Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Did Ben kill someone with a barbell…

Episode Date: April 12, 2026

On today’s show:  Ben goes into full cyclone‑prep mode, climbs on the roof for the first time ever, and absolutely shreds his hands cleaning the gutters We debate the most infuriating board games of all time and discovers there are far too many niche games in the world... Ben is scared at the gym when a stranger asks him to spot a heavy bench press! Megan finally saw the infamous & Juliet kiss and realised IT HAPPENS IN DARKNESS The food that gave Jono food poisoning will really surprise you! 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 along to the podcast. First day back for John and myself for a couple of days away. I've been here the whole time. You've been doing the podcast on shows with yourself, have you? Oh, no.

Do what are we, are we still counting days off between me and you? Because I'm in the lead, baby. Well, you're sick days. You're definitely, you know. There's a bit of beef going on because. Oh, excuse me. for vomiting and put it out with chicken soup

you came in and it was yeah it was depressing and my friend you know how you watch videos you know and you don't really get something like scrolling through he said I was making leaving the show I was like what no he's like I watched a video you guys were like

saluting her and give me a guard of honour I said she came in with food boys and then we sent her home I did make a comment how that was a nice leaving than I had at ZEM I had like a guard of honour.

We gave you a guard of honour for diarrhoea. Imagine when you actually leave, mate. It's been a marching band, yeah. So there you go, it was half watching your videos. Oh, I should pay more attention. But you do that in social media. You're half watch something. You're like, what's that?

Oh, yeah. Yeah, move on. Who was I listening to over the, that week? Oh, not me. Super, super. I was in a podcast. It was a podcast. But it was an interview of Seth.

Not Rogan. McFarlah. No Seth Green Who is super bad Is he Seth Rogen

Is it Not Seth Rogen The other guy Oh god I forgot Have you got Jonah Hill Yeah I was gonna say

Yeah Jonah Hill Oh my God They must get that All the time Yeah sorry Not Seth Jonah Hill

Jumped off social media Seven years ago Oh I know Says his life Has never been Better He's like

I can form my own opinion on things that are happening. Not bogged down. He said he was just like he was a slave to the bloody algorithm and the likes. And he was like,

this is just no good for my life. So seven years off it. So yeah. How many people do we need to tell us before we all realize that it's like really bad? Well, there's, yeah. I know it's a very contentious hot topic

and I feel like that's more than just a podcast intro. But one thing I did think, though, the other day is when, because I was like, oh, kids are on the phone and it's a, you know, a battle with parents and there's good and bad things. But that's me a drink? What are you doing there?

But I was thinking when I used to come home from school. I'd go from school 3.30 to 6 o'clock pretty much or 5 o'clock every night. I was banging front of the TV. Like, you know, like two hours, two and a half solid hours every night I was watching the TV. But the TV, it's kind of different kind of content. No, but I know. We were like, it was definitely on that. The TV doesn't bully you.

Later on. I know, that's what I said. It's more of a complex thing. But if you talk about the screen time, I was like, man, I was clocking up more screen time I'm watching TV that I even do on social media. We've been ignoring our families for years. Decades. I don't even sit through MASH just to ignore my family.

Mesh. That was hard work. As a kid, that was hard work, eh? Yeah. That was hard work. Oh, God. I know. The helicopter.

I'm sure it's really, really clever. Dingding. You're like, Christ, here we go. And you watch it, though. You watch it. They could have picked the pace up on MASH. They really could have. I watched it out of duress

because I just wanted to watch the TV. You wanted to watch something, yeah. Pretty forward thinking for their time. They had Corporal Klinger, the old cross-dressing soldier. Was he I know nothing? No, no. I think it was Hogan. Oh, Hogan's heroes.

Okay, similar vibes. Yeah. Hot lips, Hulaham. He wouldn't stack up these days, would it? Was Mash comical at any point? I think it was meant to be. It was a comedy on the Vietnam War, wasn't it? Yeah.

which is a rich source of I didn't find myself laughing but I didn't know I was a kid so I was like I don't understand yeah any of these conferences God do you pitched that I don't know different time

I really do a comedy about the Vietnam War let's say social media that's for another discussion but I was thinking I watched a lot of punishing TV as a kid that was the point of that long winded story all right enjoy the podcast John O'Bien and Megan

the podcast The Hits was a cyclone bearing down on New Zealand. Fortunately, it wasn't quite as bad as expected, but still some regions are really heavily hit, with highways shut, homes evacuated, and rivers contaminated as well. I think the worst of it has passed, which is good.

I do like the... I'm not going to lie, I like the anticipation of a big weather event. Great conversation starter. I felt like we had a big build-up for this. All I was thinking is the whole time is, geez, Ben, will be rewing that he's not on radio saying, preparing for the cyclone, cyclone's coming. I had too much time at home to prepare.

Like, I prepared like I've never prepared before. I've never cleaned the gutters. It was the first time on the room, like, this is going to go horribly wrong. I was literally, because I was, I was on here and I was like, make sure you get out and clean your gutters. I did. I was like, no one's cleaning the gutters. Look, my hands are all cut up because I don't have been things. I'm like, yeah, I was crying the gutters getting out there.

