Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: How Ben’s Balls Went Viral on Social Media!

Episode Date: October 12, 2025

On today’s show: Ben’s most embarrassing phone call ever after accidentally revealing… well, his balls (lol) in a social media video that stayed up for a week We chat multiple spooky experiences including an old ghost who would wake a listener's son up at 2 a.m. to play Portia Woodman-Wickliffe was immortalized as a limited-edition Barbie doll, with special details like her curly hair and the Tāmoko on the doll's arm Jono had amazing banter with some tradies then to ruin it by walking into a door... The hosts realised they were among the last people to ever ride the old Pirate Ship at Rainbow's End!  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 team. Welcome to the podcast where you'll be able to get your chance with our show. And also you're here on the podcast. We're going to Rainbow's End with the new Pirateship. It's going to be back. There's a new bigger, better version of the Pirateship, the iconic Pirateship.

And we're just actually watching the song, the Rainbow Zend song. If you're in New Zealand, you'll know the commercial, Rambo Zendes. We'll get it. Get it up on the computer right now and I was just watching a moment from seven days the show because they had that game where they would often say which one of these people was in the famous thing. Oh, yeah.

You know, the newsworthy thing. And on this particular occasion, it was a few years ago, they were like which one of these people was in the original singers for the purest form, the group that sang the song, the Rambo's End song. And then the twist was on this particular occasion. All the colors that we fly.

We can be much closer together. The twist on this occasion was the fact that they were all in purest form and they all stepped out and they all sung it was really really cool actually and they're amazing singers that rainbow kind of magic there's a real deep one in there right

yeah yeah yeah I love the deep one because usually the deep one just does the talky bit does it damn girl oh man I didn't mean to be so bad yeah all the times I ran across with that

You know, they always talk about him. Forgive me, baby. Yeah, yeah. There is a boys to men song like that, eh? When he's just like, you know, forgive me. And he's like, yeah. But please forgive me, baby. I'll come back here, come here, let's sweet, sweet.

And then he got the other guy singing, so, you know, to help him out. Oh, forgive him. He should have kept in his pants. I have never heard the song I love. Oh, you'll know for the boys to men. We'll play that tomorrow on the podcast. There was an era where the deep voice guy would come in sort of in the bridge and sort of making a heartfelt a podcast.

apology to the lady he's done the dirty on. Please, baby. End of the road. There's a good one up end of the road where he does the breakdown of that. And he's basically saying he did all these things, but hey, hey. And then the other guy's seen, like his wingman, yeah. Yeah. Oh, should we, we're talking about it now.

We've got to get it on now. That end of the road, hell of a song. That's a great song. They did well with matching outfits too, boys to men. They had the caps as well. Is this a song? Oh, here we are? Yeah.

Here we go He's written some for a while What a song I know Now in the break down Here we go Here we go Break it out

Girl I'm here for you He's here for you All those times A night when you just heard me And just ran out with that other fella Baby I knew about it I just didn't care

You just don't know understand how much I love you do you I'm here for you I'm not out to go out to get you on night just like you did baby but that's I'll sing alone I love you anyway wait so she did the dirty on him running out at the middle of the night he doesn't care he's like I love you anyway she just won't come back to me come back baby oh what a song I just please don't turn it off before the chorus. No, we've got to wait to get the chorus.

And maybe just go let it go. Everybody. The end of the road. Still, I can't let go. Everyone except John. Come to go. Woo! To the end.

Oh, there we go. I feel like the bloody morning shift. You know the morning. They did the sing-along songs. Oh, that's a great song. Yeah, here we go. We did throw her back Thursday on a Thursday. That's fun of a way to play a make-down-song this week.

Let's angle the topic to feature that song. Yeah, the full talky version too. Yeah, right, well, join the part. Apologies, so she had done the dirty on him. Sorry, I got a run, mate. It's all wrong. The story's wrong. Yeah, he was in the clear, right?

But he didn't care. Big a man with bigger Cohooners than me. Actually, thinking of Cohooners, you'll have me. They also feature into that show. Right up here now. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast.

The Hits. Thinking about telling the story and they're not telling the story for a few months now. And I'm going to share it, but it involves probably the most embarrassing. Well, one thing is very embarrassing, but also the most embarrassing phone conversation I think I've ever had to have as well. Now, you see this on Friday. Oh, honestly. It was the, it was. It's traumatising for me.

It's traumatising. I've really gone back and forth as to whether I should make this public property, but then you talk to the producers. And they're like, you've got to tell the story. Okay, so I'm going to leave out a few details. You look embarrassed already. I am. I'm shocking.

It's very embarrassed. Okay, so now and again, I make videos for social media, right? Yeah. And to make silly little videos like a costume, as we talked about, like an outfit. And very occasionally, I will make a video for, you know, like a client. You'll make one that's actually, you know, a paid video as well. It doesn't happen all the time. But on this particular occasion, I'd made a video.

Many months ago, and part of it was me wearing a silly outfit, as I do. Anyway, I get this text. The video I've been up for about five days. I get this text from someone I filmed with years ago on the TV show. And quite a well-known lady, and she texts through saying, hey, love your videos, hope you're well. Just want to you that on this particular video, I think you might be revealing a little something. And let's just say if you're talking about in food terms, you're talking about sausages and potatoes, just to say one of your potatoes might be showing in the video.

