Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Ben's Daughters Are Manipulating Him With Bluetooth. 

Episode Date: March 5, 2025

ON THE SHOW TODAY: We talk about the wildest things you've done for your partner—"My partner helped me with my suppository." Why Jono gave our boss a lap dance! The Megans vs. the boys... Megan stands up for Meghan Markle. The media is lying about Jono and groin rubbing! Update on Jono's eyebrow makeup. We chat with country & soul singer/songwriter Tami Neilson. Listen to the end to hear Jono's solo attempt at the NZ Herald quiz! Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & Megan Instagram: THEHITSBREAKFAST  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Doomer. John O'Bien and Megan The Podcast The Hits Now I've never had a car with a Bluetooth function like until recently you know

so this car you know you don't plug your yeah the phone it works through Bluetooth you can talk on the you know talk through the radio

it's great I'm mansplaining how the Bluetooth works but it's great I can never connect to the Bluetooth. Bluetooth is really, Bluetooth thing and airdropping. Some things airdrop,

some things don't airdrop. That one, oh, airdropped to that thing yesterday, won't airdrop now. Oh, if this Bluetooth thing was connected two days ago, now it won't connect. It's very on brand for you, though, to struggle with technology.

Yeah, well, here's the thing. Now, I've got, it's my car, I'll drive around and it's connected to my Bluetooth. My car can listen to, if I want to, I listen to podcasts, music, well, here's the thing. Now, I've got, it's my car, I drive around and it's connected to my Bluetooth. My car can listen to, if I want to, I listen to podcasts, music, whatever, as well as the radio.

I can also make phone calls, that sort of thing. Now, some reason the kids come in the car and they've decided to connect their phones. So they're now remembered by the car. Their phones are connected on the Bluetooth. Have they got priority over the... I think they're priority. Like some reason they come in the car,

and then one of them will go, oh, I'll play this music, and this song starts playing. I'm like, hey, who's playing this? What's going on? Calls come through for me because they're playing music. It's not coming through the radio system.

The kids are taking over the Bluetooth, like a power play. There's a way you can fix that. What's the way? So you set a favorite. So if there's multiple phones in the car that connect to the Bluetooth, it will favour yours.

Because it's like, suddenly I'm gone. But your daughters have obviously done that though. Yeah. They've set theirs as the favourite. Yeah, I see.

So they've, right, so you come down the picket, where do you sit? Third or the picket? Oh yeah, and your own car. My girls are coming through

and stuff, I'm like, why's that not going through the radio? Why are we still listening to Gracie Abrams? And they're like, I don't know. Oh, I don't know, Dad.

That's what they've done. They've set them as a priority. Real power play, too, isn't it? And also, they're just banking on the fact that you don't know how to fix it. I didn't. I didn't. I'm like, why is this? And then they go out of the car and my phone's suddenly, I'm back in.

And the phone's like, oh, yeah, you can listen to what you want to listen to now. Are they up at this time of morning? Oh, they might be. Should car and my phone's suddenly I'm back in and the phone's like oh yeah you can listen to what you want to listen to are they up at this time of morning oh they might be should we plug your phone in we'll call should we call Sienna and see if this is what

she has been doing was it Sienna's phone yeah she's a smart girl they know what they're doing I can try we'll see this is my life

talking these two boomers through technology I'm normally pretty good with technology but I didn't know about this okay okay I'm going to try we technology, but I didn't know about this. Okay, okay. I'm going to go like that one there.

I'm going to try and watch the answer. We're trying to figure out how to... Yeah, we're calling. It's working. Crank up your volume, bruh. That's that button on the side. Oh, thanks. Hopefully she's going to answer.

What time does she usually get up, Sienna? She's going to be well up does she usually get up Sienna? She's probably well up Your call has been forwarded to voicemail The person you're trying to reach Will Indy your other daughter answer? She might do It's two old fellas just calling Ben's daughters on the radio

Hi Indy how you doing? You're live on the radio right now Oh what? Hi, Indy. How are you doing? You're live on the radio right now. Oh, what? Good morning, Indy. We're just talking about how you and Sienna's phones always connect to the Bluetooth. You kick me off the Bluetooth in the car, right? Oh, yeah.

Now, Megan has a question for you, Indy. Indy, by any chance, have you or Sienna set yourself as the favourite in your dad's car? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'll have to see. Okay. Okay.

I was like, oh, no, they wouldn't have done that. They wouldn't have. Oh, okay. He's like, I don't know how I can stop it. Like, he just went out. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, whatever, whatever. Once you set yourself as a favourite, it's hard for the car not to like you.

He's like, I don't know how they do it. Every time they get in, it connects to their phone. Their music starts to play, and then I can't even make a phone call out of the car. All right, all right. It's not your fault you're intelligent indeed. I'll talk about the Oscars this week, the Academy Awards a couple of days ago,

and the longest speech was made in Oscars history. They normally try and wrap you up with music if you win an Oscar, around about three, three and a half minutes. But Adrian Brody won an award, and he's the actor. Best actor. He just kept going. Who deserves to be up here as well. And I'm wrapping up.

Please, please, please, I'm wrapping up. I will wrap up. Please turn the music off. I've done this before. Thank you. It's not my first rodeo, but I will be brief. I will not be egregious. I promise.

He was egregious and he wasn't brief. He went for another couple of minutes. I've been here before. It's not my first rodeo. Five minutes 40. So you went for a couple more minutes as well. That is a long speech, particularly at the Oscars. It is, yeah.

