Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Caught on the Final Flight Out of NYC After 9/11
Episode Date: September 11, 2025On today’s show: “I want to look like you when I’m older” is it a compliment or not? A chat with someone who caught the last plane out of NYC after 9/11 How di...d Jono went performing the South African anthem at Eden Park? How Megan’s mirror selfies delayed her MRI... The funniest parent punishments, after Ben confiscated his daughter’s mirror to help her focus on studying! Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Welcome to the podcast intro via Friday.
Ben was fluffing around, so I thought I'd jump in for once.
You'd run into it.
I was opening up the text machine.
Sometimes, you know, sometimes the Wi-Fi is working for you, sometimes it's not.
At the moment, it's not working for me.
I've just got like a spinning wheel sort of thing going on.
The rainbow wheel of death.
Yeah, it's not fun when that happens.
And sometimes you're like, it'll stop, it'll stop and just keeps going usually most of the time.
You made an absolute faux par with your wife, I think, on air today.
Yeah, I think I did.
And I feel like this is, hopefully, well, one, she's going to listen back to the podcast.
Let's all just keep it between us.
Let's start a little podcast club, you know, kind of like Fight Club.
You know, we're the first-year-old Fight Club.
You don't talk about it.
Does she listen to the show in the mornings?
She does.
Between.
Oh, yeah, that's a good point.
You might have been in the danger zone.
Yeah, when she's heading to work and stuff as well.
So, you know, you know, flicking.
Hopefully she's, you know, no, she's dedicated to listen in the car, but hopefully.
So your lovely wife, Amanda, got a compliment.
It was kind of a backhanded compliment and we were discussing this.
No, no.
And I think that sometimes that happens, people say stuff and they don't mean it to be.
And she just went, oh, you know.
So we were discussing that and you'll love the thing that Ben said at the end of the break.
Do you ever remember?
Yeah, I do.
Yeah, I do.
Because I was like, I think your wife will probably feel a bit of failure in.
enough about this.
If you want to hear that,
you want to hear a pretty surreal story
about 9-11 as well,
a Kiwi guy who we work with
that was pretty much caught up in the whole thing.
And just the emotion of just that experience
is just really incredible,
as well as that Jono's attempt
to sing the South African National Anthem,
not quite as incredible.
But hey, he gave it a good honest attempt at Eden Park.
It still walked me great joy
hearing a little Jono
and a massive empty Eden Park.
Yeah, so that's all coming up on the podcast.
John O'Ben and Megan
The podcast
The hits
Just before we head to the 8 o'clock news
My wife had something happened the other day
And she was like
Was this?
This was intended as a compliment
Yeah
But then afterwards she was like
What was as a compliment
Now my daughter was getting her hair done
First day having conversation about
You know like
It was just they were bantering
They were talking about
You know what your mum do
What's your dad do
My daughter said my dad's on radio
And then she was like
Oh Johno John Ben and Megan
She's like oh that's so funny
So funny.
My daughter, Siena's like, well, well, you know.
I mean, even I would say that.
Well, he don't just have to say that.
Yeah, well, anyway, so that was the thing.
So she didn't need to tell me this part of the story.
I was like, you know, the lady gave me a compliment and, and-
Couldn't let me have it.
And my daughter was like, yeah, you know, he's not always like that.
He's not, you know, sometimes he's a dad and it's not always funny.
So, yeah, I was like, anyway, so I got a compliment and it wasn't really a compliment.
But then my wife went in to grab, to give something to my daughter.
and the lady said, which is lovely, she's like,
oh, you're so pretty.
I would like to look like you when I'm older.
Oh, oh.
And my wife was like, oh, thank you.
And then walked out and was like, and it was intended as a compliment.
But she was like, the older part was, you know, from the hairdresser was maybe.
Yeah.
But I mean, like, was the hairdresser.
But the lady was 20, probably 20, my daughter was guessing.
So, yeah, anyone up post 20.
