Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Is Ben becoming a crazy dad with this Trick...

Episode Date: April 29, 2026

 On today’s show:  Ben’s insanely smart hack to get his teenager to answer his calls... Sibling Survival returns with shockingly violent childhood stories! Jono's deep embarrassment of pulling when a door clearly says push...  How Megan’s hubby ruined their special spicy time with a deadbolt How long is too long to keep Easter eggs in the house? Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFAST Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The John O'Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better tea. It's the podcast for the last day of April, May tomorrow. It's got to be, bye. Yeah, we get to buy that on the radio tomorrow, so I'm excited about that. Megan, she said that about half a dozen times in the last 10 minutes, and Ben hadn't acknowledged it, and she was like, are you getting the reference, Ben?

Yeah, no, I do. We feel like you when you're like repeating your puns. No, I like a bit. Yeah, yeah, get it? Yeah, I get it. But, yeah. No, it's good. The tables have turned.

I do. I do like, it's going to be May. It's fun. But it's the thing that frustrates me about that reference. It's already May. Well, that's why I'm saying it today. Because tomorrow. Oh, tomorrow, it's already May.

So you won't acknowledge it. You won't say that tomorrow. You're supposed to do it today. Oh, well, you're going to do it tomorrow, mate. And it's May, yeah. Well, it's May. No, you don't do it on May. Oh, my God.

Well, the memes come out on May. Here will the memes come out. So that would frustrate you. No, it comes out because in America, it's still April. Is that what it is? Oh, my God. Oh, well, I'm talking about tomorrow, mate, and it's going to frustrate the heck out of you. For 10 years, we've been acknowledging it on May first.

No, you do it today. Because you're like, oh, it's going to be May, but it's May for a whole month. You get to like kick it off with it's going to be May because it's like. No, you do it at the end of April. No, I'm like, you can do it, May, first of May, let's do it. And then it sets up a beautiful month. Because you're like, it's already May. You missed it.

It sets up a beautiful month of being able to do it. It's already, May. Who's right? You're probably right, but I'm not thinking about it. Troy, if you say anyone else apart from Megan's right, watch out. I'm going to throw my bottle at you. I'm going to be a fence that are here. I can see both sides.

Oh, Jesus. I love it. Good voice. Maybe why do you ask me? What are you always have? You'll bite us or something. No, I was going to say, I back my girl, Megan. Always are wrong.

You always do that. Yeah, you're going to. It's going to be. Bye-bye. It's going to be. Anyway, that's happening tomorrow, not today, though. But that doesn't matter for the podcast. No.

You might not be even listening on the 30th of April right now, which, you know, renders this whole conversation redundant. tomorrow. It's got a ram-ray. Anyway, what were you going to say? I was just going to say, Ben's come up with a hack. An absolute hack to hack into his kids' phones. Well, not hacking into the phones, but yeah.

You'll hear it on the podcast how I got my daughter's attention when she wasn't calling me back. Yeah. Enjoy. Jono Ben and Megan. The podcast. We talk about kids on devices, you know, and that's a hot topic, a conversation sometimes. My kids are a little bit older than yours, obviously. Megan, you know, and they've got, you know, the phones,

that it's a good thing for security and stuff as well. Do you know, I saw our news footage on the New Zealand Herald. Probably, I'd say, 150 kids on BMX bikes, clogging up the roads, follow by police. And I'm like, least they're not on their bloody devices. And I have it a good time getting outside in nature, riding their bikes, a bit of exercise. Why don't the police follow them?

I don't, because I think they were crossed both sides of the road. Oh, that's absolutely no good. Yeah. Not on their devices, though. But it feels like sometimes, you know, they're on their device too much. But yesterday I was trying to get hold of my daughter, Sienna, and she was at home getting ready because she had an audition. And so she was going to come under meet. And I had to get touch with her because the plans had changed.

Your time had changed. And when you want them to get, want to just ring and get on your advice, it's like, I could see her notifications were silence. You know, when they have the silence on their phone, and I'm trying to call. Can you nudge them again? Can you keep harassing them? Yeah, I was keeping harassing. And she just was not answering. And I'm like, the time that you are not on your phone, this is the time I need you.

And there's no landlines anymore. I'm like, I don't have a landline, I can't call her. There's no one else at home. It's just her. But we've never been more accessible though. That's what do? What do I do? I need to get in touch with that.

So I tried multiple times, came back half an hour later, tried multiple times at all. You need a personal zapper. You know, like on your neck. And then when you really need someone, give it a zab. And I was like, well, she will look at her phone. But she was, you know, to her credit, she was learning the script that she had to learn for her audition.

So I was like, okay, okay. Well, I get it now, but I was frustrating me. And then I went, oh, hang on. my iPhone and I went into the app and on my phone and her phone was registered on there. And I was like, you know how you can hit it and it makes a noise? And I was like, I wonder if this is working. Like I'm putting on her phone. It's he in his phone.

Bang. And I'm going, Blah, right. Next thing you know, I get a call like 30 seconds later. Did you just? Yeah.

And that works. How's that? From multiple kilometers away, her phone made a noise. She got to it that she heard that. That overrode the. A note of notification size. You went a deep.

I know. I was like, that's a genius hat. Yeah, that's a good hat. I do say so myself. Yeah, I was like, yeah, well, I mean, no one's ever probably going to use it, but I was like, yeah, that's good. And she called me back. You could also text you and go, if you don't call me back in three minutes or not, you

need to find out if you're adopted. We have the results. Well, yeah, kind of, but yeah. I like the personal zapper myself. We're off for options here, Ben. Yeah. What, get each kid with a personal zapper? Yeah.

Mind you, that would make me, I'd get zapped all the time. It feels like those dog collars that are banned. You know? Yeah, are they banned? Are they banned? Are you saying everyone walks around with a zap around their name? So when it's urgent you get a little...

Oh, my husband, you need to get in touch with me right now. This is Dragon's Dead. I'm not investing in that idea, just so you know. The worst idea ever. Oh, well. Electric shock everyone? You wanted to get hold of your daughter early. I don't want an electric shock, you know?

Give her a zap. I love her. I don't want a lot of... No, you know, so anyway, I thought it was a genius act. Your idea terrible. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. We love hearing the tales of your sibling survival.

What happens when you were growing up between you and your siblings love to get you on the airways? Oh, 800 of the Hats, 4487 and the set of therapy you can tell the nation. Yeah, I mean, they do test your survival instincts from the stories I've gathered. There's, you know, there's been heads slammed into doors, impaling. A lot of impaling with like a pitchfork through a leg. Then the mum had to, the mum had to soar off the handle so he could get it. in the car and go to the medical centre. Survival instincts

and trauma, you know, the two. Sometimes they're your first bullies you encounter. Producer Grace says she was the family bitter. She was a bitter. Yeah, and I can see her. So what you're on about biting it gets results, doesn't it grace? It does. Scratching and biting is...

If you just bit me, you're like, it's a real... Biting's a whole other level, Grace. It's very... But sometimes if you've got older brothers or whatever and you're a girl, that's all you got. And you're in a headlock, bite their own. Quite, yeah, true. It's probably the only thing you can do.

I was looking into, you know, some famous siblings and, you know, and the beef that some of them have had. And, you know, there's probably the biggest beef between siblings of recent years was Noel and Liam and Liam Gallagher, you know, from Oasis. A volatile relationship. And they were talking about once their biggest fight, because they had many fights and then they stopped talking to each other for years and years until just recently, right? They should do separate jobs, you know, and just steer away from each. other. But then also I think there's a part of it's great for the branding. Yeah, too. The bickering, the bickering brothers, are they going to

turn up to the stadium and do a show? Who knows? So, 1995 was called the cricket bat fight, they said, so Noel was in the studio. Oh, this is Adults. Yeah, this is the adults. Yeah, this is the biggest fight they ever had as adults. Liam brought back a people, he'd been at the pub, he brought back a whole lot of people from the

pub back to the studio. Obviously, Noel wasn't that keen on that. Turns out it was fire extinguishes led off, guitars were damaged, and then Noel ended hitting Liam over the head with a cricket match, which is pretty full on. Then afterwards, after the studio, Liam reportedly attacked the car that Noel was in

as it tried to drive away. And then after that, they didn't talk to each other for years and years. Oh, was that the breaking point? Including, yeah, and Noel later describing Liam as the angriest man you'll ever meet, like a man with a fork and a world of soup. This is a great way of describing it. But mind you, from Noel's point of view,

he's in his place of work. You don't want 70 people from the pub turning up. Drunk, fire extinguishes, yeah. Damaging your gear. There's like 70 drunk people came in here and started smashing at your laptop. Yeah, exactly. Oh, really? Kind of on Team Noel there.

Also the Jackson's. I know the Michael movies just been released. Jermaine Jackson released a disc track. Oh, yeah. Quite possibly the most friendly sounding disc track. About Michael Jackson. And I guess that's all you got when you're a musical family, the biggest bullying you can do is through song

Having to go to skin color there So it's all about looking after number one And stuff like that But you're right, it's too upbeat It's too friendly If I was Michael listening there I'd be like, this is great, this is a jam It's like you only care about you

It's, yep It's one of those songs that you just dance along to And then five years later you're like Oh, is that what he was singing about? John O'Benn and Megan The podcast. The Hats. Your tales of siblings survival.

We do this every Thursday. And I feel like, when you get to a point, we'll like, we'll never hear anything that shocks us. There's more stuff coming through. Yeah. Yeah. Kids are just so brutal. Yeah. You fight and you don't recognize the damage that a fork can do.

No, you don't. You don't know consequences. Consequences of a weapon. Prefrontal cortex. Yeah. It takes a while to develop. for a lot of males. Yeah.

And the decision making that I made for many years, my mum would try and brush under the rug by going, well, your prefrontal cortex has been developed yet, darling. You'll be right, just wait until you 25. And did it all turn around up to 25? No, even got worse, to be honest. It's been downhill since then.

But, yeah, 0800 of the hits, your tales of sibling survival. Linley, happy new year. Oh, hey, happy new year. That threw you, didn't it? Yeah, of much. Yeah, it does. It does.

It's something we've been trying to keep going on the show and we've done well to get almost a May. What was your, did you survive the attack, Linley, from your sibling? Yeah, I really did, but it was very frightening and hurt a lot. What happened? Well, because my brother is

four years older than me and yeah, I'm thinking I was about 10 and so he was a little little bit jealous of me. I don't know why, but I think maybe that my father paid me

more attention than he paid, yes. You're the favorite? Yes, yes. So one day I was out on the grass and there was a fence and on the farm.

And my brother threw a pitch for a bloody yes. over the fence and I'd land to my bloody leg. Oh, jeez. I'm sure it was a bloody leg after that. Did it go right through? Was it poking through the other side?

Oh, I tell you, say I'm screaming and running into mum. I bet you are. And so did you have to go to the hospital or did you have to like rip it out or what? There's just some of me. I've still got the scar to this day. Absolutely. Well, that could have been... Well, it was kind of rip, didn't I, another we thought, Mark Blasey.

Well, Lindley, I tell you what, I'd love to sit down and have a couple of savages with you. Sound like a riot. It sounds like an absolute riot. Oh, thank you for sharing that story with us. We appreciate it. Jess, welcome. Hello, hello. Happy New Year.

Happy New Year. Yes. What happened with you with your tale of sibling? I would have been three or four. My brother would have been 10 or 11, and we were always taught us kids to shut the door behind her. Okay. He was getting ready for school one morning and I couldn't understand why he had left the frontal rope

and why there was resistance and turns out he put his hand in the hinges and I slammed it shut and yeah, his middle finger was attached by a flap of skin and had to get surgically put back on. Oh, yes! Oh, jeez. You're like, why is this bloody double note shutting?

Oh my goodness, I bet you can still imagine it like it was yesterday. Oh, I remember it was crapping my pants and run into my room crying. Oh, yeah. But the finger was reattached? all good? It was reattached but he still doesn't have feeling in it like on the tip of it. Yeah, has he used that middle finger to sort of communicate in any way with you?

Yes, he's probably slipped me off with it a hundred times in the last time. Oh wow. That's incredible. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. That's one of those moments where it's like in the grand scheme of life just so minor, but really embarrassing at the time. Okay.

So I imagine everyone's been in this situation. You walk up to a glass door. it's clearly branded what's required to get that door open. It's a 50-50. It's either one or the other. Push and or pull. It's not even an end-door. It's push or pull.

Push-a-pull, yeah. I was pulling. It was a push. And for some reason, there's something in your head just like, no, no, I know better than this door. And you give it another go. At which point, someone from behind you has to correct you. And they're like, it's actually push.

And you're pulling. And you're like, oh, this is, I know. Like, this is a really basic function. as a human you should be able to nail 100% of the time. The sign's telling you what to do. Yeah, there's a sign there, in there. And it's so embarrassing.

It is. It is. It is. That and having your, having a younger generation tell you you got your phone light on. Oh, yeah. That is the worst.

I feel what I'm like, why is it? Because my kids are, dude, your torch, so I'm like, okay, so it's on. I mean, it's a mistake that anyone can make.

It's a simple button on you. Maybe they need to make it least pressible. I wasn't using it to read a menu at a, like a dimly lit restaurant or anything. Like it just accidentally went on in my pocket. When I do see someone walking around, I'm like, oh my God, embarrassing. Wayne Brown, Auckland Mayor, he was in reception the other day. We could see him in the foyer.

He had his phone torch load on. I was like, well, that's, you know, on brand probably. But, producer grace, why do you, why does your lot get someone's joy out of telling us our phone lights around? I actually have no clue. It brings so much serotonin to my brain. Like, I just, I'm like, oh, my God, I'm so much better than you. You've got your light on. No.

It's a simple mistake. No. How, how, though? Because it's just a slip in your pocket. It's on you. It's on the square. It might sound like such boomers, being like, it's just there. Your finger will just be like, whoopsies.

Yeah, and I didn't mean to do that. And then, oh, you like, time. I definitely turned my phone off fully, and I've put it in my pocket, and I don't touch the screen guys. That's embarrassing. Those little things are embarrassed, you. I saw someone on social media the other day, and it was a good point.

She's like, when you just trip a little bit, it's so much more embarrassing than if you just really hurt yourself. Like, she's like, I'd rather smash my face into a car than just a little trip that everyone saw. Because you regather all the half jog, don't you? Like, you're meant to be. I was like, picking up the back. You're like, oh, drip, they'll drip there.

And it's so embarrassing. Like, it doesn't happen often, but when you're going somewhere and you realize you need to suddenly turn around. No, go back through the way you're walking. And you walk and then you're like, no, I'm going the wrong way. And you have to suddenly stop and turn around. I did that day having to look for a shop that I had to pick something up. And I was on the phone, where is this bloody shop? And I was standing right outside the shop.

And there were people outside the shop. And they were laughing. They were. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. Close the weekend. It's Thursday already. Megan, you shared a story this morning early, early hours, dark under the cover of darkness at 627am.

Yeah. And it's now made its way into daylight hours. Wasn't the intention, but we thought, you know, it's safe enough to bring back if the kids are in the car. But we'll dance around it. Is it safe enough to bring back from your husband, you know? Oh, yeah. He doesn't take himself too seriously. He knows.

Anything he does is going to make it to radio. So he What is this? I know, it's meant to be a sexy song It's meant to set the mood If anything, it's ruined the mood It's confused the mood Yeah, what is this?

So my husband's about to go on tour for six weeks And I haven't seen a lot of him recently But we did have I'll just do a slow fight out on that music by the way Thank you, thank you I regret every part of that music, sorry We knew that we were going to like We thought we had lunch together

And had a couple of hours together yesterday. So he texted me and he was like, when are you coming home? I was like now. So I knew he was at home and when I got there, the car was in the driveway. So I unlocked the door but we have a deadbolt on the door as well which is mainly

to stop the kids from opening the door. And I realised he's put the dead bolt on and I can't unlock that. So I'm... You can't access the house again? No. I'm like, oh great. So I call him doesn't answer. I call him again still doesn't answer. I text him. I'm like

bro, you've locked me out. And nothing. There's no, nothing happening in the house. I don't know where he is. And so I decide to go around the fence, down the side of the house, and through the back. So I go through the grass and I get to our bedroom and all the blinds are shut. And I was like, oh, he's falling asleep. So I'm knocking, I'm knocking on the window.

I'm like, hello, you've locked me out. And suddenly I see this like shadow, this like, look. forlorn shadow turns up at the sliding door. Sad looking. Sad. Just like kind of disappointed. And it's Andrews standing there. And the only thing he's wearing is like these little box of shorts like with a little

tuxedo on the front. So they had it. Right. So these actually printed tuxedo on there. Printed tuxedo shorts. You guys would be into these. It seems like right up your alley. What does the cross look like in a tuxedo?

Does it make it a more sophisticated region? Yeah. It's like the, yeah. Dressing it up. A little fancy. Blat Thai feet. And so his intentions were obviously romantic ones. Yeah.

And so the bedroom was like there was candles. And it was like, but I couldn't stop. Timo boxer shorts. I could not stop laughing as he's disappointed unlocking the door. And nothing kills the wrong. romance and your partner hysterically laughing. And a deadbolt. It was a door to me so you can't get in.

And also it was Wednesday morning, 11.30 a year. That's a real mood killer for me. Have you got times for romance? You've got to get stuff done at those times. A little 30 a year on a weekday. I'm thinking about trying to do some washing, you know, like trying to whip to the supermarket, things like that, you know, from home. Your poor wife.

It would just be like, oh Would you be inconvenient I was going to do so much stuff Some hiding I need to get around Oh my gosh All right So this is what you want to open up You know, I don't have to the hits

When you tried You tried to be romantic and it backfired It does some At least he tried Like you two just Not even bothering Can I borrow the box of shorts Could I see in there?

Yeah they're probably still pretty much clean But the problem is your wife arrives home after school so your kids are going to be out. Dad, why you're a boxer shorts on the door? Screw your mother kids. John O'Nean and Megan The podcast.

The Hatsling or when the romance went slightly wrong. Yeah, my husband well he locked me out yesterday but little don't know he was waiting inside with little tuxedo boxed shorts on but I couldn't get inside so he had to... So you laughed. You just saw him to the sliding door

of the bedroom and started laughing and the poor foot. He looks so disappointed in his little shorts. I feel bad for him because he's like, he's never, he bought them for this moment. Yeah. But it's not the ones he's had before. He brought them. He's like,

he's a premeditated. Yeah. You're right. I'm going to put this today's today. I'm going to put them on. It didn't work out. No, he's like, oh. Well, I mean, he still has them.

No, but it's not the same. But then he had lit candles and stuff. And so after laughter, obviously, someone's got to go around and like the candles. I imagine he puts normal box of shorts on after that. He just got dressed. Yeah. Just his stock standards.

Oh, it was so. funny. So we wanted to know about your romantic moment that went bad. A couple of texts. Walked down by the water on a first date and we had this nice romantic kiss by the railing that overlooked the harbour. Then we heard squeaking and we looked down

and there were hundreds of rats beneath us. Killed the moment. Needless to say we got out of there. Someone else had a first kiss and fireworks were going off in the distance. It was beautiful and then we noticed a strong smell that wafted it up and the guy had stepped in dog pose on the

I love how being halfway through the first story is like but you know it's going to end bad I was enjoying a romance just for that moment Kirsten happy new year Happy New Year Romance backfiring what happened So my husband had organised for our anniversary

to go away for the weekend And that was all good we got there on the Friday night And Saturday we had a beautiful walk through the bush and then by Saturday night I was feeling a bit queasy. Sunday morning woke up and had a vomiting bag. Oh, no. So we had a 50% romantic weekend, and the rest was he drove me home on Sunday,

and I was just like, no good. Gastro, really. No, it's good, I'm done, I'm done. Yeah, but. Yeah, it was so, such a stink ending to a nice weekend. Yeah, well, I'm sorry about that, Kirsten. but I mean the alternative was you were engaging in the romance with that and it's far more risky

far more risky you were mentioning a story I couldn't remember if it was a maid of ours or someone called through I think someone called into the radio and they were like trying to be romantic much like Andrew getting prepared and decided she decided she'd put some sort of chocolates chocolate over us and so on her like chocolates on a body and go to sleep and be there when the husband came home and he's like wow you know that was meant to be the reality

actually. That was the game plan. I think it was humid day. Also, you know, he took a while to get home and she fell asleep. And when he came home, the melted chocolate and the bed sheets. Yeah, it looked like something else. Oh, look like a gastro. Yeah. Don't he take you to the doctor?

Yeah, but it wasn't. From gorgeous to gastro real quick. Mind you, ash, the whole bed. Yeah, I did. I'm remembering. So, hold on, yes. I lit candles and I trimmed the wick, but I thought the wick I'd flicked off, but I had and it ended up on our bed

and once you like roll around on the bed there was ash everywhere so there was just like black stripes that was while I was waiting as well Yeah so all he's thinking is This is a nappy sand situation What are we going to do here?

Black stripes all over your cream bedspread John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The Hits Ben Boys Producer Grace saw this trend on TikTok It's Can we put it up on

Instagram? You mean what it's supposed to look like? Yeah, we took it on the Instagram story, do that. So it's someone doing a handstand and then two other people like leaning into them over the side and basically it looks like they suspend them in the air. Grabbing onto their ankles from either side.

So you're supposed to lean so hard that you push against each other and that's enough to hold the other person up. Then you have to let lift your arms. Upside down. Upside down. Yeah. So you're dangling. Like a pendulum. And you guys are like a triangle.

Yeah. Now before going into this, Megan kept saying to me, it's basic physics. Okay? It's the theory that a bridge is built on. Basic physics, she kept going to me. And we were not good. I couldn't tell if it was the height difference between Megan myself. I think it might have been.

So our hands couldn't meet at the exact same junction. But poor Ben, Ben was dangling upside down. We did it multiple times, Steve. And the blood was rushing to his head. He was really, really, really. red. Yeah. I'm not a gymnast and I'm no good at, you know, like I was getting, okay, up there and you

guys, but just that. His head was Ambrosia, Apple Red. Yeah. He's a push to a wood for me. Oh, look, I don't know what I'm doing. I'm not a gymnast. Hello, Simon Miles. Yeah.

We've got a job for you. It's like leaning that way. Oh, sorry, mate. Honestly, it is one of those things that looks a lot easier than it actually is. And then it was just like, just take your hands away. I'm like, cool. No, I bought one hand. up and I'm like, well, that's,

I'm not taking the second one away, because my head is going to pile drive myself into the floor. Also, I was, yeah, I didn't want to bring it up at the time, but I did say to producer grace, I'm quite short and, like, you were facing me. So it was a very unfortunate level that I found myself at. Yeah, thankfully we were clothed. But, yes, it was, yeah, it's something I was like,

we're never going to know this. No. And you actually pulled pin on it too. So at the time, as I smashed into the floor, I was like, yeah, like, okay, yeah. Are we putting Whatever we did Are we putting whatever that is on the

Oh we are putting it up on the internet We're going to burn the internet With whatever that was It's definitely not impressive But it's impressive when you see someone do it Yeah Often those things look easy Yeah

It seems simple Basic physics I do think it was a height difference Because you were pushing so hard And I wasn't getting anything I wasn't getting anything A lot of bickering Oh you're not pushing

I am pushing Hurry up to do something I know, I really wasn't concerned about you at all. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. That. Oh, lovely to have you with us on a Thursday. Jeez, this week's really throwing you out, isn't it? Yeah, Thursday already, right?

But then weirdly, I felt like it was Friday. I don't know. Not quite that. Not quite that, but. Almost little Friday. It was really throwing you out then. Yeah. You see, you've got dogs, or everyone's got dogs on this show.

We're dog people. Megan, less so, less losing interest in her dog. Don't say that. It's just, I've got two little kids. The dog is taking a semi-back seat. Poor little Leo. We were broadcast from your house, peeling the sticker off your fridge on Friday. The poor guy starved for attention, wasn't he?

Yeah. Sitting on our laps, nuzzling his bits into our bits and just... But he does that with everyone. Don't feel special. I do. I felt really special. He kind of... You took selfies with him.

Yeah. He did. Weirdly. He's like, what is this? I've never been photographed. No one's loved me this much. Him and Johnu were in the lounge alone together, and I walk in. And I'm like, what are you doing?

He's like, I don't know what he did with them. We put him on the group chat. I'm like, well, I don't want to see that. I'm like in set in real time. So don't pretend you weren't enjoying it. I was loving it. Love dogs. Dogs are great.

Honestly, out of all the beings. Yeah. Non-judgmental. I don't know. Leah judges me, I think. Yeah, I think your dog's definitely judging you at the moment. Yeah, true. Yeah.

It likes us, though. But one thing, because you obviously got to get them groomed. Some people shave them themselves. I just don't trust myself to shave. Do you have to get your dog, dog's hair cut? Well, we do, yeah, because we've got a samoyed. So, yeah. I mean, we've had dogs in the past, we never had to get groomed.

Yeah. And stuff, when we're in the farm dogs back of the day and stuff, they weren't getting groomed, mate. Yeah, I know. Yeah, no gets a hiccup. But sometimes I do it. Yeah. The dog just sheds. Our dog sheds everywhere.

Big clumps of white fur. He's like me, isn't? He's just hair just falling off. Yeah. But you look like white hair everywhere. It's like Santa Claus is just melted through your house. Definitely, yeah. But one thing that I really appreciate, and I want to send this out to the dog grooming

community a heartfelt thanks is there's parts of the dog that need to be milked okay for health reasons right now it's express express you can say milked and it's not milk that's not that's a whole another place of the dog milking is when the mother dog will be feeding the baby dog oh okay well expressed parts of the body need to be expressed no every dog apparently needs that oh really yeah i was reading i was investigating it and some dogs naturally do it themselves or don't, yeah, so I don't know, yeah, well, I take the dog groom me in and he's like, would you like the expressing service? And I'd be like, how much do you charge for this?

10 bucks? He is not charging enough for where he's having to put his fingers and the activity that's having to take place. Like, I mean, I could do it. I can tell my dog would turn around and go, what's going on here? 10 bucks! I don't know how to do it, but apparently it's quite easy. Yeah, but do you want to do it?

No. No, that's the thing. Producer Taylor, our old producer, her husband, league player, Marcelo Montoya. He would do it himself with his own league fingers. Strong league fingers. Yeah, he always wanted to do it himself. Yeah, I mean, it saves you ten bucks, but I mean, if you had the option to or pay ten dollars to get a professional... To me, honestly, it's not where you have to put your fingers.

It's the stuff that comes out is ungodly. Yeah, I can imagine. So I just want to say thanks to the heroes who are doing that for ten bucks. Ten bucks. Oh my, that's a $150 gig for me. And they're offering it. Never offer. Yeah, really.

It's like their dog either too, you know. It's a shriple, quadruple, whatever you're charging. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. That. Now, really interesting interaction I had with someone in a lift. You know, you're popping. A lot of lifts, I'd say, you know, 85% of lifts have mirrors in them, don't they on the back wall?

I get annoyed when they don't have a mirror, because that's the time where I'm like, okay, is everything, is anything in my teeth? Oh, okay. But would you check out a mirror if other people were? Well, funny question. Funny question you ask men. And I walked in on a gentleman who was doing a full scope of himself, top to bottom, like checking the outfit, adjusting jackets, licking of the fingers, doing the eyebrows.

All right, everything. The whole nine yards. And I walked in and I said, oh, I was a little caught off. Oh, hello. Now at that point, when one human catches another human looking at themselves in a reflection, I usually get wildly embarrassed. You never want to be caught looking at yourself, do you? For some reason.

Even though we watch Megan do her eyebrows every morning in a matter. We catch her every morning. Yeah, I'm like, I really care. But a lot of people, yeah, sometimes you work. There's buildings, the windows here sometimes you can see you out to the street and you can see people looking at. It was reflective. Yeah. They have no idea.

The studio I used to be in, you can see out clear as day, but the reflection, I don't know if it's darker, you can't so much see in. so people would always check themselves out and you can just see them as clear as day on the other side. Looking at themselves. That would be a great social video just filming people looking at themselves. But anyway, I said, oh, hello,

and he gave me raised eyebrows, wonderfully manicured eyebrows too because he'd just lick them. Freshly licked. And then just continued on. Like, nothing was happening. Great confidence. So I appreciated the confidence.

And I was sort of, and I was like, I felt like a third wheel in a relationship between a guy and his reflection. I didn't know what to do. Would look. I got off before him and he was still, maybe he's just riding the lift all day.

It's great mirror. Great mirror. Great lighting in there. A lot of people say mirror, lift selfies, don't they? Yeah, good lighting. He didn't break eye contact with himself. It's really impressive. Really impressive.

Good on him. Yeah, good on, yeah. I guess. I mean, you know, life's too short to not check yourself out, isn't it? John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. But speaking of things that probably, you know, from a while ago, Easter.

Now, how long ago was Easter? I was looking before 25 days. Okay. 25 days ago was Easter. Long weekend. And my daughters, they're similar in a lot of ways, but then they have their own different,

like everyone, they have their own personality. And one daughter, Siener, you know, her Easter eggs, they didn't get a lot of Easter eggs, but her Easter eggs,

they're done. They're, you know, a couple of days gone. That's fine. That's Easter. But my other daughter, Indy, it's like, they're still there.

Like, there is this container of Easter eggs. They've gone from being on the bench. Then they went to a room, and then sort of ants sort of started to sort of, you know, so they've gone down, to the kitchen to the fridge because they're half opened and half things

and it's just like this box that's just like Half-eaten bunnies I was just like can we just can we get rid of the Easter eggs? Is she what's your talk? What's your appropriate time limit for receiving Easter eggs and then the Easter eggs being digested? I feel like 25 days is too long. I don't know.

Really? Now you're just, you know, you're like, I've still got an Easterer. We've still got a rogue bunny floating around here and there. Yeah, we've still got a lot of Easter eggs. Oh, so I'm not there because I was going to throw it out there. I'm the only one at that. It's still got Easter eggs in their house old.

But maybe I'm not. You guys have still 25 days on. You're still. Because my mum, I grew up, we didn't get a lot of Easter eggs, but we would kind of all share them together. But also, we'd take forever to eat them. Like, I think mum still has chocolate in her fridge from years and years ago. So I just have always hoarded chocolate.

Yeah, it's kind of what she's done. Little never way out of this one. A little bit on her this might. So she's saving it. Yeah, she eats all bits, but just a little bit of it. I'm like, you can eat more than this. You could finish this and get it out of the fridge. A little taster every day.

I'm like, when is this going to go? She's like, I'm working my way through it. I'm just like to. So she hasn't moved on to general consumption, just ordinary calendar chocolate now. Yeah, yeah. Just day-to-day chocolate. Still celebrating Easter chocolate. She's a nibbler.

Yeah, I open the fridge. She might want to get the milk out and go, I'll have a bite of this chocolate and put it back in. It's her chocolate. It's clearly labelled. I haven't touched it. It's just there. And I'm like, feels like it needs to go. But it's just like, time to clear it out.

It's like when you. You know, you still see Christmas cake in October. Yeah, yeah. You know, people love eating stuff for way long. Well, has anyone got Easter eggs from last Easter still sifting around the house? We can chuck that open. I've got an Easter biscuit tin with like, it's got Easter bunnies on it, and it has like Easter themed cookies in there from last year?

Yeah. Cookies from last year? Yeah. In there? Yeah. But would you eat the cookie from last year? Why wouldn't I? Like, I'm just getting round to that.

Can I remind you of the seven-day-old chicken incident? just a couple of weeks ago. It's got that much sugar and stuff. Okay, 4.8.7, it might be, okay, as anyone on the country right now got Easter eggs from last?