Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Ben's Wife Doesn't Know How Much This Return Cost!

Episode Date: November 23, 2025

On today’s show: Why Jono's parents are proudly keeping three blowflies in their lounge as “pets.” Ben's $55 toy snake fail – when online shopping goes wrong. Megan has officially taken on the challenge to walk 1.6 km on stilts in the Santa Parade. The Mariah Carey Christmas game heats up with a Build-A-Bear sabotage. Producer Troy’s surprisingly tame stag do in Martinborough. What do you claim you invented? Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The John O'Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better team. Welcome to the podcast on a Monday here. We're going to very short and talk about things that you thought you're invented. The text and calls coming through, people that could have made a whole lot of money. Thanks. Including our producer Troy.

Yeah. He probably wouldn't have been here, so that's for the best. It would have been multi-millions, I reckon. That app idea. We're going to get to those calls very shortly, but we've got a little pre-call, a bit of an entree for you. this morning because Cheryl, what happened with your insects on the inside? Oh, Morena, yeah. So I was in Botswana in the Okavanga Delta and we were free camping, no tents.

We had given us a tiny little mesh thing to, you know, about a foot above our heads to try and keep things off. Oh, God. And eventually got to sleep with all the noises and things, but then woke up to something on top of my face. scuttling across. It was heavy enough to bring the mesh down. Oh no, what was it? And I have no idea. It was pitch black.

I don't know. It scares the bejes. Oh, to this day, you don't know. No, I don't know. Oh. So it was like you had the mesh up in like a tent sort of situation. Yeah. And it was so heavy.

It dipped that onto your face. Yeah. And it definitely had legs. Is that heavy to be like a big spider or heavy to be like a rat? Oh, well, over the Okavanga Delta, my God, it could have been anything. Who the hell knows? Dude, why were you doing that? You just had Mesh.

Mesh isn't going to protect you for bullshit. You know, the guys were guns to protect you from the lions if they needed to. But, you know, we didn't think the insects would be an issue. I was talking to a friend. She was in the Amazon, and there was a tarantula inside the tent. And they're like, there's a tarantula there. And the guide was like, you're in the Amazon. That was his only response.

That's right. Oh, well, there you go. I don't want to know what it was. No, this might be safer. Yeah. Good on you, Cheryl. You never know what's crawling on. You don't want to know what's crawling on your face, do you?

No. Hey, well, thank you very much for your calling. Like we said, more of those coming up in the podcast. There are you right now. Now, my parents, Sani and John Pryor, love them to pieces, but, you know, the older people get the more unique, they get the more quirky, they get, they have little quirks, and I was in their lounge, and there were three massive blowflies, just sort of big, fat, chubby ones, just sort of slowly circulating around the top of the lounge, and I was like, should we, because it started to annoy me after 10 minutes, you know, when you can't get something out of your head. And I was like, let's get a can of raid on these bad boys. No, just leave them. They're the lounge flies.

The lounge flies. They're not doing any harm. I was like, what about the potential disease they're spreading? Oh, they're just fine. They're here. They just stay in the lounge, just sort of circulating around the lounge. Does they not drive them nuts? No.

Just the concert. Yeah. Yuck. What benefit does it have to keep them in there? Exactly. It's not like they're spiders that they can eat insects and things. that's not phased by them I can understand if they can't be bothered

but you were kind of offering to do it and you know yeah exactly and there's other way I mean my wife's she doesn't like using the chemicals like the raids and stuff like that but there are the means to get rid of flies well dad actually one of his party tricks is he can catch flies yeah and you can do that too

yeah that's why they're there maybe it's a bit of tag and release program yeah yeah he's very good at it too the trick is you've got to clap just slightly above the fly because they feel the wind and they fly out I'll fly out. He catches them and then he'll throw them back out.

So maybe that's a little game he plays with the three flies. Maybe that's why he needs them there for training. Sustainable flies. Yeah. But don't they're the same three flies? Yeah. Gross. Yeah, it was.

It really was. So they named them individually. I suppose I can't tell them apart. No, no, I don't think they've gone to the point of name them. Nick Joe and Kevin. Jonas Brothers. Joe brothers. Joe brothers.

That's good names. So we wanted to chuck this open. 4-48-7 on the text. 0800 of the hits. Insects on the inside. what have you had uh tarantulas crawling over your face what's the spot is that megan trillantula she can't say it she can't say it no i like the way i say it she can't say it's quite cute trillantula yeah chalantula it's the one word she can't say we discovered this the other day

we've got to do way more tarantula content yeah what's it shut up that's it one more time fralantula no yeah so if you've seen a chalantula what have you woken up to on your face Dropping down from the ceiling, insects on the inside. Troy, producer Troy's got one. Is it safe for broadcast? Yeah, well, I think we'll tell it in a safe way because it's... It's pretty grim. It was just last week, wasn't it?

Yeah. It is very grim. It's quite disturbing. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. She was in Australia over the weekend, wasn't she, Olivia Dean? And it was a great interview with her just going... She's been waiting for this moment for a very long time,

and the types of gigs that they've had to play leading up to her becoming internationally famous. We did a gig at a prawn restaurant and there were three people in the crowd and two of them were children. We did a gig actually. Nobody came. We played for an empty field. Came this far.

We're going to play anyway. Character building. Listen, my character has been built. So in that sense, I'm ready for this moment because I still enjoyed those shows. Playing to no one. Still love that gig. Still love that gig. Before someone saw that interview that was at that gig and was like, I've got a video of it.

