Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Is Ben Too Insecure?

Episode Date: October 16, 2025

FULL SHOW: Was the Barista Flirting… or Just Being Nice?On today’s show: Megan is prepping for the arrival of her parents, and we debate her lawn mowing skills. Producer Troy is caught moonlighting on other radio stations under fake names and voices. We chat about what happened post-surgery… high on painkillers! Thanks to one of us, a technical error led to Northland receiving the same weather report for six years... We read some touching letters from children and social workers ahead of 24 Hours of Handball. We need an official vibes person for our show! Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: 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. Welcome to the podcast on a Friday morning here at The Hits. But it doesn't matter where you're listening. Sometimes people listen on Friday. Sometimes they don't. It's a beauty of the podcast game, right?

Yeah, it really is. I just had something pop up on my YouTube. And it's relief music for ADHD. Okay. And it's binaural beats for improved focus and motivation. It is relaxing. That's quite nice. You really do lock in.

I don't think it would matter if you had ADHD or not. That just helps you concentrate. Just find it relaxing. Yeah. It is nice. It makes me sleepy. Yeah. You get some stuff done with that music playing, wouldn't you?

Well, it feels like a day spa music. Yeah. It does actually. You're right. It does feel very day spa. Do you like working with music or not music? If I'm working, not music. Yeah.

Some people love it, eh? I can't concentrate with that? Can you? No, you don't like it. I do, I listen to a bit of that stuff. Sometimes it calmsy. Not that, not that specific one. But just sometimes you can listen to meditation stuff and it's just like, like monk charms and chants and bells and dings and dons.

I end up focusing too much on the noises. The noises, yeah. Yeah, right. You know how much of a day. I'm like a dog. I can imagine you'd be a big day spa person. You'd love a day spa. Yeah.

Yeah. Maybe when I had more money. Yeah. It bends worse nightmare. No, it's not for me. I've done one before with my wife and went on for like a couple's thing. It wasn't for me. It wasn't, it was nice.

Don't give me wrong, but it's not, I'm not a, like, relax. I didn't find it as relaxing as my wife found it relaxing. Like a massage. Yeah, like a massage, but yeah. So how many massages have you had in your life? Not many, to be honest, maybe two or three. So I'm not really a massage. I don't really find that.

I find them what more painful and irritating than really, than relaxing. I was like, oh, oh, you know, like there, and then I feel,

yeah. Because they do go quite hard sometimes. Well, they say, no. You can tell them. I know,

but even when they say, is this too hard, you're like, no, it's good, good, good, you feel like it's

a sign of weakness if you say it's too hard. And then she, with the lovely lady was doing, oh, she was doing my feet and stuff

and it was nice, but I also felt I was like, oh, I don't want you, you don't have to do that. Yeah. I was like, I don't have to do that.

I'm like, you know, don't, no, don't. You're a people pleaser with a to-do list. Yeah, I'm like, don't have to, oh, God. No, you don't have to. Is that too hard? No, it's great. Do you know my most horrific, my most horrific massage story. This was years and years ago.

And it was when radio has had a whole bunch of money. And the rock team, we went to Samoa. And I was like, oh, I'm going to get a massage at the hotel. Okay. So I'm lying there, picture this. There's three Samoan ladies. There's sort of massage. this big white pasty blob.

Oh, wait, three of them were on you. Yeah, they were just mowing through them because I'd get in like 20 minutes at a time sort of thing. Yeah. But then they... They started massaging like up a thought. Oh, no. And I had a blanket over it.

And then I was like, all I could concentrate on was like, no, no, please no, please no. And then all I could just feel the tent being pitched. Oh, no. And there was a language barrier. but the international sign of laughter oh it was a laughter laughter and I was like hopefully there's something funny that they're looking at

and I think yeah that's what it was that's a roll on your front situation isn't like can you stupid it's a tiny wee tent I walked away humiliated I reckon that travelled around

some more of that story did he want for the rock witness or you just decided to share that song no I came back and I did tell everyone they got a lot of you know I was the source of much mockery and laughter You need to have one of those stories on a journey, don't you? Where people are like, remember that time, you've got it bloody here?

