Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Do Kiwis Have Empathy? No...

Episode Date: July 20, 2025

FULL SHOW: On today’s show: This episode starts with a graphic story. If you’re squeamish or eating, you might want to skip ahead. Listener discretion advised. Megan's daughter saw her first naked lady! Do our parents who aren’t on social media even know about the Coldplay couple? What's a napacino? How ben got caught wagging for the cricket Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The John O'Bannon Megan podcast thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better tea. Welcome to the podcast. We're gonna call someone back who wants to share some information on us. On us or with us? Hopefully not on us.

Hopefully not on us. It's not made time for that. I wouldn't be calling those back. This text came through Sunday morning to the HITS text machine. You can actually text the radio studio 4487 anytime you want. Six o'clock. Two days later some people will get back to you like now. Six o'clock Sunday morning to the HITS text machine. You can actually text the radio studio 4487 anytime you want. Six o'clock. Two days later some people will get back to you like now.

Six o'clock Sunday morning. Hello Andrea speaking. Andrea it's John O'Benom Egan. We're from the HITS. How are you? Good thanks. How are you? Good. Listen, just scrolling through the text machine, our text lands in the inbox six o'clock Sunday morning with I would say probably one of the most catastrophic stories I've ever read. You never told us about this.

So it was actually my partner, I just texted through. So what happened? It's a surf injury. Um, g'day. Hello. Sorry, we really caught you off guard here. What's your name? My name's Callum.

What happened to you, Callum? I was surfing down on the Cattles. Hello. Hello. Sorry, we really caught you off guard here. What's your name? My name's Callum. What happened to you, Callum? I was surfing down on the Catlin and it was early in the morning. My partner, Andrea, who's here, was still sleeping in the boot of the car. And I jumped off a wave and it's hard to explain, but the board was under the water and I was standing in shallow water and it caused the board to rocket back at my head and the center fin went under my top lip and it like surgically lifted my nose up and off my face. They thought it was blooding off the maxilla. Oh, you did touch your nose.

And then it was back into my head a little bit as well. I had like this hole going under my top lip and up into my head. And at the time it wasn't sore or painful or anything. And I went in, there's blood everywhere. And there's a lady taking a photo of the sunrise. And I was like, I think I've hurt myself. She's like, yeah, your nose is half off your face. Can you just move? I just want to get the sun. And um, she's backing away from me and I'm like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I need help. And she's like, no, it's okay. I'm a doctor. She's a doctor did you say? She was a doctor yes or a nurse or something

it was a bit of a dream come true. You're like don't back away from me then come here. Yeah come here. She takes me out to the car and we wake up my partner Andrea who's in a world of shock because I'm covered in blood and they patched up my nose and then, and my mouth, the bleeding sort of stopped. And then we're sitting there and I'm kind of thinking I'm gonna be surfing that afternoon and it's not that bad. And I've just cut my mouth or something.

And then another surfer comes in, he's also a doctor and he's like, let me take a look. And they lie me down on my back and there's about 10 surfers standing around and they lift up the top lip and everyone just gasps and freaks out and he's like, bro, you need to go to the hospital now. Oh my God, your nose wasn't attached to your face. So it was just like, it was just resting on your... Yeah, like it's, you know, if you lift up your top lip, there's like a little flap of skin there.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, God. Like that was all gone. Oh, so... Okay, so they managed to put your nose like Mr. Potato Head. They got your nose back in the right position. Yeah, that's different. My smile is slightly different.

And if I shake my head, I can feel my nose wobbling around more. Really? Apart from that, can you smell? Is it all kind of work like it used to? It's sweet, yeah. The only chance that my front teeth could die eventually if the root canal's been damaged I think. Gotcha. I can get new ones of those. It's blowing your nose and all that sort of thing. What about sneezing? Are you like, whoa, that was a big one.

As if I'm running or I lean over forward, I can really feel like... Oh my god. Oh my god. It feels sort of numb and it feels like it jiggles around a little more. I reckon that would be a first and probably a last in the world of injuries. It's pretty unique. For it to happen like that too, right? Yeah.

Yeah, it's very unique. Very unique. Do you still surf? Yeah, yeah. I was back in the water about four weeks after, and it definitely shook me up. It took me a while to get my confidence back, but yeah, I'm surfing a lot.

That is a traumatic story. out like it took me a while to sort of get my confidence back but yeah I'm certainly like... That's a traumatic story. That's what everyone wants when your lips bleeding and you're like ouch and then everyone looks at you and goes GASP! You're like oh god that's not what you want. When everyone's asking that it was quite funny. That is, yeah well hey listen thank you so much for sharing that and I'm glad you're okay and keep safe, keep safe out there.

Hey, nice to meet you. See you mate. See you mate. See you mate. Enjoy the podcast. Wow, what a start. Oh my god. I forgot we were doing the podcast, that story was so gross than that, that was incredible.

