Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Investigating the Ghost ‘Cassie’ with a Medium!

Episode Date: October 13, 2025

On today’s show: Jono shares his love for cleaning with bleach, causing tension at home due to overuse. We think he’s giving American Psycho vibes… A medium joins the show to discuss a possible ghost named “Cassie” that Megan’s daughter claims visit their home.  Callers share their own awkward moments of accidental public exposure after Ben's infamous balls out video! Interview with Lawrence Watkins, a Kiwi who holds the Guinness World Record for having 2,253 first names. Dear Megan: My longtime friend has turned every conversation into a competition. I love her, but it’s exhausting! Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFAST Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thanks to Hello Fresh Cookies, he delicious dinners, the whole family will love because nothing beats dinner time. Welcome to the podcast, we've just been looking, taking a trip down memory lane, looking at, well, because we're going to Rambo's End next week, looking at their whole commercial. Great, which we talked about yesterday.

Purest form. Yeah, we're trying to re-reform the group so they can sing on the Monday morning. I think it's a big ask to ask five band members from a band that doesn't even perform now. Who knows what parts of the country they live in? Yeah, they may not even live in New Zealand, all of them still.

Can you join us at seven? 30, Monday morning to sing a song you sung 20 years ago. Oh, hey, well, get it. Don't get me wrong, we'd love it. We'd try. Get one or two, and then you guys can stand in. Yeah, dip-dur-d, I just want to do the dip-dood a bit. Yeah, I was looking at Foot Rock Flats world.

When New Zealand, it will land or something. They had a theme park for Foot Rock Flats, the cartoon. And West Auckland. Fun park, yeah. West Auckland as well. So, in New Zealand, yeah, that's no longer with us, sadly. But, yeah, there you go. That was based off the movie, was it?

Yeah, and the cartoon book. I think they're really capitalised on that, good on them. I think the books, the cartoons were hugely popular for many, many years, I think, before the movie, yeah. So, yeah, and I think they turned the cartoons into the movie, yeah. I don't think it was, there wasn't like a roller cross or anything. It was like pretty chill. Not an upside-down one, we're just having a look, yeah, it was kind of like it. It was like the Easter show.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the people in the 80s look like they have the time of their bloody lives. One guy looks depressed on the go-cart. He does look a bit miserable on that go-car. Yeah, you're right. It's like, you know, I think we could get something and they're having a bit more smiles. No, mate, we'll have one shot.

Do a take two with the guy. Yeah, just a bit of teeth. But, yeah, what did you do for fun in Masterson when you were growing up? What was the closest thing to a theme part? There was a, now, I think there was one in Napier or something, like Fantasyland. Now, you're a Splash Planet in Napier, too. And it became Splash Planet. Yeah, so that, wherever that was, fantasy land.

Now, I don't, yeah, to be, I don't. You might go to a fun website. now. Yeah, shall I look that up? Hastings, Napier. I wonder if it exists anymore. Now it still comes up a place where they had a castle.

Oh yeah, they had a castle. I mean, it's not Disney Castle Castle, but it's a, yeah. It's a castle, yeah, as well. I remember as a kid, there was a little, a little village. I remember going there once. How far away is that from Masterton?

It was quite a way, yeah, it was quite a way to way. So is there nothing in Masterton? No, no, no. Oh, we did have, they called it the tunnels. So basically it was all these little undergrounds used to crawl, you know you go through tunnels at a playground, but it was this sort of, like I guess a concrete structure type thing, a big mound and there was all these little

tunnels that would go underneath. It was quite cool. Where did they go? And they just kind of weave your way around. But then, you know, we used to go there for dinner like fish and chip Fridays or whatever. You'd go hang out there and you get to play in the tunnels. But then after a while it would smell. Was it the sewers? Smell of urine. It really did smell of urine after a while too. People tagging stuff and then you'd come around the corner and get a heck of a fright because there'd be some teenagers passing or something. We go out of the tunnels and get to back your way back out of the tunnels.

That's what you'd do. So much fun. We used to do that on Friday. Oh no, that was Boston, mate. That was much to do, yeah. What did you do in Nelson? What was the big attraction? Well, it's still there.

The hydra slide in Tihuna. Bumper boats. There's a big skating rink all in the same area. Yeah, nice. There's a big slide there. One of those slides that goes, like the bumpy slide. Yeah, lovely.

And it's like an entertainment precinct. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's nice, nice. You're a master mate. We're just batlers, batlers away. It's crawling around the sewer pipes for a bit of entertainment. They probably were sewer pipes, to be fair.

