Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Discovering a prized Gucci T‑shirt is actually fake!

Episode Date: April 21, 2026

  On today’s show:  Ben realises ChatGPT might be the ultimate people‑pleaser enabling terrible life choices Jono rings a hotline just to leave a compliment... Listeners confess the strangest things stored in their freezers, including body parts and pets Producer Troy discovers his prized Gucci T‑shirt is actually fake The show debates the most satisfying sensations, from clean sheets to toilet saves How boiling soup spilled straight into a friend’s lap... 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. They might know, I don't know. Just do the same but blow out. I can't. Same result. Doesn't matter?

We're talking about whistling if you started the podcast. Wistle, of Megan Whistle is blowing out, which is I know the popular way. Yeah, yeah, you don't make it. I suck in. Okay. I don't know why. I can do it sucking in too. Must be nice.

Anyway, just people whistling. It's one of those things that's fun when you're doing it, when you're the people listening to it. Tell you who can whistle. Your wife Amanda, she has got a mouth. But you don't like it when she... Where was that going? I don't like being whistled at.

A mouth of a what? A mouth of a buddy highland sheep farmer. Really good ones. She can do the one where she puts her, you know, fingers in the mouth and whistles and stuff. And she'll do it at concerts and so. Very, very loud. At concert.

It's ear pierce. And it's very impressive. But yeah, I don't like being whistled at. You know, like, if she, like, if I'm over somewhere and she whistles at me, I'm ignoring that. I am not even looking at her direction. I'm like, I can hear it. I don't want to, like, I don't want to talk too much about your wife when she's not here. But, because I know Amanda and I knew Amanda before you.

Yeah. But do you know what the other day, Andrew saw a photo of you guys at some, might have been at his show. Right. And he was like, man, does pretty hot, eh? And I was like, excuse me. And she whistles. Yeah. Yeah.

He was like, yeah, good on her. Maybe he heard her wolf whistles from the audience. Yeah, she did a couple of wolf whistles at the end. Was she wolf whistling at the road? Well, I don't know. At the end of the thing, she does it. She loves that, yeah. It's good flex.

She's got it, but I'm like, there she goes again. She goes again. You've got a family whistle, don't you? Well, she does. Again, she's got a family whistle. I'm not partaking in the family. I'm not part of that family. Oh, well, no, it's like a thing.

It stands out because, yeah, people, some families do have a whistle, right? Yeah, my family's got a whistle. you know just quickly I was thinking before about you was talking about Kerry Woodham lovely lovely lady yeah but one of my first experiences with Kerry and I was just thinking about before I didn't have time telling the radio was we used to make a TV show and we were going through a phase where you'd write stuff for people but you wouldn't tell them you said you wouldn't tell them what the thing was until they got there which was really in hindsight a very stupid thing to do because people would agree to be on the show then turn up and go so what are we

doing and we're like oh we've written this sort of script and they'd have no idea about what they was signing up for? Like a light sort of dusting guy. It's like a tennis, you know, comedy sort of thing. And they'll, oh, yeah, cool. We've seen the show, whatever, and come up. And, yeah, in hindsight, made for very awkward conversations on the day. So we stopped doing that, particularly after Kerry Woodham.

But she arrived and we had, a guy had won X Factor. He was living in New Zealand. Was it not X Factor? No, what's the one? Fear Factor. He was living in New Zealand. Handsome guy. I think he was working at the radio station.

You might have Mark. Yeah, Mark. Yeah, at a time. And so they were meant to be playing tennis. But all these things turned out to be just a big sketch. and in the end she was coming along to help him out and she was going to be kind of like the older lady that was kind of and we had whipped cream and written all these things she was yeah she was yeah I just realized this is a podcast intro yeah the megan of the sketch and so we read this thing quite funny about her and she had like things of whipped cream she was going to spray all over the shelf I just remember we handed the script to curie she was like hmm hmm and we're in the Macrina

it was like, oh, quiet. She goes, yeah, right, and let's do it. She was great. She's a bloody good sport. I'm sure she was. It's such a good sport, but afterwards we sort of went, hey, in hindsight,

we really should just put up with the people. It's less awkward when they know what they're doing. I'm pretty sure that's how Hollywood operates. I think Dwayne and the Rock Johnson turns up on the first day of filming and is like, what's this one? Oh, there's a board game and you're in there. Oh, okay. Have a look.

Yeah, all right, let's do it. Yeah. A lot more stuff would get done because all the actors would already be there. They've wasted petrol to get there. I guess what we're here now. That was our theory. You're here now.

They're going to leave. And after that... I'm pretty sure there's a picture of Kerry's nipple on my Instagram. Oh, really? Yes. Because we got... We were hosting something together, and there was wines and stuff,

and I took a selfie, and I didn't realize until after I'd posted it much later when people were commenting that she'd pulled her top down. She had done it. Oh, for the photo. For the photo. Did she know it was going to be for... Public consumption.

I don't know. That's why I looked around before I was reading the story. But it was a long time ago. She's great, Kerry. She's a lot of fun. She's great. She's awesome.

But yeah, but it's better to front foot those things. It's a little lesson I've learned. It should have run a past chat, GPT, and there's a good segue, because we're talking about that right now on the podcast. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast.

The hits. Now, I feel like, as a person, yeah, I get it. I'm a bit of a people pleaser. I don't like upsetting people. That's a lot of radio. people. Oh no, a lot of radio people aren't the people pleases, but they want to look like people

pleases. Yeah, you're probably right. But like, you've given up with me. I feel like you know me well enough now to kind of know that we can have a bit of, you know. He pleases everyone else when he's given up pleasing me. He's like, it's not pleasuring you anymore, mate. Give you a bit of grief, yeah. Well, it's been to people I don't know.

But now I reckon there's someone that is more of a people pleased than me. And that's Chat GPT. Now, I don't know if you've used Chat GPD in your life or your work. It's like an AI assistant. You can put in stuff. I really like it.

