Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Is Megan the bad neighbour?

Episode Date: January 22, 2025

ON THE SHOW TODAY Can you cut down someone tree if it comes onto your side... How TWAT is the new saying of 2025! Why Ben got embarrassed when someone else got asked for a photo How Megan ended up sh*tting her pants!!! Why this teenager climbed a crane This is the easiest NZ Herald! But can we get 10/10? Adult things you did as a kid Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & Megan Instagram: THEHITSBREAKFAST See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Yeah! Jono, Ben and Megan. The Podcast. The Hits. Hi, welcome to the podcast. It's Thursday the 23rd of January. Megan, just saying on... Friday. Yeah, you're just saying, Megan Pappas, you found out a Facebook hack if you don't want to be tracked. Yeah, I just saw this. Someone posted on Meta, on Instagram, how you can limit the way they track you. So you can turn off some stuff in your settings that will not give them so much information because that's how they track us and advertise to us.

Right. So you can limit the amount of information you send back to Facebook, but no one knows how to do that. Jeez, will that reorganise my algorithm? Because, boys, that's a dark place. You know how you were saying you search something and suddenly you get all these ads on Facebook?

Or you just watch something and it keeps popping back up. Well, I haven't followed these people from it, but yeah. Surely it's going to limit that. It's going to limit the information they can gather on you. That's good. That's a good little tech hack there from you. Everyone's already got information anyway, pretty much, you know.

That horse has bolted. It's bolted a long time. And I don't care now. You take everything from me. My bleak life. You can have all the information. Now on the podcast today, we kick things off with a bit of tension

with Megan's neighbour. I stand by this. This really kicked off, didn't it? Really kicked off. I really thought I was going to get more support. My neighbours trimmed my trees, and I was like, ooh, rude. My fruit trees.

Yeah, well, you can hear this harrowing tale right now. I want to know what you think about this issue I'm having with my neighbours. I have fruit trees at the back of my house. I've always wanted them. I've planted them. I've nurtured them. I've planted them. I've nurtured them. I've been in this house for four years.

What fruit are you? I've got a plum, a nectarine, an apricot, a fig, all in a row. Yeah, right. Apricots make my nipples stiff. They're just the texture of apricots and peaches. Right. Goosebumps. Right now, honestly.

Thank you. Terrible. You didn't need that image. I feel great knowing that. So I went out the back and I was checking up on my fruit trees because I do have to prune them soon. It's coming into season. But I noticed that the neighbours had hacked off the back of them.

So my fruit trees are on a retaining wall, so they're quite high. So they go over into the neighbour's yard, but really high. Okay, all right. But they're dangling over their side. Really high, over their garden. You keep saying really high.

So it's not as if you're in their backyard on the grass and they're poking you in the eye. It's over their garden and it's really high. And also... You keep saying really high, but it's still dropping leaves and fruit and all sorts of stuff it wasn't as if i was trying to be obnoxious about it i didn't know that they were doing that so i was like okay it's just your tree your tree going is the grass really greener on the other side trying to have a little peek over could have been a conversation uh, the plum was fruiting, so they were getting some fruit. They could have got fruit out of it. But they've hacked off the back of the plum and the apricot.

Now, when I trim my fruit trees, you're supposed to put a pasty thing where you've cut it so it doesn't get a disease. They haven't done that. They don't care about that, mate. And you're supposed to cut it in the right spot. They haven't done that. Because your tree's dangling over their fence really high. It looks like they've sawed it all unevenly

so I'm like oh my god you've just like hacked away at my like four years of effort when you could have just like talked to me about it. And I'm like is that okay? This is Neighbours at War. This is the Russia and Ukraine of West Auckland happening right now. I felt the aggression in the cuts. I was like yeah they've just

Well they're probably frustrated. They could have stood in a plum and walked it through the house in the cuts. I was like, yeah, they've just... Well, they're probably frustrated. Yeah, they could have stood in a plum and walked it through the house all over you. Oh, these plum and plum. Oh, the tree.

You know what that could have happened? Stay in the carpet and do a plum stay in the house. I was giving them free fruit that they've got to do even before. they might be like Jono.

Their nipples are wrecked when they think of us. With the plums. I can't wander around like this for the remainder of my days It's basically what you've got here Your nature's version of parking your car Halfway over their driveway

Yeah It's not inconveniencing them at all It's so high I do hear from your point of view But at the same time It's technically It's not your And why couldn't they have had a conversation

And like hey these are on our property Can you chop them down? Hey, listen, we're not- And I would have done it properly. You're saying your point. We're trying to defend the neighbours. Okay, let's chuck it to the text. Yeah, whose side are you on?

Text file right now. 4487. Okay, the neighbours within their rights to do that. Should they have had a conversation with me? Oh, just do it. First text. Sorry, Megan. Legally, they've done nothing wrong.

