Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Drinking 10-Year-Old Jono and Ben V

Episode Date: October 21, 2025

On today’s show: Megan’s naturist parents visit, and she came to her dad covered in blood!  Jono accidentally pulled the leaver and opened his boot on the motorway! Ben reveals his stepdad tried the 10-year-old Jono and Ben V's Listener calls reveal shocking expiry date eating... from green cheese to 20-year-old jelly. We chat to a principal about KidsCan’s impact on hungry and cold students across Aotearoa. Producer Troy shocks the team with his minimalist underwear lifestyle.. Listeners weigh in with their own undie counts, including a dairy farmer with only three. A relationship dilemma: should he stay in NZ for his new life or return to the US for his wife? Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFAST Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thanks to Hello Fresh podcast, thanks to DILMA. Goodness really does taste great. Dillmer, making the world a better tea. Hey, welcome to the podcast. Good to have you on. Ben Boys, just delivering burgers to the masters out in the office there. Oh, sorry, then I got talking to one of our, you know, one of our bosses here, the rest of the center. How's the wrist again?

Oh, no, she won't, yeah, talking, we'll take it. We'll take this offline. Shop, talking shop. Yeah, talking some stuff about what we need to do on Friday. Oh, okay, great. Yeah, we're going to be at Rainbow's End. We're going to be riding the pirate ship, the brand new pirate ship, debuting it, taking it on its maiden, straddling it over the seven seas which just happened to be the southern motorway but it's

going to be a great time now we did get talking in today's podcast about producer troy who only has seven pairs of underpants which seems like risky business it does does yeah yeah not enough high stress uh you've been sick for the last three days yeah how many underpants have you gone through just a normal amount to be honest we're wearing jammies oh yeah of course That means the whole... It's true. So, yeah, just to... I don't think every time you get sick,

you go through multiple pairs of underpads. Shit yourself all the time. It might have happened like once or twice in my life, you know? Like, but it's not even if I was sick, you're like, well, she's got a bathroom. I hope you got three bathrooms at home, you know? What am I doing? Like, how often are you like, yeah? I can't actually remember the last time I mean, no.

Yeah, yeah. So, I know why we've been thinking that, you know? Just been mowing through underpants, throwing them out the window. Yeah. Okay, well, that's good. That's good to know. But we had to get talking about, has anyone got any less pairs of underpants than seven, then producer Troy? Now, Tee joins us.

Good to have you on, T. Here, good a day. Lovely to have you on. Now, how many pairs of underpants do you own? Zilch. You don't own a single pair of, none, none at all. None. I haven't since I was 13 years old.

How old are you now? 34. Wow. What about, like, shorts? Like, you don't wear stubbies for your job? Do you? Not for my job, but I do wear stubbies. Just got to watch who you wear them around here.

Yeah, yeah, you definitely do. Do they end up dangling? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I actually had an incident with one of my last bosses. He tried to wedge me up onto the block one day and I wondered why he screamed as he threw me up the wall and I didn't realize about five minutes later. Yeah, yeah, he saw something that he doesn't really want to see. Oh well, that'll teach him. And what, well, as a pre-tail or as a teenager, you know, as a teenager, you know, you know,

You just went, listen, undies are not for me, too constricting. I got, because we wore lots of shorts back in those days, and they was like silk, and they were quite bloody annoying and itchy, and you'd be getting stuck up your ass, and I just got a stick of pulling them out, and you get holes in them, then your berries hang out, and I was like, I'm just going to commando. Good on you. Was Davenport, the brand of underpants that you might have back in the day?

Did you have those Davenport ones with the Looney Tunes and stuff on them? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did. I've had all sorts of, yeah. Daffy Duck. Yeah, Mickey Mouse and that year. But you're right, the silk is a terrible, terrible fabric for boxer shorts, because they do. Why did they ever invent silk boxers? Oh, crap.

Yeah, they were. And I think they were meant to sort of be romantic in some capacity. Also, either ride up and, like, it would look like you're like a heavyweight boxer underneath your school shorts. They'll be up around your belly button. This is very high. But then what is the difference between wearing, like, boxes under your shorts? You know, like, it's not holding anything in.

I think there was the silk that was the issue. That's why they would ride up. Is that what you were asking? No, but I mean, like, for him to not wear any undies anymore. We just, you went from 100 to zero. Yeah. Yeah. But they were still hanging out with your boxes, right?

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, letting it breathe, letting it hang. It's like, you're like it's silk boxes or nothing? Yeah, it's nothing. It's no option. It's no option. It was probably back in the day we had like pretty much just jockeys and silk boxes for a while until they really

changed the undergame. Yeah, they did. But you, not for you, you change the game by not wearing any. And it's just left washing. It's less washing. It's less hassle. It's easy. Yeah, and no injuries? No, no injuries, no. You're not like Jono

soiling yourself all the time? No, no, no. I was more thinking like, you know, you've got a pair of jeans with a zipper. Oh, gosh. No, nothing in that department? No, no, no. I've obviously got a neck to putting those on because yeah i've not actually had that before yeah no go out wide go out wide on those yeah hey uh listen thanks so much for sharing tea that's uh that's incredible 22

you to uh yeah 21 years no underpants yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah you have great day no you too mate see yeah and uh you enjoy the podcast john o ben and megan the podcast uh now megan your parents staying with you ray ray and wano uh from nelson from nelson came up to stay, actually it's my daughter's third birthday today. Oh, I have a birthday I. So they're up here for that. We got to meet them for the first time. We talked to them many times, but we got to meet the first time on Friday.

