Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Daycare parent uses Megan’s on-air comment as an excuse… 

Episode Date: May 18, 2026

On today’s show:  We have to admit to Ben we got into a feud with Mike Hosking... A fellow daycare parent used something Megan said on air as an excuse to get out of trouble… Dear Megan… I’m struggling to tell my husband I don’t want his mum to move in after his dad’s passing, without upsetting him. Ben's coming off the high of his dream weekend Getting called out for giving a terrible “superpower” answer on camera Jono misleads an Uber driver with confident but wrong directions...   Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFAST Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The John O'Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better tea. Welcome to the podcast. We're here today. We had a very interesting dear Megan, which involved a mother-in-law, maybe staying in a household. Moving in.

Moving in with the couple. They didn't mention kids or anything, but would you want your mother-in-law living with you full-time? This woman does not, and she's told her husband that, and it makes him sad. Yeah, where do you go then? Like, have you reached a stalemate in that scenario? Is there an alternative that all parties would be happy with? Well, it sucks because when you marry them, you marry the person.

Yeah, true. And you don't intend to live with the mum. So if she's got a real problem with it, in my mind, he kind of has to listen. Yeah, I would agree with that too. Yeah. I mean, you don't want the mother-in-law, you don't want to look after them. But there is, I think the person we get at the end of the Dear Megan probably nails it to me.

I reckon that's the perfect solution. But the calls and texts that keep coming through and we'll take one now. Abby, your thoughts? My thoughts are, I think that grief is crazy and I think that

having a clear conversation later on down the road without closing off any communication about it. Yeah, no, fair enough. So you think, would you have your mother-in-law stay? I have in the past.

It wasn't amazing, but I would if I had to, but I also didn't shut it off, and eventually they spoke about it, and they had the conversation where maybe it was better if they didn't. Okay, so what you're saying is get the mother-in-law to move in, make it awful, and then they will decide that it's not working. No decision made by you. I just think that shutting down the conversation straight away is probably not great while grief is involved. Yeah, well, that's true. I mean, you could do a temporary thing.

thing, I guess, in some ways, and say, hey, and just until you feel better, you can come. Then there's a sort of deadline. And every day, feeling a little bit better now? Thank you. You, look better. Is you smiling a bit more? I can see, it's back in your eyes. I can see the glint.

Maybe time to, no. Yeah, you're right. I know, that's a good point though, Abby. Hey, thank you, thank you so much. Really do appreciate you, uh, you contributing. All right. You have a great day. See, mate.

Uh, that was Abby. and there's more on the podcast. Yeah. Do you and Megan? Enjoy. Yeah, what are you going to say? I should get her on Tinder. I just came to me.

Yeah, who get on her on Tinder? Mom. Why on a new man? Pimp the mother. The guy's, her husband's just passed away. It feels like a bit soon, but anyway. John O'Ben and Megan

The podcast. The Hats. Ben and Megan back together. After a couple weeks, the whole team back, it's good to be back. I had a dream weekend. At Magic rounds over the weekends.

Coming in, oh yeah, a couple hours sleep. Only a couple hours sleep. But, you know, coming on a high. feel like I've come back to some bad news. Drama, yeah, there is some drama. I'm sorry to say.

The show's got beef. Yeah. We're embroiled and into show beef radio wars. Oh, what's going on? I kind of like it, though. I kind of feel like at least this person knows we exist. You know, like he's giving us cred by having beef with us. Gotcha, okay.

Earth-shattering news for you to arrive back to. I know you don't like conflict. No, I don't. You don't like that. I know that's why I was trying to sweeten it. to Ben before we got into it. We can't sugarcoat it. It's ugly scenes.

Okay. Mike Hosking. Okay. Familiar of him? Yep. Familiar. No, I'm well. Legendary broadcaster.

That's how he had introduced himself, I'd imagine. He's on his email signature. Yeah. He's upstairs news talks here. We were in the same building. Yeah. Worked here for six years. I've never seen him once.

One time he came downstairs, he opened up the doors and he pushed the trolley from the mail room. Remember that? Into the hallway that needed to go back. Didn't quite get to the mail room and then he popped back into the lift and where he Oh, so he just wheeled it out. Yeah. That's the only time I've seen him down on this floor.

