Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: How Ben ended up sleeping in the lounge...

Episode Date: April 16, 2026

 On today’s show:  The team realises mid‑40 bedtimes are now full of mouthguards, heat packs and sleep apnoea machines... How Ben ended up sleeping in the lounge The Itty Bitty Hitty Committee decided on whether Megan has to peel her fridge (text group to 4487 for the link to join) Ben accidentally chats for a full minute to a painter without realising he doesn’t speak English Jono questions whether he should resign as godparent after wishing his goddaughter happy birthday on the wrong date Producer Grace forces the team to submit vocal voice notes Megan’s back with What To Watch, recommending the hospital drama The Pitt and At Home With the Furys. Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFAST Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Jono Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better tea. It's a podcast, another one. Here we go. It's lovely to have Ben Boyce, a huge backer of Warriors merchandise. I think he's keeping the club afloat, actually. It's the reason they were still a thing.

But he's ended up with the full Warriors training tracksuit, pre-game tracksuit, do I imagine? This would be when the team's in transit. Yeah, I don't. I've seen them wear it in promotional stuff, but I haven't been stalking their training sessions. I wouldn't imagine they're training on. No, it looks to me like off the plane on a bus.

Yeah, maybe. Yeah, maybe, you know, like, yeah, they're matching jacket and pants as well, yeah. I'm going to break character here, and there's been lots of commentary on your track suit today, and I would like to say, don't not wear it again, because it's really good, and I think you should wear all of it at once. Okay, rather than, like, mixing it up pants. Well, I mean, you can wear the jacket by itself, but I don't want you to feel bullied out of it, because I think it's cool. We're not bully, it's awesome. You know, like he's hyper sensitive about it

because everyone's been talking about his tracks. And I don't mind wearing it. Like I'll wear it happily to the Warriors that we're in the weekend. I just feel a bit weird. I feel like I've really dressed myself down. Time and a place. You look like...

Just down. Yeah. No, I think it's cool. You know, yeah. You look like we'd booked an interview and they're like, hey, we're going to send in Chance Nicol Klausthad. And we're like, yeah. And they're like, oh, sorry, he's not available.

We'll send in one of the reserves. And we're stuck with one of the... But given that, you know Ben takes as a compliment. Yeah, I'd happily be reserved. but you guys have quickly googling, which was his name again? What's his name again? Yeah, I feel like that.

So how do you like rugby and or league? Yeah, a little bit like that. Are the bench is comfortable? Like I feel like I won't get pulled into a meeting upstairs, but I feel like if I did get pulled into a meeting upstairs. You know, imagine that if they're like, good quick, you've got to come upstairs and you've got to see the CEO for something.

You'd be like, I'm wearing a trach suit. Like a full, like a wet weather track suit. I'm here for it. You know, like, well, you're up for a run? Were you up for doing anything? No, I was sitting in the studio for it. But I am wearing it. because of a reason why we're doing the Maddie MacLean thing where, you know,

so it'll make sense. You don't need to justify it. That's why I wore it today and the Warriors this weekend. But, you know, I will take any opportunity to bully you. Yeah, you will. Thank you. I think it's great. I think it's great.

Like a no-go zone for Megan for some reason is fashion. She will never, she'll bully everyone on every other facet of their life apart from fashion. Do you know why? It's because I always get bullied for what I wear. So I don't do it to other people. Okay. And I'm like, don't, it feels really mean because people have made the choice to wear something and then you're like, that's gross.

I'd never, you know. Like that Hewlett-Packard t-shirt you're wearing. Yes, but I haven't let you bully me out of it. No, you haven't. And it's not, it's a Ferrari top. Yeah. And also I saw some DJ wearing it on my Instagram overseas and I was like, I've got that top.

I'm going to wear it again, you bitches. Oh, good on you. It's my only Formula One merch at the moment, well, official merch. Because you've got a blazer over the top of that one. It looks like you're on the exec of Hewlett Packard and it's casual Friday. And they're like, you know, where your casual stuff in?

