Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Ben’s got a new addition to his face… his family is not impressed

Episode Date: June 22, 2025

Megan the Rogue is on the run, leaving a trail of cryptic clues behind. Can you solve the mystery before the show wraps? Ben has jumped on the moustache trend... Megan has a few things to say about this  Megan's risky move - leaving her car unlocked while she was away  Ben's proud dad moment after picking out Sienna's outfit  Megan's going grey and Ben's got bad eyesight - does this make them old? The best ways to defog your windscreen in winter  Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The John O'Bannon Megan podcast. Thanks to HelloFresh, your home advantage for delicious midweek dinners everyone will love. Welcome to the podcast on a Monday where we get into some strange sandwich combinations. Oh, sorry. What's your alarm? I always think it's Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas. Hey, it does sound like that.

Doesn't it? It's telling me to book pilates. Oh, you got to book pilates. Only limited, only limited number of places in those Pilate classes. We were talking about that earlier. Oh yeah, because my wife signed up for the same gym and it's not like it's quite an affordable gym, right? Yeah, it's just run-of-the-mill like regular ones, but I don't want to tell too many people

because I'm having trouble booking the classes now. Oh, they get very good. You shared one yesterday where the first time she went along to it, but no instructor, there just was a scream. Yeah. I was like wow AI is doing this now. Yeah but those are just as good you still get the real fun. Yeah oh yeah she enjoyed it.

I should be on commission for how many people have got onto this. She's like do you know anyone that goes to this? I'm like Megan, Megan will go with you. Or Megan might not want to go with you because that's taking up two spots in the Pilates class. No I'll go with her because I want someone to be witness to how many times I get told I've got great form. Okay, we'll see. Okay, we'll need someone along for that.

We are talking today on the podcast about strange food combinations. Some of them were really baffling you. Yeah, my son has got into beef, what was it, honey and apple sandwiches. He also quite likes beef and peanut butter on Cruskits, which is not the weirdest. No, there's more coming through. You'll hear some of them on the podcast. I'm just reading now on the text machine, Nutella and rice. Rice?

What do you mean rice and your sandwich? Luncheon and raisins, condensed milk and raisins as well. It's all coming through. We also talked about, you know, I'm not old, but maybe, you know, things are starting to, you know, little things are starting to happen. Like this text that's come through, we didn't get to as well. I often look for my reading glasses around the house and then my kids come out and say, Dad, they're on your head. That's a common problem. But this one from Anonymous. Now, I presume it's to do with what

we're talking about, Megan. I sneezed while going to the bathroom Couldn't hold it in either had to have surgery to fix a ripped Like an official. Yeah. Yeah rip. Yeah. Yeah, they botoxed it and The made the Southern Cross lady for health insurance awkward as you don't normally pay for both They don't pay for it. So they would have had to say it's for my butthole. Yeah, so maybe that's a workaround if you want you know. But you'd be like, could you just put some extra units on the claim and chuck it on my

face. But don't use the same. Wouldn't that relax? Well yeah. The whole point is to like calm the muscles down. I don't know, but you wouldn't want the same needle used on your face. I would just start with the face and then work your way down. Not that all.

She'd be like, Hey, while you're there before you do that, want to whip one into the forehead, you know, as well. So there's plenty more great calls and texts to enjoy on the podcast. Uh, have a good one. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. As parents, there is that time that you choose every outfit for your kids and then they get

older and then you know their personalities come in and they want to decide what they wear. Yeah. And now you know I've got teenage girls and they you know like my decisions are not great decisions when it comes to clothing. When did that kick in for you because I'm just dealing with that with my four year old I'm like wear this, wear this and he's no, I want to wear these two crazy patterns together. And some kids are more, you know, it's a headstrong than others. They know what they want.

But, you know, so now my daughters do a great job of getting changed, doing their own thing without my input. And that's fine. I get it. Yeah, they're like 15, aren't they? Once 15, once 13. Probably can get changed without you. Yeah. And I do a lot of things to embarrass them, but the other day one of my daughters does a podcast with me at work and I normally say, can you leave out the clothes, you know, because she comes from school.