I presume that maybe he was getting packages for someone else. I don't know. Empty mail trolley, pushed it into the centre and then he went back up on us. Well, maybe he was dead to do it. Yeah. That's as much as I've seen him down on this level. So he was, oh, you know what to appreciate this. He was talking about Luke Metcalf.

Now he referenced Luke Metcalfe, leaving the Warriors and going to the Dragons. Sort of, he used an analogy in radio terms. Okay, have a listen. By the way, it's the Jono and... Oh, sorry, that's the wrong one. Luke McKarfe, what's he gone and done? He's gone to the Dragons. You don't go to the dress.

It's like me going downstairs and working for him. I mean, what's the... I mean, what's going on there? Anyway, you haven't... He's laughing at the concept. Laughing. Wait, we're in the same building. At least put someone across the road, the opposition.

Yeah. You know? Yeah, we... The Dragons... I know. They're not having a good season, guys. The Dragons? No.

They didn't they get their... ass handed to them at the weekend. He's saying with a sludge of commercial radio, basically. And so yesterday, Megan and myself, we confronted the situation before seven. Right. Not thinking in our wildest dreams this would ever get back to Mike Hosking. No. He's far too important.

Far too important. Yeah. But anyway, somehow the memo was dropped on his desk and he confronted the issue. Again, like we did on the show. We were saying all sorts of wild stuff about Hosking. Yeah, when did they could ever hear it? And this is what he had to say. The hits is a radio station

The radio station plays records It's to be found downstairs Specifically the Jono Ben and Megan Breakfast show So By the way It's the Johno and Megan show Because Ben isn't even there

Because Ben's in Brisbane At the magic round So I just wonder if that's part of their problem But just saying It's jealous He loves to be there He loves to worry It all goes back to what I said on Friday

So he's not back and down He's almost doubling Yeah It sounds like it right And then I It's in the break that Megan and me had, I was explaining what the analogy meant, you know, him referencing coming to us and the dragons and the warriors, yeah, yeah.

I can tell you it's a sad day when Jono has to explain stuff. I know Jono quite well, and Jono's not the sharpest tool in the box. Fear, fair. It's true. Can I just make an observation as a season broadcast, and none of that was interesting radio? I mean, as much, honestly, as much as I love you guys talking about me, talk about me all you want, but really, that was a bit boring.

I mean, what time was that on? Was that, your peak time radio audience, boring your audience with me? Screws up the paper. I feel like I could probably pop down for 15 or 20 minutes, just to give them a few pointers. Oh, absolute shots fires. That's what he wrapped the show up on.

Screwing the paper. It's wrapping us out, tossing us to the bib. Shots fired. Now, the problem is, we didn't start this. We didn't. It's at the fire. We didn't start the fire, me. No.

We did that. But we're enjoying the fire. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't know, there's some next stages that we need to address. Where to next? I think we could lean on the itty-bitty-hitty committee about what they might think. Yeah.

How are you feeling? A lot to get my head around. Yeah, you're downloading it. Yeah, like coming off the high of a Warriors win in magic round, this has brought me back down to Earth. Good. I'm just loving it because it's like, I don't know why he's bothering with us because it's like Taylor Swift picking a fight with a new, like, up and coming. Stop using analogies when we suck. Yeah.

But why is it, that's what I mean, we suck, why is he bothering with hearts? Well, hey, he's punching down, man, punching down hard. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the heads. We say a lot on the show, you said earlier, you talk a lot, and then at the end you're like, I don't know what we said. Yeah. Something I said, or we talked about, is come back to bite me in the bum. So I went to my daughter's daycare. I've been there.

I've been in there with him? You have, you have. You've got to walk them right through. That's the little tip. I love the teachers. They're amazing. You forget about that, don't you? You just drop them at the gate.

They're only like tiny, tiny children. Right at the entrance, he was like, okay, off you guys. I saw you. I saw yourself out of the end. You've got to sign her in. You've got to get past that gate. That was a fellow. There was teachers and stuff there.

I thought I'd done my job. But anyway, that was when they helped out Megan, you know. So I got in, I got in there, and the teachers who are, I'm great friends with love them. They were like, we need to talk to you. And I was like, oh, God, why? I thought, what's my daughter done? They were like, no, this is something you've done. And they had received a call from another parent.