Yeah, I guess. And that was that time. All right, well, what did we start talking about? Oh, there's ADHD music. Oh, yeah, that's how we got here. But right now we're talking about Megan, mowing and lawns. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast, The Hats. Racing for the arrival of Megan's parents from Nelson this morning,

are they coming to the studio, Wayno and Ray, Ray. Yes, but I don't know if they'll get here before the end of the show. but they're coming to, they're going to come and see, yeah. They're hopping on the SkyDrive bus, are they? Yeah. Coming in from the airport. Oh, nice. But I don't know if anyone else does this.

I was in full frame. I was, every day I was telling John, I was like, God am I the Lord, it's got to do this, got to clean the house. Because I'm just, I'm still terrified of my parents coming to my house and being like, this is a bloody mess. So do you prep the place before the arrival? So everything has to be cleaning my room when I was a kid. I don't want my parents to be like, well, this is the disgusting child we've raised. Um, so I... Were they, sorry, I've never met them before.

Will they be clothed or? No, they'll be clothed, yeah. Because they are, they're naturalist. I don't know, I don't know how it works. That's illegal. I don't think they're hopping up, Skydrove. I don't know. I don't just want to make sure that, you know?

I think that's, poor Gunja and security's going to have to stop them if they wander in here. They don't thrust their nudity upon people who are not prepared for it. Okay, okay. We can close the curtains if they do want that and then, you know, like... Oh, do you want to see my mum naked? Is that all you're gunning for here? He was to make them feel comfortable here. To make them feel comfortable and relax.

Yeah, even though I'd feel awkward and wouldn't know where to look. So I've been prepping hard. And yesterday, obviously, we were coming back from Fangare, and we didn't have a lot of time. And so I was like, I'm going to try and mow the lawns. Took longer than I thought because there's a bit of a jungle out there. So I mowed just my front lawn and then I ran out of time to do the berm. Yeah, right. You got long grass too.

You just showed me a photo. Yeah, it's overgrown. I had to do double mow. so the berm still looks like a jungle but the front lawn is nicely manicured so I know that's going to annoy you know what annoyed me is she's like I know this will wind you up this is why I filmed a time lapse

of me mowing the lawn now your mowing style erratic just wild it made producer Troy angry oh it makes me upset like we'll put the video up on the Hitsbury Instagram account but you explain your approach

to lawn mowing well I've got like this drain thing. People, and we, Stalkland might know about this, it's like a big plastic cover that goes on your lawn and it, so it takes up part of your lawn. So it's a circle. So I'm like going around the circle and then I

kind of go on a bit of a diagonal and then I do a sideways bit. I kind of just go where I feel. I'm fibing it. She doesn't go in straight lines back and forth in an orderly fashion. She just goes, oh, there's a bit over there there. There's more over there. Everything in my life has to be orderly.

Not mowing the lawns, I'm just vibing No, don't vibe the lawn Giving me anxiety Because my husband comes home and I'm like, I mowed the lawns Expecting a thank you And he's like There'd be lines all over the place Like zigzagging across it's just

Yeah but it's gone One day it's made back Yeah I'm with you me He's not a lawn guy He replaced his lawn with AstroTill A great hack at the moment Because I have the berm That's the thing at the front

But the neighbour's selling their property And obviously My berm and moat there Are the neighbours the other side they obviously want the front to look orderly I'm like great this is great I don't have to do the job it's really Can you AstroTurf your berm

Yeah I did want to do that he wanted to He wanted to do that Because it's like this is the one thing I have to do I'm like eh It takes honestly like takes three minutes to mow it But I'm like it's just one next year AstroTurf the berm I'd love well let's do that

Is there an AstroTurf company Can you AstroTurf Ben's Burm We'll give you a plug In the meantime I can mow it Oh thank you I don't mind it as long as it gets mowed John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats.

Now, we want your calls and texts of moonlighting. Are you moonlighting? You know, you've got your day job, and then your colleagues, your friends, they don't know what you're getting up to outside of work hours. Because something's come across our desk. Always love saying that. Makes the show seem more important than it is. Some audio of the one and only producer Troy.

Welcome. Morning. Somewhat of a dark horse. Such a dark horse. I'm very nervous. you'd like to confess to. I don't know, but there's potentially a lot that I could confess to.

I don't want to admit to it before I had to. The show's finished or like when we're on a bit of a break, is there anything that you're doing that you'd like to discuss? I go home, I play PlayStation, I pick my missus up from work, that's about it. Well, it's come to our attention that maybe. He's so not a... Don't try and sound madly.