They were more than I expected. They were excellent. Now, you've publicly spoken that they were natureists. You grew up in a naturess park. And, you know, we got talking about the first time they saw a whole beachload of naked people in Australia. And it was just what they did. We're talking about

50-odd people. And I said, we'll either get a kit off or we've got a leave because I can't... You're into embarrassed. I've locked like a purvee, you know, who's this fully clothed man at the beach? So that's how they got into...

Yeah, into the... And then they got all the naked, because their van was stuck under the garage. They got all the naked people to push their van out. It's like a great ploy from my dad. He's like, oh, we're going to have to get our clothes off. Who do you think to be uncomfortable as a person fully clothed? But they obviously

were in that situation, yeah. Good on. How they... Because you've been out with sore stomach. So, me and my husband. He was out all weekend and then I've been out the past few days So it hasn't been a great trip for them But to their credit They have done so much around the house

And I'm like just chilling And it's probably in some ways A great time for them to be there Because then you can really lean on them While you guys have been down Not a great holiday for them Love doing stuff Yeah

They're dead always When they're here from Christi Just plants, random plants Then he doesn't tell us And they're not like There's a tree growing now I was like Why is there a giant tree

He's like it's a native And I took a photo of it's like Did you plant this? He's like might have because I don't pay any attention to what's in the garden. Yeah, my dad's planted a whole veggie patch for me. I don't know quite what's in there. Over the last three days?

Yeah, yeah. But he does a lot and he, you know, he's in his semeny. So I went to get a few things yesterday and I left him alone at the house and I said, don't get, don't do anything. Just chill, just read your book. Don't do anything unsupervised. I come back, he's lying on the couch and he's got blood on his legs and he's looking dazed. And I was like, I just looked at him and I said,

What have you done? What have you done? I've just been chilling. I just been sitting there. Read my book. He said, I don't think I can be left alone. He went into my shed and he tried to put something on a shelf and somehow the whole shed, the whole wall of the shed collapsed on him. And he's like, I got stuck under your Christmas tree.

God, that thing's bloody heavy. But I said, what happened? He's like, I'm not sure. I'm like, I think you might have blacked out. You're unconscious, Wayne. Yeah. So, yeah, he can't be left. Well, they just can't stand still.

We've been talking a lot about that generation this morning. They don't want to waste food. And they always got to be doing something productive. He got crushed by my Christmas tree. Teeth by Christmas tree. He's like, should I just leave this out? Because don't you put it up now? I was like, yeah, a couple of weeks.

Well, can I dig get blood on the couch? Oh, he's got blood on everything. Yeah, that's another big bug bear in Annie and John's relationship. Yeah, he's got blood thinners, so he's bleeding everywhere. She's like, we've just been arguing. Dad's been bleeding all over the couch. They've been arguing about that. He used to wear long-sleeve shirts on the couch now.

Oh, really? Annie won't ever, no, he's not allowed to wear a t-shirt. Gasey, wow, jeez. She looks like a crime scene. She loves it, she loves a, like, a white, you know, aesthetic as well, white and cream. I was like, well, that's not a great partner for blood. No. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits.

Driving down the motorway, we had to go to rainbows. End, the head of our pirate ship. We're taking the new pirate ship on its maiden voyage on Friday. if you want to jump on board 4487 on the text what can you bring on board because we can fill out the whole boat now. Yeah. You've got to bring something on that will make us go oh yeah, come on board. It's worthwhile.

I mean, we haven't denied anyone so far. No, true. Anything goes really. It would be terrible at customs, wouldn't me? What are you got? Apples. Oh, come on. South East Asia. Bring him in, mate. Yeah. So you're driving down the boat and I went to get my sunglasses which are in the bottom of my door. There's a little compartment

in the door and I've grabbed the sunglass case and then as I I was doing that. Travelling at probably 100Ks an hour. Oh, yeah. Speed limit. 120. I popped the bloody boot.

And so the boots wide open. And as you know, a large part of my life's in my boot. All of the hits clothes, spear clothes, toilet trees. All your kids can uniform. Everything. Everything. My life is in my boot. I even had, it was our wedding anniversary.

They had the wedding anniversary present in there. So I'm driving down the motorway going, God, is all this stuff like blowing behind me. going to be on motorway patrol or something. And you had to pull over onto that little red bit on the side of the motorway, and I was one of those people. There's panic stations, right? Yeah. Opening your boot in the motorway, especially you're a, you're erratic driving too.

Yeah. Have you ever done anything on the road that could have made Motorway Patrol or Police 107? Have you ever... Did I want to admit on the radio? Yeah. It's an open show. No, nothing. I don't want to say on the radio.

Yeah. Geez, what have you done? She's like, I was involved in a hit and run. They never found out. Now we're really worried about what you're going to do. I actually, yeah, actually yesterday as well had a bit of a motorway incident as well because I've been running a bit of a hack. What I think, you know, make a few videos at home,

and every time I film my car, you're blurring a license plate as a pain. Like, it's just like, because you're moving shot. I don't want to get too technical, but I'm not technical enough to go, oh, it's just painstaking. Pixelate it. So now if I'm going to do anything, I just gaffitate my license plate up. And so it looks, you know, and I'm like, it's a great hack. But most times I remember to take it off, but yesterday, obviously, I had it.

And I was driving along the motorway. But it's like, yeah, people driving alongside me, like pointing at me and loll at the back. And I'm like, yeah, boy. You're about a bloody ram rate or something. And I'm like, why is these people all yelling and pointing at me at me? And then I realized. And then I was like, please don't see a cop because they've already warned me about it. I've been pulled over for it.

No, it was a guy who was walking to a car, police guy go, hey, what's with your license plate? And I was like, oh, it's real life pixelation. Yeah. It's also real life illegal. No, then I did see a cop on the side. I was like, oh no, please don't see me. So I had panic stations as well. She's, you know what you could do?