How many plasters have you got on your fingers? Three of my hands? Well, because there's a lot of metal sort of, you know, like there's sort of guttering that. I should have worn gloves and I was up on the roof and it was like, it's too late now. I'm going to keep going. and just when you're using a brush and there's little things coming off the gutters. You look like Michael Jackson for those too.

Yeah. I've never seen anyone cut them up so badly, just cleaning gutters. There's a lot of sharp things up there. There's a lot of sharp things sticking out. I literally was like no one's cleaning their gutters. I went up there and cleaned the gutters. First time ever, I'm like, it's going to be a new story. I get to fall off the roof, but I didn't.

But then, you know, the bad weather did come, and it felt like we had a huge build-up to it. Three or four days, and we were home, so that's why I ended up doing so much. A lot of anticipation. Yeah, I did. I was tying down all sorts of so. Almost tied down the dog.

I was like, you can get strapped to the lawn, mate. No one's going anywhere. Fibre glass cow that we have in the backyard. That was on the side. It was all like... Two of fiber like, you have a cow. Yeah, life size cow. I was like, that's not going to go anywhere.

It was all your me getting on the other hand. You didn't do anything. Nah. I was, well, I've kind of been looking after the kids by myself when my husband goes off and does his musical. So I was just like, I felt like I was busy enough. Gotcha. I'm not getting up in the gutters.

Husband goes off and does his little musicals. Can you make it sound less patch. He's trying this time he's doing and Juliette. But oh my God, telling the kids they have to stay inside all weekend, we hit some activities. Man, we did every puzzle in the house. I made what I attempted to make mermaid toast, but it ended up looking like Play-Doh.

It didn't look like Play-Doh on toast. What was it? It tasted really good. It's just cream cheese. And then I put like one of the flavors was matcher. There was blueberry, raspberry and lemon. It looks like one of those, you know, those DJ pads that they push for the all the different sound effects.

Chuck that up on the Hits Breakfast story. Right now on Instagram. So over the weekend you did that, a lot of inside activities. We played a lot of board games and stuff, which was fun. I do enjoy board games, but jeez, I hate Monopoly deal. I just can't. I just can't get my head around it. It feels like the most complicated game ever.

It's a card game. Yeah, it's a new version of Monopoly where they've got cards and stuff. And yeah, so you don't need the board and stuff. And every one, like three or four times I've tried to play out of the friends. Is it still the same premise? Yeah, but just with cards. and I just can't get my head around it and it's like the third time that

and you know it's one of those ones I'm like we'll just start playing it and see I'm sure I'll figure it out yeah I haven't put I can't figure it out it's really complicated and I'm just like my sister was staying as she was as well and she was like it's so good I'm like I'm not enjoying any of this

did it need changing up Monopoly no I don't think so but I guess you can travel with it maybe that's the benefit of it Monopoly is one of those games I really enjoy starting playing then I'm done by fourth round and it drags Yeah, drags, it really kicks in When it kicks in good, but at the moment it's just like,

it's like a cyclot, you're a lot of anticipation, like three days of buildup, and then hasn't kicked in. The board games that just annoy you. Yeah, well, we had, we've got that mouse trap game. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. Getting the mousetrap to work.

Yeah, well, everyone just wants to do the thing at the end, and then the kids are fighting over who gets to do it, and I'm just, I don't even want to do it anymore. The contraption's a bit sick, is that with the steel ball that goes down. Yeah. And then someone will bang, the thing and they'll fall down.

Because the net's just just hanging on at the top of that pole. That's a really, that's a high concept game, really. For someone to go, stick with me, I'm going to build this thing. You know, that's a lot for a board game. And then the kids are just like, can we just build it and throw the ball around? I'm like, do it. I'm done with this. Okay, the board game that winds you up.

What's the one game that you're like, oh, I just, I can't, I cannot do this. Scrabble for me, scrabble. It feels like school. John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The Hits I'm just talking about the cyclone A lot of us spending the weekend indoors

Ended up playing some board games Some good Enjoy board games But just Monopoly deal Just not a fan of it Just can't get my head around it So grassroots OG battle a Monopoly

You're a fan of it Yeah I can do a little bit of that It's not my favourite ballgame But I'm a bit like you I've got a Simpsons version of the Monopoly Of course you're Yeah But that's quite fun

Buying all the A lot of the donut shop Most heaven and things But that's quite fun and you've got little characters But even that's not quite enough To really get me into Monopoly So you know Grubby, grubby property developing capitalism

at its finest in the Monopoly You really learn a lot about your family members Playing Monopoly As soon as someone starts getting hotels and stuff I'm just like oh Oh yeah You got to play four hotels on Mayfair That's $600, thank you

My daughter's getting hotels listening to New Stock ZB So Mono It can be contentious. So the board game that winds you up, Carol, and Thames, what is it? Trivial Pursuit. Oh, that's the quiz one, right? And you get a little pieces of pie in categories and fill up your little, yeah, circle thing. Yeah.

Yeah, I think I explained that well. What is it about trivial pursuit for you, Carol, that gets you going? Oh, just some of the questions they ask are well beyond me. Yeah, producer Troy said they age quickly too. I saw this one online that said, the question was, which of these four actors has not played Batman?