Now, I had a look at the video with my wife and I was like, oh, it does look a little bit like that but I think it's just the lighting with the lighting. I looked at the video with the lighting, I'm like, it's the lighting doing me dirty because I was wearing underpants that day and everything like that. So I was like, thanks anyway for your text, think of the lighting's going to be dirty,

carried on. Thinking, oh, it does look a little like that, but hey, I think, it's the lighting. I'd be it used to the video, the client had seen it, my agency had seen it, you know, we'd all look to that. To be fair though, no. Lots of eyes had gone through it. Nope, but no one's looking.

looking for that. No, no, I was looking at it. I was like, nah, it does look a little like that, but I don't think it is because it's underpants on, underpants on. Then a couple of days later, I checked. Wait, what was the costume? I'm not going to go into details. I'm not going, but a couple days later I get, I like, I decided to check my direct messages on my Instagram account. And I'm like, oh, there's quite a lot of direct messages. And a few people going, hey, just want to let you know, we can see one of your potatoes on the video. And I'm like, I'm like, okay, they'll check the comments on the video. I'm like, oh, there is quite a few comments on this particular video, I'm like, AI, AI madness.

Dear God, and I looked at the video again, I'm like, oh, my God, dear God, yes, I was wearing underpants, but they weren't the colour of the underpants. You can see one of my potatoes on the video. If you are watching, very suddenly, I'm like, oh, and I just went, like, I was in shock. I was like, oh my God, an internet video has been up for a week with me revealing something like this, and I'm like, I'll delete it. And then I'm like, I can't delete it. Because it's a pay for it, right point.

You can't just delete it. So I'm like, I'm going to get in touch with someone for. from the Asian I was like Is it still up? No it's not up anymore It's not up anymore I don't know why I was looking

Yeah But then I had to make a conversation To a lovely lady who works To the agency And I had to go Hey I don't want to have this conversation But I'm going to tell you something

And then I had to tell her what's going on She's like What video Whereabouts And I'm pinpointing the exact moment In the video On the conversation If you look at that bit there

And she's on the phone Lovely Is she dissecting whether she could see it? Oh yeah, no, I'm like, I am just dying inside. There's someone you work with all the time. Yes, and I'm like, I'm so sorry I am making you not only watch this video, but also pointing out my potato in the video and actually going, can you have a look at this right now?

It feels like I'm breaching all sorts of HR, bloody, things like that. And then she's like, did she have to go to the client? She's got to go. Fortunately, the client was quite bloke. He thought it was hilarious. I said, leave it up. Allowed me to take down the video and since it's not a low

go, I'll hopefully scrub from the internet and scrub from everyone's memories but I'm like, oh my God. Can I please see the video? No. I'm like you the video. No. No, no.

The show the video. It's very off brand. I'm not, no, I'm very off. We need it up on the Hitz breakfast. Oh, God. I really want to know who the client was. Oh, geez. It was horrendous.

Four potatoes? No, it wasn't for, no, it had nothing to do with the video. It was just that me with that, yeah, yeah, the worst, the lowest moment ever. So here we go. Does it put you off wearing costumes? No, we're not entirely, but simply put me off revealing things with underpants. Loose hanging underpants, really did me dirty. Is it a meat and veg restaurant?

No. Oh, God, dude. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, The Hats. And there's a Kiwi man that holds the Guinness World Record for the longest name. You'll just tell me before. Yeah. 2,300 names or something. He used to work in the library

and thought it would be funny if he went for the record for the longest thing. I think initially the birth test and marriages are like, mate, you're having a laugh here. And then he took them to the High Court. I did he? Because this is middle names, right? Yeah, so he's just whacked on a whole lot of middle names to get the world's longest name.

Over 2,000 of them right now. His wedding, the celebrant took 20 minutes to read out his name. That's such a dumb gag, though. The first, like, two minutes, you'd be like, ha, 20 minutes in, everyone's like this, dude, come on. Long runway to the punchline. It really is. I was standing at the altar with him. I'd be like, can I change my mind, actually?

We should get him on. We should get him on. And then we'll go, okay, recite your full name, and then we'll keep coming back to him over a 20-minute period. Is he still going? Yeah. Now you think there might be a ghost following you around. Yeah, so I brought you this last week. My daughter has mentioned a female's name, who I live.

Literally, I've never heard of a Cassie before. Wait, who's beautiful? The Cassie. Is it Cassie? Yeah. Who's Cassie? Cassie for my home. Is Cassie coming over to our home?

Yeah. Who's Cassie? Nervous laughter from Andrew in the background there. Beautiful Cassie. I thought it might be the casino, but it's not the casino. So you've had ongoing investigations. You're trying to get to the bottom of this. You can cancel out the fact that your husband's having an affair.

Why, I just say he doesn't have any time. I mean... Yeah, no. Too much admin to have an affair. He's like, I've got to deal with you. I don't have the energy for anyone else. And I was like, that's a fair call, babes. Now, I, the weekend, when I was putting I to bed, I asked her again, because I was like, maybe she's forgotten about it.

So I said, who's Cassie? And she said she comes to my home. Again, she wasn't like, I don't know who you're talking about. She said she comes to my home. And at that point... Is she beautiful? And she was like, yeah, she's beautiful. Beautiful, Cassie.

And I didn't want to ask anymore because it was night time and I was putting her to bed. And at this point, it was starting to creep me out that maybe she's seeing something that I don't see. Imagine if she's like, she's in the room right now. I know, I was going to say, is she here now? She sees dead people. Yeah.