I feel like it's a little buddy that comes along. You get to put stuff in. It sort of helps my nervous anxiety from time to time. Yeah. But maybe it's picked up on that. It's like, geez, this guy has wound up like I need to really, really do some therapy with this chap. Yeah, because it does.

It just really glazes you. It really just says everything's great. And most of the time I love it. But just yesterday I was like, oh my God, it's just saying that everything is good. What kind of things are you asking it? Oh, all sorts of stuff. But yesterday I was running something. I got no idea that I wanted to do.

I was filming something. And I was like, worried about a legality of something. And I was like, put something in there. And they were like, brilliant. You're good to go. That's brilliant. I'm like, great. And then I went, oh, about a little bit more.

And they went, oh, what if I changed this one part? They're like, even better. And I was like, hang on, go right ahead. I was like, oh, great. Gave me some confidence. So it went for a walk with the dog. And I was like, hang on a second. In my mind, I was like, there's one thing that this is really.

Came back to GPT because the thread was still open. and I was like, what about this part? And they went, you're right. Change that and it's perfect. I'm like, where was that the first time round? Changing me is not who you go to for like law advice. No, it's like emotional support for bad decisions. That's pretty much what it is.

It's just like just giving you the confidence to do whatever you want to do. It is, yeah. So I felt guilty like about six months ago. I was like, oh, I've eaten too many burgers today. It's all right. You're allowed to treat yourself. Didn't you ask how much? many hynicans you could drink in a day?

Yeah, and it was like, you need to treat yourself. You need to look after, you know, you're going to celebrate things in life. I'm like, well, this is 10 days deep. They're like, keep on celebrating. You deserve it. I mean, it's great. I mean, in some ways it's great, but then you get to a point you realize that, hang on, it's just a, it's just like that sort of person in the office

who's just trying not to get fired. Just agreeing with everything and everyone. Laughing a little louder and at your jokes, it's brilliant, that's great. You know, and it's a point. I'm like, maybe it's a bit, it's coming on a bit, strong. I just put, I love gambling. Is it a problem? And it said loving gambling doesn't automatically mean there's a

problem. See what I mean? It's a people pleaser. Yeah. I mean, whatever, what you say. Gambling is designed to feel exciting and rewarding. You deserve it. I said, I really enjoy my hobby of lighting things on fire. What did it say? Lighting

things on fire isn't automatically a red flag. It's basically baked into the human DNA. Oh my God. Campfires, candles and good barbecue. You keep your hobby going. You do that. You do that.

There guys. Something can all get behind. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Thanks for hanging out with us this morning. Now, Megan, yesterday you confessed that you'd phone to Talkback Radio. What, would have been Monday morning.

Yeah. I was listening to them talk about people standing up and singing at concerts and how it was ruining the concert experience, all the boomers were getting involved. And so I thought I'd defend the singers and the stander rappers at the concert. So this is you phoning Kerry Woodham, distinguished broadcaster. How bubbly you sound too. Yeah. Bringing a bit of youth and vibrant.

In comparison. Yeah, Cherry. To your miserable self here on the hits. Oh, she's, I'm going to the other miserable. Oh, I see. Oh, yeah. She was bringing the average age of the callers down. Here we are.

Megan, good morning to you. Good morning, Cherry. It's nice to have you back. Thank you. So there you go. Good morning. Ladies and Kerry. Nice to have you back, Carrie.

Well, it was not. And do you know what? I was like, radio people love it when you go, oh my God, I missed you when they go away. Where's Carrie being? She's been on holiday for a week. Oh, right. Lovely to have you back, Carrie. Also, she's like, she's just a lovely.

She is a wonderful person. She's a lovely woman. Yeah, I do like her. She gives zero. She doesn't give any worries. No, no. When you see her, she's cool. But yeah, you glazed her like a Christmas ham.

and I I yesterday I was inspired by this boomer activity from Megan I was inspired and there was a phone line

on the back of a truck and it had questions complaints I still banging on on Kerry in the background there I was like who's talking in my ears

questions complaints or compliments okay which is always a risky maneuver to put on the back of your truck oh 800 number got you

I know which one you did what you called to compliment in you and you were like you guys probably don't hear this often so I thought I would be the one or a random question or something like you know it's the end of the story then it's 838 news talks you'd be what did you do no they were there a tree filling cut like an arborist company yeah and you know when they're doing stuff on the side of the road they have their people sort of directing trap and the loveliest guy. He was so lovely and bubbly. Chatting away with me through my window as I was

waiting the interview. It's nice. And I thought you know what? I'm going to phone them. But I did a bit of a stitch up because they're like, hello, welcome to the tree company. I was like, I've got something to say to you. And she's like, you could tell she was used to a torrent of complaints. Yeah. And I was like, you know what I want to say? I want to say your staff are wonderful. Very friendly. She's like, well, thank you. I'll pass it on.

And that was the end of that story Oh jeez Look I've done that once I think it was to someone in a supermarket or something But that was so helpful to me So I called and I was like Oh I just wanted to say that so and so It was just amazing and they were like

Okay cool I don't think they care No And I was like please pass it on Yeah It's a lot effort to go to You know Get the number to call up and say how good they were

And you know That's one's like I give every Uber driver Like five stars Even if they've like, they've thrown me out halfway down the motor, I've had five star review, you know. You always get out and you go, five stars for you. Yeah, I do. I tell them that what's coming. Do they care?

Do they care, though? Well, they probably care a little. Yeah. They care about their rating, of course, but I feel like you do it just so they give you five stars. Yeah, you're definitely trying to, yeah. Bounce back. The last one drove into like another car. You're like, five stars, mate.

Five stars. John O'Bennon and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. It's a roll-o, but we have got fridge peeling. It's happening. You've kept protective peeling over your fridge for five years? Yeah, the plastic stuff on the front.