And that was obviously written in the 90s. And Christian Bale was the right answer. But they only played Batman. We spoke to someone on radio, remember years ago, and her idea was trivial poo suit. And it was like toilet paper, and each one was a different sort of quiz question

that you could see where you're sitting there. You could like quiz yourself and then use it afterwards. I like that had potential. What are you going about that one, Carol? Oh No, not for her She's like What's one way

This game could be more Frustrating Is when I'm having a poo It was frustrating When I played against my mum Because she was quite clever And she always won Yeah

That's right That's it I mean you just want to be focusing On that task at hand When you're in that environment Don't you? Just one thing on your mind Yeah, you're right

Now Troy Actually you're a big player Of board games This is crazy producer Troy I've got a friend Who he's addicted To buying board games He has literally like

200 in his collection and he rotates them all out. So every fortnight we'll go and play a new game. But that's so niche. Like there's one we played a couple weeks ago that you had to work collectively to put hair follicles on a man's face to build a beard. Did you build a luscious beard in the end?

No, we didn't. We only got the moustache down to the goatee and then we... What's the case? Do you remember what it's called? It's called... No, it's called lumberjack or something like that. How do you work collectively to build the beard?

Yeah, you had to like, you had to build testosterone counts on the side pot and then when you had enough testosterone you could buy a follicle This is really at the like

I think we've got enough board games Like this moment you're like follicle By follicle A group You're like Wilford to build a beard We've had some wins

But this one I know I know John O'Binn and Megan The podcast The Hits A week of school holidays We had a couple of days off

So it's nice to be back hanging out with your hair on the Hits and over a couple of days, you know, I went to the gym a few times. My kids always give me grief because my daughter's without a word of all I can actually do more on the leg press than me.

Like I'm not, I'm not, you know. Are you trying as hard as you can try? Yeah, I'm not big and strong sort of individual, but I do enjoy going to the gym for fitness and stuff. I can't imagine you bloody leg press with your knees up by your ears. Yeah. Does it come right back and you're like,

uh-oh. I've got to be careful. I've got to be careful. But that's a vulnerable position to be stuck in. You don't want that to happen. So I was at the gym the other day and this guy came up to me. And I was just a bigger lad, but every one at the gym's probably bigger than you. He's like, excuse me?

And I took my earpods out. In that moment when he's like, excuse me, what went through your brain? Like, what did you think he was going to ask you? Well, I didn't expect this question. I didn't expect this proposition. I thought maybe it might be something to do with, you know, like the radio show or a video with something, I don't know, you know, or I've left something in the gym somewhere.

Maybe you, did he see Lucy's like, I can ask them to press something for me? Yeah. You should show me a squatting technique? But he was like, and I'd never been asked this question before. He's like, excuse me, he's like, can you spot me? And I was like, and I was sort of, me, and I was, and I was, like, no offense, bra, but you wouldn't be my first choice.

That's what I thought. I said, I said, me. And I looked around, and I was like, there's a lot of other people here at the gym. Like, you're like, you just see me on the leg press. Yeah. And he's like, I said, I'm not very strong. He said, it's okay. And I said, well, what do I need to do?

And he's like, oh, because I was like, what? And he's like, just that moment he regretted asking him about him. And he said, just make sure I don't die. I'm like, well, there's high stakes there. I'm like, well, the worst could happen in my head is like, he could die. Well, you don't want him to the bar to be on the strokes. Yeah. But the thing is, it could drop on his neck and Ben could be holding it and not be able to lift it off.

I was like, jeez. Then Ben would be like, how? Get someone bigger and stronger. Now, I went over there and they had to do it. And fortunately, he was strong enough to, you know, to complete his set without me. What was he benched? Oh, like a lot. Like lots of, like more than four or five big weight things on each side.

So are you kind of, are you positioned standing over him, yeah? And then I didn't know, but we didn't, we didn't have the chat about how many is he trying to do? Like, what's he trying to get to? And so do your hands just go down with the bar and then? Yeah, he's down with the bar. And I kind of went, I should say, and you were puffed at the end. I was like, that's it, mate, you know, like what? Were you looking at him in the eyes?

It's just you want motivation from me. I feel like if you're going to ask someone to spot, let's see him a spot before, like, do you want motivation? How many are you doing? All those questions could have been good. And then I got to the end of it and I was like, well done. That was pretty impressive. He was like, well, done to you.

I didn't die. And I'm like, yeah, great. But did you, so he did one set. Did you have to like hang around for the next? That's what I said. He said, oh, no, I just wanted to see I could still do it. I don't know if that was his nice way of saying maybe I'll find something stronger and more reliable

as we go deep into the seat. I would have done another five but I wasn't confident in your spobbing skills. So yeah, very interesting proposition at the gym. Are you like, he's on the bench looking up and you're looking down? Are you like staring each other dead in the eyes? You want to make high contact? Very unusual. So it'd be nice to know if someone's been in that position,

what I need to do. I'm never going to be asked again, to be honest. But yeah. He would have been looking straight up your nostrils. I was like, I was like, I got undies on under my shorts because he's looking straight up there. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast. The Hats.

Back after a couple days away. That's good. I tell you what, we're all swept up. I got swept up in the old Storm, the cyclone. They did a good job, the media, mainstream media, fake news media, of whipping us up into a frenzy. I guess they kind of... No, it's not fake news, because it has affected a lot of people.

