Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: How Megan set a family member on fire!!!

Episode Date: August 3, 2025

On today’s show: How Ben ordered his Uber Eats to another restaurant… The obnoxious greeting Jono had this morning When Megan’s babysitting took a fiery turn… What was stroking Megan's face at night… and it wasn't alive! How a listener ended up on Police Ten 7! Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFAST Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The John O'Bannon Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better tea. Welcome to the podcast, where today, you'll be talking about things that happen when you were babysitting. Megan shares a story, which you'll hear on the podcast. You neglected to talk about a candle,

the reason for the thing catching a light, shall we say? There was a candle on the table burning. So just insert that into the story later on. You know me, I love a candle. You do, but there's so many great causes. We can't do all the heavy burning. So just insert that into the story later on. You know me, love a candle. You do. But there's so many great calls. We can't do all the heavy lifting. Sometimes you're like, you just remember this moment,

20 minutes later go, oh yeah. Oh, it was the candle that did that. It's like a game of Cluedo. Oh, it was the candle. Poor old Megan's under the weather, though. She's been battling asthma all morning, poor thing. Yeah, I know. It didn't help that she got quite wheezy after Liam Lawson won the world.

You were fine up until that. You did. Yeah, I got excited. You came in here super early too for that. But anyway, that's on you. So you're babysitting blunders and Sarah, welcome to the podcast intro. Good morning. What an honour it is to have you here, Sarah. Now, this is back in your days when you were being babysitted or you were doing the babysitting? No, we were being babysat. Yep. Yep. Babysat, true, not babysitted. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so my brother, he's about 10 years older than me, but we were getting babysat by this lovely young woman. And my parents went out and my sister and I went to bed,

because he was a full, deadest, menace kind of child. Just a nightmare, yep. Just an absolute nightmare. And my parents came home at 1am and knocked on the door and the babysitter was tied up. He had tied her up at about 10pm so she'd spent three hours tied up. How did he do? Did he answer the door at 1am? Yes, he answered the door.

Hello, welcome home. A little bit of a. Hello, welcome home. Little bit of a situation there, Hansia. Wow, three hours, wow. What happened with her? I imagine she wouldn't have been too happy about that. She was not happy. We didn't see her again as a babysitter. Did she get extra pay?

Yeah, I haven't actually asked that question, but I would hope so. How on earth did she end up in a position where she was tied up? I think that they were playing a game. Ah, yep. Yeah, yeah, yep. But yeah, he didn't let her go. He what, rope around the arms and the other feet? Yep, yep, something like that, yeah. He must be good at knots, good lord.

And like, for him to hold, she would have been negotiating surely? Yeah. She would have, and he would have not? Yeah true. Not three hours later he's like, not, not talking. Even with the parents coming on, that would have been a good moment to untie the babysitter. My mum was mortified, that is for sure. Oh my god.

Oh my god. Where's Deena? How's prison teaching him nowadays? Is he alright? Hey lovely to hear from you mate. You have a great one Sarah. Yeah you too. Thank you. See you mate. Yeah bye.

Busy weekend. This weekend was really busy. We worked on Friday until late and then had a lot of things to do over the weekend. So normally on Sunday I would go to the supermarket and get some stuff for the weekend. Just ran out of time, didn't get to do it at the supermarket. So last night we had nothing to really make. And so we're like, let's just order Uber Eats. It's not something we would normally do on a Sunday night. So it's just easier. We'll order Uber Eats. And so as a family, we're like, what do we feel like? And then my wife was like, oh, hey, what about this place? It's like, it's, I'll go say Wakanoodle. It's a great place. There's Asian cuisine comes, you know, those cool little box things you get.

Does it have woks and noodles? And noodles. And I was like, I don't think you can do Uber Eats to our place. It's a bit far, a bit far away from our place. But I'll have a look anyway. So I had a look on Uber Eats, put it in there, and I was like, no, it was too far away. Couldn't get it.

So I was like, well, maybe there's another place, another Wok-related place that I could find. And I was like, I'll tell you what, another one. You're just searching Wok. Wok Express. I'm like, sounds good, looks similar. I'm like, well, maybe there's another place, another WOC related place that I could find. And I was like, I'll tell you what, another one. You're just searching WOC. WOC Express. I'm like, sounds good, looks similar. I'm like, great.

That was closer to our place. Closer to our place. That's cool. Ordered that. Great. Went and carried on my admin. Things to do, ticking things off my to-do list, other stuff like that. Then I get a, I could, you know how Uber sends you Uber Eats?

They send you the updates, they're preparing your food, the driver's on the way. I'm like, cool. They keep getting these on the phone. Then I get a call. I'm like, cool, they keep getting these on the phone. Then I get a call. I'm like, that's weird. Oh God, where's this going? And I get a call. Was it a walk-based call?

Yeah, it was. It was an Uber Eats driver and he's like, I've got your Uber Eats. I'm outside. I'm like, great. So I kind of walked out the door and I was like, oh, whereabouts are you? I can't see you. I know what you've done. He's like, I'm outside the address you gave me.

And he said the name of the address. I'm like, I'm not at that address. And then I thought in my head, oh my God, have we been at a friend's place or at Uber Eats the previous time like I'm not at that address and then I thought in my head oh my god have we been at a friend's place or to do barriets the previous time I'm like no but that's not in my head I'm like that's not that's not the address of any friends I said to Amanda my wife I'm a fine I'm like would you know anyone at this address she's like no she googles it she's like oh no guess what that's Wokka noodle head taking the food from Wokka Express to Wokka, which was too far away for them to come.