Do you know, so it's, It's got the Ferrari logo, but for some reason, just the only, my blazer keeps showing the Hewlett Packard. I'm like, show the Ferrari. Yeah, yeah. Not the Hewlett Packard. It's pretty good. And you've got big oil company, Michelle.

What's the other, what's the other logos? Let's get their logos. Unic credits. What are they? Finance company? Yeah, that's not great. Seva logistics, technical stuff. And that's it, the major sponsors?

I don't, I don't, I don't deal with any of those. What's on the back? No, HP again. It's a massive HP. Yeah, double down on there. also why I'm wearing a blazer. So they were to pay more than Ferrari, you would imagine. Oh no.

Well, Ferrari's the tape. More than Shell, sorry. More than Shells, below. Here's a Formula One question. So the manufacturers, because Audi's just come into the mix this year, haven't they? Yeah. Are they the, so people are paying Ferrari, Audi. Hewlett-Packard are giving money to Audi to run a race team?

Or is it a whole separate business to Audi? It's a... I don't understand the question. Well, like, an Audi... Audi team and then they just put forward money for sponsorship. Right. So they're not like, they're not getting this, they're not making money off this Audi. Audi is, yeah.

How are they making money? I really don't know the question. I don't know the question. So Audi's the team, right? Yeah. And they're getting sponsorship from these companies. Yeah. I don't know what the question.

You're worried about where the money? You've tried for paper trail. Where's that money going? No, it's just a straight up sponsorship deal. So you pay money to Audi to put your logo on. No, so I guess the question is so Barry at Audi's like, shit, we've got to get into the Formula One game guys. And they're like, good idea, Barry.

No, the Formula One. The Formula One racing team will be a subset of Audi. That's right. That was the question. Sorry, it was a long way around. Yeah, got to that. And that was a podcast intro. There we go.

Sorry, producer Troy, yes. Raise your hand too like Megan did, both raising your hand, which is good. More of just a, I like coming every now and then with a bit of stats on our podcast. And I think I found my favourite stats. Okay. Potentially all time. It does involve two people that are listening And I guess this just shows the 21st century

Technology Two people listen to our podcast on their Samsung fridge Their smart fridge What a fridge How do you know that? Well it tells us the sources of all the podcasts Most people on iOS, most people on Android And then two people on their Samsung fridge

Do they have a sticker on their fridge? Megan's got a sticker, protective seal on their fridge Which will hear on the podcast So my fridge will look better than their fridge. That's amazing. That fridges can play podcasts. What the f...

What? What? What are we living in? Some of the fridges can, like, play, like, your pictures, and then they tell you what's in your fridge when you're out, and they're pretty fancy. That is wild. That's pretty cool. That is wild.

Did fridges need that technology? Who knows? I don't know. But thank you to the two people who purchased them and listened to the podcast on them. And enjoy the rest of their podcast. John O'Bin and Megan. The podcast. The Hats.

Uh, mate of mine. has entered a new phase, over 40-year-old phase of his sleeping, which is he's now using a sleep apnea machine. I think the main causes, like, your airways shut overnight, don't they? And this assists with a bit of, always helps to be able to breathe when you're sleeping. It feels like they're pretty, like, new to the game, the apnea machines. Like, what were people doing before then, just dying with that? They're waking up gasping, I think, a lot of the time.

Yeah. Yeah, I think, which is not a pleasant way. Like, is it? Yeah. No, he feels, he's like, that's the unsexiest, you know, ritual to do before bed. Like putting it this thing on, like, Darth Vader. It does look like you're about to fly a plane and top gun, right?

He does look like a top gun, yeah. And he's got this tube which sort of dangles off the end of the bed. And he can tell, he can tell his wife's sign. Oh, really? Oh, really? I mean, the other option, he's not there anymore. Yeah, well, that's the thing. She's got an empty bed.

A serious thing for people, you know, like, you know. He's got an empty bed and she can find a new partner who doesn't need a machine. I mean, I don't go by choice, so are you? No. But that's, I find after 40, your bedtime rituals, they're just like, you know, remember when you were 21, go out till 4 in the morning and just land in bed. You know, you just land in bed. No prep, just boom, in bed sometimes with all your clothes on, no worries.