And it wasn't even a good one. I mean, it was, yeah. It kind of got, no, he did talk about people loving it. It was, yeah. And it wasn't even a good one. I mean, it was, yeah. It kind of got, no, he did talk about people loving it and it was probably the message behind it was good. Yeah, but he had lost me by then. Yeah, yeah. He might have had a good message at the tail end,

but as soon as you start thanking your local courier driver at the three and a half minute mark, kind of fade out on those, don't you? He did, and a very interesting thing too that a lot of people are talking about. So he went, his name got read out. Adrian Brody best actor he went to go up on stage and then he obviously realized just before he walked up the stairs that he still had his gum in his mouth so he took it out and then he turned around everyone's clapping his partner's there and he threw his gum towards his partner who

then well actually she didn't try to catch it she dropped it and she had to pick it up then what's she doing is she's finding a napkin didn't try to catch it, it dropped on the ground. She dropped it. And she had to pick it up. Then what's she doing? I guess she's finding a napkin or finding something to put it on. So it wasn't even a handing of the gum. No, it was a two-meter sort of throw towards everyone. Like you chuck your car keys, like some arrogant driver would chuck their car keys and someone's going to park their car.

Yeah, and everyone's saying it's a bit gross. I mean, it's the sort of things, I guess, you do for your partner. You know, you do a lot of things that you wouldn't do for other people, but that's a very public setting to do it in. I tell you what, if I threw gum at Jen, we would get home that night and she'd put that gum in places. Well, his partner now used to be married to Harvey Weinstein, so I'm sure she's put up with worse.

It's probably on the lighter end of the world. I can handle a bit of gum being choked at me. No, it's fine. If that's the worst thing he does. Hundreds and hundreds of sexual assault claims? No way. I can handle a bit of gum being choked in. It's fine. If that's the worst thing he does. Hundreds and hundreds of sexual assault claims. No way. I can't handle those being choked in there. Maybe he talks for five minutes 40, but he's actually okay.

We're comparing apples with oranges here. Yeah, you're right, actually. Okay. Yeah, no, fair call. She's probably found herself a prince, all things compared. You do those gross things for your partner when you love them. It doesn't necessarily have to be gross. When I had big hip surgery, not a hip replacement.

Shut up. I had hip, like, realignment. Why do you have to front foot that? Why is that such a... Because everyone says I have a hip replacement. I didn't. She had a fall. She had a fall.

But I basically couldn't do anything for myself. So my husband had to, like... Massage your bunions? Shut up. Why am I telling this story? Do you have gout at the same time or not? He had to like help me shower and dry me off. Oh, did he?

Change into pens and everything. That's so lovely. You'd only do that for your elderly partner, wouldn't you? You would. You would. Can I take back this whole story? No, that's... No, don't go back on it now.

No, that's sweet. He's trying to pull it back. Oh, no, no, that's really nice. No, that's lovely. That's lovely what he did. I know I've just mercilessly mocked you for two minutes. Caring for the elderly is a lovely thing to do. Selfless.

The irony is we're like five years older than you. Okay, so I'm done with the hits. What is something you would only do for your partner? No one else, i.e. catching gum and massaging bunions, sorting out gout issues. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits.

I want to know what things you would do. You'd only do for your partner. Some people share toothbrushes. No. It's quite confronting. Sometimes I will accidentally. And you're amazing how quickly you know that's not your toothbrush. Yeah, you can feel it.

I've done that. Because I did call a toothbrush. You're like, oh, hang on. And then, you know. Someone else's plaque in your mouth is just, you know. There's some things you don't need to share. Yeah, but some people will do it, right? But you share so much other stuff, you're kind of there.

What do you do in that instance? Do you pull it out or are you like, oh, I'm half doing the job now? I probably would. Yeah, no, I don't carry on. I don't carry on. I find the toothbrush and then I go boil it. I always boil a jug and put the water over the top of it, you know? It's not an expensive item either, you know?

You can probably get two. 0800, that's the telephone number. What would you do for only your partner and no one else? We'll get Melissa on the phone. Good morning to you. How are you, Melissa? I'm good, thank you. How are you?

We're doing really well. The things you would only do for your partner but no one else. Well, this is what my partner did for me when I was very heavily pregnant. I had hemorrhoids really, really badly and couldn't reach, obviously. So he very kindly inserted suppositories for me and got me out of a lot of pain and discomfort. What a legend. What a legend. I was going to say, one of those moments you're like,

let's never speak of this again, but you've caught up a radio station and spoken of it. So that's lovely. It does remind me of it from time to time. Oh, yeah. he'd be keeping that in his arsenal oh no he didn't actually he put it

in yours you're right you're right if you're like take out the bins you'd be like remember that

time yeah and that's love you know it's what you will do for your partner. Melissa, really appreciate your call. You're going to have a great day. You too.

See you, mate. Have a good one. Hello. Hello. Hello. What is it? How are you? Good.

What is it you'd only do for your partner? I would buy him a new bed. Get him a new bed? You'd only do that? Well, I suppose you're not buying beds for strangers. You're right, actually. My kids and buddy. Yeah, it was probably my kids and my buddy.

Yeah, man. Yeah, I would. You're right. Okay. You probably wouldn't even buy me a bed, would you? No, I wouldn't buy other people. No. You're right.

Have you bought him a bed? Not yet. But you would. You would. had that. If needs arise, you go and have a great day. Thank you. All right, let's get anonymous on. Things you've only done for your partner, anonymous?

