Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Is Megan the only one to have this weird sleeping habit?

Episode Date: March 11, 2026

On today’s show:  An innocent “are you from around here?” turns into a full‑body social panic... We debate over whether Judith “Crusher” Collins has New Zealand’s most elite nickname ever Is Megan the only one to have this weird sleeping habit? The movies that traumatised us as kids! How Ben's panicking led to a bag that’s 10kg overweight Would you be mad if someone did this at the movies? Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFAST Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thanks to Hello Fresh Cookies, he delicious dinners, the whole family will love because nothing beats dinner time. Welcome to the podcast. We're talking a lot about nicknames. So you're here on the podcast today, but a heaps of calls and text, still coming through for it.

Yeah, well, it's off Crusher Collins. Wasn't it Judith Collins, the politician who's announced she's retiring, halfway through the year, fair enough. But some great nicknames coming through on the workplace. We have someone in the workplace called Panadol, who's a slow working dope. That's quite clever too.

I like sensor lights that came through. They always are. Sensilite only works when... Yeah, when someone walks past. They're clever. They have really clever, but I'm mean at the same time, aren't they? Yeah, you're right. We've got a guy called Chad.

We call him Chad GPT. He knows a lot. He's a smart ass. Yeah, that's cool. That's all right. Sometimes you're like, well, if I was that person I found out everyone was calling me this, how would I feel? Chad GPT would be right, you know? I'll be like, okay, I can deal with that one.

Someone's calling me Panadol. You're like, Panadol. You'd be like, Panadol. you'd be like, yeah, because you offer great pain relief. Yeah, maybe that's it.

There's a way you can twist it. He doesn't feel better. Yeah, that's a good say. They'll need to have an alternate backstory to the name for the person when they are hit up.

Now, producer Troy, your dad, all of his friends have nicknames. I don't know any of their real names because all of his friends are called stretch, custard,

Bangle. Bangle? Bangle? I like that. I don't know the story behind them, but I also don't know their real name. Do we want to know about custard?

Do you know? You don't know. You don't know origin. You're just a real lover of custard. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She's obviously a tall guy.

Yeah. Oh, stretch is tall. Yeah. Okay. I just text my dad because there's this guy we've known forever called Marmite. And I have no idea why he's called Marmite. No idea.

Is it might because his hair? Is he got black hair? Is he got black hair? Yeah. Is he got a yeast? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Anything yeasty here? We don't know that about him. Yeah. No. So the chat, GP, he knows about Custin. Why would you call someone custom? is nicknames, see what they come out.

Maybe same colour, is their skin, jaundicey? Same colour as custard. Or is it a situation that happened with custard? Oh, good on, chat, GPT. They've gone with a nice thing, you know, like warm, sweet, comforting. Bory. Shut up, Chad, GPT. So it could be like, you know, how are you like honey, sweetie, that sort of thing,

and you like custard sweet. Is custard warm, sweet and comfort? Then it's gone teasing. It's a bit useless or floppy, is what it said. Yeah, okay. That seems more like something grey-mouthed blokes would call it. Goofy or clumsy energy as well. Custards is a bit of a mess.

This is what they thought hard to handle. So maybe or just, yeah, or purely absurd, just affectionate. Or nothing at all. Yeah, so that should be really covering its bases there. Or nothing at all. And so sometimes it means nothing at all, which is the point, random food nicknames. We had a guy actually that was, we're writing with,

and it was the first day at a crowd. A big crab department. And one of the older producers was like, it was just, you know, first day he's quite nervous. I think he was about 18, 19 years old. And there was a picture of a tennis player on the paper. I think I was reading. He was like her.

This way he said to it. Day one, he said, I bet you like her. This person, hey? This girl. And he went, oh, yeah, yeah, she should be. You know, something, whatever. And he goes, I bet you do, you, you're grubby little boy. There just is a joke.

And after that, he became grubby. Like, for that one thing. Oh, my God. I know who you're talking about. And that was it. And it was an innocent thing that he just kind of went, oh, you know. I had no idea why he was called grubby. And everyone called him grummy.

for like, people have we worked there for about five years. Grubby. One thing, I bet you did, you're Grubby lives, do you, grubby little boy. He wasn't been grubby at all, at all. He was being the opposite, just polite and just didn't know what to say. I reckon I know who called him, Grubby too. And he became a nickname that stuck. Grubby's a name you don't want to sticking.