Was Wokka Noodle like, oh thank you, that's a lovely... He'd taken another Wokka based food to another Wokka. What was he thinking? He was very confused, the poor guy, because he was like, why am I taking this into another restaurant? The Wokka Noodle people would be confused too, They're like, we've sorted it on this front. Yeah, actually we're doing a great job. He's like, are they testing the computers or something? Maybe they sort it as like a little taunt, a little like,

yeah, have some express, buddy. We're all over you. To know it was too far for the original Uber to get from there, I'm like, oh, no, now I've made this to the China Child all the way over to that. I wonder if the Wok and Noodle people had that for dinner. What did you do? I ended up, well, like, is there any chance you can bring it?

You drove to them, didn't you? No, I said I could drive to you, any chance you can bring it, I'll pay you some extra for your gas mileage. And he's like, yeah, sweet. So we did that. We negotiated a price for that. What did you haggle him down to? Got some Disney discs?

He was so lovely. He was like, five bucks. So we had $10 cash, and we go, yeah, it was so fun. And how warm was the WokBank cuisine? It wasn't quite as warm as it had just come out of the WokBank. That's a funny prank though. We should Uber Eats McDonald's to Burger King and vice versa. I've seen these people do it online.

It's quite funny where they get Uber Eats from the store they were in. Like they're here so they'll get the Uber Eats driver to come up to the counter and then look at the thing and then realise they've got it delivered to someone in the restaurant. I mean it's probably wasting someone's time but... 30 seconds on Instagram though. They still get paid. They still pay. John O'Bannon Megan. The podcast. The hits. So this morning we parked across the road, mentioned this multiple times. Are you alright Megan?

Yeah. Poor lady's a bit sick today with asthma, sucking away on the... I think that's getting a lot of people, all the producers have got asthma at the moment. Yeah well... Something's triggering us. Look after yourself there. Keep telling her to cut back on those cigarettes but you won't listen. Yeah, there's that.

You're sucking away on a bong over there. What is that green device? It's my steamer. Steamer, okay. Yeah, whatever. Does the steamer make any noise for radio? Oh, I can try. It sounds very bong log to me.

I don't know, I don't want to throw stones, but... Tiffany incriminated herself. Anyway, so coming out of the lift this morning, and maybe old Snoop Dogg over here, you might have appreciated this you might appreciate this. Hop out of the lift and the most intense drum and bass techno music is playing at an air bleeding level. Have a listen. This is a lot. Wow that's early on a Monday morning. Just like ejected into the week. Feels like you're in a Fast and Furious movie.

Blasting over the sun. Someone is having a good, well waking themselves up for a Monday morning. Is it like 5am? Yeah I like to think that some battler went and had pre-drinks on Friday night and has forgotten to turn the thing off all weekend. Jono, Ben and Megan. The Podcast. The Hats. I haven't done this recently so I do want to know if it's too late to apologize but before I had children

I was looking after my niece And the signs were there that I wasn't gonna be great because first of all we put her nappy on backwards We weren't sure which way they go. Oh they're very confusing. I think they say Back on them now. Maybe they didn't say back then. Ben does that with my incontinence ones every time. I was the wrong way again. I remember asking her, like, is this the right way? She was like, yeah, it looks good. I'm like, oh, she doesn't know. You asked the child if it was the right way. They weren't. They were the wrong way around. So that was the start. But then, she was scared of our little dog. So we've got a little, it's very friendly. It's probably more likely to hump your leg than bite you.

But she's, she was little and our dog was very excited to see her. So she got frightened and I was like, oh save you, picked her up and chucked her on our dining room table. And I was like, there you go, out of reach for the dog. And then I started to smell something, a burning smell. Oh, not the nappy.

Not the nappy. I smelled something burning. And we were like, what is that? And I literally saw flames behind my knees. You set her on fire. We had set her jacket on fire. Oh my gosh. And so, I mean.

This girl is on fire. Oh my god. And so, I mean... This girl is on fire! Alicia Keys... Oh my god! She got wind of that event and wrote a song about it. We put it out, obviously, and it was just the jacket, but... I was like, well I saved her from the dog, does that count? Yeah, bad news, you set a little child on fire. Good news is you were probably relinquished from further babysitting duties with him.

No, they definitely left her with us again. Oh they did? Was that a, let's just keep this between us, shall we? Well, no, I should have hidden the jacket, but I gave the jacket back and it was obviously burnt, so we had to explain what happened to the jacket. Is it too late to apologize to these people? Ah, sorry.

They did look after our children at the weekend. Oh, they did? My brother and sister-in-law. Did they set your kids alight? No, they did a great job. They really looked after them. You've set the bar very low, haven't you? I know.

For what can happen. So I'm sorry. OK, babysitting stories. Your best babysitting story. Maybe it's too late to apologise. We've got that double pass to OneRepublic and they're coming to New Zealand to February next year on the 4th. Very excited about that. So double pass could be yours with your best babysitting

story if it's too late to apologise. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. It's too late to apologise thanks to OneRepublic who are coming to New Zealand. Megan you kick things off with a horrific babysitting incident that took place. I was looking after my niece and I was trying to get her away from my dog. She was just scared of my very overly friendly dog.