It doesn't matter, did it? Now it's like a half an hour. put the mouth guards in I was going to say what are you doing you put your mouthguard in brush teeth that's nothing new I haven't been talking about I don't think I ever used to brush my teeth when I was in my 20s either just land

in bed no no no issues yeah mouth garden some people have to tape things up don't they because for no reason they wake up sore yeah no what did you do in the night when you wake up and you're like I'm sore from that sleep wow I know as I put my plastic mouth garden and I'm like this is

I have to hate my heat sack for my neck because I get a sore neck I sleep on that Yeah Oh my kid one of my kids puts a plastic thing in her mouth each It's fine you know It's not just an older person Oh thanks Ben thank you

I tell you what last like Like speaking of sleeping arrangements Because we're getting this paint done It's quite paint fumie down one end of the house Down the hallway and stuff They were like Well someone needs to sleep in the lounge Guess you had to sleep in the lounge

Me The rest of the family went in my room Who suggested it? Well I was like Hey guys someone needs to see it Yeah Yeah, someone needs to sleep in the lounge, and they're like, well, you said it, you do it. I understand.

And I was like, all in favour? I'll take the hat, they'll like, well, you'll get it up first anyway. Well, that's true. You would have disrupted everyone. Yeah, so actually was a wonderful, pleasant sleep. Put my mouthguard retainers in. Tapes myself up. Got the apnea machine.

Watch, Top Gun, and a wonderful sleep. That's great. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. Middy just two days ago, and boy, oh boy, it's got some momentum in It is just a Facebook page. So if you want to join it, you can go to Facebook and search it up and you'll find it there as well.

We're accepting everyone. A lot of people signing up going, I don't know, I'm happy to be a member, but I don't know what the purpose is of this committee. And we've just kind of said, well, there's no real purpose. Making some decisions here and there about the radio show, we said we can get to international events maybe 12 months down the track,

but after people were strong opinions and no accountability. That's who we want. Well, Deb has just joined and posted. she is single, 60 and looking for love. So, you know. So that could, yeah, we could help. That could be the next meeting. But right now, we'll put that to the side just for a second.

We'll get to that later because your husband has infiltrated the itty-bitty-hitty committee. And he's got something that he wants to bring to everyone's attention. Andrew Pappas, star of Romeo, playing with Romo. Oh, God. He's playing Romeo and Ann Juliet. That's the one. That's the one. Welcome, Romo.

And he's the Romo, he's the Romo in my life. Romo in everyone's lives. Where far out there, Romo? You're like, who do you? Talk to me? You are in a musical, Ann Juliet, but not quite as important right now because you've got some issue at home. And we're right behind you on this, because we've been to your house before,

and this is something that needs to stop, I think. Guys, it's getting a little bit insane here, and I need a little bit of help, guys. Megan will not let me take that sticky stuff. off the fridge and it's driving me insane. I thought I could reach out to the people to get a bit of support here because I'm not being hurt. Oh. The plastic wrap that come, you know, you buy something new, you get a plastic wrap over top,

the most satisfying thing to take it off there. You guys, you've stuck there to really the bitter end. It's really starting to fray around you and see photos on the Eddie Bitty Hitty Committee. Look, when we kept it on, because we were like, you know, we've got young kids. We'll just, you know, every now and then they'll do something crazy like, run a car over the fridge or something. And I got it at first, but it's been like, I don't know how many years now.

Oh, it's lasted longer than Megan's first marriage that sticker. It actually has. But that's not really saying, Mark. But what frustrates me is it's sort of peeling off on all the corners. I mean, even the stickers trying to peel itself off the fridge. It's had enough. My work's done, guys.

It's retirement. I've been suffocating this poor refrigerator for four years. As soon as it comes off, the fridge is going to be like, ooh! But, okay. So Andrew was in agreeance with me. Our kids are five and three. And it was only yesterday that Aya was like doing something on the fridge with her toys.