And she hadn't done that. She hadn't left out her clothes. Oh, so you have to pick it out for her. And it was four in the morning and I was like, oh, I had to go into a room, sneak into a room with the torchlight on, which weirdly I was like, oh, sorry, sorry, I'm locking the clothes. And then go into a wardrobe in the torchlight to go, this is pressure on me to put together an outfit for my teenage daughter. And I was like, I'll grab that, I think she likes that, I think so. This is one of those occasions I didn't want to

embarrass her, brought it into work. And do you know what the podcast guest said when she turned up the clothes? She was like, hey, you look cool today, Sienna. I was like, Oh, and I felt like very confident. I was like, she's like, Dad chose the outfit. I'm like, Oh, I got a win. At least she said cool because if she said you look respectable today, then it's like, Dad chose me like a blazer. And I definitely went for more line of respectable clothing. It was probably some tighter tops and stuff that I was like, no, no,

you're not wearing as well. So there you go. Large cover up the skin. Yeah, I wearing as well. So there you go. Biggie, large, cover up the skin. Yeah, I had a one. I had a one. None of us tuck your t-shirt up business that they like to do, so you expose your midriff. None of that stuff.

I only do that to embarrass them on social media. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. I tried something over the weekend. I noticed your husband a while back was doing it. It's very fashionable right now. People like Benson Boone seem like they're over the weekend. I noticed your husband a while back was doing it. It's very fashionable right now. People like Benson Boone seem like they're leading the charge.

A lot of sports players having mustaches. Yeah. I've never really been a mustache person. And it's June. It's not as if it's November. No. And so I was kind of teetering with the idea of having it, you know, sort of clipping my beard a little lower and letting the mustache grow a little bit. And then in the weekend, I kind of messed up. I kind of

like went quite short around, around, around not the mustache area. Your beard. Yeah. And so I was like, Oh, I've really committed to this mustache. And I don't know if I'm a mustache person. I walked out the family like, Oh, when their first reaction is kind of like, Oh, and it was like, Oh, no, it's good. It's good. And I are like, oh, you know, when their first reaction's kind of like, oh. And it was like, oh no, it's good. It's good. And I was like, well, that wasn't their first initial reaction.

Well, you just surprised them, I guess. But I think what you think I'm going to say is not what I'm going to say. Okay. Well, because I turned up and I was like, we're meeting some friends. It was like a baby shower for one of our friends. And my first, you know, your mates are always humbling. He's like, are you allowed to be around kids? And I was like, oh.

I'm actually an advocate for the mustache at the moment and it might be the Benson Boone effect because you know I love Benny Boone. But when my husband got rid of his mustache, I was like, oh. Because at first you weren't overly keen on it first, but then it kind of grew, not literally grown you. Your mustache is actually pretty good. You keep it under wraps. Thanks. I did pluck it the weekend.

Thank you for noticing. So you think maybe, it feels like it's a confidence thing. Like so much fashion, like if you don't have the confidence, you second guess yourself and you're like, oh, OK. It's quite an overhaul though, because now you've got the mustache, you've just launched the glasses and you've got your brown hair back. What am I doing?

It feels like a midlife crisis the other way. That's what everyone's saying when they blonde hair. They're like, you see a midlife crisis? You can't win. You can't win. We need to get a picture up on our Instagram and get votes going. Are you okay with that? Oh God.

Yeah, okay. All right. If nothing else, it'll be humbling on your Monday morning. I can be savage by the internet. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. I went rogue last week, which was so much fun thanks to gas petrol service stations. I was in Matamata if you didn't know that. But when I came back after, I mean I was only

gone 24 hours, just over 24 hours. I came back and I could not find my car keys anywhere. We took a work car, so I left my car here and I had no idea where my car keys were. And I started having a panic and I was like, well, I'm not gonna be able to go home for the long weekend. And you're thinking that they're gonna take them all the way to Matamara?

Yeah, are they in the hotel, in the motel room? I suddenly had a moment where I looked over at my car and my car does the thing when you lock it, the wing mirror's shut. Oh yeah. So I saw the wing mirrors open and I was like, that's weird. So I went over to my car and it was unlocked. And so it had been unlocked with all my stuff in there. The whole time.