It just hasn't affected you. Fake news media, back. Fake news. Yeah, you're right. There's there as houses that. were evacuated, a lot of regions were hooked. There's highways that are closed. He's clean up operations.

Just because it didn't hit your house in Auckland. Yeah. Met service. I tell you what, I've got questions over the medsever. And they need to do, like the media and, you know, everyone in charge kind of needs to, you know, if these things are on the horizon. Of course. The original trajectory was for Auckland and Northland, and then it changed because weather does that. And also, you've got to use your common sense whether it's, you know heavy weather is going to affect you and it has in the past.

then you know what you need to do. I didn't get swept up in panic buying, but I had to go to the suit. I'd be putting off shopping for like three days because all I feel I ever do is go to the supermarket. So I was like, so it's week off. Let's not go to the supermarket. But tell you what, kids hunger doesn't take an annual leave.

You apparently still got to feed kids even when you're a parent. So I ended up going on Friday afternoon. And boy, oh boy, it was peak, peak panic buying time. Everyone was in a absolutely, they had like bottled water at the front. entrance, you know, right. And I was like, well, I guess I've got to get one of those, you know? You've got to feel like you need to get all that sort of stuff, right? What was everyone getting?

Bottled water? Bottle water is a big one, yeah. We feel like wiping becomes a big necessity when an emergency is pending. But yeah, no, it was a frenzy. Now, do you think, conspiracy corner here? No. The big supermarkets conspire these huge events. And I'm like, you've got to stock up on toilet paper, you've got to do it.

And they shift. How many units of toilet paper and bottle of water do they sell a pack and save on? Because it's a bottle of water people. Maybe it's them. Yeah. And the wiping. Big wiping. Tell you what, over the week, you know, we had a few days off.

I went to IKEA for the first time. You guys went to go to IKEA. And I feel like I spent four days there on holiday. It's so big. It's amazing. Just when you like go through what? You're like, we've done IKEA. And there was like, there's a whole other level.

I'm like, wow. It's huge. And I made the mistake of not eating before I went in. I was hangary. Like I just got, and the kids are looking for stuff in their room, and my wife's looking at stuff. I'm like, I just need to eat some meatballs. That's all I've come to do.

They're eating their meatballs. They were really good. They were good, but I just took me like about four days to get to the meatballs. And I was like, guys, guys, but yeah. Does it need to be so big? I don't know. That's what I was thinking as well. I feel overwhelmed by it and I've never been.

Like, that's kind of why it feels like a mountain that I'm not ready to climb. Well, if you've got four days off, that's how I spent my annual leave. Inside, traipsy around IKEA. Huge. Did you lose your family? Yeah. Great place to hang out in the cyclone. You wouldn't even know it would have been and gone.

They probably had a cyclone inside there somewhere and no one noticed. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. And your husband, Andrew, he's in a show at the moment of a musical. And Juliet, it is travelling around the country. Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch it's in Auckland at the moment. And we all went to opening night.

Can I just say, like, I'm going to be honest with you. All day, I was like, oh, God, I've got to go to that bloody. musical tonight. And it was out of obligation because I want to support you and your wonderful husband, Andrew. But I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was so good. It's kind of like William Shakespeare and Romeo and Juliet, but Romeo's dead and she's still

living and it sort of goes into popular song. It's really well done. He was amazing. The whole cast were incredible. John, I sent a very, like, emo text to Andrew. Like the next day, it was very sweet. I was like, I think John had a really good time. I really enjoy it.

You were giving me grief that I was wearing my MAGA hat. Yeah, we were big red MAGA hat and everyone's dressed up. Thanks for dressing up, John. So she's just going, I had a tie on and a jacket. Yeah, I was in a red hat. Yeah, I was in sequins. Yeah. It was like turning up to a funeral in a Hawaiian shirt.

I was like, am I the only person in the theatre with a cap on? Yeah, I never saw another one. Yeah. And you see a red one now. It's quite controversial. It's not actually MAGA, but it looks like that. It's Las Vegas. Which is in America and we can't make it great a year.

From a distance everywhere around you see this big red hat. He's really out there. So all week in the lead up to this we were talking about how my husband he plays Romeo and I had Googled this show to see if Romeo and Juliet kissed and it told me no, but they do share a kiss. And so the whole show I'm so anxious because I'm just like, I don't know what it looks like. I just, you know, you're having to watch it happen on stage and I was like also I just I don't know how long it's going to last.

You're just waiting for the moment. We were praying for tongues, weren't we? Yeah. Well, he talks about it a lot in the buildup. We put on some other ideas as well, because we knew this was a part of the show, and we thought maybe there's some options. And look, I am friends with Juliet,

pull back the curtain. I love her, but it's just I don't need to see the two of them kiss. So I'm waiting, and I'm waiting, and spoiler alert, it happens right at the end. Right at the end. I was looking forward. I was going to chant. curse, kiss, but then I was like, well, no one around me knows that we've been talking about

this on the radio for two weeks. But they go, they lean in, they lean in for the kiss. I'm like, here we go. And as they get, like, face to face, it fades to black, right? You can't, yeah, you're right. I couldn't see it, no. They're silhouetted, and then it fades to black. But they practiced this in rehearsals.