No, you're not even a missus. Don't say misses. Now, it's come to our attention that you, may have been featuring on some other radio shows while we weren't doing a show oh yeah okay this is like one of those moments when your partner goes you know what you've done wrong and you don't you don't have any idea but we do cheated on us

we have audio now this uh can you confirm we'll deny that this purse piece of evidence uh is you this is from news talk zb have a listen like I thought hey Troy welcome the show you put in a fireplace recently yeah me and the wife put one in a couple months ago, yeah. Whereabouts do you live, Troy?

Ashburden, Ashburden. Good place. And so what are the regulations down there? Oh, it's pretty easy, actually. We just, we had the developers, you know, they actually said it was a good idea to do it in the first place, and they kind of put it in all the specs of the house, and it was no issues, really, just kind of in the process of getting the house. Okay, so, firstly.

I don't know what you're talking about. Is that you? Yeah, that was me. That's you. And now, okay, you're putting on a voice. And what, like, is this totally made up story? Yep. So he was like, where are you calling from?

You're like, oh, Ashburden. Why the voice? Why the voice? I don't know. I just, I went somewhere else. I blacked out for. You felt the character needed a voice. A rich backstory.

Do you do some research on your characters when you phone through the radio station? I think of, you know, people in my life. I just try to embody them. You know, cousins from Ashburden. Why? Why did you do this? Look. Were you bored?

Were you just, would they call us? You guys weren't here. I was left to my own devices. I was creatively starved. His radio bucket was anything. No, what they say about idle hands. Yeah, and then he phones through to the wonderful bringing Clinton. Well, you think this is you.

A different name though, right? Yeah, on ZDM in the afternoon. Have a listen. Thomas is here. Hi, Thomas. Hi, Thomas. What's your Hollywood-level meat cute story, Thomas? Well, I was a cheesemonger in Christchurch in like 2013.

and I got made redundant. Wait, Thomas, can you explain just quickly what a cheese monger is? A munger? What is it? I basically worked at like a fine wine place selling people cheeses to go with their wine. That's pretty cool. It was true. The cheese monger. Again, any research?

Or you're just going with the flow on that one? Just vibe that one out. Yeah. Wow. Okay, so Troy's moonlighting. What was your Hollywood Minkube, by the way? What did you make up? I said that I met my wife on a train on the way to Greyhouse.

Where's the cheese coming to it then? I don't know. I was really just vibing my way through that. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. Now, a little thing I do on the side is do a podcast with my daughter, Cienna. It's called When I Grow Up. New episodes every Friday, actually.

And Zoe Bell, a stunt person out today. Cool. Which is cool. She's awesome. And it's a fun little thing I do with my daughter. But, you know, it involves me doing a lot of the organization for it. Yeah, basically you tee up guests for your daughter's podcast. Celebrity Booker, yeah, pretty much.

You know, the unappreciative celebrity booker that fades, I'm pretty much fading myself into the background of the podcast now. As you know, she gets better and better at an interview. I'm like, why am I here? Well, you know, without you, she's got no one to interview. So that's a pivotal part of the podcast. I was going to say, yeah, maybe you could pass that role onto her and she could get better at it, but then you really would be superfluous.

Yeah, exactly. So I'm still hanging in there booking celebrities as well. But it's fun. We were talking to inspirational female guests. So all women guests as well and trying inspiring young girls particularly and parents and girls can listen to it but I booked a celebrity guest the other day

and part of my organisation was to try and get them a visitors park here at work now that's... To do that as well I'm booking that reception I'm getting that sort of I'm getting in touch with their agent I'm telling him where to go and it's quite tricky to find the visitors car park at work because you've got to drive around the side there's a gate

you know you've got to do the intercom I'm setting maps I'm setting pictures I'm setting all these things through to the person videos yeah and and the person arrived for the interview we did the interview and stuff and as after the interview i was walking i was like i'll walk you back it was just me and and her walking back towards the lift and i was like walking back and i went i should have asked at the start but i didn't i said oh did you find it all right you know as we walked back i was like i walk you back towards a car did you find it all right and i was meaning in my head you know the complex system

of how you get around you know get in the building but she obviously took it as like do what i want some feedback on the interview. Was the interview? And she must have thought this was a quiet moment for me and her to really bond and connect to how, did you find it all right? And she went, yeah, no, it was great. I mean, the questions were well researched. She had a great job with that.