And they said, I was one of the three people. Oh, really? Oh, really? I'm talking about insects on the inside after my parents proudly hone three lounge flies, they call them. They just quietly buzz around above the couch and the table doing, God knows what, but they love them, part of the household. Parents aren't faced. They've literally named them the lounge flies. They've become their favourite children, I think.

I've dropped down to fourth place. But producer Troy, speaking of insects on the inside, this happened to you last week. Yeah, and I don't really know how to say it Without ruining people's mornings Yeah, it was pretty gross Yeah So basically we have a compost bin Next to the sink

And then right next to the compost bin It's kind of like a little bench That we sit on for having dinner And it had a blanket on it And some things must have dropped down On to the blanket from the compost bin Unbeknownst to us And

Yeah I'm just gonna say it was a breeding ground Time went by Yeah I'm gonna say the word once Maggots Oh, thousands? Yep.

You picked up the blanket and had some guests. Had some guests and had some guests drop onto the floor. Oh, no. And just had to throw the whole blanket out. Your children was literally crying. I got home and she was in tears because she discovered it. Yeah. And then you'd feel like they were all over here when you had to shower.

Yep, scrub down. So you're sometimes saving the planet, not the best option. Not the best option. Chug it in the bin. Yeah. Well, let's go to the phone, shall we? Morning to you, Bree. Great to have you on New Zealand's breakfast.

Yeah, good morning, guys. How are you? We're doing well, mate. Okay, insects on the inside. What happened? Yes, it was a gross story. I went back to Australia to stay with my family, and they left my window open, and that was all good. And I was sleeping one night, and I had this little pitter-patter on my cheek. And I thought, oh, that's unusual sort of.

And what I did was I smeared this massive moss all over my face. All over your face. Oh, my goodness. It's a hate moths. Something was on there, so I woke up in the next morning and I had this moths all over my face. It's been degraded almost. Geez. They really get themselves in a bit of a flap

with the old moths, don't they? They do. It was really gross. As far as I'm concerned, moths and butterflies are spiders with wings. They're disgusting. Same thing. Same thing. Just stay away from the lights, guys. Just stay away from the lights. Just go the other way.

Yeah. It's so tempting for them, though. Hey, thanks so much. We really do appreciate your call. We're going to get Nikki on. Welcome, Nikki. Morning, everyone. Morning, morning.

Happy Monday to you, Nikki Moraine. Are we doing insects on the inside? Listen, not technically an insect, but it's a phone call, so we'll take it. Yeah, creepy call. And I thought that could be, that's how I look at insects. Anything that's got more than two legs or more than, that's got wings, it's a note for me. And again, it's an Australian story. So I was in Queensland, and I was keeping in a friend's house, and it's, you know,

100 degrees, so every window is open. And I woke up to go to the little bit of the room. And there's a little bit of light coming through, and I saw this. And they have, you know, ceiling fans. And I saw this thing on the ceiling fan, and I thought maybe I'm just sleeping, and went to the little girl's room, came back. And I thought, oh, my God, it's a giant moth.

And I put on the light, and it was a massive freaking back hanging upside down. A bat! A back. Like a literal vampire, looking blood in my bedroom. Oh, no. And it was the worst.

You know what? What? Yeah, I know the poor bets. And we had to put the fan on and try and, like, coax it out the room. Did you see it out? Was it spinning? around?

I didn't know what else to do, so I thought if I put the fan on it, it might get irritated. It did not for a very long time, though. It stayed hung, and then it eventually left. It was terrible. How fast was the fan going with the bats holding on for dear life?

No, no. At first I was like, be nice and calm. And then I was like, this little bugger is not moving, so we just did it. Just cranked it up. Oh, my goodness. It didn't get hurt if anybody's in the animal world or whatever. It just had to leave.

Had to have to leave. We're going to flick you out. Dilmar tea Advent calendar. Thank you so much for sharing that story with us. Megan, I call things aminals instead of animals, so we all have our thing. Oh, yeah. At least you're not saying chillantula, mate. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast, the hits.

Cool, we're in the country, and they apologise for bringing COVID to New Zealand. I was just reading before. Was it them? Well, they, as jokingly, but remember one of the first cases was at a tall concert, and also the singer afterwards said he wasn't feeling that good when he was. was here and then later he went everything was tasting funny and then when he left new zealand he realized that he'd tested positive for covid after yeah so he was like hey i pin it on bloody elton john remember he came out here and they're like he's got walking pneumonia yeah he was like

what's walking pneumonia never heard of it yeah they've invented a new thing just for elton so maybe that was it was oh who knows maybe he was case zero mate pin it on elton anyway they're standing though barely though with walking pneumonia apparently Well, they call it walking then. Yeah, I know. Because you can still keep moving. Yeah, very unusual. Now, I do buy things that, like, from time to time, and my wife, you know, she's really good.

She wants to, you know, she wants to save the planet, as we all do, but she's very good about things that you use once. And she's like, they're just going to become landfill. And sometimes... Those are some of the funnest things to have, though. You know, and my figurines, well, I'm like, they're not landful. I get to put them up in the house and things like that. They're not landful till he passes away. It's right.

So that, for me, it's not landfill. But then sometimes I will buy a costume. or something I need for something I'm going to film or something for work and she's like, are you ever going to use this again? And sometimes I don't know the answer. I don't know. She doesn't want to hear the answer to this. But do you don't know.