The whole time. But still I was like, okay, well that's great, I can get into my car. But I don't have my keys. So I'm trying to put myself in that mindset where I was like, well, I obviously didn't lock it. I was in such a flap when I left the studio. I was like, I'm going rogue quick, get in the car, run away. You really did go rogue, didn't you? I did.

And it turns out when I got my stuff out of the boot, I'd left my keys in the boot. So I'd left my car unlocked with the keys in it, just ready to be driven away. At any stage. But also, like, the great thing with that is you just park next to Mike Hosking and then there's like a beautiful flash car. No one's going to steal your little nana car. So no one did. No one touched it. Nothing

was gone from inside. Is your car one of the ones you push the button rather than put the keys in or do you have to put the keys physically in? No, you push the button. Yeah. That's quite weird. So sometimes you're like, I've lost the keys, but then you push the button and you're like, oh, they're somewhere in the car. But where? But I have no idea where they are.

But then how do you lock it when you go? I mean, you obviously need to find them, but it's a good little hack to go, where am I? But where? But I have no idea where they are. But then how do you lock it when you go? I mean, you obviously need to find them, but it's a good little hack to go, where am I going? Yeah, on the roof, I get, on the roof probably works as well. But those moments, honestly, we're talking about senior moments, they're getting worse for me. Not only are my knees clicking, I'm losing my keys, forgetting to lock the car.

It's just, I think, it's not good enough to steal, I think. It's a humbling experience too, when you, we had that happen a couple of weeks ago, where I was looking for my keys, I was like, where are my keys, where are my keys? You know, ready to go. And I was like, they're in the front door. I've done that too.

And you're like, oh my God, they've been there all night, just sitting at the front door. They can rob my house and then take my car as the getaway car, you're just handing it to them. I found them. You're like, it to them. I found them. You're like, please don't ask me any questions where they are because I'm not gonna follow this up with anything.

Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Now over the weekends, headed off with my family, we're going out for dinner and my daughters have developed something that my wife likes to do. When you get in an Uber or taxi, she's always like, to get the mood going,

she always asks, have you got any music? So that's what my daughters are now started to go, do you have any music? What about the radio? Yeah, from the radio. Oh, okay. Yeah, but sometimes they had music quietly or whatever, and she's like, got any music? And then one of my daughters, Sienna, she always looks at me and she's always like, do you have 97.4 for Auckland? That's, you know, and then it's a great station. I'm like,

thanks, Sienna, good work. She's like, just trying to get one Uber, one taxi at a time. And then as soon as you get out, they change it. Yeah. But then there were songs cranking on the hits. It was Saturday night, we were heading somewhere as well, and then they got the Uber driver to put it up very loud, and I was worried about my Uber rating because it was under my thing.

Listen to how loud my family was singing along. To a sing singing along in the Uber. And I was like, I'm sitting quietly in the front with the Uber driver. God, your family is so much more fun than you! Yeah! They were getting into it, and then a song or two later, they were cranking it out to some Ed Sheeran. People fall in love in mysterious ways. Even the ballads are getting there. I had to say to the Uber driver, I was like, my kids haven't been drinking. They are underage and they're sober.

They're sober. They're just, you know, because that's normally what would happen in that situation. They'd be like, oh, these people were drinking? What was the Uber driver doing? Were they into it? No, he did actually. He kept turning it up as well. I don't know if to drown out my family singing or not.

He's like, maybe I can get them louder or not. But yeah, it was lovely. It's probably nice to have, you know, like fun in the cab and not have them be drunk. Yeah. And I was like, thank you so much. Thank you with the, you know, just keep my Uber rating high. Five stars, five stars. Did you get five stars? I haven't checked. I should check. I'll check that. We'll come back to you after. Probably not. Probably definitely made my Uber rating drop. Jono, Ben and Megan. The Podcast.