And how she started talking, I was like, oh, this is not the answer that I, this is not, but now I'm looking really insecure. Like, did you, did you find it all right? Did you find that? You should have gone, no, just the car park. You should have cut her off. No, but she started talking about the thing and this and sometimes into interviews and this happens and you guys are, but, oh.

Anytime you feel awkward You need to go Oh God I feel awkward That's not what I mean I'm not the insecure guy I was meeting the carpet Cut her off I shouldn't it

But I got a little You're like two or three minutes She said oh this and this was good And that yeah I was oh that's so good to hear I'm sitting there being like Love a compliment But now he's insecure

About looking insecure Oh no It is more like Then the lift I was like Oh that wasn't You know But I couldn't have the heart To say

That wasn't the question That I was trying to ask I couldn't dare Cut someone off She's gonna be like Damn that guy It was needy. He was really needy.

Jono Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hit. Lots going on in your household at the moment, too, this week, Ben. Mums had a operation in Fangare, your wife, Amanda's, had back surgery. Yeah, she was in hospital and I mentioned this the other day about how she, you know, on quite heavy painkillers, obviously, and sending me all sorts of random texts that were coming through afterwards about air plugs from Dan and unicycles and all sorts of stuff, you know, going on as well, you know, and that's what happens.

Like, paint calls, even when I went into see her and stuff like that, she was like, I don't remember you doing this or that, and, you know, days just kind of blended into each other for it, which I understand. And like, anything that's in your head just comes out, doesn't it? I know you just came back. You're trying to get me to take a hospital food home?

She was. Yeah. Why? She says, take this home. Do you take this home? I'm like, I'm fine. Honestly, I'm fine. You take, take this home, yeah, and I was like, like, a little bit of cake or a little, yeah. I don't want a depressing-looking casserole.

Yeah. She goes, like, yeah. I was like, maybe she's just really persistent. Take this home. Take this home. I'm like, no, I'm like, this is your food. You eat at Lasville. Excuse me. This is on you.

You love to take stuff home. Yeah, I do, but I'm not like going in there going, I'll package all this up and take it home. Did you not take home a whole Christmas ham one time? Yeah, I did from the Warriors, yeah. The corporate's lounge area. I know, but she was just like, stop trying and make me take the food home. This guy likes to smuggle food away from catering places.

So you, what we want to know, 0800, it's 4487. What happened straight after the operation? on painkillers. You do have a lot of empathy for things like lamps and blankets, don't you? In inanimate objects.

One time I was really worried about giraffes. Were you? Yeah. We've got audio of you. We've got audio of Megan on painkillers. Oh, yeah. Have a listen to this. It'll play soon, trust me.

Oh, good. But this was you fresh from Stadillo. What stage was this? This was on the drive home. Okay. Yeah. On hours. I had such a best sleepier.

guys would be so happy for me. I just had an egg sandwich and I've got a pink hand. It's never been cuter. But you guys want a pink hand? Do you want a pink hand? I can

give you a pink hand. So that was Megan talking like the Kardashians. People do all sorts of things afterwards. Say all sorts of things. Yeah. Godd has some relaxed though. Yeah.

Are we allowed to mention that someone that you know had to send flowers to say after what they've said afterwards? They were divulging like confidential secrets about their job. And it was one, it was like it was an operation where they're like heavily drugged but still awake. And I was with them and I kept being like, shh. Who were they telling the nurses and the doctors? And they were swearing like a sailor telling all this confident. And the next day they sent flowers being like, sorry I was so chattie. So chattie.

They must hear some stuff. They must be traumatized by some of the stuff. from people on painkillers. Okay, so, oh, 800 of the Hats. What happened? Either you were picking up a friend, family member, or you were the one. Fresh off the surge.

John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. After the operation, many people on painkillers doing embarrassing things, but you understand. Yeah, no, Megan was talking like a Kardashian saying she'd just been given an egg sandwich. I had an egg sandwich. And I had a pink hand.

And your wife trying to force hospital food for you to take home. A flurry of texts. How many texts did she actually banged through? I was worried about 12 texts over the space about half an hour, none of them making any sense whatsoever. But that's all right. I enjoyed it.

That was fun. You're like, keep texting because I'll talk about this on the radio. 0,800 the hits. What happened? Straight after the operation on the painkillers. Great text here, 4487. I was frightened when I came out of operation that I was blind. I was like, I'm blind, I'm blind.