So I picked her up and put her on the table. I forgot to say that there was a candle on the table and that is what ignited her. I was thinking before, how did that happen? It wasn't spontaneous human combustion. She sat next to the candle. Yeah, gotcha. And caught fire. Then as soon as the ads started playing, you're like,

did I mention there was a candle on the table? I don't think I did. And Ben said no. No, yeah. Seems quite pivotal to the story. Yeah, I sat her on a sat-o by a candle. Anyway, you still babysitting from that point on forward? Yeah, and she survived it.

That's it. Yeah, go on then. I think I'll be telling the story otherwise. Treat it as an experience. Chachi, good morning to you. How's life? Morning, yeah, life is good now. That's it. I think I'll be telling the story otherwise. Treat it as an experience. Chachi, good morning to you. How's life? Morning.

Yeah, life is good now. Yeah, good. You could be off to one republic. Is it too late to apologize? What happened? I guess I just revealed this to my sister yesterday, an event that happened 10 years ago while babysitting her child. So her daughter had come to stay with my

children, she was about 13 at that time, and she had come with this fantastic experimental idea to share with my kids and they tried to do a... well you know how you would have hairspray and light it on fire and it would create some sort of... flamethrower situation. Yeah exactly. Well they didn't have hairspray and light it on fire and it would create some sort of... Flamethrower situation. Yes, exactly. Well, they didn't have hairspray, but they did have a lighter. They had hair serum instead. Oh, hair serum.

What's the... It's like an oil that you put in your hair. Yes. And it had gold flecks in it, so they assumed it's's gonna be quite sparkly and pretty when they light it Yeah, right. They're doing some homemade pyrotechnics here. Did it come in a can? No, it was in a plastic bottle. Okay, you just squirted out We know this They tried it anyway, and I had no idea what they were doing. They were in the room and it didn't go the way they planned.

It lit on fire, but it fell straight onto the floor. Oh, no. This ruckus happening, thumping and such. They come flying out the room. We meet eye to eye. We have, you know, kids to mum, mum to kids, stare down. I find out what happened and I absolutely hit the roof I ripped into them my niece is crying so loudly

throughout the night and I'm thinking oh my god she's burnt herself I think something's hit on her skin and you know she's hurt so I pulled her up and I'm like are you okay she says yes I'm fine I run her under the I'm like, are you OK? She says, yes, I'm fine. I run her under the cold water just to make sure she is OK. And the very next day, I speak to my child, who was the oldest at that time. She was 14. And I said, was she burnt?

And she says, no, she's just hurt because you growled her. Oh, a metaphorical burning. Yeah, well, Charchi, I'm glad everything worked out fine fine in the end and you waited almost a decade to tell your sister what went on. That's the thing, that's the thing is that I had to say to my sister, are you sure I haven't told you because... ...why didn't you tell me? Gaslighter into thinking you've told her. Oh it's too late to apologise. Maybe, I don't know, but you have apologised and we're going gonna give you a double pass to OneRepublic on their sweet escape tour they're coming to the Auckland in February next year so you've got a double pass enjoy.

Thank you. No worries. Have a good one mate. John O'Bannon Megan. The Podcast. The Hats. You know you celebrate your birthday for the second weekend that's fine. When's the Netflix documentary coming out on your birthday?

It's been two weekends of high octane. No, it was the second weekend, yes, fine. Me and my husband did a little steak at a hotel. You can see Ben's face. Yeah, fine. It's still happening. Hashtag gifted. I don't know how it annoys you so much. Birthday gifted or just gifted? No, it was gifted. Gifted. So we went to a lovely hotel and it's quite new. Right. So when we were in the middle of the night, I was in this hotel and it wasn't a noise but I woke up to a tickle on my face and I was like, what the hell was that?

Ben? Is that you? What are you doing in here? Oh my god, get out of here. It was me. How did you get this deal? And I wasn't sure if I'd like dreamt it So I just rolled over and then something tickled me on the face again

And I was like oh my god like my husband's asleep, and I'm like what the hell How much of the mini bar had you drunk? Get the setting but there was something tickling my face. And I was like, oh my God, is that like a ghost? I couldn't see anything. And there was no body there. Very trendy ghosts to move into a brand new hotel as well. Yeah. In a city.

Yeah, I couldn't figure it out. So I was like, okay, I'll roll over. And it tickled my face again. And what had happened was, is I'm sitting there, literally my heart's racing and I'm freaking out. When I got there, they had a plate with like treats on it and helium balloons. And the helium balloons in the night had fallen down.

And the strings of the balloons were like tickle tickle tickle. So you weren't imagining things, something was actually tickling your face. Every time I moved it was like tickle tickle tickle. I was like,ling your face. And every time I moved it was like tickle tickle tickle. I was like oh thank god. But yeah, my treat ended up like freaking me out in the middle of the night. We did one once in Taupo, didn't we? For like a Spark conference or something.

Really nice hotel. Yeah, lovely. As we're going to bed, he's like, the guy behind reception at like 11 o'clock at night, we're heading off, he's like, hey by the way that wings haunted with the final word Sleep we probably didn't need to know that By the way that No, I'll fall fine for me. Yeah, I didn't sleep. I didn't sleep at all He made sure nothing happened Yeah, I'm a quite like staring at a ceiling fan all night waiting to be attacked.

Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. It's come back to TV. Big Brother Australia. Now a really iconic show that ran for eight years in the early 2000s. 2008 was the last time it was on. I remember Sonia Kruger.

