Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Can Jono and Ben handle period pain?

Episode Date: February 3, 2026

On today’s show:  Megan hooks up the boys to period cramp simulators, and they didn't handle it well... Can Megan nail her hyper‑fixating of singing Raye's Where is my husband ? We chat with Jack, the security guard from the viral Melbourne chair-throwing video, and he reveals the behind-the-scenes story of why they got kicked out! Matty has retaliated against Ben via a pink inflatable chair Confessions of the decorations in the household you actually hate... The taskmaster reveals the next rule for the 10k race! Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFAST Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Jono Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better team. Welcome to the podcast. There we go. Wednesday, you just be watching something on the Mighty Mighty Bostones. I was looking up the cheesiest one-hit wonders of the 90s. The songs that we might have forgotten about and the Mighty Mighty Bostones.

Was that sell out with me? Oh, yeah. Did they have that one? No. It's the impression that I get. Ah, okay. There was all that scar-s-a-d era as well. Yeah.

The scar era. Never had to die. God, Wood. Oh, yeah, that was a cool song. Yeah. That's kind of an incarnation of reggae, wasn't it, Skar? Yeah. I was listening to a very tenuous time.

Just wanted to talk about a Bob Marley podcast. I was listening to him. Many children, many, many children, Bob, spread his seed far and wide. Right. But he had an arrangement with Rita, who was his lane squeeze. She would look after his other children as well. Isn't that Bob Marley movie? Really?

Yeah, they were in a relationship. Big pitch from Bob to come home from, you know, recording studio one don't go hey how about this you stay here what I'll do is I'll go out and uh yeah you know I'll go and create but uh you know obviously died of cancer but what happened is he just had a little mole under his toenail on his big toe was it melanoma yeah it was melanoma and they and he said oh we can treat this and he's like oh no because he really loved football he's like I don't want to cut my big oh they said we can cut the toe off and then pretty much be done with he said I don't want to cut my toe off

because I like playing football so we're going to cut my toe off because I like playing football So he just rode it out And for many years he obviously survived But then one day he was running through Central Park With his mate in New York After a big show and just collapsed And then they found out The cancer had just riddled it all the way through to the brain

Wow Yeah, very sad Just because he didn't want to cut his toe off He's sad, yeah You like football You'd get a prosthetic toe though, right? True You probably had the money for that

Yeah Yeah true And it wasn't like he was a professional Oh but he loved it though Yeah Running and football Yeah He would say he would have sprinting races against his children and beat them.

It came to New Zealand, eh? Yeah, as well, which is pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah, but yeah, what I'm saying is the tow probably wouldn't have been the end of that. There could have been workarounds. 100%. But Bob wasn't having it. It wasn't for him.

Wasn't for him. No. We're going to start the podcast today with, well, something that we endured was, well, Megan, you put us under shock treatment, basically. Something that you endured, that women endured. it every month but finally you've got a taste of it. Many of Bob's women have endured. We'll find out what it is next. John O'Benn and Megan

The podcast. The Hits. Gish Quinn, she lost her leg at age nine years old and you would have seen her online she does a lot of amazing work to normalise being different and she's also doing amazing work at the moment. Brand called Cadence has supplements to help women

with period pain. Yeah, she popped in the studio the other day for what we thought was just going to be a stock standard promotional interview. Someone comes in, hocks off a product. We have a photo in front of the hits wall. Send them on their way. That's how it started, right? We have just launched Period Comfort Duo Pact,

so I've co-founded a business called Cadence, which is for Women's Health Supplements. We've got Grateful Garts and Ossetol and Cycle Sister, which all are supporting different symptoms of women's health, and we've just last week launched our period comfort duo pack, which is very exciting. What's in the supplements that help with the period pain? We've actually, we've worked with naturopass.

which has been really awesome. This has taken three years to develop both my co-founder and I struggled with endometriosis and period pain. Our whole life that stopped us going to school, going to work. And so we worked with naturopaths to develop this. But what's really cool about it is it's a dual system. Often when you've got period pain, you take something in the moment because you've got period pain, whereas this works before you get the period pain and then during. So there's basically two products in one.

So for the first 21 days of your cycle, you take one product that helps with that kind of pelvic comfort and working on that all the time and laying the groundwork. and then your period piece, which is the product that you take during your periods. And once you get your period, you take that, and that's kind of working on that acute pain in the moment. There's stuff happening all the time, guys, down there. You're right.

People get embarrassed still talking about it. And also, you don't know the level, because, you know, these people in my life that have endometriosis and they just never realized the level of pain wasn't normal because no one talks about it. No, I was like that, and it wasn't until they went into labour, and I was like, this is kind of fine, because I was so used to me. Oh, my God.

was easier than you. I mean, as it got to the point again, that got rough. But like the first part of labour, like for the good, I was in labour for 36 hours, but for the first kind of day, it was kind of manageable because I was so used to being in that pain. Well, speaking of pain. Yeah, I can see where this is going right now. Now it all makes sense now.

So we have bought period pain simulators to put on Jono and Ben so that we can put you to the test. There's many levels of this machine. And we're going to keep putting it up until... Okay, all right, okay. Maybe you can control Ben's, and I could control... Johnos. No, I like that.

It's too personal with Megan. I don't want her in control of this goddamn machine. So, yeah, we got hooked up and it reminded me, you remember 50 cent in the It's Your Birthday. Video when he's running on the treadmill, he's got all the pads stuck to him. Yeah, little sticky patches we put on your front and back because you get period pain front and back. And at the start, I was like, okay, this is manageable, but geez, it really cracked up. And, oh, we're in a world of pain. Oh my god, I'm so excited.