I've just kept it on there, protecting it from my two kids. They're now three and five. I would argue it probably still needs protecting against them, but you've got my husband on board now who also would like to peel it off. Now, I want to know, because we're having a peeling ceremony Friday. Is it a ceremony or is it a funeral? What is it? Well, it's a ceremony for you, funeral for me.

Yeah, they're celebrated, I think. The fridge isn't died. No. The fridge is better anything to glow up. Yeah, it's like we keep saying, you know, one New Zealand, Takaha Stadium, it's getting opened on Friday. It's like that. It's a big opening. We're giving it a facial, some Botox.

Unsufficating your fridge. Has it cut? Does it got the plastic down the side bits or just on the front part of the door? It's probably got plastic down the side as well. Maybe. Might have a few peels on our hands. Well, there's four panels that you'll have to peel. Four peely bits.

Okay. Gotcha. I thought we could give away little bits of the plastic too. Oh, yeah? Yeah, to listeners, oh, I've got a piece of history. Who's going to do the admin and sending that out? Not me. We'll just talk about it.

Yeah, that's good. I like that. So we did talk about yesterday, and you did reveal that you didn't want us looking inside the freezer part. Yeah, well, I mean, I've told you now, so you can look at it if you want, but there's two of my placenta in there, two placentas. How big is a placentai? I don't know. I imagine them like a big meat patty. No, I think it's bigger than that.

I think they're quite big. kind of as big as the baby. Oh, wow. The box is a pretty size of a ball. Yeah, so I initially took them home because I was going to do that thing where you get them like freeze, dried into pills because lots of people say that's great. And then there was a baby to look after. Yeah, right.

And I never got round to it. And then it kind of gets to the point where you can't do it anymore. Some of them have to plant it too, like a tree and stuff, which is really cool. I was going to do that as my second option, which I also haven't got around to you. And you're like, why did I take this goddamn place? send at home. Yeah, yeah. So now they're just sitting there. And they've been defrosted once on a power cart, and then I re-froze.

So definitely not fit for consumption. Not that you were planning on Frisbe? Well, no, I'm not going to cook them up for anyone. Are they flat? Frisbee? I think it's like, it's like an organ. Okay. Right, right. Okay, so you're not the only one with something interesting in your freezer. We took some calls yesterday.

A cat and a bird. COVID casualties, and so you've actually just reminded me they're there. 13 litres of brachmock. So pretty impressive stuff In your freezer And it does seem like a wonderful A wonderful cupboard to keep stuff

That you can't be bothered dealing with Yeah So I want to know this morning What's in your freezer? Surprise us what's in your freezer John O'Ben and Megan The podcast We're taking the protective peel

The plastic off Megan's fridge on Friday You can be part of the celebration It's going to be a lot of fun But we wanted to know what's in your freezer Is there an open invite to Megan's house To the open open door? Yeah I've got some meat for breakfast stuck in cook up.

We did try to get some dignitaries there. We wanted a mayor. Yeah, they were a bit busy. Yeah, we wanted the prime minister. The distance. I mean, we're not sure what district that turns up in. It's a long way from anywhere, really. It's not that far.

20 minutes. It's 20 minutes. Look, it is out by cows and paddocks and stuff. You know, people who live ages away always say it's just 20 minutes. It's 20 minutes. Maybe at the time of the morning you've got to work, but yeah. But I'm vocal invitations to my house

Maybe whatever dignitaries we have here Could try your meat that you were just discussing Tell you what I'm going to go I only leave home at 540 on Friday And it's 20 minutes I'm going to give myself 20 minutes And I'll see if I get there on time or not

Okay How confident are you now Well I mean from your house I don't know 20 minutes I can do that It's my little experiment And you can cross to me in the car

If I'm not there She can get away with 20 minutes because it's so long you forget the time as you're driving. So 800 of the hits, what's in your freezer? Because you're a bit worried about something stored away. There's two placenta in there. In boxes, you can't see them, but they've been there obviously for like five years. This is just a graveyard of good intentions. I mean, you had intentions of turning that into what vitamin?

Yeah, like little dried capsules. And then I was going to put them, you know, like bury them under fruit trees or something. I haven't got around to that either. I'm saying with bananas. always going to make some bananas banana bread banana cake it's all just sitting in there and a random bag of meat

in a white plastic bag and you're like I forgot what that is and is it all freezer burned Yeah absolutely Yeah stick with it Good day Shelley happy new year Happy new year to you John I how are you We're doing well how's this of the mounts this morning

Shell The mounts slight breeze red sky But nice at the moment The rain's gone Read in the morning Shepherds warning Absolutely Yeah.

So what's in your freezer, though? What's the unusual thing? A piece of my elbow joint. What? So I broke my elbow. Oh, it was about four. I was during COVID or just before COVID. So I had to get my little elbow joint.

They call it a radial head replaced. And the nurse walked in and said, do you want to take this phone? I said, yeah, why not? Yes, good memory, Bill. Yeah. Still there. At the time, because my mum does that too,

at the time you're like, yeah, that's interesting. But then what do you do with it? Because I don't think you're supposed to put it in the rubbish. No, I'm going to go, going to bury it with the cemetery down in the bottom with all the dead birds, pet birds that we've got so they can have it. Have you got a graveyard of... Avery graveyard. A little graveyard with crosses, yes, of the dead budgies.

Oh, that's cute. You have a little cross for your elbow. I can too. Absolutely. Hey, well, thanks, Shelley. Appreciate you call this. Morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good to have you on. In Auckland. What's the weather like there? Very nice, actually. We've got a lovely sunrise coming up.

It seems to you're better around the country today. That's great. It's not a hold out breath. But what's in your freezer? Not my freezer, but like Shelley, my mother had two budgies in her freezer. Oh. So she couldn't bear to part with them. She didn't want to put them in the ground and have her own little pet cemetery because she was always worried she would move house. So when she died after a short illness, we had them cremated with her. Oh, that's a touching story.

