up the piece that's not my life Without you on my mind

I'm too tanning Yeah Yeah He's giving it as all Wait I'm still dining Yeah It sounds like if I tried to sing it out in John's song

It's called Dill Danning in that version When a man never could have hoped It sounds like his ditches have come out That's what my net is sound like when her teeth came out no pizza anyway I love Elton John

I mean how old is he there he's probably in late 80s yeah giving her this best he looked like I'm through the line

he's nearly correct he's nearly correct with his lyrics as well how do you remember the lyrics he's course I remember the lyrics and then everybody

were like geez what were those lyrics I'm pretty sure it's called I'm Dill Danding right that was the name of the song John O'Bin and Megan The podcast, the heads. For $300,000 they had to split the $1 million in Lotto last night.

Congratulations to all three of you who were probably happy, but at the same time going, why wasn't it just me? The only winner. Walking through a car park last night, someone was just at basketball, so it was a dark car park and I sneezed. You know, that's that time of year where your body just violently explodes, doesn't it? Archer! You don't have a bad sneeze on you, Megan?

You do well with the sneeze. A cute little one, eh? I sneeze a little. A lot, though, every single day. Lots of sneezes. We worked with brawny and she'll go, yeah. Just a tiny little bit in here, like a little mouse sneezing.

I feel like anyone over the age of 70, they really put a lot into their sneezing. We have a neighbour, and not next door neighbour. There is a neighbour that would be a few houses away, and every now and then it echoes through the neighbourhood. I feel like it's a dad, you reach that stage of your dad life. You're like, I'm just got to let the sneeze run. You know, this is as loud as possible.

So much sneeze. The house is shaking, you know, yeah. You're going to be careful nothing comes out the other end. Yeah, you're right. So I sneezed yesterday, and then it's just an automatic reflex. I said to myself, gazuntite. No, yeah. It's what I like to say, you know, when anyone sees, gazuntite.

And I, yeah, and I thought, well, that was odd to say to yourself out loud, sort of excusing yourself, and then someone was in their car. And they're like, that was polite of you to say Gizontide to yourself. Do you know what Gizntide means? It's German. Yeah. It's a very problematic word. Is it?

I was just going to Google Gizanty. Oh, thanks for talking on the radio with it. No, it means good health. It means good health. We just say a German thing aggressively and it could be a stuff. Yeah, I love it. Do you do a bless you or a Guzontide? What do you roll with?

I say bless you. I don't usually do it. He doesn't really acknowledge a sneeze. Yeah. Normally it's just like, yeah. But I mean, it's nice. When someone does, I get, someone does bless you. I guess it is nice.

I don't know why they're blessing me, but... I do, like, five sneezes in a row, though, so someone will go, bless you? Bless you. That's not thinking, yeah. Okay, no, you're just taking the piss. Do you require a Gazuntide or a bless you after every sneeze, or you just wait to the end of the session? Just the first. Yeah.

There's a law there. So anyway, you can say it to yourself and... Gozintzintight, it's not cancelled. It's good. Neish, but not cancelled. It was just nice thing being nervous for about three seconds. True. I was like, oh, geez, here we go.

Jono, Ben and Megan The podcast The hits Now we're taking away A killer Swim! He 100% popped a hemorrhoed Yeah

You can hear it The schoda that we are given away We are taking on a bit of a road trip today We haven't decided who's driving I think all of us have decided it's not Jono Oh yeah Johno's decided it's not John I don't want any part in driving this The last time I drive at work

He's sleepy, yeah he speeds Because what happens when we have We've got the company vehicles here and if anyone goes, a bloody K over the speed limit, 1K, it pings to the wonderful Joe Riddell's email who Joe managed,

she's the backbone of this place, Joe. And she was like, who was driving between Wellington and Palmerston North? And I said, I was Joe. And she said, look at this. A million emails. Because I remember you saying at one point, because it beeps,

and it was like if you just stay over the speed limit, the beeping stops. You can drive through it, you know? Can do attitude. Positive minute. Kiwi-kandu attitude. Stay over the speed limit. So, yeah.

Turns out it didn't. Don't worry, Joe, and you run at work. John is not driving. I don't want to, oh, well, I don't want to crash it. I don't want to end up. Because it's the prize that we're giving away. Yeah. It's an amazing car that we're giving away.

So, yeah, so I don't want to. Yeah, me, I don't want to drive. Okay. I have taken this car away from the weekend, and it is a beauty to drive. Producer Troy, you are new to the station. Yeah, how do you feel about driving? I don't want a bar of it. Oh, really?

So you're all just going to beat her. Yeah, you're driving. Okay. This wouldn't have happened back in the 70s, mate. What are you saying you should be lucky that we're letting you? You should be lucky. You're letting you drive, mate. Back in the day, we'd take the wheel, wouldn't we? Now we're a very progressive show.

