Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Caught on the toilet!

Episode Date: February 22, 2026

On today’s show:  Jono is caught on the toilet by someone in a truly traumatising encounter. Ben further proves he should never be in a car shop... What's the oldest food you have eaten?! An update on the Liam Lawson emoji saga Funny listener stories on what you have walked out on! How Megan's airplane soup caused so much drama Jono yet again becomes a boomer and questions why police can legally cruise in bus lanes without sirens... 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 tea. Welcome to the podcast where you're here on the podcast. We talk a lot about glitch and has it ever worked in your favor, a computer glitch. To do with a news story, an amazing news story out of the UK. And producer Troy has managed to track the lady down. For a pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, podcast exclusive.

I didn't know you knew I was going with that. Thank you. That's great. And the lady in question joins us. from the UK top of the morning. Scones and tea to you, Sophie Downing. Good morning to you guys. Good evening to me.

Yeah, sorry. The time zone's really a confusing thing. But thanks so much to joining us. You are making international news. That's pretty wild. It's absolutely crazy. I did not expect this at all. The last few days have been mental.

How many desperate radio shows like us have just stalked you down? Actually on my, I'm on BBC Nottingham tomorrow morning. I've had quite a few requests, to be honest, and it's trying to fit it around my schedule as well. Oh, thank you for fitting us in. Thanks. Thank you so much. So this is an amazing story.

You had a gift card. Who gave you the gift card? My clients gave me a gift card for Christmas. And so you went in there to buy a coffee, and you were thinking what? Because with the exchange rate and everything like that, we were a bit confused. So you had 10 pounds on the gift card, is that right? you thought you'd get the receipt afterwards for what was left. Yeah, exactly, yeah.

How much is a coffee? How many pound over there? The coffee that I got was five pounds and 15 pence. So I'm not sure how much that is to you guys, but it's quite expensive for a coffee here, but it's good coffee. So it's 485 left over, you would you assume. Yeah. $4.85 left over.

So you wanted your receipt to come back with that, left that honour, and someone had punched in a different number. the number that was written on the coffee card, the barcode number, and what was 63, a quadrillion pounds in the balance? What was your reaction when you saw that? I didn't even click on at first. I was just, it took me about five minutes to realize when I was looking at the receipt. And then I took a photo over and sent it to my partner.

I was like, am I reading this right? Like, what is going on? And he was like, you're technically the richest woman on paper right now. In the world. Only in coffee, however. Only in coffee. Coffee and cross-ons and cake. So was your partner like you have to tell them?

Yeah, pretty much. Well, no, to be fair, when I was in the coffee shop, the guy on the till, he looked quite confused. He said he'd not, like, done a gift card before. So he got his colleague to come over, and she also looked really confused. And I still didn't clock on at that point. Obviously, it was early in the morning, needed caffeine.

And then she was like, never seen that before. She was like, that's quite a big number. But she's using it. I was like, okay then? So she seemed keep using it. Quite a big number. That's a very big number. Wait, she seemed keep using it.

To put it in perspective. I'm not, I was like, I'm not going to take advantage because otherwise their accounts will go back and look through and be like, what is going on? Do you know, 63 quadrillion dollars, spread? spread across the world's population. That's about $7.8 million for every person on the planet Earth. Oh, my gosh. So we can all have coffee. You could buy the world coffee a few times over.

So what did they say? I mean, it's such an honest thing that you did. I mean, good on you for going back. Did they at least give you a free cup or something or a croissant or something? Well, I've not actually heard anything from that company as of yet. I know they are now aware because one of my other clients, is friends with someone who works for them, and apparently they didn't know until she sent them something,

and then apparently they're all talking about it in the group chat. You never know. I might hear something this week. It would be nice, but it's fine. So technically, have you still got that money on the card? I believe so. I've not gone back into check. Oh, well, that's...

Sophie. I'm too scared to go back in. At least go get one, freebie. You can just do one match your last day or something. What's the name of the place, Sophie? It's called 200 degrees. It's like a local coffee chain, but they've grown really, really big,

and their coffee is brilliant, so. Are they in Nottingham? Yeah, it would be nice, too. Yes, they are, yeah. Well, she should get them a call and see what your balance is. No. She's true she needs to use it. You said they've grown really big.

They're good for it. They're good for 63, quadrillion or something. Oh, well, wow. I can see if I can do like a collaboration with them or something with my business. And if they want to do a swap or something. Oh, I think you're smart. What's your business? I have my own business called Secret Sugar Club.

I'm a hair removal specialist, but I specialize in sugaring. I don't know if you guys have heard of it. No. What's sugaring? No. So it's a more natural method for hair removal. It's consistent of a sugar paste to remove the hair. So it's more gentle on the skin.

It's not hot. The results last a lot longer. but I'm the only one in like my city centre that does it. So a lot of people haven't heard about it yet. And then when they try it, they convert from waxing almost immediately. So it's like a sugar paste that's like sticky, so it works like a wax. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

So, yeah. There they go. It's good stuff. Is it actual sugar? See if they can do a collab with me or something. Yeah. Coffee and sugar go together well, don't they? Yeah.

They do. Have a coffee and get your, uh, Your bits wax and bitram. Exactly. This seems like a great co-lap. Have a cross on and get a waxing. Nothing against your tea, but I think I'd spill my coffee. Afterwards, afterwards.

Nice cup of tea and light down or something. Well, thank you so much for talking to us. And 15 minutes of fame. It feels like you're in it right now. Oh my gosh, I know it's crazy. Absolutely crazy. I did not expect this at all. Well, listen.

Yeah. Really appreciate your time. I went into my local shop yesterday and the lady behind the hill said something. I dropped my son off at nursery. They said some, I'm literally going everywhere and people have said something to me.

It's absolutely bonkers. You're a 63 quadrillion dollar lady. I know, what can I say? If only it was real money, that would be amazing. Lovely to meet you. You going to have a great day. You too. Thanks, guys.