But you're talking morally here. Morally. John O'Bannon, Megan. The podcast. The hits. But you're talking morally here. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. We need to get to this. Megan just said before, which wasn't meant to be a text poll, but we threw it out there. Just quickly go through your story again.

So I planted fruit trees. I've waited four years for them to fruit. And they have a couple of branches gone over the neighbours. So I've just discovered the neighbours have hacked the back of my fruit trees. So this is branches on their side of the fence they've hacked down. To be fair, they've hacked them back over on my side. Mate, they don't even trim them off on their side. What are your branches on their side?

Anyway, they didn't ask me. Now, can I disclaimer, they also grow heaps of fruit, like apples and grapes and all sorts in their backyard. Great, just their branches go over your property. No, but they know if you hack it through trees, it can destroy them. It can give them diseases and stuff. There's a time to prune them. They've given you four years.

When was the last time you trimmed your bush? When did you last do this? Spring. I did it. Okay, so you haven't been keeping attention. You haven't been

paying attention to it. No, but you have to do it at a certain time. Okay, so we threw it to the text Who's Side Are You On Here? So much great feedback on this, never seen such a response. Did you talk to the neighbours when you planted the trees,

knowing that they would grow big and over their fence? I don't need to. Oh, they don't need to talk to you when they cut the branches. It's courtesy. They could have just asked me. They could have, courtesy, the same argument could have been like. No, but you didn't have to hack at it. Here's another text.

Legally, I think they're supposed to return the cuttings to you. All right, I'll go knock on their door. That's an awkward conversation, isn't it? Okay, yeah, well, a lot of people are texting through saying that, unfortunately, I feel like you are in the wrong. They can just do what they want. I know that it needed to be cut, but they could have asked me and I would have done it properly.

Someone's accusing me of trying to poison their dog, too, with a plum. I was like, come on, guys. Jono, Ben and Megan on guys The podcast The hits Toyota Aqua is the most stolen car in New Zealand So we're just having a quick google of it Just a little It's a granny car It's the sort of car if you get caught behind

On a Tuesday morning at 10.30am And you can never see the driver's head Over the headrest. You know you're in for a long drive. Long, slow drive. The Tito, the Nissan Tito was in there as well. That's another granny car. So I guess maybe they're easier to steal than...

Yeah. And like hoon around in? I don't know. Honestly, outside my house I've had another stolen car dropped off. It's a hotbed for dropping off stolen vehicles. You're not, like, doing it in your sleep or something, are you? Might be. Because they always park them outside your house.

Domainia. Did I steal a car last night in a dream? You always go out in the middle of the night when no one's around. And you do have a habit of just, like, falling asleep at any moment. I do. Maybe it's my little thing. Maybe it's my jam. You know, I was just mentioning

to Melania's hat. Her big wide-brimmed Zorro-like hat she wore to the inauguration has been getting a lot of chit-chat. A lot of people thought she looked like

Carmen Sandiego from that game that used to play at primary school. At school, that was a classic. It was a classic game. What ever happened to that?

It was a TV show too. Was it? Yeah. She was on the run from something, wasn't she, Carmen Sandiego? Was it? Yeah. She was on the run from something. Wasn't she calm in San Diego? Was she the bad guy? He's trying to work out where they were going and stuff.

Like a thief? You must be on the right track. You're like, yes, I know. I'm on the right way, yeah. Did you ever play Oregon Trail? What? Am I taking that back? Way too old.

Oregon Trail. Okay, I'm back. Is that like a real life game you played? I was in Oregon and I had to get a big cart With my horse from one state to another Text 4487 If you played Oregon Trail But anyway, back to my wide

I've got a wide brimmed hat scandal Now, you know the Bunnings straw hat You've worn one Megan? Yeah, we did Great summer hat really Tell you what, it's probably I would say the best bargain you can get on the New Zealand market. Seven bucks. Seven bucks for a big, wide-brimmed straw Bunnings hat.

Now, I wore it all summer. Right. Love it. Great coverage. But the problem is, when you wear a wide-brimmed hat, you've got to take it into account when you're walking through doors because, you know, you're adding, I'm adding a 30-cent centimetre circumference to my head.

It's like the satin with the ring around it. Much like Melania, you're right. And even getting into cars, boom, it knocks off. When you're going to kiss, kiss people. I do a lot of kissing of people. Yeah, how much kissing did you do on the holidays? Kissing, smooching up a storm, hard to kiss. See, I respect the trauma that Melania was having to go through at the inauguration.

No, she did it on purpose, so she didn't have to kiss him. It seemed like a strategic move, right? Shout out to Cowboys as well. They're wearing hats all the time, aren't they? Oh, I suppose they're quite big. Some of them are quite big as well. Yeah, but the straw hat, that really does add a lot to factor in. It's pretty much as wide as your shoulders.