Everyone in the room had to say, just open your eyes. Oh, no. I can't see. I can't see. Why can't I see? You're like, well, okay. Oh, we hit to Mount Munganui. Good day, Tanya.

Welcome. Morning. What happened straight after the operation, Tanya? I have a thing about getting naked after operations in front of everyone. Oh, you just take off your clothes, do you? Well, yeah, so I had my gown on, and the nurse was wheeling me back to my room, and I was trying to pull it off, and I had, like, grain tube coming out of my tummy. She was like, you'll hurt yourself, and I was like, no, no, no.

No, no, no, a few choice foods. And Shafin and I, everyone will see you naked. And I was like, great, let them see my booies. They're awesome. And then I got into the room, and I was like, oh, my God, my dad's here. And he was like, I'm really disappointed in you. Oh, no. You're naked in front of, how many people, Tanya?

Oh, I can't remember. But they will meet past a lot of patients that were still waiting for their surgery or recovering. There's quite a few. Hey, they're lucky, you know? I know. That's what I was trying to tell them. And I was like, no, let them see. No one can be held responsible for what they do under the influence like that.

That is very funny. You're fine. I just pre-borm them before surgery now. Hey, I might get naked. Do you take it? I'll see you know. Good on you, mate. Great call.

Thank you for listening. Tanya. Appreciate it. Sandra, good morning to you. Good morning. How are you? We're doing well, mate. Lovely to have you on New Zealand's breakfast.

What happened straight after the op? So it wasn't so much straight after an op. My mum was dying of cancer like 20 or 28 years ago. And my friend had come to see her now. We were in our early 20s. So he'd come in to pop in and just see her in her last days. And the first thing she said was when he walked in the room, she said to him, there's a walking, talking wardrobe in here.

And we're looking around going, who the hell are you talking about? And she's pointing at him. And so from that day on, so it's 28 years now, he's been known as the walking, talking wardrobe will never we see him. Love it. And so she was on painkillers at this time? Yeah, she was on some pretty nasty pain meds, yeah.

Like a Disney movie, isn't it, a walking talking wardrobe? Bird in the beast. Yeah. So thanks so much. Thanks for your call, Sandra. You're going to have a wonderful day. Appreciate it. Some great texts coming through here.

I started using the heart monitor as a drive-through speaker, ordering Big Macs and milkshakes. That would happen a lot, too. Another one about the drive-through speaker I had my wisdom teeth out This is from Glenn He said I really fancied a milkshake On my way home

So we stopped at McDonald's I reached across and demanded a badger burger I need a badger burger They're like We don't sell those And what is that I got my tonsils out Another text 4487

And I started crying I was hysterial That the back street boys Weren't in the room John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The Hats Now producer Troy

We were driving back from Fangara yesterday. We were there for some alpha quiz action for the last couple of days. And Troy was regaling a wonderful tale, which I know you'll appreciate, Ben. Megan and me really tickled our hearts, as Megan would say. And it was the previous radio station you're working at Troy. Yeah, it was. And in radio, you record the weather. Yep.

And if you're in Auckland, you generally do the weather for around the country. Megan does it for parts of the region. How many weathers you do every morning there? I only do three. I used to do like 20. Yeah, so you do one for every part of the country. Yeah, so everyone gets their own weather. Yeah, and so we were doing that at the last radio station,

and we have these things called car. This is getting really technical. There's things called carts, and it's basically the thing that you send off to the region to play the audio. Yeah, right. And no one told us that there was a different number we had to put in. And so we were just banging out the weather every day

and not thinking about it. And then we get this email from the boss saying, hey by the way Northland have had the same weather playing for the last six years every day for six years the number had changed

six years ago and this has been multiple times during a show it was every half hour every half hour for six years everyone's like oh yeah okay it's just cloudy

a little bit of northland you got cloudy with a chance of rain higher 17 low of three four just such a nice it's so yeah mild generic I guess there's always

but you just imagine imagine the catastrophe weather events that took place over those six years. Oh, this is mild, and the chance of rain. Chance of rain. Oh, that's why. We asked people in Northland to call through and say, why didn't you tell us? And they just said, oh, we just thought you guys just didn't know what was going on,

or you thought, you know, it was a gag. Maybe that's how it became known as the winterless north. They're like, oh, we had the same weather report. It's cloudy, mild 17. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, the temperature is always pretty good, pretty consistent. We didn't end up updating it either. Just keep it going.

that's impressive speaking of complete blowouts in radio when I was at The Rock because we recorded like the last half hour of the afternoon show I was driving home and we'd recorded this thing and like it's 15 seconds into this thing playing out

and I'm like oh dear God I haven't edited this because as we were recording the thing we made a mistake and when we made a mistake every letter of the alphabet comes out from the swear word dictionary. Oh, yeah, it's this, and da-da-da-da-da.