Well, it could be, I was thinking, an imaginary friend, but she would say she's my friend, Cassie. She hasn't said she's my friend. She calls everyone, it's like my friend, everyone's my friend. Like Trump, Trump does that as well. Tremendous friend group. Yeah. So I'm starting to get a bit creeped out.

Yeah. Maybe we need to get some advice. Well, why don't we get like a medium? A medium to come in here and see if there's someone following around or go to your house and we do like an exorcism or something. So because I went to a hens party and they had a medium there one time. They did the reading like the fun thing for the bride and everything. And then afterwards she put her hand on my shoulder and she's like, can I speak to you for a second?

and everyone else walked away she said there's a little girl that follows you around and I was like way to bring the vibes down at the heads party lady and I creep me out might be cats me out might be cats

okay well so 4487 oh 100 the hits those are our numbers they are a way to get in touch with us has something like this happened in your house you've got a ghost following you're like what are the signs that you should be looking for like if this could be actually legit or not if you believe in this sort of thing

I know Halloween's coming up right you know no ghosts I've got please Yeah, many of skeletons in the closet. I keep in them at bay. They don't cause me too much trouble. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hats.

Get to the bottom of who Cassie is, your daughter, Aya. So she started talking about beautiful Cassie that comes to her home, and I was like, Andrew, my husband, what's happening here? And, oh, I don't think it's that. I don't think, I don't think it's anything to do with my husband. And I asked Ayer again at the weekend, who Cassie was, and she said she comes to my home. And I said, is she beautiful? She said, yes.

I don't know any Cassies, personally. So I don't know who she's referring to. And we're starting to wonder, maybe she's singing something that we're not seeing. Yeah, well, you had a fun hens do where some scary lady told you there was a ghost following you around. So it could be Cassie. She said a little girl specifically follows me around.

Okay, so, oh, 800 of the hits. Does this sound like ghost stuff to you? Have you had a ghost following you around? Claire, morning to you. Good morning. You've had this scenario. Yes, something very similar. So my son, when he was younger, was having severe nightmares

and he was waking up saying that he was seeing zombies and walking across his bedroom. And then one night he woke up screaming, saying that there was a werewolf in his bedroom and that he couldn't tell me because the werewolf would rip into pieces. Long story short, we have... Fun dreams, fun dreams. A talking weirwolf too.

A talking werewolf. Long story short, we had somebody come in and actually bless the house because these nightmares were getting ridiculous. And it turns out that both my son and my daughter are seers. What's a seer? Like they can see spirits? Yes. Wow.

Even now? Even now. My daughter especially and she's 18. What does she see? She just sees Dead people Every so often she'll go There's somebody stood behind you

It scares me to death It scares me to death But every so often she'll go There's somebody behind you But it turns out that where we were living Was a mouldy burial ground And the zombies that he was seeing Were the people that had died

Jeez That's frightening, well It's really cold in here No I just flung my eyes mom's around like get away yeah and so you don't have any ongoing issues though with them seeing spirits like they don't affect their lives no this is something they're probably do they talk to them no no they don't talk to them no see them okay it's wow well you know

I had one experience we'll keep this going I 800 the hits the phones are blowing up on this topic we may as well keep rolling when I was at my friend Christopher lane's house whenever radio does these topics I've only got one story okay Christopher lane John McGinnis Kevin Kim all of us were like Let's do a seance. So we've got the bloody pizza box out. You're right, the alphabet around the thing. You've got yes and no in the middle. And I asked that ghost.

I said, what am I having for dinner tonight? And it's spelled out, Cock O'Varn. Annie Prize. Annie Prize, signature dish. So how do you reckon, okay, that's true. How did you reckon the ghost knew that? It's a ghost, bro. How did we just know that, though?

I don't know. And I came home, I said, what's for dinner, mum? She said, my signature dish, Cocko, Varn. Freaky. Freaky. I'm glad the ghost didn't stop after the first part of that word too, Megan. What's for dinner tonight? Yeah, true.

You'd be like, oh, okay. You should have said it faster. Yeah, you did. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. We're trying to get to the bottom of a wee bit of a mystery that's going on in Megan's household. Her daughter, your daughter, Ia keeps talking about Cassie. A beautiful Cassie.

Beautiful Cassie. She says that comes to my home. Not a dog, not an animal I don't know any dogs I don't know any tangible thing named Cassie So have you Are you living with a ghost Do you think Megan is living with a ghost

You have Kerry Yes Kind of Well yes we did My son was two and a half Three And he had this friend Frank Who used to wake him up at like

How about two Three in the morning To play with his toy Frank did Frank Yeah Yeah And so my dad

Who is a pastor Come and blessed our house And he was Frank was an old man Who had lived in this Very old house And passed away in the house And he wasn't

There was nothing wrong with him But he moved him on And we never heard from Frank again Thank God But yeah It was pretty freaky Frank the friendly ghost Just wanted to play toys

With a little child At 2 in the morning nothing unusual about that at all. And so what did your dad, being the pastor? What does he say? Does he talk and say, hey, mate, Frank, it's been fun. But you've got to move on. I just stayed out of the house.

I don't want anything. There was a few hanging around. It was quite an old house, like it was one of the main houses in the area. Like, you know. And so we understand knives would be throwing around as well? No knives. Okay. I don't know why I understand that.

Would cutlery be thrown off benches? No, just... No, I'm just making stuff up here. I feel like you got confused with another text here, I think, maybe. There's someone else saying about that, yeah. Just toys. Although I do work, I'm a caregiver, we do have, at work, we have call bells and stuff go off for people in empty rooms that have passed away.