They've got great merch, Bunnings. We went on a Bunnings tour a couple of years ago. Jeez, they've just got everything. You love the Bunnings hoodie. Everything. We got swept up in merch madness, didn't we? Yeah, we did. Aprons, hats, bucket hats, T-shirts.

They have net balls. Socks. In different stores they that have different merch Toy trucks Condoms No I don't think they have that Oh they didn't use that No

What was that just a rubber glove I put on was it? I think so Jono, Ben and Megan The podcast The hats I tried to come up with a saying this year For you know like Survive to 25 was the big saying last year

Now we're in 25 and well We needed a new one Maybe things aren't better So that's true Even this week You're in 25 and well we needed a new one maybe things aren't better so that's even this week yeah like oh wow so we've got a lot to there's a lot to fix by 26 all will be fixed by 26 that's the phrase that you helped us come up with all be fixed by 26 that's the the saying that we're going to need to say a lot throughout the year right it's a work in progress yeah another saying too which is uh very topical at the moment uh you were teaching us about this

yesterday yeah this was in the herald yesterday this seems to be going all over the world like i was reading like thousands of people getting tattoos of this oh really this has been blowing up yeah um it's from mel robbins uh the let them theory the next time you feel left out your friends all go out to brunch together and they don't invite you. Let them. Or maybe the person you're dating doesn't want a commitment. Let them. Your company is laying people off. Let them. You spend so much time and energy trying to control other people

and getting emotionally worked up about things that are beyond your control. Amen, sister. So two simple words. And I've been, that's so me. I get so wound up about other people, how they're going to react, what they think,

that I've been trying to do that this year and just be like, let them. Because it releases control. Then you can focus on yourself. And that's the next part. I was listening last night.

Let me is the next part. And let me do this thing. Yeah. Rather than, you know. So then you can start making decisions for yourself and you let them have the response that they want to because you can't change it you can't change it oh those guys have uh re-enrated the michael hill jeweler shop well yeah she gets it there's an

asterisk to that no it's like if people are breaking the law if you're crossing your boundaries all of those kinds of things it's not like just roll over. Yeah. What will be will be, baby. It's a really good approach. You do spend a lot of time and energy worrying about stuff that you have zero control over. Even like getting stuck in traffic and getting so wound up about it. You're like, well, what can I, I can't do anything about it. I started listening to the audio book of it last

night. It was really good. But these two words have changed my life, you know. But I'm like, you've written three other books or more books beforehand why wasn't this the first book other stuff's changed your life before this letter letter okay just letter yeah you can't control how many books she's written mate i was like well that was that's all we need to know but like apparently this is oprah she would have read a million self-help books this is her favorite and also people are saying maybe this is what Michelle Obama is going by by not going to the inauguration.

She's like, let them. I'm not going. Let them have their inauguration. Let Trump do his thing. Let them burn America to the ground. So what do we need to know? What are some phrases that we all need to know? Because we've all actually come back

from the holidays with some phrases, some things that we need to take into account. My wife taught me something over there. I quite like this one yeah no really it'll hit hard I won't tell you about it now

she'll get her on to explain it something really personal to me and I was like oh is this a thing yeah okay

yeah he's doing it do you reckon he's doing it he's definitely doing it yeah yeah I am

okay I own it but let them I'm gonna let own it. But let them. I'm going to let them. You let me. Let Jono do it. Or mock me, one of the two. No, let him.

Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Some sayings to inspire us through 2025. Let Them was one that you were talking about. It's gone everywhere, Megan. Mel Robbins. Yeah, she's got a podcast and a book.

It's gone crazy. The Let Them Theory is if someone's doing you wrong or making decisions don't get caught up on it just let them and free yourself from it one I learned over the holiday break it's probably not going to inspire people too much but geez it's a good saying to know you know a lot of people working from home on a Monday and a Friday it seems to be happening you know they haven't quite clawed that back after COVID have they yeah trying to and it gives people an extended weekend potentially as well. Well, my mate from the UK says they've got a name for people over there

and that's TWATS. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays is what it stands for. Those are the days that they work. He's like, my office is full of TWATS.

I'm like, what? And he's like, yeah, they take Monday, Friday off because they only work Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. I'm happy about the TWATS because it makes traffic good on Fridays.

Then they disappear like four days like, oh, Jesus at Easter and then boom, they're magically back on Fridays. Then they disappear like four days like oh Jesus at Easter and then boom they're magically back on Tuesday. That's a great name. Maybe we should start

using twats a bit more. Sandra we're going to get you on from Tauranga this morning. How are you Sandra? Good thank you Sal. Yeah we're doing well. Box of fluffies.

What's the saying for 2025 you've learnt? Not my monkeys not my circus. My husband sees that all the time. It's kind of the same as let them. Like, don't fuss over other people's issues.