Yeah. This kiss that we never really saw. I don't know what came over me, but as it's, like, kind of quiet in the moment's happening, I just yelled out, They don't even kiss. Yeah. She was kissed off. And then afterwards I said to my husband, I was like, do you actually like kiss?

And he said, yeah. And then I was like, but why? Because we don't see it. Didn't need to. You don't need to. I'm the storyline. I didn't think they needed to kiss for the storyline because I don't want to spoil. I thought that storyline is all about her being a strong, independent woman.

And then he's like, oh, don't kiss. That's cliche. Don't kiss Romeo. Yeah. Well, they're not. They're kissing in the dark. under the cover of darkness. So it fades to black.

You don't actually see it, but they still, I promise you, they still kiss. And now I've got a bone to pick with that. So you're saying, leave the bloody lights on. If you're kissing, I need to see it. Yeah, or just don't kiss. Because you can't see it. Go on and then go, and do the handshake or the fist bump that we pitched. And then at the weekends they had, he's like, oh, the alternative's on today.

Like the, what do you call it? The stand and the... Oh, he'd kiss her. Understudy was on Saturday. So I'm like, oh, so now you're kissing her too. in the dark. In the dark, too, yeah. I don't know what's happening in the dark.

True, you don't know what else is going on. I think he's taking it off script. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast. The hits. Although I did see the Netflix, it was a good weekend to put Twisters on Netflix and shot to number two on the Kiwis most watched on Netflix.

The original Twisters. Yeah, maybe. I think it might have been the new one. The new one. Yeah. Do you know what really? No. I have seen that pop up on Netflix. You know what really frustrates me about the imagery of that particular movie

is you've got the three core cast, three or four core cast members. They're looking towards the camera, but behind them is a whacking great twister. Are they like running away, though? No, they're just like to stare at all, where's the twister? It appears to me.

They're going, where's the twister? I'm like, it's just behind you, you idiots. Can you see it? Maybe they needed a whole movie to work out where it was coming from. It was pretty big too. Pretty big by the looks of it. Now over the weekend

Obviously a lot of people were stocking up on supplies And the things for the pending cyclone Yeah And something that I saw on Instagram Rita Orra Famous international pop star Who now? Does she reside in New Zealand now? I think she spent some time in New Zealand

Yeah They have a house in her and me Yeah Her in Taika, what's the executive director That's like you know a lot about it Everyone knows Just leave them be Everyone knows her.

I don't know. It was another region, but anyway, maybe that's talking about it. I don't know. Everyone knows her at 23 Stanton Street. You're ready. She posted on Instagram Inside Bunnings.

Rita Orra, inside Bunnings Warehouse. You imagine it's a New Zealand Bunnings? It was a Kiwi Bunning. I can't imagine it's over in the UK or anything. No, I mean, Aussie. Yeah. No, it looked local.

I'd been into that bunnings. I was like, I've bought screwdrivers from there. What was she buying? I don't, she didn't have anything that she was, I didn't know, I didn't know, maybe some petrol line drummers or something. I don't know what she was after. A brush for cleaning the gutters, you know? Yeah. She might have been out there, she might have been on the roof.

Bunnings is the great equalizer though, isn't it? Yeah. Really, but everyone's on the same level when they're in Bunnings wandering around looking for one thing, but they can't find it. It's too big. It's huge. But then they're store members. They all know where everything is. That's incredible.

I always feel like just saying something to test them. Yeah. They are pretty, yeah. I've never had a fail. answer from a Bunnings employer. They do a big, apparently before they start their shift, they do a big team chart. Oh, do they're like, Bunnings, all three, one, two, three,

but, but, you find the same stock, I don't, and we'll be to my 15%. That's a great place. So, yeah, Rita Orra, doing a mundane task inside of Bunnings now. That's what we like to know. You know, we love to see that, you know, big celebrities doing things that, you know,

us, common people love to do, you know? Us meatheads. Yeah. We've had some great calls in the past. too. This is one of them. Michael J. Fox. It's like you waiting for an elevator when he was filming in the Thrizzaners

in Wellington. Kiera Knightley was one of them. She was out shopping with her mother. Southridge's department store. I went to my mate's barbecue and I looked across the barbecue and Brett McKenzie from Father Concord's was just turning sausages.

Oh, wow. Lovely, I love that. It's just me every time like. Celebrity, that's all you want to know. Wow us with a big celebrity doing a really mundane thing. The more mundane, the better. Yeah, we call it mundane Monday.

And who I saw struggling, I remember this. It was a couple of months ago, struggling with an umbrella. You know when the umbrella blows inside out? Oh, yeah. Why is that so embarrassing? I know. I know, but it is one of those things.

It's not your fault. It's the wind. John O'Ben and Megan The podcast. The hits. So we love doing this on a Monday, finding out the mundane stories of celebrities doing mundane things.

I saw Henry Winkler at the Fonsie in the 80s hiking in Wyoming. He was coming down the hill and just had on his hiking boots and some short denim shorts. Short shorts for the Winkler. Daisy Dukes. I hope a little winkler's little, just the bottom of his cheeks. Is that Henry's Winkler? Dangling out the end of his. Fonzie. That's cool about that.