Hi. Hi. Well, more to the point things that he's done for me. Okay. I had had a surgery. I'm a regular girl. And three days in, I had had a surgery. I had I'm a regular girl and three days in I was regular no longer.

Okay. And he did the ultimate. He dug for gold to see if he could help the situation. Oh, he dug for gold? All right. What? Yeah. Impacted constipation is where it's

all blacked up. Oh. At the opening. Oh, so, okay. I think we can all peace together now. And he solved the issue. He rubber gloved it. He had his headlight on his head.

What a hero. Yeah. What a hero. You know, it's not a lovely thing to do, but it is a lovely thing to do. That's love. That is true love. He's obviously concentrating down one end. What's your face doing at the other end as this is happening?

I was sweating like a dog. I was in pain. Yeah, she's too sick to worry about it at that point. Yeah. And that's a lot of the times where you're sick or things are going, you know, what you normally do just goes out the window. You're like, I need to help out. Don't look at me in. Yeah. And there's a lot of the times where you're sick or things have gone, you know, what you normally do just goes out the window.

You're like, I need to help out. You need to help out. Don't look me in the eyes. Just do it. Yeah. And in the end, I had to go to the hospital

and I got a brand new doctor who just looked like something out of Grey's Anatomy. I apologized profusely to her and they fixed it. But he is a gem. He's done lots of gross things for me. Good on him.

He's a keeper. He's a keeper. They need to put that in the marriage vows. Yeah, that's true. Well, you know, we're 38 years in deep, so how gross can you get? He was. He was. He was in deep.

Yeah, yeah. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. It's exactly a week ago since we fled off to Fiji. Are you okay? No, I think I'm slowly having a stroke through the last three minutes. Yeah, we went to Fiji a week ago. Fiji was beautiful.

It was beautiful, yeah. And it's been seven days. We took Christy and Gorgeous George over there to Elope, get married. When are they back? I think they're back today or tomorrow. Oh, they're back today. Yeah, we'll catch up with them early next week. Absolutely.

Now, we flew back pretty quickly. And something that we have not addressed with our boss, Matt Anderson, who was at home with heat stroke after being severely sunburned in Fiji. Despite my multiple offers of my sunscreen, I was like, put it on. Go and get it. It's just over there. It was 10 meters away. Constant refusals.

Oh, he thought he was under the shade, as did Megan. But anyway, that's fine. That's a lesson learned. I don't have sunstroke, do I? Yeah. Our boss Mando's now saying, here we go. Here we go. So he's at home with a bit of heat stroke.

But anyway, that's not what I want to tackle. I don't want to kick a man while he's down with it. How can you get heat stroke five days later anyway? Delayed. It's sunstroke. Stop being mean. You've seen the photos. He's not making it up. He's not well. No. We should put up the imagery on the hits breakfast. No, I don't think he wants that. Confronting scenes. But we were flying back and I was in the middle seat, Ben, you were

window, Mando, our boss, Matt Anderson, he was on the aisle seat. Okay, now that puts me in a vulnerable position of if I need to do... Especially five Heinekens down. That's right. I need to go to the toilet. Multiple times. Then I have to get to the aisle. Now, I didn't want an inconvenience, Matt.

Okay, I was like, no, you stay seated. But then what that does is that puts me in a face-to-face, eye-to-eye lap dance position. You know, it gets to the stage where it's, hey, no hands. No hands, no kissing. I could be charging for this. But that, I find, is the best way to not inconvenience the aisle passenger. Have them getting up.

Ben, you once caught me. You were asleep. Yeah. And you woke up with my crotch in your face. So you clambered over, which I don't. In hindsight, when you did go talk to Matt afterwards, he's like, why does Jono keep telling me to sit down? caught me you were asleep and you woke up with my crotch in your face so you clambered over which I don't in hindsight when you did go talk to Matt afterwards

he's like why does Jono keep telling me to sit down I'm happy to stand up he's in the aisle he's like I could just stand up I could just want to stand up

it's almost like he wanted to give him a lap dance he was like it's quite awkward but at least he's giving me the optional front or back first he said that was nice but he's like

just tell me he's like in hindsight Matt was too polite to say he'd rather stand up you know the boss can take you to HRA or back first. He said that was nice but he's like, just tell me. In hindsight, Matt was too polite to say he'd rather stand up. You know the boss can take you to HRA. I thought they can't punch down.

I thought anyone above us is fair game. You can do whatever you want with it. Well, maybe you can. That's not how it works. Okay. So there you go.

But you did give them the choice, which was nice. I did, yeah. Well, you also, when you're at the movies as well, you don't want a face-to-face situation. I usually go butt-to-face at the movies when I'm shuffling past.

That's probably a better way to do it, right? Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. What to watch with Megan. With Love from Megan is on Netflix. Excuse me. I can imagine a lot of people just, I don't know what it, why is it there?

I don't know. I don't know. To be honest, I'm indifferent know what, why is it that? I don't know. I don't know. To be honest, I'm indifferent. I just like whining Megan Pappas up. Because Megan Pappas goes into bat for Markle, don't you? I don't know. If you break down what people are actually angry at her about, like what is it? What is it?

She stole Harry away? He's a grown ass man who can make his own decisions. Exactly. She ripped him away from the clutches of his royal comfortable lifestyle. She said bad things about the

royal family. We don't know whether they were true or not. Well true. Yeah there's a lot of things. Excuse me.

Donald Trump is president right now. So when you're weighing up your vitriol towards Meghan Markle is it fair? Are people going

in on her? Are they for this show? They're always going on her. Constantly. Oh constantly. But I watched the show.