And I was like, thank God for the sticker. You know, it's saving it from scratchers and dancing. What's the shelf life of a fridge? Maybe 10 years. You know, like, you know, every fridge has battle scars. She's got a story to tell. Do you know what? I reckon Deb on the itty-bitty-hitty committee.

I bet she doesn't have sticky stuff on her fridge. Oh, God, I thought you were going to say she's looking for her husband. Well, she goes, she takes... You do like older women. Well, that's just that I might reach out to her if things that work out with this food. Our first love. Devin Romo.

With free fridges, free appliances with no stickers on. Okay, well, let's put it towards... You've had put it towards the Eddie-Bitty Hitty Committee. We've got to get some of the comments and people on next. Yeah, and you can text 24487 group. Bounce back the link so you can join the Idi Biddy Hitty Committee. and Megan the podcast. The Hits.

We've started a little club. We always wanted a club for you guys to interact with you, to make decisions for the show, and we've started one that's called the Itty-Bitty Hitty Committee. You can get involved on Facebook. It's free to join. We don't exactly know what we're going to solve on there. But the first thing on there...

The moment, it's just good banter. It's good banter, and the first thing is getting rid of the sticker, potentially the peel, the plastic peel on your fridge, Megan. They've kept for a couple of years now. I've kept it for a reason. I know it looks not great. It's starting to peel and stuff,

but it's protecting it from my little kids, a five-year-old and a three-year-old. That would be like getting your blazer dry clean, but still wearing the plastic wrap that, you know? The dry cleaner's gave it to you on. It's protecting the blazer, you know, life happens, you know? It's an extreme example, but yes, it is. And my fear is, though, if we do vote,

if the committee votes to remove the covering, that the sticker has become at one with the appliance. Oh, that's been worried. Can that happen? Well, it's been adhesed to the thing for how many years? Like two years? Yeah, I mean, the sticker might be, no, I'm not leaving. I'm not leaving.

We're together, we're a partnership now. Take bits of the fridge off with it, you know? Exactly. So, yeah, 0800 hits the telephone number. You can text a group if you want to join the Itty-Bitty Hitty Committee and make some big decisions about what we don't know. But this is the first item on the agenda. Jonah!

Good morning, team. How are you doing? Happy New Year, official committee greeting. Happy New Year to you too. Your thoughts on this committee member, Joanay. I'm with Megan on this one. I keep the plastic on the fridge as well. It keeps the fridge looking new for many years. Thank you. I really thought I was out on a limping by myself.

If you look on the Eddie Bitty Committee, you're very much outnumbered, but not. on the phones right now. Wow. Do you know? There we go. It keeps... It keeps the fridge

looking pedantic to me. Yeah. Have you seen the bits of that starting to fray up around the music? I know, but I know that underneath it's pristine. But then where are you going to enjoy this? When the fridge start,

you know, it's like when you move out of a house and you clean it and it looks stunning and you're like, why don't I do this when I lived here? Yeah. Your fridge is... When it does come off,

get a hell of a glow up. Hell of a glow up. The rest of it's going to look old battered. and old and the door is just going to look. Fantastic. Linda? Yes, good morning. Happy New Year Committee member, Linda. I look, yeah, I have five kids and nine grandchildren,

and I totally agree with Megan. If she wants to take it off, I would use methylated spirits to take it off and replace it with a new piece. Put a new one on. Oh, Linda! This is not how we saw this going. A madman, Linda. Who you let it?

Producer Troy, who'd let these people on? Willie nearly on the phones When you have so many kids and you know what that fridge is and what it can happen especially those walls you need them covered and then the kids can just

have a whiteboard but yet not a whiteboard and then it's easy clean take it off reply Hang up on her She's probably still talking Are you kids through that period?

I can't remember No that's the problem You can't remember Because yours are well-behaved teenagers now Like banging into the fridge or things that would have caused the fridge? Dude, the hot wheel, he does ramps to the fridge with the hot wheel so they can smash into it. Like I said, every fridge has scar, battle scars, dents and things that you're meant.