John O'Bannon Megan. The Podcast. The Hats. I did have a good weekend actually, we took the kids away on a little road trip Well you did you sit on Friday. What's everyone doing for the weekend? You didn't really care what our answers were you just wanted to tell us brag about your weekend Oh great great great yeah cuz I'm doing this Yeah, we went away on a road trip to Rotorua

Beautiful weather Was it a hashtag sponsored road trip with the Cuz you got a hashtag sponsored scrota car to drive away in. It was all gifted. I mean sure, but it's not what I was gonna even bring that up. It's nothing to do with my story. That's fine, continue on with the sellout tour. But we went to a, I don't think it's gonna bring the place into disrepute. We went to the Polynesian Spa. Oh yeah. I do love the Polynesian Spa. It's the natural thermal stuff.

Yep, good sell. Yeah, good sell. Isn't that great? I think you're the right place in the grand building. Yeah. Is that the one? What's a grand body mean? Like a big building.

Grand, like old-timely building. Is that, yeah. At the end of, yeah. Okay, cool. So we really got, obviously we had to split up like boys and girls and to get changed into the changing rooms. So I took my daughter, who is two,

into the changing rooms. And we were getting dressed and everything, and you know there's people in there that don't have any qualms, which is getting naked. Yeah, that's fine. Getting naked. I mean that's what the rooms are for if you wanna, you know. Yeah, and then I thought about it, I was like, I don't know if my

daughter's seen anyone else naked apart from like me and her dad. Yeah. So we're... Well you grew up around naked people, didn't you? Yeah, I used to see like lots of naked people all the time. Well there's Derek the accountant. Yeah, but she, we were getting undressed and she was kind of staring and I was like, oh, trying to not be like, don't stare, but I was trying to, you know, move her away. And she was chatting to the woman and she said, mommy's got those. What parts was she referring to? She was pointing to the chest. She was pointing to the chest.

And I was like, okay, please stop there. Please stop there. Mommy's got those. And I was like okay please stop there please stop there mommy's got those and she was like does she she said to the woman but yours are long time and not time and a bow what a compliment what a call you in the mail changer room there'd be a compliment. Yeah, that's what I'd love to hear in the mail changer room. Oh yeah.

But yours is longer. Not when referring to boobs. Yeah, it's too long. I just kind of was like, oh okay, and I shudder away and was like, bury me in a hole. Bury you with a mud mud mask or something. I've never gotten dressed so fast. It was really good. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The Hits. We're still talking about the world are still making memes and all sorts about the Coldplay couple. All right, come on. You're okay? Oh what? Either they're having an affair or they're just very shy. And he's resigned from the job now, the CEO, and really, geez, it came hard, it came fast,

and it united the world, didn't it, this story? Very messy situation all around. Destroyed two families. Public shaming of these people as well. I feel bad. There's part of me that does feel sorry for them even though they were doing something morally not great. Yeah there's that and then there's also really funny memes. Yeah I'm looking. I do feel sorry for them but jeez I'm laughing. There's a lot of funny stuff coming through.

It seemed like, open your phone though and it was non-stop over the weekend and it has not stopped. Producer Troy who's new to the show, you were saying even your grandma in grey mouth? Yeah I had a phone call with her and she says have you seen this Coldplay thing? She's not even on the internet. Not even on the internet. So how has she seen it? I asked her if she's seen it and she said oh your uncle showed me this thing. I heard someone at the supermarket yesterday in the other aisle going, talking to someone, have you seen this thing? They were shocked and I got to watch his face in real time as he got to see it for the first time. Yeah so we want to do a social experiment,

has this, is this the biggest thing ever to happen to the internet and we wanted to phone a couple of our mums we're gonna phone Ray Ray your mum first Megan we called her. Because the mums know it. Doesn't have Facebook, doesn't have social media. Yeah we called her during the ads here's how that went. What are we reckon about Ray way? Ray way. I don't reckon because she's not on social media. Oh, OK. But she's across the news, though, isn't she? Yeah. Hello, speaking. Good morning, mum.

Good morning. How are you? I'm freezing my tits off. Oh, there we go. By the way, we're on the radio right now. We know you're like, everybody's got tits. You're a natureist. I know you are from time to time.

Are you currently, well, I'm going to ask your mum if she's currently nude. Are you nude at the moment? God no. Okay. No, these aren't ideal naturist conditions. It's cold. To your thingy bobs when they get cold.

Yeah, no. Yeah, I imagine. Okay. We wanted to ask you about something, didn't we Megan? We did. If it's rude, crude and horrible, I don't do that. If I said Coldplay, the band. Oh, he's gorgeous.

Okay. Was it the first thing that you had last, he's gorgeous. Okay. Wasn't the first thing that you had last seen over Chris Martin. Okay. Have you heard the news about the couple at the Coldplay concert? Yeah, it wasn't me. I wish it wasn't me. It wasn't you. Okay.