I mean, we're all, you know, producer grace, you're here right now.
I mean, we're all, you know.
You're all old.
Yeah, thanks, Grace.
Would you say that, though?
I would probably say I'd like to look like you.
I shouldn't say when I'm old.
I mean, old would have been worse, right?
Older.
Older when I'm older.
She's obviously older.
Yeah.
And I said my wife, no, it was intended as a compliment, take it as a compliment.
But, you know, it's one of those ones.
There's no good way of saying that.
You look great for your age.
Oh, that's, yeah.
No, that's horrible too.
Oh, really?
She doesn't have to say older.
You can't say you look great for your age.
No.
No, don't say that, Pam.
Because she also doesn't know how old she is.
So what if she was like, oh, I'm 25.
She thought you were 16.
What happens if someone said their age and then you're like, oh, you look great for age?
Yeah, that's okay.
Okay, all right.
Okay, but yeah.
You could have just been like, you are really beautiful.
Oh, no, but we all say that.
We all say those things.
And she is very beautiful.
For an older lady.
Ben.
Compared to the 20 year old.
She is beautiful.
I'm kidding.
I'm kidding.
I had to go.
And that's why I'm not.
I'm funny and not always funny, according to my family.
John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast, The Hits.
It is September 11 in the United States, of course, September 12 here,
but September 11, 24 years since the horrific event in New York City,
and we found it yesterday a story that 24 years later that someone that we work with in the building
has their own story about it, that we never ever knew about Megan, right?
No, all the years we were working with him, we never knew this story.
His name is David Bryce, and he joined us on the show, after the show yesterday, just share it.
David, welcome.
Hello.
We've worked in the same building for many years, right?
A long time now, yeah.
But we just learned something about you.
We're talking about September 11, and you were in the States around that time.
Yeah, I'd been over there for a business conference, and we were flying home.
And what ended up being the last in New Zealand flight out of the States before they closed the airspace and nobody was allowed to fly anywhere.
So we had flown out of New York on a transcontinental flight to L.A.
and then hopped on the New Zealand bus
and headed home.
New York was, as we remember it in the past,
those twin towers were there
that we'd visited a few days earlier.
Oh, really?
Up to the viewing lounge,
seen from across the river
at the Statue of Liberty
looking back to the city
and there they are.
New York was beautiful.
They are huge buildings,
but you look at it,
you see an old movie now
or an old TV show
and you see the skyline of those buildings.
They were massive.
They were massive.
They were can't miss.
And it was a fine, clear blue sky,
day and we're out of there and everything was fine we're on the flight but then we arrived at
Auckland and the crew's demeanour was quite different there was a tenseness to what they were
doing oh because obviously no one's got Wi-Fi on the plane no no not like now you're not carrying a phone
around probably with TikTok yeah you always definitely put it on airplane mode too don't you yeah yeah yeah
sure so we get out of the front door of the plane and the cops are there with guns not just
one. In New Zealand. In New Zealand, standing there with guns. Really? Uh-oh. Oh, I wonder if there was
some crimmed down the back that I wasn't aware of. Didn't think anything more of it. Stopped at the
duty-free, picking up the bottles of rum. And then I just happened to glance up a TV they had on there
and it was all happening in New York. You know, the building or the first tower was smoking and on fire.
Oh, my God. Wow. It hadn't fallen down on that point. Jumped into the cab and the cab driver's
got it on News Talk Z-B, and I couldn't believe that I'd managed to escape it,
but I sort of crashed in the front door, screamed out for my wife, and I was burst into tears
because I could not believe how dramatically in basically the length of a flight from L.A. to
New Zealand.
The world changed.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
And it's still like, oh, I've got the goosebumps and shivers now telling you the story.
Yeah.
It's scary as well.
The fact that you were up there two days.
before.
Yeah, yeah.
Just a matter of hours, too.
You could have been there.