The Hats. Now something that I have noticed a wee bit recently and it's doing with myself, I'm, you know, I've started to wear some glasses. Not, not all the time as I keep saying, not all the time. Not all the time, only to see far away. Close up, I'm great. Yeah, exactly. You get sick of me saying that all the time. But you know, it's something I've just noticed and I mean, I feel like I'm not old, but maybe

things, you know, slightly starting to fall apart Yeah, yeah, and you you also suffer the same thing. I'm allowed to point it out being you're not Ben was like, oh we could talk about how you got grace to pluck your gray hairs The issue with me is that I've got long Dark hair. So as soon as I start getting grays, you can see them really easily Yeah, right. And I would much rather just suddenly go all gray. I don't like the in-between stage. Yeah, I'm with you. You're right.

So my husband refuses to pluck them. He's like, you're getting old, that's just life. And he's fine with it. I'm sorry if I am, because he's like 20 or something. Oh, he's 10 years younger than me. So he'll never feel old. But I got producer Grace to pluck some gray hairs. Also, you've heard my knee, my clicky knee. I have, yeah, we tried to get it on the microphone before recording, it doesn't come across that well

on microphone, but you have got a bit of a clicky knee? Every time it moves, it's like, it actually doesn't hurt, it's just like, and it's quite noticeable, like when I'm trying to put the kids to bed and then when you're trying to sneak out of the room and when I get up it's like. So not old, you'd say not old but just slightly falling apart. I had a conversation yesterday in the supermarket and I wasn't wearing my glasses firstly, I was just me normal and the guy was standing next to me as I was looking at something in

the aisle and he said hey I know you and I was like hey, how's it going? Where do I know you from? And I was like, Oh, you always feel like a bit of a dork if you're like, Oh, you may have seen me. Yeah. You're like, I don't know. I was like, Oh, did you want to be in maybe? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, but you've got a bit older. And I was like, Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Well, I'll probably have actually. Happens to all of us. You're waiting till I put on my glasses. I don't have to wear them all the time though,

just for far away. You're close so I can see you. Exactly. So that's what we wanted to open up this morning, the phone lines to make us feel a little bit better, right? So about, you know, there's probably things in your life, we're not gonna say you're old, but things are slightly starting to fall apart in one area.

Especially when you feel young on the inside but your body's not playing ball so not old but slightly falling apart. Megan's clicky knees. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. We wanted to know this morning, you're not old but maybe things are just starting to fall apart. A little bit of wear into you. You've got glasses which you don't have to wear all the time. Thank you, thank you. I've got the old grey hair coming through that I'm now getting our producer to pluck for me. Which you don't have to do all the time.

No, just occasionally. Just occasionally, but we wanted to make ourselves feel better, feel like we're all one big family here at the Hits. Can I add one more that I've just thought of? Sure. Is that every now and then, especially in the mornings, my hands, like my fingers ache and I'm like, am I like, is this arthritis? I like to think I'm like gripping too hard at the gym. Yeah, yeah that's it. But yeah, it might not be. Yeah so 4487 on the text or 0800 at the Hits.

Jeanette, good morning, how are you this morning? Good thanks and you? Oh am I saying that I'm doing a Jono aren't I? How do I say your name properly? Yeah, Jeanette. Jeanette, Jeanette. Sounds a lot better when you say it. Good morning Jeanette. So you're not old but things are you know maybe falling apart in one area, what's that? I'm only 48 and I've had to start wearing reading glasses. I have arthritis in both knees and I was just thinking while I was waiting for you guys, I've also got a bit of salt and pepper going on lately. Salt and pepper, that's it.

You've got all three, all of our issues, one. We can definitely relate. You've collected the set. Hey, we're not far away from joining you. That's for sure. We're going to hook you up with some Dil Marti. You're going to have a cup of tea and a lie down and hopefully win that trip to Sri Lanka. Cool.

Thanks guys. Appreciate you sharing us those stories, Janay, this morning. Anna-Lee, good morning. You're not old, but are you starting to fall apart a little bit? Well, depending on your definition of old, I guess. But yeah, one solitary lonely little hair has started to just appear on my chin. Just one, you know. Do you know?