So you have heard, cause we wanted to see if everyone, including like yourself, who's not really on the internet, had heard about the Coldplay couple. Excuse me, but I have the internet. Oh, don't even have the feed to do it. I've seen have the internet. Oh don't you? I've read about it. Wow. Because mum's not on social media she doesn't have Instagram. But she has the internet Megan. Don't you make claims that Ray Ray doesn't have internet. Do you feel sorry for them? If he, if he, if he asked his wife if she wanted to go and she didn't want to go. It was a work thing he couldn't get a plus one. It was where he had his hands, if he asked his wife if she wanted to go and she didn't want to go. It was a work thing. He couldn't get a plus one. But it was where he had his hands.

His hands weren't appropriate. Yeah, it was kind of, you know, below the belly button and just above the, uh, it's kind of like a grope. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. Well, there we go.

Ray Ray, you're well done. Ray Ray. Yeah, I got you. Okay. Okay. Bye. Bye. Yeah, so we're going to call, uh, Jenny Boyce in the far north as the news travels to the top of the country.

Mum will see you a little bit over at social media. She'll sort of go, feel like at some stage she'll go through and go, oh, it's my social media time and then suddenly I'll get a barrage of likes and comments all at once. She'll probably get comments on Ben saying, you're looking tired Ben. Yeah, she'll say something, yeah. Jenny. Mum, mum, good morning. Yeah. Jenny. Hello. Mum, mum. Good morning. Good morning, good morning. Sorry for the early morning call.

We're just doing something on the show. We just wanted to find out if I said the couple at Coldplay, does that mean anything to you? Well, it does. Yes, I saw that and I was very sad for them to be caught out. Oh, there we go. Jenny. Two from two.

Two from two. You do? Yeah. Well, yeah, go. Oh, Jimmy! Two from two. Two from two, you do. Yeah. Well, yeah, cause we've been talking about that this morning. Yeah. While they were doing something wrong, you feel a little bit sad that they've been ridiculed. Yes. Oh, I just think so.

Yes. It's very invasive, this new technology. You don't need it. But he was cheating on his wife. Well, we don't know that. No, I think we do now. I think we do now. This is like when you had a family member who was a big backer of Lance Armstrong.

We don't know, we weren't there. No, but that's very sweet. We can see where Ben gets his energy from. We don't know their relationship. Maybe it was like a Hall Pass night, Coldplay. We never know, but it's sad. It's out on the open. You can't get away with anything actually these days. You can't Jenny, no you can't.

Maybe, well, she was in HR, she was, you know, displaying what not to do in the workplace. Yeah, a demonstrational video for everyone. This is, hey guys, is this appropriate? No, no, no. Yeah. It won't be touching. Mum, you've heard about it. Okay.

That's good. Okay. Too good, litmus test. Yeah, good. All right. Have a great day. Here we go. Jono, Ben and Yeah, okay. We won't be touching it. Mum, you've heard about it. Okay, that's good. Too good, let us test. Yeah, good. All right, have a great day. And here we go. Jono, Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats.

Warriors charging through, Hellasima, Hellasima has gone for the Warriors! Unbelievable! Stupendous moment! Rugby League! Stupendous moment! Rugby League! Stupendous. He was just plucking words out of the air, wasn't he? I know, you keep listening to the commentator, but the horn in the back and that like echoes through the stadium. It was an amazing moment. It's the Warriors won right on full time. They snatched the win right there. It was incredible.

19 year old Lekha Hallucina who's um cheese what were you doing at 19? I think I just learned to tie my shoelaces. Not that, not that. I mean you look back at it yeah. I was still in uni eating like noodles with tomato sauce on top. Not like winning games. Sounds delicious. I might try that tonight. I was calling out that number where you could get that $300 for that you know the student loan. The what? Oh! Not a party loan or anything like that. Hot gossip. That wasn't hot gossip. You get $300.

We have a hot gossip. Course-related costs. We didn't have to justify it to anyone. You're like, hey, I can put it in your account. That seems like a wild time for the government. Stupid. You just phone up a line and go, can I have $300? And they're like, yep, no questions asked.

Well, I mean, you had to pay it back eventually. But at the time, you didn't care about that. The thing is, he's 19 now and he's doing amazing. He has spent years getting to this point. He's got a lot of experience. He's got a lot of experience. He's got a lot of experience. He's got a lot of experience. He's got a lot you didn't care about that. The thing is, he's 19 now, and he's doing amazing. He has spent years getting to this point as well.

So there's been a lot of focus during his teenage years to get to this point. I contributed nothing to society between the ages of 13 and 19. Actually, between the ages of 20 and 44 as well, I also contributed nothing to society. Incredible. So this is what we want to open up. Were you a teen sensation? What did you achieve as a teenager? Yeah, just an amazing achievement that you're like, wow, I look back on it and go, that was an incredible moment.