Yeah, well, another business colleague who worked for Sony Music at the time,
he was also in New York, but he ended up getting trapped there for however long it was
before he could get on a flight to get home.
So he had an elongated New York stay because they shut down all the airports.
They shut down all the airports.
What a wild time to be in New York.
It was a wild time.
And, you know, then subsequently to go back to New York and see the memorial.
again, it's like going to Pearl Harbor.
Yeah.
The emotion is in the year, no matter what time of day you go.
It's a sort of water feature there where the water cascading down.
It keeps running the whole time that everyone's names of sadly all the people that were lost are all around the outside.
And just the space, the enormous space that those two buildings took up.
And the museum part of it where you see they've got a mangled fire engine that had the building parts fall on it.
Yeah.
It's just, it just brings back the horrible terror of what New York went through that day.
I think you can be alive now and not feel something for what happened then.
Yeah, I know the time has gone by, but I think it's still very raw.
And we forget about the number of people who perished both the office workers and the first responders.
And the tourists?
It was a lot of people.
Yeah.
I forgot that tourists could be up there.
Absolutely.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, well, Dave, oh, well, thanks for shirry, mate.
I don't know that about it. I suppose you don't lead it with it in a conversation, do you?
Like, good-day, David.
How are you today?
Not really.
I don't tend to talk about it.
Yeah.
Well, hey, thank you for your time, mate.
No, I appreciate it.
John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast.
The heads.
Into a huge sporting weekend, good luck to the Blackburns,
which would be early sort of Sunday morning in New Zealand time in their quarterfinal of the World Cup.
Not getting enough coverage, those girls when they're killing it.
And it's the quarterfinal against the Africa.
So we're really cheering them on this weekend.
And as we are cheering on the Warriors as well,
it's going to be a really tough game Saturday night
for them against the Panthers.
And then the All Blacks play South Africa again.
Now, last week, we had quite a lot writing on the game against South Africa,
didn't we, Megan?
Yes, in case you've missed it,
some peeps from a South African radio station 5 FM
set a challenge for us if we won the game
or if we lost the game, we had to do the South African anthem.
If the box is able to pull off a serious win,
to try and create a performance of our first two very,
verses of our anthem, which are in Isisulun Isikosa.
If all blacks win, then we would be happy as a team to learn and perform the first
two verses which are in Māori.
We won.
So we were off, we didn't have to learn the South African anthem.
We were completely absolved of that bit.
Exactly.
I watched the end of that game and I was like, great, we don't have to do the anthem.
Then we come to work on Monday.
And Jono had done like a half, after what I can only imagine was a few too many bevies on a
Saturday night, he did a half-time
live cross to South Africa, and he
shot his mouth off, and you love the way he says
Anything, anyway, or
anyway, or something. That's where
I think you can tell his hat's for us. Have a listen to what he said.
What I will say, I'll say this
on behalf of Ben and Megan,
is we will learn the national
anthem anyway. We're trying to
book in Eden Park to perform the anthem
and we'll do it for you regardless.
Hey, we love it.
Hey, have a great day, brother. Nice to see you. Enjoy the game.
Okay, we'll chat soon.
it anyway.
Anyway, we will do that.
And so he came into work on Monday and he was like,
guys, this is what I've said.
We had the audio and he was like,
we're all on this together.
And we're like, well, no, we're not.
You made that second bet.
You made that add-on bet without talking to us.
So, Jono, you'll have to do it by yourself.
So he's had a couple of days to try and learn how to sing the South African anthem.
Made up of many languages, yeah.
So it's been quite tricky for him to get his head around.
And we had people, lots of people helping out.
It's been the cool thing about it.
So many people have helped.
them out on the journey.
Even a little tip
when it comes to the melody.
I can hear you struggling
a little bit of the melody
there.
On the melody.
You're still focus on the melody.
Melody's the least of his worries,
surely.
What was this pronunciation?
It's the same melody
as the Incy Wincy Spada.
