Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: I found out I was pregnant the day I gave birth!

Episode Date: February 8, 2026

On today’s show:  How long did you not know you were pregnant for?  why ben’s wife is disappointed in what he’s posting on social media... Megan's husband  got three ...birthday parties but her son only got one?! How Jono stopped an insect from mating... Megan reviews laneway from a millennial POV Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFAST Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 The John O'Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better tea. Welcome along to the podcast on a Monday, Megan's just read a quote. It says it's from Will Ferrell, but I don't know if it was. He said, before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet
Starting point is 00:00:16 to see who they really are. It does bring out the, you can't hide your anger, can get a frustration at that moment? With things that, yeah, that is frustrating. Or drive and, like, peak hour traffic. Yeah. But that's an odd, hey, lovely to meet. I think there's something here.
Starting point is 00:00:31 Can you just jump on this computer for a bit and try and watch YouTube? It's an odd request. It is all, but yeah. And then you had another, Megan's just been reading out memes. Another one about the supermarket, which is quite interesting. Yeah, what was it? Something about when guys ask you about not, what was it? Okay, is your meme?
Starting point is 00:00:52 Yeah. I know, but it was like 10 minutes ago. It was about forgetting stuff at the supermarket, which you've forgotten the meme. I wonder if I scroll back. Getting things is not really working with this. No, it's when you go to this, when they go to the supermarket and they're like, why is your phone on silent? And then you've got like 50,000 missed calls and a text.
Starting point is 00:01:10 Like, what kind of eggs do you want? What card do I pay with? Is that us in the scenario? Yeah, then Andrew comes home and he's like, why is your phone on silent? And I'm like, I don't know, because you're a grown-ass man. You should be able to do it himself. I love him in someone's like, you're meant to be a grown-ass man. I love that too.
Starting point is 00:01:27 I just go anyway, and then I just end up. inevitably not getting a lot of stuff that she required. I don't know what's worse, actually. But I'm not punishing her on the fight. Yeah, true. But no, I like her in the supermarket. I'm the supermarket shopper in our household. Do you?
Starting point is 00:01:41 Yeah, I go, yeah. I'm the main shopper. And you don't call a million times. No, I'm the list. I'm the list person, yeah. So, I mean, now and again, my wife will say their things she needs, but most of the time it's my. But you're not calling being like, what flavor did you say? What size eggs?
Starting point is 00:01:55 No, no. Well, you get into a rhythm, don't you? You've got your systems at the supermarket. You know where you need to go. What you need to go. Tell you what through me during COVID is when I was doing shopping for another household. Holy shit. That throws a spanner in the wood.
Starting point is 00:02:08 What other household were you shopping for? His other family, he's got a second family. They need to be fed too, mate. Your other bubble. There's a mistress and stuff like that. She's going hungry. Going hungry. It throws you when you're doing someone else's shopping.
Starting point is 00:02:22 You know? Because you know what you need to get? You play in the same field most times, don't you? Yeah. People get funny about brands and stuff too. I just generally go. it's cheapest. Some people are like, no. My wife loves a book. There's a book.
Starting point is 00:02:34 It's like a vegetarian book. She's like, I'll just make a salad from that. I'm like, that's fine, but I have to find the ingredients and that's the same thing. You're going to all stuff. I'm like, oh, Jesus, it's not as easy. Just pick out some, you know, like things that. I like sell it. A big package one. Oh, now we need this. Now we need that. I'm like, oh, God, I'm going back
Starting point is 00:02:50 and forth. Because once you've gone past that section, you know, I want to go back. Amen, brother. I always have to go back for something. I'm like. I write a shopping list in order of the where you go, like Vech. That's smart. It's easy.
Starting point is 00:03:01 It's easy for you. You just say this is what you need. Not off I go. And so when you go to the self-service checkout, do you prefer, like if you've got a full load of shopping? Mike, I'd never know if you've got a full trolley load of shopping if you can go in there. You can. I've done it before.
Starting point is 00:03:16 And I feel like a real burden. I feel like it takes it. It doesn't quite fit for that. It's only if they have that sign up that's like 12 items or less. But otherwise you do you. I'd probably rather not. Yeah. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:03:27 If I've got a lot, I probably wouldn't. Because otherwise it gets tricky with the whole weight system. Yeah, no, I've done that. There's constantly red light. Please wait for a tendon. Oh, no, that's punishing. You're like, well, where's the bloody attendant? I reckon there'll be at some point where you'll just not even have to do that.