Okay, so we've both been... Oh, there we go. There we go, Jess. There we go. Hooked up to this machine. So we've got pads on our stomachs and our backs. Oh, that's definitely right getting a bit. Oh, that's back now.

That's back. Sorry. What are you up to at the moment? Oh, geez. It really is crippling. I'm in a six. Where are you at? Toad.

Oh, oh, that's tense. Tets in there. Okay, that's really... And then it relaxes and you're like, okay, I'm good. Oh, oh. Drobing, throbbing, throbbing, throbbing, throbbing. I feel like a prisoner of war.

Dude, you're at four. That's at four? Okay, and then, you know, fast forward, we'll go up a few levels. Yeah. And it will take you up even further. Horrific. Well, there's going on. Oh, how do you survive with that?

Still going. What has been, I'm sitting at a 12 for John? Oh, my God. Ben's only on a nine. Okay, great. Monster. This is horrific. Cheers.

I have never had so much fun in a radio interview. That needs too much. I'm a sweet. I'm a sweet. Okay. Oh, yeah, there's a lot going on here right now. There's a lot of tension, a lot of stress. But, I mean, oh.

That's the one. I don't know. That's quite a other. Yeah. So you go. If you've even wondered. Oh, if you've wondered what it sounds like between me to go into labor. Yeah.

Orris. a new respect for what you go on to it. Because you're not going around the office and go, whoa, oh, la, we are. Yeah, and that's not even giving birth, guys. So that's probably why women do it. It'd be more entertaining if you did go around the office to it.

Cadence, cadence is the name of the brands. It had the period paying supplements from Jess Quinn. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hit. And Megan, you decided to take it upon yourself to learn the very fast part of that song, which is very impressive. that Ray gets, that does it.

She's amazing. Yeah, she is awesome. I love her and I love that song. Although watching you every morning since Monday really zero in on this, hyperfixate on this. I think you have rehearsed this part of the song, more than Ray have rehearsed the entire song. Yeah. Yeah. I think I'm neurospy.

And I like to hyperfixate on a lot of things. I've listened to that one section of that song hundreds of times. So have we. So have we. and mentally Ben and I we looked at each other we're like well mentally we've lost her this week

yeah we are let's turn it into content yeah all for this moment right there she's been like for the rest of the week do you know I'm nervous because I know I can do it and I don't want to stuff it up

and then my one shot like I know I've wanted to go up but you just you did just do it before like I heard you did it before to be fair we did say Thursday was performance day you've gone on a day earlier so you do still have told tomorrow

but even if you do mess it up we've got to tomorrow you've got redemption tomorrow she's changed the concert date. Okay. She's gone early. I've got other plans, you know.

And everyone's like, well, early. Like, I'm not flying into tomorrow. Too late. Also, I'm still back sick. So, you know, these breathing issues, give me grace. I'm hearing his excuses. Oh, yeah, so you're giving me the instrumental. I don't get to sing along with Ray.

Come on, Alex Warren. Come on, mate. Okay, so you're going to do the karaoke version. Okay, here is Megan. This is now, sorry, I'll play the bit that you're trying to. I'm just used to. Sounds like she's reading the bloody tombs and conditions. One of those medical ads, right?

I agree to war. You're like, what? Hang on, what's that? Okay, you're ready? Here we go. Okay, karaoke version, okay. Whatever you do, wow.

Don't mess this up. Yeah, don't mess this up. Okay. Are you ready? Just tell me when you're ready. I'm taking a deep breath. Go! Just tell me.

No, you're ready? I don't know if you're, I haven't heard it say. I would like a daven ring on my wedding figure. I would like a big and shiny diamond that I can weave a writer, talk, talk about it. And when the day it's going to forgive me, God that I'm, that I'm I can have a doubt it. Is he about, about, about that matter?

He is on tour and ever sick, and she needs someone to fill in for those 10 seconds of the song. Yeah. I'm here, girl. Just bit. And I can say you weren't reading off anything. You had it all the top of that time. Yeah, Megan's back.

Well, now you're back to the show that you're meant to do. Yeah. For three days, meant to be doing, but that's good. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. The weekend in Australia. You probably saw this around social media on the news. two guys got kicked out of a gentleman's club.

They weren't too happy about it. And one of the guys went and got a chair from a cafe next door and threw it towards the bounces towards the door. And unfortunately, it had his mate in the head. Dropped him. Back of the head. And he just collapsed. And then the bouncer also collapsed over laughing,

just crying with laughter. It's a wonderful series of events. And if you want to see the video, actually, just text here C-H-A-I-R to 4-8-7. Thanks for spelling cheer, Jono, no worries. And we have the bouncer from the video, the cackling bouncer from the video, Jack, one of the more comical things at work?

Yeah, it's going to be one of the funny things. Happened at work. The whole thing, it was like something you see out of a cartoon where it's just the way that it's thrown, the way that it's fallen through the air, hit him the way that he's fell. It was a series of comical events. It was a set now,

Now, before the chair throwing, what had happened? They had obviously been ungentleman-like in the gentleman's club. Yeah, so when they walked in, they've gone upstairs in that. And then so then I've actually gone upstairs and just keep an eye on them. They're extremely, extremely rude to the bartender who was the manager. So I said, you guys are going to leave. And then we had to physically drag them out at that time. And then that's when all the, you can see in the video,

I happened to drag him out, push him out of the venue and that. And then came back again. And that's when they came back, his mates came up to me. I watched his other mate walk into the shop. I thought at first maybe he was going and he got a knife or something. So I had my eyes still on him. And then as soon as he popped out with the chair, I was like, no, I'm not being involved in this. I mean.