Yes, I. Well, I do enjoy the podcast. John O'Bin and Megan. The podcast. The Heds. A bit of a traumatic event took place in my house. We're just getting a bit of painting done to a part of the house. And I found myself perched on the porcelain.

And no more vulnerable position our friend always says than a human sitting down on some porcelain. Oh, so you were going to the bathroom. Yeah. You weren't doing some painting in China. No, I wasn't helping or anything. So I'm just saying, and you're in your own thoughts. You know, it's a peaceful time. I imagine one of the more peaceful times for someone like you, Megan, with young children.

As long as they leave you alone, sometimes they'll just bowl in and ask you questions. Yeah, just another room in the house. Have you got a lock? Not on, no. No, get a lock. So you can actually just be alone with your thoughts. And I was. I was just sort of, it's almost meditative, isn't it, when you're sitting there?

And what I didn't factor in is they've got like that mobile sort of scaffolding thing so they can climb up. And I said, oh, I've got his guy in a bunning's hat, staring through the window. And nothing. Nothing throws you off the game More than a high-a-giver's guy And a bunting's hat Looking straight in at you While you're sitting down

So right So on the head Just sort of got up to sort of bathroom window height What do you do? Like sitting in that moment It's probably the safest position you can be in Did he not You didn't make eye contact

No because he was He was focused on the painting And I could see him And I was like He's gonna look up He's gonna look up And he looked up He looked up

And he looked up And he looked up Yeah I don't No, he wanted to pretend he hadn't seen it. But was it obvious, like, how much of you could he see? Just your head? No, no, he could see the full thing. My pasty white, translucent thighs, everything.

Look of, you know, just. Egg shell white, I think they're called in the page game. Resene eggshell white. That's your thigh colour. But he's going to know, poor guy's going to have that. I wouldn't wish they'd apply to anyone. But that guy's going to have that etched into his memory for years. And we haven't.

about it. No, it's really hard to bring back, aren't I? You don't, you know, what, nothing needs to be said. No, I'll just ignore it. Our old neighbour's the same thing I went to the shower. It's shower, I remember, you know, when you sometimes get out of the show and you're like, hang on a towel. And I raced down the hallway, just not by myself, you know, I was like racing the whole naked, to grab the towel, and there's a turn from the hallway cupboard. I sort of, and through one of the windows, I sort of clocked that, and the neighbor must

just look through his kitchen window just, and we definitely made eye contact. And we never spoke about it. But I was like, I just saw him, he saw me, I was startled for a second. I've done the run to get a towel, except I ran through the lounge, and out the lounge there was like some teenagers playing basketball. That was your husband and friends, mate. He'd seen it before. I don't know if his little boys had seen it, but...

All right, on that note. We can move on. He always goes back to it. It's cheap. It's cheap. It's cheap. You don't deserve this. John O'Ben and Megan of a podcast.

And you're happy with that? I appreciate it. I like a good car. I go, oh, that's a cool car. I appreciate it, but I know nothing about cars. It's not my forte. I'm not much better than you, to be honest. We have found myself trapped in a car conversation when we're traveling on the 10K race.

Yeah. Yeah. And I was just having to politely pretend on you what I was talking about. You know a lot about. I get very nervous around it too when I don't know and I don't want to look like an idiot. And over the weekend, it was Friday afternoon actually. I was like, I got filled up my car. You know how to do that, obviously.

And then I was like, I should check the water and oil. I hadn't done that for a, you know, a little bit. So I yeah, I had a look and I was like, oh, I need a little bit of oil. And then I looked at some of the other, you know, bits in there under the other hood. And I was like, oh, that one's a bit low. Like there was another little thing that wasn't the water and all. But I was like, oh, that's a bit low. Is that the brake fluid?

maybe it's a breakfoot and I was like oh I need and I thought chat GPT take a photo of that genius put it into my phone

and go what is this and then it was like that's break fluid dot four breakfoid dot four I'm like great so I was like maybe I'll go like to a repco you know

and get oil need some oil and get some break fluid so you're like and you're gonna go in there of the lingo break fluid dot four guy comes up to me

and I'm looking around that was going to help you I'm like let's looking for some breakfield or breakfield dot 4 dot 4 dot I found it it fake forward sorry fake fluid

yeah I said Frank fuel Did you say blue or fuel? I think I said, oh God, I don't know now. But anyway, I found it in front of me, and it was dot four. And I'm like, there we go. And he was like, oh, great, all good. All good.

At that moment, I'm like tick. Clocking your Repco experience. Don't look like an idiot. And then there's anything else. I was like, oh, yeah, do need some oil. Jesus, a lot of oil. There's too many synthetic and all sorts. Yeah.

And I was like, yeah. And so this is where he kind of came into help. I'm like, okay, there's no real harm and not knowing what sort of exact. Because there's lots of different ones. There's different numbers with a letter at the end. And he's like, what sort of car do you drive? Give us your license plate number and we can actually check one on the system. What, you know, okay, great.

Okay, so I gave him my sort of car, the license plate. So they're not coming up. I was like, oh, okay. I came up to him again, not coming up. He's like, singing, another card, another brand of car. I was like, oh, that's my old car. So I was, I'm a shock over that one. Autopilot, give him my old license plate.

I was like, sorry, mate. Here's my new one. And again, was it coming up. And I was like, sure, it's all right. Yeah, I'm sure it is, mate. I know cars, you know, trying to have a chat to him. He's asking me all questions like, is it a 1.5 liter or two leader? Oh, no.

He's not asked me any of these questions. He's got four wheels. I don't know. Any of these questions, he's like, it's really not coming up. So he goes, oh, I'll have a look outside. So he walked out. Yeah. Into the car park.