So, yeah, once I've got it in the house, maybe I will use it again. But I looked online. I needed a full-size toy snake, like a proper toy snake. Now, the idea that I was going to do, actually, it doesn't end up becoming an idea. So I've ordered it and then I found out

that I didn't actually need it. But anyway, I was like, Well, maybe I'll use this full-sized toy snake. It looked great in the picture. Like really good plastic toy snake. It looked really big. And when it arrived, it was tiny. Oh, it's one of those ones.

But I paid 55 bucks for it. Like, and that's why I was like, how is this 55 bucks? Really small little toy snake. Did you look at the dimension? No, I should have as well. My wife's like, did you look at it? I was like, no, I just thought 55 bucks it's got to be. And it looked really big in the picture.

And so she's like, what are you going to do now with that? She's like, I'm taking it to the landfill. And I'm like, okay, I'll send it back. I'll send it back so email and I said I was going to use this but I don't want to use it anymore can I send it back

and the people are in Australia and they're like yeah no worries just get a track and trace and we'll refund you I'm like there you go man I really have a refunding the planet yeah I'm sending it back

and the 55 bucks I'm down and then I go to yeah well that's the thing I go to the post office on Friday and I was like oh can I get sent to Australia went through the customs form you do all that stuff take 10 minutes with the lady

and she's like $18 to send I'm like okay and she's like I was like Oh, it needs to be track and trace. $45. And I'm like, oh, God, are you at the counter? Did you pull Penn? I should have. But now I pay for it.

So now I'm $100 in the hole for this toyster. And if they return the money, I'm still $45 down on this damn stake. I'm like, yeah, I should have pulled Penn. So was Amanda more passionate about your bank account or the planet? She doesn't know about how much it costs. And now I'm like, yes. But also, he's right, the carbon footprint. Yeah, I know.

It's done two trips across the Tasman now. Yes. Snakes on a plane, definitely. It's going back on another plate as well. And will I get the money back? I don't know. But either way, I'm $45 down from the original thing. You've got to check the measurements.

I did that one. I wanted to buy a big flag which had Gandhi on it and said, don't dog the boys. Why? It was just one of many wall hangings that I'm never allowed to hang up. I got one of Kim Jong-un that says live, laugh, love as well, with a big nuclear ship. Anyway, I ordered the Gandhi one, don't dog the boys.

the size of a napkin, a paper napkin. Terrible. I don't know. I don't know. Sometimes I feel like I should be living in a university flat. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. Now we have a surprise for you, Megan, because you mentioned something,

it was about three weeks ago now, something that stuck with us, struck a chord in our hearts. Have listened to this. It's not AI. This is you, Megan. You'll recognise this voice. But I was like, I need to practice this Because maybe I could walk beside our hits float in the sand parade Oh, you should

Please do Please Oh, shut up Why are you laughing? That's great So that's in regard to stilts that you own Now you own stilts and you've said to us We've actually never seen it

We didn't have witnessed that But you said that you can walk around on stilts pretty easily And you put up a photo of you cleaning your gutters Was it in stilts? Yeah and my, that was a couple of weeks ago So I've got up on them recently. Just for practical purposes, for domestic purposes. Great for cleaning the gutters, too, stilts.

Yeah. But, yeah, we've got a bit of a surprise. No. Dream makers. Yeah, the farmer Santa Parade, of course, on this Sunday. Huge event. Thousands of thousands of people line Queen Streets, you know, and you can walk in stilts.

We've got the okay. Well, we want to know first thing. Can you do this? Don't Don't put the challenge up there Because you know I'm competitive Can you stilt 1.6 kilometres I don't know if you can

That's a long walk Because we want to get Like the organiser are interested But we need to call them back later And go yes you can do it Because we're worrying I don't think you can do it You know what you're doing

Because you know I'm competitive And as soon as you've said Can you do it The answer is yes Oh you can do it Okay Absolutely I can do that It seems like a long way

Seems very dangerous Seems like an opportunity of a lifetime we're providing for you here to walk in probably the biggest Santa parade in Australasia and also potentially injure thousands of thousands of innocent children and family or have thousands of people witness me break my neck yeah like what's the what is the danger like you know the concerns are obviously falling over yeah that's probably the only concerns yeah yeah is it tiring is it more tiring than walking or are the steps bigger it's like when you do snowboarding or skiing or something your knees are slightly bent right so there's

stress on your like calves and your shins but genuinely how much lead up time do you need because we've only got what is it now left if we do some stilting this afternoon six days of practice did the trouble is everything in me is going of course I can do that absolutely because you put the challenge out yeah but then am I scared yes but you've put the challenge to me and I can totally do that you're up for it if they if they sign this off because they're interested we've done some like some chats to them behind the scenes they're interested but their first big question was can she do it

yes they were like I don't think she could do it we're like that's what we thought too yeah these stilts are made for walking now how high are the stilts like a metre tall I think they're over a metre the extended part yeah they're very they're high they're the high stilts

we'll get your costume we'll get it all sort of oh my god what's my costume we haven't got that far yet it'll be a sexy Christmas something don't you worry about that mate we're like a candy cane or something you know how you wanted to dress in Christmas time we're going to go all out for this okay so yes you're interested

I'm interested now what we also have done like a cute Mrs. Clause yeah cool something we'll sort something out obviously got a factor in the stilts you've got a very long trousers don't you and Ben's also pre-filled out the ACC form as well so if anything happens

boom your case will be sorted first and long yeah all right All right, well, keep happening. God, I hope I don't fall over just because of the shame. It's not like you can hop back up and act like nothing happened. Yeah, that's true. Not the two broken wrists. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast.