Now, this other parent had been told off for giving, and this is something I'm sure a lot of people do, forgiving their kid Pam O and sending them to daycare. Oh, yeah, jacking them out. Oh, yeah. You'll jack the kids up with Pam, I'll send them on in. I mean, you're right, everyone's done it. No one admits to it publicly, let alone on the radio.

Yeah, we had a big conversation about it, and we're like, everyone does it. You jack them up on Pamol and you send them in. And so that is what the other parents said to the teachers. They were like, I heard one of the parents from this room on the radio saying that they also do it. They dose the kids up with Pamol and send them to school. Oh, so had this mother been called out for sending their child and jacked up on Pamel?

Yeah. Well, you know, in her defense, Yeah, she heard you say it, and yeah, you did it. So she's like, are there two laws, are there, for the lady from the radio and me? Well, there's one thing, like, if, I mean, if they've got a fever and you jacking them up on Pamol and sending them in, that's not good. But, you know, like if they go like it. What do you know? What do you know?

Like, what do they got? What are you doing? Well, like, if they've got a sore foot or, like, they've got a headache or something. Right. Doesn't, yeah. Is there, like, you know, a line where it's like, oh, no, you can't Pamol and send? I think the real takeaway here is. Listen, if you want to do it, just don't talk about it on the radio.

Or don't take advice from any radio announcers. No, no. Because the daycare teacher is like we always know. Either that or the kids will tell us, I only had Pamol this morning. Yeah, yeah. Pamil is an adult too. I asked for Pamol at a friend's house at the day just because you used to say as a kid, they're like, Pamol. You'd be like a, oh, you'd have to drink the whole bottle for it to work on you.

Yeah. Pamol's not something you asked for as that adult, you know, when you got to do it. No. I remember I said once the cat, I was like, it's like, I'm the show Catholic. You know, like, I'm basically, what Simon Barney is the more if I am to the hits, you know, representing the Catholics. Oh, yeah, we say that. Same thing, same thing.

Both come from religious backgrounds and we're both doing a thing. Emotionally intelligent. Sex symbols. That's, that's us, you know. But then I once said, you know, it's great being a Catholic. You do whatever you want and get forgiven about it, you know, be forgiven for it. And then my friends went to, they had to go to a course because they wanted to get their child into a school. And the lady sat down and played the,

audio. I'm like, have a listen to this person talking about Catholicism. Now, do we all think that's correct? And then my friend said, oh, he's actually the godfather of our child. And she said, well, maybe he would like to come in and have a discussion. And I said, no, that sounds really awkward and uncomfortable. I'll just leave it there, thanks. So you've got to be careful about what you say on the radio. You're not the litmus test for Catholicism, though, like you, and you're not for parenting. John O'Bennon and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Oh right, dear Megan is a little thing we do every week where people slide into my DMs with personal problems.

They don't feel like they can discuss with the people around them or they just want everyone's feedback. You're an open book too, aren't you? I mean, you're an open receiver of this communication is what I was trying to say. I'll do my best and I'll pitch it to everyone anonymously, of course, and you can give some advice. This one reads, Dear Megan, I have a family situation that is very uncomfortable to do. talk about with anyone I know, especially my husband. My father-in-law has recently passed, and so my mill, my mother-in-law, is living alone, and my husband is now very keen for her to move in with us. I love her, but I really don't want to have her living with us. Having her around

all the time is a whole different ballgame. I broached it with my hubby, and it wasn't well received. He gets offended and thinks I don't like her, and obviously feels obliged to take care of her now, but there is other ways to do that rather than have her live with us. Please help. How do I say no to my husband without him hating me? Oh, that is, yeah, a fiddly one. So she loves her, but in the way that you spend three hours on Christmas Day with someone, loves her, sort of that way.

Living with anyone, I mean, you get annoyed with your partner. You know, like living with anyone is tough full time. It's quite a lot to add if it's in the house. Maybe if they had like an outside sort of granny flat or something, Maybe things might be a little easy. Pop up tent on the front lawn, is that an option? Or maybe just like, could you move her into a rental nearby? Yeah.

Yeah. Next street over or something. Yeah. That's what I was thinking, move her closer. It's true. Yeah, like a temporary thing feels like you can manage that. Everyone can get through. Even if the relationships, they get on fine, it's still a long time.