We have had that happen before. Wow. So, yeah. Okay. There you go, Kerry, hey, thanks so much. Vicky, you're on the air, welcome. Morning, how are you? Yeah, we're doing well, Vicky.

You've lived with the ghost as well. This is, I feel left out that I haven't. Yeah, no, we, um, my daughter started talking to someone random when she was little, and I'd find out it was my grandmother who passed away seven years before I had her. Really? Yeah, we're the ones that have had the knives thrown. Oh, I understand you've had knives thrown. Well, here's your question. Copy and paste from before.

Yeah, we've had knives thrown dogs going crazy, so I took photos, and there was a face on our wall. We also had our... Sorry, you said there was a face on your wall? Yeah, no, we've had a lot of pictures with ghost... Are these all different ones, right? It's not your grandma throwing the knives. No, it wasn't my grandma throwing the knife, and the face was actually my mate who had passed away. We had our house bless and the guy worked out.

It was my best mate that had passed away. What do you mean there was a face on the wall? Like in your pictures? Yeah, yep. I just took the dog's growling at the corner. So I just took random photos. You couldn't see anything. Teer went back over your photos and you compared the different photos.

And in the couple of photos, there were a couple of faces. That weren't actually in the photos. That weren't in the photos. And this is before AI, before we could do that, right. My blood just made cold. My blood just been cold. No, it's not AI, it wasn't even then. Wow.

So, okay, do you have a family member called Cassie? We do a lot of ghost hunting, that's why. Megan? I have, I think, a great grandmother called Flossie. So I don't know if she's getting confused there. I don't know. Well, Vicki, so do you reckon everything that Megan said, do you think all signs are pointing to her living with a ghost?

It sounds like it, but yeah, it'll be interesting to actually do an investigation there. Some people have said there's lots of times where that they catch kids talking to themselves. I does that all the time she sits in her room and she plays with her dolls at house and she's talking. She's talking away. We need to get someone over to your house.

She's by himself. Yeah. The K-pop demon hunters, get them over to your house. I'm so freaked out. I can sing a catchy jam. Roomie, come over. Hey, well, thanks for you call. Vicki. Appreciate your sharing this morning. Hey, listen, we're not going to put this to bed

just yet. No. We'll get to the bottom of it. Although I'm not going to bed ever at your house. No, no. I don't think that was an invite. No, no. An option. I'm not taking it up.

What is Ben sleeping over? Yeah, that was weird. Cassie and Ben come to your house. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits have been mortalised into a Barbie doll, a limited edition Barbie doll, Blackfern star, Portia Woodman, Workcliffe. And she joins us right now.

Morena. Morena, theme, how are you? We're doing good. You know, this is such a cool thing that you've got. A Barbie doll in your likeness. Yeah. It's crazy. I loved watching your reaction, seeing it for the first time.

It was on a rugby field and turned around. I mean, what was that? Talk us through that moment. Because it felt like many emotions were going through you. Oh, man. Honestly, I think just the first thing was the Tamoko. You know, the detail of it. I don't think I've ever seen a Barbie or a toy with a Tamok on it.

And that just makes me so proud that I get to represent who I am. And ultimately, just how cool it is. Like, that's a Barbie. I grew up playing with Barbies, and I love them. So to know that I have a Barbie that looks just like me is unreal. I love that they're musly and I love that they're like, you know, representing actual women's body shapes now. And your curly hair as well, you know, they've got everything just exactly like you.

Totally. And I think that was the second part that I saw was like, this girl's got some guns. Like, if they're supposed to put a singlet on her, whose shoulders will be banging. Like, honestly, it's so cool. That's you, babe. That's you. That's you in real life.

R.R. I don't want to take the, the shining light off this special moment for your Porsche. But did you know also Ben has a Barbie modeled after him as well? No, I did. Well, I don't know this. Do you know, Ken's genitalia? Oh, yeah, yeah.

That's exactly like mine. I don't like to talk about that. I was the model for that, Portia. It's not about me right now. They got him into the office. All right, let's move on to that. When did you find out about this? Like, when did you know this was actually happening?

Um, prior to the World Cup, um, yeah, Barbie reached out and said they were just going to highlight, um, four athletes in the World Cup and there was going to come out afterwards. And, you know, you just don't realize it's going to happen until you see it and right in front of your eyes. And there was a lot of talks going back and forth between myself and my manager and Mattel or the Barbie. But yeah, to see it in person, that was unreal. But be honest, like, when you got the original message from Mattel and stuff, were you like, am I being, is this a joke? They make it a Barbie doll on me. Yeah, I had to ask my agent. I was like, are you serious?

Like, how serious is this? This is really Barbie, but no. Because I remember, like, I think it was a few years back, Valerie Addens had a Barbie and Melody Robinson had a Barbie. And to know that even against to those Wahini that have been, you know, shining lights in our history, it's cool that I get to be a part of their journey as well. So it's a Barbie or unique, one of one.

Where's it going to live? Like, where have you got a spot in the house that you're going to put? it? Yep, I bought this beautiful bookcase and she's going on the bookcase next to all my other trophies next to the medals. She's currently the only one on the bookcase at the moment with my Royal Cup Rose Gold

she's sitting there right in the lounge. Oh, that's so cool and you know it's so cool because I guess Barbie's all about empowering particularly girls to dream big. What message do you want other girls to hope to take out of this? We're seeing your own Barbie doll. I think

what I want people to get from it is whatever you do in your life, whether in sports or whether, you know, boys, girls, if you dream big and you work really hard and you enjoy the process, can't end up in some amazing places. Like, you know, when I first started rugby or when I first started playing sports when I was 12, I never imagined that I'd be a Barbie or even have some of the accolades that I have now. So I think ultimately, dream big and have fun along the way, and who knows where you're going to end up.