Incy Winsie Spider
come up the water spout.
Okay.
Cool, say,
Caleli, Africa.
That's better.
That's better.
So, okay, so things
were starting to progress.
weren't they? I mean he didn't get past the first
line in memory but anyway
he had it all written out phonetically
and then he was like but yesterday he was like
but when it gets to the English part at the end
I've got this nailed and this was him yesterday
before we went down to try his anthem
yeah sounds a call
to come to get
what tune are you doing?
So, okay, so this was, that was how he was, about an hour before.
Doing it to the tune of falala la la la.
We actually got Eden Park to let us in there so he could do it in the middle of the field to pretty much an empty stadium except for you and me.
But next, we're going to have Jono's anthem attempt.
He had one shot and one shot only to nail the South African anthem.
We'll have his attempt.
And what 5FM in South Africa thought of his attempt?
John O'Ben and Megan.
The podcast.
The Hats.
Big weekend of sport, the Black Ferns.
We've got the Warriors.
We've got the All Blacks take on Saturday for again.
And we made a bet with a South African radio show last week.
And in the end, it resulted in Jono shooting his mouth off.
And he had to perform yesterday the South African anthem at Eden Park.
We managed to take him to Eden Park.
It was pretty epic.
We also got a bit of a surprise there as well with the lovely team at Eden Park.
So imagine Jono walking out onto the field, onto the grass.
Yeah.
And they had put up a big, on the big screens, a picture of Jono with the South African flag.
They'd put him in a South African jersey.
So the scene was set.
Yeah.
And so he had a little PA speaker out there, producer Troy, gave him the introduction.
And we were watching on here, one attempt to try now the South African anthem.
Have a listen.
And singing the national anthem of South Africa, please welcome John O'Brien.
My apologies to South Africa, the continent of Africa.
Charlize Theron and Bilthong.
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South Africa
Oh geez
As John I would say
He added GST
He did add a bit of GST
For 15% of him
So this was our reaction
afterwards
The two members in the crowd
He had no Q cards
How many people do the
anthem without
chute cards.
Also, I mean the words
were there but was the pitch.
Yeah, the pitch, no.
The only pitch was,
The only pitch was Eden Park.
Beautiful pitch.
Yeah.
Terrible pitch.
Yeah.
Yeah, so, yeah, so he had Q cards,
which, you know, he was meant to remember it,
but he couldn't get past the first line, really,
with his memory.
So anyway, he did, well, we, we weren't sure.
We weren't sure how he went with the pronunciation,
so we have to leave it to Mike at 5 FM in South Africa.
Now, he has seen the video,
and he sent us this message.
Hello, Mike.
Hey, Johno, it's Mike V, and your performance is world-class,
world-class.
Eden Park, as the location, is insane.
And your actual, and the performance is outstanding.
You had a couple days to pray for this.
That is ridiculous to me.
I don't know how you learned such a long anthem.
We have a very, very long anthem,
and you nailed virtually every part of it.
So, kudos to you.
You will be better than you.
than we are.
I think you win the
challenge as well.
You won the test match
and you want the challenge.
He's so nice.
He's too nice to him.
He was too lovely.
It wasn't that good.
A 4-487 on the text
if you can speak Afrikan
or we're from South Africa
and you want to give Jono
a bit of live performance
appraisal on that one as well.
Yeah, let us know what you thought of it.
But we are going to get
how Mike and his team did
with their New Zealand national anthem
on Monday.
They're doing the English part
and the Tarayo part as well.
So yeah, that will be Monday as well.
John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits.
There's a bit of an Uber strike going on with Uber Strikes tomorrow
between the, well, basically all Saturday, so very tough to get an Uber.
Right across the country.
Very tough for Jono.
He loves talking to Uber drivers, one of his favorite hobbies.
That's what he can do at the weekend, like pop out and be an Uber.
His most awkward one, he talks about, because he was always asking about their fear,
you know, how much money they would make on a certain journey.