Yeah. And again, like you can like them, but living with each other, you're going to learn all a little your secrecy whatever that word is and it's going to annoy you they're going to be complaints about how the teetails are folded

you name it so you want them close but close enough where you can't hear those suggestions I was going to say do a trial period but then how do you kick her out at the end if you're like

well that didn't work it's a no from me but thank you very much it's worse I do that at work to have the six month thing where you can get rid of someone who's not pulling their weight

six weeks seems like a fair amount of time to go. Maybe change the locks is an easier way. He's not working and you know why. Or you move out of your house and you just leave her in it. Oh, that's hard. There's probably people listening right now that are in the situation and it does work. And I'm sure sometimes it does work.

And then other occasions where they'll be like, like fun, I'm going to do that. Yeah. But also on his side, he's like, I feel such an obligation to this woman. Yeah, and I get that. To the mother. Basically. Imagine it. Imagine when you're bloody 85.

Oh no, Andrew's not going to die before you, is he? He might do. That hypothetical situation was never going to work better. He's many years younger than Megan. Ten? We might die at the same time. That's not going to happen. So imagine, okay, you've gone because you'll go first.

Andrew's on his own and Basti's like, I want Dad to move in. You'd want Andrew to move in with Basti, wouldn't you? Well, I don't care what he does. I'm dead. It's a terrible hypothetical situation. In the middle of a dear Megan, the podcast. In the middle of a dear Megan situation,

someone's husband's dad has passed away, so that leaves his mum alone. He now wants his mum to move in with them. So this one's saying, I don't want my mother-in-law to move into our house. How does she broach her with her husband? Her husband gets upset every time she does, but she does not want her mother-in-law living with her.

Well, I guess, you know, the positive news is it's not going to be forever. The negative news is it's going to feel like forever. Those are probably the, from her point of view. I thought you were going to say the negative is it'll end when she dies. Yeah, that's what it sounded like. It won't be forever. She's old. She's old.

This is just reality. It's just life. I mean, I've lived with my mother-in-law, Joyce, and she's lived with our house. But it's only been on sort of a temporary sort of occasion. Yeah. You know the end's coming. Yeah. And I think from her sake and our sake,

Everyone, as much as it was all fine, would probably still like their own time and their own space at the end of it. She's a high-impact player, Joyce. She's a high-imped-staying this week, actually. My wife's going on camp. But, you know, that would be great. But at the end of the week, I'm sure she'll look forward to going home and we'll look forward to it, you know, like, even though it's been a great week. Ben and Joyce, boys. Yeah, that's right.

Your friends wanted you to marry Joyce so you could call her Joyce boys. That was weird. You should marry your fiancé's mum. Why? Joy's boy. For comedy purposes. Let's go to the phones. We've got Glenn.

Good morning. Happy New Year. How's it going, King? Lovely to have you on, dear Megan. What's your thoughts here, Glenn? I've been there and done that. I've lived with my mother-in-law, and she's lived with us. And then when she got to an age where she couldn't maintain her house,

we made her cell up, and she now lives on our backyard. And it's a tent. We built. a 38 square meter one bedroom dwelling on our backyard and honestly you wouldn't know if you were home or not. Oh, right. So that's a good way

to cohabitate. Yeah. Truck him in the backyard. It's more of a win for us because we've got a babysitter on our backyard so we just sit in the young fella next door. Oh, that's it. Yeah, that's a positive. Yeah, I can build a

many options in that world now, isn't you? The little one bedroom pop-ups nowadays. Hey, Glenn, good on you. And so you love it, Glenn. You don't say a bad word about it. No, well, when we lived with her, she had two spare bedrooms, and one of them she made into a lounge, and she even had the sky, another sky hooked up for us.

Yeah, she did everything for us. So you're repaying the favour. That's lovely. What a son-in-law, Glenn is model son-law. I'm on top of the mantel piece with the other son-in-law, so he's pretty fit. Glenn, good on you, mate. Thank you for your call.