I'm enjoying all the work that I've put in for the last 12 years. Well, I imagine, too. It must have been a non-stop treadmill up until this point. Yeah, it really was. I think, obviously, there was that little blip of retirement at the end of last year. Was it like one of those scenes in the movie when, you know, it's like an FBI director goes to the woods to find the person that's chopping wood. Oh, yeah, they've gone off the grid.

I said I retire. I'm like, we need you back. We need you back. Yeah, that's it. You're like, okay, yeah, fine, I'm coming back. Obviously, our greatest ever tri-scorer, the most amount of tries. And that's across all rugby, men's and women's. Was that something that was in the back of your mind?

You're like, oh, would love to break that? Or is that just comes with the job? Never. That is never in my, there was never in my forecast just doing my job. And it's funny, though, because after I scored that 50th try, I never scored again. You're just coming back for that one try and then you can finish. The rugby gods are like, we've given a 50. That's enough.

Hey, well, listen, congratulations on such an illustrious career. and also being immortalised as a Barbie, Porsche. What an amazing moment. Thanks, team. Thanks so much. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. Friday after work, I'm heading back to where our cars are parked.

And there's some construction going on in that area of town. Yeah. So I head past, you know, 12 greased up, highly visible tradies. Construction work, hard hats. Did they give you a wolf whistle? Fingers. I would have loved a wolf whistle I'll take a wolf whistle

Cancel now is it Wolfwhistling in 2025 Although it makes you feel like a million bucks But anyway These guys Fingers like sausages You know they've got big thick thick fingers

And they're under a Sort of a cloud of communal vape And one of them says How's it? And I In a rare moment of social excellence Said Solving the world's problems

With a vape, are we? And they're like Ha ha ha Made no more climate change They were down here, so I'm walking away. I'm like, this is a textbook, one-liner, social interaction. And then I was like, I'll give it one more. And I turned back around and I said, see you a lady, you're filthy animals.

And then they're like, oh, stop it, mate, stop it. I'm on a high, running on a high. Couldn't have had more credibility in that moment with that particular demograph. Then, as I'm turning around looking at them going, see you lady, you filthy animals, some monster opens the door to the building, bang, straight into my head straight into my forehead and then I hear

oh you know the crowd watching on yeah because they're looking at you at you that moment aren't they high high to the lowest of lows and then did you have any good one liners after that

no I just kind of I just want to start crying where one door opens no no that's okay that's what they say so what you say oh don't you hate that when you just

I couldn't have come out You know The first part of that Couldn't have been any better I felt like a minute Yeah Just wonderful The one line is always good

Hey they're hardly What's the one Oh working hard Hardly work And even Don't you know it Not bad office Is another one I like

When someone's just somewhere Spectacular Yeah Not a bad office That's the weekend Not long enough Love those Good run one liners

They get me through the day Those John O'Bin and Megan The podcast The Hats Rambo's End bringing back the legendary pirate ship

but a new updated version The Pirateship Pacifica is going to be launching at Rambo's End and we all worked out that we were actually on the final day all three of us

were some of the last people to ever ride the OG pirate ship at Rambo's End the amusement park right. There's a race to the finish line between the desperate radio shows

wasn't it to get on the we were the last ones on the pirate ship we had the plan and we were going to and they said at the time, they were going to let us ride it all day.

So from the time it opened to the time it ended, we're going to be on every single ride throughout the day in various different costumes, because that's what we were doing for the TV show at the time. And I think you wrote it twice, and John, I got motion sickness. Yeah, I did not factor that in. I have terrible motion sickness.

It's like, sometimes when I'm driving myself home from work, I get motions. Yeah, but you drive like a lunar tics. Because why are you always sit in the front of an Uber? Yeah, I do. I get less motion sickness there. But yeah, I was really disappointed in myself. Who gets seasick on a boat that's not even on the seat?

He's not even going anywhere. What a loser. It's just like the swinging. It's like going on swings when you're an adult. You're like, bleh. Yeah. And have you been on one of the spinny things at a playground? Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah, that's a bit fair. Even a trampoline that feels like my head's rattling. Four days to recover. But this was us on the Pirateship. Well, yeah, as Ben said, reenacted famous boat scenes. I'm the king of the world! James Cameron, eat your heart out. We're going to need a bigger boat.

Everyone look at Paul. Pull, our camera, but it's not really very good. We hadn't thought about logistics of taking our... Is he's going to be sick? Oh, yeah, Paul vomited too, because he's looking through the camera lens. It was quite a disappointing end. It was. I think we all walked away from there going, oh, that was a sad, sad activity we just partook in there.

I had a lot of fun. I got a lot of having to rope in all people that were there. Didn't the theme bark to help me out, because the camera people and Jono couldn't get back on the boat. I was just... This was not what happened. I saw this panic out. But anyway. But we're very excited about the brand new bigger

and Boulder Pacifica pirate ship coming back to Rainbow's End. And we're going to give you the chance with us. Well, maybe just me and you guys can stand out to the outside. Because you went on there the last day. Did you get sick, Megan? Oh yeah.