One digit off too. And I was like, oh, he's like a five, not a six. At the end, I'm like, oh, God. And then you need to go back. And this boy, lovely guy. Just lovely guy helping me out. I'm like, why do I do this? Why do this?

You get in the wrong digit for one? what? Well, a license plate. He didn't have the right lot of. I was one digit off. Surely you can do the rest. I'm giving you 95% of it. Yeah, exactly. I was just had a shocker.

So I got my dot four and whatever they all. Did you have to put the dot four in yourself? Did you? Yeah, he's like, you're going to be right with that mate. Yeah, yeah, no, he's sure. Yeah, even if I'm not, I'm not going to tell you. He'll be wandering off. He's like, he's 100% not going to be around with that.

Look at that chat, GPT, going to be careful not to spill it. Okay, okay. all good over here, mate. Don't you worry about me, mate. Don't you worry about me. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. Okay, now we were travelling course around the country,

racing Madding and PJ in the 10K race. We had the North Island, they had the South Island, and, you know, we had a support vehicle following us in each island, right? Make sure we didn't get lost. Yeah, so producer Troy and Larissa drove our one all the way down the North Island to Wellington, and then everyone flew back later that day. So what had been left in the Hits vehicle was a croissant, a ham and cheese croissant. And what happened to that crosson has flawed us all.

Yeah, it really has. Now, Nikita from the Hits in Wellington, Morena. Morning, guys. How are we? You're doing all right. How are you, more than you? I'm a bit embarrassed about all of this now, being pulled out on nationwide radio. Sorry, Nikita.

Sorry, now, so, yeah, this is the history of the crosson. is it sat in the car for four days just festering. It was a hot week. Hammon cheese. Hamon cheese croissant, right? Yeah, there was deli meats in there and it had sat in the car.

Probably quite warm conditions. Now you'd got to it, so we had gone Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. You got to into the car Monday, is that correct? Yes, Monday morning. Let's not forget it was Wellington

so it doesn't get too hot there. Okay, okay. So it wasn't switching in the bag or anything. And it was also the day where we had horrendous weather. So last Monday. None of this makes it all right. No, I wanted to see why the weather played a part.

Why was the weather important? All of a sudden, I took the car back into the station, and I missed out on breakfast that morning because of the crazy weather. I thought, oh gosh, nothing's open. What are I going to do? Oh, my gosh, God's listen to me. There's a croissol to be right here. Get from God.

And you ate it? You ate the Hammond cheese croissant? Oh, delicious. I heated it up in the toast machine at work, can and off we went. I thought to admit as well. In there was also some up and goes and some nuts. So, no, I ate them all.

The banana up and goes were festering in the sun too. Oh my God. Up and goes, yep. How are you feeling since you're okay? You're still with us? I'm fine. I'm alive to tell the tales. All good here in Wellington, guys.

It built characters, my mum would say. Did you sniff it or do any kind of checks first? No, no. I think less you know the better. That is, yeah, well, we're. Even the croissant, I'd be like, bro, are you going to do this? That was great. All right, Nakeda, that is really impressive. I appreciate you.

Hats off to you. That's, oh, 800, the hits. Okay, the oldest thing you've eaten. Oh, 800, the hits. Can you beat? Well, that would have been a seven-day-old ham and cheese trip? Oh, sure, that old. Wednesday, Thursday, Fridays?

No, we didn't write that early. Oh, four days. Four days. It's not exaggerate it. Yeah. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. Now we just discovered that.

When we were travelling around the country on the Hits 10K race, we left a ham and cheese croissant in the Hits car. And four days later, it was eaten by Nikita. Thank you. Works for the Hits. That is like... And a gift from the food gods, like we said for Nikita. She's like, oh, this has been bestowed upon me,

and she heated it up in the work microwave or the toasted sandwich maker and has had no consequences. It wasn't chicken, I guess. Yeah. Even as a deli meat. Yeah. It's like been in, you know, well, condition. Some people have the digestive system of a sewer rat.

They do. Honestly, like your father-in-law. Well, yeah, my stepdad, like, well, yeah, my mum, she pushes stuff. She eats all sorts of stuff. They don't like throwing stuff out that thing. So she'll make sandwiches with all sorts of. So I think we're eating ham in, like, February and stuff like that. And I'm like, and he gets a lot of upset stomachs.

And they made the connection? Well, I keep saying, it's because all the stuff, you're like, oh, no, no. You know, it's like. It's fine. It definitely isn't. She also, she kept chicken in. Oh, that was a flatmate. That wasn't her which they flattered at university.

They had pantry chicken that the flatmates would cook a, cook a chicken on a Sunday and then leave it in the pantry. And then they just go back and make their sandwiches throughout the week with the chicken that would say. In the pantry. Yeah, I was like, wow. Did they get sick? I don't know. Did they have a fridge? Yeah, they'll think of it.

Oh, wow. Yeah, I don't know, pantry chicken. All right. The oldest thing you've eaten. Can you beat day? four-day-old, haven't-geese croissant? Renee? Yeah, my husband and his cousin

thought it would be a good idea to eat, like, four-year-old chutney, mum, a lady-looking stuff. Oh, yeah, it kind of looks like a medical sample, doesn't it, after a couple of years? Yeah, but it'll taste it fine, apparently. I was supposed to preserve. Yeah, I didn't even know with those things. They sit in the fridge for it, and especially if someone else makes chutney for you.

Yeah, like, how old is it does it? It was just mum, so, like, there's no preservative of it's already thinking it, so. It's usually a lot of vinegar, right? A lot of vinegar, sugar. If you are going to run the gauntlet, a chutney, you know, a chutney is probably the safer on the spectrum, isn't it? Rather than a dally ham. Yeah.

Were they all right? Yeah, they're perfectly fine, but I'm still here today. Good on them. Honey, apparently, the kids tell me that never goes off. Yeah, it doesn't. Yeah, you can last for seat chaste. Might go like crystallie. Yeah, I've got a couple that are crystalline and gross.