And I'm stuck in traffic like five kilometres away. I can't do anything. Just have to listen to the most excruciating moment of my life play out. Turned it off. Yeah. And being on the rock, no one complained. Have anything got us more listened. Swear it like a sailor. Oh, it's horrific.

Yeah, I loved it. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. I've heard us talk about this before. We've done it once as well. We've played handball, the school yard game of handball. for 24 hours, raising money for Kids Can. We're calling it a Kids Canball, and it's coming back.

At the end of the month, on the 30th, we're going to be playing it again with Jordan Watson, who's How to Dad, and a whole bunch of other people are going to be joining us at Eden Park to play handball for 24 hours, raising money for Kids Can. A very important cause that stare to our hearts as well. They provide food, clothing, and essential needs,

though, to about 10,000 Kiwi kids in need right now. And there's more on the waitlist as well. So if you can help out, there's a website, Kids Campbell.org.n.z. Also, you can text kids as well to 933 and that'll make an instant $3 donation. So if you can give something, I think $10 yesterday they were saying would feed a kid through lunches at schools for a week. Well, that's great. Yeah, so it's just $10 if you can. That would be incredible. And we've got some letters through that kids can have provided us. We're not going to read the names and the schools obviously. But just how much of an impact it does make

to the kids. Because it helps out kids. just stuff that you think this doesn't happen in new zealand surely there's no kids going but it is it's happening every day kids going hungry they don't have shoes they have jackets it's yeah it's something we need to change this one here saying i'm writing this to tell you how thankful we are with all of the snacks shoes and clothing it helps us and others mainly people who are going through a rough time many students barely have any food at home so they don't eat breakfast and most students come to school without any shoes and sometimes they come to school with dirty clothes

but luckily you guys are able to provide snacks, shoes and clothing so thank you for your support and the help you've given us because it's helped me and my family too. Hopefully this letter shows you how thankful we are. Oh that's awesome, isn't it nice? And there's more, they just keep coming through.

Well there's actually something I just want to read. I've just found this on the Kids Can website. This is from a social worker saying and they say it's freezing here and this morning I found a student sitting behind a classroom a classroom block wearing a thin, short-sleeed polo shirt and a pair of shorts with just a pair of jandals on his feet. He said his mum couldn't afford shoes or a jersey.

He's missing the very basics and I'm worried about his mental health. Yeah, it's going on. That's happening. Kids shouldn't have to worry about money, you know? You want all the kids to have the same thing, you know, for school and be able to learn and not be embarrassed or cold or hungry. You've got another one there, Megan. I do.

This is from a student. It says, your kids can. Thank you for the shoes you've given me. It helped me and my family so much and we appreciate it very much. It helped me to run more comfortably and confidently. The kids can shoes help my family a lot. We're short on money and thanks to you, we have nothing to worry about for my school shoes. I appreciate all the time you put to gift children free shoes and help them. Once again, thank you. With a beautiful drawing on this one too. There's some great handwriting too. I've looked through these letters, some bang-up hangaright.

Better than when I was writing back in the day. Better than now. Better than now. Yeah, they're doing a good job. So if you can help out, you know, as parents and as Kiwis, it just breaks your heart that this is happening right now. So if you can help us out, you can text Kids to 933, an instant $3 donation or go to the website, kidscampbell.org.n.z.

And where they're trying to raise it, it's huge target, a million, a million dollars. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. Listen, yesterday we were leaving Northland, and the day before we had a handshake horror. Horific handshake, which Megan you witnessed as I went to shake someone's hand. I held out too loud and proud and just left it hanging there. You committed to it. I reckon it would have been close to a minute.

Too long. Too long. And the receiver of the handshake never even saw me. It wasn't on them. It was on me. And me it was getting the thrill of her life. Oh, that's good stuff. So we're leaving Northland yesterday.