Aren't we just? That's very true, actually, you're right. Three very capable males here. Oh, you're making me drive you, cook your dinner, do your laundry. Oh, we can't win. One night. Trying to give you all these opportunities, Megan. There's amazing opportunities.

but we just want to know when borrowing the car went bad that's the topic okay oh 800 that's why why do we want to know this before we've taken a car just as we're putting it out into the universe why about when borrowing the car went well well that's boring the car went well okay you're right it could be like a warning for not what not to do yeah okay okay I imagine a lot of rentals rentals prepare you're borrowing your parents car as a teenager that's always going to happen yeah The podcast. The hits. Are you on the road trip to have to see Daniela?

Never actually met Daniela. She lives in Tauranga. She's from Italy, originally. She's very funny. We call her our Italian correspondent. We need to make sure that you're not catfishing us. Like, this is a real relationship. You are real.

Yeah, that's true. Correct. You never know. She could be AI, Megan. You're right, this whole time. AI. A big hairy old man. You never know.

Nowadays, can't trust anyone. No, that's right. I don't know. I don't know exactly you know what your scam is because all we've got out of you is free radio. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we'll finally see each other on flesh. Yes, on flesh.

See each other on flesh. And we're going to see her tonight on flesh as well. Oh, that's why we love it. And we're going to take some of New Zealand's crappiest Italian cuisine. You know, you're frozen. You can say crappy, but she may love it. True. Yeah, frozen pizzas, pre-packaged pasta, canned spaghetti.

Maybe we're doing it right. The Italians have been doing it wrong. Okay, so we are taking the schoda that we're giving away, the all-new schoda, and we're scared to drive it, scared to scratch it, crash it, whatever. Megan's been allocated as the sensible driver. Thanks, but, yeah, it's a big responsibility. It is, it is. We just want to know when borrowing the car went bad.

Should we get Katrina on the phone? Welcome, Katrina. Hey, you guys. We're doing well? Oh, you didn't ask us. You didn't ask us, Katrina, that's fine. I hate it when I do that. How are you going, John?

Yeah, thank you. Good to us. Thank you for asking Katrina. I'm doing well, thank you. How about yourself? I'm not too bad. Now we can move forward. What happened, borrowing the car going bad? Yeah, so the first time I took my ex down to meet my parents, we borrowed the car,

and he slipped on some oil, took the car across the road, onto some grass, we slammed into a fence. We were both okay. It's okay. But he wrote it off. This was the first time he's met your parents. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. That's a shocker. And then once we did it, because we were going to go meet my stepdad at the shooting range.

It feels like, oh God, is this the place I really should be turning up? If you're the partner, the boyfriend you're doing. We could still just, it was just drivable. We had to drive to the shooting range to meet my stepfather. Sounds like a comedy. Clang-clanging up. I really was. I was finding it quite funny. Oh.

And what was your parents' reaction when they saw their car hobbling into the drive? of the shooting range? They did first go with is everybody okay? Oh, that's nice. I don't really care about that though, do they? That's the car that's important. I don't think they actually did.

But they didn't come out guns blazing. Well, yeah. They could have, literally, right? It's not the first thing my parents would have said. Yeah. Before we tell you, can you put the weapon down, please? Before we come out, yes. And so is that the reason why he's your ex?

Many others, but that's okay. Hopefully he's not listening. Good on. And I appreciate you, cool. There are so many coming through. We'll keep this going, eh? We'll keep this going. John O'Benn and Megan.

The podcast. The hit. Tell you what, Schoda, have given us this car to give away, the cash in car, and we are taking the car away. The actual prize we are driving today, and all of us are too nervous to drive, so we've made Megan do the driving. It's a lot of responsibility on me. I am the best driver, though.

You are? Jono's the worst. I won't disagree. I won't disagree. We're at opposite ends. You're just fast and loose. It's not what we need when you're driving. No. So we're doing, borrowing the car going bad, which is making Ben very nervous.

It is. I don't know why we're doing this, guys. But anyway, we're doing it. These are worst case scenarios. It's what not to do. Yeah, okay. Nick, good morning. Good morning. How are you? We're doing well, my friend, when borrowing the car goes bad. Yeah, a friend of mine, he was meant to be evaluating my car and decided he was going out for a drive. And I got a phone call from him to say, I've run away from the police. I tried to tell him over, and he escaped him. The very next day, I had the police knocking on my door. He's like, good news and bad news.

Hey, so. The police were chasing me. And he got away from them. He did. He did. It was a pretty fast car. What had he done? It was actually an average of 127 miles an hour.

That's what they tracked at. Oh, my gosh. This is back in the UK. He actually got three months in prison for it. Oh, really? Wow. Yeah, they made an example of him. Gee whiz.