Starting point is 00:03:40 You'll just push your trolley out the door and it'll scan everything. Oh, that's store in the States, right? Do you know? Remember that when we went to, the basketball? Oh, yeah. Pets up off the shelf and then you walked out and then play your credit card. Amazing. But do you, like, there's nothing more confronting that when it says, like, you need an attendant.
Starting point is 00:03:58 And then the attendant comes over And there's a little video now And they watch the video back Yeah Of what? Like you scanning it To make sure you're not like Trying to steal it or something
Starting point is 00:04:08 I don't know There's a sweet period When that first started That whole system Where you'd be weighing all sorts of nonsense And saying there's other stuff And you'd be, yeah And you scan it once
Starting point is 00:04:17 And then put it down See if it like goes through or not But yeah it's very confronting When they watch you back You're like I was just trying to get by the butter Anyway Good supermarket chat
Starting point is 00:04:28 meme? No, I thought we're padding for. We're patting for a lot 10 minutes for your meme. Anyway, here's a podcast. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast. The hats. How do I even broach this? It's so bizarre to me. I had a very normal pregnancy. Everything kind of went to plan. I knew I was pregnant early on. How did you consummate? What was happening there? How far back do we take this story?
Starting point is 00:04:53 I think we need to contact Annie for that. but some people have what's called a cryptic pregnancy. Now, this is very rare, apparently like one in two and a half thousand people. But I happen to know of two people recently who have had no idea that they're pregnant until late in their pregnancy. Well, how late? One of them was literally when they were in labour. What? Which is terrifying because, like, you're not prepared at all.
Starting point is 00:05:23 No, for anything. And then you'd be thinking back like, I had some margaritas. Yeah, all those things you're like, you're not meant to have while pregnant. Yeah. You wouldn't have done any of those things. One minute, so you're just in the office answering emails. The next minute you're creating a human.
Starting point is 00:05:37 You've delivered a human. Like, yeah, going to the hospital being like, man, I've got stomach pains. And they're like, yeah, no, you're in labour. How does that happen? How does it? So there's different reasons, but a lot of the time the placenta is in front of the baby. So it kind of like pushes it back. So you might get a little bloated.
Starting point is 00:05:55 But like some people just literally don't have the morning sickness. They don't have any symptoms. Geez, I tell you, well, after New Year's, I'm a bit bloaty. I might have to do a bit of a pregnancy test. But sometimes the pregnancy tests come back negative too. So like that they have low hormones, it's not showing up in the pregnancy test. Wild. It's just like a phantom.
Starting point is 00:06:15 That's a lot because you have no, none of the equipment, no, nothing. No, nothing. You go up for lunch and you come back asking for maternity leave, basically. Yeah, I'm not going to be hereful. a while. I am not coming back this afternoon. Why? And I might need like a crib or like it, like, yeah. Is it too late for the office to do a... That is so much to take in. That is a lot. Morning tea baby shower. You'd have to get one of those off the ground pretty quickly. That is crazy. Yeah, yeah. And so baby's alright? Yeah. Everyone's fine. It's a surprise, a bit of a bit of a shock. But hey, that's, you know. Yeah. So it might be a long shot, but one and two and a half thousand people in the country. Surely there's a few. Have you... not found out that you're pregnant until late in the pregnancy.
Starting point is 00:06:58 Oh, so, okay. Right. How late was it? I think my mum was about three months, like 20 weeks before she found out. I think she was just... I can't know. I don't know if we're going to be this. Yeah, what about you guys?
Starting point is 00:07:10 Yeah, no, I can't chime in on this one. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Now, we are talking about when you just discovered you were pregnant. Yeah, they call it cryptic pregnancies. It could be, like, sitting, like, far back. But some people don't know.
Starting point is 00:07:24 they're pregnant until late into the pregnancy. I know someone recently who found out when they went into labor, went to the hospital with stomach pains and came out with a baby. Geez, wow, skip the nine months straight to the finale. Yeah. Was there any discomfort or... These quickies really aren't working. No, I don't.