Yeah, it is. And it's like, you look at that scar and you're like, geez, I remember that day I yelled at the kids for making that dent. You know, good memories. Yeah, great memories. Okay, well, you need to, on the radio. It feels like it's in your favour. I'm winning. Thank you so much. But the anybody, the committee is not set up for on radio, Megan.

It's set up for Facebook. So we need to take it on the, offline. Well, what pays our bills? John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast, the hit. Yeah, we talked about this the other day, actually, about how I, am I impatience and my lack of any sort of hardware, sort of skills and stuff when it comes to that sort of stuff around the house, how there were some marks on the wall,

some paint had been chipped away, and I just grabbed some other white paint and try to do my own touch-ups around the house. You didn't test the colour next to the wall. No, it's just a white. White would be fine. Oh, there's so many different colours of white. Why?

There's black white. Why? There's black white? There's glossy and matte. This one's a lot glossier than the other ones as well. So it's shiny as well if it catches the light. Yeah, shiny little marks all over the place. I know why they call eggshell white because I've been walking on eggshells since I've got it actually.

To be honest. So it was a bit of a thing with the house. It's been there probably for a few months now, but my wife's like we really. And because the kids wanted their rooms painted, we're like, we'll get some rooms painted and get rid of my, my terrible paint job as well. So you're doing this yourself? No, no, no, she's no. God, no.

So my wife, she's a school teacher, so she's been organising the last couple of days to get some painters around. And they arrived yesterday, they're going to do a couple of days of paint. And, you know, I arrived home later in the day and two painters in the house, sort of one in the hallway,

and I thought, you know, this is my light banter moment. You're going to give them a little bit of light banter. Hey, guys, want a coffee. Yeah, hey, mate, how's it going? She's just looking good. How's things being? Oh, yeah, you know, just about. You want any paint puns?

Yeah, no, I said, must have any paint puns. But probably, I reckon a good minute of, like, chat with this one guy as well. And then I walked away, and my wife was smiling at me. I was like, unusual. And she was like, how was that conversation? I was like, yeah, good, good. She was like, did you notice anything? And I was like, oh, no.

Because I guess in this job, you just get used to just firing a barrage of light banter questions at people. How you go? What do you do for a job? Oh, yeah. Did you ask him what he did for a job as he was doing his job? Probably. It's just like, did you realize that this guy that he doesn't really speak English?

You've just had a conversation with the guy for a minute. Who does it? Yeah, the owner of the company does and he goes and he goes to be introduced him and he's like, hey, just so you know, this guy's just learning English. Pretty great. How did you manage that? I don't know.

I was the way going, I didn't pick up on that at all. Did you ask you many questions or were you just air bashing him about yourself? Probably not. I was like, oh God. You know, how was your day? I had a great day. It was I did this and this and this. I'm picking so much off my left.

my list. I was like, jeez, I did not, maybe he smiled and mildly. It looked like like he was having

a great time. But I was like, did you not give him any, like, gap to talk? I'm sure he sent some stuff back

but I just moved to the next thing as well. All right, coming up next, we'll talk some more. Yeah, you have a good day. It was a shocker,

so yeah, I was like, no, I did not notice that. So, yeah. But that's the problem. Sometimes you've just come off, you know,

four blistery hours of talking on the radio, nonstop, yeah. No dead air. And then you move into real life situation. You're still in radio talk mode. I know, so I apologize to him.

Matt Anderson, our boss, he would have liked that. He would have liked that short, sharp, a minute long break. Exactly. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Do you think you're New Zealand's most shocking Godparent? Or maybe you think you have New Zealand's most shocking Godparent.

I'd like to nominate myself. And I want to ask you guys if you think I need to resign as Godparent. And I've told you stuff off air over the last couple of months, you know, a few hiccups of my God parenting career. Yeah. But yesterday, I sent the parents of my goddaughter Kenzie. I said, Happy birthday to her little girl, a little sweetheart.