She was the host. She was the host. Is she going to be the host she was the host, wasn't she? She was the host, yeah. Is she gonna be the host again? No, there's a new host for the show as well. I was just reading her name is Mel, but it's the host of the show. Has she got a fun surname to say? Tristina. Mel Tristina, yeah, no that's a fun name.

Mel Tristina. Yeah, so she's gonna be the new host, but it's coming back. It was filmed in Dream World at the theme park, and apparently again, it's gonna be filmed there. Dreamworld's like we're back baby. Yeah so it was just you know like a many other reality it seemed like one of the first of its kind they just put a whole lot of people in the house and then they would have the cameras there they had the big it's Big Brother voice.

Big Brother's always watching oh yeah. Yeah this brings back memories in it. Was it Lisa? Was it something Marie? Was it Lisa? Marie? Was it the bum dance? And the bunny ears? Yeah, she was an iconic character. I like how they even watched the show, but I do remember her. She was huge in popular culture at the time.

They say they're bringing back everyday Australians. Sarah Marie. Everyday Australians, which is code for Bogans who want to boost their Instagram profiles. Yeah. But it should be fun though, and then non-stop, I think they're gonna live stream the whole thing. Are they? So they're gonna do an edit, a daily edit,

but you can also just go online. Oh wow, so you can watch, just go check out at any stage. Which is an unusual concept, isn't it? Just like a zoo. I can see some areas that they can't film, I imagine the bathrooms and stuff like that. Well, and the toilet, they can film in the bathrooms. They can, right. But just not in the toilet. they can film in the bathrooms. They can, right.

But just not in the toilet. But they filmed in the shower and they just frosted out part of the window. So you could still see them washing their hair. And I think some of them just wore like, togs in the shower. Some of them didn't, yeah, but the others don't really care so much, right? There wasn't even an after dark one or something, like a late night one. It was the different, the more saucy version of it as well. Yeah.

You got all the after hours antics. Were you a fan of it? I loved it. Yeah, well let's see. Let's see how it goes in this day and age, 2025. You wonder if you're on a show like that, whether you forget about, I mean obviously you don't see the cameras in this one,

but do you forget about the microphones and everything being recorded? We forget that we've got cameras here. Yeah, pretty boring stuff stuff just us clearing emails. No one would really want to watch a reality show of us sitting on the studio. Ben once got changed into a costume of a carrot. You can turn that into the after dark episode. Yeah.

Okay, I went under the hits. We'll check this out there. It'd be really handy if Matilda Green is listening right now. Have you been on a reality show? Oh yeah, we can get her on right? Yeah, she'd be quite useful right now. She was on The Bachelor. Yeah, have you been on, it's just Marooned on an Island?

I don't know, what other ones are there? Sung on a reality show? Yeah, there's plenty of reality shows over the years. Have you been on something behind me? You got rescued on P.R. Rescue or something like that. We'll take anything. Whatever, we'd love to hear from you. We wanna know behind the scenes scenes what's it really like.

4487 is our text number. We are arrested on Police 10-7. We'll take ya. That'd be great. Cue. Jono, Ben and Megan. The Podcast. The Hats.

Have you ever been on a reality show? That's what we've chucked out there. And getting a flood of fantastic calls. We really opened the net. We cast the net far and wide. We said have you been on Police 10-7 or motorway patrol and we've got some great ones coming through Tony good morning star of motorway patrol what happened oh we were heading up to a concert in Auckland from Taranaki and got pulled over along

the motorways for speeding and yeah they had the cameras there yeah right did you put on your makeup for the cameras? Are you thinking of things to say, witty lines? Well we had had a couple of adult lemonade along the way so we were on fine form. Oh jeez, did you know, do they have to ask permission from you to put it on TV or how's that work? Yeah they do, but because we were such a hoot they forgot to ask for our permission and contacted us a few years

later via Facebook. Oh really? Yes and asked for our permission that way. And did you say well was this four years after you got pulled over? Yeah probably would have been three four years. Wow were you okay with it? Did it go on air? Obviously it did. It did and it has repeated multiple times as my friends like to remind us. Obviously was a hoot. We were classic and put us on TV. Yeah. Do you know, I used to voice one called Road Cops. There were cops on the road.

And the reason it takes... Thanks for that. As opposed to cops on bikes, for parts. Cops and parts. It's kind of in the name, but anyway. Cops on stripper poles, you know. But this one would take so long because you had to get approval from the police

to put it on, then you had to hunt down the person. So then after the actual event, it was years. So thank you for your call, Tony. What a treat to speak to Tony from Motorway Patrol from 2006. Matt, what have you starred in, Reality TV? Moray. Oh, we lost him oh Man, you're gonna drag us through to 9 o'clock man. Oh, no

Tony's going to play let's play stop like a superstar and we'll see if we can get mad on okay before 9 o'clock How's that sound always back Matt? Yeah, I'm here. Yes. I'm here. We started playing playing Jamelia now. And once you start, what, we can't stop Jamelia? We definitely cannot stop. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. We've been talking about how you've been on a reality TV show before.