Yeah, you're going to get the husband to tuck into those for breakfast. Miss Renee. There's always that trope about water. They're like, this is water from the glaciers. It's thousands of years old. But it's got an expiry date on the bottle. On one hand, you're telling me this is 5,000-year-old water, but then it goes off in June.

I've got it just at the end. We're going to better drink that. Chase, morning to you. Good morning. Happy New Year. Oh, happy New Year. Chase phrase. You're catchy.

Oldest thing you've eaten, but not necessarily the oldest eating you're eating, but you did eat something that was festering in a car like Nikita. Yeah, so back in, well, back when I was younger, I eight or nine, my dad, I found some of those rings pineapples in my dad's car, and he just picked me up, he'd been to touch, and just picked me up from my nancy house. He went home and I said, oh, well, that looks good, and started eating it and a little good, but then the next day I was so sick. I don't know how long I'd been in there for, and it put me off pineapple for years.

I was eating it probably in the last 12 months. Oh, you've just come back to it? Yeah, it just really threw me off. I just don't know, so I think about the taste of it after you and it just was like, nah, that's not me. Yeah, kimchi for me, bro. That's the same thing for my horrific kimchi instead of the back of the day. I never come back to it.

I won't relive it now, but yeah, things are not in well, Chase, so I haven't gone back to kimchi. Frise how you call, Chase. You have yourself a great day. The podcast. The Hits. Winter Olympics. It's just wrapped up in New Zealand with a few medals. Three medals, two silvers and a bronze.

That's good, good turning. Good turning, good turn out. It was good. It's great. I'm struggling to speak, but actually, coincidentally, well, yeah, it puts it into a bit of perspective, right? Australian reporter, you might have seen this, the end of last week, went viral.

She was reporting at the Winter Olympics in the evening. Obviously, with the time zone, she was reporting back to Australia, in Australia in the morning. Their time, she said she hadn't eaten, and she may have had a drink or two, I'm guessing, and this was her in the evening. It's more the price of coffee in the US

that we are going to have to get used to. I'm not sure about the iguanas. Where are we going with that one? But anyway. Yeah, an altitude too does not in her favour. No, and it sounds like in the morning. A drunk person in the morning really stands out, doesn't it? Poor lady.

I did love how so many people left to her defence saying, you left her out in the cold, her lips have gone numb. That's what's happened. Yeah, that's a great defence. Yeah. She probably woke up the next day going, did I do TV last night? Oh dear God.

I did TV. Yeah, I hope that was part of the questions. Otherwise, you're like, why should? It's more the price of coffee in the US that we are going to have to get used to. I'm not sure about the aquinas. That sounds like me after I've come home. And you're trying to hold it together. You're trying to pretend to be so, but yeah.

You're like, oh, good. Just had a couple. I mean, all good. I'm definitely all good. I mean, Australia, it feels like if any country, you can get away with that, they're all right. I mean, she's done, yeah, really isn't they're wrong. And next day, she felt really bad. Poor lady.

Apologised back on the same show. Look, I totally misjudged a situation. I shouldn't have had a drink. And especially in these conditions, it's cold. We've got altitude and not having had dinner probably didn't help as well. What's your should? Should have done. That's very different there, does she.

She keeps going like she's got the dries, though. She's hung over. She should have kept a slur on, so she gave off her appearance that she wasn't overly intoxicated. It's doing her sober one there. It's more the price of coffee in the US that we are going to have to get used to. I'm not sure about the Aquinas. Because no one's believing our drink, right? We should have a drink.

The TV show, we came up with an idea with drunk interviews. Oh, that's fun. And so it wasn't us. We weren't going to drink on camera, because obviously, but we were going to. turn and everyone would know that we'd turn up for these interviews drunk and it was such a weird thing in the morning just drinking oh you're turning 7.30 in the morning they'd be like here's yoga monster together shots and oh we did a few interviews honestly you get to a point you didn't remember like what happened during the interviews and after we were recorded we did like six of them and then

tv 3 watched them we're like we can't play this on television and we're like so we got drunk at like 8 o'clock in the morning like this and then how were you interviewing oh like the comedians you're like Jeremy Corbett people like that politician I remember being Hurley. I can remember being Hurley, even a few drinks, he was going, halfway through the thing he was going, this is never making it to television.

And he was right, he was right too. And then we had to do the afternoon show. On the radio. We turned up to the afternoon. We're trying to sober up. As soon as it was done, it was like sober up, they're giving you,

like we're a performance athletes, Parade, burgers, like trying to get us back on track. Oh, and then you'd be like, this is the edge. We're like, they're like the lady there. So we should not be throwing stones. Oh, exactly.

Exactly. Exactly. I think that ended up in some pretty tense off a backroom conversation. Yeah, so that's why you don't have a TV show or a show on the edge anymore. Yeah, exactly. All those are reasons. That's why we have to do breakfast now. The only time we can get these guys.

Sober. Jono Ben and Megan, the podcast. That's everything that's going on now. He looks like a crazy man about 10 or 15 years ago in interviews. Now, Mel. Hollywood, but the day. Hollywood. Yeah.

Now Mel Gibson ain't so crazy. It's funny of those things, yeah. Now on the hits at the moment, as we pivot from the end of the quiz to something else, we've got the Manifestival coming up very soon. If you can dream it, you could win it. And Megan, we need a quick update because you have been, well, we helped you try and put it out to the world to get Liam Lawson for an interview. That's someone you'd love to interview.

That's kind of my goal at the moment. It's been my goal for a couple of years now. We've been, yeah, trying to creep our way into it, which probably wasn't the best way to do it. No, I mean, to be fair, you know, if you've seen the video, it's Megan in front of a shrine of Liam. There's candles lit, rarity, rar. And Liam commented on it, on it with the old side eyes. And this was your reaction when you found out.