Starting point is 00:07:44 I think bloated, like, but not visibly pregnant. Crazy. Carla, happy new year to you. Happy New Year. Great to have you on. Now, have you gone months and months and months not knowing that you were pregnant? No, I only had three months, but it was a funny thing because we struggled with infertility for two or two years with my daughter.
Starting point is 00:08:08 And then we had just moved over to New Zealand from Swaziland. And the last thing you expect is to be pregnant. I mean, we left everything behind for three dogs. And my husband secured a job offer. And we were in the country. We lived off South African Rand. And it was a tough. time. We stayed with people in a bedroom in their house just to get settled and get everything
Starting point is 00:08:30 done. So we went for medicals in East Auckland at a doctor's office. And the nurse came and she did the whole medical thing and she's like, okay, oh, could you be pregnant? I was like, no, there's no way I could be pregnant. I mean, like, yeah, this is an infertility baby. And she came back, she's like, okay, we'll do a test anyway. And we sat there and she came back and typed some things in the computer and she said to my husband, okay, here's your form. You need to just go around the quarter to radiology and get a chest x-ray. And she's like, you can't get a chest x-ray because you're pregnant. And I'm like, no, I can't.
Starting point is 00:09:03 I can't be pregnant now. That is very irresponsible. Like, we don't, like, you can't. No, it's not, yeah. It's not happening. You're like, no, no. That's what I hear about. Pregnancy.
Starting point is 00:09:13 It's good if you just deny it and it doesn't happen. It goes away. I was like, no way. I'm like, and they're like, no, you need to find a midwife. I'm like, what is a midwife do? But I'm not a few gynaecologist and a facility expert. I'm like, what, what? We didn't even know.
Starting point is 00:09:29 We weren't sure if we're going to have, like, medical insurance or anything like that. It was like, you know, and we had three dogs coming. Oh, the dogs, you keep going on. Too much happen. There's a lot of evidence. We've got dogs. We've got in countries. Oh, no, it's just over three months.
Starting point is 00:09:46 Oh, that's not bad, though. That's not bad. And how did it all work out, Carla? Well, he's seven years old now And yeah, doing well Happy as Mary John O'Benn and Megan The podcast, The Harts
Starting point is 00:10:00 Story about someone who went almost nine months Well the whole nine months Not knowing I'm pregnant Then just had to go to the hospital and give birth Yeah, with stomach pains Went to the hospital and they were like, yeah, you're in labour This is in New Zealand too These are stories you only usually get on the quirky news section of the herald
Starting point is 00:10:14 Well, WhatsApp magazine, just life Yeah Oh, that's life Oh, that's life. I'm in love of my uncle and things like that. Yeah, we're happy, but society's judging us. We're going to go to the phones, Alice, happy new year to you. Happy New Year to you.
Starting point is 00:10:33 Good on you. Good on you. Good on you for sticking with the show catchphrase, Alice. How long did you go not knowing you were preggas, mate? Seven and a half months. Oh. That's not a bad effort. How did you find out?
Starting point is 00:10:46 Well, I was training to be a woman's bodybuilder. Right. Oh, my God. And I was on a strict buyer, and I was just not losing the weight. So, in a race, I thought, oh, just go and have a check-up. And one of my friends said, oh, I think you might be pregnant. I went, nah, I've had my tubes died. And then, at any rate, yeah, I went to the doctors, and he goes,
Starting point is 00:11:11 did you realize you're pregnant? And I went, well, and he goes, yeah, you're pregnant. I said, but I've had my tubes tied. How does that happen? so yeah and also at the time two of my nieces were pregnant as well so they were a bit more
Starting point is 00:11:27 fully developed than I was so I was quite lucky I got the hand-y-downs well yeah got all the cots and the things like that geez they should have double nodded the tubes mate they didn't bloody do you know a sailor's nod or something you know I have so many questions so it just wasn't successful
Starting point is 00:11:45 the tube tying Obviously not So yeah They had to go back and have a look And redo them apparently Were you not showing Seven and a half months No
Starting point is 00:11:58 She was getting them gains mate She's bloody bodybuilder But also I could think of nothing worse Than training like that Training so hard While being pregnant Yeah You'd be exhausted
Starting point is 00:12:11 Yeah But yeah So that's me know Yeah This is all habitat This all happened. You don't even tell her about it, Megan. I appreciate your call, Alice, really do.