Thankfully, they believed that it wasn't you. Well, it was, basically, it was proof it was, or you'll get in trouble. Right. So I see Bob on him. So, Nick, okay, your friend calls you. He says, I've been on the, you know, I've run away from the police. What do you say? Your first words?

Yeah, I thought it was a joke at best. I really did. It does sound like a prank, doesn't it? He does. It does. And, yeah, it was the next day. And mum says, the police are at the door for you.

Oh, no, no one wants to hear that from them. He's really committing to this prank. Oh, mate, well, that's, I'm glad you're okay. And I hope he learned his lesson. Thank you so much, Nick. Thank you. No worries, mate. Let's get Brooke on the show.

Good morning to you. Good morning, team. How are we? Good. Good. Good. Good, good. Borrowing a car.

How did it go wrong for you? So, my very good friend in high school, we were all at age of getting our license. She had got her learners, passed that, done all the time to get her restricted. And on the day of her restricted, she got, borrowed her mom's car because she had no gas in hers. So she took it to the AA place, got in the car, the instructor said, please, check your mirrors and make sure that you pop it in reverse.

And she popped it in drive instead and ran it through the front window of the AA building. Oh, no. Oh, no. He instantly went, I can guess that you would think that you're not going to get your license. Good luck next time. Oh, that was cool from the instructor. Those were some good words. I reckon that would happen more often than you think around those buildings.

Oh, that is. She was not happy. And AA also does insurance as well, which should be useful. It's a one-stop shop. Gary coming out from out from out the back going, oh, hello. Does she get it next time? No, she didn't. She had to do it three times.

getting it, so she wasn't the best driver, I guess. And now you can rest safe that, that lady's now on the road. With children. Oh, God. Hey, Brooke, appreciate you listening. Have a great day. You too. Thank you very much.

John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Three people last night won over, well, 133,000, $33,33,33,000, $333 last night in Lotto, splitting it a million dollars free way. So, well, done. Oh, there you go. Yeah.

That would, that would, that would, that's great. Hey, you're a huge amount of money. Yeah. But you're like, I've only probably got one of those in my lifetime. Yeah. You know? And like someone at the weekend won 20 mil, right? Yes.

So you're like, why couldn't they split that three ways? Yeah, you're right. Like if you're winning a million, you don't, you don't really want to be switched. Still take it. Take it. I mean, you say one in a lifetime, but most of us will never have that one in a lifetime. Yeah, true. But yeah, I see what you're made.

But if it's going to happen, it's never going to happen again. Yes. And it didn't happen on a scale that you would have wanted it. Yeah. But I mean, that'll knock off. a huge chunk of someone's mortgage. A couple of weeks of groceries. Two blocks of butter.

So it's a big queen. Well, speaking of winning, had to go to a primary school. Excuse me. And judge. Oh, excuse me. A speech competition. And hopefully they were better than you just talking on the radio. I would have given myself two for presentation there.

But yeah, there's cute little kids doing speeches about Fenua, our land but the problem is I'm who am I to judge I can barely string us innings together I mean you do a lot of people you do a lot of speaking

in all the Indian defence you do you know more speaking the most publicly emceeing and stuff yesterday I said we win the America's Cup I mean we wan the America's Cup so I felt that was ringing in my head anyway what I hate is having to choose a winner especially at primary school

especially kids as well yeah because they've all done a really good job and you know it takes a lot of guts to get up there in front of a whole school and do your speech it's not everyone's happy place is it you know so it's amazing that people can get up and then do it you're right it still as adults i mean many adults can't even do that it still that wouldn't be my happy place now even yeah going up i'd say you know they all did a really good job but yeah and then they all and then because at the end i was like damn it i should have i should have made notes as i went oh i did not make notes well i know i made notes but like

made notes of who i thought had won oh got so there was each sheet and then i was just like Looking at these scores and most of the scores had equalled out on the same points because I was like, these are all great. Was it just on you or surely there was teachers involved? No, I said I need some consultants. Give me some backstory on these kids.

Who's an ass, you know, who deserves to go through? But, you know, I chose some winners in that. But even the ones that didn't, when we're like, thank you for coming and judging our speech competition. That's right. They keyed your car on the way out. So you'd be terrible at picking a winner out of us. A children's speech competition.

I couldn't do that, you know. You wouldn't even accept. I'd love to give it help, but I get too excited about it, and I now have to pull back with my kids' speeches. Because I'm like, this is something I can help with. And the man of my wife's like, it's not your speech. It's not your speech. They don't want, you know, particularly indie doesn't want jokes

about cold play concerts and all sorts. She's like, not a gag reel. I'm like trying to, we can get another gag in here, any, get another joke. You speed it up, no. He'll tear the house down with his one. It's not a comedy routine. We can put some gags in there, but anyway, that's her speech, and she's comfortable with it, that's all good.