Okay, I don't know why I'm telling you all this, but I got one on my cheek. And it's like, we've all got a little fluff on our cheek, but there's one that's darker and grows longer. And you're like, but I got one on my cheek and it's like, we've all got a little fluff on our cheek, but there's one that's darker and grows longer and you're like, go away. Is that the case for you? Absolutely. Yeah. And you know, it's one of those that I'm pretty sure no one else can see, but when you know

it's there, it's like, you're pretty sure everyone, you feel like everyone knows it's there. I thought Megan, you were growing yours out. I was about to say, you need to work with Jono and Ben because they'll tell everyone, you feel like everyone knows it's there. I thought Megan you were growing yours out. I was about to say you need to work with Jono and Ben because they'll tell you, you know. If it's visible, they'll tell you. They're great friends. They'll be like, you need to pluck. We're going to hook you up with some Dil Marti. Dil Marti coming your way.

Hopefully you'll open up, get that golden ticket and get that trip for two to Sri Lanka thanks to Singapore Airlines as well. You have a great day. And Amy, this is maybe one Ben can relate to. Good morning, how are you? I'm good, how are you doing? Oh, okay. Well, how can I relate to this, Amy? So I thought I just had like, you know, an annoying floaty in my eye and when I went in for my normal eye check, I found out that I have a cataract. Oh!

I'm like way too young to have a cataract. Oh! That's Ben's one step away. Don't do it all about the time Megan. Oh Jesus, that'd be quite a shock wouldn't it? So did it just look like something, you know how you get those little things like floating in the corner of your eye, like a little fluff or something? Yeah, but it wouldn't blink away, you know how you can like usually blink them away, it wouldn't blink away and so it's just a little, it's just a little blurry spot like in the corner of my eye. But yeah, I was quite shocked. I thought

it was just going to be a normal floaty. I mean, I turned, I turned totally gray like 10 years ago. So I'm used to that, but it's like a cataract. Come on. No, I was just slightly falling apart. We appreciate your call this morning. We're going to hook you up with some Dull Marta. You have yourself a great week. Thank you too. Thanks Amy. Have you, you got any blurry spots? Well I know, you're waving your round and round me like, I see, I know exactly what you're doing there Megan.

It doesn't matter how old I get, you'll always be older. Jono, Ben and Megan. The Podcast. The Hats. Now Megan, you mentioned something in passing last week, your son, Bastie, he has a very unusual sandwich choice. Yeah, I don't know if anyone else can relate but he's four and getting veggies and stuff into him is pretty hard. He doesn't eat much that's not beige but when it comes to sandwiches or like toast

in the morning, you're like, do you want peanut butter? Do you want marmite? Doesn't want anything normal and he's decided that he wants sandwiches for breakfast. First he started with sliced beef and peanut butter. Oh it's a combo! Yeah he's been putting that on Cruskits and we were like well you're not gonna like it. You're not gonna like it but he was convinced he wanted to eat it so he ate it, loved it and now he eats it all the time. But he's levelled up. At the weekend he wanted a sandwich

that had the sliced beef, some sliced apple, and some honey all together on his sandwich. What, so beef, apple, and honey? Honey, yeah. And he liked it, yeah. I can't get the dude to eat peanut butter on its own, but he'll get, I mean whatever works for him, but he's putting some weird combos together

I'd love to take you need to take him to like a subway or a peter pit or something I can see where he comes up with like all that the weird combination Yeah, part of me is wondering if he sees it and then you're like you won't like that and he's like I will and so You're already hate it, but he's still waiting it So we saw she received the ear was out there that has a more unusual sandwich combination than your son? Yeah. But what are you doing? What have you had before that way?

Because I was thinking about this, I was like, I don't do anything that unusual. You know, maybe peanut butter and banana and even that's not unusual, you know? My dad swears by avocado and marmite, but then that's even not that unusual. No. It's salty marmite. A chippy sandwich whose mum had checked out

for my school lunches and made a chippy, but that was a great day. That was a great day. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. We're talking unusual sandwich combinations. Now your son, Bastie.

He has always started with peanut butter and beef, sliced beef on his cruskets, and we thought that was pretty strange. Then he moved on to the beef with honey and apples all together in a sandwich. And I mean, it's one of those things where you can't get your kid to eat or drink anything and then they'll get in the bath and drink the bath water. You know, like you try and get them to eat something normal and they won't. So we thought unusual sandwich combinations. Could we get anything more unusual than Basti?

