Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Caught on the Final Flight Out of NYC After 9/11

Episode Date: September 11, 2025

On 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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Starting point is 00:00:00 Thanks to Hello Fresh, cook easy, delicious dinners, the whole family will love because nothing beats dinner time. 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.
Starting point is 00:00:20 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.
Starting point is 00:00:45 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.
Starting point is 00:00:57 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.
Starting point is 00:01:21 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,
Starting point is 00:01:33 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.
Starting point is 00:01:50 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
Starting point is 00:02:03 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
Starting point is 00:02:14 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
Starting point is 00:02:24 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.
Starting point is 00:02:37 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.
Starting point is 00:03:00 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.
Starting point is 00:03:21 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.
Starting point is 00:03:36 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.
Starting point is 00:03:48 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.
Starting point is 00:03:56 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.
Starting point is 00:04:11 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.
Starting point is 00:04:23 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
Starting point is 00:04:44 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.
Starting point is 00:05:00 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
Starting point is 00:05:31 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.
Starting point is 00:05:43 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.
Starting point is 00:05:51 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
Starting point is 00:06:35 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.
Starting point is 00:07:13 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.
Starting point is 00:07:23 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.
Starting point is 00:07:44 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.
Starting point is 00:08:09 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?
Starting point is 00:08:43 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.
Starting point is 00:08:55 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.
Starting point is 00:09:05 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.
Starting point is 00:09:24 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,
Starting point is 00:09:46 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.
Starting point is 00:10:08 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
Starting point is 00:10:29 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.
Starting point is 00:10:45 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.
Starting point is 00:10:58 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.
Starting point is 00:11:17 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.
Starting point is 00:11:26 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
Starting point is 00:11:38 come up the water spout. Okay. Cool, say, Caleli, Africa. That's better. That's better. So, okay, so things were starting to progress.
Starting point is 00:11:49 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
Starting point is 00:12:05 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.
Starting point is 00:12:39 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.
Starting point is 00:12:52 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.
Starting point is 00:13:16 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.
Starting point is 00:13:49 Charlize Theron and Bilthong. I mean, you, the Kose, secalella Tina the Sakur Bayo
Starting point is 00:14:30 O'en Abarukas a shabas so Ope this didn't for the ma'amas
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Starting point is 00:14:53 South Africa 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
Starting point is 00:15:09 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.
Starting point is 00:15:20 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,
Starting point is 00:15:30 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.
Starting point is 00:15:49 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.
Starting point is 00:16:08 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
Starting point is 00:16:18 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
Starting point is 00:16:28 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.
Starting point is 00:16:39 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.
Starting point is 00:16:57 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...
Starting point is 00:17:21 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.
Starting point is 00:17:34 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?
Starting point is 00:17:52 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.
Starting point is 00:18:05 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
Starting point is 00:18:36 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,
Starting point is 00:18:55 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
Starting point is 00:19:09 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?
Starting point is 00:19:31 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.
Starting point is 00:19:42 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.
Starting point is 00:19:57 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?
Starting point is 00:20:09 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
Starting point is 00:20:18 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
Starting point is 00:20:27 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
Starting point is 00:20:35 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
Starting point is 00:20:54 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
Starting point is 00:21:22 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.
Starting point is 00:21:46 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.
Starting point is 00:22:00 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.
Starting point is 00:22:23 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.
Starting point is 00:22:47 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.
Starting point is 00:23:03 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
Starting point is 00:23:20 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
Starting point is 00:23:35 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
Starting point is 00:23:57 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.
Starting point is 00:24:16 Yeah. Good morning, Brooke. How are you this morning? Good. Good morning, team. How are you? We're good. Good.
Starting point is 00:24:22 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
Starting point is 00:24:45 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
Starting point is 00:25:04 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
Starting point is 00:25:20 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.
Starting point is 00:25:40 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.
Starting point is 00:25:52 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.
Starting point is 00:26:20 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,
Starting point is 00:26:40 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.
Starting point is 00:26:55 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,
Starting point is 00:27:13 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.
Starting point is 00:27:25 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.
Starting point is 00:27:37 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.
Starting point is 00:27:49 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
Starting point is 00:28:04 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
Starting point is 00:28:40 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

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