You actually, you interviewed her many years ago before. Yeah. She ripped Harry away from the royal family. Monstrous act. I'm going to play you some of that interview. I'll do it. Because I'm going into bat for her.

So this is her new show. It's called With Love from Meghan. I've always loved taking something pretty ordinary and elevating it. Ugh. Surprising people with moments that let them know I was really thinking of them. Ugh.

This is about connecting with friends. I love that we're doing this together for the first time. Making new friends. That is so good. We're family now. I'm just learning. So what is the show? It's a lifestyle show.

It's Martha Stewart 2.0. So she's like creating dishes in the kitchen. Yeah, she's doing all sorts. You get to see her garden. It starts with her. So she's just doing stuff. Yeah, right. Yeah, it starts with her in a garden harvesting some honey from her bees.

You know what it is? It's like also that reminder to do something that scares you a little bit. I think that's part of it. what it is it's like also that reminder to do something that scares you a little bit i think that's part of it like i'm trying to stay in the calm of it because it's beautiful to be bro you're not doing yourself any favors me or her you you you're trying to form a case to defend this lady what's wrong with that audio this is like this is like just casual fodder you can watch it's like when you're double screening. Maybe you're working and you're watching something else.

Oh, that's a lovely bit of feedback for her. It's something I watch when I'm doing something else, Megan. I saw her fight. I didn't watch any of it, but I saw she was getting ridiculed. Yeah, ridiculed for taking pretzels out of a bag and putting it in another bag and labelling it. So everyone's like, well, hang on, they were already labelled in the first bag. Oh, my God, that was one moment.

And she says it's because, no, but she's trying to be relatable. Everyone's like, well, thanks for taking it out of one bag that said pretzels and putting it in another bag that you've labelled pretzels. Do you watch it and she makes everything else with scratch, which, you know, is right up my alley. But here's the thing. It is aspirational and inspirational. I would not say it's relatable.

She is a royal and she knows that she lives in a fancy place, although this isn't her house, but it is her garden. But in the second episode, she reveals that Meghan Markle is not actually her last name anymore. I don't think anyone in the world knows that Meghan Markle has eaten Jack in the Box and loves it. It's so funny, too, that you keep saying Meghan Markle. You know I'm Sussex now.

You have kids and you go, no, I share my name with my children. Yes. And that feels so, I didn't know how meaningful it would be to me, but it just means so much to go, this is our family name. But she's being roasted for that. Everyone's like, oh, you're not Meghan Sussex. Do you know that this is what the royals do? So they take their, whatever their title is so harry

was harry wales prince william is william wales harry wales that's a funny prank name it's harry wales calling now that he's the duke of sussex he is harry sussex harry wales sounds like something you'd do on the internet take your first street you lived in the country you lived in i'm just saying trolling her for that my rap would be Smoky High because that was the street I lived in. Harry Wales. I'm just saying that wasn't her decision. This is something the royals always do. But you do have some audio here which will make you,

if you want to turn the tide on Meghan Markle, she came to New Zealand, you spoke to her. So we interviewed her when she was on Suits before she was anything to do with the royal, and she loves New Zealand. I went campervanning for two weeks through the South Island and I loved it. I went from, where did we start, in Queenstown and then went through Lake Wanaka and up through Transjoseph and the Seal Colonies and then to Marlborough and Havelock to have some mussels.

Wow, that's cool. She went campervanning. She remembered a lot of the places too. She was so lovely and she was just like over the top friendly which she still is now and I just think that's her but she also told a story

about how she got perved on by a young boy. I think you'll appreciate a funny story too because when I was in Akaroa when we got into the campsite

I went, you know they have like really nice like areas to go and take a shower or whatever else and I'm washing my hair, and I hear something, and I open the shower curtain, and there's this 13-year-old boy who had crawled under the stall and was trying to steal my underwear.

I got a towel, I'm shampooing my hair, and I'm like, where is your mother? And I found his parents were mortified, of course, and to this day, I go, oh, my God, that kid's sitting at home going, that's the girl from Suits. No, they're not. They're going, that's the girl from Suits. No, they're not. They're going, that's the... Stole the underwear. That's how she met Prince Harry. And then ripped him away from his family. So I'm just saying, give her a break. She's lovely.

Can I just go back to that underwear story? You add 10 years to that kid and that story's not as funny. Not as cute. Jono, Ben and Megan. The Podcast. The Hits. Right on three. Jono's show and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Right on three, Jono's show. Vince is back. There's a keyword that will pop up during the show when you see it.

Give us a call tomorrow and you can win $500 cash. That's at 8.30 or you can catch it online at three now. Yeah, if anything, just watch it for the potential of financial gain. Now, Megan, you've just shared with me something. I've been stitched up by some gutter journalism here. Smutty journalism to do with the television show. I was baited on Instagram. I follow Women's Day and I saw, oh my gosh, look at that.

Our mate Jono's on the front cover of Women's Day. He's glazed over that this week about your new TV show. First of all, the fact on the front cover it says Laura, Laura Daniel from the show as well, Laura and Jono's secret bond. And I was like, ooh la la. To be honest, Laura and me were like, well, we haven't seen each other for a year or so.

We don't have much of a bond, but we'll pretend we've got one. And then later they post a lovely picture of the both of you and there's a quote. There's a quote out of context. This is from Laura. This is from Laura. In quotation marks. From the interview. She says, he said he had a sore groin, so I just started massaging towards that area.