Do you use black gaffer tape? Yeah. You could just get black gaffer tape and just slightly change one of the letters or the numbers on your license plate. Just like subtly. And then like if you get parking tickets or anything. I feel like that's quite highly illegal too, isn't it? Yeah.

But so subtle. Like not your whole place. So subtle. It's not illegal. It's not illegal. It's just subtle. If you see Jono buy his car with a vivid, you know. I turned the number one

into a letter T, my bad, my bad. You know, sue me. It's so subtle. It's so subtle. It's your bad. It's definitely your bad. John O'Ben and Megan, The podcast. The Hits. So, mum, you know, a bit of a backstory, and I've mentioned this before, she loves holding onto things. She's, you know, places,

you know, I feel like it's cluttered, very cluttered, but it's her life, her house and things like that. I judge those people on would they make a documentary on hoarding? Yeah. Is she in that category? She's not quite to the stage of the, you're not going into rooms and it's like full of boxes and stuff but she'll just hold on to stuff it's that generation i think i was going to say i think it's like the boomer end of the generation

i might need this again i might need this and they they grew up with not a lot so they don't like letting things go so the little containers of like keeping bread tags or little as i said before she'll keep the little sushi you know the little fish you get the soy sauce in the bread what does she used the bread tags for just sealing things up just sealing things back up those little silica gel things she'll keep that she even had cake crumbs little things of like they left of a crumbs from her in the fridge when I was there one time I'm like wow you've really in what part of the household

does she reuse silica gel like the ones you get was inside shoes and stuff like that so she'll put them in shoes oh yeah that or it's quite handy actually because someone like the phone fell in the water and she's like oh silica gel so I guess her 100 mini silica gel

yeah so she keeps them all keeps them all but my sister's been helping you know did cut her a little bit recently and it's good and I'm like oh great you know to going through a few things the favourite child yeah my favourite child my sister and, you know, decluttering, and she'd hold on to.

We had Jono and Ben V's. From 2015, we had our own V cans. And so she had some V cans. She was, you know, she bought some V cans and she had them at home. And in the decluttering, she decided to get rid of the V cans, which is like, that's cool, it's fine. That's what she wants to do. She doesn't need to hold on to these V cams of the life.

But then she sends a picture to our family chat, and she's like, guess who's drinking the V cans? Oh, she's not. And I was like, well, not, because she'd be sick. She's like, no, not me. but my stepdad is trying the V-cats from 2015. I'm like, this is not recommended. This is not a good idea. V wouldn't recommend that.

No, no. That's like, that's turned into a powerful chemical now. They've expired. They've expired. Like I think, yeah, like at least nine or ten years they've expired. And, yeah, I was like, oh, geez, he's still alive the next day? Is he still alive? Now, this is the same stepfather.

We mustn't forget. Lovely Jenny boys left a chicken, a roast chicken in the cupboard. I'm not even refrigerated. And he had a chicken sandwiched in the next day. Pantry chicken. Yeah. I just did a quick Google to see how long a can would last. It says under optimum conditions, a maximum of 12 months.

Yeah, he said, mine was still okay, he thought in the grand scheme of things like taste wise, we thought Jono's didn't hold up 10 years later. I'm like, 10 years later, and I was like, 10 years later, then none of them are holding up. It's probably got some alcohol content. You try them both? Yeah, so not recommended kids. It's not recommended, yeah. Let's run a text poll.

Okay. How far have you pushed out? an expiry date 4487 That is wild I don't think You're going to beat Ben's stepdad How many years is that

Nine years? Ten years I think it was nine years Since the expiry Because expired nine years But ten years Was when they were released Can you beat ten years

Just throw them out Throw them out Don't want to use it up Finish it up Yeah yeah Don't waste that Yeah we're gonna Well yeah

Texas three four four eight seven On the Texas Have you checked on him Yeah Well he was still like the next day But I don't know I haven't heard it from a couple days It may no longer be

with us. Jono Ben and Megan, the podcast, the heads. So this weekend, long labour weekend, but I was just mentioning before that my mum, you know, she likes holding onto stuff, but she's decided to declare out a few things, and that's good, that's great. And one of the things were Jono and Ben V cans from 2015 that she'd held on to, she wanted to get rid of, and I'm like, cool, great. She messaged me, she's all right, if I get rid of these?

I'm like, yeah, yeah, great. And then I didn't realize that she wanted. Like getting rid of, she meant that they were going to consume. Yeah, my stepdad decided, well, it's not just throw them out, let's see if they're right, 10 years later. Yeah, one of them was like,

one of them was, a little bit, it was like, maybe you could drink at the day, one of it was like definitely not. One of it tastes like mold vinegar or... Yeah, not recommended at all. To be honest,

I would have tried it too. Yeah, really pushing things from... The people, you notice the people who like your parents there been, they take pride in it, don't know? It's like almost a badge of honour.

My dad's the same. He grew up in Britain, you know, war-torn Britain at the time, He would, I remember, we'd have mouldy bread in the house. It'd be like, it's all good. You put in the toaster, then the mould would harden, and then he would scrape it off with his life. I'd do that.

We'd just cut around it. Just cut around it. Yeah, it's just a bit of mould. He also drank water out of the DGerman. Oh, no, that's not good. Yeah, I was like, you're in our house. I was like, what are you doing? He's like, this is perfectly good water.