We've got Matt back on the phone. Who's been waiting patiently for Jamelia to finish her little ditty. Matt, what are you the star of reality TV-wise? Morena, Morena. Well, actually I've got a couple of them. I'll get the awkward one out of the way. About 10 years ago I was on Police 10-7. Oh okay. Well so awkward, well I suppose you're not on there for doing great things are ya? Well no, you don't get a gold medal for being on there, but I've had a few adult drinks and thought it'd be a great idea to drive home anyway. I lost a bit of control and hit the bank on Simmons Street

and one thing led to another and then I had a camera in my face. Oh jeez. You're like no. Nothing so happens you're out like a camera. Yeah, you're like I do not approve of this. But anyway, you don't really have a choice when you're self-decaded, so.

And then so what was the other show you're on? The other one. Yeah. I did a mate, this is quite a wee while ago, to apply for Finding Love NZ. And he ended up getting selected. And he pulled me along to be on the TV show with him. So you're on.

Were you also Finding Love? Or you're the wing? No, I wasn't. No, it was just, so what we had to do was they had to go through a array of choices of who they chose and then as the support person I had to also like interview who he was going to be finding love with and to see if they were a match or a fit for him.

And so did he find love and are they still together? Well he did but actually I haven't talked to him for a few years. I'm kidding. John O'Bannon Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Very exciting news. Just announced this morning, Oprah coming to New Zealand. I'm Oprah Winfrey and welcome to the very first National Oprah Winfrey Show. She was always a fan of that.

She would whip people, fans up into a frenzy. She's coming to New Zealand, Oprah in conversation. It's going to be happening at the end of the year in December. Sunday the 14th at Spark Arena. Be incredible, all the details at the hits.co.nz. We should ask her what she thinks of New Zealand. I'm sure someone has asked her that. Now we've got a double pass.

The first double pass to give away to Oprah and we wanted the best Oprah story from someone. Yeah, which was pretty niche. But she's an inspirational woman, so maybe has inspired many people listening right now. Like Lisa, good morning to you. Good morning. Understand you are a rabid Oprah fan. Rabid, frothing at the mouth for Oprah.

Look, I'm her best friend in New Zealand, I'd have to say. Oh, best friend, so they took us through your love of Oprah. Look I'm her best friend in New Zealand I'd have to say. Oh best friend, so they took us through your love of Oprah, when did this start? Oh my goodness, well this will give away lots of things about me. I started watching Oprah in about 1989 thanks to TV3, they brought the Oprah show to New Zealand and I was about 19 and a young mum and studying at uni and Oprah's one hour was my time out. Your time out, yeah. Busy life. And so I watched her for 25 years on her TV show and yeah, I always had this dream.

I had a photo in my office at work and I always had this dream, I'm going gonna meet Oprah one day and I just put it out there constantly for decades. And did you meet her? Finally I met her in 2014 in New York. Wow! Amazing experience. Did you just run into her or did you go along and see her at a show? Yes I went to see her at a show she was running a weekend show in New Jersey, so I flew to New York. A weekend money printing exercise? Well actually you know, I believe when you're in the flow of life, things unfold for you and so I had, as I said for a long time, thought I would meet her and I got a chance to buy a ticket where you got a meet and greet and I thought oh my goodness you know I'm gonna meet her it's gonna be

like 30 seconds of my life I better really you know concentrate and be present and I said oh hi Oprah I'm Lisa from New Zealand and she said New Zealand we must go there and we had our photo taken and that was it and had an amazing weekend experience. And only a couple of years later she came to New Zealand and I said to all my friends in Christchurch, we've got to go up to Auckland, we've got to go see Oprah and they all know that I'm crazy mad about her. And so we did. Oh wow. So you might be the reason she came here.

Yeah exactly. She's like I've got to go there. That was the story she came here. Yeah It was all on you was all on you what's the most Oprah thing you've done. Yeah, did you change your job because of I totally changed my vocation not because of Oprah but Oprah differently so I was so deceived so for 10 years I had been an accountant and I decided you know am I really passionate about this and I decided to go into real estate and everyone thought I was crazy you know I'd spent four years at university why are you going to real estate but honestly 23 years in real

estate the best thing that's ever happened to me. Do you quote Oprah or is there one line that you're always telling yourself and other people? Live your best life. She already dropped one I reckon in near about when you're in the throes of life things happen for you or something. Totally you just got to go out the flow surrender to the flow of your life listen to those little signals honestly if you talk to any of my friends they'll just like roll their eyes. Shut up about bloody Oprah you'll be banging on about Oprah for 40 years. But she sounds like a very happy, fulfilled person.

Oh, that's awesome. Hey, I tell you what, we're going to give you the first double pass to see Oprah when she comes to New Zealand in December. That's amazing. You deserve it. Thank you for sharing that with us. That was such a cool story. You're very welcome.

Thank you. I didn't even know she was coming until you called me. Well, there you go. Hey, good on you, mate. Really appreciate your time. Lisa, you're going gonna have a great day. Thank you so much guys, yes I will. I got very cold in my trousers this morning too.

Aww, okay. I just woke up with a sore back. And then I went to chat to you, I'm 44 and I have a sore back. And they like put an ice pack on it. It's very nice. Just a very small, tiny portion of my back is frozen right now. Oh jeez. What did you, did you roll over funny? Just kidding, just lived a couple more days on earth, mate.

Oh no. Now a pretty incredible story that we just discovered this morning. Now a Northland man last week, at the end of last week, was deciding to, you know, clean up his car, give it a bit of a clean out and he found in the glove box, he was like, oh there's some lotto tickets. These are from November last year. He's like, I don't know if I ever got around to checking these.