Not my monkeys, not my circus. Let it go. That's a good one. Yeah, it basically hits home, too, of your own monkeys as well. I've got some to look after. Thank you very much. Hey, thanks so much, Sandra. You go and have a great day. They're not your monkeys.

It's not your circus, all right? Brilliant. You remember that. That's a good saying. I like that. There's one come through on the text machine. Puffer fishing, which I've actually heard of. Have you heard about that? No. So it's just a term of something that gets you wound up. So you know how you like puff your chest up and you're like...

Oh, and your cheeks as well. You're puffer fishing. Something's making you puffer fish. But then I'm going to come and go, hey, let them, mate. Not your monkeys, not your circus. You know? If they want to be twats, they can be twats. They can work at home on a Monday and a Friday. Let them. Jen, my wife, she taught me one over

the Christmas break. Now, I'm a little embarrassed to have to even explain it. So we'll call her to see if she can explain. Hello? Hi. It's me. The person you decided to marry. Yeah.

And probably regret it. Me too, yeah. Forced you to. Yeah, yeah. It wasn't like an arranged marriage or anything. Now, Gino says we're just talking about phrases that we need to know in 2025. And you taught me one over the holidays, a new catchphrase, which really has cut deep. It's really stuck with me.

Oh, cap fishing, yeah. Cap. So it's cap fishing. It made me think of you, yeah. Yeah. CAP fishing. Now, what's cap fishing. It made me think of you, yeah. Yeah, CAP fishing. Now, what is cap fishing? So it's when a guy looks really cute, but he's got a cap on,

and so when he takes his cap off, he might have no hair or a bald patch or whatever. So he's kind of tricking the youthful, the younger. I'm a cap fishing. To a man who wears a cap every day, it really... You're a catfisher. I'm a catfisher. I'm a catfisher. How much hair did you have when you guys got married?

Let's not talk. He had a lot of hair. He had a lot of hair. Maybe it's me. Maybe it's you. All right, I'll continue catfishing. You go and have a good day. Jono, Ben and Megan, the podcast.

The hits. Over the holiday period I actually humbled a couple of times. It happens when you're out and about. You came from humble beginnings as well in Masterton. You try and keep humble. Stay humble. It's another saying. If you're being humbled all the time, does that mean

that you need to turn down the ego a little bit or something yeah well maybe maybe I didn't think I had much of it to start off with but I guess you know we've you know backstory we have been hanging out and you know being in the media industry for a while now so I guess from time to time people will come up and approach you or see you or things or yell out something although I did have one of the weekend over the last weekend normally people would yell out like they don't know if i'm jono or ben so they'll just go jono or ben someone yelled out jj michael dorm to me take it it was just me and my wife i was like that was weird people always yell out other radio stations to you you're like cool the thing is radio

radio is very important to us we live and breathe it no one else gives it No. It's something they may or may not have on in their car. But it's always a bit of an honor if someone comes up and asks for a photo or something. You're like, that's cool. That's a cool experience. Don't take that for granted. It's cool if someone does. I'm like, really? Me?

But anyway, it's cool. What are you going to do with that photo? Who cares? But it's cool. But I was walking through the mall with my daughter, Sienna. Now, Sienna does, you know, we do a podcast together. We do some videos together and bits and pieces. We're walking walking through the mall there's the two of us over the holiday this young girl comes up and she's like excuse me can I get a photo and I'm like absolutely

I was like absolutely I'm starting to appeal to the younger she's probably like 12 13 years old absolutely what's it like to meet your hero I was like looked at it I was like absolutely no problems at all and then she looks at me she goes hero? I looked at her and I was like, absolutely, no problems at all. And then she looked at me, she goes, great. And she looked at me and then she smiled

and I was like, great. And then she handed the phone to me and she said, can you please take it? I was like, oh yeah. And I was like,

well, maybe she wants you doing a selfie. Oh yeah, long arms. Yeah, well, yeah. I was like,

yeah, I guess I can take it. Yeah. And then she stood over with my daughter, Sienna. They put their arms around each other and I was like, yeah, I guess I can take it, yeah. And then she stood over with my daughter, Sienna. They put their arms around each other, and I was like, oh, I see what's happening here. I am just now the photographer in this photo. She's a fan of your daughter, not you.

Get out, old man. Exactly. You instantly went from low-level New Zealand celebrity to unpaid assistant. Yeah, exactly. I took the photos. Great, have a great day. Yeah, exactly. I took the photos. Great. Have a great day.

Good. No worries at all. Please tell me Sienna rubbed this in your face. Oh, she probably felt a bit bad. She's too sweet for that. We walked away and I went, let's not talk about that right now. Don't be hard on yourself. You're still playing a very useful role in that transaction.