Yes. You're right. Yes. Well, I feel like we would have done this before, but the answers are now just surprising us. These are grim. But people love them. That's fine, but I'm not going to try orange and onion on a sandwich. Orange and onion? I don't know, is that cooked onion? We should do a book of the most unusual sandwiches.

Someone else said pilchards, which I guess is that like sardines? Yeah, little fish aren't they? Little fish with condensed milk on sandwiches. And a sandwich, but it'd be soggy. Oh, okay. Like sweet. Oh, let's go to the phones. There's so many great texts.

Keep them coming through, 4487 on. All right, Trina, what's your... I just had to swallow because I'm feeling a bit crazy. What's your unusual sandwich, Katrina? Well, my mother likes tomato sauce and Vegemite sandwiches. Tomato sauce and Vegemite is a combo. Yes. Have you tried it? Yes, it's very salty and very unusual.

It's so salty sweet. Yeah. Yeasty. Maybe it works. Maybe it just doesn't sound like it does work but we're going to chuck you out some Dilma tea. Hopefully you open up and get that trip for two to Sri Lanka. Oh sweet. Thanks. I love tea. Have a great day. Mum will probably put it in a sandwich.

Thanks Trina. Sandy, what's your unusual combo on a sandwich? It's a peanut butter and twisties. Oh, peanut butter and twisties. That actually sounds like I could try that. It's cheesy. Really, really good. When did you discover this? CZ and peanut buttery, really good.

It feels like a university discovery, maybe, you know, late at night. School discovery. All right, okay. Was it you took peanut butter sandwiches to school and then someone had twisties, you like chuck them in? No, no, I took a big packet of twisties and then put them in and then I thought wow this is really good. But do you still eat it? Is it at all? Yeah I still do.

Well okay well we're gonna hook you up with some Dilma tea hopefully you get that tripe for two to Sri Lanka. Thanks for sharing that with us. Awesome thank you. Thanks Sandy. Kaz good morning what do you have on your sandwiches? Awesome, thank you. Thanks Sandy. Kaz, good morning. What do you have on your sandwiches? It's not me, but my husband and my son, they love having jam and potato crisps on their

sandwiches. Oh jam and chips. What flavours are we talking? Like a strawberry jam? Plum jam and normally green onion and sour cream and chives chips. Oh, okay. You know like chip sandwiches as I said before are great. I never thought to put jam with it, but maybe it works.

Plum jam. Yeah, well they seem to love it. You're like, not for me, not for me. To be honest, that's probably the best of some of the suggestions we've had. Look, there's one that's come through here, egg and strawberries together. Like fresh strawberries?

Yeah, roast chicken, gravy and marshmallows has come through as a combination. Are these people pregnant? That just sounds like a pregnancy craving. Lettuce leaves sprinkled with sugar, so like to basically nullify any of the healthiness that the lettuce leaves are doing. Ketchup, mustard, cheese and butter.

No, that sounds quite good. My brother lived off wraps with peanut butter and muesli bars, Nature Valley muesli bars, Nature Valley muesli bars inside, a whole muesli bars for two weeks. And the wraps? Yeah, and the wraps. I mean, okay. Jono, Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The Hats. Last week it was high drama, we're all on edge. One of us was going to go missing from the radio show at some stage and Megan, you played a wonderful game. Thank you. You guys were quite focused on each other and I just, I really drilled into John O just saying he was the rogue the whole week. He was like, I'm the rogue.

I was like, okay, well let's go with that. You really played me. We had quiet conversations in the car and stuff about it. Yeah. I'm thinking back to all those moments and I'm like, I'm just like that idiot on a reality show, you know, when you watch you're like, this guy's such an idiot. I keep thinking about that if we were on TV, because there was so many conversations we had off air, you know, like we'd be talking about what we're

going to do when Jono goes and I'm just bold faced lying to you. You did so well. So one of us was going to go missing. We didn't know when it was going to happen and it happened during Wednesday's show, we're all messing with each other. And then suddenly you just was like like I just need to go to the bathroom. We're like okay okay and then we get a phone call from you. Megan? Are you the rogue? I may have gone rogue. Megan you played the best game ever. Like the best game.