Starting point is 00:12:21 Leela, good morning. Very good, thank you. Very good. You're reversing, you're on the radio, you're multitasking. I am. That's my life for you. Now, Leela, how far into your pregnancy did you find out that you were pregnant? Well, I was only 20 weeks, but I was on my sixth child,
Starting point is 00:12:38 and before I found out my 20-year-old daughter had just announced to... Can I just ask you, are you reversed? all the way to work? No, no, I'm not. There's a big reverse going on here, but sorry, yes, keep going. So, yeah, when I was 20 weeks pregnant on my sixth child, but two weeks prior to me finding out I was pregnant, my daughter had just announced,
Starting point is 00:13:03 my 20-year-old daughter had just announced that she was pregnant to the family. Oh, my God, so you and your daughter, like, were pregnant at the same time? Yes, we were. Oh, that's kind of special. Yeah. Yeah, it was. It was, yeah, so it took me a while to wrap my head around that we were both pregnant and that I had to, you know, break the news to her that mom was, you know, kind of pregnant
Starting point is 00:13:27 at the same time. But, yeah, it turned out beautiful. My baby was older, thanks the Lord, he's 10 weeks old, and then who is. Because then that would, so, yeah, that would have been an interesting situation, wouldn't it? Yeah, it was, it was, of course. But that's just me and my life. That's your life. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:46 So your daughter's brother or sister is the same age as their child? Yes, yeah. And when my daughter's out, she's like, oh, this is my little brother. And then everyone looks at her like so confused. So your son, my mom had a baby at the same time as me. So I'm trying to figure out. So your son? My son, yes.
Starting point is 00:14:05 Your son would be. So my son is my daughter's son's uncle. Uncle? Yeah, but the same age? Yes. Jeez, if I was your son, I'm going to be like, you call me uncle. Yeah, I kind of, I'm like, this uncle's got this, uncle's got this.
Starting point is 00:14:21 We're so nice. We try and, like, I try and, you know, like, instill into them, this is uncle. Love it, love it. That is a really good call. Really, Leel, appreciate your time. Have a great day. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast.
Starting point is 00:14:38 My wife, as I kept banging on about, my wife and daughter are in the States for another week. They're over there at the moment on a musical dinner. Gosh, it's a big holiday. Well, you know, those things that always look good on social media and then you talk to them and it's like, we're up at six and we're like full days. And they're at a junior theatre festival at the moment over there in Sacramento. So it's, you know, correspondence trying to let them do their thing. But every now and again, we'll message on a WhatsApp.
Starting point is 00:15:03 And it's, you know, there is times where we're messaging and it's the other, you know, someone's asleep and things like that. So last week you got in trouble because you were trying to control some social media. You needed them to film something for social media. Yeah, it was. I was not being side with that because he gave very clear instructions and they kept on stuffing it up. Yeah, well, yeah, my wife, she's over there. She's a school teacher, obviously. She's, you know, she's got a little bit of time off work at the moment, but enjoying it over there.
Starting point is 00:15:26 But when we make social, again, with social media, it feels like this is the problem. Whenever we, you know, do stuff, we film stuff at home. There's, you know, always make sure that everyone's happy with it when we put stuff out. Always get everyone to watch the edit and stuff. And my wife always watch stuff, particularly when it comes to my daughters as well, you know. Yeah. While they're wearing things, all that sort of stuff. So there was something we filmed before they went.
Starting point is 00:15:47 And I'd edited it up. Did you have your potatoes out again? No, and I edited it up and I looked at it and I went, well, this is fine to post. This is fine to post. You know, like this. Manda was there. She filmed it. She was part of it and I put it up.
Starting point is 00:15:59 Went through all my checks. Normally I would run it past them, but I was like time difference as I'll put it up. You've got to run your production schedule. You didn't run the edit past them. No, but I was like, well, she filmed it on the day or looked at the thing and I put it up there and I get this message I wake up to in the morning. You really should run these past me. when you post.
Starting point is 00:16:16 I was like, oh dear God, what have I done? Now I wanted to like have a look back at this thing. I'm like, what have I done? I look back at the video. I'm like, I really can't see what I've screwed up. But okay, I really should. I'm so sorry. What have I done?