No! Oh, no! Cleo! Oh, no! No Cleo! Anyway, the reason I'm saying no is because I didn't want that to be the video that Liam saw of me sitting in front of a shrine of him. So we got into a bit of an emoji hole. We're like, what does the side eyes mean?

We did a bit of market research with the Gen Zs in the office. And they're like, no, no, it's a good thing. It's a good thing. He's watching. He's got his eye on you. And then we did another vote as to what emoji you should volley back. And I did that hands in front of the face with a peeking out eye. It's a good option.

Yeah. It seemed like a good option. Yeah. I was like, I'm watching you as well. And emoji update. This is day five since we said the emoji. What's happening? No emoji.

Oh, nothing bad. I was confident too because he responded. It was good. Bit of bant. Yeah. So unfortunately, things not looking great on that so far to get Liam to manifest your dream. I keep checking to see if he's like followed our work page. Is he?

No. Okay, so we don't say the dream's entirely over. Yeah, there's no restraining order. Yeah, yeah. So that's... Listen, it's kind of like, you know, when there's a missing person and the detectors are like, you've got 72 hours to find them. I feel like we had 72 hours to get into a modem.

back. That time frame is gone. Yeah, he's not going to go back. No, yeah. No. Oh, I was just checking to see if he liked my emoji response. He didn't even do that. Okay. Okay. Dreams, dreams broken. We'll keep you out today. Moji, daily emoji updates. Yeah, well, Liam Lawson. Will we be able to get Liam Lawson manifest it? Who knows? Next.

John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Not a great result for the Wellington Phoenix over the weekend in the football. Auckland FC and the local derby, which has been very, very close in the past. 5-0 Auckland FC won over the weekend I don't think

Wellington well the Phoenix have ever beaten Auckland FC have they since no been in the competition so this is

saying we're just saying we feel really sorry for this this is the Wellington Phoenix coach in the press conference Giancarlo

Italiano is his name yeah and that's a fun name to say Jinka no no don't do the accent Jotto

but this is him in the press conference to lose 5-0 at home you know with you know the season's sort of

play for it's unacceptable and I take full responsibility, you know, so I've, you know, I've told the club, I go, look, attended my resignation and, you know, I think, you know, it's easier for someone to come in and just with new energy and refocus the group. No, you feel for him.

I'm hurting and that, you know, because no one wants that, no one goes out to do that, you know, and for him to, oh, to step down, it's a bit cool. He must have had a little, he must have no one going into it. He's like, he must have a little wager in his head. If we get hands. Yeah, I'm leaving. and it's admiral thing to do though really is that

and you go well when it's going well the players get all the credit when it's going bad the coach yeah yeah so it's a tough gig coaching but you're right admiral have you have you quit anything have you walked out in a blazer because I imagine is that like a hand

to swipe card situation at the end of the press conference feels like it right yeah feels like that's it you know yeah it's very I like I do I struggle to probably quit things I probably like I feel like a like getting a person I had a personal trainer for a while the gym many years ago

and look at me. I don't look like I should have a personal training. Very hard to quit. Oh yeah. Yeah. How did you break up with a personal trainer? How did that go? I kept trying to get me back in.

Oh, right, one more. Yeah, just feel really guilty. You start making all these excuses up, right? Yeah, do you've, but what did you do? Text, text, text. Yeah, I feel like that's the easiest. I think I end of moving gyms in the end. Yeah.

Do you actually move gym? I have. Sometimes it's the best. option, isn't it? Yeah. Have you? Because I imagine you've had a few, you know, hair salon workers, hairdresses. He's like, what's the 26 thing that you can say? Some chucks on your hair? You can't say that anymore. I don't go in there much, you can tell. But is it hard to break up with someone who's like cutting your hair? Yes. But I've, they kind of become your friend. So like I've had the same one for like 11 years now.

And I don't think I can move on What if someone came in and said Hey I'll give it to you for free What would you do then? Well they're your friend So you can't you know You wouldn't ditch them No

Free Okay I know Bad business that they give it away For free though Who's going Hey how much do you pay for you here I'll do it for free

I'll do it for nothing I'd probably say I'll probably not take the free option Like what's the catch You're getting quite suspicious Are they good? Yeah. No, you're doing it for free, though.

Okay, what have you quit? Whether it be a job? Were you coaching a team and you're like, this is not cut out for me? What if you get forcibly quit from a job? Oh, yeah. Otherwise known as like fired. Yeah, okay.

I guess that's a sudden departure, isn't it? Yeah. Oh, no, what that feels like. Last thing you walked out on, like the Wedlington Phoenix coach, like Ben Boyce walking out on his personal trainer, on those finely tuned muscles. Maybe it was coaching, maybe it was a relationship, maybe it was a job.

You walked out of waiting, didn't you? Yeah, it wasn't for me. Halfway through a shift. Yeah, well, that's, didn't even first the shift. Oh, like waiting. Yeah, like being a waiter. Waiter. Yeah, I'm not.

I thought I was doing more damage than good. So I left the event halfway through and I was like, well, definitely they're not going to call me. Next day, go. You come in into the next race. I didn't even notice I was gone. I tried to walk out in a blazer story. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The big local derby in football between the Auckland FC and the Wellington Phoenix over the weekend of 5-0 result in Wellington to the Auckland FC and the Wellington Phoenix coach after the game.

I had this to say. To lose 5-0 at home, you know, with, you know, the season's still to play for, it's unacceptable. And I'll take full responsibility, you know, so I've, you know, I've told the club, I go, look, attended my resignation. And, you know, I think, you know, it's easier for someone to come in and just with new. energy and refocus the group. Gosh, I feel for him. I just really feel. You know, he would have been hurting.

He didn't want that result and he did a really admirable thing there. Selfless act, didn't he? Putting the team first. Wishing him all the best. I'd like to see more of that from you two. Put the team first. I'll be quitting all the time. Every bad day.