Looked online, one of them, $200,000. Wow. Wow. They last a year before they go back into the pot. Oh really? It's only a year, that's not that long. It's ages. Just gotta go to the supermarket and check your ticket.

How long do you need? A Frizzy card lasts longer than that. Yeah, you're right. It's about a year, isn't it? Yeah, so it's just before, I guess, Lotto would have been putting the word out and saying, hey, still $200,000 unclaimed. Oh, do they do a little thing on the 12 month mark? No, maybe. Just a little. Hey, we still got our money. Yeah. They'll unclaim it. So pretty incredible. $200,000 just sitting in this glove box, driving around for the best part of many, many months. They don't need your money. They don't need your money. They don't need your money. They don't need your money. They don't need your money.

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feel like when something needs to be. Is there that? Or maybe there is. We should look up that. There probably is. Every time you always think of something you're like, yeah we need that and you look it up and you're like, oh there is something. Some kids making that in the factory in Timu for Timu mate. Don't worry about that. Okay, I weighed 100 to hits. Greatest thing you found in your car.

Can you beat 200,000? Is it done? Yeah. I thought so. I was like, how has no one thought of that? They have. Everything's been invented. Pretty no one thought of that? They have. Everything's been invented. Yeah, pretty much it feels like everything's been invented.

Even stuff where you're like, well we definitely don't need that has also been invented. Like a nose picker. What was the coolest thing that you found in a car? The most impressive thing. Maybe you bought an old car and you're like... Like a second hand car and they don't do a proper clean out. You know somebody who's found a bag of cash under a seat? Yeah, a bag of...

It was a bag of cash. A bag of cash? When is a bag of cash not nefarious? No one carries a bag of cash under a seat? Yeah a bag of cash. When is a bag of cash not nefarious? No one carries a bag of cash. Maybe they don't believe in the modern day banking system. But then you're like do I hand it in or do I keep it and potentially someone's coming for it. Well they know who they sold the car to don't they? So, okay I don't have any great examples. I had an old car once and this isn't really what I found in the car, but the door would swing open.

And my son's earliest memory of being inside that car was going over the bloody harbour bridge and the door swung open. So he's had lifelong car door trauma ever since the poor guy. Well that's what he discovered in the car. Chulba. Oh you're putting a child in that car Jono. I'll add the hats. Character building.

Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hats. Crosty one for the country this morning. It's going to get negative five down in the deep south right now. Is that the lowest negative we've had this year? I'm not sure. They must have been a negative six I think in Invercargill.

Yeah I think you might be right. But yeah negative five down the deep south. So very, very cold this morning, but good news for Liam Lawson. You're a huge fan of the F1 and Liam Lawson, as we all love Liam Lawson in New Zealand, but Megan, more than most. And after last week's debate, I got up early, I got into work very early, and I've just finished the race before the show. Liam Lawson came eighth. Now that doesn't sound, for anyone who doesn't know

about F1, it doesn't sound great, but it means he gets points. And he was also the first red bull car out of the four of them. So that means he beat the current world champion, Max Verstappen. Incredible. He held him off for like 20 laps.

Yeah. Incredible race. You are, the scenes in here were electric. Yeah. Has he been celebrating harder than you have? I haven't seen him yet, because they're focusing on the people who actually won the race. The scenes in here were electric. Has he been celebrating harder than you have? I haven't seen him yet because they're focusing on the people who actually won the race. You were very excited. I'm great. I mean you're like my heart's racing. I know and I was shaking. I was just like because I expected Max Verstappen who's in a faster car

and he's the world champion to overtake Liam and he held him off. Yeah it's kind of like Namibia beating the All Blacks. Oh, it's not that bad. Oh, it's not that bad. No. Let's say Tonga beating the All Blacks. Tonga or Liam Namibia? No, just in terms of Verstappen, you know, where he is in the world of Formula One. Well, I'm not very good at rugby.

Is it like Ireland beating the All Blacks? Yeah, I suppose so. Yeah, OK, then we've settled on a rugby analogy. Lally is a great driver. He's not like he's, yeah, he's... He's not a duck. No. But Verstappen's won everything.

Yeah. In the park. Current world champion. That's very good. So, it's what we can talk about this morning. Last week we couldn't spoil anything for you, you know, because you hadn't watched the replay until then. But I can't guarantee that by the end of the show I won't be a POS.

I actually had it spoiled. The Warriors, you know, played, you know, you watched. I watched the Warriors. They text Ben and I was like, I'm watching. What a game. And it was, it was a really close game. The Warriors had a real lot of injuries and ended up losing just in the last minute, right? And we were actually doing, we were hosting an award ceremony and we were like, should we say Warriors results? You know, because it was the same time, we couldn't watch. And I was like, no, no, no, that's no that's not you know in front of everyone I thought everyone in the room would know soon as we finished some there's 900 people in there though yeah you can't get everyone on board that's a lot of people to get on board with not wanting to hear

the score yeah well at least we get we get they've got phones they can look at it you know we can just not be the one to spoil it yeah so I want to watch it when I get home and soon as it finished some some guy came up and goes, bloody warriors lost, eh? And I was like, oh thanks mate. But that makes me sound real negative. Like it was a really close game. They played really well, you know. It was heartbreaking too, watching this. Lost a lot of them. How many players have they lost?

Like eight? Eight? Well yeah, eight at the moment on the injury list. So the unbiased did really, really well. Did you enjoy it? I actually loved it. I loved it. Oh that's nice to see.