He threw the chair a really long distance, though. Yeah, I'll give me credit. Like, I wouldn't be able to do that if I try. I was sober. No, he had some good core strengths because, yeah, yeah, there is an angle of the shot. It feels like the chair flew about, you know, sort of 20 metres. And, yeah, just banging the back of his friend's head. Now, he's collapsed to the ground.

You've, you've bent over and started crying with laughter. Yeah, so, like, when it's hit him, he's pulled himself with his hand as well. And then as I've walked past, he's moved his hand. So I knew he was, I knew he was clearly fine and conscious if he's moving his hands and that. And then at that point, it is just, it's humorous. It's so funny. I like that you've specified, he's right. I've seen him moving so I can laugh.

This is the, and what are, the edit job you guys have done on the video, brilliant. Like how quickly were you back into the bar going, we need to get the security footage? I thought it was funny, but I didn't think it was going to blow up. But yeah, within like a few hours, it was everywhere. It was, um, I'm getting messages from my. man saying, I'm seeing this on the news, this, that, and it's like, oh, it's everywhere now. It's gone, but now, how do you think, have you heard from the guys, and how do you think they woke up the next morning knowing they've gone viral?

No, we haven't heard nothing from them, or, yeah, I don't think they'll be showing their faces in Melbourne any time soon, right? Comical, comical. And was anything said after the chair, because you were, you were obviously crying with laughter? All I said at this point is, like, when I'm pointing in that, I'm saying, are you done now? You're going to leave? Like, you've just hurting your mates. Like, what are you doing, bro?

And how is the chair after all of this? It's doing well. We've actually hired it. It's working for the club now. People are sitting on it for lap dancers now. Yeah, it's quite a celebrity. Oh, Jack. Listen, Bolo.

I really appreciate your time, mate. And thank you for going to the effort of getting that security footage cut up. It's brought a lot of joy around the world. I'm sure it has done. Thanks for having me on, guys. Awesome to have them on. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits.

Driving tension happening in the studio. And your dream was to erect a 90s nostalgic Billy Bass Fish on the wall. It sings when you walk past it. It swings its head around. You can even turn it on. because Adam our listener sent it up from the West Coast. His dad had money. Yeah, he fixed it, it was broken.

He put it on a career and... I love it, I love it. I love it. I love it. I'm on yours. How can that make you sad? It literally says, don't worry, be happy. A little smile to my face every time I see it.

At the moment it's sitting on the desk in front of where I sit and Maddie sits in the afternoon. And so I haven't put up on the wall yet, but... Maddie doesn't like it. No. He walked in an easy, though. It's the most disgusting thing he's ever seen, right? Yeah. And he hates everything about it.

Man Cave vibes in that. But maybe it's because the tension of round this 10K race. I don't know. So now Maddie's struck back. He struck back and added something to the studio. I came in this morning. My chair had been replaced by another chair. An inflated chair.

Yeah, inflatable, sort of pink, glittery sort of inflatable chair. But the problem is I like it. This is what Maddie doesn't know is being a multi-layered character. You like pink. You wear pink all the time. You like a novel to a thing. Everything from cricket to my little ponies. There's nothing this man doesn't enjoy.

The only problem is you would sit on that all the time except it's very low. And I can't quite see you. No, yeah. It's a very uncomfortable where you're saying this low. Yeah, and you're like looking up under the desk, it's pretty unnerving. You're like here in the child's section of the studio. Basically, what can you see under there, mate? I'm bringing a short skirt today.

There's a lot of, like, desk and equipment under there. Don't worry. He's like, I'm going to do the rest of the show down here, actually. Yeah, so I'm going to call Mattie. Mattie McLean. See what he answers. So you can explain his thinking, but hopefully he answers. Jonathan.

Oh, hello, Mattie. How are you, buddy? What do you want? Hey, I'm here too, babes. Good morning. You obviously haven't been for the morning run yet or else you'll be in a better mood. I'm literally about to leave the door,

so you've got two minutes. Can you do that thing where you run and talk to us at the same time? I love it when he does that on social. I love it. It's my favourite thing. The remainder of this conversation, we want you running, okay? Can I say thank you for the gift? I love the chair.

I really do love the chair. The only problem is it's too low to sit in and talk on the microphone. Yeah, he's just looking under the desk, babe. But I love it. You know what? I should have known you'd love it because you love anything tacky. Oh, oh, oh, that is a stab in the heart. Oh, he's right.

He's right. He's got no comeback to that. He's got tacky little. He loves taggy things. You've been talking to my wife. The Billy Bass, the inflatable costumes. I mean, the chair is. like is low level compared to everything else you do.

If it's landfill, he'll love it. It's not landfill, you keep it, all right? That's what I'm telling my wife. Okay, well, Maddie, we'll continue on and good luck. Thank you. So the Billy Bass is staying? Where are we at? Hey, it was donated by someone from the South Island in Greymouth.

By his dad, he gave it to us. It's a special gift, Maddie. You can't just chuck it out. I just, I'm a. I'm afraid that the studio is going to turn into a man cave, and I don't want that. We will never do that to you, Maddie. We will never do that.