Oh, man. Screwed that up before. But you know, yeah. Guys, I'm heading in my resignation. I'm back, actually. I'm back now. So what did you walk out on? Oh, 800.

This is what we want to hear calls from. I actually walked out on judo. So my dad is like my son must learn a martial art. So I went to judo and my big bug bear with judo is the mats smelled like feet. You know, those spongy, spongey mad smelled like... Why are you sniffing them? 20 years ago because I'm getting slammed down on the mats every. It's not bad for a lot, are you?

Yeah. And now the whole, it just smelt feety. Right, okay. And like 20 years of feet. and I think it was probably lesson number three. I was still on my white belt. I just left the class halfway through. I was like, this is too much feet. How many classes did you think you were going to move up belts?

Like, did you think you were going to move up after one class? Three lessons, you probably should still be in white belt. I wasn't, no, I wasn't annoyed about the belt. It was more the odour. The feed, right. Yeah, no, I understood the belt system to work your way. I wasn't going to be. You're aggrieved that after three-class.

You can give me a black belt. I'm still white belt. And it smells a bit. I didn't expect to be bloody Daniel son in a week or so. I knew what had to be done. But I went under the hits, what did you walk out on? Let's get Alex on. Morning to you.

Yeah, good-day, boys. How's it going? Good-a-good-a. Megan's here, too. Gide, Alex. One of the boys. Yeah, no, no, no. What did you walk out on?

Oh, well, I used to be a painter. And one morning I rocked up to work, and it was a full repaineration. of an old lead base house. Right. And he said, get the sanders out boys and we'll start sitting. And I just said, nah, that's me. I didn't want to be there anyway.

So I just popped on my car. And that was my last day of a painting. Get the sanders, our boys, nut. Wait, so did you have to sand off the lead base paint? Yeah, so yeah, you had to go around. Surely that's not healthy. No, no. I've seen why you want, not.

Not for me. And as soon as he said that, I just said, no. No way. Not today. Not for me. Oh, I love your call. I appreciate it. Did you get asked back to that job? Or they were like, okay, goodbye.

No, I just blocked the number and just left. He ghosted it. I love your call. Alex, you have a great day, mate. It's very funny. What did you walk out on, Mark? Hey, happy new year, everybody. Happy New Year!

Showcast race. Yeah. So, story's not actually about me, but I find somebody. This is years ago, and it has stuck with me ever since. So I worked in the call centre as management and the team. These two chicks had a massive argument at midship, yelling and screaming at each other, pulled them into a room. First girl was like, yep, sorry, fell on her sword.

Second girl asked her, what would you do differently next time? And she thought about it real hard, and she came back to me, and she said, I'd bounce her down the eff instead. And I was like, man, my other team leader, we were like, we had straight faces. We weren't going to fire her. But then, like, we were like, okay, so we adjourned the meeting, and we were like, I don't think she can work here anymore. And we were like, nah. So I had to walk into her death and physically escort her out of the building.

I think she can work here. Very honest. It sounds like producer grace. I'd bounce to bounce. That's what I do differently if I thought about it. That's brilliant, Mark. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. We want to hit you up, Megan.

This is a little bit of an intervention. I knew as soon as Ben asked me about this. The second thing I said to you was like, let's not talk about this on the radio. We travelled down to Christchurch, beautiful weekend in Christchurch. We went there for the Wheatbeks Triathlon, the Kiwi-Wei Kui Triathlon.

And we were there overnight. Saturday night. Jono was catching up with his parents. We got there later. We did get there later, but you'd already pre-plan this anyway. I know, but this is why I pre-plan it. We got there later. I knew we were going to get to like out where we were staying quite late.

So I prepped my dinner. Was it late? It was like 7 o'clock. It was like 7.30. It wasn't wild. It was like 7.45. The flight was a little late. But had we been on time, 7 o'clock.

So you could have like, You could have gone out for dinner. I said, Dominga, what are you doing for dinner? Because it was just the two of us there. You're like, I've pre-prepared my dinner. And you had in your bag, what? A little thermos of soup. Soup, she travelled with soup.

I was actually so worried that when it went through the scanner. So we're going to pull it up and be like, what's in here? Too much liquid. Yeah, maybe. Yeah. You can take that on an international flight. Yeah, yeah. Or they'd be like, why have you got a big-ass thermos in your bag?

So you're like, I'm just going to go to the room and eat my soup. And did you have put a blanket on too? Do you have a little blankie on your lap? Watch a game show? You know I did because I sent you a picture and you said it looked like I was in hospital. The soup looked sad. I didn't know. I'm sure.

And the white bed sheets. I did look. I was like, oh, poor Megan. We really should go visit her one time, eh? We keep saying it every weekend we need to visit her. Well, you said what's for dinner? What are you doing for dinner? You didn't say, do you want to come out?

and party with me for dinner. I've got my super pet. I called you a nerd. I was like, I'm an organised nerd at the best of times. I was like, wow, this is next level. That hurt when Ben called me a nerd. Well, yeah, I mean, step back. You step out of the situation and you look at it.

What would you do? I'm trying to be like healthy, you know? We've just had the big Christmas period. And I was like, I'm trying to get back on track. Gotcha. Okay, yeah. Because there were options out and about, but that's fine. The plenty of other options.

I know, but sometimes like Uber eats and like anything. near you. It's not entirely like healthy. What I loved in the morning we arrived early at the week week's strathons. Some guys was like, a big night last night was it? And we all went, well, Megan definitely did have a big night last night. The perception that maybe we had a big night

and what you did the reality was very different. Oh yeah, part of the night. Yeah. You've got to try and keep the drink red up. I was like the reality was. I was in bed. With a bit of soup. 7.30 with soup. Pre-made soup. The most travelled soup in Ultau-Tiaroa. John O' Ben and Megan

The podcast The hits To wear a Christchurch for the weekbix Kids triathlon yesterday Beautiful day Jesus Christchurch had a stunner Did they?