Maybe you met someone famous, maybe you just. That's not a teen sensation if you've met someone famous. No, it's a sensational thing for a teen to do. We're setting the bar low, mate. Last week we spoke to a dad who, him and his son were playing golf and they both, I think it's a world first, won in a 17 million chance. They both got a hole in one on the same hole, one after the other. Have a listen.

We actually didn't see it go in the hole. We knew it was going to be very good. And then my younger son, who's 15, Eric, walked up and he's like, oh there are two right here. We said something I can't say out loud on the radio and we walked over and we looked at it and we just went ballistic. We went nuts. It was incredible.

So teenagers getting a hole in one. There you go. That could make a movie that, couldn't it? Be a short movie. Oh yeah. Good shot. You too. Good shot. Roll credits.

That's all the attention span we've got these days so that would probably be a great movie. Hey so what did you achieve as a teenager? What was the amazing thing that you've done? We'd love to hear from you today. Teen sensation or not Megan? I went to rowing nationals. I mean we didn't like come anywhere. You told me about what you're sitting for. Something happened at rowing nationals didn't it? The hijinks you got up to at Rowing Nationals? Yes, but that's one of those stories that's not fair.

Oh, that's right. There's a part of me going, I don't know if I was meant to mention that. It's a good story. I mean, it has nothing to do with coming anywhere on the course. Like, we didn't do well in the rowing. But you're a teenage sensation, put it that way. She could have been a teenage mother. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hats.

The Warriors had a great win last night and 19 year old Leka Halasima was the match winner. Yeah. Helen Sieber! Helen Sieber has scored for the Warriors! Unbelievable! Stupendous moment! Rugby League! It's almost like the survivor sounds, you know, that horn in the background. That horn is like... An amazing moment for a teenager as well. Life is... I don't want to say life's peaked for the guy because I feel like it's going to get even better and better. It's not even a normal try. Like that's a try right on full time that clinched it for everyone.

And just getting through about five or six defenders. It's just amazing. Amazing moment as a teenager. So we wanted to know, what did you achieve while you achieve? What you're still a teenager. Yeah. Did you do anything special? No, no, no, mate. You set the school hall on fire with Michael Jackson. Yeah, well, I could have thought of that before because I taught Michael Jackson dance routine. Michael Jackson, of course, in the song, the song I set the hall on fire to is in this round of the best song ever. Yeah, thriller.

Thriller. Yeah, thriller, mate. Taking on pink at the moment. Yeah. And you. That was me trying to like, I should just explain just quickly because I've told the story quite a lot, but you know, like I was trying to bring fireworks into my individual dance routine at school and I didn't think about the consequences of letting off fireworks

inside a school hall. So that's what happened. Well, you know, Lekker's Try and your performance, both memorable moments. Résumétaise, both, yeah, both moments. Teen sensations. That's what they call me. Fiona, now your grandmother came up with something pretty special when she was a teenager. She invented the what?

The indicator. And she sold it to Ford. No way. Obviously for a very low price, but yeah, she did. It was all the paperwork was officially assigned and stuff and we have it somewhere. Wow, so the indicators we use today all over the world was your great-great-grandmother. Was it the one, you know how they used to like stick a little arm out? Yeah, they slicked it out.

Yeah, a really old school first one. So that's what she invented? Yeah. Amazing. She sold it for a very low price to Ford. Old Henry, Henry came in he drove a hard bargain I'll give you a shilling and a bloody bit of aniseed or something. How much did she sell it for? I'm not 100% sure because I've never seen the paperwork but it was with my great-grandma's things. Inflation too, you know, we're talking about inflation. Yeah, like £20. But that is pretty incredible though.

Was it something that the family were, oh, you'd be proud of, or was one of those things later you're like... All of us grandkids will know about it. Oh, that's cool. No, her name was Lillian. I can't remember her last name, actually. Yeah, so she sold it to Ford. Oh, wow.

I don't think it's in any official paperwork about the thing, but we've got the paperwork and we've got the paperwork. I can't remember her last name actually. Yeah, so she sold it to Ford. Oh, wow. I don't think it's in any official paperwork about the thing, but we've got the paperwork of selling the idea. Wow, that's very cool. That's really, really special. And every time you use the indicator,

well, that's a lot of times, though. Do you think of your great-great-grandmother every time you use the indicator, or just sort of every now and then? Every now and then. Yeah. Well, Grandma would have liked this left turn. Yeah. Yeah. It need to know them again. Yeah, like, your grandma would have liked this left turn.

It cares morning to you. Teen sensation we understand. What did you do? More than that. Oh hi, I went to Australia, to the Kimberley Ranges when I was 16, and I went cane toad hunting. Wow. What, how do you catch cane toads?

You put them in a bag and then you gas them. Oh, okay. I was thinking as you asked that question, Megan, I was like, I don't know if I want to hear the answer to this. And I definitely didn't. And she, what a dream, what a dream. I'm going to say they're pests and I don't want you to say they're not pests in case this is not the answer. So they're pests and they need to do this. They are definitely pests.