Wendy, with us. What do you think on this one? I think, um, I, well, have I talked to her about moving into a retirement village,

like, and really pushing the social side of it, being with all her mates. Imagine how social you could be. They do look good though. I've walked around a few of those ones, you know, visiting people and they've got the bars,

I've got the lawn bowls, they've got activities. I can't wait to move it. I know. Do they let you drink? Like all day? I feel like they should. Every hour and every day.

Yeah, it's a resort. It's like a resort. Yeah. Sounds brilliant. A resort for people with sore knees. Yeah, right, push that side of it. I like that. Yeah, it's good.

Now, that's not a bad thought, Wendy. And a great alternative in this. If there's one in the neighbourhood, she's close by. She might have some mates already in there. At least she's, you know, again, looked after, and, you know, someone's looking after them. And you've still got your own space as well in your house. Well, you have your own little house.

Oh, Wendy, you're preaching to the computer. We all want to move in there, Wendy. Like you said, I don't actually know if this has been. been pitched to her at all. So she might actually not want to move in. Oh, wait a point. Thanks, Megan. We're all so happy for the retirement village. We could all picture ourselves there, couldn't we? Hey, thanks, Wendy.

No, carbon. I do like this text from Brooks, she said. I mean, it's not to say the mother-in-law moving in, like what would happen if your own mum moved in? Oh, for sure. If you wanted your own mum, if the shoe was on the other foot. You've got to think about that. Yeah, a lot of people. building tiny homes for their mother-in-laws as we speak right now on the text machine.

So what are we saying, Megan? Well, I don't want her to move it either. There we go, that's what we say. After all those great calls and texts. Or you could build her a tiny home, but I just treat carefully. Leave her outside. John O'Bin and Megan, the podcast. Mike Hosking and our show running a little bit of beef at the moment.

News Talks, everybody. Look, McCaff. What's he gone and done? He's gone to the Dragons. You don't go to the dress. might be going downstairs and working from the heads. What's the,

I mean, what's going on there? So he's just made a throwaway comment there. I don't know much about League, but I know that the dragons are, they're the worst at the moment? Yeah, this year,

they're not having a great season. So he's saying he's going from the best radio station to the worst. Yeah, one of the best to the worst. I mean, technically, if you look at the latter, yeah,

he's not bad. He's not far. I mean, he's just stating facts. No, not defamation if it's true. Middle or the middle of the pet. They don't put us to do it.

They're not wooden spooners, are we? Yeah, middle of the pack. Yeah, okay. So he's made the reference doesn't work. Middle of the pack. What are you thinking? Roosters? Yeah, maybe rooster.

Yeah, yeah, okay. It feels to be correct. Yeah. But he's gone personal too, which... I can tell you, it's a sad day when Jono has to explain stuff. Questioning my intelligence. I know Johnno quite well, and Jono's not the sharpest tool in the box. It's true.

And then he just, like, like he made himself laugh so much and he's like it's true it is it is true well compared to hosk it is we can't deny that one i'm you know i've got beef of the fact he's calling us like the dragons yeah yeah that way but it's you know the gloves are off now and uh so we thought we'd overtake his show this morning and see if we could rattle him if he was uh you know we could penetrate his armor you know what you are you are sex bomb tax bomb Hasking text bomb. Our audience great with text,

so we thought we would sabotage a text machine and send him a little message from us. Apparently reading the news tools he'd be text machine, that is a real humbling experience. Day-to-day humbling experience. So we wanted something that was CEO positive, but also maybe that could be linked back to us

and would maybe throw him off his game slightly. Yeah. Happy New Year has become the show catchphrase. We started it in January. We've kept going. We didn't phase out like a lot of people do with Happy New Year. We're keeping it going in the middle of May. We say a lot of people, everyone else.

No one else keeps it up. We thought that was the joke. That's the joke. Happy New Year. So we got you and we all did it ourselves to text, Happy New Year, Mike, to 9292. I'd imagine, you know, hundreds, thousands of texts. I would have thought that we checked in on at 848.

It's capable in its current state of genuinely pitching for an Olympic Games in the northern part of that great land. So nothing then. Nothing at 848. And then just as he was signing off, he finishes at 9. It's unfolded in the last couple of hours. We will be back tomorrow morning, middle of the week already, just like that, and the sun will continue to shine because it seems weird weather-wise at the moment.