The hits. As we set out the countdown to the festive season and we started our Mariah Carey game early November. Basically, you just have to see how long you can avoid listening to Mariah Carey's All I want for Christmas is you. Yeah, her version, the original version, not the feline version. It has to be her version, and when you hear it, You're out of the game.

Hopefully you can avoid it on social media. It seems to be getting a lot of people out or in stores. So, yeah, another weekend. We wanted to know 4-4-8-7 who's in and who's out. A lot of people getting out over the weekend. Yeah. We've got someone on the phone right now. Are you out?

Alexandra. Hi. You're still in or out, mate? I am out as of Friday, I think. What happened? So I was at work and my boss was following me around with a plane on his phone. Well, that's sabotage. That's what I thought.

Is he trying to make you hear it? Yes, on purpose. Oh, yeah, no, that's sabotage. I feel like you should still be in the game. I've got a very contentious one that I think maybe, well, some people and my family think I'm out. I'm like on the fence about it, so we'll get to that after 8 o'clock, and you can decide if I'm out of the game, because I think I'm out of the game.

I think our ruling for Alexandra, though, is that sabotage, babes. You're still in. You're still in, mate. You're still in, yeah. The sabotage rule was put in place, but then you're, Like, oh, maybe I quite enjoyed the sabotage. Yeah, I know. It's taken an element out of the game.

Yeah, it was quite fun. It added an element of comedy. Well, I'm out. Yesterday went to the supermarket, which is a hot spot, isn't it? Of a location of interest. And walked in, and if I was, I'd say, 45 seconds later, I would have missed it. Just caught the tail end of the song. And this is straight after, this won't feature any of the music, obviously.

But it honestly takes you about 20 seconds to go, oh. Oh, yeah, that's right. Guys, I'm in New World, and I've just been caught out. I'm out of the Mariah game. I've been Mariahed. We wish you would carry Christmas. Godspeed to those still in the game. So there we go, yeah, down and out.

I was just actually thinking on that morning. I was like, Dee, we're done well to avoid it. Yeah. This is the three of us this far. Now, lots of people texting through. Someone said, I'm out by your mate, Megan, Rebecca Randall. She must have put something on social media. I'm guessing, someone else saying they're still in the game.

Someone else saying close call, spent 90 minutes commuting to Parapara-Umu to buy the wife's Christmas present, went to farmers, went to coastlands, lots of Christmas songs most I've heard but still in the game. That's from Emily James. Yeah, there we go. I actually, I don't deserve to still be in the game because I keep forgetting when I'm on social media, I like don't have the sound on. I heard a Kelly Clarkson's Christmas song and I was like, oh.

Yeah. But I'm still in the game. Did you get, someone play it when in charge of it? Well, no, I played it. No, I played it. So this is the contentious thing. So, but I feel like I was set up to play it. So I played it.

So I physically played the song. So we'll get to it after 8 o'clock. Very elaborate, very, very elaborate play that I ended up paying for. Like paying for, actually out of my credit card. It cost me money as well for this point. It's a devious plan. It costs me about 60 bucks. Oh, my God.

So it cost me money. And it also could have cost me out of the game as well. But I physically played the song. Okay. And so this is where the contentious thing comes into it. Okay. But I was set up. I was set up.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. Now, we started the day we're one of the team not here. Yeah, a bit rattled. Producer Troy went away for Stagg to in Wellington, Martinborough actually. Yeah. And you couldn't think of a more unstaggy sort of guy than Troy, you know?

Yeah. Although he went to a stag do where the stag was like, I don't want anyone removing their clothes. Okay. I want to visit some nice vineyards in Martinborough. I saw them on bikes on social media. Oh, lovely. We're biking around vineyards and stuff.

Sounds like a weekend my mother would love to have. The groom, just as classy as producer Troy. So it doesn't really sound like major hangover. But we do know his flight was delayed getting home last night. So it was getting quite late. And, you know, obviously early start this morning and he's not here. No. Unlike him.

It is. So we're going to give Troy. I mean, it's the natural thing to do, isn't it? We could have phoned him about 45 minutes ago. He said, hey, mate, where are you? But we'll do it live now. Good morning. Oh, God.

Bok Troy Oh no We're on here now Bro The show started That's all right The show's got to go on Yeah

Oh Okay It's pretty late To let you know That's the thing Yeah We knew Like we knew for an hour

That you'd definitely Sleved in And look I know what it looks like I know that it was a stag do I promise This isn't like A hangover situation

It's so funny When it's not you But like I know how you're feeling You're behind the eight ball For the rest of the day, to be honest Well, look, I appreciate the extra couple hours of sleep And oh my God

Okay, that's all your thing Don't break any speed limit Are you going to shower? Like, what's the plans now? Like, what's your plan of attack? Panic? I probably should Okay

Hey, we'll take your time Look, look, I don't even know I'm just gonna, I'm gonna wake up and even ask her What should I do? Okay, well, you know, maybe that's not the first. idea. This must be the worst phone call to you, isn't it? On a Monday, too.

But to be fair, your flight was delayed last night and you didn't probably get home until midnight, I guess. Yeah, it was midnight last night, yep. Oh, we've had a good sleep this morning. Oh, you've had a good six hours now, so you'll be sprightly. I'll see you before the end of the day, mate. Have a good one. Okay, bye.