Starting point is 00:16:27 You know, I didn't get a message three or four hours later going, you spelled aloud the wrong way. I'm like, oh, shit. Like a school teacher. I was like, oh, you know what I mean? It was the wrong aloud. How did you spell aloud? It said, A-L-O-U-D, not A-L-L-L-L-L-E.
Starting point is 00:16:43 O-W-D. And I was like, oh, for fun, you know, like, I'm looking at what the girls are wearing, I'm looking at the content, I'm looking at what I said, I'm like, what, she's, spelling's her hot, no, in it. That's all I get.
Starting point is 00:16:56 You really should have run these past me. I'm like, what? And then I'm like, oh, you know. Video's great, but you read like an idiot. Yeah, yeah, everyone knows what I mean anyway, so there you go. Yeah, so I'm just going to button off from many social media stuff.
Starting point is 00:17:07 Yeah, I think from, in correspondence over, over the other side of the world. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, We are going into bat for your son Basty here, Megan, on his birthday over the weekend. You notice something.
Starting point is 00:17:20 Oh, yeah. So you always talk about, I'm in my household, we have birthday extravaganzas. And you do. You're talking about Andrew and yourself. And we're like, oh, one weekend we're doing this with friends.
Starting point is 00:17:30 Then we're doing this thing with family. And then we're doing something else with, I don't know, there's always a third one or something. Then you had a getaway at a hotel getaway. Multiple celebrations like some sort of European royal family. It's what we do. We have birthday extravaganzas. I'm like, okay, cool.
Starting point is 00:17:43 What's like a voice? Your husband just had his birthday extravaganza off. He went with family one time. He went friends another night. Then the two of you went off like as John O's dead. And I was like, great. Then Bassie, your son's got his birthday. I'm like, what's he doing for his birthday extravaganza?
Starting point is 00:17:58 It's his fifth birthday yesterday. Big birthday. He started school today? No, he's weird intake. So he's got another month before he starts. I don't know why. Oh, well, I wish him good luck in a month then for me because I'll forget. But he had a big.
Starting point is 00:18:13 birthday party. He had a big poll party. He had Andrew made a cake, a beautiful cake. He had all his mates there. So this was a part one of the celebration. So then he gets a family one and then he also gets a night away apparently. No, the family were there as well. His friends and his family, they were all there
Starting point is 00:18:29 and the one. So what you're saying is no extended run, no encore, no just here's a Sonic the Hedgehog cake, get on with your life mate. No multiple weekends like yours. Yours ran for like three weekends and you couldn't do a work thing because it was the I'm trying to think if there was anything else to do it. I mean, I might take a cake to his, his candy today.
Starting point is 00:18:48 That was it, just one, just one party. I'm sure it's great, it looked great, but, you know. Well, it was like an epic party, you know. It was a big, the reason we do separate ones is because we have, like, family, friends, and we separate everyone. Did he get the options to separate out? Did you say, hey, Basti, we can have the friends here, we can have family here, we have a night away, this other.
Starting point is 00:19:08 He wanted it. He wanted everyone there. He just wanted a one party. You say whatever. You need to say to squash that mum guilt. Okay? We're just sticking up with a little man. I don't think he knows about the extreme against.
Starting point is 00:19:22 Hopefully he's not listening right now. Love you, big guys. Yesy, happy birthday and if you are listening. How good was that party? You can get more. There's two more parties on the way, mate. Ben will hold one at his house for you. Bit weird, but anyway.
Starting point is 00:19:36 But we can. It's a bit weird. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. I don't think this is going to make you question your existence. I'll go, I'm going to front foot that. Okay, great. You might go, oh, that's mildly interesting, at best. Okay.
Starting point is 00:19:52 So I'm wandering around on Saturday, and it's summer, obviously, the ringing of cicadas. It's the soundtrack to summer. And you just kind of get used to it as background noise, but this was like a full-on orchestra, and it felt like it was so loud. The cicada was literally playing drums on my e-drum. That's how loud it was.