They can kill crocodiles. Thank you. There you go. Wow. Yeah. They don't pay taxes. They troll people on the internet. They're terrible.

You even flicked the they need to do this. They are definitely pests, they can kill crocodiles. Thank you. Wow! They don't pay taxes, they troll people on the internet, they're terrible. You even flew specifically over there to do that. Wow. Was this some sort of sick twisted dream of yours and now you're in a maximum security prison as an adult? No, I was doing my Duke of Edinburgh award and I wanted to do something a little bit different and I knew that there were pests in Australia so I thought, you know what, let's do it, let's go. Boy, you did do something different. That's a cherry dot for a moment. Is this for an application for the Duke of Edinburgh Award?

No, so there's different levels and different things you have to do like volunteer work and that's what I chose to do with my volunteer work. And did you win the award? Yeah, I did. I've got all three. I've got my silver, bronze, silver, and gold. Oh, well, congratulations on that. Knock off a few cane tits, and look what happens.

Yeah, do you keep count of how many? Oh, no. No, and I don't eat meat anymore. I'm vegan now as well, so I feel terrible. But. That's a great call. You're going to have a wonderful day Cas, you teen sensation. Jono, Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats.

Hey, I was talking to someone here from work, Sarah who's upstairs, on Friday. Yeah. She said, I'm going to have a nappuccino today. A nappuccino? Never heard of a nappuccino. She's like do you want to know my theory? So what she does, you know the 20-minute nap which is highly publicized that it you know it recharges your batteries 20 minutes. You actually feel really good after a 20 minute. As long as you can cap it at 20 minutes. Yeah, you don't want to get that sleep cycle ticking over but so what she does with the nappuccino is she

she shotguns in a espresso coffee. Right. Really strong coffee. I have no part in coffee. I'm Dilmar Hardt, tea running through my veins. When I go to the toilet, tea falls off. Just tea. That's how much tea I've got. But I was like, okay, coffee.

So she shotguns a coffee, boom, then she's like, this is pivotal. You need to get to sleep immediately. And then you have your 20 minutes sleep. 20 minutes is the time for the caffeine to kick in. Then by the time you've woken up, boy oh boy. You've had caffeine and a snick, a snick. A cappuccino.

I like the name. You've whiplashed both ends of the spectrum, haven't you? You've had your sleep and you're ready to cook it 20 minutes later. The trouble is, like the smell of coffee is like psychosomatic for me, because you'll be like, right, I've sniffed it even on the way. And going to sleep, putting pressure on yourself to go to sleep, that psychosomatic for me, because you'll be like, right, I've sniffed it even on the way.

And going to sleep, putting pressure on yourself to go to sleep, that's too hard for me. As soon as you start going, go to sleep, go to sleep, it doesn't work. No. Give it an appicino and go to sleep. Just give it a go. She's mastered it.

She got down to a fine hour. She's like, every minute counts. Sorry, you're just... Puts a lot of pressure around to sleep. You're right, Ben. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Lookingo, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hats.

Looking at your phone and the internet over the weekend, you just could not escape the couple that were caught on the big screen at Coldplay. Oh look at these two. All right, come on. You're okay? They're canoodling and they hide from the camera. Even if they're having an affair, well it's a great show. You probably have seen the clip. And it seemed like they were having an affair.

He's a CEO, she's HR. I feel like we're explaining a story that the whole world knows. He's not CEO anymore. No. He resigned. What do you think about that? They probably just could not continue on. Because isn't there a clause in contracts if you've brought the company into disrepute?

You have to say that was some of the greatest disrepute you could bring a company into. Oh, Jesus. We all know what a Stromer is now, don't we? Never heard of the Blades thing. I know, yeah. Yeah, so Coldplay carried on their concerts over the weekend and I was like, will they do another segment? Yeah, because they do it every time on the show they put people up on the screen.

Would they do it again? Well, here's Chris Martin from Coldplay giving everyone a nice little warning. We'd like to say hello to some of you in the crowd. How we're gonna do that is we're gonna use our cameras and put some of you on the big screen. Just explaining exactly so everyone knows exactly what's going on. If you haven't done your makeup, do your makeup then. I've seen signs of the audience where it's like he's not my CEO pointing to the person they're with.

It was relentless. Like mascots doing it in sports games over there in America. It was just everywhere. It reminded me of, I think I've mentioned this before, but going to the cricket when I was a big fan of cricket. I actually asked my mum, thinking back then I asked my mum, I was like, hey, can I go to the cricket? She was kind of like, you know, different time.

It was on a school day, so me and a couple of mates, we drove over to Wellington, went to the cricket. Obviously the school didn't know. And I remember the camera guy coming really close to us filming at the Basin Reserve and we were like, go away, go away. Was he like in your grill? And it was like right up in there, we were like, oh geez. Hiding your face in there.