And he said to the guy, what's your biggest first?
fair, thinking about money, and the guy said,
losing my family.
And then Jono was like, wasn't really what he meant, but then had to go into a...
You have to ask a follow-up question.
You can't just be like, oh, okay.
Yeah, and then the guy said, what's yours back?
And, you know, you can't just go $87.
You've got to kind of go into something.
How does he get himself into the situation?
Exactly.
Well, you got yourself into a bit of a situation.
I did.
Yesterday, I left to, because I've hurt my knee if you missed it.
Wasn't anything dramatic.
I was getting up off the floor after I changed my two-year-old snappy.
We really need a better story for this video.
I know. And the thing is, it is ACCC.
So every time yesterday, again, I had to write.
It's like, what, cause the injury?
And you're like, uh, getting off the floor.
I just twisted it and it's not been right since.
So I had to have an MRI yesterday.
Wow.
Which, what?
I said, well, I'm just like, wow, it's really escalated.
I know.
I know.
And, man, that's like a scary thing.
It's like that big machine.
It makes a lot of noise and stuff.
But before that, they make you change into one of those.
gowns and I it was quite it's it's very dramatic for getting off the floor and hurting your
knee I'm in like one of those like operating gowns and they're like take everything off apart
from your undies and I spent like half an hour taking every piece of jewelry I had off gotcha yeah
um and I swear the person doing the scan I swear she was like I'll come back and get you to go
into the room with the thing and so I was in there and it's got like the little sign that's like
if you think you're pregnant,
please let the person know.
So I was taking selfies in the mirror with a
Do You Think You're Pregnant thing?
Yeah.
Sign to send to my husband as a bit of a laugh.
I'm taking selfies doing like peace sign,
like duck fate, like pouting.
A full photo shoot.
Full photo shoot and my little gown in the mirror.
I can put these on the Hitsprey for social.
Thank you.
Good to go somewhere, right?
Yeah.
And it must have been a good 10 minutes
where I was just like waiting and I'm posting.
I'm doing a photo shoot in this little room.
And then I finally hear a, you can come out when you're ready.
Oh, no.
She was standing there the whole time and I'm doing my own little photo shoot.
Did she know you were doing a photo shoot?
No, I don't know, maybe.
She must have been like, what are you doing in there?
What are you doing?
It would have been 15 minutes that I was in there.
She's like, all I said.
She had a problem putting on the gown?
I mean, how does this work?
She was like, take out all your piercings and she's like,
I wonder if you've got piercings.
I don't know that.
Everywhere, yeah.
Everywhere.
But, yeah, I came out and I was like, sorry, yeah, no, yeah, I'm ready.
I'm ready.
But yep, really, fully ready.
It's like, when you go try and close, and then they're like, is everything okay in there?
You know, you're like, what could go wrong?
Like, it's just me in here, putting on some pants.
I think they're meaning sizes.
I was terrible.
They always ask when you're naked, though.
Is everything right in there?
You're like, don't come in.
I don't know.
Don't come in.
How badly is it gone for other people, but for you to be asking this?
I'm like, I know how to put pants.
on I think but anyway
yeah so I don't
well I've got
do you need another side
yeah how's that
okay that makes a lot more sets out
yeah
yeah yeah how's the site
yeah
well we'll put those photos up
on the hits breakfast
on the story as well
and I'm sorry to that
person
radiologists or whatever you were
you had better things
you're doing with your time
someone trained for years for that
yeah to wait for me
doing Photoshop
John O'Benn and Megan
the podcast
The Hits
but you know like
now is you know
going through the teenage years
you know it's all you know
the daughter
shut to the bedroom. I get it a bit more open, a bit more often because you've spoken about
finding that hard, but it's just to do with like her setting boundaries and finding our own privacy.