I didn't want that until you seed you to them like that. All right, thanks, man. Have a great take. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. Ben's put a Billy Bass fish up from the 90s. It sings. Maddie MacLean, the afternoon host hates it.

He's retaliated with a big pink blow-up chair. And I tell you what, they're coming for you, Ben, boys. Cam, welcome from Parmi. welcome welcome what would you like to say to ben uh ben leave me alone he is such a sweetie you know if i wasn't married he wasn't married i'd be interested but what i can assure you

as a co-conspirator in the gay mafia we will take you down we will make sure you never get show tickets anywhere you never get a gym membership your life is a living hell with glitter I do like going to shows, you're right And he likes the gym as well Can we be friends, Cam?

I do like glitter as well too Good on you, Cam, have a great day Thanks Cam, have a great day John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The Hits What's the one item you're not You don't like in the house

That's your partner or your flatmates put up Well your work mate We're having some issues here in the studio This is following you Ben You get this at home from your wife And now you're getting it at work They don't like things that you're decorating your space as well. I know, and I do.

My wife is away at the moment. She's away for a couple weeks. And the Mickey Mouse clock. She doesn't like this on the wall in the lounge. It's broken again. And I'm like, I need to get that fix. Because every time it breaks, she's like, we're throwing it out. Quick before she gets back.

Yeah. He's got quite big hands. You really wouldn't know what time it is. That's her other consumer. She's like, she still can't work out how to tell the time of it. It could be three or five o'clock or four. Don't you have the big neon bin part of the John Owen. sign in your house?

Do you light it up? There's a switch. You can light it up if you want to light it. It's wide up. It's a little bit narcissistic. I did say that. My wife was like, yeah, that was actually, honestly, that was her choice.

I said, oh, that's a bit weird. She's like, no, I like it. Put it up. It's cool part of history of what you're done. That one I was like, yeah, okay. For me, that was a bit too far. But she was like, she likes it. That's fine.

I've got mine in the bedroom. She gave you away to someone, didn't? It costs a lot of money. Yeah, we gave it away. listener and poor Harriet had to pay like $20,000 to make it fire safe. The wiring was nurt good. All right, 0,800 the hits, okay? What's hanging

up in your house that you may be openly or secretly hate, Sue? Happy New Year in Morinsville. Happy New Year, guys. Happy Morinsville as well. We're happy in Moronville. That's good. And what's in the house there, Sue? Well, it's my couch. And I love my couch,

but I'm starting to start to get annoying and I think, no, I want to change it to three corner couches. but I can never find one that's going to fit in my house. Oh, so the couch is giving you a grief. Well, you'd see that thing and sit on that thing daily? Yeah, I do. All right, it's just a deploy to get in your couch.

Is it on the radio, Sue? I know. I'm trying to find a, yeah, as I said, the corner couch would be perfect. We'd go with the recliners and the little cup holders, and I cannot find one that's going to fit in there. I reckon we're going to find you one this morning. Text 4487. You've got a couch with a corner and a cup holder.

Sue wants it. It's quite hard sometimes to get the dimensions right. like a room that it's going to fit in. I get you so. Yeah. No, no. Thank you for you. Appreciate that.

Kylie, it's great to have you on. What's in the house that you hate? My husband's Blue Tong Lizard, Rango. Megan's like, is that a euphonism for something? Is that what you call it? So he's got a what? A lizard? The hell?

Yes, yes. A very horrible snake on legs, I thought. Oh, God. It's disgusting. It doesn't walk around, right? It's in a enclosure. I'm sure if my husband had a chance it would walk around, but he knows that I don't like it, so it is in an enclosure.

What was the relationship between the lizard and your husband? Was the lizard there before you were, Kylie? No, no. The lizard wasn't there before me, but I'm sure he would divorce me quite happily for his Rango. How did he introduce Rango? Did he just bring him home one day? Well, actually, you know, after years of pestering,

I actually bought it for him and regret every second of him. Oh, it's your fault. Do you think the lizard like you or the lizard is a bit anti-Kiley? I don't know if the lizard actually likes anyone. He just likes Roman doing his thing. Yeah, right. Hard to hate a lizard, I would have thought. Yeah, they're just there.

Yeah, but if it's in your house too. It's not true. It's creepy. Hey, good on you, Kylie. Appreciate your call. Tell you what, you can keep these coming through. Oh, I'm under the hits. Yeah, some great stuff coming through.

Someone who, we won't say the name because it might hurt feelings, but my partner lovingly made a picture collage frame. Of all of our six children, handmade, and I hate it. It's got Christmas paper wrapping turned inside out as it's backing, so it's just a shiny metallic thing that's not stretched tight enough, and it's all flabby and saggy on the wall. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, The Hits. I was in the elevator yesterday, and we've talked about this before.

It's a place that some people, you know, it's kind of a bit awkward situation. I always feel like I've walked into a funeral. You know, and there's like four people sort of standing there in somber silence. She was strangers and stuff, but I was standing next to a lady, and then another lady, she walked into the lift, and she started, she struck up a conversation. Good on her. I appreciate that.

About what? She was like, to the other lady, she was, I love your top. And I was like, that's nice. And the ladies, oh, thank you so much. And I was like, this is nice. This is a lovely little interaction. Did you say you love the top as well? No, no.

It was weird. I go, oh, and she's like. Same. I didn't want to say anything. God, I love it. Yeah, it was a nice top, but I didn't really feel like she chime in, but I just sort of smiled. long and then she goes, where is it from?