Oh, poor choice for him. Bad start to his Monday. a podcast, the hits. Producer Troy, if you want to come in here, there was something you mentioned the other day, Megan. Yeah, it's an app that will change your life. Although I kind of don't want to tell everyone about it because it's so good and I don't want everyone to sell my parks. But it's called parkable. And basically anyone who has like a driveway or a space or a workplace and they want to essentially rent out a parking spot.

So when I went to Eden Park to watch Metallica, there was a car park at a business really close and I paid $3 an hour. find it on the parkable app. So, very, very clever idea. Yeah. After the show, producer Troy, you confessed that you were the brainchild of this app. I think so, yeah. About 10 years ago, but back when like Airbnb first kind of started, I had a friend who lived by the Christchurch Stadium, and I thought, wouldn't it be great if you could

Airbnb your driveway just for like the night for someone to come and park there? You can, and they're doing it. They're doing it. Someone's done it, mate. And they're making money off it. I just didn't have the technical knowing how to get that off the ground. How long ago, do you reckon it was that you came up with this? 10, 15 years.

So did you say it to yourself once or did you say it multiple times? I said it maybe a couple of times over the course of a week. Did you say it to anyone? Said it to a couple of friends, yeah. This was launched 10 years ago, 2015. Where are your friends now? Yeah, are they billionaires? I haven't heard from him in a while, actually.

Damn. We were like the Elon Musk of car parking this guy. Is it a New Zealand app? I was just trying to find out. So there's those people who have the creative ideas but then lack the drive to make them come to fruition. And maybe that's just you. It happens all the time. Yeah.

I said to you guys the other day which Ben knows about my idea. I pretty much thought I invented Netflix, Apple TV, all the streaming services through, you know, pipe systems that went from your lounge to the video stores. And then over the weekend... Like pneumatic tubes. Yeah, and obviously that would be logistically a little bit of a nightmare. Then I was like, oh, you could dump... You know, they could be multi-purpose tubes. Sometimes there's drain water.

Sometimes it's videos. Sometimes, surridge. You know, all operated by the Zitty teenager at the video shop. No pressure on them. So you might be expecting miscongeniality to come through and you get a facelode of surrogge in the lounge. And the logistics of that are not going to. Yeah, I think they've ended up with a better option.

Do you know Brodie Nelson? No. No, that's okay. He's a Kiwi, it is a Kiwi app. Really? To be fair, if we're only hearing about it now, that is 15 years of hard work. That's the problem. You know, you come up with a great idea.

You actually got to do the hard work, you're right. You can have it, Brody. I won't fight them. I won't take you to court. All right, so what do you think you invented? Or maybe you did invent, you came up with something that you did actually follow through on. You know, like producer Troy. You could have been, could have been you, ma'amil.

Yeah, 4487 on the text, 20800. What do you claim you were invented? We'd love to hear from you. And we've got some Dilma tea advent calendars where you can be enjoying the gourmet tea, sorry, for the next 24 days leading up to Christmas. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. What do you think you invented?

Producer Troy thought maybe he came out with a parking app, parkable where you can basically park at people's driveways. People can rent them out and just can't turn up and park in driveways. That annoys people. Yeah. But people that have put their driveways on the app, you can park in there. Yeah. That is fantastic.

And then you're doing some digging into that, and there's one of the owners or the inventors, a guy called Warwick, and Troy says he knew someone, he knew someone who knew a Warwick in Christchurch. Not many Warwick's around. Yeah, maybe. Trying to find out the last name, because that would just really make me laugh.

Well, go Warwick. You know, that's all I can say. Yeah. He had the gumption to get out there and actually give it a crack. Like, when Zuckerberg stole Facebook off those people? You know? He went and made it his own thing. Well, yeah.

No, we've got Nicole with us on. the phone. What do you claim you invented? I'm going to claim this, but someone else pays into way before me. So a silencer for a coffee grinder. I've worked in like cafes for so many years, and when I was like maybe 20, I was done with trying to hear people order

and on a grinder all day. I was like, oh, if somebody, you know, made a universal one that would help. And then I talked to like some engineers and stuff that I knew and we had an idea to, you know, get it rolling. And then I thought, oh, I better, about five, six years later, I was like, oh, I better actually have a look and see if anyone's done it. And someone tried to,

but they didn't do a universal one. And they obviously didn't do it very well because it wasn't, it didn't felt. But wait, Nicole, this is a great idea. It is. Everyone does that. Why don't you do it? Well, now the whole freaking country knows, don't they? Everyone agree. Everyone shake on it. This is Nicole's thing. One thing you can trust about the hits audience is they'll stick to their word out of all the radio show audiences. I need a good engineer then, and I'll go half with any engineer out there that wants to do it with.

This is like that shark's tank show, isn't it? Yeah, it's not a great idea, mate, good luck with that one. It's full of encouragement. We'd call it Grindr. Well, do it'll be a good at? Oh, is that something? You could also have an app associated with it too? Yeah, no E.

Grindrinder on. Yeah, that's funny. That's funky. Good luck with that, Nicole. It's a great idea. Yeah, really good idea. idea. Cat with us on our 800 of the hits. What do you claim you invented, Kat? Well, I'll probably never get rich from it, but I reckon I created a word. What word is it?

And that word would be fat-asified. So when you've eaten way too much, but you're very, very satisfied. Oh, you're fat-as-fied. Satisfied. I like that. That's good. I'm fat-sified. That is me all weekend. After an all you can eat buffet? Yep, and you feel very satisfied afterwards. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, listen, you're not going to make any

money off that, but we will use it. We'll try and get it into the vocab, all right? That's like Christmas Day. I know, if we're sort of into the dictionary, I think it's worth it. Yeah, it is. It really is. Thank you. Tess, your husband invented something.