Without you, without you, your arms, that photo couldn't take place. You can turn around and be like, I made you. I could have. You're like a tripod. Let's call him tripod from now on. He could be a tripod. Yeah. I mean, they could have taken the selfie by themselves, you know, 0.5 as the kids would do.

But anyway. I'm still trying to make you part of this. Oh, you're right. You're a momager. A momager, yeah. I'm like the Kardashian mom, that's for sure. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The hits. We're sending you on a 10-day cruise around the British Isles, all thanks to the brand-new Bridget Jones movie, Bridget Jones Mad About the Boy. It looks incredible in cinemas February 13. Now, someone pulled me aside in the office yesterday. We are next door to a number of other radio stations, and one being your former radio station, Megan, ZM.

Okay, and this particular individual who wants to remain nameless said, hey, I heard that Bridget Jones diary thing on the show. I thought you might be interested in taking a peek at another diary. So not Bridget Jones's. Not Bridget Jones's. Stacey Jones's diary, legendary warrior. That's what I'd like to read. We played some footy. It was a game of two halves.

Hey, I want to know. I love Stacey Jones. We passed the ball around and we kicked it. Dear diary, we played some more footy. More footy today. It was a fun game. But no, this is Megan's. He's a great man. This is Megan's. Megan Pappas' diary

Your diary This is what I understand Is from your teenage years Now you haven't got Early teenage years You haven't got the physical copy of it But you managed to take some photos I took a photo

I was allowed to take a photo So you got some photos And some pages in there Yeah When you write your diary You don't imagine Anyone's ever going to hear it Like

And there's There's been pages in here that have been read to everyone. And I used to just write to my diary like my diary was a person. Ah, yeah. Like ChatGPT. Yeah. Like every day I would write a full breakdown of my day. Yeah.

The new age version now is people banging on social media pretending we care about their lives. That's the new age version. You used to just write to a diary. Now, full disclaimer, this person said, hey, full disclosure, this ground has been covered by your ex-radio husbands, Vincent Bourne. Fletcher Bourne. Fletcher Bourne.

And we don't have a moral compass when it comes to plagiarism, so we'll do it. I said we don't mind. Okay, so these are some excerpts. I haven't heard these, and can you verify when you start reading? Because Jono, he makes up a lot of stuff so I want to know if this is legit.

Okay. We can read your diary or Anne Frank's one, mate, but that might bring the mood down. Which one do you want? You want? One neither.

Okay. Here we go. This is an excerpt from, I was meant to plug in the piano music. I had some piano music I was going to plug in the piano music I had some piano music I was going to plug in

to add some effect, here we go This is from Megan's diary, AJ how old are you here this is a roller skating incident Oh a roller, I was early I would have been about 13 I think 13 years old, okay I already know what's happening

I don't, I'm waiting. Come on, let's go. Okay. Dear Diary, Oh my God. I had a really bad day today. I wasn't even going to write about it because I want to forget about whatever happened.

But I'll tell you, Diary, but you have to swear that this will stay like a secret forever. Ben's going to hate this. And Justin, if you're reading, please stop now. Who's Justin? Your brother. Okay, gotcha. If I'm Justin, I'm definitely not stopping reading.

Yeah, yeah. Okay, the day started out great. Mum bought me some yeast on toast in bed. Yeast on toast? Yeast on toast. Is that like Marmite or sort of... No, you know, like nutritional yeast? I used to like sprinkle that on toast.

Okay, no judgment, no clothes. It was my favourite. No judgement. It was my favourite. It was a really sunny day. I had no homework to do. I got a little bit bored, so I decided to whip on the old roller skates and go down the driveway. Our driveway's really small. Dad growled at me, so I had to go out on the footpath.

I thought it'd be fun to skate down the driveway onto the corner of the road, and I thought I could just catch a lamppost at the bottom to stop myself, but I was going too fast. Uh-oh, uh-oh. We could probably just end it there. Okay. We could just stop. I started to go really, really, really quickly in panic setting,

but then I saw the lamppost, so I put my arms out, and I grabbed the lamppost on the roller skates, but I was going so fast that I spun completely around the lamppost, and I landed on my butt really, really hard and the shock impact went right through my body. The end. I didn't make it. Oh no, it's clearly not the end.

I didn't make it to the grass. I landed on the concrete. Oh. And when I hit my butt, something happened. What? I pooed my pants. No! No!

You didn't even need to share this with the diary. The diary's like, you didn't have to tell me this. Of course you picked this page.

I was in so much pain I couldn't stand up. I had to crawl back down the hill with my roller skates on and poo on my pants. You're like, this is when,

you're like, this is the lowest moment of my life right here. You know when you can mark it? Yeah. Yeah. I didn't want to call mum because I didn't want to tell her what happened. Let's just keep this between you and me, Diary.

You're laughing, but this was so painful. I can imagine. I feel like I'd broken my tailbone. It was a zero out of ten day. You'd hope so. I mean, yeah. I don't think gigs could get much worse. I crawled back up the hill because I couldn't stand.