And the lady went, oh, you know, and then stopped. And then I sort of of went, okay, well that's obviously the universal sign to maybe. She doesn't want to say. Yeah. And then the lady persisted. The lady who had already started. She said, no, no, can you remember where it's from? I really do love that top.

That's a good answer if you don't want, just say you don't remember. Yeah, we shouldn't say that. She went, oh, it's and I leave where I was really leading into the conversation there. I was like she definitely doesn't want to say it she's like it's from Timmo oh oh okay yeah

no shame with children making your clothing yeah and I guess that's a little bit of you know and just the connotations of like getting it it's such a bargain price no shame of fast fashion no shame but yeah and I was like oh the poor lady she didn't want to say it and it went from a lovely compliment to like oh you know

and then did the lift get awkward inside it like it usually does Then it was a little bit silent until the doors opened. Back to the normality. So maybe you shouldn't talk in lifts. Maybe that's the thing. I've had that happen too because I've had one where it was from not team over equally probably not as good. And someone was like, oh, where's your top from out in the office?

And I said, and they all groaned and gave me a big lecture. But then other times you'll come in and they'll be a little bit, they'll ask where it's from and it might be something that you splashed out on. And they're like, ooh, must be nice. To be honest, it's all probably made in the same factory. You're like, well, God, I can't win. You can't win. It's all left the same carbon full.

print. That's right. Hey. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. It's happening next week. Yeah, we're really excited. I know our voice.

The Hits' $10,000 race. Yeah, next week. No part of you said it. No, I did. I should try and work on my acting, my Thespian work. Yeah, next week it's been proposed to us that we are going to race Maddie and PJ from the afternoon show through the country. First team to Wellington.

Wins 10 grand to give away on their show. Yeah, so we've got from the top of the north, right? From Cape Ranga, we are leaving. Yeah, trying to get to Wellington as fast as we can. They're going all the way down to Bluff, and then trying to get to Wellington. It'll happen next week, and the first there gets 10 grand. What you don't factor in is how far away Cape Ranga is.

You think, oh, it's just there. You think Fangare? Oh, my mum was at Russell. I'm like, I should just pop up. And then I was like, it's not a pop-up situation. It's like, it's awesome. I've never been there. It's amazing.

It's amazing when you get up there, but it's just, yeah. Now we have brought you across the comms, Ben. Yesterday you're off the show, but Bryn, our nighttime host, the wonderful Bryn, is going to be the taskmaster, the ballbuster. And yesterday, Bryn, you announced that in modes of transport, how are we getting to Wellington? Yeah, you have to hitchhike, Ben. Yeah, well, all three of you do. You have to try and find someone to pick you up. And I think it might be quite tricky all the way up in Cape Rihanga.

Oh, I think, yeah, that's going to be very. tough. That's very isolated conditions. Can I, sorry, didn't ask you this yesterday, what is stopping us that, you know, just conveniently there's a motorist in Cape Leunger who's like, hey, I'm going to the beehive in Wellington. Well, great, go with them.

That's not going to happen. No, that's probably not going to happen. I imagine there's more twist and turns along the way. Do they have to pick up all three of us? Like, you're not going to send me in a car by myself, eh? Well, that, you, I would say you guys have to decide on that. Don't send me in a car by myself.

No, I feel like we have. have to be as a show, don't we? You know, the thing is when motorists drive past, I won't even pick up one hitchhiker, let alone three. Maybe two of us can hide on the bush. One of us hits chimes, grab the car stops and we're like, hey! Okay, so we're going to find out more about this, but hopefully our show is the one giving away 10 grand, but you've got something else you want to throw at us.

There is a new development here, which will either make it easier or harder for you guys. So you already know you have to hitchhike your way to Wellington. The next rule, I'm only giving you $10. each? No. As a show, we just get $10. You get $10. Maddie and PJ get $10.

No, but that's not fair because there's more of us. There's three of us. Yeah. We should get $15. Well, $5 per head. There's a cost of living crisis. I don't have that much money to give away. Jeez, $10.

Okay, so we can't buy rides. What are we even going to do with that? That's not even lunch. Well, I've gone on to Kmart. You could buy a two-slice sandwich maker for $10. With no bread or anything. everything to put in your sandwiches. Times are tough.

Am I allowed to sell my body for transport? Oh, we're still all getting anywhere then. Good Lord. I'll do stuff to get us to Wellington, team. No worry. Wow, okay, so it's all happening in next week. Ten bucks is the ten dollar challenge. It's back, really, isn't it?

This is a race, honestly, a race against our will. None of us. None of us knew about this. We didn't sign up for it. People walk from Cape Ranga to Wellington all the time. Yeah, but not in a couple of days, right? That'd take me. Who does that?

What do you mean all the time? Wasn't there a Hikoi in 1975? All the time. For Māori land rights, they took a big walk, didn't they? Well, what have you signed up? Well, you've been signed up for that you didn't really want to know. Yeah, I would say, remember Sharon who we used to work with? Yeah.

She signed me up to a book club. Oh, I know. As soon as she said, who wants to do it, I was like, I'm just a bit busy, but thank you anyway. John's like, I'll do it. I'm like, there's no part of me that thinks you're going to do it. Like, why did you say yesterday? I said, I'll do it, but I don't read books. Is that going to be a problem?