I was so worried our pasty friend Jono was gonna get sunburn So was Johno I'd ladder up SPF 150 mate Oh summer came out I was careful not to complain

about the heat Because I was like No one's had a summer Yeah that's true Don't complain now it's here Especially Christchurch The CanTabs that were there Like this is the best day

We've had So it was good for the Weebrook Strait, and always a lovely heartwarming event, isn't it? To humbling to wake up first thing on a Sunday morning, look out at kids who have got more energy than you've had since 2003. Yeah, it is great. And in the sense of achievement they all get when they cross the finish line and get their medals, is great, isn't it?

I always, because our job is, you know, announcing your blue caps go to the start line and that sort of thing. I always feel like we prattle on a bit. You know, sometimes I turn them. You do. You do. Despite the fact that's in our notes to say, don't do shoutouts. You do shout outs.

I think they put that in the notes because of you. You're doing shouts and I don't do individual shoutouts, but you just seem to go out of it. Well, it's hard to say no. The kids are like, can I do a shout out? I know. Then they follow us around like,

my piper being like, can I go to show? Say hello on the mic. Nothing like a bit of live crowd work. How many times did you just wander off? I made you. We're like, where did he go? He just wanders.

I said to Ben, we legit need one of those like toddler leashes for you because you just disappear. We met some amazing people. Can we bring in producer Troy because we need to play you this audio? You could be gone. Head on the chopping block here, Troy. McKenzie, we met Mackenzie. She was there.

She was supporting friends of hers and family that were in the race. And she'd played the Alpha Quiz on our show. Not long ago. However, just through, I can only imagine, sloppy administration, McKenzie is yet to receive her Haribow Prize pack, you know, packed full of zesty flavour. Yeah. And Troy, this is what she had to say.

Mackenzie, we're here at the Weekbix Kids Traathlon. You're saying you haven't been sent out a prize? No. So what, you won a Haribo price back for the Alperquist? Yes, I did. And you know, a Troy sloppy producing, so what do you think we should do to Troy, producer Troy after this? Does he keep his job? Uh...

No, no, no! So three people say keep the job, one says get fired. So what are we going to do? Fire! Oh, too fired, too fired. Two fired. Now, should producer Troy get fired? Uh, yeah.

Yeah. Okay, that's it, that's it. All right, apologies about that. We'll get your harrowe sorted, and we'll get rid of Troy. That's the way you find out, mate, cute kids. That would I expect the first thing on a Monday? Thanks, Mackenzie. He's definitely not getting in now.

The littlest one was like, yeah, fine. Fire him, fire him. Stings less when it comes from kids, didn't it? No, no. At McKenzie's offence, she was the one, she was okay with you, but everyone else, you know, the mob had turned on you. As I said, Jono, this is a lesson in patience. and the fragility of the New Zealand Post system.

It's on its way, McKinley. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, The Hits. Welcome to Jono Prior Investigates. Now I did ask, I requested an interview with the police just moments ago. No one from the police has phoned up on 900 of the hits. I just want to get to the bottom of something. So if you are driving around the patrol cars, feel free to call up with an answer to this question.

So I was driving home the other day. and in some cities across New Zealand they have designated bus lanes and if a minion like myself drives down a bus lane that results in a $150 fight sounds like you know that well it's too much just for driving in a bus lane

150 bucks it's supposed to deter you It's why it has it You'll be happy to know I haven't had a parking ticket all year I've one got sent but it was a hangover for it's February Yeah Oh it's February No infringements all year. That's pretty good.

One did get sent, but that was from November. Okay. One got sent, but anyway. So I'm fastidiously waiting in the line of traffic in the main thoroughfare, and then I see a police vehicle, not with sirens on, not in a hurry, just casually meandering up the bus lane. And I'm thinking to myself, surely that should result in a $150 fine. And that's why I would like the New Zealand police to find up.

Like, can you just, can they drive anywhere? Well, they're the police. I mean, I'm not saying they're above the law, but at the same time, they are the law. I was under the impression that they had to obey the road rules like everyone else unless there was an emergency. Yeah, so what's the reason? There has to be a reason behind them doing that, right? Yeah.

And it wasn't like it was speeding up there. You know how sometimes they silently speed to catch people, you know, by surprise. It was just a casual drop at the bus. And I was like, hmm, hmm. Maybe they were, like, in a hurry but not an emergency? I don't know. Sometimes you can drive in bus lanes right, and the other times it's... Yeah, there are certain hours, so I guess it was...

No, it certainly wasn't one of those hours. But I imagine, like, if they're looking at the cameras at the council, they just see a police car in a bus lane or a P, a T3 or whatever, they probably just ignore it because it's a police car. You know? So... So you're upset that the police are getting a lot. They don't have a win.

If they happen to win, they'd have a win. They're dealing with all sorts of stuff out there. They're not sitting in here at a radio studio and a cushy job. I just want to know. I just want to know. Or no, probably not. Okay. Good on them.

Good on them. Maybe I should paint my car like a police car. That could be a good hack. You should have followed them and then complained when you got a ticket being like, wow, I was just following the police car. That's a full man-caron move, isn't it? Yeah. Oh, 4487.

Yeah, yeah. If you know anything about this, 4487 on text. There's no, I don't know. I'm not disgruntled by it. I'll sell what you are. Just wanting to. Just a question. I always wondered what the, um, the female, uh, the male version of Karen was.

Sir Johno. It's a Johnno. Can't make that a thing. Yeah. Oh, you did a Johno. He's got a Johnny. John O'Bin and Megan. The podcast.