I suppose that's nice. Yeah. Yeah. The funeral director's always like, no, we've had weird requests in that. No problem. Oh, wow. They just, yeah. Okay, they just chucked them in there.

Yeah, I guess so. Yep. Oh, that's not. I mean, if she loved them. It's what she would have wanted. Yeah, exactly. But she didn't want to put them in the ground, but how often was she, like, pulling them out of the freezer and being like,

you know, she wasn't taking them out of the freezer. So, of course, when we were. were cleaning out the house. We were like, oh yeah, we're going to have to do something with these budgies in the freezer. We're like, yeah. Smug on those budgies somewhere. Take them out of the freezer as a ticking clock, too.

You don't want them pouring out. Yeah. Well, thanks for sharing, Tanya. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. Producer Troy's been with us, yeah, for a while now. And as we get to know on, we've got to, well, got to ruin a few things for him, unfortunately, I think.

And, Megan, you've ruined another one today. Well, I was the latest one. You had a Gucci T-shirt on and I was like, will we? Okay, great. I was like, let me have a look at it. Flash guy. Flash guy. I want a front foot this by saying I don't own a Gucci tea at all.

But I... It's the only designer thing I've ever owned. It was a gift from a friend after I won an award. He's like, oh, you go, mate. So, yeah, lovely gesture from your friend. So I don't really wear it very often because I feel fake wearing it. Well, you're a grey-mouth lad. Exactly.

Geez, we should you get Gucci back to Greymouth, man? It feels me to bring a Gucci t-shirt with Helenstein's jeans. No, do it. It'd be like Ben Stiller arriving back in the movie Zoolander. But I really appreciate fashion. So I was like, oh, can I see? So the first thing I notice about this Gucci T-shirt is it's a vintage print. Right, okay.

And I was like, wow. 1921, baby. Okay, vintage print. And then I wasn't really thinking I was like can I just say the label The tag I knew what you were doing with this Yeah

Because you said it was a gift of a mutual friend of ours Flags had You know been raised And then I looked at the tag and I was like I know You said is it real And I said I know definitively one way or another Do you want me to tell you?

So I did ask Why I mean the very fact that you're saying That I knew the answer Yeah And to To me, yeah, it was flagged as a fake. Now, how do you know this? Are you best friends with Gucci-Gucci-Ree?

No, but there's things to look out for. So with the labels especially, like there's specific labels that they don't put on. There's ways that they sew on the label, and it didn't have any of those. So Troy's heart just broke in realty. He was like, this was a gift from quite a good friend of yours. A good friend, yeah. He's also gifted me other things. But this friend, we have the same friend.

has given me a burberry bag back in the day and then told me that it was legit and I fully believed it was legit until it started to fall apart a month later. Now the issue you have with this,

friend, I think this is where the real heartbreak sets in is you spent $400 on a watch that they sold you that they said was an exclusive watch. That's not.

And now he's in panic mode about this. You're questioning everything now. Every interaction I've had with a John, you put a Rolex once well you knew it wasn't real. 16 bucks. It's absolute bargain.

Yeah, absolutely bargain. Yeah, it was like a $16,000 watch. He paid $16 for it. 16 bucks and fell apart, day two. I took it into the jewelry repair shop. I needed to fix my Rolex, mate. And I said, just so you know, it's like, well.

He said, I could tell by you walking in. I was like, you needed to pick something a little less. Like, no one's believing he's got a Rolex. Even when he fixed it, but he exploded the next day off my roll. and maybe I'm just too allergic to high-end products. So we want to know this morning, what did you discover that you later found out it was fake? That doesn't have to necessarily be a fashion thing, right? No. Or like heirlooms?

Because my mum believed for years and years and years that she had my nana's pearls. And we weren't allowed to look at them. We weren't allowed to touch them, wear them, anything. And I think the class broke, and she took it into a jeweler, and she was like, these are my mum's pearls. And they were like, no, they're not. Like, if you bike them, the coating comes off. so she'd just believe that she had these beautiful real pearls

They were just costume But sometimes you're like Do you need to know Because it's just about how you feel about the item As opposed to the authenticity of it I shouldn't have seen anything Troy I'm sorry Like Troy could have been wandering around for like

A million Gucci dollars Goochie gang Goochie gang Now he feels like a hoochie So wait under that What did you find out that was fake My uncle did a similar thing to me. Stitch me up, I think it was a prank, but I went on for years believing this.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. Justin Bieber, it is The Hits, John, Ben and Megan. After he performed at Coachella, of course, last weekend of the weekend before, his music streams, they're pretty much tripled. People just getting back into listening to Bieber again, which is awesome. They should get him $7.50 from Spotify. That's not bad.

And not a lot of production costs for that Coachella set. No, true. No shade. Just, you know, he didn't have to pay a lot. Maybe he's the genius. Maybe he's the gene. They all paid to see him. Exactly.

Now we've got the Edy Bitty Hitty Committee, which we started a little over a week ago. It's just a small group of people who make some pretty important decisions about stuff. Let's not ask us what stuff. But Ben, you're in a bit of a competition with Megan. Well, I hadn't been in a competition,

but Megan likes to make everything a competition. I'm not that competitive, to be honest. It's my toxic trait. Very, very competitive. Sometimes when you're filming a video with Megan, and it's just light entertainment, You know, just content. And it's, you really do get serious and you forget the entertainment side of it.

You need to win at all costs. And so on this itty-bitty, hitty committee, which you can join. If you want to be part of the group, just text group to 4487 and we'll let you win. It's a private sort of Facebook page that we've set up. But as part of it, and can I bring in producer Troy, as part of it, you get who the top performers are. Look, this is Troy. Troy knows what he's doing here because he has made this into a competition. It gives you stats on who's the top.

contributor and so each day he's like, like, puts the competition between me. Your husband was, you know, like, because Andrew put something up about your fridge. You're like, what, he doesn't even work? He's like, he hasn't been invited along. You're not happy about it. That started it because he put up a post and he became the top contributor. And I was like, he doesn't even go here. What do these points mean for your life?