I was in so much pain. And you pooped yourself at some stage. Yeah. A release. Yeah. Jeez, you poor bugger. A release of control, pride, and your bowels. Maybe that's what happens when you smash your, like, tailbone.

It just all, like, it's like, no. No, they need to talk about that more. Jono, Ben, and Megan. The podcast. The hits. There's a bit of news floating around over the last 24 hours about a young kid in Auckland who climbed up, what, 220 metres in the air?

On a crane. And looked like maybe it was a particular stunt that dangling off the crane for maybe social media. TikTok. Yeah. Got to do it for the likes, baby. Then they interviewed a crane operator

and he's in Christchurch. He's like, yeah, this has happened like 12 or 14 times to my cranes. Frightening. I knew someone, their kid did it.

And they didn't know that their kid was just a daredevil, loved thrill-seeking and the school called them in and they said, have you seen these videos? And he's dangling off bridges

and buildings. I feel like as a teenager, I mean, you don't think of the consequences as much. No. Which is, you know, it's also a beautiful, ignorant way to live life. Like, we become pussies the older we get. You know, we think about long-term consequences.

Your prefrontal cortex grows. Yeah. And so you learn about fear and consequences. And you're like this will kill me and responsibilities as well too you know if i do that then it's you know it's called growing a brain yeah my mom every because i was a very stupid teenager it's probably surprised you my mom every time i do something stupid she's like the male brain doesn't fully develop until 25 years old yeah yeah she's right she's just trying to make herself feel better. What was the dumbest thing you did as a teenager?

There's lots. You had a shoplifting incident. Yeah, I was going to say that. But I was young and I never did it ever again. But I took hair clips and stuff. That's what Goldry said, mate. Yeah, okay. I took hair clips and stuff and I did get tapped on the shoulder by security, and I got trespassed.

Yeah. And then I had to be driven home in a cop car, and I was like, oh my God. That's a wake-up call. Yeah, I'm such, I've always been such a goody-good. So I don't know what happened in that moment. Like, it could be 3 a.m. and no cars anywhere, and I will wait for the red light. And like, I'm such a goody-good. Oh, wow. So that has, yeah. It's really put you on the straight and narrow, isn for the red light. And like, I'm such a goody good. Oh, wow.

So that has, yeah. It's really put you on the straight and narrow, hasn't it? Yeah. So did your parents obviously found out? Yeah. Yeah. And they didn't yell at me.

They were just silent. Yeah, that sucks. That's the worst. You're like, oh, just yell and get it over with. They were just silent. You're like, oh my God. A lot of my stuff was, and stuff we've talked about before, was from entertainment purposes.

A showman. Like the Michael Jackson dance've talked about before, was from entertainment purposes. It's history of trying to entertain. A showman. Like the Michael Jackson dance routine I did. Oh, that's great. And lighting fireworks in the gymnasium for, you know, for razzmatazz. It wasn't, you know, like for show business. For the people. And it burnt some of the gym floor.

Again, not thinking things through. It's a habit of mine. For my craft. I don't know if that's my craft, but yeah. You didn't learn, because then later in life you were doing more razzmatazz. Exactly. And you got arrested. It wasn't like I bought fireworks at school to go, oh, I'll let these off.

It was for a show business. It's show business, baby. Listen, we'll keep this going, because we're getting a flood of texts. Wait, did we get to yours? Yeah, I will tell you mine. I will tell you mine. We'll get to yours. Yeah, very shortly.

Adrian, quickly, what was the stupidest thing you did as a teenager? When I was 10 years old, I jumped off an 80-foot cliff into the water. 80 foot? Yeah, my brother wanted to, he said, if you jump, I'll jump. So I went to go do it,

and if you ever wanted to look at it, it's in Aratiate, right beside the rapids where they do the kayaking. Rapids jet goes over top of it, and I went to go walk out, and the narrow part was falling away. I went to go walk back, slipped, and I was like, no, couldn't do it. Looked at my dad, turned around, and then just jumped. Wow.

Three breaths before I hit the ground and slightly had my legs apart when I hit the ground, so it was very, very sore. Oh, my God. Was being under the water, seeing that level of the surface and trying to reach for it and it was just like a scene out of Shawshank Redemption when I come out of the water just trying to breathe. It was epic. That look that you shot your dad would have put the chills up. Can you imagine? He would have been like, oh my god. Do you look back on it now and go?

I thought I was screaming on the way down, and when I got out, I found out that it was actually my dad's part that I was screaming the entire way until I hit the water. Oh, my God. Oh, wow. Okay. And the annoying thing is when I got back up to the top, my brother was like, yeah, I'm not doing that.