Starting point is 00:20:12 and I just sort of thought okay maybe they're extra loud today there's a big orchestra of them 45 minutes to an hour I'm wandering around with the cicadas just following me everywhere and I'm like geez they're noisy today these guys are in full full flight
Starting point is 00:20:27 maybe it's the good weather and I keep going everyone else can anyone else hear how loud the cicadas are today and you know how everyone's once you keep saying things over and over you can tell the moment where they've lost interest in what you're talking about yeah yeah
Starting point is 00:20:40 Yeah. And it got to the point where I'm like, this is ludicrous. Like, I'm even inside the house and the cicadas following. Oh, you saw here. Right. The cicada had slipped into the front pocket of my t-shirts. Oh, wow. Followed me around for 60 minutes.
Starting point is 00:20:54 The whole time he's probably like, yeah, like, why is it? I can't breathe in her. Making a lot of noise. Why is this idiot not letting me out? Did you not feel it? Because they buzz around and they. Yeah, you're right.
Starting point is 00:21:05 They flap around. Yeah. And they get in your face are all like, yeah. Oh, yeah. No, he just seems very. But very noisy, I'll give him that. And so then had to just kind of like, you know, four-finger thumb, pull him out.
Starting point is 00:21:17 Here he is, here's the problem. Literally 45 minutes to an hour. Wild. Did that make you question your existence? I just makes me question you. Like, how did you not know? You're like, oh, they're extra loud today. Because I was outside for the majority of it.
Starting point is 00:21:32 No, but that's very close to you. I know all this. I know all this. And then when I got inside, it was still there. And then that's when the jib was up. Is that even a saying? The chip? Well, I guess if you were a builder, yeah, that's where the gym was up,
Starting point is 00:21:46 put these walls up. Yeah, I guess so. Job done? Yeah, maybe. But, yeah, I don't know. Questions existence? Yeah, well, yeah, I apologize. The poor thing was held hostage.
Starting point is 00:21:56 So, yeah, pulled it out of the pocket, put it on the ground, and squashed it. Oh, did you? No. I was like they only got two weeks above ground? Oh, have they? Is that what they get? They spend years underground, and when they finally get out and break through the shell, all that.
Starting point is 00:22:10 they make that noise because they're just looking for a mate. Really? So they're just like yelling out, I don't know. Have sex with me? Oh, really? And make for two weeks. Wow, I didn't know that.
Starting point is 00:22:20 Maybe he was like, oh. Half of his time is spent in your pocket. Maybe he was on day 14. He's like, I've got nothing else. This guy I'll have to do. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. Megan, you head along to Laneway on Friday,
Starting point is 00:22:34 which is huge chaperone in the country, which was awesome. Yeah, it was so good. It was a beautiful hot. day, although we were all very, everyone was very relieved when the sun went down. It was like an audible, oh. Was it blazing? It was blazing.
Starting point is 00:22:49 I was reading an article that she said she didn't realize how unsafe she felt in America until she came to New Zealand. And I'm thinking, well, obviously haven't gone down Queen Street on a Saturday night. Mate, had a shanking. Actually, I was in Queen Street over the weekend on a Friday night. Didn't get shanked. And it was actually, I was like, this is nice. This is really lovely.
Starting point is 00:23:08 Like, oh, yeah, they've got that vibe of, like, But it was lots of tourists around. It was actually feeling like me and my daughter walking around. I was like, I know it's the joke to make. I was like, maybe they've cleaned things up. So I'll stop making the joke. No, no. I was just like, I'd just give a shout out.
Starting point is 00:23:20 I was actually good because I was like, oh, Queen Street. But it was actually good. Anyway, good gig though. It was a great gig, and you guys joked that I would be the oldest person there. I wasn't. Was I great? Were you in the senior citizens? Excuse me?
Starting point is 00:23:33 Were you in the senior citizens area? Do they have nice cushioned seats? But we did. Look like you sat for most of that. Yeah, we did sit down. I don't blame you. I was with producer grace. There's multiple stages.
Starting point is 00:23:43 There's so many stages. Don't you want to go around and see other stages? No, because everyone I wanted to see was on, they did the thing where there's two stages and they alternate. So everyone I wanted to see was on those two stages. Okay, well now you're all hip with all the kids and stuff. I've got a quick little thing as well. One of these is a real artist, one of these art from Laneway.
Starting point is 00:23:59 Okay, wet leg or grey elbow? Wet leg is one of our favourite. Good or well done. On the cheese lounge, on the cheese lounge. Okay, flyways or ringlets? Oh, no. the grace. One is real, one is not.