Yeah, that's the main thing, a book club is getting together and read. You saw him out at this book club. Did you ever go? I was like with other people at MediaWorks and you'd have a meeting and talk about the books. And I hadn't read the book. So I just politely nod. I went to one meeting.

They have drinks there though I. It was like my AA meeting. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. The Hits. $10,000 race. We are racing the afternoon show from one end of the country. We start at the top.

We're trying to get to Wellington faster than they can go from the bottom of the country to Wellington. The first show there gets $10,000 to give away to the listeners, however they want to give away. So it's a great prize that we could be giving to you. But what do we get out of it, apart from having to hitchhike with $10? We get memories, lasting memories. And the show that gives the way, you're right, we have to hitchout,

we have to, like, basically have got $10 we've just been told the whole time. Yeah, so going to bring the show together or rip us apart, one of the two. Yeah, I think we've got an advantage on paper, Surely, because the Inter-Iland of Ferry that they will have to catch, or I guess you can fly across from... No flying, I think. No flying. No flying. So they can't fly.

So they're going to have to catch the ferry or some sort of boat. Well, I guess in some ways we've got there's three of us, compared to two of them, so maybe that's their, you know, a little thing they need to do, right? I'm sure there's going to be little hurdles along the way. Knowing how radio works, can't just go on a nice car trip, can you? Point A to point B. That would be nice, wouldn't it? But none of us signed up for this. We didn't know we're doing this until Monday morning, so what we signed up for that, you

Someone else signed you up for you that you were regretted, Tanya. Hi. Lovely to have you on. Happy New Year. Yeah, you too. Let's talk. Let's talk. What were you signed up for?

A 10K run. Oh, imagine that happens all the time. You're getting signed up. Are you much of... Are you much of a runner? No, definitely not. What happened the night before? I hear...

A big night on the... red wine with my two daughters in Berlin on holiday. Oh, and you're like, I'll do it, I'll do it. Well, I don't remember saying that. But I must have, it's on stage. Oh, my God. And so what time are we up running? Oh, no, it was it?

We were on holiday in December and the run was in March. Oh, right, wasn't right the next morning, get up and do it. No, definitely not. Oh, that would be more payful. How did the run go? Were you good? I trained and I did it, and I, yeah, I succeeded. better than I thought I would.

Oh, that's awesome. It worked out well in the end, didn't it? Yeah, well, it did, but I don't think I'd do it again. Are you like running personnel? It running's your whole... No. No. That was it.

Speaking of, Maddie McLean could probably run the length of the South Island. Yeah, well, that's who you do. Shirtless, he'll be out there running, mate. I saw him on Instagram yesterday, running and filming and talking. He's like, hey, guys, I've done it. He's like, yeah. Multitasking, isn't it? He's talking about running, but then he's also...

He's running, sorry. while he's talking about entering another running competition. He's wanting to do a marathon, so hey, he's got a huge advantage with the fitness anyway. Andy, lovely to have you on. Happy New Year. Yeah, tis the season. Tis the season. Let's not fade out of the show catchphrase, guys.

Yeah, happy new year. Now, what did you get signed up for? Similar sort of thing is the last school that I got signed up for a run. My old GM signed us, taught me into doing the Wellington Marathon. It was about 10 years ago. and I was oh yeah I didn't really run before like the most I'd run was about 10Ks

I thought oh it's only four in a bit of those so um signed up and then and then that's the attitude the night before he pulled out of it so I've done it by myself oh and how'd you go with the four and a bit of the 10Ks

how'd that go for you the first the first two of them were all good and I probably I've done it and then the um the second two were terrible and I was in my struggled a lot, but I completed it.

Oh, well done. How many do a friend about us? Maybe he signed up for the thing. There was a group of them. It's the old ghost ultra run. It's 85Ks. Oh my God. And everyone pulled out and he was the only one that ended up doing it.

He was like, well, thanks guys. Yeah, so he ended up running 85Ks with strangers. And are you a big runner now, Andy? Have you done another marathon? No, I'll probably never do it again. I'll do it half again. One and done on the marathon. There you go.

No one looks like they are enjoying running in marathons. No. You look at anyone running along the street. No one's having a good time. No one has a smile on their face. Except for Maddie MacLean. Yeah, that's right. He can film and talk at the same time.

John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hit. I mentioned last week that my son and his mate, they got home from the park and they're like, oh, a growing man came up to us and he said he can make our dreams come true if we, you know, just message him on Instagram. And it rattled. Oh, and I rattled me and my wife, Jennifer.

I don't know what I'm doing. Who is this raging, you know? Look at the guy up on Instagram and TikTok. 13 million followers. I'm like, you bloody DM the heck out of this guy. And it was basically this wonderful gentleman called Simon Squib. Now, I wasn't familiar with Simon. You'd seen him on the internet, hadn't you?

I had seen him pop up. I couldn't remember the name, but he does go around the world, you know, talking to people about their dreams and then sometimes helps them make their dreams come true. Yeah, so he's in New Zealand at the moment. And he's going around the country doing the same thing. So he came out to Oscar and his friend, Peter, and said, you know, what's your dream?

And they didn't have any dreams, but he said, go away. I've broken his dreams. He will never have dreams as long as I'm his father. But then he's like, go away and think about it. And so they came up with a business idea, which was like a basketball gymnasium, and it could open for kids who couldn't afford to play basketball. Oh, nice.