He never did it. So I've given him shit for the entire time. I reckon now's the time he does it. No. We'll do it on the radio. Oh, gee. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. I reckon now's the time he does it. We'll do it on the radio. John O'Bannon Megan, the podcast, the hits. A lady who doesn't get any sleep.

She's just fuelled on... Are you still drinking those drinks that I got you onto? Yes, I have one this morning. The Musashi's. Boy, oh boy, they put some pep in your step. You've had one of those and you're having a coffee. Yeah, but I did go to the gym. I am elite. I did go to the gym this morning at 4am.

So, yeah, I've deserved the moustache. Okay, well, you're up early and we're ready to go. The New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz are trying to get 10 out of 10. The first question. All right. Question number one.

Who is the highest point scorer in international rugby history? Is it Johnny Wilkinson, Dan Carter, or Bowdoin Barrett? That's me tapping out. I feel like it's John Wilkinson or Is it Bowdoin?

Has Bowdoin been playing for as long as Dan Carter? That's a good question. I don't know actually. I feel like Dan Carter played for longer but maybe I don't know. Do you know one of the only celebrity listeners we have to the show is Dan Carter. Oh hi Dan. Dan, text through Dan, 4487. Is it you?

We can go to the lifeline, I guess, on question one. Yeah, let's go to the text machine. Maybe Dan will text too. For some reason I'm thinking, what does your gut say? My gut says Johnny Wilkinson, but I don't know why. He was the British one and he would sort of poke his bottom out as if he had constipation, didn't he? He might have produced Ellie's facials, but maybe not.

They have a cute little shtick that they do when they kick, eh? Now, someone's texting. Are we going to the texts? Someone's saying, okay, two texts come through already. Someone says, Dan Carter, or maybe that's just Dan Carter saying, Dan Carter. And then someone said, it's Dan Carter. Again, could be Dan Carter. And then someone said, it's Dan Carter. Again, could be Dan Carter.

Johnny's number three. So you did terribly there, Ben. Johnny's number three. It depends how you read that text. It's Dan Carter. Johnny's number three, by the way. Okay, so here we go. Someone else says Dan Carter, so let's lock in Dan Carter.

All right, that is correct. There we go. Sorry, Dan, if you're listening. We knew that. He's listening, so it's Dan Carter. Yeah, yeah. Sorry, guys. All right, question number two. Sorry Dan if you're listening We knew that He's listening Yeah we do Dan Carter Yeah yeah Sorry guys Alright question number two

What is the maximum recorded length Of a great white shark? Is it 10 metres 6 metres Or 8 metres? It's 10 Biggest ever one 10

He's coming in hot again He just needs the confidence 10 metres Simon Question two Oh no let's go with him I mean you know No 10's too much

10 metres Great white shark 10 metres Bigger than a whale He's saying it Yeah that's a big call No but isn't 10 metres Bigger than like a story

Of a building Let him die on this hill If he wants to die on this hill No I know Because he takes us All out with him 8 metres It's a little way

But he said 10 metres Bigger than 8 metres We're going with Jono Locking in 10 just so For the record Megan did say 8 That's incorrect It was 6

And that is the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz I'm sorry 10 metres That's incorrect. It was six. And that is the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. I'm sorry. Eight meters. That's a big shark. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hit.

But right now over the holiday period, Jono. Wild experience. Yeah. So I had to go to Bunnings. Second time I've mentioned it. God, you love Bunnings. Were you wearing your Bunnings straw hat when you went in? But I bought one from here.

Oh, right. Because I just saw them at the counter. But yeah, I was saying I've had to navigate a big wide-brimmed Bunnings straw hat. You've got to factor it in when you're... Yes, I said Bunnings. Okay. I was like, careful. Keep it classy.

Thanks, Megan. When you're walking through doors and things, the wide-brim hat knocks. But when I was in this Bunnings, and it was out of the urban sprawl okay so it's in a small town okay and i know things are different when you're a child in a small town ben you grew up in a small town yeah feels like those kids age up quicker than the the soft suburban soft urban kids a lot of i mean generalizing but a lot of country kids are out driving tractors and doing all sorts of stuff you know at a very young age helping out you know and doing all sorts of stuff, you know, at a very young age, helping out, you know, and doing a lot of things that I've been doing. Giving a lot of responsibility.

Yeah, which is awesome. Yeah, and as you do at a Bunnings, you're just wandering around like a lost child, aren't you? And speaking of which, I was looking for some Phillips head screws, okay, that's what I was after. I had no idea where these were. So I was looking around for the, in the aprons, they've got the aprons and the green shields, I was looking for one of them, and oh and i looked down there was a little child

and he was in the bunnings outfit and he was i thought are you dressed up do you love bunnings is this like a you know a kid having a day at work with dad sort of thing i said oh hello uh i need some help finding some screws he's like no worries mate follow me so how old do you reckon he would have been i asked him i said excuse how old are you and he said i'm nine nine nine wow now i assume he doesn't have a parent or someone who works there and that's it's his holiday job but he's like no worries over here in all full mate halfway down where are they took me straight to them so he knew his stuff

showed me the entire range he's like what are you after what are you screwing in you might want to use these ones you know when you're sometimes talking to a child and you're like

you're far more developed and functioning as an adult than I will ever be even like I struggle to remember which one the Phillips head is now like he's a nine year old yeah square sort of

he's like I know what you're on about. Oh, no, it's not square. It's got the four. See, I don't even know. That's why we need that kid. Yeah. So this is what we want to chuck open.