How old was she? Oh, she'd be... She's probably like 21 now. He's like, I don't know. Don't ask you. Don't ask tough questions. Don't ask. You'd be moving on, mate.

You're getting old. They grew up so quickly. And so it popped up in my calendar. The thing is, anyone under the fire, anyone under the age of five, I can't tell how old they are. You know, you get past that. Your kids, I don't know, I don't know how old your kids are. But I sent this message with confidence as well, because it was in my calendar. All right, that's good.

That's a good way to do it. Good reminder for yourself. Absolutely, yeah. And so I sent this with big confidence, 6.1 a.m. Put a reminder in my phone. Fired it off yesterday. And my mate, text back, with much joy. Lull, crying emojis, multiple crying emojis, is not even her birthday.

Yeah, the calendar invite is great as long as you trust the person who put it there. Yeah, well, I put it in. You put it there. And I do not trust myself. So, yeah. And it was a big group, added lots of names to it. Jen, my wife. His wife, multiple, multiple, multiple witnesses.

We're in with Guston. Oh, no. So, yeah, not a, but I mean, the reason I'm like, do I resign? Because she's still, she's still in my mind. I've greeted through this 12-month period, a happy birthday. Do you think deep down, I'll be honest, they really, like, it feels like it's one of those things, like the Player of the Day thing, or New Zealander of the year. No, I'm kidding.

I'm not saying that because of the recent controversy. That's actually prestigious. but it does feel like sometimes it's a bit of a like people that, you'll be the one, yeah, you'll be the one. Yeah, I know what you say. And it's not necessarily, I don't know, man. Well, it's not even legally binding, right? Unless you put it in your will.

Yeah, and then it feels legally blind. I think its initial purpose was to you're the spiritual, you know, guide them spiritually. Oh, really? Is that where has come from? Oh, that's even worse. He's asking you to be a spiritual guide. I know, not me. Not me at all.

So, I never have one myself and my kids never have, don't have them. Yeah, same. Are you one? I am one. Yeah, and I'm shocking like you too. How old is all? How old are you? Yeah.

Oh, he's getting, oh, he's getting up there, you know. It's hard to tell these days. Yeah. The problem is, much like you, I did have it in a calendar invite as well for the birthday. And then my calendar system changed. And now I'm so awkward to go, hey, where was his birthday again? You know? So are you just, you fire off anything now or you just ignore him?

Christmas times, Christmas times. But then sometimes I'm sporadic for that. Like, I'll drop off a thing for Christmas. and then two Christmases later, I'm like, oh yeah, forgot about that, you know. He's an absent godfather. Yeah, there's two of us, though. Both bends for him, so. How's the other Ben?

Oh, I'm hoping he's picking up a little bit of a slate. My two dads. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. You had a bit of a rough night? I did. I've got one eyebrow done. Does it look?

Oh, you can't really tell too much. It's slightly faded, yeah. You don't look like an evil supervillain from Batman or something. You know how half their face is melted. Thank you. No, my daughter woke me out with a fever. She had a fever. And, yeah, I'm just trying to look after everyone in my life.

But nobody's looking after me. Your husband's in the middle of a performance at the moment. And, you know. So I was like, don't wake him up. And she was like, but I made him a card yesterday. I'm like, I don't think he's going to appreciate your card at three in the morning. Why didn't she give the car? hard in daylight hours?

Because he was not there. Oh he was right, he's ships in the night. Yeah. Gotcha. Okay, that makes sense. Well, okay.

Just add to your agenda yesterday, producer grace sends us all a message, right? And out of the blue. Unusual message should be sent, right? It was just a little clip from Zara Larson's song. Do we have the song around? Yeah, we do. So I think there's a trend going,

like they did with Wicked. You know how you had to try and do the the, She's got a little moment in one of her songs. Zara Larson here later this year. During a real powerful week, a really powerful week for Spark Arena. Yeah. I think it's Lily Allen, Olivia Dean, Zara Larson.