I love short, Jennifer shorts. It's all guys. You can put off some short genitamish. Probably seems like an internet video I'd do or something. Yeah. All right. Oh, I don't know that. Celebrities doing mundane things.

Brendan, lovely to have you on for Monday and Monday. Who was it? Giddy, mate. James Rollison. Oh, boy. Boy. Yeah, Kiwi. What was he doing?

I'm just sitting in a cafe in Ellesley. I went into, go get a cup of coffee with my mum. And I was like, oh, he looks familiar. And he's sitting there jumping on a muffin and a coffee. And went over and said, oh, Mr. Boy. He's like, good-day, mate. And you can tell his girlfriend was used to people coming up, so she was like a little bit, oh, God, here we go.

Especially when you said, Mr. Boy, too. I see you chomping on a muffin and sucking back on a coffee. Mate, it was a little bit of a buzz, actually. He's a cool dude. It's funny how someone's partner, instead of being, like, proud of them, like, oh, yeah, he's done really well with his life. Lots of people recognising, like, they immediately just go, oh.

Oh, here we go. Old Mr Boy is not cracked up Oh, Brendan, that's a great story Appreciate that, James Rollerton Chopin on a muffin And uh... Love it. Claire, good morning to you. Morning.

Good to have you on. Mundane Monday. Celebrities doing mundane things. Who was it? Um, so I was in line, um, I was nannying in England and I was in line to see the children's production of cats. Yeah.

And I was talking to this elderly gentleman thinking is there to see his grandchildren in their production. and yeah my boss came up to me later and she said oh do you realize who you were just talking to and she's and she's like that's Andrew Lloyd Webber what and he was going to the oh my god that's so sweet he was waiting in line to see children do a rendition of his musical he's like this better be good but and he thought they were very good yes when you spoke to him though was he not seeing any grandchildren or anything no no no he'd come to see the show He was like, I'm coming to watch these kids butcher my bloody masterpiece.

He's not like, excuse me, I've written this. Fine, can I get to the front of the queue? Yeah, I reckon. What a look at the sort of goal that you go to the cricket. I wasn't a cricket person, but I'd sit there, my boss would email me and say, oh, how's the game going? And I'm like, I'm not sure, but I can see Bear Grills, and I can see Rowan Atkinson. Oh, my God. Bear Grills watching cricket Ben.

Love it. Love it. He survives cricket as well as surviving the wilderness. On the piss of the cricket. All right. Diane, welcome. Hi, hi. Yeah, good, mate. Good. Talk to us. Celebrities doing mundane things.

So we'd gone down to Dunedin for a concert, and we were at the railway station market, and this SUV pulled up, and Pink got out with their two children. Pink. And so, yeah, that was very. really exciting because we'd gone down to see her and we just sprayed all her hair pink and everything. And she just got out with her two children and her security.

And she just strolled along the market and it was very friendly and most people left her alone. But she, yeah, she just strolled along. Someone went up and gave her some flowers and she just chatted away with everybody and had a coffee and grabbed some other things. And then she got back in the SUV and we went to see her that night in Duned. Oh, wow, there you go. So you left her alone as well? You didn't go and get a photo or say...

Oh, I got really close to it because we were just strolling on it and I did like... It turned around and I thought, oh my God, that's pink. And I wanted to go up to her, but I thought, well, she was so relaxed. I thought she probably gets sick of people doing that. So we took a photo,

but some people went up and bought us a lot in the market and she just grabbed a coffee and... Good on her. That's the classic New Zealand thing. Get a surveillance photo. Yeah, a sneaky photo. You get a photo that they don't know that's happening. That's good, great.

You said to someone, oh, we're two metres away from pain completely. Oh, you're sure you were? Yeah. You can prove it. You did the same to Jack Black, Ben. You're right, a sneaking surveillance photo. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hat.

Now, Megan, I must sympathise with you because if we can remember, maybe a couple of weeks ago, Megan Pappas had to take a few days' annual leave after a terrible chicken soup poisoning incident. Yeah, so I ate my chicken soup that I made, but I had it in the fridge for a week. It turns out that's not a good idea. Have you gone back to chicken soup yet? I had one bowl. Because that's all you used to eat for dinner, pretty much.

Yeah, because I was like, maybe if I just forced myself to eat it again, I'll be all right. And I had it and I was like, too soon. Oh, really? Still, it just brings back the memory's trauma. Yeah. Chicken soup trauma. What have you replaced it with? Because you are very consistent.

Breakfast, you eat these depressing-looking pancakes every morning. You have the same lunch. Same dinner. What's your now consistent dinner meal? I've literally just been eating what everyone else eats. Oh, like a normal person. Too hard basket. Eating the same dinner as the rest of the house.

A variety of different dinners. Usually it's just a leftover of what the kids don't eat. Well, I want to send out a warning because chicken soup poisoning. You can see where that would be a thing. Like chickens had some brand damage with poisoning over the years. But pineapple. Oh, my God. So I cut up the, my other issue with pineapple is you.

You never know if it's good or not before you cut it open, do you? Well, it shouldn't be too squishy. That's kind of a giveaway. It's a giveaway. So I cut this thing up, right? Left it in the fridge. We went away to the Coromandel and came back four or five days later. I said, oh, the pineapple's still in the fridge.