Yeah, and it wasn't on internet days back then so we didn't know if we'd made it until we got to school the next day and the deputy principal was waiting for me and my mates. He was like, come here. Went into like the school hall, he's like, we saw you on TV at the cricket yesterday. And it's a headquarter. So he's watching the cricket. That's what I was about to say. He's watching cricket during school hours. At the lunch break, he's like watching in the school, the staff room, saw you guys at the cricket and we're like, oh, our parents said it was okay. He's like, no, the school

didn't. So we got in trouble. So yeah, we got in trouble for that other thing. We got attention. But I remember the funniest moment was, because we were late to class and he's like I'm gonna need to write a note for you guys to get back to class do you have any paper? My friend bought out his cricket ticket. That was a ballsy move in that situation. He was like oh you can write on that and I was like woah yeah so there you go. That camera operator 100% knew what he was up to. Oh yeah, totally. Yeah, exactly. So not quite the same as being caught busted having an affair at a Coldplay concert, but you know.

Just as embarrassing. Jono, Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. And you had a dinner discussion. It was an interesting discussion about it. It was definitely two camps when it comes to that. Oh look at these two. Alright, come on. You okay? Uh oh, what? It was an interesting discussion about it was definitely two camps when it comes to that. Alright, come on, you okay?

Uh oh, what? Either they're having an affair or they're just great shots. I can't think of anything in recent times that's gone more viral than that. Even the Hawke Tour was like this is a... The world needed to be brought together on something. And this, I'm sorry for these two but it really has united the globe hasn't it? It's just been doom and gloom news for a while, we needed something funny and it's probably

not funny for them. We'll get to that after seven because you wanted to look right now at other intimate moments. Our other viral moments because Troy was like my grandmother who doesn't, who's not even on the internet has heard about it and some of the greatest moments that the engineers provided these two sweet girls were like they were singing Cheryl Cole to their camera in their bedroom yeah very heartwarming and the mum burst in it was like a live stream weren't they? I think they were live. It was like in the early days of the internet recording. I think they got unfortunately for them they went live. Stream

Wholesome wholesome If somebody not know how to flush a toilet after they've had a s*** Is it me? Well it was s*** one of yous DISGUSTING Disgusting! Disgusting! And you know every parent's probably had that conversation in their household No until later she'd be like what? You went live? What's live mean? Because you're right it's at a time when people were probably getting their head around what a live stream was.

I'm just going to tell the kids off right now. Well that was one of ya' aunts! That's disgusting! And then another one is from the news. Have you heard of the news? Have you heard of the news? And it was an unfortunate incident going on in a neighbourhood, but this guy went completely viral. Millions and millions of views. Obviously we have a w*** in Lincoln Park. He's climbing in your windows, he's snatching your people up, trying to f*** them.

So y'all need to hide your kids, hide your wife, and hide your hood because they're f***ing everybody out here. He was very charismatic. He was like remixes, like songs made with him. He's a substitute teacher now. Oh is he? Antoine, yeah. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The hat. Now it seems like you can't escape this on the internet. Everywhere, it's everywhere. Everyone is talking about it. End of last week, the couple that were at the Coldplay concert got put on the big screen. They had the reaction like, oh, we shouldn't be canoodling and the internet... Oh, it's a decent one.

Alright, come on. You're okay? Oh, what? No! Either they're having an affair or they're just very shy. I saw someone put it in reverse and they're like, generous gentleman tying his shoes. Consoles sobbing lady. it makes her happy again. It has gone nuts, hasn't it? The internet has just feels like everyone is bandied together

on this one. There's memes going on, there's all sorts. It's great, like there's been so much crazy divisive stuff happening in the world at the moment but this has united everyone. Everyone. You know, two people had to be sacrificed for billions. And that's the thing, even Coldplay, they've carried on with their concerts and this was Chris Martin from Coldplay's warning about the cameras. I'd like to say hello to some of you in the crowd. How we're going to do that is we're going to use our cameras and put some of you on the big screen. We're going to use our cameras and put some of you on the big screen. And as I said before, it was relentless. We had sports games over the weekend all around the world. They were putting, they were like Coldplay Cam and stuff like that.

Everyone's reenacting it on the cameras. There's so many different memes. There's so many things that are going on. And the internet moves so fast. And I guess eventually it will move on. But we had an interesting debate Friday, Saturday night. We're out with some friends and it was like, do you feel, there's sort of two camps, there was some that feel sorry for them because I mean no one's excusing if they were cheating,

you know, no one's saying that morally wrong but they haven't done anything illegal but they've just been just, these people, they've lost jobs. He's had to step down, no doubt she'll have to step down. Yeah, you think about their family situations as well. It's just such a public ridicule, public shaming for something that, yeah, okay. Karma came in hard, but was a little too hard. Well that's the thing. It's like, you know, and you always said, I don't want to throw out like this lightly, but mental health is always something that you consider when some people are in that

state as well, you know. That's going to be a very vulnerable time for them over the next few weeks. You do hope they are getting... Because I would, I couldn't cope with that. Like who could cope with that? The whole world making jokes about you. And that's the thing, like I hope that they have just turned off the internet for a bit and just ignored everything that's going on and maybe spent time with their families.