What adult things were you doing as a child? Well, maybe you have kids now who are doing impressive adult things. I imagine there's a lot of kids that worked with their parents' stores and things at a very young age. Yeah. I used to merchandise with my mum just for fun when I was younger.

I'd go along, ride along, and I'd put up those crates of bread in the supermarkets and stuff. I was quite young. I didn't get paid. No, that's the thing. Can I invoice her in retrospect? Yeah. I played in an indoor cricket team like an adult,

an indoor cricket team with my mum. Joseph Coutts was the sponsor, the beer sponsor. I played with Joseph Coutts. Joseph Coutts was blazing all over our gear. Yeah, alcohol sponsorship wasn't frowned upon in kids. I was probably like nine years old playing in a, like, I loved cricket and I'd play in this adult. It was adult.

I was the only kid that played in this league. And yeah, Joseph, they got a dozen beer from Joseph Coutts. I'd just sort of sit around afterwards and buy lemonade or whatever but yeah i was probably wrong no but then back then your parents would then give you a shandy and like top it up with top it you have a lemonade top it was bad yeah that's all right mate it's watered down a bit of beer and lemonade joseph coots merchandise you know like a top for a beer brand and now he's a raging alcoholic So John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The hits Went to a hardware store

Over the holidays And I was thrown As I was served By a nine year old Who knew exactly Where everything was In that hardware store Took me to get some screws

Phillips screws That I needed And Amazing Amazing Because I asked him How old are you He said yeah nine

It's his holiday job And he'll probably be working In that hardware store until he's 95. Did he have any banter for you? Was he like, mate, what are you up to at home? Got a DIY? Like a bloke, you know? Just knew everything.

Yeah, it was wild. Did he have a deeper voice than you? Yeah, probably. Probably, I think so. I think when you get out of Auckland, everyone goes through puberty at about nine years old, don't they? Yeah. So, yeah, what have you seen kids doing? Adult activities kids have been doing.

Sarah, how are you? All will be fixed by 26. Yay! That's the catchphrase. That's the catchphrase. There's a lot of fixing to do, though, when you look at the news every day. We'll get there. We'll get there.

That's our catchphrase we all came up with. What were you doing at a young age? At around about eight or nine, I was driving the tractor. Oh, driving a tractor. Yeah, the farm kids, honestly, I've said it before, I feel like they're just born, and then all of a sudden they're bringing things to life. You know, they're pulling out animals from other animals and just doing chores that,

I suppose, why wouldn't you? What were you doing on the tractor? Were you, like, ploughing? I don't know. What do you do on a tractor? I was driving, driving the tractor with the trailer behind. With a trailer? With a trailer behind, yeah. She's nine years old.

But we all know, you all know those young kids are out there. Again, they're more adult than all of us. They're out there doing their things, backing trailers. When was the last time you drove a tractor? I haven't driven a tractor since. But you're talking at age eight or nine. That's really impressive. Thanks for your call, Sarah.

I had a friend, he took, speaking of kids doing adult things, took his son skydiving. Eight years old. Eight years old. Yeah. I feel like that's a big age to debut your skydiving. And afterwards I was like, how was it? He hated every single minute of it.

You're probably going to guess that. Yeah, not surprised about that one. Ruby, morning to you. How are you? Good morning, guys. I'm good. How are you? Yeah, we're doing well, Rubes.

Adult things you were doing as a child? So a little bit unorthodox, but my siblings and I, when we were probably nine or ten years old, my dad would give us a $20 note and write down a note of his, what he wanted us to go down to the dairy and get, and it was cigarettes. That was a great era. What a wonderful era for New Zealand, where they had the trusting dairy owner. They would understand.

It was like, yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, there was an arrangement. Yeah, it was. That's right. Exactly. That's right. And my dad had gone to high school with the guy who owned the dairy, so even more so, he was like, oh, here come the kids again.

Get the tailor-mades out. Was there like a lolly tax? Did you get like a little extra for lollies or something? Oh, if there was change, we'd have to be super sneaky because Dad would count it, so we'd have to be like, oh. You're like, hey mate, let's not start having morals now. Are you sending us the other way to pick up

cancer sticks? Yeah. Ziggy's in a dollar mixture, it's the least you can do.