I just wanted to impress them, so I'd do whatever they asked me to do. Absolute blindside. Now, this would lead you to believe That my groin had been injured And I'd gone G'day Laura mate Do you mind giving this On set behind you know

You're the boss of this TV show Written by you And she's like I'll do anything they ask me to Cause I wanna Yeah Jono asked me to rub his groin So I did

So I did it for the job Yeah It's a Barbie Weinstein stuff Yeah it is It does sound like a Weinstein situation In other words There's gonna be a Netflix docker On this groin so hard. So I did it for the job, yeah. It's a Barbie Weinstein stuff. Yeah, it is. It does sound like a Weinstein situation. There's going to be a Netflix docker on this groin game. Sounds definitely me too.

I would love to do a follow-up story, the groin identity and my side of this story. I haven't read the article, but I assume she was, because years ago when she first started, we did a prank on Shane Cameron when he was on Dancing with the Stars. And that was the only massage-related thing I can picture with Laura and why she was trying to impress anyone.

Yeah, we were in her ear, and she was pretending to be a masseuse on Dancing with the Stars backstage. At no point did we say, massage is groin. So she wasn't even massaging you? No! This is what I mean! I didn't even get my groin massage. He had it as a masseuse and tipping feathers and all sorts of stuff on Shane Cameron's

back, the boxer. Yeah. Jono's like, I'm getting all the controversy and I didn't even get the massage. Mate, I need a groin massage. Groin hasn't been tended to in years. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits.

How's everyone going today? Going all right. Good, thank you. Had an eventful day yesterday after I kind of got chemist warehoused hard through that little aisle just before the counter there where they sort of bombard you with other products that you probably don't need in your life but you end up. Classic play from retailers. It is.

The supermarket does a great job of putting stuff right at the counter. I'm such a consumer. I love that aisle. And in makeup stores, they do like little travel sizes and like little face masks. Just a little something.

Just grab yourself a little sweet treat. Okay, a little sweet treat. If you know, you know that one, don't you? But it's getting like

that little alleyway of last minute products. It's getting longer and longer. It's snaking around like a line at Disneyland now. It's going to be like a maze at some stage. So, anyway, long story short, I ended up buying an eyebrow and beard darkener. It's essentially just a mascara, wand, pen. Because an ongoing conversation in my relationship from Gina is my eyebrows are disappearing.

So it's important in yesterday. Megan, you took it upon yourself. You've got a rich history with makeup. You've hosted a makeup reality show. You're really slipping into Voldemort, aren't you? Slowly. It's my 10 year transformation. With the eyes and the windows to the soul,

your eyebrows are like the curtains, you know? They're like framing it. Yeah, I've got no curtains. I'm curtains open,'m curtains open baby at the moment anyway you did my eyebrows yesterday and they grew on me yeah but they look like they've grown on me too initially we were laughing but by you know after a couple of hours i was like i'm sold on these there are a lot of brow it was almost went from you know zero to a hundred in the eyebrow game didn't i yeah but i'd walk around all day and because people,

your face, people are drawn to something on your face but they don't quite know what's wrong. But I just noticed all the conversations I was having yesterday, people's eye line was just above my eyeballs and, you know, some would go,

oh, you've done your eyebrows. Some would front foot it, which I appreciated because it was a good conversation starter. And others would just continue a conversation not looking at you in the eyes. And if you ever want to feel self-conscious, alter your face. Oh, yeah. Shout out to the people who get Botox and stuff.

You've just got to own it, I guess, don't you? You sign it. Yeah, we put it up on social media. I was just having a look before. Pretty promising comments from you on your eyebrows. It looks social media. It's different for you, but I think it could be a thing. They look good. You could get them tinted at the salon if you but I think it could be a thing.

They look good. You can get them tinted at the salon if you want usually the last few

months. Then there's a few like I remember when Jono was cool. He has a face for

radio and there's a bring back do stuff to Jono Friday. So there's some comments.

So there was one positive one about the eyebrows. There was two or three including Megan's.

Megan put a positive comment on there. Three and then other random ones. Two out of five. Yeah. Not bad. Not bad for social media.

That's pretty good. However, I did say to you yesterday, this morning, to put it on yourself lightly and see if we noticed. Yeah, I didn't get around to that. I didn't get around to that. Because I'm looking at you being like, it must have been a real light dusting. Yeah.

Maybe it's part of our daily routine. I come and get my eyebrows done pre-show yeah yeah Jono, Ben and Megan the podcast the hits

just don't like it she doesn't like corporate merch so that's what we're gathering over the next three or four weeks is your corporate

clothing and she is going to be doused doused in hivers bucket hats beanies you name it You got track pants

Gum boots Whatever We've got a Milking apron already Coming Coming our way From the Vets in Morrinsville

So Momentum is a gathering Sixth of Merch madness today Sixth day of merch madness So text 4487 Actually if you've got Merch for your business

Please We want it all We'll take it and then we give it away last day that's right so yeah texas 34487 uh but we think because we're talking about merch at the moment so we thought you know often you get swept up in merch uh particularly at concerts or when you go traveling and things like that i do i get swept up much but i do i actually wear a lot of it or you get to see a lot of it and put it up around the house and it does bring back a memory for me you know and that's why i like it i'll go oh i remember doing this i'll put

a top on or i'll put a thing on i'll be like i remember this was a cool cool memory i think i used to do that because i used to be the person that would collect ticket stubs from every concert that i went to no yeah i did that yeah um on a cork board pin them up there it was cool actually like you know again looking back I went to Ace of Base at the power station but then I found them all in an envelope there was like

I go to a lot of concerts like partially because of our job and stuff and then I was like I'm just going to get rid of them I'm just going to

chuck them out oh you threw them out well now you don't get the tickets for a lot of the time right it's all on your phone you're meant to leave that for your children to do

when you die you make that their admin yeah I also had a guitar pick from a band My Chemical Romance Quite a lot of the time, right? It's all on your phone. You're meant to leave that for your children to do when you die. You'll make that their admin. Yeah. I also had a guitar pick from a band, My Chemical Romance. I called it Guitar Pick. Oh, yeah? Was it Gerard Way? Mikey, old Mikey guitar pants?