But be that as it may, we can enjoy it while at last. And we will see you from six as always. Happy days. Oh, nice. Happy New Year. If we were to try on him, if it said Happy New Year. Happy New Year. So, nothing.

No impact on the Hoskin show today. No, nothing. Maybe he's like I've given them enough air time. He did talk about one of those other bits of audio that you played me because I've been away about coming down for 15, 20 minutes at some stage to teach us about a podcast. Yeah, that was a throwaway comment. You're going to that's a throwaway comment. He hasn't stepped foot in this level.

No. Really, that was a bit boring. I mean, what time was that on? Was that your peak time radio audience, boring your audience with me? Goodness sake. I feel like I could probably pop down for 15 or 20 minutes, just to give them. a few pointers. First pointer though,

we need paper to screw up when we're trying to make a point. Can I give him a point? That's not screw up paper next to a microphone. Oh no, I felt like it really hammered home. He's kind of going,

done with him. Is that in the rubbish bin? Mike moves on now. Okay, no, all right. Tossed us in the bin. I liked it. So that was a bit of drama. Yeah, all right.

It was a big dog move. Don't say you liked it, Megan. Well, you know. Me must be doing something right. I'm just going to spend the next one. 40 minutes just show. It does sound powerful. It sounds like you're a really busy

person. All right, well, we need a plan B if you've got any suggestions for us, 4487 on the text. John O'Bin and Megan. The podcast. Back to be all back together. It's been a few days. We haven't been together, actually.

Oh, you missed me. You were away. Well, you missed us. You kept texting through the show. Oh, you were relentless when you were away. You were bloody contribute to all the first. Phona topics. That was great. You'd be wrong.

Most active list that we had. And then I was away for a couple of days. Magic rounds. It didn't hear from you. No. Oh, Jesus. I was in, I think it was my dream. I think I peaked.

I think it was my dream weekend, guys. Magic rounds was obviously where all the league teams play in the NRL. And there were so many Kiwis over there. And everyone is just wearing, firstly, league tops everywhere. I know. You really blended in. There was warriors, but you were dripping, drenching in Warriors. Any other full track suits?

No, I didn't see full tracksuits. No, I didn't see full tracksuits. But there was so much Warriors gear. So many teams walking around. I'm like, this is the place to wear league tops in Brisbane over the weekend. There was just like people going around up the wars, so many Warriors fans. Well, you're like, we should start our own country. Like, you guys could all wander around and league merch and talk league.

And it was pretty surreal, you know, that whole walk to the stadium. And you probably saw the social media footage of just the Warriors fans. It was the Hicoy at 3 o'clock, you know, before the game. Just thousands of thousands of Warriors fans. It was really cool. It was really cool to be part of. And then, you know, but then I packed in activities. Not only did I get to experience.

league games over the weekends. It was jet skiing and bridge climbing and dinner with ab-sailing down afterwards. I was like, this is my perfect weekend. You ab-sailed after dinner. Yeah, it was like a place you had dinner up the top of a ledge with your feet dangling over. And then in the end, to get down, you just... Do they have to weigh you? No.

No. Like, don't weigh me after dinner. No, they didn't have to weigh, no. Okay, that's where my mind went. Yeah, so I'm like, man, and there was costume. I got costumes. I think my wedding, I don't want, I know if my wife's listening right now, but We could have lifted our game with the wedding.

We could have more leg tops. We could have more Warriors fans, Warriors wins. It could have been a lot better. She danced with a fox. I think she did enough. She did on your wedding now. She didn't wear a leg top, though. There were 92 games of rugby league that you watched.

You dragged the family along like hostages to the head. My daughter, Andy, because she was there the whole weekend with me, she saw her a lot of league. And she, her big bugbear was she like, why am I kept, you're making me wear a warrior's top? They're not even playing today. Like, that was their thing. I was like, because that's what we're doing. We're wearing league tops of the game.

She's like, I'll wear one on Sunday when they're playing. But why am I wearing one every day? I'm like, because this is what everyone's doing. We're ripping our teams. And she did, to her credit. That was her big bug beer. Is her a league cup full now, you think? I think so.

I liked how she would choose a team. She would often go on the cutest sort of sounding name for the mascot. You know, like, oh, I like bunnies. They'll go for the reputos. Oh, I like dolphins. I'm like, you know, for the dolphins. Just need something to support as well. So, yeah.