Like we're saying like we don't trust you anymore whatsoever. No, you're like, you lied to our face multiple times. I thought it was Ben. Oh really? I was sure it was you. So you went on the run after that. I did. We went on the run, we drove down the country, there was no plane, and we holed up in Matamata, which is so beautiful down there. And we had the best weather.

It was just like a nice girls trip. You put some clothes up and people sort of slowly started to piece it together where exactly you were. So you had to know the town or the city that you were located into and $5,000 worth of gas, a petrol service station vouchers. And you, you've got a secret skill. You're a bit of a creep. Oh, thank you. You're a bit of a creep. Thank you.

You're a stalker. Well, I really got into it because there was a lot of text coming through and you put up a picture of you in the, every time I say it, it sounds like, in the hot pools. And the background of the hot pools was quite distinctive. It was. If you know that place, it would have been very obvious because I don't know another hot pool like it. Heaps of bamboo trees. It looks like an ancient ruins.

Opal Springs, I think it's called. It's Matamata. And I kind of had a look at that background and I was like, I think that's it. And then I went, well, let's look for sort of hotels, motels near there. And I managed to find the background, the background where you were looking on Zoom and put on social media. I was like, someone else had put it up on the trip advisor after staying there I'm like there she is she's the matamata so I was pretty sure but to make sure without giving the whole game away we got one of the people running the hotel to come and knock on your door to see if we were right have a listen Do you want to do us a favor can you go and knock on her door?

It mustn't be there We can hear a knock! We can hear a knock! We can hear a knock! Open the door for Wayno! Wayno, it's definitely a lie! Wayno. So Wayno, yep. Wayno, they were just, they were so lovely. Also, Wayne left his phone with me

after that. He just went away for like two hours and left me with his phone. But they were very lovely. Everyone in Matamata who I caught up with were so nice. And I would quite gladly do that again. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. Hopefully we will do again. Thanks so much to Gas Petrol Service Stations

and thank you for playing. Hundreds and hundreds of texts coming through, people wanting to know where you are. Your friends and family were getting, in a nice way, getting harassed. And updated, yeah. But congratulations to Daniela, who won $5,000 worth of fuel thanks to gas.

So will Megan be here for the rest of the week? Who knows? Every time she goes to the bathroom now I'll start, is she going to the bathroom or is she not? Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. It's getting colder at the moment. We're out in the middle of winter. What's the countdown to daylight savings? So Megan loves the countdown to daylight savings. I think it's 14 weeks. Thank you for asking.

You're welcome. I know you like to keep up to date with that. What's going on with that? It's going to creep up on us guys. Yeah, but right now it feels like we're right in the thick of it. It's cold. It is cold. Yeah, it's winter. Particularly in the south. Yeah, it is. We get it every year. We shouldn't be surprised. Particularly down in the south, it's negative temperatures. And when you get in the car in the morning, probably not you because you probably got a palatial garage somewhere at your house or something like that.

No, so I'm the same as you. I've got a garage but it's full of stuff. The cars don't go in the garage. It's so stupid. My wife, yeah, it's my wife's big bugbear. I've got too many costumes and things that I've hoarded from TV shows over the years. And I don't have tools. Like I don't really, I'm not a tools person,

but I have lots of costumes, lots of costumes and that takes up a lot of the garage. The car can't fit. So yeah, so we can't park the car in the garage and so when the car's outside in the morning, sometimes a little bit icy on the windscreen, particularly in winter, but definitely foggy, you know, foggy inside. And we're kind of talking about it this morning. We're like, what do you do? Like, I know you're meant to pour cold water, right? Not hot water, cause that'll crack.