But I think it was an actual playground, but maybe it wasn't. Who knows? It's a long time ago. Anyway, you believe anything as a kid. If you told it, you believe it. It's the playground. Enjoy the podcast. John O'Bennon and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. In my household at the moment, being accused of trying to kill the family. one of my favourite liquids I would say definitely in my top four I've got Heineken Good liquid Coupy mayonnaise pretty good

If you could put that in the liquid category Tomato sauce And then bleach Love bleach Love bleach You're not consuming that though Not consuming it But just as like a cleaning

Like I love cleaning the house And you walk into a house And it smells like a freshly cleaned hospital Hospital grade bleach too And I bleach It's screaming psychopath Isn't it really The vibes isn't it

I mean I love clean stuff But bleach is really he has done a sociopath test remember I got here at 5.30 in the morning she's like all right welcome let's do a sociopath test I'm asked with flying colours too much test too much test for that time in the morning

but yeah anyway so wiping down bench it's a real big pressure point in my marriage to be honest there was an actual question in New Zealand here yesterday about how like doing too much cleaning can actually be like doesn't work it basically will stuff will attract back to it and stuff as well and breed new types of mutates as well

so you've got to be careful to overclean stuff as well it back a bit. They're like, hey, you don't need to be wiping bitches as much as everyone's been doing. People are doing it too much, and that's causing more germs in the long run. So is your wife annoyed at you for like overcleaning?

No, no. It's the towels of the issue. Because then when everything's bleached and then I you know, yeah, and they turn purple or sort of change colour and she's like, you've been using bleaching and then like this flannel's like miscoloured. I'm like, that wasn't me.

It was whoever put the flannel on the bench that I had put bleach on. Full respect, but yeah, probably my daughter's like, she hates it. She won't even walk into the house if it smells like bleach now. I was like, you know what that's the smell? That's the smell of safety, darling. It's the smell of cleanliness.

But every towel looks like it's been sort of used to clean up a crime scene. I was going to say, what are you wearing when you're bleaching? Just shorts. I just wear shorts, yeah. Sometimes just underpants, underpants who I'm not, that I'm not fond of. That's psychopath. Sexy?

No, coming home to like a pristine house that smells of bleach and urine your undies, screams American Psycho. Yeah, it does, you're right. It does. It's a plastic on the furniture and taking it out of body, you know. It does definitely scream that. Well, I won't bring bleach in here then. It's not, you, Jim. Yeah, wiping down stuff is really, I'm satisfied.

Just love wiping stuff. Oh, you annoyed me the other day because you got the duster out. I don't understand dusters because you were just flicking dust off. the computer's into my face. He really does say somebody to do. I love what I'm in this beach. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats.

Talking about a beautiful Cassie coming into her home and we're like, what's going on? Could it be a spirit in the house? I don't know. I don't know. So we thought we'd get in. Jessie Rose, she is a medium and she's joining us in the studio. Thanks for coming on. Hey, I'm good.

Thanks for having me. Really nice having to see. Yeah, appreciate you coming all the way into the studio to talk about this. So you've heard a little bit about what's going on at Megan's house. A little bit. Yeah, a little bit. And it's probably better, I would imagine, for you to be at Megan's house, right? Absolutely.

Yeah. Always better to be in the space. I mean, you can do it remotely. You can pick up things, especially if the, let's say the little girl is attached to you, then I'd pick it up, you know. Is the little girl in here at the moment? No. Are there ghosts of former radio hosts who have been fired from that? That's quite possible.

Made redundant. Energy lingers, so maybe. And so just a bit about you. When did you realise, damn, I've got some Avengers' soul powers here? Honestly, I've been like this since I was a kid, and I pushed it away for years and years and years and years, and came back full force, and I had no choice. When you say being like this, you see spirits? Yeah, how's it works? So I see, smell, hair, taste, and feel.

Taste as well, wow. So what kind of things do you taste? Well, actually, funny, the other day I had a salmon lady in. I love this so much, because they always have, like, a big family of ghosts, like, show up, you know, and they're always laughing, and they're always fun. And they were showing me this banana rice, but you wrap it in, like, a leaf. And then I started tasting it, and I was talking to her, and I was like, oh, my God, it tastes real salt and sweet.

And it's like, and she's like, yeah. And it was her nana trying to give me one. And I was like, I was like, thanks. So these, the spirits are feeding you. Yeah. I had to scorn me other day that I couldn't turn down, so, you know. So you were saying the kids are quiet, like, along. kids do pick up on this? They are so in tune. Megan's daughter, this could be

what Cassie is. Could be a spirit. Absolutely. And then before the age of 7, 8, they're so inchoned. And then, like, the world gets involved. From what you've heard, the evidence Megan's presented, has she got a ghost living with her? Can you tell me again? I read a little bit about it. My daughter, we were talking about who's beautiful and who's handsome in the house. She was going around the family and she said, and Cassie, beautiful Cassie, who comes to my home. And I don't know any Cassie's.

So I was like, my husband's having an affair. But he's like, I don't know who she's talking about. And I brought her up a couple of times and I'm like, who is Cassie? And she says she's beautiful. She comes to my home. She kind of just repeats. Well, she talks a lot out loud. She's, yeah, she sits in her room sometimes at the weekend.

She was playing with her doll's house talking. Yeah. Yeah, that's. And she was doing a tea party and there was two cups. Yep, very possible that she's sitting with a lovely girl named Cassie. So let's say, if there is this case, what do they normally want? Like if a spirit's in the house, are they normally something that would... So the thing with, if it's a child's spirit, one, it could be stuck in the house.