Nothing. What do they do? What do they contribute? Shut up, John, it's just. It's competition. This is what Megan loves. We've spoken about prestige before. And, you know.

It's prestige. So, yes. And I didn't know if you saw this, because we're talking yesterday on the show about it, and Megan was getting, you know, a little bit wound up about where she placed in the top contributors. It's just like, it's just a bit of friendly banter. Where were you sitting yesterday? I was second to Ben. Okay, so I don't know what, yeah.

So I put it on there yesterday. Only just by like 18 points, but not that I care. I put on there yesterday. I don't know if you saw that. I said, Megan's on a mission to become the top contributor on this page based on engagement, and honestly, it's fun to wind her up. So drop a comment or a like on this post and get me up there just for bragging rights. Now, I put this on yesterday.

How many comments are yet? I mean, this is not a big Facebook community. Did you hide it from me? I can't even see it. Yeah, it's got 14 comments. It's got 28 likes. You know, this isn't a very small, only about 100 people on the community.

But that's pretty good engagement for 100 person group there. So that must have catapulted you. I don't know. I don't know. How does it go, producer Troy? Well, he was already slightly ahead. Oh, okay. So this has really put me legs ahead.

Yeah, probably. Okay. Producer Troy with the stats. I'll get some dramatic music with the leader. Bieber and his music streams after Coachella. Where have I got to? Search the head by how much? Or not?

Maybe it didn't work. There's been other posts since then. You're right. The whole point of this was to gamify posting on this page because normally there's a Peter out situation. We'll start up something like this. And you guys just stop engaging. I see what he's doing.

And I know that. And I know that Ben winds me up. And I know all of this, but I can't. It can't help it. Stop it. Okay. So have I. As of 608 this morning.

Okay. Megan, so it's a 694 points. Well down, Megan. That's good. I don't know what those points mean. What do they make? Like, what contributes to the point system? Engagement.

So posting and people commenting on your post. Okay. Well, so Ben, you had pretty good comments on your post. Oh, yeah. So where did that put me? So Megan, 694. Ben, 818. Oh, jeez.

It's a win for the little. guy. All right, here goes the post. Oh, God. Now I'll tap out of it. What do you guys think of this? What do we do this? Let's do a poll on this.

It's going to be a barrage. I know. To be honest, I don't care. Neither. I don't care at all. Wides to make it up. So there you go. That worked.

John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Now last night I, my daughter went to bed. They were both in bed at 7.30 last night. And I walked down the hall. So I close both their doors and it's all dark.

I dark out everything. And they have white noise on. That's just how they've always slept. So it's like, I find that noise really not settling. No, no, I could not do it.

I find it so intense. But like when I'm lying in there with them. Sound like there's a paranormal being screaming in your ear. No, but it kind of numbs your brain is the way I can describe it. Because if you're lying there, you find yourself being like, someone changes a radio station. It does feel like staticy, didn't it? But doesn't it mimic being inside the...

Whom? Yeah. Oh, it does it? Yeah, apparently. I might have just made that up. So it's pretty noisy. When you walk down the hall, you hear two lots of white noise. It's pretty loud.

And I heard a sound coming from my daughter's room. Now, if you remember, she has said before we had Cassie, the ghost, which we haven't heard from since the medium got rid of her. No, again, we drove all the way, all the way out to Megan's house bed. 20 minutes, she says Megan says. To go and meet the wonderful medium. And then the medium kicked you and me out of the room. She said we're making the ghost feel uncomfortable.

An eight-year-old girl, supposedly. And you were standing up over and making her gags. We were just standing. Exactly. We were like, yeah. We were just there. Even just being there, you two are rowdy and laughing. It was like, what?

Then we spent 45 minutes sitting in your lounge. Giving you a dog attention that he hadn't had for years. It's out of weird. We're just patting the dog. We had all been rejected by that household. So we have had experiences with weird noises. The white noise was us complaining as white guys. But this I had not heard ever before.

It started like a, and I was like, oh my God. Is she like banging? Which wouldn't be out of the ordinary. What is happening? But it started quietly. And then it got into a real like, whoop, do, do, do, do.

And I was like, oh my God. I tend to just wake up and freeze and hope that me not moving makes the noise go away. I was freaking out. And so I ran, instead of going to the room, I went to my husband and I was like, you need to come down. There's some horrible noise.

What do you guys do in that situation? Do you team up and go together? or do you send him out into the wild? We went together, but I went behind him. Yeah. But he was like, why didn't you just go in? I'm like, well, I don't know what's in. I don't know what's going on.

But we went in there, and it was so loud. And immediately I knew what had happened. So she is a ceiling fan, and I had taken, do you remember this big Daisy balloon home from work? It was a helium balloon. Oh, yeah. So the helium balloon, Andrew had come in and turned her ceiling fan on

and it had sucked up the balloon. Oh, so that was my... That's a real letdown to the end of that story. There was a real, real, can I just say? A real downer. Whopping around the room and me and her... He's like, turn on the light! And I was like, you do it. I don't know.

You get the fan. And we're like yelling and screaming at each other. Our daughter's like in the corner sleeping. And the fans are, whoa, whoa. And it's all wrapped around. So we turn on the light, pull the fan out, and it's rustling and making a hell of a sound. and she's just like

the whole time. Sleep through the whole thing. But yeah, no, it wasn't a demon. No, it would have been better. It would have far better out to that thing if you were like, it was a possessed bloody lady in a nighty smacking a spade against the wall or something.

For a moment I was like, what the hell is happening in there? But nice to know, I ran to her defence. I was like, you go ahead. Send your husband through. I send my wife out. You know, she's braver than me. He's like, why didn't you go and save her?