Starting point is 00:24:14 Flyways? No, ringlets is real. Seven luck or nine lives? Nine lives. Yeah, as real. And cavity or womb? Whom? Whom is real, yeah, well done.
Starting point is 00:24:26 I love it. I was there, guys. I know, wet legs great. Went to be a great name for a bed. They opened for Harry Stiles when he was here. Oh, there you go? Yeah. How'd the wet leg get so soggy?
Starting point is 00:24:36 There must be a backstory. I don't know, actually. What I loved as well? too because you're talking about who Sally was going to be. Yeah. In this particular song, right? Yeah. So every time they travel anywhere around the world,
Starting point is 00:24:47 they have someone famous comes out as their Sally on stage. Yeah. It was Benny, which was cool. Yeah, she was there. She was performing at Laneway. So she was my guess all along that they'd bring Benny up. They were talking about Hillary Barry and people like that. But what I saw in Australia, the Wiggles came out, which was very cool.
Starting point is 00:25:02 Oh, my gosh. Yeah, Wiggles was the Sydney Sally. So, yeah, that was pretty epic. Sally's? Well, Sally's. Yeah, they had three of them, I think. Yeah, that annoys me a little bit. Can I tell you what annoys me is you've gone along with producer Grace, producer Troy.
Starting point is 00:25:15 The dad's obviously didn't get invited. Ben and me, we didn't get invited to the cool club. The tickets were open to general public. We can buy a ticket if you only want to go. So if you're off and pick you up at 10.30 at the gate or something. They don't get free tickets. Yeah, you are welcome to go along. I'll say things like you're not leaving the house in that belt.
Starting point is 00:25:34 You're like, it's a dress, dad. Oh, you would have cringed as a dad. I was like, where's the rest of the dress? Yeah, I saw a lot of skin, shall we say. It's the age, mate. Tell you what, if I was that age, I'll get my skin out too. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, The Hits. It's a bit of coverage from Laneway over the weekend, Chaparone in the country.
Starting point is 00:25:55 And producer Troy, heading along. He loves to head along to a concert. We've been giving Megan grief this morning that she was sitting in the senior citizen section. No more of that. None of that now, Megan, okay? I was just sitting down. I didn't fancy being in the... Mosh, you know.
Starting point is 00:26:10 You found your posse. Yeah, and I've parked up. Good on you, good on you. Now, producer Troy, what's become a bit of a tradition is whenever there's a gig, Troy will go along nine times out of ten. And he's like, hey, I've got some coverage from the concert. And it basically is Troy singing all of your artists' favorite lyrics over the artist that wrote those lyrics.
Starting point is 00:26:31 Yeah, because always I want to play the chorus, the big songs, and we always hear you singing along, which is great. I'm always in the crowd going, I need to get some stuff for work, You know there's going to be good audio if you want to be to Megan. No off button, this guy. But you also want to sing along at the same time. I get it.
Starting point is 00:26:44 I don't want to sacrifice my enjoyment. The guy paid for the ticket. Worked and paid for my ticket. Generally, you know all the words, though. Generally, I do. So this is you during role model. Now, this is the Sally song where they famously bring out celebrities as cameos, and they bought out Benny.
Starting point is 00:27:00 Benny. Yeah. Sorry. Don't know the words of that one. I'm not been done it around And listen to you and Why That's what I love about concerts
Starting point is 00:27:16 You can have the mubly butts And then you just join back out I love you all wow Now thankfully Your mind wasn't running out for you No No Plenty.
Starting point is 00:27:26 Producer Grace has also unearthed some other coverage that Troy's done over the years. This is Troy at Stan Walker. On top song. On pitch. Actually did a better job
Starting point is 00:27:56 with the New Zealand songs than they did, I think, in that. It's not it, but those bits they didn't quite know as well as New Zealanders. And speaking of New Zealand, Troy, over the top of the national anthem. It's not too high. Oh, you hit it. You're doing rest and then the rest of the crowd mumbling.
Starting point is 00:28:19 Drop it up. Yeah, I was going to say, because you're really going to go. We've got to make an album, Troy. Okay, we're going to make an album and sell it to no one, right? Because legally we can't. Now that's what I call Troy.

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