But it felt like all of New Zealand was there. So it was pretty cool, actually. They weren't. No, all of us, they weren't there. Just so you know. Most of New Zealand was back in New Zealand. Anyway, I want to go back there, guys. Not everyone in New Zealand is wearing a warriors' top.

Like, if I could design the perfect city, it would be Brisbane with lots of, like, fans wearing leg tops. You know? Every day, you don't walk out in the streets here and people wearing leg tops. No, you don't. Nothing will get done. They'll be the most unproductive city in the world. Such a thing is too much of a good thing. And people who like, kids are like, everyone keeps you how to yell to.

a beddy boy to me like she was like why she'd keep me yelling at a betty boy yeah I don't know he had a nickname oh they made a nickname for you friends be boy he was all going back there guys John O'Benn and Megan The podcast

The Hats A guy A lot of stressed out Uber Eats driver He was in thereof probably was always on a stressful time limit aren't they yeah they're trying to get the deliveries out as fast as they can comes up to me

yesterday's like do you know we're Peterpitters do you know Peterpitters and I I'm pretty sure I'd seen Peter Pitt around here somewhere. So I gave the guy directions that I was relatively confident on. I was like, down there, do it la, take a right, take a left, boom. No worries.

He said, thank you so much, thank you so much, no worries. Then as he drove off, I went, oh dear God. I've sent the guy in completely the wrong direction. And there's nothing I can do about it now. I can't chase him down. I can't apologize. And he's going to drive around and be like, that Wally, buddy told me Peter Pitt was around here. somewhere and it's and so I feel

when I say I feel terrible now I've got over it now I felt for a brief second I was oh that's going to inconvenience him a little bit isn't it I feel like even if you didn't know you would have made up up something yeah like yeah I would have okay to say I don't know yeah like you can say I don't know I would go on Google Maps yeah well that's a good suggestion go on Google Maps you could have gone hey I have a look for you now but at no point did I have any doubt at that moment in my mind where

Peter Pitt was I think bless you that might be one of your downfalls is a bit of overconfidence. Overconfidence. Yeah. I can tell you it's a sad day when Johnny has to explain stuff. Thank you, Hoskins. You miss out the part when he says you're not the sharpest tall of the sheet. I've edited that but out now.

Well, the Uber driver's definitely thinking that too. That guy's in the wrong direction. Do you find that when you do ask, when you're the person asking for directions, and it doesn't happen that much these days because you've got fine, I remember the first one, maybe two things they say and then... Yeah. Yeah. Go down there, turn, let me.

You're like, probably that. And then I'm like, swing. La, la, la, la, blah, blah. And you've asked this person for directions, and they've got to trouble. Go, go there, third thing. And you're like, oh, yeah, all I needed was the first minute. And then that's as far as my brain can handle.

Yeah, I don't know why. You used to go into petrol stations and do that. They would tell you, facidiously, where to go. And I reckon they can see your eyes glaze over. As soon as they go down there, take it right, you're like, that's great. That's the general direction after that. Well, I don't know. I'll ask someone else.

John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. New Zealand's been crowned to the world's sleepiest country, according to data from the world population review. So saying we're spending more time in bed than a lot of the countries, getting a lot of sleep,

which I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. People that are getting, it says 75% of Kiwis achieving the recommended 7 to 9 hours sleep each night. Are they averaging it out because producer grace is definitely bringing up that average?

she's helped yeah maybe people like grace are really doing their bit how about you're like when you doze off like in a car does it bring up our average i thought sleepiest and would be like megan having a week like sleep but not tired all the time it's not nappiest you know no it's just because any time i get a chance to sit still i'm like yeah you are no argument here yeah if i got seven hours sleep a night i'd be a nicer person i reckon yeah it does make a huge difference doesn't it i can't remember i had seven or nine hours sleep When you have time off from the job, you're like, and then people listening right now will know getting up, you're like, oh man, I feel like a different person. Yeah, they didn't experience that.

It's not great for you. It's not great for you. No. Anyway, I like being the shell of a human being running on adrenaline. Caffeine. I did you live? How much sleep did you get that other time when you were like, I feel like good? I feel, and you didn't have red eyes.