I'm like, I don't think it is. Oh, my God. What's wrong with the tap? No, he's, yeah, I know. Like, we've got a tap literally three meters away, mate. Feel free to use it. any of you want. No judgment. Sue Ann, morning to you. Good morning. How are we guys? We're doing well, mate. It's lovely to have you on the show. Are you one that likes to push

the limits of expiry dates, Sue Ann? Well, not me, but my mother-in-law, she loves it to push it because, you know, food don't expire. That's what you always say. And we're like, Mom, are you for real? Yeah, we had once a party like six months ago and Mom like always to just wrap it up in a little anything and put it in a hand back and then go and take it home and put it in the fridge. Right. And we always go around and like open the fridge

to have a drink and we're like, jeez, mom, you need to clean out your fridge. It honks. What's you got in there? Honks, that's a good word. Oh my gosh, you don't want to know. And it's always blue cheese, the good old blue cheese. He's like, no, it's blue cheese.

One day, it was like six months later after we had this particular party, we're like, oh no, let's have cheese and crackers. We pull out this cheese and it was green. Literally green. Gone from blue cheese to green cheese. A new market of cheese.

We should get green cheese. No, blue cheese and this is green cheese. Oh, Sue Ann, that's a great call. No one ate it, did you mum eat it? Did your mum eat it, Sue Ann? Oh, yeah. Oh, okay. You're pushing limits while. Your mum's pushing Lummots. He's still alive.

The expiry date is not a warning. They're a challenge for Sue Ann's mum. Appreciate it. We get Joe on, shall we morning to you? Hi, Joe. Oh, hi. Lovely to have you on. You pushed expiry dates to their limits and beyond.

Not me, my nana. Oh, see, it feels like it's an older generation thing are going on here. What's she doing? So, you know how, like, grandparents like to kick things in their cupboards? Yeah. She decided she was going to move up north, and we were clearing out of cupboards a couple of years ago.

and she found some jelly and she likes to make trifles oh yeah so she was going to make a trifle with this is a rock solid jelly that expired in 2002 that's good it wasn't just like solid crystal

crystals it was like a solid brick oh that's a 20 year old you call it vintage jelly just needs rehydration John Oben and Megan the podcast that's really fun

I mean it's great for us at the moment not so much for megan but Julie, good morning. Morning, how are you guys? We're doing well. You're a proud, expiry date breaker of the rules. Yeah, always, always. If it smells right and it looks right, I'm going to eat it.

There's a lot of common sense around that too, and I agree to a certain extent, but we're getting some calls which are going way past. So they're going to the extreme. What are you munching into then? Like, what have you had? Okay, so I was going to work and I hadn't been food shopping and I was rummaging through the fridge

and I was like, oh, pot of chicken liver patte that's been there a while, I'll have to eat that up. So I took it to work and with a few crackers opened it up and I was like, oh, the jelly stuff is still on the top, that's all right, but there's green mould so I was like, oh, just scrape it off, had it on my crackers. Yeah, I was fine, I've got cast iron guts.

Oh, cast iron, that's the thing, eh, it's got cast iron guts, yeah. Have you been sick? Have you given yourself food poisoning with this approach to eating? No. Never. Never. In fact, I still do it to my kids now. They don't know that, you know, if the bread's mouldy, I pick the mould off and I still stuck it in the toaster or...

Cast-eyed guts? Yeah. I mean, our bread's fine. I'm fine with that, but when it's like chicken liver. They're eating sausages from January. They have no idea. If it smells okay, they're still going to get it. I've got to build up resilience in them.

It's good for them. Good on you, Julie. Really appreciate your call this morning. We've got Lisa with us. Expiry date. Are you pushing the limits, Lease? No, again, it's the generational thing It's my mother

Yeah My brother and must have been cleaning up freezer in the holiday house at Christmas time And found a frozen bottle of milk That was three months older than his daughter And she's 16 Oh my Oh, so being frozen

But that's the thing the last is frozen It's fine, yeah, okay It's absolutely usable You don't you dare throw out perfectly good milk Is that what they're saying? Yep, that's and I went through her Can I just say 16 year old milk is not perfect

good news. Oh, no. Well, it is if you know my mother, but I was going through a pantry probably two or three years before that in the sounds, and I came across 2001, Cairns, 2002, and I said to Mama, I'll better throw these out, and she said, no, no, just bring them to the front and we'll use them first. Oh, grim. And so, Megan's got a bit of a sense with her tummy, and she's like, this is, oh.

She's been off for three days, and this is not an intentional topic, Megan. No, no, I just, yeah, I honestly just changed the chat that I was going to talk about. Now look where we are. How are you holding up? We have green cheese before. I know. I'm a double to the green cheese, really. And has your mother ever been sick, Lisa?

No, she's got an iron constitution and none of us have been either, so there must be merits and something, eh? Well, we've just become, I think, you know, as a species we've become softer since that generation, haven't we? Oh, totally. I think, yeah, we're a book PC these days. Thanks, you're cool. Now, Producer Grace, you've come and horrified. This is freaking me out because those cans are as old as me. 2001. That's my whole life

those cans she's about to consume as me. As old as me. You put it like that. It freaks me oh shut up, Megan. John O'Nean and Megan. The podcast. The heads. Now Megan, your parents are staying with you, Ray, Ray and Wayno, uh, from

Nelson. From Nelson. Came up to stay. Actually, it's my daughter's third birthday today. Her birthday, I have a birthday, so they're up here for that. We got to meet them for the first time. We talked to them many times, but we got to meet the first time on Friday. They were more than I expected. They were excellent.

Now, you've publicly spoken that they were natureists. You grew up in a natureist park. And, you know, we got talking about the first time they saw a whole beachload of naked people in Australia. And it was just what they did. We're talking about 50-odd people. And I said, well, either get a kid off or we've got to leave because I can't. You're into embarrassed. You're not like a pervert, you know.