Two, it could be attached to your daughter. Three, but honestly, they just get kind of stuck and they don't really know how to move on. I don't really know where to go. Where are they meant to go? good question where does energy go it's a perpetual motion isn't it so it just goes everywhere and anywhere and so what so the spirits that you see do you see like full like how you're seeing us right now and what do you see i'd be in a mental institution no how i see them is basically i've got i like it to like screens in my in my brain i'll sit here and i'll see you and then i'll see

let's say your mom's dad standing next to you on that side you know is he is he john is he i don't No, I don't know. Good gag, good gag. I don't know. Obviously, some people are like skeptical about that. What do you say to people that are skeptical about, you know, have your own experience. Right, okay.

Yeah. Like, if you're skeptical, I can't change your mind unless you sit in front of me and I give you a reading that you need. Yeah, right. And readings only happen when they're meant to. Well, can we organise for Jess to go to your house? Yeah. Can we do that?

Is that right? We must warn you she does have two lounges. Yeah. Yeah, and that's three bathrooms as well. It's going to throw me off of that. There's like a whole wing down one side of the other. Anyway, it might take some time. There's a lot of places for the spirits to live, too.

They're probably making rent down one side of the lodge. Yeah, it's a kid. It's free. Are you okay to have juice come over in here? I love that. What will you do if you do have a ghost? What are you going to do? I haven't thought that far.

Well, I'm hoping that she's friendly. She seems to be. There's no, I don't feel any negative. can you help them move on like if they are stuck you can help them move on you know there's a link bus there's the train system's quite good nowadays you know there you go yeah john o ben and megan the podcast uh ben are you okay because you shared something really deeply personal yesterday a few months ago like i didn't i definitely did not want to talk about it at the time

and then time had passed and then i should have some sleepless nights on this oh and then yeah and then i was like eventually okay i think i think enough time has passed And I gave some loose details. I didn't give all the details away yesterday. But the important thing was that, well, yeah, that something, I was exposed myself on the internet with a costume, a wardrobe malfunction that saw. I put it in food terms, not my sausage, but more my potato.

One of my potatoes out there on the internet, people commented. Not everyone, but a few people noticed that, and I got a lot of messages coming through. Yeah, you got a few warnings, and you were like, ah, nah. Well, the first one, I was like, But it looks like I've been done dirty by some lighting, you know. I can see how people thought that.

So it was just a single one? Yeah. And I thought, I had undies on. There's no way this would happen. I had undies on. But it turns out that, no. Saggy undies? Turns out the ass.

How loose were they? They're now gone. The structural integrity of those undies left a long time. They really hit me down as well. Then it was a paid video, so I couldn't take it down straight away. There was a client involved. And I had the world's most awkward. Honestly, there was awkward conversation with a lot of,

lovely lady who works at my, you know, for my agent and talking to her through, I'm like, I'm so sorry to call you in the weekend, got a bit of a dilemma, and I had to point out what my dilemma was. And so she was watching it on the phone going, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, okay, you know, could you tell the moment that she spotted it? Yeah, and I'm just like, oh. Does she give any compliments or? No, no, no.

I just keep apologising as well. Then Matt, our boss is like, you need to play Jono and me in the video. I'm like, no. No, in what world would I do that? People need to see the video now. It's like, you need to get their reaction. It's not just an audio, medium now radio. You've got to provide the visuals.

I feel like, John, I would have already seen your potatoes several times. It's not impressive, to be honest. They're not impressive. That's why everyone's like, oh, maybe you can see them. Maybe, like one of those little pearler potatoes, you know. Is it a razor? I don't know. You know, the little ones.

They're nice little potatoes, you know, in summer one. You just boil them with a bit of butter. Delicious. A little purler. Not too offensive. There's a couple there. So what we want to open up this morning? Oh, I had heard of the hits.

When were you accidentally exposed? Yeah, what popped out? Like, surely I'm not the only one that accidentally had something pop out as well. And, you know, unintentionally, that can happen, right, for time to time? Yeah. Harrowing story. A friend was in Fongamatar at the beach one, New Year's. He was swimming in the waves can get quite boisterous there.

Boom, his Tox came clean off peak New Year's too. He's in there with all the family, all the kids. So he's like waving at his wife on the beach. But the togg's gone? Gone, just completely. And he's like, in panic, looking. Should he be waving back? And he's like, you need to go back to the bench right now, get the toads.

So then he went and swam out behind the waves. It was just solo popping up and down, keeping a safe distance until his wife came back in. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. She had a story, which I feel like I'm ready. I need to move on from it. I love it that it was sat with you for months. You've been living with this trauma for months.

You've opened up a lot recently, especially about your groinel region. You did a little bit of wheeze in your pants. We found out about that. Okay, thanks, Megan. And then one of your potatoes is popped out. Vulnerability, mate. Yeah. But, yeah, you were filming a social video for a client and...