I love Gerard Way. I wouldn't have thrown it out if it was Gerard Way. So you called it Guitar Pick, which is a great catch inside a concert setting in anyone's language. Especially in the dark, low lighting too. Yeah, that's good. And I kept it for a few years and then I biffed it out because I was like, why have I got this? Yeah, I don't play guitar.

No one's impressed. I don't get out my memorabilia when someone comes over and be like, look at this guitar pick. The thing with the guitar pick is you can't prove it was that person's guitar pick. You could just go to the bloody rock shop and get yourself a 10 guitar pick. And the same thing with Justin Bieber's water bottle. Remember he came on our TV show and he had a water bottle and I was cleaning up afterwards.

It was just like he had water and I was like, oh, this is Bieber's water bottle. I was like, I was going to put it in the recycling. I was like, no, it's Bieber's water bottle. He's drunk out of it. Put it on my desk. But again, there was no way really of like, it didn't have his name on it.

It's just creepy. Oh, you've got his saliva really. And he was a young child at the time too. He was a young child. Collecting evidence of this young child. of like, it didn't have his name on it. Yeah, it's just creepy. All you've got is his saliva, really. Yeah, and then I was like... And he was a young child at the time, too. Yeah, he was a young child. So why are you collecting evidence of this young child? Anyway, it was weird, and in the end, I put it in the recycling about a week later.

Yeah. You'll regret sitting, you know, within that seven-day period. Yeah, I was like, no one knows. It just looks like a water bottle that's sitting there, so yeah. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Stay of merch madness today, collecting all of your corporate merchandise. The hats. Day of Merch Madness today.

Collecting all of your corporate merchandise. At the end of the month, we're going to give it all away. One big blistering day giving away. But before then, Megan is going to model it all because everyone needs to see what's on offer, what they can win. I'm so stoked this will be my first time on the catwalk. Yeah, so we got...

Amazing. Well, we're getting caught up in merch madness. We're talking about the bits of merchandise that you picked up over the years. So if you went somewhere overseas or you went to a theme park, like, okay, you go to Disneyland, are you buying something?

You're taking something home to remember? No. It's the happiest place on earth. Yeah. And also the most profitable. You know, you run by those ears and... Oh, yeah, they've got a walk around with some ears. Mickey Mouse ears on and Minnie Mouse ears.

But the thing is, I always think, am I getting caught up in the moment? What am I going to do with these when I get home? I bought some Mickey Mouse salad servers. Of course you did. At Disneyland. So Mickey's hands were the salad servers. And they looked cool, but they were bad. He was terrible at picking up salad.

Because the hands were very... His hands are puffed out like they've been stung by 300 bees, aren't they? I do love these, but I just can't pick up I can't pick up a salad with them. The one main purpose. It's, yeah, so I remember actually a bit of merch, I had

Guns N' Roses, a very famous band I had the chance. Oh, they are. Thank you though. Well, because Grace Is in there now She's 23 years old I feel like I have to Explain stuff

Do you know who Guns N' Roses are You do Yes I was going to say She was like Do you know Beyonce Was in Destiny's Child

And now she's Salty at me For explaining I don't know what You don't know And do know Anyway so I'm going to

Overexplain stuff Anyway slash the guitarist He's in the Guns N' Roses He's in the Guns and Roses. Guns and Roses. He's the one with the hat.

Very famous band. Got the chance to meet him so I took a vinyl appetite for destruction, their debut album, like the big piece of vinyl went and bought it.

I was like, I'm going to get Slash to sign this. That's amazing. And he could not have been more unenthusiastic about the signing project.

Oh really? He kind of, you know how someone shoves an iPad in front of you and you've got to sign your digital signature? He gave it the same amount of effort as I give that process. And it was kind of like a half-heart. It didn't even look like Slash.

And then he used a pen that had run out of ink, so then he half-started. He was like, oh, hey, man, I'll go over it. I'll go over it. Give me another one. That doesn't work. And it just looks like someone's just forward slashed his signature and screwed it up badly.

Well, it's everything to you. That moment's nothing to him. Sorry. If I brought it up, he would not even have any. All right, let's get you calls and texts. Enya, good morning.

Good morning. How are you guys? We're doing well. How's Invercargill this morning, Enya? It's quite sunny, actually. I was watching the weather last night. Everyone's starting on about four degrees

in the South Island today. Yeah, yeah. Started at 4 a.m. this morning and it was pretty crisp. I bet, I bet. Okay, well, merch, what have you got? What's the most random bit of merch you got? So I have a birdhouse

that Taylor Swift made and signed in 2007 for a charity auction. Taylor Swift? Yeah, being Taylor Swift. You have a birdhouse that she made? Yeah, it's like a little, like, yeah, I don't even know how to explain it. There's so many levels to this. Yeah, like, how did you, so you got it in an auction? No, so I didn't get it in the auction.