On the outside, if it's the outside. But what about in the inside? Like am I blasting cold air or hot air? Do you know, this is something that my husband and I argue about every single time. I'm like, it has to be hot. He's like, it can just be cold. It's, I don't know the answer to that, but I was trying to, I think you do hot to like even out

the cold. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah, but I don't know. But he's like, you just do cold air. You don't need to do blast hot air. Yeah, well, cause sometimes hot air can be very overwhelming though too. When you're in the car, it's like, it's really hot. So we'd like to know this morning, 4487 0800 The Hats and we've got some Dilmati to give away. You could win a trip to Sri Lanka and enjoy a delicious cup of tea. What do you do? Let's help the nation right now.

If someone's getting into the car right now, the window's icy, what's the best step? And the window's a little bit foggy. What do you do? When you drove my car, did you see the beach towel in there? Oh, is that like to wipe the, wipe the fog? Oh, that's not bad. Someone said that they put a hot water bottle sometimes on the dash. Oh, that could help. I would have thought that would have created more condensation.

You know, sometimes- Cause it makes the inside more uneven with the outside. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. We're trying to get to the bottom of what you do when you windscreen is firstly ice it seems like cold water on top of that is the best way. Hot water will crack it.

Yeah but if it's cold enough and you're pouring cold water on sometimes it just ices up again and you get like an even thicker shell of ice. And then you're like in a hurry so you're driving along with the wipers on full trying to get the chunks of ice off. You're always like, if a police officer pulled me over now they'd be like, can you see? Like yeah, through this little gap. The little gap's getting bigger as I drive. It's fine, it's fine, don't worry about it.

There's plenty more things for you to worry about. But inside the car as well, that's another big debate. Is it hot air or cold air to defrost a windscreen? I always say hot. My husband always says cold. I don't know what the answer is, but we love to argue about it. You'd be surprised that I'm somewhere in the middle. Oh.

I always like sitting on the fence. Like a lukewarm. Yeah, like lukewarm. Like my answers. I'm like, yeah, a little bit of Columba, a little bit of Columba. But people have come to our rescue on 4487 on the text. Yeah, someone said, and this is a weird one, it's also kind of wasteful, cut an onion in half.

An onion? And rub it on your windscreen the night before. It can help prevent frost. It'll leave like a thin oil layer. An onion, okay. Yeah. All right, feels like maybe ants and stuff like that might count. You've got your wood screen onion. Okay, wood screen onion. That's a hack I did

not know about, alright. And James joins us on 0800 The Hits. Morning, James. Morning. You've got a good wee hack that you do. Yeah, well actually my mum does it because it belongs to her place. We've got to have a towel over the front of the windscreen overnight to stop it from frosting up so much. Oh, so the towel will sort of like frost up, but then you take the towel off in the morning? Yeah, the towel will be absolutely freezing. You could do that with like a little tarp situation. That's quite a good hack, isn't it? I hope we never thought about that.

Well, there is those things that cover the cars and stuff, but they feel like a lot of admin, putting your car in a little tent. That's a really great suggestion, James. We're going to hook you up with some Dyl Marti. cover the cars and stuff but they feel like a lot of admin putting your car in a little tent. That's a really great suggestion James, we're going to hook you up with some Dil Marti so hopefully you win that luxury trip to Sri Lanka. Yeah hopefully because you guys look like you had a lot of fun over there. We weren't putting any kettles over frozen windscreens over there. Maybe you and me can go James, that'd be nice.

Yeah that'd be good. Yeah okay great. A bit weird for your partners but anyway. I know Jimmy, he's here every morning. Don't understand, alright you have a know Jimmy, he's here every morning. Don't understand, all right, hey, you have a great day, all right, let's take one more. Also Joel texts through, use your air conditioning button if you have it on any temperature, it acts like a dehumidifier and dries the screen.

So the answer to our argument is any temperature. Hot and cold will work. In the middle will work. So as long as it's got the air conditioning button on. Yeah, it acts like a dehumidifier. Oh, well there we go. So we solved it. Wait, we solved it.

I don't know why I'm disappointed with that. We've solved it this morning. Someone said medium heat with AC on is perfect for defrosting the windscreens. I learned this five years ago and I haven't looked back. Someone also says clean the crap out of your garage bin and you won't have these problems. Is that your, I think that's your wife's number. That's my wife's number, yeah I think it is. Great to have you listening this morning and I definitely won't be doing that.