Sometimes she wants to listen to her music, sometimes she wants to study. But the other thing
is sometimes we've like, hey, can you tidy a little bit of your room or can you be doing your
study? And then we'll go on a little bit later and she's looking, you know, doing something
in the mirror, doing her hair or doing some makeup. And we're like, you meant to be studying.
Wait, you're meant to be studying. And this happened the other day when she was meant to get ready.
she hadn't done the stuff and she was looking in the mirror so my wife and I
we decided well because the door was shut let's take the mirrors out of the room
full length mirror and a little one on the desk we'll take them out for a little bit
if she wants to do it she can do it it's not like we said you can't do your hair but you have to do
them out where we can see that you're not doing what you're supposed to be doing and I'm like
yeah and you're like that's a mean punishment I'm like well it's you know but like she
could be looking in the mirror doing her hair while in her head she's going so
pie is what is pie okay don't say that
Don't get that into her head, Megan.
You're right.
She's going over her notes in her head while she's doing it.
Yeah, she could be doing that.
But I thought, well, what's the most of them?
Because that's quite an unusual, I guess, consequence, the punishment that we've given to it.
Effective, though.
Yeah, well, effective, yes.
You don't like it too much.
She doesn't like it too much.
No, I bet.
But you were saying that your parents, well, your dad in particular, gave you one.
Yes, so this was after New Year's, and I was under the legal age of having a beverage.
So should we say?
And it was the next morning.
My dad had found out and I was...
He wasn't obviously happy about it, right?
He was not happy and I was not feeling very well.
I was still in bed and my dad comes into my room with a frozen pie
and one of the drinks that I'd been drinking from the night before.
So this is not even heated up by?
No, no, no, it's frozen.
Frozen mince pie and he was like, here you go, here's your breakfast.
And he stayed there and watched me consume it.
And I was like, oh, it is not what I wanted to eat.
Let me tell you.
At any stage of the day, no one was seen a frozen pie.
He didn't need to say anything else, and he sat there with a smirk on his face and was like, here you go, here's breakfast.
Very effective.
Very effective.
You've never drunk against.
No, never touched it.
From that moment onwards.
So what is the unusual punishment that you got?
Maybe you as a kid, or maybe you as a parent right now, I've had to do something, you know?
Like, you hear about parents all the time.
You're hiding iPads and all sorts of things there.
Have you taken a door off yet?
oh no no I haven't that could be the next thing
take it all thank you for that idea
you had a moment ago you're like
I've got you Sierra now you're like
you're giving me ideas it wasn't an idea
I'm sorry Sienna
John O'Bennon and Megan
The podcast
We're talking about unusual parenting
punishments
We had to take the mirrors out of one of my daughter's room
temporarily just you know keep an eye on what's going on
and there is that
She was getting distracted and enjoying her here and stuff
while she's supposed to be studying and doing other things.
Yeah, so, yeah, and the mirrors will eventually go back there,
but you thought it was quite an, well, I thought it was inventive,
you thought it was a little bit mean.
I thought it was mean, because she could be doing both the same time, you know?
She could be, you're right, but now she's definitely not looking in the mirror.
She's definitely doing what she's meant to be doing in there.
I was hung over at a youngish age, and my day brought on a frozen pie
and what I'd been drinking the night before and made me have it for breakfast while I was still in bed.
Oh, yeah, so there's so many inventive punishments like that.
Our daughter kept turning on her light.
This has come through on the text.
when she was supposed to be going to bed, so we took the light bulb out.
Also, taken the entire door off the hinges after she slammed it too many times.
I got threatened with that, but it never actually happens.
Someone's done it.
Yeah.
Good morning, Brooke.
How are you this morning?
Good.
Good morning, team.
How are you?
We're good.
Good.
What was the inventive punishment?
So my dad told me to clean my room probably every day for two weeks.
I decided that I really didn't need to do it.