I got it off the original buyer from the auction, but yeah. What? And it's got Taylor's signature on the side, like, this is a bespoke birdhouse. Why birds? Why is she getting into that game? Oh, there's an auction in the States. They do it every year, like country music artists, called the Birdhouse Singy.

And all these random country artists make birdhouses. I don't know why. You've got it. Yeah, for charity. So for, like, country music, like young people. That's very, very cool. What a cool story. One, for charity. So for like country music, like young people. That's very, very cool. What a cool story. One of a kind.

Yeah. Where does it sit? I got it for a really good price, but I'm pretty sure it would sell for a pretty penny on the market nowadays. Yeah, if you had it verified. Yeah, you're right. Keep that. Yeah. Where does it sit in your house?

Like, what are you doing with it? You're going to hate this. I've got a spare bedroom that is a Taylor Swift bedroom. Oh, have you got a museum? I love it. No, I'm not hating it at all. I'm loving it. Lee is hating it, but I'm loving it.

What is in your Taylor Swift museum? Pretty much every signed album that she's had, that she's released, they've all come from her official website. And then blankets and... Oh, very cool. Yeah. We need to see it, Enya. We need a photo of the birdhouse and of the room.

Can you send that? We'll put that up on our social pages, all right? Yeah, I'll send it through for you. We'd love to come visit one day too. I'd like to check out the birdhouse and everything too. Yeah, you're welcome next time you're down the sneak of the woods. John O'Bannon Megan. The Podcast.

The Hits. Auckland Arts Festival starts this weekend and Tammy Nielsen, country music star, originally from Canada, lived in New Zealand for many, many years, joins us in the studio. You've got a show, Saturday Night People Can Go Along. Sounds really, really cool. Tell us about it. Yeah, well, it's a show called The F Word, Songs of Feminism in Country Music.

So it's kind of telling the stories of all these queens of country, the adversity they've faced in the business. And so it's kind of a, I don't know, it's almost like a live documentary because I co-wrote it with Dr. Jada Watson, who of a, I don't know, it's almost like a live documentary because I co-wrote it with Dr. Jada Watson, who's a professor at the University of Ottawa. She's flying in to do it with me. And so she kind of wrote all the stories behind the songs. So yeah, it's kind of, I get to do the fun part. I get to play all the songs and all these incredible songs from Dolly Parton right up to Texas Hold'em by Beyonce, you know, and we talk about all of the stories behind these songs. I mean, Beyonce is also one that's been huge

controversy lately, winning the Best Country Album, first Black artist to ever do so in history. And the clapback has been massive from country music fans. You know, this isn't a country album. She's not a country artist. Yet it's fine if Post Malone and Jelly Roll, who are both white male hip hop artists, it's okay if they do an album and they're embraced and they're played on radio. I wonder what the difference is. And then they dot back and forth to country and to hip hop.

Post Malone is not bound by a genre. He's like doing Nirvana. He's a genre. He's doing Nirvana. He's doing country. He's doing hip-hop. And neither is Beyonce. She's doing a series of albums. Her last one was disco. And she does pop.

She does hip-hop. She does soul and country. Who says you need to stick to a genre? It's pretty boring when you do, eh? I mean, Ben, you're the radio version of it. I mean, you say you're the rock. you're the edge, you're the hits. It's because I'm not going to do any of our session tomorrow. That's the downside.

I'm no Beyonce. Jack of all master guns. Now, you've been playing music for a long time as well, and you've met some amazing people along the way. Who's the one person you've been starstruck by? Well, can I? Looking into last night, you were cradled as a baby by Roy Orbison.

What? Yeah. And you opened for Johnny Cash in 18 years old in pyjamas. There were two things I found out yesterday. Yeah. They're pretty crazy.

That's pretty, pretty crazy. Yeah. Look at those things. I know. Obviously with Willie Nelson as well. You performed and recorded with him. It's been, it's been a pretty crazy life.

And I think those things growing up, like Roy Orbison or Johnny Cash, you don't really appreciate as a kid how crazy that is. And then you become an adult and go, whoa, that was not a normal childhood. No babies appreciate being crammed by Roy Orbison. Not one of those babies. So ungrateful. They're so ungrateful. Do you remember anything of your encounter with Johnny Cash?

Yeah, well, we opened one show for him. And the night before, our touring bus, our motorhome, caught fire. And so all of our stage clothes, everything was destroyed in this fire. And our instruments, thank God, were safe because they were kind of stored underneath the bus. And then he wrote this song, Ring of Fire, and you're like, oh my God, were safe because they were kind of stored underneath the bus. And then he wrote the song Ring of Fire and you're like, oh my God, it's me! And that's how the song was born. Actually, June wrote that song.

But anyway, no, not to, I'm just saying, just giving women credit where credit's due, baby. But yeah, it was this crazy situation where we didn't have anything. So meeting Johnny Cash was actually, I was 16. I was so embarrassed because I was wearing my pajama pants that I had worn the night before in the tour bus that I'd run out of the fire with.

And they gave us all festival t-shirts. But you know, music biz, man. The show must go on. We're not going to forfeit on opening for Johnny Cash. So yeah. So did you go on stage in're not going to forfeit on opening for Johnny Cash. So, yeah. So did you go on stage in your PJs? I did. Did you?

The audience would have been like, oh, this is an unorthodox. Like you should be shoving your pack and save it till in the morning or something like that. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. With like Crocs or slippers or something. So how did you end up on this side of the world? I fell in love with a New Zealander. You know? Why? You guys in your cute accents.