We're just done an impromptial award ceremony for a sales team. And I'm just putting some stuff in the boot of the car. Then I hear from a distance Here he is Okay And look there's a car Now there's a Bogan hanging out of the passenger window of the car

And here he is And he's careering towards me Okay And he's got his arm hanging out And I can tell He's still in the car He's still in the car And he's

I'm like I'm ready Is this a drive-by high five Drive by High Five Which is risky too Because they can gather up some momentum You know The collision of the slapping Can really affect their hand

And I'm like I know what he wants here He's hanging his hand out the window. I'm like, all right, it's a mobile high five. Here we go. I put my arm out. And then he goes, meh. Oh, it takes it back.

Pulls his arm back into the car. Yeah, nice way. And then I'm left hanging there for the second time in two days in Northland. That's a great play that one. I'm so glad you were in the car, Troy, no one saw that. But he saw it. Nothing is more humbling than someone rejecting you for a high five. I heard that.

I heard it. I heard the beep beep. There he is. Here he is. I was glad to get out of that place to be on. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast. Anyway, speaking of all things in Australia, we have heard a wild, wild rumour that there is a radio show in Australia.

And on their team, they have a vibes guy. So a guy who is purely paid to bed, he doesn't do anything apart from bring good vibes. to the team he's not on air he's not i don't think he organizes interviews or does anything behind the scenes apart from turn up make sure every on the team is getting some good vibes now that is a hell of a role that is a resource radio program right there surely in 2026 it's not this not i would yeah i hate to say this to the vibes guy if they're cutting and trimming costs i reckon vibes guys first cab off the ring and i mean but maybe the vibes is too maybe that's the secret to the

show the vibes are good i reckon we have a vibes girl it's definitely grace it's just a vibe are not always good. Yeah, you said that, yeah, she's the vibes and I was like, well, no, she's not. She's the,

she's the opposite of what the vibes she's the keeping you're real. No, she has, she's vibes. I didn't say they were good. Sometimes they're like, really like,

like negative and bitchy. But she controls the vibes of the show. You can come in here and defend yourself for this and grace. Do you know? Sometimes it's good.

A lot of people's humble. Like, yeah, she's a voice of reason. Which I understand, which is fine, you know, that's, you know,

the pressure of though, of being the vibes guy is you've always got to bring good vibes. Yeah, what if you're having a bad day? Amen, sister. I mean, the vibes, the guy can't go in and go, geez, I'm in the trenches, guys. It's not your one job is to make us all feel good.

See, the good thing about my job is, if I'm having a bad day, I'll make all of you guys also have a bad day. So that's my thing. I control the vibes. You do. The voice of reason. I really like that. Glazing.

Glazing. What's that? I thought it was brown-nosing. Yeah, no, they're glazing you, that stuff, yeah. So that's what the vibes guys are obviously doing. Just, you know, sometimes you'd be like, well they're paid to do that, you know, it's not a realistic, you know. Yeah, you're like, you don't actually believe this.

You probably walk out of there and go, they are all of the worst human beings in the world. They're laughing at my jokes and they're like, well, they're paid to do that, you know, like that. And I reckon a consistent vibes guy, kind of get kind of annoying. Yeah, I'm not annoying. No, you're not annoying. You actually, we go on your roller coaster daily, Grace. What's the vibe today? Tired but excited it's a Friday.

Yeah. That's our vibes, which is probably every Friday. Because you bring a lot of energy next door in a soundproof booth. We can hear you yelling and screaming at producer Troy. You're like, we've got to learn all 47 U.S. President's Troy. We've got to do it. I really calmed down when I come into the radio because I'm like, Grace, you cannot scream on the radio.

She can talk into our ears and I have to keep telling her that she doesn't have to yell into the microphone. I do like scaring you every so after. We appreciate the vibes. You're the vibes consultant for this program. Well, I'll continue. Rest of the show, good vibes, guys. It's Friday.

I'm going to go home at the best nap of my life. Good vibes. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast The heads British pop star Anne Marie In mother now

Which is awesome She's cool We've spoken to her a couple of times She's really cool She's really cool She's hard case She's getting a bit of flak She's got a six-month-old baby boy

And I think it's only just now She's revealed his name Famous people Popstars are like Different names I guess because they meet so many people They want it to just be a bit unique Oh

When they call it like Flower Bomb and things like that Yeah Apple and Yeah I understand that It's strange isn't it That a name you like is tarred by your experience with an individual.