Who's this fully clothed man at the beach? So that's how they got into, yeah, into the, yeah. And then they got all the naked, because their van was stuck under the garage. They got all the naked people to push their van out. It sounded like a great ploy from my dad. He's like, oh, we're going to have to get our clothes off. Who did I think to be uncomfortable as a person fully clothed? But they obviously were in that situation.

Good on. Good on. Because you've been out with sore stomach. So me and my husband, he was out all weekend and then I've been out the past few days. So it hasn't been a great trip for them. But to their credit, they have done so much around the house. And I'm like, just chilling. It's probably in some ways a great time.

for them to be there because then you can really lean on them while you guys have been down. Yeah, they love doing stuff. Yeah, they, dad always, when they're here from Christ, just plants, random plants and he doesn't tell us. And they're not like, there's a tree growing now. I was like, why is there a giant tree? He's like, it's a native. And I took a photo of it. I was like, did you plant this?

He's like, might have. Because I don't pay any attention to what's in the garden. Yeah, my dad's planted a whole veggie patch for me. I don't know quite what's in there. Over the last three days? Yeah. Wow. But he does a lot, and he's in his semeny.

So I went to get a few things yesterday, and I left him alone at the house. And I said, don't get, don't do anything. Just chill, just read your book. Don't do anything unsupervised. I come back, he's lying on the couch, and he's got blood on his legs, and he's looking dazed. And I was like, I just looked at him and I said, what have you done? What have you done? I've just been chilling.

I've just been sitting there. Read my book. He said, I don't think I can be left alone. He went into my shed, and he tried to put something on a shelf. and somehow the whole shed, the whole wall of the shed collapsed on him. And he's like, I got stuck under your Christmas tree. Oh, that thing's bloody heavy. But I said, what happened?

He's like, I'm not sure. I'm like, I think you might have blacked out. You're unconscious, Wayne? Yeah. So, yeah, he can't be left alone. Well, they just can't stand still. We've been talking a lot about that generation this morning. They don't want to waste food.

And they always got to be doing something productive. He nearly got crushed by my Christmas tree Teeth by Christmas tree He's like should I just leave this out Because don't you put it up now I was like yeah a couple of weeks Well can I do get blood on the couch Oh he's got blood on everything

Yeah that's another big bug bear In Annie and John's relationship Yeah he's got blood thinners So he's bleeding everywhere She's like we've just been arguing Dad's been bleeding all over this All over the couch They've been arguing about that

He used to wear long sleeve shirts On the couch now Oh really Annie won't ever wear a t-shirt She looks like a crime scene She loves it She loves a like a white You know aesthetic as well

White and cream I was like well that's not a great part of the blood No John O'Benn and Megan The podcast The Hats We're playing Handpool The School Yard game for 24 hours

We're doing it at Eden Park With our mate Jordan Watson Who is how to dad We're trying to raise as much money as we can To help out kids right across Altooroa who are hungry Who are cold Are going without the basics

And we wanted to really shine light on what kids can't do and how many kids they help out. Yeah, meeting some wonderful principals from around the country, various schools, and one of those is Andrew Campbell, Morena. Morena. Have you on, mate, a principal from

night and normal school, and we were just having a conversation off here. What is, there's a lot of schools that they've got normal in the title. What's with the normal? Yeah, it's a weird name, isn't it? All the other schools are abnormal. Is there a meaning behind it? Yeah, yeah, it's actually from the French word normal, which is to do with teacher training.

Normal and model schools throughout the country, there's about 28 or 29 of us, I think. We're affiliated with the universities that train teachers. So we have, in any given year, up to 70 graduate trainees come through our school. Gotcha. Yeah, but it's a weird name, isn't it? So it should be normal school. Norma, I like normal. Yeah, yeah, it sounds a bit better, doesn't it?

Look at you, you're not even on the clock and you're teaching. You're teaching right now. You're teaching us about stuff. Let's talk about KidsCam. What's the association with your school in KidsCan? Yeah, so we just started with KidsCan this year. We've been trying to get onto KidsCan for the last couple of years. But, you know, they've only got a certain amount of money

and they can't sort of spread to every school. But we were definitely had needs in our school. You know, we managed to get on ourselves this year, and it's just been amazing. Because the wait list is huge at the moment, Andrew. Yeah, that's just really big. And schools like ours, we've got, you know, a couple of hundred kids at our school who are doing it pretty tough. I mean, that's the thing. I mean, you can go to every school there's going to be families that are doing it hard.

Yeah, exactly, exactly. And the things that they provide, they're not like luxury items or iPads or sports gear or things like that. It's just the basics. It's food, it's shoes, it's warm clothing. Absolutely, yeah. So the food was the first thing that came to us And just really, really good food Partway through the year

Kids Cam gave every kid at our school a jacket A warm jacket It was a real deal And the kids just loved them and they're warm What kind of effect do you see on the kids You know who are doing it hard? How does it affect them at school? Yeah, I mean we see it on a daily basis

I mean, our kids are great and they're so resilient, like really, really resilient. You'll just see kids coming to school. We know that they're hungry. Some kids will walk to school and pick up like an empty chip bag on the way to school to sort of make out that they've been eating, that there's food in the house and they've been eating, but it's just a empty bag that they've picked up on the way. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, and particularly last year, before the jackets arrived, I'd be out on the gate before school and you just see kids cold.

And when you say that about the chip packet, because we have spoken to a couple of other principals, and they do say the kids are somewhat ashamed and they shouldn't be because this is not on them. And at that age, you even have to think about doing that. Yeah, it's really sad. So that's where kids can's already made a massive difference with our kids that we've seen, like we're seeing smiles on their face. Obviously, from the school point of view, you know, we've seen a big difference in the classroom because they're able to concentrate, obviously, and they just feel better about themselves. They know that they're going to be getting a good feed in the day.