John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast, The Hits. Jeremy Corbett, joins us in the studio. Hiro, nice have you here. Oh, it's lovely to be here. I love what you've done with the place. It's really good. We've got this big, sort of grey curtain at the moment. It looks very conference room in a hotel, doesn't it?

I think you're one step ahead of... Do you like our sixth? big screens that are now blue. Giant screens that are just blue. Yeah. Well, you just have image on it, but apparently the Powers of B didn't like the images behind, so now they just look like the meltdown or something.

No, you're ziggin while everyone else is zagging. Because everyone's been using images on their TV screens and you're like, no. For years, right? For years, people will be putting images on the heart on the wall, you've got a grey curtain. That's not why we use our TVs for. Oh, you're very good. I mean, we love your hosting seven days.

We love your, you know, when you get the radio awards and podcast awards, you know a great job. And can I just say thank you for coming. daughter now goes to the same school, my daughter's go to, and great, I mean, if you've got the option of him seeing anything at school, Ben Boyce or Jeremy Corbett, everyone takes Jeremy Corb is great. So this is, it frees up my

evenings, so thank you very much. How you wheeled out for the quiz nights now? I've done the quiz night, I'm doing the father-daughter breakfast for eggs. I always see Jeremy's name on everything. I'm like, yeah, dodged that way. Thank you, Jeremy. Yeah, good on him. Just you're enjoying not having to do it because you and I are different. I care.

You care about the education of your children? Yeah, you don't. Participating member of the community That's right Yeah, well, yeah I'd like to help out Look at the school board maybe The live audiences

Yes When you're on tour They're more feral Than the TV audiences Or the same They can be a bit feral The further south you go Invercargall

Looking forward to what sort of fight You're going to throw for us this year Do they always have a fight Invercargo in it? Yeah, usually Do they? At a comedy show Yeah

Yeah A fight like amongst themselves Yes That's just a good harmless night out It's like burping To appreciate a meal fighting to appreciate It's all I with Wayne Brown

The Mayor of Auckland Wrestling on social And one of the members Of the one of the comedians Ries Matheson said He'd do a certain something To Wayne Brown in front of him Like didn't sugarcoat it like I am

To get a house He's like I will do this to you To get a house I was like wow this is the bear Yeah he threw it out there And after he said it He was like well that'll never make the TV show But he's got a house

He got that house God damn it How was a guest like that, like Wayne Brown or anyone in particular? Sometimes, you know, you have the politicians come along, yes minister. Are they sometimes walking out there a little rattled or are they? Having sat in that seat myself, they turned the tables on me once and put me in the yes minister seat. It's pretty intimidating because it's you against seven. I think we almost bullied to David Seymour when he came on once.

Got the impression that he kind of said that wasn't as much fun as I thought. This was the live show, though. Yeah, I don't think this was a TV way. I don't think anyone's got, like everyone knows seven days. You're not going to go on there expecting. Yeah, he's sort of the architect of his own demise, really, because he did come in quite combative. With some come back.

Sometimes you feel like if they come back with jokes, it's probably not the best thing, but you've kind of just to laugh along. You do have to laugh along. Just sit there, take it on the chin. Pretty much. Get that out of here. Now, got Jeremy Corbett with us,

seven days on their live tour. Again, who's the worst to tour with? Who's the worst to go on the road with out of the team? Oh, Tomo. George Thompson Yeah, bad personal hygiene Bad attitude Just always

Always frazzled He never not frazzled And I imagine he would leave stuff behind At the previous town Halfway to the next town He'd be like oh my laptop charger Not even that It's like when you're pulling away from the hotel

And he's been last at the van He'll go stop Lift my laptop in my room And as he gets out of the van You realise he's left his pants in his room as well Well, seven days on tour Go see seven days It's a great thing to see Liva

Just looking on Ticketmaster right now There's the first review Yes Great show Especially the first half during stand-up There you go Very funny, well-organised, no issues So there you go

Oh really? Well-organized show too Yeah, there you go No weapons No, that's what said Well-organised, no issues That's not really rock and roll is it Jeez it was organised

It was so well The admin, admin was top-knock Finished when it said it was going to finish Five-star review Well-organised, no issue Not too loud. We'd trade again. Would trade again?

That's great. Well, as we get older as performers, we're into that now, too. We're like, Dye and I are looking at each other going, oh, let's just finish there. You know, so we can get home. Two, two. Yeah, second one. And someone said, definitely go if you can. So there you go.

You can go and see the most organized comedy tour in New Zealand. We've got nothing on that day. You can go along and you can. You definitely should go, right? You'll be home in an appropriate time.