Two nights Zara Larson too, I think, too, yeah. That's all in one week. October, powerful. Gee, Spark's going to be, whew! Anyway, they can deal with that problem. But Zara Lasson, so you've got to try and mimic a certain part of her song. So that's the big. So we've got sent that from the song, Midnight Sun,

and producer Grace is just like, Send me back now on audio, your attempt at that. It's tough, tough. There was no time to warm up. No, nothing at all. Not that that would have made it any better. So we thought we'd play right now, the three various attempts. See who's going through a while.

I can't sing. Never-ending midnight. It's jolly getting gross. The reason I'm doing that is because my daughter's got inside my head with my singing. She's like, you have the miraculous talent of singing. off key to every song in the car. So I just, and I know singing's not my thing too. And I've given it a bash in the past.

I'm out of the singing game. That's my, here's your attempt. I never read. It's going to be quiet. Yeah, it's actually really good, but it felt like Zarla Larson just not wanting to wake up, that sleeping household. Lost a bit of confidence.

I can say it, but it's just a little quiet, but it was really good. It was a good attempt. I actually thought, Oh, pitchy. I was sort of banging my throat with my hand just to try and give myself that sort of, you know. The vibrato.

Yeah, which kind of hurt a little bit. I gave it a genuine crack because I thought I'd give it a go. But it was fun. I feel like you're on pitch. Yeah, it was not as bad as I thought it was going to be, to be to be honest. It's one of those things I recorded and I like, don't listen back to it, just send it to producer grace. Yeah, nice.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. That's... I tell you what, we haven't done what to watch in so long that your intro bed had disappeared. It had gone. Have you found it? Yes. Want to watch with Megan.

Okay. I'm going to start with the serious one and I'll finish with the funny one. How do you watch so much stuff just out of interest? You're a prolific. Combine that with your immense amount of napping. Looking after children, radioing and then the streaming services really get a good run from you. At the moment, my husband is working every night doing his musical and then when the kids go to bed, I'm like, okay, it is TV watching time.

And it's all yours. It's all mine. It's the quiet time. Do you quite like the husband being away at night? No, actually, not really. Well, when you watch TV, you do, right? Yeah, yeah. Okay, what are the two shows that we need to watch?

Okay, so this is already up to season two, but I've jumped on board just before season two come out, but this is a show that everyone is talking about. It's a hospital drama, and it's called The Pit. Oh, sorry, that was going to be really dramatic, and I was going to play the bit and I screwed it up. 150,000 people die every day in the world. Today you got one of them.

And we're going to get more before the shift is over. You found balance? Cheers, we love a hospital show. Hospital-based show. So the guy is the main star of that. He was on another medical drama back in the day, right? Noah Wiley was my just dream boat in ER. I used to watch him, and I'm sure he's a lot of people's dream boat.

He plays Dr. Robbie. Qualified doctor. It's very realistic. It's a hospital in Pittsburgh that goes through crises. It's quite gory at times. And there is drama there, but it is very realistic on the things that hospitals and doctors and nurses have to deal with. Yeah, it looks like I've seen little snippets online. It looks like all the poor people haven't slept since 2007.

Finale has just come out. This is on neon. but each episode is one hour of the hospital shift and I cannot recommend it enough, it's so good. That's clever. Yeah. It's a good premise. The pit's out now on...

Neon. Neon. You said that probably three times. And the other one I want to leave you with is just dropped at home with the Fury season two. My work is my family. It's hectic and it's hard work. Park your skills shoes on.

How do you hope when Paris goes away? with great difficulty. So I don't know Tyson Fury from boxing. I only know him from this reality show. And God, he's funny. It's so good. He is. He seems like a really nice guy, actually.

I saw the first season because they have, can you say the G word? Is that a thing? Yeah. Well, I think you're supposed to say travellers. Okay, he's a traveller. I don't know. At the boxing the other day,

but he fought over the weekend, they're like, it's the G King. And I was like, oh, can you have? I don't know. anymore. He calls himself that. He calls himself out, yeah. But anyway, so his dad,

he obviously Tyson, multi, multi-millionaire. Yeah. His dad lives on their property, but refuses to live inside a house, lives in a little sort of trailer. Trailer out of the backyard. Battler.