Yeah but a shame for the Warriors, but they're still just holding on to the top four at the moment. It's our year. Well, you know. It's our year. It's our year. It's our year. John O'Bian and Megan. The Podcast.

The Hats. Actually, you're right, it was nice over the weekend, you know, sunny, but cold. It gets in your nostrils. I don't mind if it's cold if it's sunny. It's when it's rainy and cold it's miserable. Now the birthday celebrations, the sequel spread over two weekends at 4pm. And for some reason it really annoys you. But we were at the cafe the other day.

What annoyed me was, no I stand behind this, was the birthday was Friday, you left early and then Sunday night you were still celebrating and couldn't come to the netball with us. It's an extravaganza and it's still going on at the weekend. Megan strikes again the birthday so what happened this weekend? At the cafe remember you talked to a couple of people who said they also do the extravaganza remember? I do, I do. Yeah no it's a thing well yeah continue. Is there another one next weekend? No we're done. Is Jesus going to be able to celebrate his birthday at Christmas or are you still going to be? I can celebrate. We do a lot of Jesus celebrating just by the way. I know he probably did a

little bit more than me. We could do more Megan celebrating. Yeah. So at the weekend we went and did a little steak just me and my husband because last weekend it was celebrations with everyone else. So this is about me and him. Okay. Was he at those celebrations though? Yeah he was. So he got to celebrate wasn't he? Yeah. He's like more things, okay alright. He organised it, he loves an extravagant tattoo.

Anyway, we were at this hotel and they did like the happy birthday, I got some little treats and they wrote happy birthday on the plate with chocolate. Did they know your birthday was like a week before that or not? Otherwise we wouldn't have spent time spraying chocolate on a plate here. So anyway, I'm just ignoring you two at this point. 10 days before what? Me and my husband were watching a TV show in the bed and I was like I'm gonna eat the treats while I'm in the bed. And I picked off the little chocolate bits, I picked off

the happy birthday, took me a while because I was like I'm not wasting any chocolate. Picked it off and didn't realise that I'd flick some into the bed until much later when my husband had rolled around in the bed and there was brown smudgy smudges underneath and that's when I thought of bed. And those are hotel sheets, why do you think of bed? Because you're always like don't eat in bed. I was going to say what am I doing in bed? He's an adventurous guy. What would he do in this moment?

He would turn it into something. Yeah, well you do like... You'd be like, don't eat in bed. You do like eating in bed, don't you? There's not many options in a hotel room. No, that's true actually. There was a couch. But then just sitting on a couch seems a bit weird in a tiny little room.

So there was big brown smudges and I always think because I often mess up hotel sheets like with tan, chocolate, like I'm often doing it and I always think of the person that's coming and cleaning it being like, what happened here? Yeah, I think of them and me apparently. While I was in bed. Okay so that was your, it was a high and a low of the week there for you. All right, 0800THATS4487, what was your high or low? We'll take either or right now. You were the low, just by, they were thinking of you, just to clarify. Not even the chocolate smearing in the bed was the low.

You were the low. Oh God, I'm thinking of Ben in this situation. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Karen, you're there, good morning. Good morning. Lovely, hey congratulations and good morning.

Well done. Oh, thank you very much. Have you been to sleep? Is it just been seven days of partying? Ha ha ha ha. It's definitely been celebrating. Ha ha ha. Yes.

Oh, it was pretty incredible. And we were lucky enough to go along to the game. And you guys coming into the game, we're not the favourites, but jeez, the team played well. Gosh, I think that sort of drove us and understandably so you know Mystics have been playing good throughout the season and the last time we came up against them wasn't our best game so you can understand why there were people probably doubting that it'll go our way but I think that just encouraged us to show what we were capable of and actually gave us a little bit of extra fire in the belly to prove people wrong.

So yeah, you weren't the favourites and it's not a home crowd. So what kind of things does Donna like, what's the pep talk before the match? Yeah, I guess we've got nothing to lose and at the end of the day, once you get into the final, it doesn't actually matter what happened throughout this season and I think Donna was really good and encouraging us and just reassuring us that we were individually extremely good and when we play as a unit and play well together we're even better. There's probably more stress on at the time on the Mystics because it was a home game and they were the expected winners as well so that was

that added stress to them whereas we had no stress because no one really expected it from us. Well that's true. One thing I want to know, because you do talk to each other during the game and stuff, even if you're sitting on the bench, do you ever talk about subjects that aren't netball focused in those moments? Like dinner or the kids. Yeah, plants at the weekend outside of Netball?

Well maybe during some intense moments in the game, probably not. No, fair enough. After quarter breaks or something, if we're just waiting for the whistle to go, we quite often have a bit of a yarn and a bit of a check. We had Aidan who works here at The Hits with us. Now he's a passionate Cantab supporter and he's actually his old teacher. His music teacher is Jane Watson who plays in your side as well. And so he was very passionate, but he had a- Although he did say, I don't know if Jane would be too thrilled to see me.

Yeah. But he had a bet with someone in the office who loves the Mystics. And actually she hasn't carried that out. She had to email the whole company if the Mystics lost and say how amazing he was. Definitely have to follow that up. Come on, how often does that happen? Yeah, so he was very, he was very stoked about it. Karen, you can tell Aidan how amazing he is now. Amazing, so good.