And normally when something like this happens... I don't know if the families want to spend time... No, that's the thing. Normally when something like this happens... Not the carner. Normally families want to spend time. That's the thing. Normally that's when this happens. Not the partner. Normally you know like, because it's salacious news. It's not, normally it becomes like, oh this story. But it's like the Herald are running it. Like all the big publications are running this, you know, and the stories and updates. It's not just on sites, you know,

like... And you can't move anywhere because it's everywhere. Oh, everyone. So yeah. It's not like some domestic news. But do you feel sorry for them or are you like the other camper friends that we were talking to? They were like, well, no, they did something wrong. They knew they were in a public place.

They weren't trying to really hide it. There could have been people from work that could have seen them, you know, like all people that knew his wife or whatever. That's a fair point. Yeah, they were like, they did something wrong. They were doing it publicly. The risk was always there. The risk was there.

Then people, some people were like, oh, we don't feel sorry for them. Unfortunately. But two things can be true, I think. Both of those are right. Like you can feel sorry for them and like that's obviously more radical than what people would get usually if they're found out cheating.

But also they were in a public place. And Chris Martin warns you, cause we went to that concert and he's like, I'm going to cut to people. And they weren't even the first. There were people before them. They might've been passionate or something. Hands off if you're having an affair.

Yeah. You know, you can step away by a couple of metres, keep your distance. Well, Megan, you're saying option A and option B are both right but that doesn't work well for radio. What we need is solid yes or no. Are you sorry for them or are you not? I'm feeling sorry for them. Even though morally, I'm feeling like, okay, the ridicule's pretty crazy. I know, but if we think of them just as characters and not as people, the ridicule's super fun. Yeah, it is fun, yeah.

There's some funny memes. It's better to think of people as characters, you're right. They can make you sleep at night. Or are you like, well, they were cheating, they're in a public place, a very public place, and doing it, should, you know, that's fine. Let's... I do, yeah.

I, I know we need opposing views, but I think I feel sorry for them. I do. I feel sorry for them. I actually feel more sorry for the families. Yes. They have been dragged into the international shit store. Jono, Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats.

Talking about the couple that were caught on the screen at a Coldplay concert, looking a little embarrassed from their embrace and it seems like they were having an affair and the whole world has really jumped on this and there's been some funny memes, there's been some stuff going out there but there is... Powerful tool the internet is it? But you know within the space of I think 60 seconds of the video going up people have done research, gone onto the LinkedIn pages, you know relationship statuses, they've been messaging the wives and the other partners, relationship statuses, they'd been messaging the wives

and the other partners, like just taking it upon themselves to play detective. I know, but there is, you know, and I said over the weekends we're out for dinner and that came up in the conversation of things that are happening on the week. And there were people, you know, like myself, they're feeling a bit of sympathy towards them, you know, feeling like maybe they don't deserve

this level of public shaming. But in the same time, they were still doing something wrong. And there's a lot of people that are like, well, no, you're in a public place doing something wrong. You get what you get. Yeah, I just think about the worst case scenario in these situations. And you need, and then if that happens, then everyone's going to go, oh, yeah, yeah. Nothing illegal, they didn't do anything illegal. No, I mean good people make bad mistakes. All the time. And if you've ever been in a situation where you've done something where a lot of people have piled in on you, you can maybe understand that it feels overwhelming and like all consuming.

That happened to you when you married Andrew as a teenager. People piled in on you. But no seriously your relationship was out there and being judged. Yeah yeah, a call to cougar it's not so much a thing anymore but at the time everyone's like what does she want with a young guy? I was like god he's 10 years younger than me. Is there a sympathy out there for them at all or not? Candice, let's go to Candice. Welcome, what do you reckon? Absolutely no sympathy whatsoever.

Nothing, so you just like black and white, they were cheating, they shouldn't have been doing it. I think it's glorious that they got caught the way they did. I feel sorry for the partners. Yeah, and the kids. I think we all agree on that. Only people I feel sorry for. Candice Yeah, and the kids. I think we all agree on that. Only people I feel sorry for. Candice is chucking out a glorious, glorious the way they got caught.

Couldn't have scripted it. I do like it when people get found out in the most epic ways. And the car is no more epic than that. Poor Chris Martin, the loveliest guy in the world, be like, oh jeez, I really outed them. Carol, morning to you. Are you feeling sorry for the Coldplay canoodling couple?

No. No sympathy at all. Wow. No? That's a hard one. Carol, we're going to hook you up. Maybe we're soft touches. Yeah, maybe we are.

We're going to hook you up with a Cabri price pack. You need to hit the cabri. Trytime.co.nz to be in to win your share of $50,000. Enjoy. Carol, have you had this happen in your life? Yes, I have. Oh. OK.