I'm like, no, you go. You two are like, they can be sacrificed. The household will continue on just fine. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, The Hits. Taking the protective peel, the wrapping around Megan's fridge off this Friday. No more will the plastic be on there? And it's going to be one of the most satisfying things, taking the plastic off something.

But what's more satisfying to you under the Hats? We've got a double pass to the new Michael movie, the Michael Jackson autobiography that's in cinemas as of today. That's a good way. Producer Troy went along. loved every part of it. Loved every part of that Michael Jackson movie. So, Megan, your big one's shaving your legs and hopping into a bed of fresh sheets.

Yeah, that's a good one. I also thought one you probably have an experience to either as taking your brow off at the end of a long day. You don't know that? You can't prove that. Hey, you do, you, boo. My little mobs. Nestled away. Is that quite a relief, is it?

Yeah, well, it's just like strap. You imagine strapping all day. There are a lot of tension around that? that part of your body? Yeah. Yeah. Does it cut into your skin? And over your shoulders. Right. So I imagine it's very relieving when you get to take it off. Oh yeah, it's good. Or like you undo your hair after it's been like tied up in a ponytail towel all day. Oh, amen. Amen. I know that. So I'm 100 of the hits. The most satisfying thing you can experience. Let's get Deirdrie on the

Happy New Year to you. Dearie. Great to have you on. All right. What is it for you? As a human being, the most satisfying thing you can partake in? Having a beer after doing the lawns. Not bad. Not bad. Ben, with your AstroTurf setup, you wouldn't get to experience that? I don't get to enjoy.

I mean, I get to enjoy a beer from time to time, but I don't get to do it after the lawns. Yeah. You're keeping out. Yeah. Yeah. Tell you what, also, just having a beer any time. Any time. Yeah, that too, yeah.

You know, you finish your radio show at 9.06 a. Oh, yeah. It's 10. You shouldn't be drinking at 9. We finish at 10. Sorry, that's right. Time flies when you're having a beer. Good on you, Deirdre.

Really appreciate that. We're going to give you a double pass to Michael Jackson. Have you heard of him? Yeah, I think I remember the name. New movie and cinemas. It's out of today. So double pass coming your way. Oh, thank you so much.

Enjoy that. Some heaps of text coming through here. What about getting into a hot shower when you're freezing? Oh, that's good. Sometimes I find it when you get the temperature just right too. Like, you know, because you're like, oh, it's perfect. I don't have to touch it hotter or cold. That's a win.

What? What? What are you going to say one? What are you looking at me for? Someone say something, please. You mumbled something. Turning on the AC and a hot car. Oh yeah.

Not nowadays. Mate, you see the petrol prices? Nightmare. And I don't have AC in my car, so that sucks. Someone's texted in too. Rain on the roof when you're in bed. That's nice. That is really nice.

You know you don't have to go outside. You're like, oh, that's nice. So, okay. That sounds fun. Luana, good morning to you. Good morning. We're talking satisfying things. Ah, yes.

When you really got to go and you finally get the toilet and you just let it all go. Literally you sit there and you're like, oh. It had to come from someone. It had to come from. It came from Luana. Can't argue with that one. No, you can't. My wife's a big one on this.

She's a... Careful. Aren't we all? But going to the chiropractor. She loves the back. Cracking, you know, things cracking. She follows an Instagram account called crack addicts, which is just like chiropractors.

People that can just crack. Yeah. Yeah. So she loves it even watching other people get cracked. I'm like that with pimple popping. That is, oh yeah, me too. That's so good. Don't get into my algorithm. Putting your hand in your pocket and finding money.

Oh, that's just fine. Except when you pull it out and it's a piece of paper and you're like, definitely I thought there was a note. Can I tell you another one I just thought of before when you're on a plane and you're sitting there and you're like, oh, there's a spare seat. and then the door's closed and you're like, oh, everyone that walks in, you're like,

please know, please know, please know. Because no, I don't mind seeing someone talking something, but sometimes you're just like, oh, this seat's all for me. But then when you're the person walking down and you can see everyone eyeballing, and you're like, where are you going? Sorry, everyone's giving you please no eyes.

Sorry, guys, sorry, guys. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. Morning, our favourite Australian DJ producer, Cyril, you'll know I'm from such songs as Stumbling in. He's got a new song out with Wiz Khalifa. It's called That's Her. That's very, very cool.

And he joins us right now over Zoom. Great to have you on, mate. Good, mate. How you doing? Yeah, nice to see you. You too. Oh, you were like in Luxembourg? I said got a gig in a couple of days.

Where are you right now in the world? I'm in Sydney. I've got to go on my box party and then I've got to head there. Oh, you've got a, gee, Cyril Stag do? Uh-oh. Do you know what that entails or is that all a surprise? It's all a surprise. I pay for the accommodation.

That's it. Gee, was, what are your mates like, Cyril? Are you funny? Because are these mates from like, because you were like Darwin, like Northern Territory, are these mates from around there, or are these kind of a mix of all over the place? They're sort of all over the place. I've got a few friends from Darwin, a few friends from my hometown in New South Wales. And yeah, it should be good.

I'm not to do my best mate, so he's my best man, planning it. It's usually pretty tame, so we'll find out how wild he can get. Yeah, I mean, it's the time where you do want your friends to be tame, is it? What's the distance between the stag do or the bucks, sorry, as you guys call it, and the actual wedding day? Have you given enough if there's any shaving that's taking place? You need weeks. I really wanted to do it like a few days before the wedding, but that was not going to happen with my messes. Well, you are an Aussie lad, but you've had so much success.

I'm pleased to see you still wearing a bucket hat, but have you upgraded? I see you're wearing a prada bucket hat now. Yeah, it's a bit of fur. So is there anything your mates tease you about now? Oh yeah, absolutely. I think I've turned into like a soft sort of dude, but then I'm back on the motorbikes in the mud, and they're like, oh no, I haven't changed it all.