With other people. My teachers must find it hard because they deal with so many kids. And then celebrities must meet so many people that they want something unique. This is Emery. Kiss my, uh-oh. She got that 2002, which was a massive song as well. We play for a long time of the hits. So she has named her baby boy Forever Sugar.

Look, the first name Forever Sugar. First name is Forever. and the middle name is sugar Forever she says because her nanny used to sign off cards saying always in forever and she just said That's a nice story to it

Yeah but it doesn't mean Like you don't call your kid yours sincerely Like Yeah best Kind regards And the middle name sugar She gave to him Because she had gestational diabetes

When she was pregnant with him I will always remember And so that was She will always remember the gestational diabetes I couldn't have sugar so I'll name you sugar oh yeah

that's going to be that's going to be a nightmare of a name in fact 0-800 the hits should we open this up quickly before 7 o'clock this morning yeah yeah names that're causing you some grief right yeah Neve who's producer Troy's partner is

the traditional spelling of Neve which is N-A-I-M-H I believe it was something close like that yeah what did you say it was that nay or was that Nameer. And so, yeah, people always call her nameer. So have you got a name? And it is an absolute nightmare for you. Maybe you are named after a celebrity, a type of fruit, diabetes. Just a different spelling of a name like that. We're always trips people up as well. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats.

Name Nightmares. Have you got one? Have you been named after a cancelled celebrity or a piece of fruit? And why is that a nightmare for your day today? We've got Brooke with us this morning. How are you, Brooke? Hey, very well, thank you Lovely to have you on And Wellington What's the weather like there this morning, mate? Oh man, it's beautiful It's beautiful

Lovely There's something about us something in a good day Yeah Now you've got a nightmare name It's not you It's your offspring, is it? That's my offspring, yes He's legitimately mine, I hope

What's the name? I say Ciano Every time we say it says Ciano It was like, oh Catero Reeves Yeah, exactly Is it named after Sorry, is Keanu named after Keanu Reeves? Yeah, my wife chose it, so yep, that's right.

He is such a wonderful human being, though. If you've read all the details about what he's been through and what he's like as a person, I think you're safe with him. Yeah. If you want association with any celebrities, he'd be top of the left. Him and Mother Teresa is probably your two safe options. Great human. Hey, good on your book.

You're going to have a wonderful weekend, okay? No, all right, now. I'll call back for the Alpa Quiz. All right, good luck. Stacey, why have you got a nightmare name, mate? Hey it's actually my son It was before the guy became famous But I named my son Logan

And our last name is Paul Oh no And geez they're blown up haven't they The Paul brothers Yeah so he's almost 13 And all the boys at school are like Hey dude can I have a prime And then of course it's that

Why did you dance on someone's grave I'm sure I could take on your brother Oh yeah But is it cool like you know Like your teenage boys love the poor brothers Has it got some clout in the school yard? I think it's one of those things that you get over it. I guess it's like Adele.

Yeah, gotcha. Adele sounded like a shell of a human being, didn't she? She was like, this is every day this wears me down. But see, when you guys are talking, I was like, oh, I forgot I did it with my other kid, too, because her name's Shelby. Oh, the car. The Ford Shelby GT. Yeah, my dad loves his holden, so that did not go down well.

that. Mind you, Shelby's a nice name. Not having as much of a hard time as poor Logan Paul out there in the market. No, it's just adults that too, but. Hey, good on you, Stacey. Go and have a great day. Appreciate it. Thanks.

See you, mate. Leanne, morning to you. Your name's a nightmare. Yeah, no, not my name, but my daughter's name, which was a bit silly, wasn't it? But, yeah, we called her Hallie, and because we're English, we probably sound a bit more Kiwi now. But people used to go, hello, or hey, Lee. I was like, no. No, it's just Hallie, like Halliberry.

Hello. Hello. Hello. I'm not supposed to speak like that, surely. Hello. So if you were to like turn up your accent and un-kiwify it, how would you say it? Oh, um, hello. Hello.

Helly, Hallie, Hallie, Hallie, Hellie, yeah. You see the accent's very lazy and, you know. Yeah, I appreciate you calling. Someone's actually texting also from overseas. My last name is Kerr. So mainly, most of my online interaction. Actions with Kiwis start with them asking if my middle name is Wayne. I was about to say Wayne.

It's their first name, Wayne. I've lived here for a decade now, and it's far the most annoying thing I've encountered. It's like, no, it's not. It's not. It's not. Hey, good on you. Leanne, you and Hawaii. Have a great day.