So yeah, I went on Christchurch this afternoon. Now you guys have got a bit of a parade, a bit of a meet and greet. People can come along and celebrate you at the Arts Centre and around the tram, around Cathedral Square as well, right? Yes, yeah. I mean, how often does this happen? Well, for us clearly one in 28 years, so hopefully this is the start of many more to come. But we've had so much success in our region. And I know in the background, there's been a lot of work being done to acknowledge the work that we've done throughout the season to get to this point. And I think there's been a lot of work being done to acknowledge the work that you know we've done throughout the season to get to this point and I think there's so many of our contemporaries that want to celebrate with us and they

don't necessarily have that opportunity because it was also not a home game so I guess that just provides that opportunity for us to connect to those and and say thank you and celebrate together. So you're gonna be on the tram yeah doing the tram 330 Cathedral Square then you go on a tram ride and the mayor's going to be there as well. There's going to be some very confused tourists on that tram. You deserve it. It's nice to see Netball getting some props.

Yeah, that is awesome. Yeah, especially I think there's been so much negative media recently about Netball's future and what that looks like. So I think for us, it's just about what we can do to show that it's still alive and we're still working really hard and we're still eager to make it work and just show the excitement that's involved with it so hopefully more people can get on board and a bright future for us. Well all they had to do was look at the crowd there on the final, you know, just glad you

guys have got another year and hopefully many more years to come. Definitely, I know there's a lot of work being done in the background so there definitely will be something so yeah, keep your eyes out on that. Just I don't know if you know, I don't know what the deal is with the tram but I know last time I went there was 40 bucks for an adult. It was a great ride around, you know, so just make sure you've got your card with you. I actually haven't been on the tram yet. It's good, it's great.

But I was like, oh, 40 bucks. Oh my god. What? Just a disclaimer, what you're going to experience today is not what the tram yet, this will be my first experience. Oh my god! What? Just a disclaimer, what you're going to experience today is not what the tram is usually like, okay? It's fun, it's fun. Ben's very tight, so he wasn't going to pay $40 for it. I'll pay $40 for it, but I was like, oh $40, wasn't what I was expecting, but hey, it was

great. Okay, what would be a decent tram price? I was thinking more like the $20, but hey, it was great. Christchurch is beautiful, the tram's beautiful so it was fun. I'm sure you can get this trip for free. Oh there we go, I'll jump on board, literally jump on board with the Taktx. Well lovely talking to you Karen, all the best for the celebrations and of course the

Silver Ferns are very exciting, a couple of series coming up as well this year so lovely to talk to you. Awesome, thank you so much guys, have a nice day. You too, now to keep. John O'Bannon Megan. The Podcast. The Hats. We hosted the Mitre 10 Awards on Friday night, it was a wonderful event. It was great.

I'll tell you what, probably the greatest event I've been to, probably eclipsed both of our weddings. Yeah, definitely. 900 people. I can say that now while my wife's not listening. Yeah, right. It was far more impressive. Well, there was the cast of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert performing.

Didn't have that at my wedding. No, there were people dangling, Queen of the Desert performing. Didn't have that at my wedding. No, there were people dangling from the ceiling on silks. Didn't have that at my wedding. I had one drunken friend from the Wairarapa that tried that at my wedding. On the curtains. It wasn't quite as impressive. No, no, no, it was good. And then we were just sitting in the room waiting to go out and a lovely waiter came in

and she's like, here's the cutlery you ordered. We ordered no cutlery. But it was enough cutlery for a medieval banquet like there was so many knives and forks and we're like I don't know if it's for us. Just the two of us in a room wouldn't it? She's like here take the cutlery. Left it all on the table displayed so don't know what happened to it. Oh no you did you went out I think you went to the bathroom and then another guy came in and went cutlery's not for here. And he picked it all up. I was like, yeah, so yeah, it was like, it was the room next to us.

We had all the cutlery we ever needed. Oh, I did say that, but yeah, it went pretty quickly. But then at the end, the evening was just waiting under a kind of like a roof sort of thing on the road for the taxi home, and boy, fire drill. Fire drill happened. Oh my gosh. There we go. Listen to this high drama.

This isn't in the building we were in. This is another building we were in. This is another building on the street. Was it a building you were in? Yeah, and I was just kind of waiting in the reception under the roof there. Oh thank you. Then they... Was it a drill or was it an actual bar? It was just a drill, but was it like 10.30 at night? Oh that's rude. Random time to have that, isn't it? Thrilling though being part of a drill or was it actual? It was just a drill, but was it like 10.30 at night? Oh that's rude. Random time to have that, isn't it? Thrilling though being part of a drill because you get the thrill of being, the adrenaline rush of being in a fire without the annoying part of dying. But the worst part is it's like you're probably in your jammies if you're awake or if you're asleep and then like you go do I get dressed or do I go down to my jammies?

And how long are you going to be out there for? Is this real or is this, do I have time to like fix my face? Didn't you have to go under a fire drill once? I did in a hotel for work in Sydney. No, yeah I did because they gave me a toaster with breakfast. He set off the fire. And I set it off. I went, I'll just put it on, whipped to the shower, bad idea, came back in, there was a big knock on the door. So obviously it set off the alarms. I'm in my box. I don't know, the fire department arrived really quickly. They're like, get out, get out, get out. I'm like, I'm in my boxers.

It's a way awkwardly on the street in Sydney. And everyone was like, what room is that? And I'm like, it was my room. It was the guy who owned all the cutlery.