He actually followed through. Oh, he invented a special rubbish bin that held plastic bags is exactly right. You know how we used to get shopping bags from the supermarket and stuff? And he even got it patented, got it made. We were running around all the home shows, selling them and stuff. and then of course supermarkets stopped using plastic bags You're like a year later

We'd use these for years And now you're poop in So it was like a dispenser? Yeah It was called the Big Mouth And it just It opened it You put it through, the plastic bag through

And it opened it out really perfectly So you didn't have to bother with You know Sometimes they fall into the bag and stuff It was perfect Listen, it's almost worth bringing them back. It's almost worth re-ruining the environment, even more, just so you can get your business off the ground.

Well, the idea was to somehow deal with the recycling of it, of course, but just... Oh, Tess. Oh, well. Well, you could have been... We could have been talking to a billionaire right now, and Sid, what are you doing now? It's a shame. What are you doing now for a job? We flip houses and properties.

Oh, I can. We'll see you're doing it. Okay. Yeah. You do be okay until Labor gets in, mate, keep going. Jono Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. I had one of those moments in my parenting career. We know you're supposed to tell your kid off,

because what they've said is, you know, not great, but I was just laughing so hard. Now, Jono, you know the story. Yeah, it's great. Do you need to censor the word? Good parenting. You could probably say it once. Okay.

Or you can get away with it once and then just... What's the word? Jeez, what's the word? How do you feel about it? racism from kids. No. Not at all. So, I don't know what was in the water yesterday, but my kids were just hounding each other.

Absolutely, physically, like verbally abusing each other. Like an old married couple, bickering away from morning tonight. Fighting over everything. I was like, get me back to work, please. But at one point, my daughter's like snatching something off my son. And he had had enough. He's four. she's three and he was like

no I am the big dog here and he turns to my daughter and I don't know where he's got this from we don't actually use the word much in the house but we do refer to the right thing as this but we've never used it in this context my son turns to my daughter and goes

ayah you are being a penis yeah here's breaking point and his vocabulary she's the young one too. He's got more in the arsenal than than she does. Does she even know what she'd been called? No. She was unfazed. She's like,

not so bad yourself. We were like, I don't even know why how you've learned to use it like that. But like, also great, great use. All I can think is you go home and you talk about Ben and me to Andrew, your husband. Maybe that's the only dots I'm connecting. But man, it was good. So through fits of laughter, we're like

you can't, that's not the right way to use. it you definitely can't call your sister that it's probably the right I mean it's I know it is the right comedically it's a great way to use it couldn't have a better way you're like you've really nailed it there was a great way to use it in a sentence sure how's the timing timing was all good oh perfection but I was like please don't go to school and talk to anyone else like that don't talk to your sister like that don't call anyone that just but it is funny and your mum is laughing yeah and that's the thing you're dying of fits of laughter so he knows he's done something right yeah

Won the room. He is one the room. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast, The Hits. It really does make you feel very festive. A Mariah game. We're all playing it here on The Hits, and you can play it too. See how long you can avoid listening to Mariah Carey's all I want for Christmas this festive season. As soon as you hear it, you're out of the game.

A lot of people have fallen victim. Yeah, so many texts coming through this morning on 4487. The weekend, it really was pretty perilous. I was at the supermarket yesterday. walked in 30 seconds if I was like 45 seconds later I wouldn't have been caught but guys I'm in New World and I've just been caught out and out of the Mariah game

I've been Mariahed we wish you would carry Christmas Godspeed to those still in the game I feel like an influencer mumbling in the corner by the nuts so you're out of the game Mandy McLean's out of the game from the afternoon show now I very contentious I wanted to bring this to the audience right now

now I may be out of the game Okay. Now, my daughter's a bit of a back story. It's one of their favorite songs, the Mariah Carey song. And they've been frustrated that every time they get in the car and they connect their phones, they haven't been able to play it because I'm like, you can't play it. I'm playing this game on the Hits Radio Station. So over the weekend, we're at the mall and they said, can we borrow your credit card?

To me, this is what we've got an idea for a video. Now, I had no idea why it was. And I'm like, what's the video idea? And they're like, it's a funny video. Trust us, it's a funny video. I was like, okay. So I handed over my cart. And what they did is they went

Very, very clever idea actually They went to build a beer And they made me up a beer A Christmas beer And I'll bring into the studio right now Now I didn't know what the bear was And load it on there You can get the beer to talk

You can load anything on the beer Now what happened is they gave me this beer at home I didn't know why they were filming I had no idea it related to the Mariah Carey game Now we have beat the audio But here's the moment where I play Push the Poor on the beer And play the song

Everyone that listens to the hits radio station is playing a little game to see how long they can avoid listening to all I want for Christmas is new by Mariah Carey. So we wanted to give that a surprise. We went and bought on a special beer with a sound effect loaded on it. We've got a little present for you for New Christmas. Yeah. Do you like it? You're a Christmas?

I want to say thank you for everything. Off of me, but thank you. It's you. Thanks guys, it was lovely. Oh, that's cute. No, there's not. Come out, no, that's sabotage. You pressed the button.

He didn't use sabotage me. How? You didn't press the button. No, I'm not out of the game. I'm in the game. I'm still in the game. You're out of the game. No, you're not.