Had a wardrobe malfunction. Short, short, shorts, and something accidentally... Popped out. And so I want to feel better. I want to feel better. You didn't notice it in the edit process. No, no. And it was, yeah, to be fair, yet, well, a few people did, though.

A lot of people noticed, and you're like, ah! And you got a text from a New Zealand celebrity who you had worked with years ago, and she alerted you. And I was like, oh, man, you still said, no. That was the first one I was like, oh, no, I think, no, I think it's just the lighting and that. And then I saw one of the messages a couple of days later to my horror that a whole lot of people had noticed. That's when panic stations set in. Only then.

What does that feel, when you're like, oh, dear God, what does your stomach just go? Yeah, it just feel like, you know, you kind of got into, you know, it feels like shock. You go like, I remember with the family, we're out breakfast and I just went, and got out and I was like, where's he going? And I just walked outside and they're like, he was outside on the road for like 30 minutes. It's crazy. Like, where has he gone? What did you tell your family when you came back?

Did you tell your daughters? I was like, we've got a situation. Do they still not know your daughters? I don't think they do, but my wife does, yeah. It is really, well, we appreciate you sharing it. We do. Joe, morning to you. So we're talking about accidental pop-outs.

What popped out for you, Joe? So when my youngest was really little, I was expressing milk so she could have tube feed. Anyway, I'd done expressing, and I thought, oh, shit, better go and, like, check the chickens and feed them and get the eggs. Went out, did all that, saw the farmer in the paddock next door, waved, he was back. When he was a bit strange. Look down, spice my tips. were right out but he was like between 70 and 80

so I reckon he went home and had the best night with his life he's just like lovely day for it and I just like totally I was just like oh wow there's ice I might not feel the breeze

I love it I love it but you're sleep deprived you've got all sorts going on and honestly they're out so much when you're breastfeeding it just you've never noticed it's on covered on These are dairy farmers

Like Camilt knows Good on you, Joe. Have a good one. Appreciate it. Lindy, accidental pop-outs. What happened? I teach aquarobics. So I'm a jet and demonstrating my moves. And if we get into something big and powerful

and the bigger girls, sometimes pop out. I bet they do. Well, because you're jumping up and out of the water and then so the resistance of the water on the swimsuit I imagine would come into play. Absolutely. Sometimes I have to

watch out the girls are off. Well, like Joe, do they notice or do they just carry on? I think they're in the moment and they're going hard and it's not until I say, look out the girls are out. And they're looking.

Oh, these making you feel better? Yeah, I feel slightly better. You heard your girls out? I need someone else to say, look out. Yeah, no one was to warn me. Where are you on my day? That's for sure. What are you talking about?

So many people were like being your girls are up. You ignored the warning. Well, I joined the first one. The second one I definitely didn't ignore it. Hey, good on. You appreciate your listening, Lindy. Have a great day. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast.

The heads. Hey, so my wife went into hospital. She's at hospital at the hospital at the moment. I mentioned it earlier today. Yeah, she's got back, quite a serious back operation. She's had a bad back for a good couple of years as well. Not a good couple of years, actually. It's got worse and worse.

And so is it like bulging disc? or something? Yeah, it's causing nerve damage and a whole lot of other stuff as well so, yeah, so she had to get in and finally got her in to get surgery and she's in hospital for a week. You said major they've pulled out all the organs and cut through the front and take out some organs

and stuff to... What's wrong with going through the back? That's what I was thinking as well. That's where they're kind of putting the, you know, the fuse together as well as the metal, you know, rod and stuff, but I'm sure they know what they're doing. Yeah, I'll leave that to them. I'll leave that the less I know about Googling it, the better I'll just like, they know what they're doing. That's what

And it's amazing just going in and spending time at the hospital and just what they deal with every day. The nurses, the doctors and stuff as well. And amazing job that they do. Yeah. I guess like a mechanic or someone would work on a vehicle, that's essentially what they're doing, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, you're right. But bodies are the car. You get my reference.

You know what I'm trying to say. Yeah. But it's just the day-to-day to the operation Friday. How's she recovering? For Friday. Yeah, she's a bit of pain, obviously, you know, as it would be. but we're going all right. Still in the hospital, but what, you know,

I wasn't there, and I was disappointed that it wasn't there to see when she came out, you know, because I get all those funny videos online to people. It's like content, content. Yeah, high on painkillers as well. But then I got the joy of a whole lot of text through from my wife Amanda because she'd obviously come out and gone into recovery as well, and she was texting me

and obviously some pretty heavy painkillers. And I was really taken, I was back and forward with a text, back and forward just to get more texts out of me because I was really enjoying it. Just to get more content for the radio. Really enjoying it. People are better on painkillers. Let's just say that.

The first text I got from me, and this is my wife who's a school teacher and spelling is just so important to her. But the first text was just capital D, then another D, then a M, then a KKK, then a M, M, M, M, M, M. That was the first text as well. I was like, okay, that's the first thing. She's out of the operation.