I didn't vomit or anything, but man, I don't feel good. It looks cool. This new one, though. It looks incredible. So we're going to be the first people. Motion sickness proof. Oh, I don't know. It just goes, you know, the thing that's really lame

is it just goes back and forth. I don't, not lame. The boat's not lame. but my sickness is late. It goes really high. No complaints, no complaints both of you, all right? You're going to come out? I want no moaning on the day, right?

Because this is very excited about this, and we're giving you the chance to get involved while you should be on the maiden voyage with us. This is before it's open to the general public. You're going to be a part of history. You really are. So what we need, though, is something from you that you can bring on to the voyage.

Yeah, a reason why. Maybe you're going to bring something from home, your costume, maybe you're going to bring a lack of motion sickness. Some sea legs. Have you picked out your costume? No, no, I haven't, no. You're going to go as a pirate? Somali pirate.

I got to do some stuff for Rambo's Inn to help them out with it. They got me. Maybe I can borrow the costume, they got me. They took it back off me at the end of the day. I was like, oh, keep that in my garage. So maybe I can re-borrow that, get back into the costume as well. So if you want to get involved, 4487, it's open to the public October 24th, but we're going to be able to get you in beforehand with us on the Maiden Voyage. Maybe, please, if anyone has an obedient parrot that you can trust not to fly away,

that could sit on your shoulder for the duration of the voyage. We can sit on Ben's shoulder. Yeah. He's going to be the captain. A life jacket? Maybe someone can bring a life jacket? What would you bring to the maiden voyage? Yeah, 4487, maybe a bottle of shan.

And we're allowed to smash a bulletin? Probably not really. But then there's going to be shards of glass all over rainbows here. Kids wander around a bare feet. Okay, that's a bad idea. It's just champagne to give to us. That would be great. Ben and Megan, the podcast.

The Hits. And Katie Perry, pop star and former Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, well, it seems like it's an official thing, guys. They're going official. Because when they went out for dinner a few months ago, we were like, maybe it was just a business thing. Could have been. Yeah, maybe it was a business chat.

Maybe he was trying to get free tickets to the Katie Perry show. Yeah, well, he did end up going to the concert, so maybe that was the play. That high concept shows, she's touring around the world. He's like, I've got to see this for myself, but no. They've photographed on a yacht, having a smooch. Smooch enough of still. Yeah, smooching everybody around here. They love the Paps lover buddy boat smooch, don't they?

They do, don't they? Do you reckon they tee them up? The celebrities? They do sometimes, don't they? Some of them do, yeah. I wouldn't imagine that this instance, it would be... Just so you know 430 will be a smooching our faces off on the boat. I'll leave that with you.

Well, speaking of famous singers, Lewis Capaldi. On Friday, we spoke to Tony Capaldi, his brother. Like you said, it sounds like a Marfioso. Tony Capoli, Anthony. Anthony, Anthony, who made news last week. He was with Lewis at the Formula One in Singapore, and Martin Brundall, who goes around and interviews people live in Pit Lane. He mistook him for his brother, right?

Lewis, wonderful to see you. Sorry, you're his brother. Well, I said he's got a cap on. My, and I'm, yeah, how are you? How are you both? Very nice to meet you. Big fun. Yeah, we're good to see you too. There's a shamblesome start to face.

Because then when he interviewed actual Lewis Capaldi, Lewis went to shake his hand at the end of it. Martin had turned away, leaving Lewis hanging and having to shake his own hand. I love the burn from Lewis being like, oh, I'm a big fan of yours, Martin. You don't know who I can't recognise me in a crowd. So we spoke to Tony, Anthony, Lewis Capoli's brother on Friday. And Megan, you made a connection with your love of Formula One. I'm a big Formula One fan. I see you've got a McLaren hat.

You're a McLaren boy. Yeah, I love the team. I started supporting them at the start last year. And then they've done really well. So I'm not saying there's a correlation. So after that, I think being in me were like, you should do a podcast with him. Well, you've been talking about doing a Formula One podcast for a while. Yeah, I have.

And so, yeah, it seems like you both love Formula One. And I, you know, I often like message celebrity. I just shoot my shot. I give them a DM on Instagram So I DM just to say thank you for talking to us Because he didn't have to And I didn't expect to hear back But he messaged me back

Very nice message back So we got chatting Over the weekend And he's really keen So you've pitched the podcast to him You're like, let's do an international Formula One podcast Where what, you'll review the races Each Formula One race

You and Anthony Capulting Oh great, great, it's a great idea It must be great. Yeah. Yeah. He needs to get a bit of microphone, but Lewis can probably help him out with that. I'm sure Lewis has access to microphones. He's a very, very, very lovely guy.

Do you think you've pressured him into it? Like, do you think he couldn't say no? No, so I gave him lots of opportunities to, I kept saying, a sure. Did you say, no dramas of not? I always say that. No drama. Like a little bit of drama. There was no pressure, no pressure.

No dramas of not. He's sure. And he is very, very king. That's cool. He's very king. Oh, it's good. Well, make it happen. Make it happen.

Yeah, it's a great idea. What are you going to talk about? Formula One. Oh, yeah, nice. Are you going to get a guest on? You're going to be like, hey, where's Lewis? You're asking me all the details at a very early stage. Okay, right, this is the...

You need a big... Yeah, Lewis, Episode 1, you know? Oh, is that what you were gunning for? Well, now that's because that's how, you know, old Jason Kelsey's like, hey, make, can you bring the misses on the podcast? I reckon she'll do gangbusters. And Taylor Swift did do gangbusters for Travis and Jason's podcast.