Right. So you'd cut it up. I'd cut it up and it had been sitting refrigerated. I thought this is a pretty safe zone. Dear God. Oh, really? I've since found out. I thought someone had given me cyanide poisoning.

And it came on real quick. quick, like, in an hour and a half. And you know when you're like, I know what this has come from? Because you kind of like do little burps and you can taste it. Did you have that with the chicken? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I then went to AI and it was like, yeah, uh-oh, you've made a grave mistake. And so it ferments kind of like alcohol and really, really attacks your system.

Quick, too. Is it as fun as if you have too much alcohol? No. Probably don't get the fun part of it. No. It tastes like prison alcohol sort of thing. Probably is a lot like that, yeah. So yeah, a bit of a word to the wise.

So what, like without being too graphic, was it like food poisoning? Yeah, yeah. And like real high-impact stuff. Okay, that's probably a lot. I feel like that line of questioning me, and if you're not satisfied of that, take it offline with Joddo. Yeah, you thought the pending cyclone was treacherous. That's a state of emergency.

It says it grows bacteria and yeast and can give you, yeah, vomiting diarrhea, stomach cramps. Wow, pineapple. Yeah, I didn't, I did not know. Did it taste? It tasted fine, yeah. It didn't even have the, you know how sometimes it browns? It didn't even have the brown parts on it.

So, yeah, a bit of a wording. It goes quick, you know, it goes down hell real quick. State of emergency is being seen. The neighbors had to be evacuated. Tie everything down. I don't know why, but yeah. You were evacuating. John O'Benon and me.

Megan, the podcast. The Hats. Cyclone, the worst of it seems to have gone, affected some regions, some states of emergency still around parts of the country, but it seemed like on the whole not as bad as it could have been, which is great. And you're on your own little state of emergency at the moment, trying to get calls on from people who have had to evacuate. Now they're coming through thick and fast.

Kim, you had to evacuate. I said, I did. It was a horrible time in my life. What happens? Well, let's really live that moment now on my first. Now I feel bad going, oh, tell us about it, but what happened? So, you know, when the Kayakora earthquake happened? Yes.

Many, many years ago. So I was living in Sumner at the time, and Sumner is one way in, one way out. And I had just a newborn baby, and the earthquake happened. I was home alone. My partner was at night shift. And the earthquake happened, and we, because we lived literally right on the beach, we all got evacuated. And we were evacuated to all semicuoccur in the morning.

They've got the hill with a newborn. It was a very same time. I bet. Where do you stay? Where do they put you? Yeah, so we ended up just been up in the house. And it was just me and my baby. And then this kind person that lived on the hill invited us in

and we stayed in their spare room for the night. Wait, so when you say up on the hill, are you outside? Yeah, so we literally had to evacuate. We could not go into crisis. like some know one way in one way out. We had to literally go up the hill. I was up in the hill of about four or five hours until someone actually was like,

we need to go and help people to come in. And they said I had a newborn. And, yeah, we're just sitting there in their car. And they invited us in for the night. Oh, my gosh. That is. Well, you know, through those moments of tragedy, there are wonderful stories that do come out.

The kindness and generosity. Have you kept in touch with those people? yep absolutely no I send them flowers and I was very very grateful yeah that's awesome man I just can feel the stress with the newborn

like it was very stressful yeah and you know you can imagine I was running around like a you know headless chicken trying to get the breast milk going to get the formula nappies because you don't prepare yourself well I should have because I'm from Christchurch

but should have had your breasts prepared yeah well I just had a big it's all they say That's what civil defender say. Make sure your breathes. Not part of your grab bag, though.

We're always sorted. Have your grab bags prepared? Absolutely. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. A lot of things on social media about Coachella, the big music festival that happens in America over the weekend, and Justa Beaver on stage as well.

I keep seeing footage of Justin Bieber just plugging in his MacBook, and that was on a big screen behind him. Risky, risky, yeah. Plug in your lap. He was playing stuff of YouTube and all sorts. and stuff. Yeah, it was very weird because some of the shows are just like Sabrina Carpenter was just amazing and then it's just just on stage. Some people really loved it, thought it was really stripped back and he's singing along

to some of his old songs and playing some of the stuff and other people thought, oh this is about like you're just playing YouTube videos. I don't know, time and place and I don't feel like Coachella's the place. Katie Perry's like, I hope he's got YouTube premium because otherwise I don't want to see and he did, and he did. It stresses me out sharing my screen on a Zoom call. I'm bloody on a big stage. Well, there's something, a little thing that stresses you out, you know.

Yeah, and something else that's starting to stress me out, and it's quite minimal. I mean, it's really not going to affect me, but it does make me a little anxious. It's something I've noticed that's come back into the fashion world is the long baggy flowing trouser. And Megan, you're a big wearer of these. My wife, Jennifer, she's got long flowing baggy trousers. There's a couple of other staff members who we work with here, the same thing. They're too long. They're going over the bottom of their shoe.

dragging along the ground, you know, collecting DNA from three different suburbs. You imagine all the filth and germs that you're getting, you hop on an escalator, they're your worst nightmare. Is that because, you know, obviously you have different size heels and stuff. Yeah. It's actually the bane of my existence, because I don't know whether to shorten them because then they're too short when I wear heels or like I'm wearing sneakers today, but they're too long. John has already checked my pants.