We are pretty cute. You are pretty damn cute. Fell in love. That's the, you know, you either move for love or money. And unfortunately, mine was love. Unfortunately. It's awesome to hang out. We always love catching up with you.

This Saturday, which is, of course, International Women's Day as well. Where can people, it's still time to get tickets? Yeah, you can go on there. It's the Auckland Arts Festival website. You can grab tickets on there. And what a better way to celebrate International Women's Day than with the Queens of Country Music. Jono, Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. Got to talk this week about the Oscars, the Academy Awards that went on. Adrian Brodie won one of the big awards. The actor, he did a weird thing when he came on stage. Well, he was walking up the stage. He was like, oh, I'm still chewing gum. And then instead of swallowing it or quickly taking it out of his mouth

and maybe, I don't know, trying to put it in a pocket or something, he threw it back to his girlfriend, his partner. She fumbled and I think it fell on the floor. Yeah, I think it did fall on the floor. That'll be a conversation in the car ride home. It'll be one of those moments. Thanks for degradingly

chucking your chewing gum. That happened with me and your hero, Carlos Spencer, former All Black. I was chewing gum and I just pulled it out as he came to shake my hand.

And then I was like, I can't shake my hand. What's chewing gum in my hand was Carlos Spencer's hand. So I stuck it behind my ear. And then shook his hand can't shake my hand. It was chewing gum in my hand. It was Carlos Spitz's hand. So I stuck it behind my ear. And then shook his hand with your chewing gum hand. His greasy hand. Saliva.

Out of the two options available. But something else that Adrian Brody did on stage was he made the longest speech ever in Oscars history. Now, he won an award. Well done to him. But they have music that starts to play around about the three-minute mark when people go on a bit long.

Is it the three minute mark? I think it's around the three minute mark. So he was, yeah, this is what happened. Who deserves to be up here as well. And I'm wrapping up. Please, please, please. I'm wrapping up. I will wrap up.

Please turn the music off. I've done this before. Thank you. It's not my first rodeo, but I will be brief. I will not be egregious. I promise. He was. He wasn't brief. He wasn't. No, he wasn be brief I will not be egregious I promise He was He wasn't brief He wasn't

No I will not be egregious He went on for like Another two and a half minutes It was like five minutes Forty was his speech Huge speech Here's my issue with that

And I always feel sorry When the music comes on For people Especially he won best actor So it's like the big award But There were people that night That had

You know Like three people up on stage And they would go to talk and they'd cut their mic and the music had come on yeah so some people didn't even get to say anything that won awards and they adhered to it but then he comes along and he's like stop the music i've got more to say yeah and if any of the music made him stronger and more confident he slowed down the the delivery. I always love those moments, the chaos that must be erupting behind the scenes. And the funny thing is, no one will say anything to Adrian Brodie's face.

And you know what they call that? Privilege, my friend. Some arrogance there. Also, actually, speaking of long speeches, Trump yesterday, now he loves the sound of his own voice. He had a big State of the Nation speech. His one was the longest ever.

He went on one hour 40. Oh, God. So one hour 40 yesterday. Our longest in 60 years, the speech. An hour 40? He goes off script, too, and just ad-libs, doesn't he? Oh, my God. And a whole lot of people today are fact-checking a lot of what he says,

and we won't delve into that. But an hour 40, that is a relentless speech. Okay, shall we text 4487? The longest speech you've had to sit through. Oh, 800 of the hits. Sometimes you're like, whew, you know. We actually had one, and we were emceeing something, and Jason Gunn came out.

And he was like the uh the speaker that night so we had to introduce him and he was on at like nine o'clock at night after pretty much towards the end of this awards ceremony and he was going to talk for an hour and we were like looking at the sheet we thought it was a typo we're like who can talk for an hour and he came out and he was incredible like it was a crit and it did not even feel like an hour like he was amazing but at nine o'clock at night when it was like well this is tough conditions but he just smashed it he pulled it off we made a minute

feel like an hour Jono, Ben and Megan The Podcast The Hits So let's do the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz which we do every morning with our quiz queen

the mistress of question asking Ellie, producer Ellie now I did pitch the other day that we go solo should we give a solo go a day? Or do you want to go as a team? What do you want to do?

How does being solo work? Just one of you and then the rest of us shut up? Yeah, well, you can banter along and commentate, but you can't lock in answers or lead any. Okay, you go first. Oh, God. If you want to do a good solo, there you go. So, Megan, Ellie, no facials.

Okay, no facials. No facials. Yeah, no. See who can get the furthest going solo. There you go. All right. Ellie, no facials. Okay, no facials. No facials. Yeah, no. See who can get the furthest going solo. Oh, my gosh. You've got a New Zealand Herald in front of your face. I've got it, yeah. Okay.

Jono can't see me. Okay. All I can see is a giant Harvey Norman commercial. There's new laptops. Lin Vivo for $396. Right now, 18-inch. All right, Jono. Question number one.

What is the chemical formula for ozone? Oh, dear God. Is it O2, CO2, question number one. What is the chemical formula for ozone? Oh, dear God. Is it O2, CO2, or O3? All the numbers are in the little, like... O2, CO2, or O3. CO2's carbon, isn't it? I don't know. I would lock in O2 there, Quiz Queen Ellie.

That is incorrect. Oh, my God! That's what I thought! There we go. Did you see that, Earl? is incorrect. Oh my God. That's a bad thought. There we go. The New Zealand Errol Daly quiz done. One minute 22.

That's it. No further questions today. Okay, so on the leaderboard I'm at zero. Yeah. So good luck to you guys tomorrow.