I'm going to wait a long time before I met. mention any lower stuff. Yeah, that wasn't episode one of their podcast, was it?

No, all yours as well but we'll see how that goes. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. That's a whole lot

of new mayors and some old mayors returning around the country over the weekend in some of the big markets. Wayne Brown, back as mayor,

Andrew Little, who was a former Labor leader as now Mayor of Wellington and Phil Major back again in Christchurch as well.

I didn't vote. Did you vote? No, did you vote? No, but it's not you should. You should.

A lot of local council stuff I feel a little bit and I should I should be a lot more invested in it you know because it is really really important I I oh you complain about the council every single day yeah and everyone says if you're you can't complain if you don't vote so there's the new rule for you yeah I always vote I always have the intention to but I didn't realize it finished on Saturday yeah I'd like suck up mommy and this is just on us like they couldn't make it easier no they spell out who the you know who Barry Mick Sterling is who wants

to get on the Albert Eden local board. Do you know what he stands for? If you just do a light bit of research. Laziness, I'm going to put it down to laziness on my part. Plus I just like moaning too. We can't moaning anymore, that's the role. Now, over the weekend

went to a beach dig where you had a whole lot of people it was for Fletcher living, you had a whole lot of people just frantically digging for prizes and a giant sandpit. It was a great event, actually. It was a really wonderful event.

of, you know, free hot dogs and popcorn and ice cream face paint, as well as people winning great prizes. Yeah, I thought the prizes were going to be like a beach towel, but there was like fridges, stand-up paddleboards. Family, friendly, wholesome, suburban crowd. Was it fun? And it was called the Big Dig. The Big Dig.

So we managed to get through that without any slips of the tongue. I was really proud of all three of us on that one. But there was a little bit of a bit of a situation. where there were kids in the sandpit there was a kids area as well and there was a cute little baby and someone was digging an adult was digging while holding their baby

and I said oh I'll hold the baby past the baby over here so I just grabbed the baby boom instant tears screaming she was not happy to be with you not happy at all frightening and then you come in you're coming oh it's a sweet baby

oh it's a sweet baby you know like a sweet how many times you say sweet little baby and I'm like if I'd be I'm whist and tears watching you say sweet little baby. He could just come in normally and go, hey, it's a cute baby. You're like, it's that a sweet little baby. How many times he said sweet little baby?

I was like, no one of the babies crying. So anyway, I had to put the traumatized baby back where it belonged. Maybe it just doesn't like being away from its parents. But then Megan comes along, straight away, grabs the baby. Baby's fine. Smiling at her. Yeah. Like, smiling, like touching her face.

I'm like, what the hell, baby? I didn't come and go, oh, he's a sweet little baby. You're so sweet little baby. Also, I had a baby not that long ago. You had yours. Yeah, no, I'm out of touch. Yeah, you've lost the touch.

You've still got the baby maternal instinct. It could relate. But no, no, it was fun. It was a fun day. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. To the Bay of Plenty, we catch up regularly with our Italian correspondents. Yes, we head to Tooronga.

We're, I would say probably one of the only Italians in the Bay of Plenty joins us. It's Daniela, Chao. Chao, Bello. Come stay? Have you come across another Italian in your area? There's a lot of Italians, I need to be honest. That's good, I'm glad to hear. She asked how you were.

Oh, come as I. Come as I. Come as I to you as well. No, how are you? I'm volleying it back to her. Yeah. Well done. Now, Daniela, I've just been in Europe with the family

and you were so lovely sending me message. sending me messages and telling me where to go to get amazing pizza and things like that. Yeah, no, I mean, I'm not lovely. I was just jealous, the full stop. You wanted to live vicariously through, Ben. So did you take up any of Daniela's suggestions? I found a place that was awesome that you recommended. Just go in a pizza by the slice, sit outside.

Everyone just sits outside by the footpath and stuff on these little, and it was awesome. It was amazing. What was the people, the Italian people face when you got all this costume on? Oh, yeah. Yeah, well, I did wear a pizza costume momentarily. I think, yeah, I got, you know, I mean, interesting looks as well. But, hey, you know, I was embracing the culture. How many costumes did you take over?

At least three, at least three main costumes. Another one, the gag did it on the airport on the way, and that one managed to find its way back into the car. So, you know, yeah. So did you have a costume for each country to visit? Yeah, I had some costumes planned and some, you know, I'd become prepared. What was the costume for Britain? for London.

That was a clock. That was me, like a big Ben. Being a big clock. Yeah, a big clock, you know. So, yeah, I had some things planned. France? France, I had the Mona Lisa costume. Oh, nice.

So, yeah. I had some things. Tell you what, food is incredible over there. And I had a moment where, because I'd organize, you know, I'd organize the trip. You know, like I'd been getting a combination and all the activities and stuff like that. Don't lie. I organized the trip. But I'd book, you know, and I said to a family one day, I was like, you guys need to decide where we

go for dinner, research it, and they got caught up with shopping in Italy, and then they were like, we haven't thought of anything. And I was like, oh, and all, just wanted one place. And I got all grumpy, and I was like, one place. They were like, what about this place? I'm like, you haven't even researched it. Sat down there, I was all grumpy, and it was the best pastor I've ever had in my life. And there was probably just one in many places. I was like, damn it, it was really good. And my family were like, you enjoy it? And I was like, yeah, I am actually, but yeah. But angrily enjoying it. But I'm happy that you enjoy my home.