And again, in those cold Waikato mornings, they're warm. so it's just the basics really well it must break your heart some days Andrew yeah yeah yeah it is it does get to every teacher here

I guess that's kind of why we do the job though too and yeah but no poverty's real out there definitely yeah well thank you for sharing your school story and telling us you know where that money goes to if people can donate even as little as a couple of dollars can really help make a difference in a kid's life Absolutely. Yeah, great organization. They've been so good to us. It's making a really significant impact for the kids, definitely.

Oh, thank you for your time. And if you want to donate, $25, you know, we'll buy a pair of shoes for a kid. Yeah. And after listening to that, I'm sure a lot of people are donating. You can head to the text, too. Yeah, you can text. Kids, it's a 933, make an instant $3 donation, or if you can give more, Kidscanball.orga.n.com, if you can head there right now. And we're going to be doing 24 hours of handbook. No, this time No, almost this time next week Why did I go there? John O'Ben and Megan

The podcast The Hits It's a long weekend This weekend, a labour weekend That just dawned on you yesterday It was quite in a meeting What's your brain just melted down You were like

Oh yeah Because I'm gonna be somewhere on the weekend He just looked at it It was like a shock A shock announcement for Jono yesterday I should really plan more than You know a day ahead You're like this weekend

This weekend Is they not a good thing? That should be a good surprise. Oh no, it's a great surprise. But then I was going to realize that we had to be somewhere on the weekend. I was, oh, geez, I'm not prepared for that, mentally or physically. It looked like you've just been made redundant. That was the reaction yesterday.

You're like, you took some time to really come to turns to that. I'm like, sorry, cheat down at the meeting for a while, then you came back in. Time for Dear Megan. Ah, yes, where people on the internet, they slide into your DMs and they don't really want to confront, or not confront, but ask confide in their friends and family, do they? No, sometimes you would just want, like, someone who doesn't know the situation, doesn't know either of you to give their opinion. Everyone knows that it's going to go on the radio, so if you've got one, you can slide into my DMs. We can keep it anonymous, which we do, right?

Yeah, this one is anonymous. I moved here from the States ahead of my wife for a new job, and she was supposed to follow me a few months later. Now she's changed her mind and wants me to come back home instead. thing is I'm finally starting to settle in made some friends getting into my work building a life here but now she wants me to leave all that behind I honestly have no idea what to do

stay for my job and my new life or go back for her I've been tossing and turning over it any advice sorry I was thinking about label you can read that It's Miss weekend Married or fiancé

Um I said wife right Yeah that's a little bit tricky. It does. You know, a lot tricky, really, that, you know, that you've, your husband and wife, right, in this instance. Someone's lying there.

Because if your husband and wife, and they made a deal, agreed to come over, I feel like the wife never had any intention to. And also the fact that he's like, should I stay for my new life? For me, it's not a life unless you've got your family. He sounds like he's loving it. He sounds like he doesn't want to leave it. Good coffee, avocados are pretty affordable at the moment. Labor weekend, this weekend.

Labor weekend. Yeah. Catching goes all I've got. I've got everything going for me here. It's like, well, but do you? Like, and then the wife sounds like she never had any intention of going. Yeah, well, the reason I ask whether married or engaged is because I do know someone who came here from Europe for a job. They started the job and the, all as the plan was for their fiancé to come over.

Yeah. And then she got cold feet. Maybe it was cold that time of the year in Europe. I don't know, literally cold feet. And he then quit the job and went back. Right. Went back. Okay.

Yeah. Well, I guess you've got. got to decide what's more important, the job or your partner. Yeah, well, it feels like in this instance, yeah, a big decision, really. Yeah. Why didn't she come over in the, oh, you probably don't know. Maybe his job. She could come over for a holiday.

I think a lot of people have commented that on the face of course. That's a good idea. Come over for a holiday, check it out. No, I don't want her. I mean, she's never been. Dip your toes into the water. Must warn, it's a little bit cold at first, but you get used to it. Yeah, that's what you say.

It warms up eventually. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, okay. Where are they from? Do you know? United States They've come from the States Thought everyone would be wanted to bloody

Yeah Flea Okay 4487 on the text Oh 100 of the House That seems like a good option For me Like tell her to come over Like check it out for a holiday

And then decide if they want to continue We'll put the best of New Zealand on display Roll out the red carpet John O'Ben and Megan The podcast That In South Auckland They had a $500,000

lotto ticket In her handbag For about six months Zipped up in her handbag And finally her daughter checked And won 500,000 dollars Jesus, it's a web of mystery, a handbag, isn't it? What do you carry?

What's the most unusual item in your handbag right now, Megan? To dive you're dive in deep, mate. There's a big pouch of collagen powder. There's some deep heat cream. If you've got any aches and paste. No, good. You've got it all sorted in there, have you? Keep that for Kids Campbell next Thursday, all right?

GM, Megan. All right, we're in the middle of it, dear Megan. Someone has slid into your DMs with a bit dilemma involving the partner moving from the states over here or not. Yeah, so they made the decision. he moved over from the States here, got a new job, she was supposed to follow a few months later. She has changed her mind and wants him to come back instead, but he is quite set up, likes his job,

and he's like, what do I do? I don't know, I just think the fact that you're asking that means you kind of... The marriage is done, is that what you're saying? Well, it doesn't sound like either of them really care that much. Well, like, if she's not willing to come over and just give it a bash. Yeah, true. Or even as we keep saying, maybe just come over and check it out.

Have a look. Yeah. See what you're dealing with. Having been through a divorce, would you have liked it? Would it have been an easier process if your ex-husband was on the other side of the world at the time? Would have been. Yeah, right. It would be so much easier.