Okay, so then, okay, Dad, can you take us back to old Squib the next day? Squib wants to meet us at some cafe. So I'm like, okay, hold on the car. So I drive them off to the cafe. I'm sitting around for a couple of hours. They film with Squibb. That's all good as God. He's gone to the back of one of his videos, didn't you?

Yeah, you said, oh, you're in the back of this. I was just ordering a coffee in the bedroom. And you're single up, mate, looking like you've just come from mowing the lawns. Oh, my God. I was in full dad mode. I wasn't expected to be captured on Squib's Instagram. Tag me in that one, baby. And so then there was a second minute, and he's like, okay, well, go away and, you know,

film yourself teaching some kids basketball. Okay, so then I got a little nephew Bow and their teaching come out of play basketball. Oh, right, yeah. And they send that off to Squivvy's like, great stuff. He's like, I'm around the other parts of the country making dreams come true, but I'll be back next week. So I'm basically just become the chaperone, the unpaid Uber driver, just following this poor social media guy around. And I don't get out of the car. I did that time.

I just went at the cafe, get a coffee. I just sit in the car, just trying to keep a safe distance. I'm like, this is their thing. Yeah, yeah, got it. And so yesterday's like, and he always likes meeting on a mountain. He's like, meet me on this mountain. And so he drives the foot of this mountain, peak hour traffic, you know, after school traffic.

Oh, God. And kids get out, and they go an hour and a half, two hours, I'm sitting in the car waiting. I'll tell you what my dream is, mate, you pay me some petrol money. Is it your dream to sit in the car and wait for that? It's a dream. Because you have to get a car at the air cord. It's so hot at the moment.

I'm wasting petrol, squib. And so this dream, I was like, are you getting $500? Because I know you said you wanted. Yeah, no, you said you wanted $500 to start this dream. So I was like, where's the $500? Because you need to cut me in on this. And then they come back down. I thought, where's the cash?

Didn't get any cash. I was like, what? He's like, oh, you know, they just, you may just go to the top of the mound. and run around the top of the mountain, pretending to bounce baskets. Not real basketball, it's just like air bouncing basketballs, around the top of the mountain.

That's so weird. Yeah, but he's made people's dreams come true. Oh, he has done. He's his toilet with Mr. Beasts and all sorts. Oh, yeah, he's absolutely legit. Yeah. But I'm, where's my 500 bucks, but? It's like your father.

You can't have 500 bucks for wearing a singlet door cafe. How much money have you spent now on petrol driving around? Amen, baby. Amen. He should have funded the rec centre. Anyway, I was like it was a fun journey to take them on. You know, it's a fun adventure though. I'll remember it.

And so will I, because I've got to go to the petrol station afterwards. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. So they're looking at changing the New Zealand driver's licenses, making it easier for people to get it or quicker in some ways. That seems safe. You're not going to have to sit a second practical test in a lot of ways, yeah. So at the moment, because, geez, I can't remember when I set my licences.

I think it's theory and then practical, and then I think you had to do another one before getting full, and now they're going to get that. I think they're looking getting rid of the last one. Oh, wow. You're going to have to do more time driving on the roads, obviously. Yeah. All I had to do was take the horse and cart to Huntley with a bootload of mutton,

and I got my driver's license back in the day. Jeez, it's crazy when your kids start going for their driver's license. Yeah. Your best, he'll be doing burnouts in West Auckland before you know it. That is terrifying. I still remember. the first time I drove away in a car by myself and I literally wound down the windows and was like with my arm out of the window. I've been doing some stuff with her daughter because she's obviously

got her learners and yeah. She's like, you just get so, I'll try not to be stressed out and she's like, I can tell you're just getting stressed. I'm trying to be cool chill game. I feel like you're sorry, but like not a great person to learn to drive. No, she's like, mum's way better. I'm like, that's fine. Do you push the imaginary break in the footwell? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My dad still does that with me. Yeah. My mom does too. My mom does too. Now, we've topped the list at the worst at something on the roads, New Zealanders. Yeah, apparently stopping for red lights. We, I guess, like, traffic's really awful.

And then it goes orange. To me, sometimes that just means go faster before it gets to breathe. Give it a go. And I think that's what Kiwis are doing, which you should be doing, but it probably says a lot about our roads and congestion and trying to get to places as hard, you know? My theory is just eliminate the orange, because the orange to me is like a little bit. of a, come on, get on. See what you can do.

Take out orange, just have green, red, boom. Stop go. Yeah. Maybe, mate. Orange is the grey area. It's orange. I think orange is supposed to be like, slow down and stop. Slow down, yeah.

Not to speedy down and see it. I know you're like, oh, look orange, yeah. And that's unfortunately what a lot of people are doing. But you were saying, waving to other motorists is something that we do here? So some overseas visitors have seen this is really baffling to them that we, You know when someone lets you into traffic, it's an unspoken rule. You've got to wave, or you do the hazard lights, or you reference them in some way to be like, thank you. Finger off the wheel.

Just a couple of fingers, just a big big. They were like, we don't understand why you like wave at strangers. And it's like, well, it's a thank you. It's acknowledged it. It's just because, I think it just de-escalates the aggression on the New Zealand roads. No one can get angry at you if you flicked your hazards a couple of times or give a little way about. It honestly takes the anger out of the air. Especially when it's fully congested and you weren't.

actually letting them in and then they wave at you and you're like, yeah, true. The other thing, there's a few roadworks around my streets at the moment of close to home. And, you know, just thought the stop-go people, you always have to wave at them. Oh, yeah. I don't know. I was thinking that yesterday. It's like waving and they wave and then they wave the next one.