When was that? When you said you went to bed earlier? Oh, that's right. Yeah, I felt like a million dollars. It's amazing what sleep. You've just changed your tune in like 30 seconds. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast. Now, Ben, you've just taken your family over and put them through a military exercise of just a powerful weekend in Brisbane at the Magic Round Rugby League.

Yeah, like it was. I kept saying before, I came back and I was like, that was my dream weekend. Everyone wearing league tops. It was kind of like Coachella as well, you know, where you go, people go to a festival, what times the warrior are they in the main stage? They're on the things, you know? It was like that. Although mixed with a little bit of Disney. Because you could run into your favorite characters.

There's Maddie Johns. There's Gordon Tell us. He's so happy for you. Did your family share the same enthusiasm for the project? They had a great time. But I did. I packed in league, lots of league, which was good. Packed in lots of activities.

You know, I like activities. We went jet skiing, bridge climbing and things like that. He went to Warriors training as well. Met some of the Warriors'Gs. We packed it a lot. The schedule was busy. Did you ever just sit at the hotel? No.

Oh, yesterday, because you'll look for a little bit. But that was... It was forced. You were forced to, right. Section sitting time. You have seven minutes. A little bit of downtime because it has been to hectic. I was like, it has been hectic, but a lot of fun.

What time did you have to leave the hotel every day? What time were you? Oh, we were up and out of Megan. There was lots to do. There was leagues tops to wear. There was warriors up the wards to be churning to lots of people. It was great, though. And all seriously, it was great to see so many, like,

it was a home game for the Warriors, really. They were the biggest, you know, the most impressive fans there. Just to be part of that was really cool. And then you said they all cleared out after that game. Yeah, pretty much. Penriff and the Dragons to just sort of play to an empty stadium. But on the way in to Magic Round, after we'd done the big, sort of Hickoy, the Warriors fans all met at this pub, it was just heaving with Warriors fans,

like two stories of Warriors fans. It was incredible. In the streets, it felt like thousands of people. Everyone going to the game, chanting along. It was really cool to be part of, actually. Their support was awesome. But I got sort of stopped as we're heading into the game. They're like, hey, can we ask you a quick question for camera?

I'm like, oh, yeah, no, I can do this. I can do this. Let's watch me. Kids are in there with me as well. I don't know if you know. I've had some experience with the TV. I can do this. I can answer a question.

What's your question? It was like, it was a good. It was a good quirky question. It's magic round, of course. And they were like, if you can give a player a magical power, a superpower, what would you give the player? I was like, oh, good question. And now on the spot, I thought, you know, because you're always trying to think of an answer

straight away. I thought, well, you know, how, you know, Delon and the Warriors wingers, they dive towards the corner. I was like, what if they could backflip? I was like, hey, backflip. And they all sort of paused. I thought I'd get more reaction. And the guy who was asking a question, and my kids went, that's not a superpower. That's just a skill. You can learn to backflip. You'd make them invisible. Yeah, they'd like, you should see the ball. And then they just ripped on me. Out of all the super, yeah, invisible, protect the future, fly, all this stuff as well. You've just given something that with a bit of training, people can nail.

Acro-Bandit people can know. I'm like, oh, you're right. And if someone's chasing after you, you probably don't have time to set up your backflip. That's all very good points, Megan. None of this is on the spot. I was like, a back foot, would be great, though. But yeah, my daughters and the guy

who was asking the question was like, that's not a super power. Magic when you see a backflip, though. Yeah, that's what I thought. I'd be magic to, like I'd love to know one. And the confidence to do it, Megan, not only a backflip, but backflip in the game, that feels like a superpower to me.

Immediately I went to what would help them score a try. Yeah, my daughter said, about predicting the future, read the opposite's minds. I'm like, how is he in a position to backflip? Because he needs to be running forward. Yeah, and then you'd have to stop turn around, set it up. Dallin's not running to the troll line backwards. Yeah, I know, you're right.

I thought I had a really good answer to the spot. Couple of holes. No, it's one of those moments. I don't know where that footage is going to end up, but hopefully nowhere. Yeah, I'm probably nowhere. Yeah, I don't know. And how many minutes do they spend ridicule than you? Yeah, like, at least three or four minutes.

Oh, yeah, it's going to make the cup. Oh, my God.