And what happened? Oh well I found out that my ex was cheating, my ex husband was cheating on me. Some friends told me and I didn't want to believe them. And then I found out that it was true. He was cheating on me with a friend of mine. Oh my gosh. Geez. So that's why I have no sympathy for anyone. Yeah, and I imagine that comes with a level of embarrassment for you, that all this stuff's

been going on, people have known about it behind your back. Yeah, but the best thing I did was I had the courage to get up and walk out. Got on ya, got on ya. And your friendship, is that, I suppose that was a day of gonna wasn't it? Uh, well we're sorta, he lives in the South Island now and I live in the North Island and we sorta talk if we

run into each other if I'm down visiting my daughter but we don't go out of our way for each other, that's for real. And you moved on with someone else Carol? Oh he has but they those relationships haven't worked out either. Listen thank you for sharing and being so open this morning we'll take one more quickly Casey the Coldplay couple have you got sympathy? Honestly I'm kind of for 50-50. 50-50 okay. Not necessarily sympathy for them They were doing something pretty wrong in my opinion.

I really don't think that I tell you what I don't have something for your phone. You're shocking phone. They're Casey. Your phone's doing your dirty. Yeah. Someone's saying on the text, it should be between the two couples that said that it affects their jobs, which is interesting because they got it. Yeah. One's already gone from their job. It's kind of a grey area, right? Because you're not supposed to bring your company into disrepute and he's a CEO.

So he's supposed to set a certain level. She's the human rights. Well, we all know what the company is now too, so maybe it's a great marketing campaign. It's out there. International marketing campaign. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hit.

Megan went off on some hashtag sponsored hashtag gifted experience as well. She wanted to rub our faces in. Went down and did some time in Rotorua. It's always a great place to go. Luge? Yeah we did the luge. Zorb? No, zorb.

Swing? No, no god no. That's not really your thing is it?? No, Polynesian Spa tech. Oh nice, oh very nice. Nice weekend to have producer Troy, you're new to the show and last week, you told us you had a dream for many years. Yes, ever since I moved to Auckland

three or four years ago. You're from Greymouth? From Greymouth. We don't have one of these in Greymouth, an ice rink. No ice skating in Greymouth, why you just skate down the street I guess? It feels like in the wintertime time maybe you could do that anywhere. Yeah it's pretty chilly there for like a great place.

Yeah we haven't got like a circle with barriers. So yeah the whole place is an ice skating rink in winter. There's lots of them that happen around the country as well sometimes in winter they have the outdoor one as well don't they and there's one in Auckland I feel like there's one in Wellington. There's one a beautiful one in Queenstown somewhere at the moment You know, there's ones around the country. You've never done one of these. Well every year I've seen that the ice rink in Altair Square pop up Yeah, that would be so cool to go to but for the last three years, I've been a single man Single single white male. That's not that's not that's no place for a single white male in an ice skating rink

No, and I was saying this to you last week. It's hard to get the boys to go with you Come on boys let's go ice skating together You can't get a cute pic No you can't and so I haven't been able to go because I feel weird going alone I understand and this is the first year I've been in a relationship and you know The ice rink's been up and so I thought finally I can live out my dream Everything's in a line I'm not looking like a pest in the ice rink's been up. And so I thought, finally, I can live out my dream. Everything's in a line.

I'm not looking like a pest at an ice rink. Come with a couple. You can borrow some kids. At some stage, if you want to go down. And my girlfriend, Niamh, she's keen. She's like, yep, let's go this weekend. It's the last weekend that the ice rink is up. It's done now.

Final chance. And I got home from work on Friday and she had rolled her ankle. Now do you think genuinely rolled her ankle or was she like having the second thoughts about ice skating? It came right pretty quick on Sunday. Oh no! You're like, are you good to go now? Ice skating? We can strap that up! We can get into the physio! Does she know how big of a dream this is of yours?

I did try to tell her but I was like, no it's okay. You rolled your ankle, we'll rest up, elevate that. You'll be all right. But you've gotta stay with me for another year at least. Yeah, until next year. I did it over the weekend as well. Oh, you went? I went, I went. He fulfilled his dream.

He helped me everything. They had a DJ in the middle of the ice. And he was barricaded, and of course, cause he didn't want anyone, I was like, that's kinda cool. So yeah, it was, yeah. That sounds so fun. Talk ice to him, mate.

Hey, look, I'll go with you next year. You and I are going to have a boys night of the ice skating off. No shame in that for me, mate. Lock it in. Did you fall over, or you're pretty handy on that? No, I'm not very handy as well. And it was because it was just about, they need to, every now and again, smooth it out.

So there was quite a few ice divots and stuff. I struggled a wee bit with that. There are people that come and they do amazing tunes and stuff too. How are these people doing that here? It's a volatile environment for the unprofessional ice skater.