Okay. Go to the phones. Debs, morning to you. Morning. How are you? Well, we're doing well. It's lovely to have you on New Zealand's breakfast, Debbie. What would you say if this was your best friend?

Well, I think Megan's picking up what they're putting down for sure So you can't make a decision like that lightly Maybe they all had all the best intentions in the first place And now they've changed their mind But I don't agree with coming for a holiday I think you have to have an upfront conversation first Where you are open and vulnerable And talk to each other and she might need to say

I don't want to go and he might need to say, you know, whatever But then if they decide they still want to be together and they've got to find a compromise. Then you spend the thousands of dollars to come and have a look. Yeah, right. Can I just say on behalf of Tourism, New Zealand? We'd love her to come for a holiday. Backbone of this country in tourism.

My Megan is definitely right. There's something going on there. Okay, well, we're going to hook you up with a $250 warehouse gift voucher. You can rush... Thank you for much. Yeah, welcome rushing to the warehouse for red-hot bargains. This long labour weekend, it ends on Tuesday conditions apply. You can spend that.

Heaps of great stuff, skincare, makeup, hair care, and more half-priced toys as well. So you enjoy that. He's your shop and done. Good on your Debs' Labor weekend, you say, too. So Angie, morning to you. Hi, how are you? We're doing well, mate. Okay, we've got an American guy.

He's over here. He's set up. He was going to move over with his wife. She's not coming. Well, I think she should really come for a holiday to see how she feels. But to me, it feels like their relationship's not that great anyway. So if he's got to choose... Well, he seems happier.

She potentially is happier. You're right. A lot of texts saying, find a good old Kiwi Lass coming through on 4487. We are good. You are, good, wholesome Kiwi Lass. We'll pip out our lasses. All right, Megan.

Now, thank you for all your calls and text on this one. What are we going to go back with? Well, yeah, a lot of people have said maybe she should come for a holiday on Facebook. But I just, I don't know, I think you need to have this serious conversation. Yeah. Because I just think if most of the time, if you were in love, you'd miss them, right? So you'd make the compromise, but neither of them want to, so... Okay, okay.

A robust conversation. Serious conversation. Call him for a Zoom. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hit. The weather's looking a little better around the country today. Some wild, wild winds, particularly in the south and around the lower north, yesterday and the day before.

But it's back again tomorrow, apparently. The wind, uh, wind, uh, looking pretty wild again tomorrow. Yeah, emergency services on standby. Trucks blowing over and stuff like that. I don't know. Did you see that video? I don't know if you talked about it yesterday. That woman being blown onto the road in Wellington.

I did. He was on the herald. She couldn't keep her footing. She was literally on the footpath and she got blown on to the road oncoming traffic. Oh my goodness. She couldn't stop his up. It was crazy. Yeah.

So again, I think tomorrow, 130K wins predicted again tomorrow around that region. So take care out there, Megan. Speaking of being windy. Yeah. I wish that was my only problem. I'm back. I'm back. You've been outweigh a couple of days with a bit of a tummy bug.

Yeah. My husband was sick over the weekend and I literally on Sunday was sky. to my mother-in-law like, I never get sick with it. I never get the tummy bug. I've got mum immunity. And Monday morning I was like, I am unwell. I am unwell. Yeah, it's, and I find when someone in the household has an illness like that,

you get inside your head, you think you've got it, don't you? The whole weekend, you would have been like, oh, oh, a little rumble. Because on Monday morning, I was getting ready for the show and I was like, you're fine. You're fine. It's psychosomatic. Just chill out. You're fine. And then I was like, not fine.

You didn't sound fine when we called you And Jono called you multiple times Even FaceTime you as well too Like you've called me three times that day Hey I'm sorry I'm sorry I was put it down to boomerish Boomer behavior I'm not locking his phone when it's in his pocket

Yeah Nothing more terrifying You think that's terrifying Can you call imagine being the one calling This is you Hi yeah well put on Right So

Hey Hey Oh yeah well put on How are you Yeah I'm good Yeah, you didn't sound flash. Although I was, big suspicions around the Formula One.

That was, you know, because that was on the same time and you were saying on Friday, how am I going to get to watch it? And I was like, well played, that's how you're going to get to watch it. I didn't even watch it when it was live.

I could hear it in the lounge. I couldn't get out of bed. I could hear my dad watching it. And I was like, I'll watch it later. I'll watch it later. And do you know, my dad, first thing he does when it finishes, walks in him was like,

oh, Liam was 11th. I was like, what are you doing? What? Yeah. Ruined it for me If you had the energy You would have been upset Yeah

And so can you eat You're eating crackers Ginger with eating I had some salt Miniser chips Yesterday crackers Some bread

You know you don't have to be here though No you don't have to push No it's fine I want to be a hero No I'm okay I'm okay today You don't see as I said before You don't see him a honey

I think like you're bringing me down Well we do have our Fish Pie sponsor coming in after 7 o'clock with some wonderful breakfast for all of us. Yeah, the problem was that we left it in the fridge. I'm actually going to go to the pantry for a week, so anyway, but it's fine. We'll get that. We've got to do the fish pie giveaways after seven o'clock.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. Of course, there was a big outage yesterday online. Amazon, anything to do with Amazon, it felt like, as well, it affected some apps in New Zealand, TvNZ Plus, Sky's on demand, there was Snapchat, there was a whole lot of things down. Producer Troy joins us right now. You were saying there was people that had their beds being operated.

by apps? I don't know this was, I think smart beds. It's like you can control it from an app and like it folds up to a incline and warms up. People folded in half and stuck. It was stuck in the incline position and stuck in the heat mode. Do we need the beds to be smarter?