So, yeah, so I pressed the button. 100% all me. They didn't tell me to press the button. I pressed the button. Is it the actual version? Yeah. Mariah, actually, actual burden, loggia. We've got a video up right now on the Hits Breakfast Instagram.

It does contain the song, a little bit of the song on the video. So you have to be, although producer grace, he said, if you do stumble across us, you're allowed. You can get out. Basically, you won't get out of the game if you do watch that one. Because we want to know, am I in the game or not.

Amnesty. It does. Amnesty, that's what I was looking for. Indemnity is about to say, yeah. It's teetering into the sabotage territory for me. And we know there's no sabotage rule this year. But then I play. I was like, I played it.

They didn't tell me to push the button. I pressed the button on my own free will. Oh, so you could have. I could have looked at the bear and not play it. Right now, the bears with us in the studio. If you press the poor, the Mariah Song will play We'll play

I'm gonna basically It costs me $55 this beer too This is the other thing This is not cheap Shout out to build a beer They're to printin money Those beers are It's got a Christmas hat on and everything

Early text coming in saying That's sabotage Even my wife agrees That you're still in the game Ben Well yeah 4487 on the text They loaded the beer with the game With the preface to get you out

Yeah Even the bloody intro says it Look Everyone that listens to the hits Radio Station is playing a little game Premeditated, premeditated. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast, the Hits. Morning, we're playing the Mariah Carey game,

trying to avoid listening to Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas is You. This year we introduced the no-sabotage rule, and it's been called into question right now because my daughters, who are frustrated, they can't play the song at home, they just want to play it. They ended up buying me, why, I ended up buying a beer, and they loaded the actual song, just a little snippet of the song, onto the beer.

Yeah, I recklessly handed your credit card over to the kids, Yeah. Regret that instantly. They could play out if you're not home. Yeah, well, they do. But in the car, they get frustrated. They obviously not driving, so they just want to listen to that song. Is it a little present for you?

Oh, New Christmas. Yeah. Do you like it? You want to say thank you for everything. Oh, mate, but thank you. It is you. Thanks, guys. It was lovely.

Oh, that's cute. No, that's not. I'm out. No, that's sabotage. You press the button. Yeah. There's new sabotage me. How?

You didn't press the bag. No. No, I'm not out of the game. I'm still in the game. You're out of the game. Now, if this was a court case, it would drag on for three months. You know, it really is. I'm not entirely sure.

Yeah, same. Over the weekend, I was like, I don't know. I feel like, oh yeah. At first I was like, it is sabotage. They have said up, but you didn't have to push her. No, they never at once did say, I mean, see, oh, that's cute. That's all she said. I was like, yeah.

They didn't lead you into it. Yeah. I mean, the bear does, what does it say on its hand? I'm not going to push it. It says B.A.B., which I guess is... Is that a Bilda beer? It must be B, yeah. Oh, so it doesn't even say push me.

It's just this little poor print of being very careful not to push right now. Yeah, so am I still in or not? We'll put it on social media. Maybe we won't have a result. Yeah, I can just tell me the other day. The court case is up on social media on the hits breakfast right now. Sharon, I thought it was pretty cut and dry actually when you first brought it up. But now it's getting a bit murky for me, Sharon.

It's being in or out. He's out. I'm out. I'm out. Well, they didn't tell you to push the button My daughter and I are sitting here having a debate about this But you're out She reckons you're out

I'm sorry, but you're out Okay, all right Savageity Initially I didn't tell him to push the button Yep You're that one jury member Where everyone's like

Well damn she knows what she's talking about The track's on and on and on Because he can't get a majority That's right Yeah It's like Sharon Just say you believe what we believe Thank you so much

Appreciate you cool Kelsey Ben In or out of the Mariah game i say he's still in um as much as the whole thing is hilarious and it's a hundred percent something i would have done to my dad growing up especially that using his money to pay for it that's the most it was like deliberate premeditated sabotage now my daughter thanks that it is not because he made the decision to press the button free will but but

that's what you do. That's really done so like a court face. It does. They didn't tell you to push it. We've got a hung jury this morning. One pro, one. Okay, well, we'll take it to social media, as you see before, it's on Instagram, on the Hits Breakfast right now.

We'll leave it up throughout the date. We'll have a result tomorrow. Maybe if I'm in the game or not. Okay. I'm having to take the rolling of the court. There's no consequence either way, but it's important. And I'd like to donate the beer to the person that wins the game. That's still in there.

Once someone that wins it next week, okay? Well, when have we decided to stop the game? Someone can have the beer with Mariah Carey all loaded on, Mariah the beer, because I don't want it. I definitely don't want it. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast, the hits. Awesome, what happened, if one, he got 14th in the end, it was 16th, right? He was 16th, then the two McLaren's got disqualified,

so he got shifted up two places. But he had a crash, a collision in the first turn in the first corner, which kind of ruined his race. And then you said the always positive news talks he'd be callers. What were they phoning up and saying? Um, he'll be lucky if he's driving a lawnmower next year. Oh, really? Look, that crash was not his fault.