Oh, yeah, it's great. I mean, the beautiful little sort of cobblestone, little streets and lanes, but you're still, like, driving trucks and scooters and stuff down, I'm like, just making for people. Like, you guys are just like, yeah, we'll give it a go. Yeah, we're just brave. That's the right word to put in the Italian people. It's a Italian equal braveness.

Sometimes it's stupidity, but that's okay, you know? Do they do anything? What's that? The Italians. Are they doing it? Are they just sitting around sucking just. Stop it. We work hard. You were talking about you saw a lot of boobies.

Oh, you're not, well, you're through Europe and stuff. Booby tour. I didn't come back to talk about what you guys. Boobie terrorists what I saw guys. There's a lot of boobies, Daniela. You guys asked me, you would go to the beach in there, in the Greg Island and you see. And I was like, well, I did. But I didn't come back going to, guess what, guys, guess what?

I love it. Let's say that by Nacha is Italian, we have voluptuous. Let's say that, by Nacha. And after, again, you know, there is... Oh, by nature. Oh, by nature, but I'm not by nature. Banacha. Panacha.

I thought that was like the word for the luxur was in Italian. Bonarcha. Benacha. As I say in Italy, Bonarcha. Stop me. You nag, I'm naughty. I need to fire you all. Hey, have a great week, Daniela.

You do. John O'Benon and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Brian Keaton. Fame Sector over the weekend. sadly passed away. RIP.

My husband, I just broke the news to him this morning. He didn't know. She was his pass card. Diane Keaton was. He loves an older lady. He does love an older lady. Megan, Diane Keenan.

But yeah, no, really sad. Betty White. Yeah, she's 79 years old. Yeah. Did he really, like he honestly really? Yeah, you know that movie? I think it was the book club. It loves him.

Does he? With all the old ladies. Good on. He's an old. sole Andrew, isn't it? Oh, well, this is really devastating news to wake up to this one. She's so classy.

Look at her. She's so fashionable. She is. Yeah. Wonderful actor. And wasn't the news breaking yesterday? It was, yeah. Throughout yesterday, you're right.

Can't be a huge thing. Guys, we were busy. We were not socials yesterday. Okay. Now, something, I was talking last week about how before I went away, I had a wire in my mouth that, you know, that keeps my teeth together. It's like a permanent retainer. It started fraying.

It was cutting out my tongue and causing quite a bit of bleeding. So I decided because the dentist couldn't fit me in that I could take matters into my own hands, literally, and bought a nail file from a chemist warehouse, and I had a crack at filing it down, and it kind of worked. Good on you. What a legend. I don't know what other options to see what was to do, really.

You ought to save a bit of money, too. Yeah, you know. Has it inspired you to do more DIY dentistry? Well, not really. I don't think it's, my wife. No one would help me in the family. They all thought it was a stupid idea, but I persisted because everything was bleeding in my mouth.

So I was like, I need to do something, and I got rid of it. Have you had it properly fixed yet? Well, it hasn't actually frayed again, so that's good. He fixed it. Yeah, so I fixed it so far. Problem solved. So far, so good, so I would think. But then I must have put the nail file in my backpack and my laptop case.

You know, just keeping it around while it was there in case anything happened, anyone else needed a DIY industry, and I was available at all times. And then I realized when I was overseas that when we got to London that I'd flown, and got through all customs and went inside it and I was like oh my goodness there's a big metal nail file

sitting in the bag that never actually got pinged didn't ping no it's pointy at the end yeah it is pointy at the end you wouldn't want to take it on like I was taking on my carry on

I was like oh my goodness the stuff you could have done in that plane you could have opened the world's first flying nail salon at 30,000 feet who wants their cuticles tended to

come see Ben and seat 8D give it a crack you know, right, yeah, well, you're right, all the things I've got to do. Yeah, I mean, she's really backing yourself as someone who wants to take over a plane if you've just got a nail file, you're like, a nail file in a can do attitude, and I'll take this plane over. Yeah, for me, that's, I'd probably need a bit more. If I was actually that way inclined, you're right.

But, yeah, there are those stories all the time of people like forgetting about stuff in their backs and getting, you know, getting pulled up by customs. I've left scissors in there. Oh, yeah, okay. That's on customs. Like, they should be pinging that. That's not on you. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, no, but you don't get those back, right? They're gone. You know, once the scissors are in there, they take it, they're gone. It's devastating when you've got something like that, and they take them away. What do they do? What do they? They must have bin loaned.

I think they're chuck them out. I think they should hand them around the staff. Like, those are good scissors. I had to, well, I went, I went somewhere recently, and I forgot I had it, because you know, I'm a big red ball girly. I had, like, one of those big cans, and they were like, you either drink it here or chuck it. Chuck, chuck it. Yeah, I literally stood there and they watched me chug it.

I was like sometimes you got lots of time and mate of mine he had to go out he went out and posted it to himself in the airport but yeah

that's smart he had time he had like a like a Swiss army knife type situation they used for work and then he was like oh I've left him

my bag and they allowed him to go out and post it to himself but yeah I guess it's if there's only time what if you accidentally smuggled onto a plane

oh 800 the hits 4487 maybe some exotic birds and your underpants little budgy smugglers Yeah, or what even forgotten about? Like, you know, a lot of apples. You grabbed the apple from a hotel reception, you know, just before the airport, forget about that.