They're like, oh, no. She's, they must do a lot of waving. I know. But you feel like you have to. You feel like it's law to wave at the end when they turn it around to go. Do they like that or do they want us to stop doing that? That's what I was thinking. I was thinking, is this a pain for him to go, yeah.

They're not doing anything else. 4487 How long? How long have the road works Take your any area? How long have been there? Well, I've just started and I'll let you know and now.

In another nine months. Yeah, as well, yeah. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. Something that I realise I've just got to a point in life that I'm never going to be good at. I'd say most people are actually pretty proficient in this task as an adult,

and I googled it, and it's got a name for it. And you know if it's got a name for it, You've got a problem on your hands. It's called being time blind. Right. So I can't factor in. So if you say, oh, we'll meet me here at midday. My head's like, okay, well, if I leave it like three minutes to 12, I'll get there by midday.

I don't factor in how long it takes to get anywhere. And it drives Jen my wife crazy. And a lot of the times, too, she's packing up the car. She's ready to go in the car. And she's like, why have you just started water blasting? Why have you just started waterblasting the fence? I was like, we can squeeze this in, five minutes, we'll be there. People are all, yeah, fashionably late.

You know, you've got a 10, 15 minute buffer, don't you? When you say you're going to be somewhere at 12? Yeah, I don't know. I always say, someone podcast, I think it was Ricky, Rick's a base or something was saying the day, it's like, why is your time more important than the people you're going to see? And I was like, that's a very good point. That's a great one way of me.

Yeah, because you're like, why is why suddenly your 15 minutes late? You're like, why have you held, you know? That's true. Yeah, you're making a time to see someone. So that means that other people. person is wasting however long you are late. And I was like, that's a really good point for someone like him as well too. That's true.

That's true. That's really great. By now I feel like an absolute self-reased monster. Yeah, like that also could be ADHD as well too. That's definitely some science there. Less about the time blind. There's more about just focusing on the thing you need to focus on. You water blasting.

In a suit. We're meant to be in a dinner party. Oh, God. Yeah. Oh, 800. You can get better at it. You can get to work every day at around a bit of the same time. But that's easy at that time of morning.

There's no distractions. I love sometimes your message at 4 in the morning and you're like, oh, sorry, I've got to take my son to basketball. We're like, did you just find out? You just have a long runway in the morning too. You go like, everyone else is by the minute to the thing up here. You're like, hours and hours are getting up. I'm up at 3 and I'm still late.

Why are you doing that? You got two and a half hours before you're at work. He goes for a run and then he lies on his driveway and stares at the All these things is like... Who is such a strange... Great, but strange. Yeah, right. You're right.

You could probably get up, well, like four, four, 30. If you still be here at the same time. You're right, you're dead right. All this is great information. Everyone else is. Yeah, no, you're right. You're coasting because you've got Ben. Yeah, well, Ben paints us.

So, both of us, both of us. Yeah. So, yeah, this is what I want to chuck open. You've reached a point in adulthood where you realize, hey you're just not going to be good at that thing and you're happy with it. Megan, I'm going to say this emailing. You've started the year going,

I'm going to be great at emailing. It's already peted off. What email did I not reply to? It has petered off. At the start it was a flurry of Megan emails. Yeah, you're right. There was two days where it was relentless emailing. I haven't in email since.

No, yeah, I probably haven't either. I didn't know you'd email me. God, I've already had like passive-aggressive messages. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hit. Talking about you if you reached adulthood and you realize you're just never going to be good at, anything, some great text coming through here.

I've come to the conclusion I'm never going to be good at assembling flat pack furniture without turning it into a domestic incident. Oh, yeah. It feels like it's a patience thing, that one. It's just do it systematically slowly. If you're doing it in a rush, that's, yeah. I feel like I'm better on my own

because as soon as you do it with someone, your systems get muddled and you start to argue. Yeah. And normally you just want to get the thing up and put whatever it is on, like, you know, and it's just like, you know, it's not one of those things you can sort of chip away at. We had to assemble our bed

because there's like storage under it so you can lift it up and put stuff in it. Had to put hydraulic pumps on a bed. I was like, this is going to end in divorce. We made it through. We made it through as a couple. I was like, couldn't have been more proud of us. Another great text through coming through here on 4487.

I'm never going to be good at Smalltalk with other parents at the kids' sports. Oh, that's going to be me. I'm not good at Small Talk. You're going to have to engage in it. It's coming. You're going to need your white. One, two or three things that you're having your life.

little rotate. Do you know, I panic when I go to pick up the kids and other parents are there at the same time. I'm like, oh God, oh God, okay. How was your day? That's good. That's great.

It's great. One of the great things about COVID is we all had a universal small talk. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, they did. Ben yours. Parole parking for me. I mean, I can do it again

if I've got a bit more time. But you never seem to have time and space for that. And often there's an audience. Yeah, there's an audience. Or some of a car that just wants to get around you. just feel like for me I just need, I'd like that to be a calm, safe space. I like parallel parking, like, outside a busy cafe. And I just like swing it in.

I almost feel like being like, did you see that? Because you know the crowd's against you. They want you to fight. Yeah. You do. You curb it. You do think. They're all looking.

They're all looking. So I'm like, nah, man, there's a park there. I'm like, didn't see it, didn't see it. I was it. You know, I definitely saw it. But I'll be like, no, no, no. Just go, you'll save a space about the ride.