She wants to initiate conversation. Next text I guess. Let's have a chat. Is Dan, Dan. Yeah, I put it in a request. for air plugs please that was the next text oh well i'm yeah dan is well i know there's a dan that works in a school i don't know but anyway dan is dan whatever she wanted air plugs then it was i have nice it was the next text uh with nice like you fill in the blank

nice in capital n as well and then a little bit later on was view so i guess that was i have nice view oh oh 20 minutes later she left you on a clip hanger and then typing is hard with T-Y-Y-U-word ping is hard here. Then a bit later, I've responded a few poor things. She said, no was your, which N-O-E was your, I don't know what was, and then after that, how was your indie, was one of our daughters?

And finally, a little bit later on, I got I unicycles today. So that was great. Wow. Great messages for my wife. Even on heavy paint kid, is she unicycles? Yeah, so pretty impressive, actually. She's already are the operation in unicycling. Would love for her one day to get her, you know, to interpret all of that for us, what she actually meant as well.

But she doesn't remember a lot of it. You know, you're like, did you come in that day? I'm like, yeah, it came in that day. And she's like, I don't remember any of that as well. So, yeah, amazing work. You go, I've been in every morning. I'm at your bedside. You can just say anything.

John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast. The Hats here, Megan. Someone has stood into your DM's, Megan, with another dilemma. this one's to do with a competitive friend. Yes, it is. I've been in a similar situation, but I don't know. Were you the competitive friend? You're ultra competitive.

Even when like kids... I don't, maybe it was... Am I the problem? We had kids come in to visit the studio and we're playing like... I can't even remember what the game was and Megan was like, I'm going to beat them, I'm going to beat them. I'm going to beat them. I was like, they're school children. Yeah, no, she's very...

Just so you know the kids Campbell thing, it's not a good look to keep wasting kids in a hamble. I know, I'm really worried about myself. I'm going to try, my best. So this reads today, dear Megan, I feel like I'm back in high school. I've got this friend who I've known for years and we've been through breakups,

weddings, babies, everything. But lately, she's become super competitive. Everything has turned into a subtle one-up. If I mention my kid finally set through the night, hers has been doing it since birth. My husband got me flowers. She says her fiancé does that all the time. Even my birthday dinner turned into her telling everyone

about her engagement. I love her but I'm exhausted Do I say something Or is this just what adult friendships turn into Please help She whiz I'm pretty I'm brutal with this one

Because I'm just like if friendships If you're working too hard On a friendship And if you feel like it's so one-sided And also if you go and hang out with this person And you find that they drain you And yet they make you anxious and all of that Just it's not for you

Yeah fair enough And you don't need to have an official break up, you just need to back away. And it's usually them feeling insecure about themselves. Yeah, so get that, right? Yeah, but like, that sounds like a them problem. Get them to fix themselves. You're not going to change them.

I had a friend, this was many years ago. She was mates with a girl from work and it got a little bit single white female. Started competing. Got the similar sort of car. Oh, really? A dress, very similar, same sort of clothes. Even her boyfriend, to the point, kind of looked like

Oh, my God. She bloody fled to the gold car. roast as well. Oh, really? I don't know if that had anything to do with it. I just thought that would add some spice to the story. She just moved over there. She feared the cost of living crisis that was looming here in New Zealand.

But yeah, she essentially did have to break up with this woman and just say, listen, I just don't think this is for us. Yeah. Did the official breakup. I, yeah, I just back away from friends, but I am starting to think maybe I'm the problem. The competitive nature. Maybe. I want to help this person out, and do you think they should persist with a friend? friendship or are they like no yeah like you said megan you don't have to as an adult you don't

have to stay friends i think sometimes people cling on to it because like she says we've been friends for years so are you trying to cling on to something that doesn't exist anymore well she may have good but she's clearly got good points if she's hung around with this person for a number of years but hey good friends should celebrate you not compete with you yeah the ones that do compete you get rid of them. John O'Ben and Megan The podcast. The hits.

Listen to your DMs, a friend's, well, a longstanding friendship, Megan, but things are a little bit draining. Yeah, so they have been through a lot to get the babies, weddings, everything,

but lately she's become super competitive and is subtly, or not so subtly, one-apping her. She's getting tired of it. She is wondering, is this what adult relationships

are like when you're older, or does she just need to cut her loose? Clearly can't talk to their friend group where else it might get back to her. So, yeah, she's asking a breakfast radio show. You can smash. The desperation in this poor lady's email or this message in your dance.

There is that friend. There always that other one. In my relationship with my wife, there's a friend, like another couple. And I mentioned just before, I can never compete with what he's doing. He's like getting petrol for his wife. She's never filled up the car once. Once. He goes out.