That always should be humble. And if they haven't told you yet, you'll probably find out that your stag dude. Yeah, the back side. Good luck with that one. I don't know if we ever see you again after that, but yeah, you're doing incredible things. Every time we talk to you're off doing amazing things,

and you single out with Wiz Khalifa. I mean, how did that all come about? That's pretty awesome. Man, that was a random one. I made the song in Nashville with a few friends two or three weeks later. Yeah, Wiz's team came back and said, oh, you know, Wiz wants to do a verse. And he sent me like this huge, like, minute and a half worth of rap. And I was like, this is unreal.

So I basically split in two, and then that's what we're hearing on the verses. Is that how weird? So did he just send you like a voice note? He's like, this is what I'm thinking? No, I'm a bit more professional than that. Oh, right. Yeah, come on, man. leave a message on your answer phone

Did you get that? I don't clear voice mail, sorry, Wizz. I saw you over there with Wiz Kalifa and he had put you in a wonderful big old, big old white fur coat. Yeah. He had really dressed you up beautifully. Look quite overcast in the room there, Cyril.

Hasey, smoky conditions. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I don't know what was happening there. I remember doing like a take and I was sitting down and then next minute my heart just started beating, man. I was doing the horrors. I mean, it's pretty cool.

I mean, you're hanging out, you're doing music videos with Wiz Khalifa. I saw you a couple of weeks ago with Ed Sharon on social media as well. I mean, you must just pinch yourself. Who's the coolest person for you, personally, that you've got to hang out with? Man, I really like Keith Urban. He's a good friend of mine, and whenever I get to talk to him, it's like I have to pinch himself every time

because he's such a great dude and just so, such a normal dude. He's great. Can you ask him, what does he see himself as? A New Zealander or in Australian? because we have been laying claim to him but he might be like, I've got far more affiliation with this country.

I mean, I think he does love New Zealand. There's no doubt about that. Now, last year I think it was, you did like a Raven, a 7-Evenor, a convenience store. Is that the most random venue that you've ever done a rave in, you know? I mean, you did the marketing,

the YouTube New Zealand Marketing Awards in 2025. I mean, there's been a few things you've done. What's the most random event you've done? There's two. I'll say three. I remember the first year I went to Germany and we couldn't find anywhere to play in Germany so we ended up setting decks down at the market

and then like 300 people showed up and it was great and then yeah the 7-11 but also then we did a Maccas rave as well and that was quite hilarious. Oh inside McDonald's. Yeah we had what's that what's the purple thing called? Grimus, Grimus.

Grimus was there. You're like, wow, there's grimmis at the gig. Congratulations, the new song with our Whisklyfer is awesome. That's so cool that you guys have co-labbed. Always love catching up with you and hopefully we'll do it again soon. John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The Hits

Now Megan you You went to dinner the other night Yeah I went out on a Monday night I had a girls night Dinner with the Girls And we just went to like A cheap and cheerful place And we were literally the only table there

Yeah right Monday night Great you went out But we were going Oh Monday night Kind of Yeah You see it sound like you had a great time

No it's that thing like In the afternoon I was like Oh I forgot I'm going out tonight And then afterwards so I had the best time. You always do. It's like when you force yourself just to do it.

Yeah, and there's no real excuses on a Monday night too, which is good. Some of the weekends get busy. So I think it's probably a good idea. Yeah, it's probably a good night to get early, yeah. And when one of the girls texts you and's like, I'm so excited, you're like, yeah, we too. It's only because we have to get up, like, boring people in the morning. Everyone else, when you don't have to do that, you're like, it's great. Yeah.

You can see people and live a normal life. Yeah. So the girls went and had dinner, and we were just doing that thing where we all order, but we were all going to share. Okay. And I got a wonton soup, so it has the wantons in it, but it's a broth. Thank you for explaining that. No, I'm just, there's a reason, Jono. Do it in your hands or do it come in some sort of bowl like?

Do you want me to carry on? Just tell me more about the soup. I just need to get my head around a soup. I'm looking for projectiles to throw because I can't quite reach Ben from here. Producer, Troy, can you bring up a picture of a soup? Oh, I think you're going to say, can you bring up some projectiles? Just so we know what she's talking about. There's literally nothing to throw.

So it was telling you why because it's not like a creamy. Shut up. You guys just whining me out. Is it liquid inside of a bowl? A bowl? Okay. It was watery. So the boiling point of a watery soup is much higher. It was like blistering hot.

It was so hot. And when she walked over and delivered it to me, she put it in the middle of the table. So she put it in front of my friend Ash. And I think when she put it down, she'd be. put it on the edge of the table and thought that it was on. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Oh, no.

It was not on the table. Now, Ash was wearing, like, lace pants. Um, so the broth, the boiling hot broth went on skin. Oh. If anything, there might have been a nice, like, um, blister pattern from the lace. Oh. Oh, geez. But it went in, like, on her crotch region.

And so does the, does the way to apologize and that's just, yeah. Yeah. She was, like, mortified, as you imagine. A lot of New Zealanders would be like, oh, I'm sorry that my legs got on the way of your boiling hot soup, too. Did she apologize back? She was like, ah, she was like, you're lucky, I'm a nice person.

I was like, that doesn't sound like, well, that's like, you're making her feel bad. But she was so chill about it. She was like, no, it's fine, it's fine, I'm all good. I'm all good, see, no, no, I'm no foul. It's all good, so good. Not all good, not all good. No, boiling soup all over you?

But then when the waitress walked away, she was like, Oh, it's hot. Oh, really? It's hot. When I went to eat it like 10 minutes later, it was hot. So I can't imagine how hot it was when it went into her lap. And do you get a crotch discount then? So we...