The hits. Have you benefited from a glitch, a technical glitch? Because computers do amazing things, but every now and again, and something goes slightly wrong. Technical error in your favour. Yeah, it does happen sometimes. This is a brilliant story. Is this a coffee loyalty card?

Yeah, I think she had like a $10 voucher, a lady in the UK, and she went in with a gift card to buy her coffee, and then they printed out a receipt what was left over from the 10 pound that she had on the card. So she was expecting it to be only a couple of pounds, but what had happened is they'd entered in the number. The base of their number for the card, the card that entered that in,

as her balance. Oh, so like 8-4-2s-la-l-l-la-la-l-late, right, and that ended up being what? 63 quadrillion dollars and then pounds. So, 63 quadrillion dollars balance left over. That's how much she had. Like, she walked down there, she was like, oh, I've got quite a lot, which is like 2,000 times more than the whole United States basically earned. Like GDP.

Yeah, the gross domestic profit. She's like the richest person in the world. And coffee. Yeah, yeah. And flat whites. She was very honest about it. She works in retail, she went back in and told them about it. But yeah, they'd entered in the number of the gift card, not the actual for the balance.

Well, yeah, I mean, she could have got away with that for a long time. She wouldn't have mowed through the quadrillions of dollars with the coffee. No, I would have just gotten free coffee. Yeah, free coffee for life. Yeah, so she basically had 63011-191-916. Oh, my Lord. That's how much, in dollars is how much she had. I remember there was a, I don't know what had happened to my credit card.

Have I told you this? No. So something had happened to my credit card And I could I don't know what had happened But we would go to the airport We're doing a bit of travelling for work a few years ago And every time I go to the car park of the international airport I would go to the parking machine

Put my ticket in And it would say this is you know You've been away for a few days $120 with a parking or whatever Tap my credit card And the machine would go Can't read card Spit out the ticket and go have a nice day

have a nice day and I did this for at least a year and a half and I said to Ben I'll pay for your parking mate he wouldn't have a barb it well I've got some history with the airport I don't need something else credit card fraud

as well as other stuff of the airport Did they ever bite you in the bar? Never. Stop working eventually right? And I've you know blatantly disgusted on the radio multiple times

and no one's ever chased me up for it and don't think about it too but you know I reckon I won't say how much I think I got away with it but it was a wonderful period. One of those moments in the movies where the villain like spills everything. And I did this and I got away with it all.

And then they're like recording. Yeah. Whatever you do, delete this from the bloody ear check a logger, okay, guys. But yeah, it was great. What was that? Auckland airport? Oh, okay, yeah, right. Dates, wise.

Did you go on like a two-week holiday and come back being like, now worry, I got this? Sometimes. Sometimes. Oh, my God, really? That was crazy. It was crazy. And then I got New Canada.

What was the highest? like parking amount that you came back to. Now I feel this is entrapment. I feel like this is a, you know, one of those of these, they've separated all these people into different rooms and they're, yeah.

So you were aware of this while you were doing it. So you knew this all the second. You were aware there was a glitch. Yeah, did you ever notify anyone that there was a glitch? We're running late for news, guys. Running the night for, I'm just trying to provide some content for the show.

Yeah. I like to think she was never going to shout a whole crowd of people. She got to shout an entire nation. Coffee. So, yeah, technical glitch is working in your favour. I like sometimes when the barrier arms on car parks stuck up. Have you ever had one of those where you can just be like, whoo? I just go through.

No. Have you ever? No, I never experienced it. No, I never experienced it. A couple of times at the mall on that one. So, 0800 of the hits when a technical glitch worked in your favour, Michelle. Oh, which glitch? So you told me my surprise then

Good, good, that's where we like to have our callers on, we like to ambush them Well, luckily I wasn't singing away It was Sky Now actually you should call me a non Because I don't want to get in trouble for this But um Michelle I hate to tell you But late now Michelle

It's in the past, right? It's happened, it's gone Exactly Well I think it's in the past I'm not 100% sure It's my husband Don't name him I love how she's pivoted Who was my husband? No, it was Sky Sport

He used to always get Sky Sport in the winter And then cancel it I think he got it for rugby Or whatever you guys watch And then he would cancel it And then he figured out That he actually still had access To the SkyGo app

And that went on For a long time and I don't even know if he's paying for it now, so that's why I don't want to get him in trouble for it. But I know someone else who also had the same issue, but she was working for someone that was affiliated with them, so I'm not going to say who. So she rang them up a few times and kept saying,

hey, I've still got access to the SkyGo app, and I'm not paying for it. And they'd be like, oh, sweet, we'll deal with that. But then they would never take it off her. So in the end, she was like, well, bug her out. I've told you so many times. Well, you're done all you can really in that situation, you know. Exactly.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, geez, have a poor sky. What's it? I mean, they have been alerted to it. I know they have, but it's the last thing that the company needs. handing out free content. It's no wonder, really, is it?

No wonder. They're struggling. Yeah. Mandy, good morning to you. Good morning. How are you? Good, thank you. Happy New Year.

Same to you. Now, when did a glitch work in your favour? So I had a dog registered with the Auckland City Council and she was like a dog. And they put F down as the dog classification, which is like working service dog. Right. Every year her registration only costs me $5. Wow. It is.

Instead of like 100. Yeah. See, and don't alert them. Again, this is the universe going, hey, here, have a little win. Have a win. Have a win. On the text machine, someone's saying, we rented a house and there was a house behind it. in the same lane it wasn't occupied.

They never paid a power bill for 12 months because the power was connected to the unoccupied house. They even alerted the power company several times. Did nothing about it. Free power for a year. Free power for a year. Wow. So who was the unoccupied house who's paying for that?

What a no. Yeah. Did someone else deal with that? I got overcharged. This is on the text machine. At Heathrow, leaving the UK, the airport, refunded the amount, but they added a zero. So $6.70, it turned out to be.

a 670 pound win. Oh, yeah. Go wins!