My dad does that. Do you, like, it's not a high bar? I will fill up the car if I'm drove. He'll, he'll go, he's got his own car. He will go and get her car just to take it to. the thing and then fill it up at the same time it's like if I'm driving Amanda's car and I'm like oh it's on empty yeah of course I will

I'm like put five bucks in it he kisses her on the lips too yeah but he's not going out of his way out of his way every week she's not filling up the cow once though she's not even took it once oh mate you know look at you going out of the bloody

petrol station putting us all to shame yeah it's a whole other job that you know buys her presents on her birthday What a monster. That is hard to compete with, though. It's hard to compete with it. It's not his car, Megan.

He's not driving it at all other than driving. He's got his own car. Exactly. Oh, Karen, morning to you. Morning. If this was your best friend, what would you say to them about this competitive mate they have in the group? It's time for this relationship to go. Yeah, if you're not, like I say,

some people come into your life for a reason and some people come out of your life for a reason and yeah maybe it's about you learning how to put those boundaries up to protect your your sanity. Good on you care that was beautifully said. Yeah. Beautifully said.

Yeah, and I don't think it needs to be a big breakup or anything. Maybe just back away and... Why don't you just do the slow fade out and be like, hey, we should catch up soon. Never do it. And just, hey, don't we should catch up soon. It's a classic. That's a classic.

That can fade you out of many ways. relationships. Hey, good on you, Karen. Really appreciate your time. Yeah, good thoughts. Carol, Karen to Carol. Welcome. I know. Good morning. How are you guys? Yeah, if we're doing well, Kese. What would you do? What would you say? I would say that you need to surround yourself with people who add quality to your life.

She doesn't sound like she's adding a lot of quality. What am I doing here every morning, Carol? I mean, you know, the word envy comes into the back of my mind and it's a nasty trait and it's not going to go away I would suggest and I just think it's a lot of energy

spent on something that's probably going to end up not going anywhere so I would just do I would just slowly back away slowly don't do the staff be not available you know that kind of thing like and if she comes at and says hey what just say I don't

like the way you make me feel good carrol that's so you're a good communicator I think that's, if the slow fade-out seems to be the preferred option. Is that one where we're going to go back with, Megan? I think, yeah, I saw Oprah say recently, actually, your friends should never be jealous of you. They should always be your biggest cheerleaders. And if that's not what they're doing, then just back away.

You don't need that in your life. Well, case close. Another successful, whatever happens to these. We should do a follow-up. Well, you'd be nice to know. When they go back, if you hear a message back, it'd be nice to know how things going on. How many lives have we ruined with your advice?

Erratic decision making John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The Hodes have been ruined, have they? My son's four, almost five and he's just starting to take an interest in your phone and we don't generally give it to him

But Good for you That was a huge part of my parenting Great parenting to him No, but he's too nifty on it Suddenly he'll be on YouTube Looking at something nefarious and you're like Oh, give it back

Yeah, I know that is the yeah They can really, it's crazy Even like on YouTube kids sometimes You're like, how did that end up on there? Yeah. So he gets me at a weak moment. So that's when he'll crawl into bed on Sunday morning. And he's like, he goes, can I look at the weather on your phone?

He likes to look at the weather app. And then... It's always good to know to what the day he's doing, you know, what activities he can get done. What he needs to dress in, you know? No, but he, you know how you can add, like, places on your weather? Suddenly I've got all these random things from around the world that relate to like Sonic the Hedgehog or Max Vastappen. added to my weather, and he has used all these different emojis to the point where all of my recently used now are either like chicken legs and lamb chops or like a technology.

That's my recently used. Who's he sending those emojis to, though? Oh, I didn't actually, I don't know. Well, yeah. Put them to be the most used. They were sending them to you? I haven't received any, like me, chicken leg emojis. I don't know what's going on here

Nobody also sits here and he'll be like She saw the social video He goes through the emojis And looks at the stack of pancakes And he's like I want that for dinner Why have we never eaten that? Oh I see he's communicating with you And emojis I see

And completely ruin me recently used Which is like you've never considered that To be as much of a hassle As it is until it happens Now I have to scroll through And find the emoji that I want The day that my phone got completely ruined And my daughter turned everything

The same colour So all every emoji She was the same, every app was the same colour. Doesn't she organise them into colour groups too? Yeah, it was aesthetic, she said. Then she turned them all blue. She said it's so ascetic. Yeah, but it's not helpful though, is it.

She's a giant pain the ass is what it is. Has it gone back? Yeah, I've changed it back now. I live with it for about six months. I was like, Poppy, this is a while. I haven't able to get me emails for half a year. Is she the one who made your font big too? She's like, here you go, dad.

This will help you out. He says, that was a mate. He keeps like, oh, mate, do it here. It was my mate, bass. He's like, you've got to go big font, mate. Yeah, you haven't looked back. Didn't know what mockery was to come for my friends. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast.

That's South Island's biggest supermarket, set to open next week, a massive pack and save in Rolliston. They reckon it's going to start with about 280 employees. 3,000 people applied for jobs there apparently. Huge, just a massive. So, yeah, that will open next week, very exciting. We love a new thing opening. We do.