50% off I'm calling for a crotch discount. We were there for another hour and we left. And then afterwards, after we exited the place, Ash said, oh, they charged us for the soap. You didn't say anything. You didn't say anything. She absorbed it. You still haven't in some ways

Oh, that sounded a bit weird, didn't it? She got to enjoy it twice? Yeah, exactly. All right, so we want to know the greatest spillages. Now, it doesn't necessarily have to be food, you know, like related spills. She could have to build paint or cleaning products or all sorts of stuff. Oil. I love those stories about truck drivers.

It's like a truckload of tomato sauce spilled on the motorway. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast. The hits. The spillages after Megan's friend. ended up with a whole lot of soup all over her lap. Yeah, the waitress thought it was on the table, and it was not, and it all poured into her lap as she was wearing lace pants. It happened to me first day of broadcasting school.

Oh, really? You want to make a good impression. I was going to get a coffee before, you know, starting broadcasting school at the cafe. It was a little bit early. Certainly as well, you know, chose my outfit. You don't want to get a good person. What costume did you wear? I was just, you know, at that stage, you want to look like a relatively normal human being.

At that stage. In that stage, you know, the first impressions, you know, count. And then I remember the guy there accidentally knocked, like, I think it was my coffee all over my pants. It was all like they were light-colored pants. A lovely guy, loaned me a pair of pants. Oh. Not quite in the, did he have spear trousers?

I went out the back, he goes, yeah, take these. You never want suspicious pants that have come from the back of a cafe. Why have you got, why have you got pants back there? That's what I wore the first day broadcasts. He used to go with the pants, his pants. You wore a loaned pants. Did you have to give them back? Yeah, I came and took them back the next day,

but it didn't really work with the outfit I'd chosen. Oh, that would really throw me off. A big stain right in the middle of your crotch. Maybe the cafe had lost property and someone lost their trousers inside the cafe? I'll lose you some pants, and he did. That was lovely, but. How did your first day go? It threw me off a little bit, to be honest.

Did you make lots of friends with your borrowed pants? Not really. They probably looked at me weirdly. Oh, Jonee. Oh, Jeney. Sorry, welcome. How are you, mate? Good morning.

team, happy new year. Happy New Year. Our favourite mailman slash courier in New Plymouth? New Plymouth, no. Oh, God, don't try and do it. High risk, high reward. Yeah, no. Janay, what happened, mate?

Biggest spillages. So many years ago back in South Africa, my brother was in the military. We were going to see him over the weekend. And my mother made a big flask of boiling water. and my dad stopped at the dairy on the way and he made a U-turn and this flask fell over and this boiling water went on my left foot through the shoe through the shoes that I was wearing and the socks and we rushed home and my dad put me

in the swimming pool and as he pulled the sock off all the skin just came off oh my god oh bruh I don't did I miss this detail but what Why were you transporting a giant pot of boiling water? No, it was a flask for the trip. Oh, geez. To make coffee for the road trip. Oh, wow. Have you still got the scar on your foot?

Yes, I have. Oh, my goodness. Wow. Geez, I feel scarred after hearing that, you poor bugger. And you're poor dad. Did they have to do a skin graft or anything? No, they didn't. It was only a second-degree burn, but still it was bad.

Oh, yeah, that sounds terrible. Okay, I'm traumatized by that. Trina, happy new year to you, mate. Oh man, happy new year. I just had that for months. Yeah, it's a lovely, lovely to have you on. And Pairo, the greatest spillages. What have you witnessed, Trina?

Coming into town, and I was following a truck, and it was one of those huge trucks with the big metal trailers on the back of it. Like huge, and then all of a sudden, it just emptied and all this, like, awful and blood and gut. And everything just came out, went all over the road. It was driving along in front of you. Yeah, yeah, like, it was about three cars in front,

so I didn't get anything all over me, so that was great. But did the cars behind? Yeah, yeah, and then you had to drive through it. Like a horror movie. Slippery condition. Yeah. Did he press eject or something on the... Oops.

I don't know what I haven't, but it just went everywhere, And then everyone had to come clean it. Oh my goodness. That's a bad day work. It's a huge fillage. Fish tailing through blood and guts. Brilliant for you. You were just far enough away.

Yeah, yeah. It was like all this stuff on like the freezer works and that. Oh, good times. Good times. Good morning to you, Wendy. Good morning. Great to have you on. Happy New Year and everything.

I haven't heard that for a while. Thank you. No, we'll keep hearing it on this show. Now Wendy, what happened? Greatest spillage? Greatest spillage. I was probably in South Auckland following a tanker, driving along the road, pulled up to a set of lights that was sort of a little bit uphill.

The lights were red, so obviously we'd stopped, and then they turned green, and the tanker sort of jolted back a little bit and went back and forward when it took off. And what the driver wasn't aware of was that his top cap in the back of the tanker wasn't secured, and it was open. So when he took off, the liquid went forward. and then it slushed back and it gushed out the top like a geyser, landed all over my car and caught like the leading edge of my roof,

so it went all over the roof and all down the windscreen, and what I found out right then was that it was actually full of beer. So everything turned to frost and I couldn't see a thing. Oh, wow. You got showered and beer? Absolutely covered in it. Thank goodness I didn't have a sunroof of my car at the time, otherwise I would have been there.

Did you manage to pull the truck driver over? I didn't need to actually. he pulled over because he saw it out of his revision mirror when this car just disappeared into a froth and nearly took out the traffic load. He got done for drunk driving or something. Yeah. You're like, no, no.

The cops like I can smell it on you. You're like, no, it's my car. I would have failed to breath Eliza for about a week or so afterwards, probably. They were actually really good. They took my car for me and cleaned it out while I was at work and gave it back and gave me a free company t-shirt and apologize profusely. Oh, that's nice.

Have it. Have a hush t-shirt. Pretty much that would have been it Because can you imagine what it would have been If LTNZ had a Oh that'd be a New Zealandherald. combe. Yeah.

Sorry, don't you well about it But you got a T-shirt so you can't talk about it Absolutely, and I got a clean car So it was great Thank you.