So on the Thursday, he told me that.
if my room wasn't clean by tomorrow
that I obviously didn't want
everything that was on the floor so he was going to throw it away
I didn't believe him so I went to school
he took the day
yeah exactly he took the day off work
hired a skip put it outside my bedroom
window through everything that was on the floor
into the skip paid them more
to come and get the skip
and then I came home
and all I had was my mattress
my pillow and all the clothes
and my drawers that were way too small
for me and my uniform
and then I spent months
working them back one bit by bit
because I was going to say is that going to backfire
because then did he have to buy
you know all the things back so they obviously
put it aside somewhere for there but that's so good
that is genius no not at all
he paid for everything and I worked my bum off
to get everything back she had to work for it
oh wow so mean
but so genius
Did you keep your room tidy?
Let's not answer to that.
Let's just say, you're all kids listening right now, parents.
That one worked great.
That one worked great.
You have yourself a great weekend, Brooke.
Thank you for sharing.
Sandra, Sandra, good morning.
How are you?
Hi, good, thank you.
How are you?
Good.
What was the invented punishment?
This is something that you did?
Yeah, something I did,
and I actually then relayed that to my daughter when she did it to me.
So, a bit like Megan, out on the night, came home, bit trollied, went to bed, woke up in the morning with my father shaking me, like, up we get out of bed.
So he used to work in a forestry, and we used to do a lot of stuff in this forestry from, you know, running cross-country training, etc.
And one of the things we did was going to fill up bags of plane cones.
And so this day, he popped me in the back of the youth.
Now, if you remember back in the old days, we didn't have to sit in the back of the cut cab, we could sit.
in the tray underneath the...
Yeah.
Yeah, and you get all the fumes from the vehicle?
Yeah, not good.
So we drove out to the forestry in the back of the suit,
and I then had to proceed to fill up the trailer with pine cone.
Oh.
It was just a little trailer, a big trailer.
The whole trailer.
The whole trailer.
And if you know that when you...
Oh, no.
Oh, we lost it.
Oh, one more time, Sandra, you know what?
When you have a hangover and you bend over,
Life is not great.
Oh, you're bending over to get a million pine cards.
Oh, Sandra.
Exactly.
And so my daughter did the same thing when she was about 15,
and I didn't unfortunately have access to a forestry,
but I did have access to a lawn,
and so I made her pick up every single leaf by hand.
That was on the lawn.
Oh, geez, all right.
Keep these coming through.
John O'Ben and Megan.
The podcast.
The Hats.
He's running back.
He's making his toast.
Actually, this is payback for, was it yesterday,
when you gave me crap about making my cup of coffee?
Yeah, you're right.
We're doing a radio show, Ben.
Where are you?
I'm making a bagel.
The timing of me making a bagel was taking about 25 minutes
because I keep putting it down in the work kitchen
and then I keep coming back in.
I'm like, oh no, I've got a minute to go,
so I'll go out there.
And then I don't want to leave it too long
because the toast will burn.
Okay, well, we're doing radio.
I don't know if you know how that works.
Well, I'm also trying to have breakfast
while doing breakfast radio, okay?
It is very tricky.
Speaking of eating things,
in New Zealand are looking to hire some people
to taste ice cream.
literally that'll be your job they're going to fly you to sunny nelson that's my hometown
where you'll taste just a bunch of ice cream and help decide what flavor they're going to put on
their flights it's a pretty sweet gig right yeah usually don't they just do vanilla
but i'm happy to do it yeah how much ice cream in new zealand like giving out like really for
this to warrant an ice cream taster and do they fly you there for free do you get paid for it
i mean i'd do it regardless surely they should be getting someone to suck on the lollies you know
you know they're given those yeah every flight you know there's a lot of flavors of lollies
yeah and some of them though you're like some of the flavors i'm not a huge fan of but hey
that's right yeah there's something for everyone yeah there's a job for i was going to say
sucker but i'm not going to say sucker but if you're looking for a sucker you're your biggest sucker
he's over here i will do that job the ice cream one megan's going to take up