Absolute battler. So this is season two. It's just been confirmed for season three as well, but cheese, it's funny. You don't have to know anything about boxing. The boxing is in there, but it's good stuff. Just a chaotic family life. How many kids have they got?

eight? Yeah, they've got a lot, eh? It's a huge drive of gas. A bus full? Yeah. I saw a little snippet and he was trying to wake his little sun up in the morning. He's like, open the curtains. He's like, rise and shine.

And the sun started like verbally abusing him, using every swear word available. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. It's, oh my God, absolute nightmare of a handshake situation yesterday. School holidays, but my son's basketball team was playing like a visiting team from Wellington. And I was just picking him half after the game. and one of the other boys on Oscar's team came out

and he fist bumped me. You know, fist bump's pretty safe hand-to-hand contact. Yeah. And I nailed the fist bump. It was textbook. Textbook joining of the hands. Okay. And then another one came out.

So I'm thinking in my head, clearly we're in the fist bump zone. Yeah, right. Yeah, someone started with the fist bump. That's probably going to continue. And it makes sense. The boys have been playing. They're a bit sweaty. Quick fist bump.

Yeah. No harm, no. found. No one's getting sent off the court for that. And so then the next guy that comes up, and you know, these are all tall, pretty cool kids, you know, they're onto it. And he puts his hand out. So I'm going, I'm fisted.

I'm fissing. And he comes, and I'm like, oh, oh, he's got open palm. He's got open palm. Now, I try and change my fist at the last minute to his open palm. We end up locking fingers. Oh, do you lock fingers? like a newly engaged couple and he's looking at me

I can tell he's like oh no you're an adult and who's not anyone related to him that's a weird thing for a fully grown adult to be doing to work good yeah and he's so I unlocked and I'm like sorry man it was completely on me

and he's like yeah 100% was completely on you I was like I thought we're fist bumping and he's like look at you're a dad though he's like I'm gonna shake a dad's head yeah that was his no consistency though from the team No, well, it feels there's no consistency when it comes to sort of handshaking in general or catching out with people in general.

Sometimes you go in for like a shake and then suddenly your hands gone on for a ride and they're like, wee, woo, witty, we, oh. Yeah. I usually just, like if someone's taking the lead on that, I'll just let my wrist go. Go with the flow. Are you one of those? Yeah. You don't really know what you're doing. The other one as well I've had, sometimes I'll go, someone you know, you'll go for a hug.

Yeah. And they've gone for some sort of thing. And I'm always like battering me a handleway to get in for the hug. And I'm like, is that a good look? Or is it sort of pull back from the hug and then just... No, it's nice. It's like, we're on better terms than this. Get out of air.

I've been kissed in the air a couple of times recently because I've gone in for the hug and they've gone for the kiss on the cheek then the hug. But I'm not aware that there was a kiss going to happen before the hug. So you go full hug and there's a smooch in your ear. As a male in 2020, whatever year this is now, you know, it's pretty 26 now. They're all blending into a one. The dementia's kicking in. You can't initiate that kiss on the, you know,

because sometimes people will do that and they'll go, and you're like, oh, I didn't, you know, like, I'd rather be surprised that it was a kiss situation, like even an air kiss than me going, next to someone. I'm like, well, that's weird. The problem is there's no, there's too many options available in the greeting game. Yeah, I just want to know what we're doing.

Maybe that's, and it takes away from it if you clear the year first and say, okay, so what is this? Kiss, then a hug, handshake, fist, bump, what are we doing? That's a good thing to. I mean, it's a little formal, a little consensual, but yeah, I mean, but there's no confusion then. Yeah. Yeah.

Hey, how are you? What are we going to go here? What are you feeling? Bro, shake, fist bump, hug. Yeah. Maybe it's something we can decide on the Eddie, bitty, hitting committee. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits.