Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Is Ben lying about what he’s looking at on the internet?

Episode Date: March 15, 2026

On today’s show:  Why is Ben looking at this women's plunging neckline??? Jono gets in the middle of a roadside stall argument about whether “free‑range eggs” means free eggs. A professional Oscar seat‑filler explains life among Hollywood’s biggest stars. Mundane Monday returns with celebrities spotted doing everyday things. We chat to a Tik Tok famous musician serenades lions... How Jono accidentally joined a Cook Islands family dinner while travelling. Megan finally broke her no merch rule, but for what brand? 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 team. Welcome along. Podcast, a very eventful show, very busy one. It was. Yeah, a lot of fuel given away, free fuel. Although for the podcast audience, you're not going to get any of that.

Probably not. Oh, you'll get calls that come through that, you know, for other stuff. But, yeah, not the magnitude of the free fuel. Free fuel. And the podcast, listen, I can't win the free fuel as well. But you get to, you know, the money can't. buy prize of listening to other people win pre-fuel. Satisfying.

Geez, I realize, like, man, we're going to be so deaf by the end of our careers. Yeah. Just wearing headphones every day. And I notice, I don't know if you guys do this, you slowly increase the level as the show goes on, to adjust, to climatize, you know, sort of regulate your ears. Oh, no, I just hit it hard, right?

You hit it very hard. You're loud with the headphones. Perfect hearing. Perfect hearing. But then sometimes Grace will talk to us from the producer studio go right into the microphone and she'll be like, hey guys. And it blows my brain down. Give us an example of you talking through there, Grace.

Wait, let me turn my headphones up. Hi, everyone! See, that's really... That's through my headphones. Yeah, that's really down. You do wonder about the damage to you. Well, yours, Stephanie, as there was a kid yesterday that was, you know, got his name wrong straight from the get-go.

Allo, hallo, hallo. Allo, hallo. And, yeah, to be fair, it did sound a lot similar when he said it, you know? It was also written on his bit, so... It was written on his bud, so... And what I love is you just keep saying there. You don't need to say your name. What's your name?

You don't have to say their name back. You just go, oh, great to meet you. And then you don't even have to repeat their name back and get it wrong. I was so confident I'd nail the name. I know. It's real white man confidence. Yeah, all the time when the list is. It's like, oh, get it, and get it wrong. Half the time you don't need to ever say their name.

Even given that you're so bad at it, you'd think you'd question yourself. No. No, not me. Well, you have wins and losses in the name game. You don't have any wins. Like, I don't think you've had too many wins at all. No. I don't think you've had nothing but losses.

You could just say, oh. What's your name? They're like, Arlo, and you're like, oh, great to meet you. Then it's a conversation carries on. It's his character now. Yeah, it's become a thing. He uses it more times and every time he said it me and looks and he going, it's not Arlo, it's not, it's not.

It's not his name. I was like it's Harlow. Yeah, it's Arlo. It's not his name. Should be Harlow. And the blessing, he didn't want to say anything either. Good. And that's the other great thing about names.

There's a lot of New Zealanders don't have the confidence to correct you too. He's going to go back to his parents and be like, that dithery old man on the radio called me hallo. Anyway, you go out, have a great day, enjoy the podcast and not winning fuel. Jono Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. But, you know, your algorithm, it's very clever, eh, when you're on social media and you start watching some things, you get pushed so much other stuff.

Yeah. People you don't even follow, you just get pushed. They're like, this person's into this, and you go through phases, you're into something, and they just keep pushing it. I have a Mexican cartel era a week ago. It was all about the cartels. And you see how people get sort down a rabbit hole of things as well,

because you showed me that video. I was like, I have not seen a single Mexican cartel video. I don't know what you were talking about. But once you start watching it, you get fed more of it and it just happens. It's quite dangerous, actually, isn't it? If you're clicking on, say, some spicy content, you know, that can get more and more and more and it's going to get inside your head and then you end up in a, you know. It's how they call it a rabbit hole. Yeah.

Go down deep and you get stuck. But not surprisingly, like Disney content's being fed to me a lot recently as well. And, you know, obviously we took the trip for Disney and, you know, obviously we took the trip for Disney. So I'm getting a lot of Disney stuff. I love my Disney stuff. So where did you go on that trip? I was trying to avoid. I went on at Disney Christmas.

Trying to avoid that, but it's pivotal to the story. It's like the alarm every time you bring it up. I'm on a boat. You know, like other videos. And this one popped up. And there's this lady in Australia. And she makes these incredible, like, meals that look like Disney characters. Like absolutely phenomenal.

Like, you know, think of all like, hey, hey from Moana and Monsters Inc. And stuff like that. When you say meals? Like dishes. Like your food, food and stuff. It just looks incredible. And I saw this, I got fed this. And I was like, wow, this is awesome.

This is awesome. And I was like, I should show my wife and my daughter this because they'll be into this. And then I. Were they also on the boat? On the boat. But the thing was the lady and, you know, she had what can only be described as a plunging neckline. She's a mum in a straight. And I was like, I'm going to come up at the first shots of this lady and I'm going to go, hey, watch this.

And I know what they're going to say. They've got to go, oh, what are you making me watch? So I thought, well, let's front foot it. Let's just go, hey, there's this lady here that she makes incredible Disney meals, but she's got a bit of a plunging, and that's her business, it's fine. It's like, you know, but you have a watch. Don't focus on the plunging neckline. And my daughter's here, it was like, ooh.

First thing she says, ooh, she's like, Dad, why are you looking there? I'm like, no, I'm not, but I'm just trying to say. Look at the Disney Meals, yeah. And then my wife's like, oh, so we're checking out other ladies now, are we? And I'm like, no, I'm not. I just wanted to let you know that she had a bit of a plunging neckline. And they're like, and then Siena starts going, so why can't she have a plunging neckline?

Why does it matter what? Why does a man get to dictate what a woman wear? You're like, how are you ended up in this conversation? You should have acted like you never even saw it. But I knew that would be the first thing. They would have gone, oh, Josh, this video. Just be like, oh, I didn't even notice that. I was looking at the food.

Why are you getting fed this? And I'm like, oh, yes, so then I start getting a man's dictating what a woman wears and why can't she wear? I'm like, oh, my God. Check out her pocahontas is. I mean, the meal she made of polka hondas. I'm like, don't even worry. I don't think we got to the Disney veils.

I got the shot of the plunging necklider and then I was like, oh, I've done now. I've been caught out for misogyny. I'll be end up on a Louis Faroe buddy documentary on Netflix or so. In the matter spare now, babe. I don't know. I said he want to be in the manisphere. We'll take a breather from Ben's toxic masculinity.

We'll be back. We'll just reset the show. Yeah, don't worry. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Now, I overheard a conversation. We got back yesterday afternoon from Wellington

and I just went to, you know, those tents on the roadside that sell strawberries and cherries. Watermelons and avocados and... Love them. Well, it's always the best produce, I find. And I ended up and there was a guy, mid-20s, European. And he was sort of having a haggling argument

with the peddler of the weirs. And he said, you, your sign says these are free. And he's holding. eggs and the guys like they're not free. And I look at the sign. I look at the sign. I can see the confusion. I look at the side. It says free, next line, range

eggs. So he's coming and he's expecting. And the guys like, no, they're free range eggs. He's like, but the sign says free, range eggs. What's a range egg though? Well, this is where the confusion was. And maybe they don't have range eggs over in Europe, but he was demanding

them to be free. I guess out in the range. You know, like out of the fire. Oh, yeah. Misleading side. Free farm eggs? I can see the point. Great. I had to join in as well.

I was like, to be honest, the sign's a little misleading if you're taking it face-venue. Oh, not really. That's what they're called free-range eggs. Oh, not to this guy, though. So you mean we can take them from the supermarkets now? It says free. Free-range eggs. Anyway, he didn't walk away with them for free.

That's for sure. Because he bought strawberries and other stuff. These are free. And I'm gathering I get these free when I buy the strawberries. because you've got excess of rainjigs. You're quite a confusing end to your weekend yesterday as well, didn't you? Yeah, so we got home in the afternoon after a weekend away, and it was fun, but you're tired?

And I was like, I am going home to a party at my house, and I was like, I don't want to be the person that says no, so I was like, I'm fine with it. Because my husband sent me a calendar invite to a cast party. And so he's doing the musical at the moment, and they call it the cast. so I assumed the cast was coming to our house. He was hosting a party. All the ladies he's smooching comes here.

Come around to my pad here. But like I winched to you guys but I didn't say no. I was like, okay, cool, it's happening. So I'll go home to a house full of people. You're like three o'clock. I don't know if it's dinner. I don't think it's dinner yet. I don't know what's happening.

But I got home to an empty house because the cast party was for my son and his classmate who was getting her cast off. her cast on her arm broken arm it was a cast off party how good was that feeling when you walked into the house and there was no one

the best no you would have been like my kids weren't even there I was like she really does love you kids but it was just she loves an empty house more that's for sure

it was the total opposite of what I was expecting well you would be arguing for free range eggs too going on that logic John O'Benn and Megan the podcast The Hats

Oscars the Academy Award are on around about 12 o'clock New Zealand time looking for the best in the movies. They'll be announced star-studded event and we wanted to know as he won't ever been a seat filler, the people that sit in the seats when the stars are up on stage or the stars... Go to the toilets.

Yeah, it's a job, right? Nicole Kidman of Nature Cool. Someone needs to sit in that seat. And we found what? Tracked one down. Thanks to producer Troy. Natalie, good morning. Good morning. How are you?

Good. It's lovely to have you on. Thank you for gracing us with your presence and or time. Now, you've been a professional seat sitterer. Yes, I don't know that I would call it professional, but yes, I was chosen as a seat filler, and it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. Okay, so how do you get chosen? How'd you have to put your name forward, obviously? Yeah, so it's kind of like a lottery system. I went through the website, seat fillers and more.com. Sorry to interrupt, what's the end more part? Right? I'm not really sure. They have other shows, but I mean everything you're doing is a seat filler position.

I guess it covers their options in case they branch out to other things. I mean, people to stand in lines for Q, that would be another option. Yeah, right. But anyway, let's talk more about the seat filler, so you put your application in on the website. Yes, and you just send in, it's very minimal information, which is kind of shocking. But your birth date, your name, your ID, and then they kind of just choose randomly. So there were 25,000 people who entered that year. and I was chosen out of 150.

Wow. It's pretty crazy. That is crazy. So, I mean, I guess the next logical question is, whose seat did you fill? You're like a sort of Hollywood's version of a scarecrow, aren't you? They fill the gap. Yes, yes.

I was near Jared Leto, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban. Doja Cat was like right next to me. Lady Gaga, it was so funny. I heard her introducing herself to. another seat filler and she was like, hello, I'm lady. Oh, wow. Oh, just the first name.

You can call me lady. So how does it work? So you do you sort of stand off to the side or backstage and then do they sort of usher you in and then do you have rules that you have to follow? Yeah, so they have several of us seated on the floor kind of as the show is kicking off. And then throughout the evening, as people are arriving, then you have to get up and let them have their seat and you get moved to a different one. So people are being taken backstage to present.

they're going to the restroom. They're leaving the show once their award category's been. So you're kind of just getting to hop around based on what artists are, like, done or shifting for the evening. And so do they talk to you? Are you told that you're not allowed to speak with them, or what's as their protocol? Yeah, so you're not allowed to speak to them unless you're spoken to. I was not spoken to, unfortunately. You're just sitting there, like, holding your breath, like, oh, please talk to me.

We demand that same respect around the office, too. You learn to look at them and smile, though? Oh, yes. I made eye contact so many of them. I wonder how crazy I look. What about a sneaky selfie or anything like that? I guess that's a no-no. It's a no-no.

They actually take your phone with your ID whenever you get checked in, so you don't even have the option to be sneaking a photo. Wow. So would you do it again? Was it an amazing experience? Oh, absolutely. It was incredible to be experiencing a show alongside of them, almost like I'm one of them. So 100% yes, I would do it again.

Is there a dress code? Like what on earth do you wear? Because these people are wearing, you know, designer dresses and stuff. And you're just going to be sitting in amongst them. Right. Yes, they do say like formal cocktail attire type dresses and suits. But they don't want you wearing anything super long or floor links that you would triple. over or that would get in someone else's way.

So they want you to dress up as much as you can, but also blend in a bit so that the real stars are the ones who shine. You're right. So like no sequins and... I had a few sequins. I did. They were minimal, but I had some. I tried to show up. What about like going to the toilet?

Did you bump into anyone famous of the toilet? I heard that another seat filler went to the toilet and she saw a doja cat in there and they chatted for just a second. Wow. But I did not risk it. I was like, I'm staying in here the whole night. There's no way I'm leaving and letting my seat go or, like, missing an opportunity. So I held it the entire evening. The end of the night.

Are they like, all right now, get the hell out of here? Pretty much, yes. So once the award show ended, I mean, I was right there next to Billy Elish and a couple people were talking to her. And then the seat filler coordinators are like, okay, everybody, time to wrap it up. I was able to get a picture seated at one of the tables and standing on this stage. Someone had snuck in their phone. I'm not sure how they did it, but they took a picture of me and then sent it to me later. So I was so grateful to have that.

Oh, very cool. Well, thanks so much for chatting to us. Really, really interesting thing you've done, being a seat fitter and award ceremony. Yeah, well, thanks for your time. It's seriously, again, like one of the greatest experiences of my life, so I'm happy to share. Jono, Ben, and Megan, the podcast. The hits. and we want to continue it on a Monday called Mundane Monday.

It all started when producer Troy saw the Rohn and Keating, Popsar Roan and Keating and an airport, eating a pinini early in the morning a couple weeks ago. We're talking chickenberry, cranberry combo there? It's a good panini. It's one of the classics. It's one of the staple flavours of the panini. So, yeah, after that, just a torrent of calls of people who've seen famous people doing mundane things. We don't want famous people doing cool things like bungee jumping or, you know,

the things like that. We want them doing some other things. We want, bloody, Nicole Kidman, in-pack and save squeezing some avocados. Yeah, you're right, going, not that one. Oh, that one's good. Here were some of the calls that we got through last week. I saw Dave Grawal in a bar ordering a pint of Guinness with myself and then proceeded to talk to a cart.

Start singing to a car. Hugh Grant's spitting in a bowl. At the dentist, he was one of our patients. I've just broken patient confidentiality, I'm sure. Oh, I served Orlando Bloom in a supermarket back in the. the UK, I remember. I saw Scribe mowing his lawn. Mowing his lawn.

How many lawns do you know a bowl like this? So that was some of the gold from last week. It was spitting too. Spitting in a bowl. No. It sounded like something else. When I heard that one back,

I was like at the dentist just so you know. Yeah. So yeah, that was great calls. Great calls. And we wanted to open up today and remember every caller that gets on the air gets 100 bucks gas.

What is the everyday thing you've seen a celebrity day? Yeah. And I don't know why it's just so jarrick, Isn't it? So, Jerry, people so famous shouldn't be bothered with everyday things. But I suppose they've got to do it, go about their life. They've got to fill up petrol, don't they? It's nice to like normalise and make them a commoner, you know?

They still put their toast in the toaster. Our producer Troy over the weekend saw John Campbell pulling up a guess. And this should be nothing surprising about that. He's a man of the people, right? John Campbell filling up guests, what's he going, 95, 91? What's he doing? 95. Oh, 95?

I over $3 at the moment. Must be nice. Must be nice. Do you reckon he filled all the way up or just a little cheeky quarter? Just a little bit, just to get John going. It's a dribble. Have you seen celebrities doing mundane things? Well, sometimes you don't even know it's a celebrity.

This is the thing I encountered the other day. And I keep every time I say it, it's like, oh, he's on a Disney cruise. There's only say it again because it's the back on the story. You're aware? Yeah. Anyway, so Louis Davis, who's a social media influencer from New Zealand, a very great guy. him and I were sitting on a table and we're sitting next to this lady

we got put there from the Philippines and we're just chatting to her and talking about what she does, your mom and stuff like that and then the waiter came over and goes, excuse me, can I get a video with you? Can you do a video with my kids? And to this lady and was like, oh wow, she's obviously a big deal. He was Filipino as well. They looked at her following. She's got millions and millions of followers.

And the most Monday, she was just eating. What was she having? She was having a bread roll next to us. Oh, it's just a lonely bread roll. Yeah. And she would be like, oh God, I'm next to these guys. But she was lovely. You know, and it makes you think she's obviously a big deal in her country in that part of the world.

Just a bread roll. Well, at that stage, she was eating a bread roll. Oh, yeah. She would have gone back and looked up your Instagram. Not quite as impressive as her as the content and also numbers. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hits.

Just doing Monday and Monday. We love it. Handy, Monday, Monday and Monday. If we can work in illiteration with Monday, we will on this show. But Monday in things you've seen celebrities do. And that's what we want to talk to you about this morning, Veronica. How are you? Good morning, I'm fine, thank you.

How are you? Yeah, we're doing well, mate. The bigger the celebrity, the more mundane the task, the funnier for us. Who was it? Michael J. Fox is working waiting for an elevator when he was filming the Thrienton's in Wellington. Michael J. Fox waiting for, he has to wait for elevators like the rest of us. Did you talk to him? Did you talk to him or just saw him there?

Well, no, what happened was I had to, it was in the hospital and I had to walk from my wood up to the baby wood and I was waiting for an elevator and next to me was this real burly guy huge. And next to him was a sunny guy with a cap over his face. And the burly guy turned to me and said, excuse me, ma'am, where is what's 16 exactly? And I said, oh, up on the level seven and he said, oh, thank you very much, ma'am. And then the little guy turned and looked at me and I looked at him and was like, oh. Michael J. Fox. The little guy. The little guy was Michael J. Fox.

I can show you actually. Come with me. Come with me, come with me. My dad actually saw him when he was filming in Wellington for the frighteners as well. A go-kart. He was go-karting in a go-car place and he was at the urinal. Dad saw him at the urinal. Did he leave a gap?

I don't know. I think Kevin Boyce wouldn't have left a gap. He would have got deep into conversation. Right in there with Michael spraying all over his boots and all sorts. You know, Michael? Almost sword-fighting. Yeah, he would have been, yeah. So he saw Michael J. Fox.

That's incredible. Veronica, great story. Michael J. Fox waiting for an elevator. That's going to get you $100 free fuel. No. Oh, thank you. That's awesome. Thank you so much.

And what are you going to do with that? I'm going to use the petrol to go and see my daughter who is the whole reason. So we can go and have a gill day out. Oh, that's awesome. You were talking about it. You were mocking me for a dumb question and it was one. Turn out to be nice. Thankfully, Veronica, save my ass.

Jan Louise Hey, how you doing? We're doing all right Now you've seen a famous person doing a pretty mundane task Who was the famous person? Kiera Knightley was one of them She was out shopping with her mother

Was this a supermarket? Where was it? It was Southridge's department store Oh, okay Was she looking in the mirror saying I look quite pretty? No, she hasn't She had no makeup on it

She asked her for a photo But she said she was off duty So Oh Nothing's more humbling I did that to a celebrity. They were like, I'm not doing that right now,

and you're like, oh, okay. Who was it? I was someone to show that I didn't really even watch, but my friend did, and he was like, you should go up and, I don't know why I got me to do it. I was like, okay, from New Zealand, we don't get many celebrities,

can I get a photo? And she goes, we're not doing that. I'm not doing that right now. I guess once people see, it does, yeah. But like, once people see, you get a photo, maybe it opens a door for like heaps of people

and they're just trying to do shraping. We bullied him into getting a photo with that little teenager, Cash me outside. How about that? Oh, that's right. You remember her? She blew up, huge on the internet. Bad baby? On Dr. Phil, yeah.

Cash me outside. How about that? And, yeah, Sharon, who we work with at the time, she's like, I've got no makeup. You've got, again. I had to go. I was like, oh, hi, how's it going? And she took a photo. She looked miserable in the photo.

She looked absolutely miserable. She did. I did catch her outside, and how about that wasn't great. How about that? Well, she wasn't in the mood for it. Hey, Jen, are you still there? Yes, yes. We haven't forgotten about you.

Well, we kind of have. But guess what, Jan? What? Your Karen Knightley story's got you $100 free fuel for Hyundai Monday. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. I've been babbling away at this job for a number of years. This will be a career first for me.

I don't know about you two. Yeah, maybe, maybe. Never spoken to a professional lion singer, a serenader of the lions. Now, we have two amazing guests in here. Plum, who joins us from France. Thanks for having me. Bonjour. Do you say bonjour?

Yeah, thanks. Bonjour, jean be jeaneléthé. Why did you say Jeannes? Johno. Johno. Johno. And we also have Tim here, who is the owner of the Lion Park in Northland. Not quite right.

I'm part of a group that came together to purchase it when it was for sale last year. Now this is the same one that was, so the Lion Man and he had his TV show. That's the property, yes. That's the property. Had all the lions on there. And you and a group of other people have. purchase this place. Yeah, there was a story came out late last year.

The owner who's owned it for 14 years, not the Lion Man, was trying to sell the property, but was struggling because you have to buy it with lions and that's pretty complex. And the lions were as a chance they might be put down. Oh, no. How many lions? There's five elderly lions left, aged 18 to 21. So it was a message went out on LinkedIn and a whole bunch of like-minded people came together and went, we're going to buy them.

this and have them live out the rest of their lives. Awesome. It's not like an attraction now, is it? No way. It's just they live there and... Yep, indignity, peace and quiet with their caregivers. So we've set up a little trust to fundraise for the care of the lions and there's no rent. So they're basically...

Good on, you. I've got a couple of animals at a home a cat and a dog and they're expensive. Yeah, yeah. Lions is not cheap. So we kind of went, well, you know, buying the whole thing is one thing and that's a lot of money, obviously. But we were like, how can we engage people to... have a conversation about maybe lions shouldn't be in places like this full stop but they are so we will look after them but it's about a hundred dollars a day

per lion for their part-time caregivers and all their food and the vets and the medicine how many lions are there again there's five five hundred bucks a day yeah that's a lot of cash and obviously reintegrating them into the wild as not yeah we considered that we looked we thought ideally they would go back home but because they're so old going on a plane they have to be sedated. It's too risky. So we're not taking that risk. So, I mean, hey, not only you're looking after the lions, you're entertaining them.

Now, Plum, you serenade and you perform to lions. Yeah, we did that yesterday, and we had some cool reactions. And some other ones were very sweet, and they came laying right in front of me and listening to the music. When on earth did you figure out you had this talent of a lion whisperer of sorts? I didn't start with lions. It started with farm animals, so with cows around. And yeah, I just read an article online that said that cows like music and it's soothing for them. And I had to try it out.

So you just went play and they just think, we watched a video of the lines coming over towards you. Yeah, yeah. And just sitting there and almost. They just like, they like lie down and become very submissive and they're like yawning. Yeah, they're very relaxed. They're like groaning like, oh, this is great. Yeah. It took a little bit of time for me to sing for lions because I thought he would be kind of almost like a joke and like they would just want to eat me and he wouldn't be very.

sweet and then this happened what you're seeing in the videos and I was the first that was surprised and that was very yeah very cool moments. Tell you what, if people want to see Plum performing two lions you can text Lion to 4487 and we'll bounce you back the video. Really, it's remarkable. Yeah. Would you charge him or you do concerts for free for the animals? No, I think it would win the day of purpose.

Because ticket masters quite expect. They keep hiking the prices. The cast of the Lion King wanting tickets. Good. Hey, what a wonderful thing you're doing for those lines. And obviously you are starting this fundraising drive, as Megan just pointed out, 500 bucks a day. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It adds up. So how do, if people want to help, if they're in a position to help, how can they do that? Yeah, so we just set up a little website. It's only just gone live. It's lionheart.com.n.z. And the meaning behind that is that if you help a lion, you yourself are a lion heart.

So it's for the rest of their lives, however long that might be a few years. and then we'll move on to another project. We'll keep the facility and it'll be elderly care for other animals. Oh, we love that. What you're doing? Both you guys. So when you two retire, you're... Yeah, I was just going to say, well, give us five years, we'll be there.

Five? Yeah. I'll hop in the cow when you don't know you back. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. Well, speaking of eating, you know, we went to Wellington on the weekend for the Wheatbeck's triathlon yesterday. It's fun day, fun morning, as it always is.

But, you know, we arrived. The flight was delayed a couple of. of times and we arrived semi late and you two were like I would just get a you know Uber or something to the room yeah I order food into you know it was like it was like 8 o'clock or whatever

yeah it was dinner time yeah it was dinner time and so I was like oh just go there was a sort of a restaurant bar area in the four of the hotel I was like okay I'll just go there and so I'm sitting there just all of my lonesome just waiting and lovely family next to me they're from the

Cook Islands and they were having a family celebration of an auntie's birthday. And they must have felt I looked like a bewildered lost old man. You know, when you see an old man sort of standing in the middle of around about and you're like, oh, the dear fella, he's got loose from the retirement village. You need to take care of them. Yeah, and they're like, come and dine with us. Had you chatted to them beforehand?

I just said hello. Oh, right. Yeah. Come and dine with that. You must. And I'm like, oh, no, no, I won't interrupt. You know, you do that thing because I didn't want to interrupt their family engagement. Yeah.

Eventually, I ended up sitting with them. Of course you did. Yeah, of course he did. Oh, geez, we covered some ground. We covered some grab. I remember like, oh God, why would we ask this guy ever? You know what I love, though, is they had a couple of family members turn up a little later, and there was no explanation as to who I was at the table.

And I could tell they were looking at me like, have we got a long lost white cousin? How was this guy fitting into this setup here? He definitely needs like, okay, this is Jono, he's our new friend. You know, it's a big table, though, so they didn't want to stop and go, hey, who are you? Meet this guy. And I could tell her just trying to have long-lost relative. How was he tied into this family reunion? So that was lovely.

It was a lovely meal with these people. You were so random. I didn't bully myself into that situation. I actually didn't know you were going to eat at the restaurant too. You could have invited us. We didn't know there was another option. Oh, it felt like you guys had made your orders in the Uber. That was fine.

You could have done as well if you wanted to. Ben ordered himself beers on Uber. It's a great. I've never done that before. come in, they just scan your license, they check you're not intoxicated and all that stuff, the Uber driver, yeah, which all makes sense. How does he prove you're not intoxicated?

I guess they're looking at me. I hadn't had any beers before that, but yeah. Walk on this line. But then obviously scan in your license and stuff as well. Jesus, we can just become the laziest species now, can we? We don't have to do anything for ourselves. You could probably, you'd probably pay another two bucks. They'll pour it into your mouth.

Come to the room and pour it into your mouth for you. You're right, a little service fee, yeah, yeah. They'll do that for you. And Megan The podcast The Hits And we had the Super Rug We had the Wars

The Warriors Another great one And also the Formula One You're a huge fan of Formula One Megan Yeah So much so I've actually I've got some merch

She's wearing merch She's wearing merch You don't normally wear merch at all No This was given to me though So technically I still haven't bought merch You've got a really strong anti-merch starts

And you couldn't have come To a more merchie show You know you look at all Disney Disney Disney Vodafone Warriors Boys over here We're wearing a Mickey Mouse shirt today. He is. And you're wearing a Bob Marley shirt.

Yeah, we love our merch. We love our merch. We were devastated when you sort of came. It was about six months into our relationship. And you said, I hate merch. It's fine. But your friend, Ellie, went to the Formula One and it's bought you a F1 T-shirt. A Ferrari T-shirt.

A Shulet Packardt T-shirt. No. It's got all the sponsors on it. A Shulip Packard must have paid top dollar for that. There's a big HP on it, yeah. We'll get a photo. We'll get a photo when you can text 4487. You can text merch and then you can get a photo back of Megan's

It's on the front but also on the back, actually, me as well. It's a cool top. It's a cool top. It's a cool top. Hewlett-Packard are a fantastic organisation, though, to back as well. It looks like you've been on a Hewlett-Packard team building. Team building day. Don't ruin this would be.

But speaking of ruining things, we spent all weekend together. It's probably by much. Yeah. Friday night, Saturday night. Friday after the show, Ben goes to go home. He's like, oh, have a good weekend. I was like, I'll see you later for the Manifestable. And then I'll see you the next day.

And then it's after that, yeah. We went to Wellington, we travelled together, and we were on the plane, right, and I don't know why, but me and you always get away. I get the emergency exit for some reason. I think they feel like I'll be a safe period of hand. I'm always sitting in the emergency exit. Yeah, by yourself. And then me and Ben always get sat together. And that was fine.

I gave you the window, because I thought you were going to sleep. Yeah, that was sweet, actually. He didn't sleep. He wanted to film you. I know. He was filming you sleeping. I get too nervous now that you're going to put up a horrible. photo of me. She's a nervous flyer because of me.

Ben on the way down just holds up his phone to me and he's like, oh, our Liam shows me the result. Well, it landed and to be fair, I'm not across the Formula One like you are. The timetable. And someone had like put it on their story so I didn't think it was breaking news or anything. I was, oh, that's great news about

Liam and they showed you the thing and it had Liam seventh and Liam Lawson and you're like, oh, thanks. I haven't watched that, yeah. Yeah. Was that going to be your viewing Saturday night? Yeah, so there was a sprint race, which is just a shorter Grand Prix. Came seventh. And then the Grand Prix, yeah, and he came seventh.

So I felt bad. I was like, oh, maybe that was from the one you've seen, the weekend. No, it's still, me not. I was saving it for when we got there. Mind you, dangerous territory, though. It was pretty hard to avoid anyway, wouldn't it? But then Ben was like, oh, now you can enjoy it because you know he did well. Yeah, that's it.

You know, it's happiness insurance. And did you enjoy it? Yeah, I mean, yeah, I still enjoyed it. Well, sorry for that, Megan. I'll tell you what, who enjoyed it? Hewlett-Packard. Yeah. I'm on Hewlett-Packard's website here.

Well, because you've influenced me with your Hewlett-Packard t-shirt. Disguised as a Ferrari top. No. Well, it's a very expensive top that I'll never wear again. No, it's cool. It's cool. Jono Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The hits. Former New Zealand cricketer Grant Elliott's teamed up with fellow black cap Kane Williamson to come up with a new sports box that offers better protection for your private parts. It's called cover. and Grant's here to tell us more. Great to have you here. Yeah, great to be here. Can I say, you're getting better with age?

Oh, I don't know about that. He's George Clooney. Yeah, it's really. I really had to, like, pull myself out of the bed this morning. John I likes to flirt with all that guests. It's working. It's working as well. It's usually been to be here.

Yeah, it is actually, especially with sports. I mean, cricket and so that's my wheelhouse. But great day have you here. Now, you've got, you're part of something, which is really cool for the game of cricket. it, right? Yeah, it's awesome. I mean, you know, I'm the commercial side of the business,

but Kane is the brainchild and founder. Kane Williamson Black Cap Legend, yeah. Amazing to have someone like that at the forefront of a product, especially a product that can go global. This isn't a product that's just for cricket. It's for baseball, ice hockey, lacrosse hockey, and it protects the future of a generation of New Zealand. So it's protective, yeah, what do we call them?

Because cricket box is what they traditionally have been called, but what's this one? Oh, you can call them an athlete. a cup if you want to you know but yeah box is fine that's what we go by at the moment but um it also like we've created a system so i guess the difference between what we're doing and what's gone on in the the past with players is this is like science backed you know we've got a um a white coat guy product engineer he's created a proprietary air gun and this thing shoots out projectile cricket balls at you know speeds of up to 300 kilometers an hour and we've we've tested this thing at 200 kilometers

an hour 50 times and there's nothing I mean this is the one that Josh Cronfeld had yesterday it's had a four by four in it and a sledgehammer and it's nothing to protect your precious parts obviously and you were you were saying military grade military grade that's what I said earlier

we haven't tested it in the gun in the gun range yet I mean what monster are you up for that Kay Williams is up for that who's gonna do that what monster's gonna shoot you on the crotch that's a hell of a shot but it is I mean when you think about it though you know and as you said when you were coming in this

You know, like, cricketers would go out there and face rock hard cricket balls at being bowled by 150Ks, 160Ks, with a bit of plastic around their sort of private parts. It's a piece of apparatus or protective equipment that you don't trust. Speaking to all the professionals, they didn't trust it. In fact, a lot of them had two boxes or two cups on top of each other. I used to play like that. And I know if Fafter Duplice had three, maybe he's a bigger man than I was. but I used to tape them together and then you know

I used to think okay well the first one will take the initial impact and the other one takes the shock so you're trying to find ways to protect yourself but now we've found the answer and it's like why has it taken so long so Kane Williamson thank you very much I feel like evolution should have sorted you guys out

why have you got such a delicate thing outside of your body I know and it's just the pain when you get hit I've never been hit by a cricket ball but it sort of sits up under your belly button, doesn't it? Really gets you. Have you been scorned by a cricket ball in that region before? Oh, mate, all the time. But that's the thing.

It happens in the nets and everyone has a laugh and then suddenly someone's off to surgery, you know? Like, you don't talk about it. When guys go to surgery, they don't go, you won't believe what happened to me last week. So the stories that I've heard, and in fact, only two weeks ago, I showed the team I was playing for the new product.

And he goes, oh, wow, he goes, my son, 15, he was hit. He was under surgery the other day. Raptures. Yeah. Raptures. Oh, God. And it's so comical when someone does get hit there,

but you're really, probably the worst place. Yeah. Can we test out the technology? Yeah, absolutely. Can we? Okay, so listen, I'll go first. I'll be a test model. Megan, you can attack.

Have we got various items we can use? Is there a hammer? You got a bat. Oh, gee. Okay, so Grant's coming over with a bat. Okay, this grunt. Oh, geez. Oh!

Did you feel that? Not bad go. No, I like that. He's like, he keeps going, do you like that? Do you like that? Did you feel anything? Like a little vibration, but nothing crazy. McGa McGa, whack it, waggit, whack it, waggit, whack it.

McGa's really good... Oh, oh. I tell you what. That's not the good. That's so hard to do. As endorsed by Jono Price Crotch. I'm love of this. It is really good.

Military grade. There you go. As said by you guys, military grade. Look at that dead old wipe and we'll get that back into market. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Talk about gas prices in New Zealand.

Over $3 now. Some places over the weekend, I think Goal. Some locations around the country ran out of gas. That doesn't mean to say there's no. gas in the country because normally as we said earlier we have about 50 days right in new zealand and there are more ships on the way but it just means everyone was getting to the pumps panic buying we love it's the petrol countdown i love to get around up into a frenzy don't we here in new zealand oh yeah it's wild and we are so easily whipped up into a frenzy like i try and resist the frenzy

but you know you get you get sucked in don't you and we're like springfield off the simpsons we really are we get all embarrassing at times we are And we look back. We look back at COVID and all those other times. You're like, oh, I remember the panic buying COVID? They had to tell us to, they had to see, tell us calm down. Calm down and shop normally. That's the message from supermarket owners today.

Calm down. That's when you know things have got bad. That toilet paper issue needs to be studied because that was worldwide, right? That was a trend worldwide. It was a fine toilet paper. First major concern is how are we going to wipe? And a friend of ours, her mother, still stockpiling. She thinks there's another pending pandemic.

on its way. So she's preparing for that. I guess she's just like next disaster. I've got the toilet paper covers. That's great. And if not, that just gets handed down through the generations.

But like stockpile food. Or, you know, like it's just a... Your mom's stockpiles a whole lot of favourite. Yeah, my mum's got a pantry in the garage that's full of tinned food. Yeah. There's some in there that I reckon have been in there for like 20 years. You know they've lived a life and they get rusty round the ring.

Yeah. You know the rusty ring here. And some of them have like the labels peeled off. It's just like roulette. Oh, so you don't even know what you? Fermented peaches or something. Yeah, so we want to know, oh, 800 of the hits. What are you stockpiling?

Have you stockpiling? Well, I only remember, like, growing up in Mastodon, we never had, you know, for a long time, fast food restaurants were not really a thing in Mastodon. So Georgie Pye was something as a kid that were like, oh, if you go to the big town, the big smoke, like Parmy North, you can go to, you can get Georgie Pye. So I remember my mates and I, we bought, like, 30 pies and took them home, and our freezer was full of Georgie Pies, you know? So we stopped piled on Georgie Pye.

pies. Well, were they like reheaters? Oh, not as good. Lost a bit of their zing. Especially because you try and take them to school as a flex, you know. It was like they were cold and they were like, oh yeah, churgy pie just, you know. So, yeah, wouldn't recommend it. But, yeah, that was something we stockpiled.

I've got nothing of use apart from just t-shirts with bands on them and hip-hop artists and slightly offensive phrases. Got like 200 of those, I don't know. Oh, my gosh. But every now and then I look at them, I'm like, oh, God, I start dressing like an adult. I'd dress like a divorced, a divorced skateboarder. You just however you want to dress, base. Yeah, I know, but there's times me like, I should be buying a linen shirt.

You'd look, no offence, you'd look so odd. And a linen shirt. Okay, alright, go on a linen shirt. I'll just wear this ripped Bob Marley thing I've got on. So, okay, I'll wait home to the hats. What are you stockpiling? Have you got hordes of something? Are you preparing for Doomsday?

Fuel, maybe you've got, you know, buckets and buckets of fuel sitting in the garage. That's frowned upon, right? Yeah, hopefully not. Is that a bit exploding? I think it does feel like it's quite exploding. Yeah. So, oh, Andrew, the Hats, every caller that gets on the air this morning, wins themselves $100 to put towards the gas tanks.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. That's a petrol countdown. Do-la-doo. There's a petrol shortage. And we are in panic mode. Well, is there a shortage at the moment? No, we've got like 50 days still because I think the ship's arrived. You know, it's just got a bit more expensive.

There's going to be petrol. It just feels like it's going to be expensive. commentive, right? Well, Ben's got a theory. Tell the government, get the bloody, get Loxo on the government to cut the tax. Well, apparently that's what we did last time. There was a bit of a, you know, petrol prices went up.

We just cut the government tax. Seems like an easy solution. Seems like that would be great for us, right? Yeah. That would be a lot better for us. Why is no one talking about that more? Maybe that's the thing the show can get behind. Okay, 0800 the hits.

What have you hoarded? Have you hoarded petrol? Have you hoarded toilet paper? Panic buying. It really brings out the best cinemas. And that's why we want to get to Tina. Good morning. to you. Good morning. How are you today?

We're doing well. We understand you want fuel. Give me fuel, give me fuel, give me fuel, give me fuel. We all want fuel, Tina. Yeah, we're going to give you $100 to put towards your guest tank, but you need to tell us what you're hoarding, what you're stockpiling. Tampons, sanitary pads, you know, all different sorts, all different brands, even the tampon undies. Oh, right, sizes, coloured, shapes, you've got it all. I got it all. And I have not tried down these. I don't plan on trying them. I just, that was something different, so I got them. So I had got hundreds of them. Do you?

You never know when you're going to be out and you need it. That's, I never considered that in a disaster that we would, well, you guys don't have to worry about that. No, they've got to be prepared. But when you say, and this might be a dumb question, but when you say all different, you know, different brands, different, surely when you get one you like. They're all exactly the same. Don't you stick to it or is that not the case? I do.

Right. I do, but I'd like to just have a variety. Experiment, just to mix it up. Or something going on. You're like, I'm going to treat myself. And I have them everywhere in my car and the state kit and my bags. My husband surprised me you the other day and he was like, I've got some tampons in the car for you. I was like, I don't know if that's sweet or weird.

Is it weird that he knows the specific type as well? Yeah. He was like, they're just in here. you ever need them. I was like, great. You never know when you're going to need one. You don't. We're giving off vibes. Oh, yeah, maybe. Now you got me worried. I need to go out by myself with myself, I think, just in case.

You could do with a little pad. I might need some. I'm going to hook you up with $100 gas as well. Thank you so much for your call. Should we take one more? Yeah, let's do it. We'll go to Papa Maa, Tanya. Good morning to you. How are you? Good morning. I'm good. Thank you. How are you? Happy New Year. We're doing well, mate. What are you stockpiling? All the best.

happen you year to you too. I'm stockpiling pasta. Oh, good carbs. Yeah, those little sauce pasta and sauce packets. Oh, yeah, that's good. Yeah, as soon as I see the one special I grab three or four.

So how many would you have at home then? Oh, probably about 40. That is stockpiling. That's a lot. I see a bit of hot water. Is this, yeah, is this for a disaster like, for a rainy day? No, it's just very easy. He's just not my bastard

In the event of a disaster You're going to be Mama Mia, you're going to be Fibble all that pastor, Tanya I tell you what, I'm going to be so popular She'll go to Tanya's house For some bloody pre-packaged plaster She won't eat toilet paper

Should we constipated? She'll block up, yeah You're right Hey well Tanya Guess what? You made it to air It's a Hyundai-Mundi The Fuel edition

And you've got free fuel Sweet What does that mean to you? Thank you That means the world to me. Tears? Tears? Don't force it.

Don't force that. Any tears? What do you reckon, guys?