They've been doing a pretty bang-up job for years, beds, haven't they? I understand hospital beds. Yeah, yeah. We, I'll tell you who afterwards, but we mutually know someone who's got one of these beds and it's got like a massage mode. Oh, really?

Yeah, and it sits you up and sits you down. It's on here, were you? What, shame them on here? No. They won't care. They're relaxed. They're relaxed as, mate. They've got a massage bed.

Yeah. Is this person you? No. Double lounges? That might be this person. We'll get to that later. But right now, Patricia Troy, you said something to us after the show that we wanted to talk about.

How did this come up? I don't know why I did this. You said you've got seven of two groups of things. I can't remember how this came up, but yeah, I foolishly confessed that I have seven pairs of undies. And seven pairs of socks. What? And I just do the washing once a week, and it gets me through.

She's, so that's no extra. You need extra. You go to the gym, you're going to do things. You don't like I'm going through two pairs of undies a day. That's too many. Yeah, if you sweat. So wait, wait, you go to the gym and you just carry on wearing those undies for the rest of the day. Well, generally my routine is I go to the gym, I go home.

And then I'll just, if I get too sweaty, I'll just take them off. Right. And so you're constantly flirting with Commando mode, aren't you? with only seven pairs of underpants. Yeah, or the double wear. Right. Oh, you're double a wear, double down. What do you mean?

Like if it's not a gym day. Oh, yuck. So you'll go back to back, will you? If I need it. Just buy more. Yeah, you're not too expensive. One of the wonderful perks of working in radio over two decades is the abundance of promotional underpants that you receive. Like, honestly, you don't measure your success in radio in ratings.

It's in how many underpants you have. I've got so many. I've given them all to my son. Generation, been handing down through the generations. I can't believe you've run off seven. Well, the thing is I'll never double wear because I've got my washing routine down to a tea. Saturday morning, put it all through.

It feels like you're putting too much pressure on, you know. It feels like you needed a few floating pairs, you know, like just to go, oh yeah, I need to today and I need to, you know. Whatever do you go on a holiday? Take all seven. They're all coming. We go on like an overnight trip and I take like four. Yeah, I'm always a couple.

Have a couple spares, you know? It's about it's like, it's mum's like, people around these, just a case, you know, you're like, you never know when you're going to need those. Megan, the last couple of days, you're, no, it's not getting to that story. Just dumb it, you've gone through seven. Just this morning. Okay, I went home to the hits.

Has anyone got less underwear than producer Troy? Yeah, or I don't reckon anyone to be running less than seven pairs. Or maybe you're running seven pairs like Troy. You know, maybe you're like, day-to-day, maybe they're even labeled. You're like, this is the Monday ones. These are my Tuesday ones. I would love a Monday to Friday pair. John O'Benn and Megan.

the podcast That Producer Troy We found out a Really shocked us Only seven pairs Pairs of underpants Producer has

And seven pairs of socks As well week to week So Are they all the same brand Are they all Running a fine line there You are And are you updating

How like when do they When do you retire them Yeah when there's a whole I'll rotate one out Okay I had three H&M ones I actually only had six for a while And then my girlfriend there was like

You can't You're at least have seven So she bought me some Lulu lemon ones Oh, there you go. I reckon you are going to be just gifted underpants and socks now for every birthday and Christmas. I love it. I want it. I'm going to ask our friendly AI assistant, Juniper.

How many underpants the average person should have? Hi, Juniper. How are you this morning? Good morning, Jono. Hope you're feeling good today. We're feeling great, mate. You guys have, I really, your relationship. You talk to a way too much, eh?

I ask you for too much advice. Tell me, how many underpants should the average? average person have Juniper? Yo, I'm always here for a chat, so, you know, I don't mind at all. And hey. How many underpants should the average person have? You know, there's no magic number set in stone,

but a pretty comfy range is usually around, say, 10 to 14 pairs. That way, you've got enough to rotate through comfortably and still handle laundry days without stress. Thank you very much. There you go. I'm with Juniper on this one. 14 does seem like a great number. That feels like a good amount.

But just Troy, only running seven. Anyone running less underwear than producer Troy? That's the phone topic. Jimmy? Morning. Morning. James, how you doing? I've only got five boxes.

Five, that's it. Yep. I'll do my laundry every day. Oh, we'll see. I guess that is, yeah, that's excuse me. He's only doing his laundry on Saturday mornings, producer Troy. Do you rock more than one a day, more than one pair a day? No.

God, what happens to be going to? Have you go away for, say, longer than a week? I haven't done that in probably about five or six years. Okay. Yeah. Oh, Jimmy, you need a holiday. Yeah, refuses to go. No, he can't.

She doesn't have enough underwear. Hey, good on you, James. Have a wonderful day. Appreciate you calling through. Kylie, you've got less underwear than producer Troy, do you? My husband does. Oh, really? What's he rocking?

Typically three. But on a good week, you'll have four hairs in there when I remember. So he's what, go three a week, three a week, that's, okay. What's your washing cycle if you don't mind us, prying into it? What was that, sorry? The washing cycle in your household. I have four kids, so I'm washing me every day. Ah, right, so he's getting into, three pairs.

He is a dairy farmer, to be fair, and I mean, he recycles the same farm, shickered shirts to wear out all the time anyway, so. She's a minimalist. Are they all the same brand, all the same undies? yes but normally like i'll top him up he's just the last one in the house he doesn't care he's like kids come birth wife comes first oh what a guy he's probably not going on holiday much either right uh no we did go on a south island trip but again i've got four kids so i was like we need a laundromat or somewhere with a laundry so we yeah we've stayed in places like uh you're

bambes and stuff no he's putting his wife in his kids before his underpants what a guy what a guy Kylie you married a good one there you and have a wonderful uh Wednesday right