I have. And do you know what annoys me? Because I tell my wife, Chen, I was like, your pants are dragging it on the ground. And it does not worry her a bit and not one iota. You can tuck them into your socks. Also, these pants are white too, so they're going to pick up. Risky. But do you watch them after each wear?

Well, yeah. No. You just think with those pants are dragging all day, dragging them through bunnings, dragging them through the toilets. And this stresses you out, even though it doesn't actually affect you. No, yeah, it shouldn't stress me out. So that's why we want to get on to. Little things that stress you out for no reason.

in it all. I got one. I had to do it the other night. My wife does it because she knows it stresses me out. When we're out for dinner, the two of us, and they bring around a wine.

And my wife would drink more wine now. I would, but they always make you try it. And you have to do that whole thing. I don't really know what I'm doing. I'm like, like turning around in the glass.

Back in the day to check it wasn't like corks, but we don't use corks anymore. And it just stresses me out. I'm like, I have to do this whole pantomime. I'm saying, and she knows you're like, what are you looking for? Have you ever seen it back?

No. No. I don't think everyone in the history of trying wine like that has ever seen it back. See it happen once. I've seen it happen once. And it was like, oh my God, he sent it back. He sent it back. And that was someone who knew what they were doing.

But yeah, that stresses me out. My wife's like, go on, he'll do it. I'm like, I'll don't make me do it. I literally just say, oh, it's okay. I'll drink it no matter what. I try and make it look like a little bit of a show. But yeah, like I know what I'm doing, but it stresses me out. Someone's just texting 4487, a little thing that stresses them out for no reason.

When you text someone and then the three waving dots come up as if they're applying, and then the dots disappear and no message comes through. Oh, the anxiety. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast. The hits. Talking about little things that stress you out for no reason, really grave concern out there in the fashion market for the new baggy flowing trouser.

Well, not new. Baggy clothes aren't anything new, but they've made a triumphant return. They'll still come back, right? Dragging their asses all along the footpaths, the public toilets, the escalators, the malls. And not washing daily your pants, Megan. after each use

Only if they look dirty And your white ones today That's a real gamble Yeah I actually never thought about going to the toilet Do you sort of pull them up? It's like dragging on the Or not you know

Or do you not wedge them Sometimes you can roll over the top of the waistbands And I don't even if you get a wedgy Okay You're just going to stick with it No one's changing No I'm the only one's stressing out about this Well I'm not licking the bottom of my pants

No that's true That's true you're right You're not standing on benches or things like that you know, yeah. So it's probably fine. Okay. You always said you don't lick the bottom of your pants. You did say that when you first started working with us.

You're like, no matter what you get me to do, never get me to lick the bottom of trousers. Haley, good morning to you. How are you? I'm good. How are you guys? Good. We're doing well. Happy New Year.

Things that stress you out for no reason, little things. My children were close at clash, colors or something like that. And I'll tell my oldest, I'll be like, no, just no. and he'll be like, okay, and go get changed. I'll tell my youngest, and he'll stand there arguing that he looks cool. He wears socks with sandals all the time. Jorts. We're currently really into jorts with a tight t-shirt.

What ages are we talking? He is only 11. 11, yeah. Gotcha. Yeah. It's kind of a freeing, though, in it? They don't care, you know? They're like, oh, well.

Well, if he didn't care, I'd be like, well, get changed. And he'd agree. But he's like, no, mum, I look cool. I am so with you. Dived into a clothing bin and come out and go. on that'll do. Yeah. It's fine.

Like I had an argument with my three-year-old at the weekend because she wanted to wear like so many different things. There was a tutu. There was hearts. There was stars.

There was a crown. There was wings. There was a lot. And I was like, we're not leaving the house. Just wear it. But tell you what, if we were leaving the house,

girlfriend, you're not wearing that. It's a reflection of you as a parent. Your child looks like a clown. I know. They go out with 50, like, necklaces on or whatever. I remember.

I know. I know. I'd go out with a clipboard if I'd let her. She's got this stupid clipboard. I'm like, good Lord. Oh, well, thank you for sharing. Haley. Really appreciate a great text here.

Someone says, I'll send you a quick email and then they don't. They don't. The quick email never comes. Stressing Tanya out on 4487. Oh, so you're still waiting for that email? Yeah. Do you know, I like, speaking of your dragging pants on the ground, dragging your feet, people who wear like those scuffs or jandles or slip-ons,

dragging your feet. really great, Smith. Yeah, well, speaking of foot-based concerns, feet-based concerns, producer Troy, I know something that's really stresses him out, his squeaky sport shoes that he's purchased. Now, on the work tiles, this is audio recording of them. Very little thing that stresses Troy out. Oh.

They are squeaky. It sounds like a sponge bob sound effect. Like, when he walks in. It does. I thought you were exaggerating, and I saw you leave last week, and you walked past the kitchen. it's so loud. Oh, you can hear from the kitchen.

Yeah. And it's getting worse. I thought they would like, I'd break them in. But yeah, it's getting more and more squeaky. Yeah.