We love it, how big it is, too. You know, there's always big. It's like four football field size or something. But it's been getting ludicrous. When did you say it was going to open? Next week. No, apparently it's happening today. Oh, today.

Well, the producers are like, today, today. Oh, sorry, yes. The headline says next week, but it's, yeah, today. Yes, I'm just a week ahead and the news. But actually, if you want to avoid the crowds next week, would be a more appropriate time to go. Yeah, right. So it's open today.

That's what I always think when the thing's open there's like lines for three days. I'm like, we'll give it a week and just probably wandering. Yeah. You know? Yeah, but people love being first, don't they? They do. Tell you what, there's nothing more dangerous in the neighbourhood than a retiree, a reckless retiree, gathering road cones.

Is this my mum that you're talking about? Same cut from the same cloth, three houses down, he's a lovely gentleman. But he's been told off by the roading company. Because what he does is like when there's roadworks sort of around the neighbourhood, he'll just collect a single road cone. Because I think one of the core responsibilities when you're over the age of 60 is stressing out about who's parked outside outside your house.

It feels like that fills up a lot of your day. And who's driving up the road? How fast are they driving? Yeah. So he will, like, if he's got friends or something coming over, he wants them to be able to conveniently park outside his property. So he'll road cone off the little part outside is burn, which I don't know how legal.

I don't know what the legalities are. He's like Batman of traffic management. I don't, yeah, I don't think that's your, that's not yours is right? No, but they're just like, so when there's no road work, going on on our road. There's only cones just designated outside of this. So one of the roading people saw this. He said, I've been told off.

I was like, what for, babe? He's like, stealing road cones. It's like, yeah, well, you've got to take that one on the chin. I'm sorry. He's like a Dunedin uni student, but probably more of a nuisance because he's actually, you know, inconveniencing people's days. Not putting a road cone like up a tree.

I don't know how people get up, the tree so high. I respect that. I was just trying to find out exactly how much each road cone costs. It's not cheap. Petty Goward did a big investigation. Yes, that's right. Yeah.

I think a lot. Producer Grace was saying like, nearly you get round about 100 bucks. Oh, it says 40 here. Okay. Maybe they're getting off Timo. A hundred bucks seems a lot for a rocone. Yeah.

But it's still, he's not paying for it. You add the money. Yeah. Yeah. What if you could buy your own? You probably could. Yeah, like, and then put it out. Like, this is to buy his own, put it out, you know?

But then I guess the council would probably pick it up and take it and thinking it was theirs. Yeah. Ray, Ray, your mum, she just paints yellow lines, didn't she? Yeah, she paints yellow lines. She's also got road cones. I don't know where they got them from. And she'll put the cones out if she doesn't want someone to park there. It's when you know you've got too much time on your hands.

I know. Oh, Ben's coming home, a bit of a road cone officer who's got a convenient part. He can just put it like 20, you know, 10 metres across you. I know, that's the thing. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. My wife actually had to go for back surgery last week.

and yes she's in hospital for probably like a week as well pretty full on operation we'll talk more about that after 7 o'clock actually yeah yeah backs backs are useful yeah yeah yeah you need your back working you don't appreciate your back until it's sore oh my lord has it been hurting her for a while

yeah and it's getting worse and worse and causing a lot of nerve pain and there's a whole lot of stuff and so basically they just they slice her open they move all the organs take some of the yeah from the front yeah from the front take some stuff out Well, all her internal organs.

Well, not everything, but, you know, like a whole lot of intestines and stuff like that. Take it out. And then they go through to a spinal cord, put some plates and, you know, fuse that together and then put everything back in. Oh, my God. Jeez. There's some people out there doing proper jobs. This is what they're doing. Just the stuff they have to deal with is pretty, and pretty incredible.

And that would just be run of them. They would just be a Tuesday. The surgeon had three that day. That's wild. She was number two of three. So, yeah. Where do they put the organs just to sit them on the? I don't know.

Just like an internal. Holding a liver, hold these for a second. Do they have, like, a checklist? Like, okay, the intestine's gone back in, the liver's back in. It's like putting together a flat pack and you're like, where are these screws left over? Yeah, what happens if you drop like the liver on the floor? Do you give it a wash?

She had extra kidneys, eh? Yeah, but it's lovely, you know, like, you know, people, you know, helping you out and the stuff as well, yeah, because, you know, at the moment with the kids for the next week as well. And I know we joke on the show about producer Troy, making stuff from scratch and things like that, you know. But there was a wonderful lasagna made by one of the team, night and so I've got some audio here.

Hey, what do you want to say, Siena? The lasagna is really good. It's really good, eh? Yeah, who do you want to think? Producer Troy. Yeah, I know, he made it from scratch. He makes it from scratch. So good.

I know, he's incredible, isn't he? No, Megan, that is lovely. It's so good. Thank you, Megan. It's so young. Yeah, it really helped us out. So thank you so much. I mean, we haven't tried producer Troy's yet, though, have we?