Landau Norris ahead of him made an aggressive manoeuvre. She'll die in a ditch for Lawson, mate. George Russell slammed on his brakes in front of him. So what's he supposed to do? He was swerving to get out of the way, subsequently hit Oscar Pastry. Yeah, now, producer Troy was at a stag do all weekend in Wellington, and we phoned him this morning because he wasn't at work. So this was us at 6.04 a.m.

this morning calling producer troy took a while took a while to answer wonder why oh my god i slept in greatest answer ever uh and then i love up to that you're like oh glines oh the poor thing it the worst sound to wake up to is it's foam vibrating you know you know what's straight away you know now you were late getting back um your flight got delayed and stuff so he got home quite late but you the stag do you know what wasn't really what put you late this morning no it's incredibly tame yeah the most exciting thing that happened to the stag was he got a bit of wine spilled on his lap by the uh waitress okay so and then he was like that's fine it's okay please i won't make it fast and he's like no please no no no he demanded

no one's taking clothes off no one's removing any clothing no we're visiting vineyards we're biking round, Martinborough, visiting lovely vineyards. Yep. Woodfire pizza lunch. Oh, nice. Well, it does sound like a glorious weekend you've spent there. A weekend of, I'd say, a 65-year-old. A 65-year-old. You would love that weekend.

It would be a nice man, a kid. A 65-year-old, going away with the gals. Biking, biking between vineyards. It's lovely, Martinborough, all right? We went back to the Airbnb, had a barbecue. Oh, well, wholesome. In bed by... Oh, 10.30, 11, I think, was you.

Oh, I totally. Lifeful. Up, lovely walk. Did your morning walk? We had a brunch. Yeah, nice. Oh, gorgeous. Do you know what I find weird, though?

All those wine tastings, how you can bike between them. Yeah. Like, you're drunk and you're biking. Yeah, I think it's like a little bit fast and loose than the Wadda Upper around there. Yeah, it can be a wide berth when they drive past you. Yeah, good. Oh, you're on the road, too. Yeah.

Oh, wow. I'm pretty sure you can do that in Moulbara too. Good on them. No worries about health and safety in Martinborough. So, we were expecting a whole bunch of wild stag dudes. stories, nothing. No, sorry. A bit of red wine spilled on

some chinos and that was it? Cycling DIY. Black chinos. All right, so the close date on. Okay, so 800 the hits. What went on at your stag or hens do? What were the hens doing? They were doing pottery and jewelry.

Okay, so much to say. I imagine. Good. Okay, so yeah, yeah, well, what happened at yours? John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. Just Troy, back from the weekends with a very pleasant stagdo in the Wadarapa,

traveling around some bignards on bicycle. It was all done at a very respectable time. Yeah, it seems like the type of stagdo you would have on your third marriage, you know? You'd been through a couple. Now I've got, I've had all the shenanigans happen. Like, Megan, if you go on a third, a third trip around the marriage, the marriage runway. Just be a polite dinner, I think.

I need to get slightly, I mean, I've had one stagher. One Hens do, that was pretty like full on crazy. Wild here. The second one, I was at home by 5pm. Oh, really? We were there. Tye takeaways. Oh, lovely.

Yeah, see, that's a nice way to. Oh, wow. What time you start for that one? Like 11? Okay, all right. Yeah, so we were expecting some wild stag stories from producer Troy, and he's come back with nothing, absolutely nothing. I remember we were working on the Rock.

There was a guy in the Air Force. And it was the day before his wedding, which is always a controversial one. You do see people turning up with shaved eyebrows and things, don't you? on their wedding day. But they put him on the bloody the Hercules, the plane. So he was asleep. And then his friends put on the Hercules.

But he woke up in Singapore, Changi Airport. At the Air Force base there. On his wedding day. Had to postpone the wedding. To be honest, that's on them. Don't do it the day before. No, they used to do that a lot more back in the day, right? But that's wild.

So what was his friends thinking? Yeah. It would have been funny at the time. I understand. You would have been like, oh, classic, we're going to send them off to Singapore. Guarantee the bride did not find it. No, no. You'd almost want to factor in a fortnight, don't you?

They might put me on a plane to Singapore, just so I can make my way back. Rachel, what happened on the hens? So I was my friends made of honour. Unfortunately, I didn't make it to the hens because I ended up in the hospital with Kampala back to the day I was meant to fly out. That's a nasty one. too, the old backie, isn't it? Yeah, it was not a good time.

But my friend, she, they had like pole dancing lined up, and I was meant to fly down to Dunedin to be there, but, you know, I had to call it. I was not going to make it. No one wants you up a pole with Campbell Baxter. No. No. Really, yeah. You'll lubricate your way down.

Tender situation. Oh, there you go. Chicken. Disease chicken. and ruin that one for you. Hey, thank you so much, Rachel. Appreciate it. James, morning? Morning. What happened on the stat? Oh, James. How are you, mate?

Yeah, I did paintball a month before my wedding. And after the paintball, we met to my parents. And my future father-in-law, he's a very reserved fella. And my dad, he says the F word. Oh, yeah. So every second word my dad was saying was the F word. And the look on my future father-in-law's face was priceless. Oh, really?

Did you say instead of saying um He just says it quite a lot How is your paintball? I bet you were saying a lot of the F word as well Will you or you get out all right? I was going out of the right But my seem to be brother-in-law came up dressed like he was going to war

I went to one and they put the guy the stag He was in wearing overalls And they'd attach that sewed bells Like little bells all over his overalls And so everywhere it was like a Christmas jingle Jingle jing jing-jing and everywhere for paintball the poor guy you can hear them coming from a mile away.

I was like, oh, geez. People who paintball, they paintball hard. It's too sore for me. You get pelt. When you play it properly, you don't actually get hit that much. It's only because we've done it for radio and TV stuff. You actually get shot and point back one. You actually play an actual game.

You don't really. You get what shot once and you're kind of out. True. So, yeah, we've just been ruined by doing it for stunts. It's on your back. Yeah, you're right.