Well, we're going to have to try that. Yeah, but hey, Megan's, let's say, 9.9.9 out of 10. 9.99. Okay, okay. Yeah, well, thank you, Megan. Because we do joke on the show as well about producer Troy. You make stuff from scratch. Show does producer Troy.

I sent you receipts at the weekend so you could see that we haven't made the pastor from church. It was very kind of you. It helped out a lot last night. You made some Lithuania. We really enjoyed it. Megan claims sexism that she's been making stuff from scratch and we've never acknowledged it. And then Troy comes and he's like, look, I made a Caesar salad and we're like, oh, wow.

Yeah, you're like, oh my God, that's incredible. Good on you. No, you do that, good on you. And I'm like, excuse me? Well, I can't wait for you to try Troy's 10 out of 10, Liza. Yeah, that's what I'm really looking for to. This is what you're gutting for, right? Just for us to compete.

I can't wait for that. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. We have a record holder with us on the phone of Guinness World Record Holder. He's a New Zealand man for the world's longest name. His name is Lawrence Watkins. Good morning. Is that Ben or Jono? Oh, it's one of the two.

We answer politely to both. It's Jono here, Lawrence. We've got Megan here with us as well. Ben's here. Hi, Megan. Hello. Hello, mate. Nice to talk to you.

It's my nephews. My nephews are called Ben and Jono. Are they? Oh, there you go. Don't tell the bosses, they probably do a better job of our job. He's got more life left in them too. Hey, Lawrence, we were really intrigued. We were intrigued by you popping up in the news as a Guinness World Record holder.

For what? For the longest personal name in the world. So I've got 2,253 first names, Christian, Christian names. So Lawrence Watkins, but in between that, there's 2,253 other names. Yes, yeah. Can you list them all, not now, but can you remember them and list them all? Or do you only know them written down? I've only written down, Megan.

I got them, my new birth certificate has six extra pages. So you've got all 2,000 or so written on. your birth certificates, okay, if you could rattle off the first 10 or 20 or so now, Lauren. 10 or 20, yeah. Good. Yeah, I'd have to get a copy

for that. I know the first three. Oh, yeah, well are they? Lawrence, a lot of Loys. But my favourite is Calphocca-Matel and also A-Z-2000, which means I've got names from A-to-Z and I've got 2,000 names.

So these are actually part of your middle names as well. So where did you get all these names from? Like these are ones that you've chosen specifically? Yes and no. I worked at the Yorkland City Library. I stole most of the names from the books that name your baby. Like if you want to choose a name for your baby.

Baby name book, yeah, right. The library's got, you know, the boys' names and the girls' names. And I stole then the Maori names I got from the Maori Dictionary. The Sarmor names was a co-worker. she gave me some more names that she knew. There's some Japanese names, a lot of Welsh names, because I worked with a Welsh guy. So people would just say names,

and you'd be like, great, I'll add that to the list. So in New Zealand, they can't, nobody can do what I did, because after I did it, through the High Court in Runnington, they changed two laws. Oh, really? This was a giant ballache for everyone involved? Yeah, because they didn't like losing. the registrar general in Wellington.

He didn't like losing. So you first applied for your name and they wouldn't let you do it? They did in the Auckland District Court in Albert Street. So they accepted the name change. But then when I tried to get the names put onto my New Zealand driver's license. So I wrote to the registrar and he called me frivolous. And he said the only way I... You're like, that sounds like a good name.

I'll add it to the list. He said the only way you'll force me to do it if you take me to the High Court and my cousin Joanna Holden, she's a high court lawyer so she did it on my behalf Fund sponges Wow, no, I know

they got no sensey humour Because we heard that at your wedding The celebrant took Was it 20 minutes to read out your entire name In front of everyone? Yeah, yeah She was an old day She was like 80 and we got married on top

of Rangy Toto I wanted to land a helicopter on top but the national parks they wouldn't fund sponges more fun sponges jeez you love pushing the limits don't you laurence you're very colourful

but they did they did agree to drive us up up to the top so Mrs Slack she's like 80 at the time she pre-recorded all the names like the night before on her tape recorder and so when it said

to you Lawrence she just pressed play she's like I'm not reading it out now Oh, my Lord. Just go for a singing or something. We just walked around the summit drinking champagne while the names were getting rattled off. I've still got the original passport where internal affairs, they stuck the six extra pages into my passport.

I love it. I've still got that, but then they went like digital and microchip and that kind of stuff. No, listen, you know what? what they are, you know what they are, Lawrence? Bloody, fun sponges. Yeah, I know, I know.

It's, um, but you've got to take the good to the band. Congratulations, uh, not only for providing content for our radio show for two days, uh, but I'm being a legend with over 2,000 names. Ah, thank you, thank you. I'd have to give it a check, uh, if I've got Ben and, um, Jono. Yeah. What do we have to do?

John O Ben and Megan to the list next time. time you updated. Yeah, I haven't got Megan, but I got Florence. Florence is one of my names. Oh, there you go. We'll change, Megan change your name in Florence, seems only fair. So I'll be in Florence on the hits.