I never asked why his name was grubby because I didn't want to know. And now, like about a year into it, he kind of went, hey, I don't really love Grubby, you know. But he'd be so polite. I've kind of forgotten his real name but he wasn't grubby at all Hard to shake grubby though after 12 months in the workplace Grubby, we'll get grubby to do it It's not grubby but it sounds bad hey

He really does sound bad Yeah alright anyway enjoy the podcast John O'Benn and Megan The podcast The Hits Ah jeez yesterday I thought I'm in the middle of a scandal here So I had to go to just an appointment

And it was in a like a sort of a concave of officers. Oh, yeah. The same building. And it was a bit of a rabbit aura, and I couldn't quite figure out where I was going. And this lovely lady walks out, and I was like, oh, excuse me, are you

from round here? And she said, am I from around here? That's an odd. That's an odd. Now, it's at this point where, you know, and this feels like what some people's parents might do, they might bring the person's race into a conversation. And a lot of the times, it

has no correlation to what they're talking about. Well, why would you say? say are you from around here? It was opening line and so this lady, this lady was she was Indian. Right. And she comes back and goes, am I from around here?

What does that mean? And I was, and I was like, I was fumbling and she's like, I'll have you know I was born here. And at this moment, I'm like, as a 44 year old, middle age white man, I'm like, this is not an ideal scenario. No, not great, no. Right now. And then I started following going,

oh, no, I meant to say, are you in the building because I need to know where unit four be is. Do you work here? Yeah, work here. Yeah. And anyway, it was at this point. It was at this point she just dropped her dead pan face and just started crying with laughter. Oh, thank God.

And I was the relief. She's like, got you. And she's like, that's payback for everything you've done over the years. Yeah, I was about to say. And it was good pay. It was great payback from her. That was a really good play. All ad-libbing on the spot as well.

Yeah, I mean, you set her up for it brilliantly, really. I mean, yeah. Are you from around here? Yeah. That's a fine. Like, you're from around here? Do you work here?

Yeah. I'm with Reagan on this one. Around here just seems, yeah. Yeah, that means are you from this location? She's. I died and came back to life in the space for about 15, 20 seconds. Then that moment your blood goes cold age. Oh, you're like, goof.

Yeah. Oh, God. I didn't mean it like, you know, and you're trying back pedal and it's, yeah. Obviously, she was enjoying it. She loved it. You know a good Indian restaurant around here, mate? I've never known anyone to get a more, like, socially awkward situations than you. Every day.

I want to take my head off to it. Well played. Well played. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Collins, MP, is taking up a new job after many years, over 20 years of service in New Zealand. Judith Crusher Collins.

Great nickname. Crusher. She was about crushing, all about crushing the cars, right? The boy racers. But she only ever crushed. I remember being really excited about like, I want to see these crafts get crushed. It seems like a huge waste of motor vehicles.

It was like third strike, right? But why don't they just sell them? Yeah, well, maybe. Crush, I guess. It hurt them more to see their pride and joy being. And she really embraced that nickname and it was one of the coolest nicknames around, right? Crusher.

Yeah, around the workplace too. Do you have to, when it comes to workplace nicknames, do you have to probably be bestowed at it, don't you? by other people like a curse or something. You can't give yourself your own nickname. Can't hard launch your own nickname. It's never going to stick. Yeah, it's weird.

So we're on and I know. Is it the best nickname around? We've had a few for producer Troy, but nothing like his... Troy story, Troy boy. Troy boy, bock Troy. We tried to get bock Troy off the ground, didn't we? None of those have landed.

No, but then in some ways calling him producer Troy is kind of like a nickname when you go on it, you know. True. But you're right, but maybe one of those will land. I feel like you would have had a nickname, Ben. Oh, no, not really. I mean, like Ben, various, Benjamin has,

lends itself to lots of different nicknames. So I guess in some ways Ben is kind of that, Ben, but, yeah, no, I don't know. There's some really strong ones, eh, like when you meet people like, oh, they call me two stroke or the axe or something. You know, so you're like,

commands immediate respect. Sarge or general, you know, those sorts of nicknames. There was a random one that one, because we've got a bit of a fantasy basketball chat, that might be, mates and I, because we do it, and it involves a lot of sports stuff,

but this guy's like, how about this nickname? for a famous baseball apparently in the 40s. His name was Frank McGrawer, but his nickname was Tug or Taga. Now his, yeah, and this was, he got the nickname, because, from his mother, because he was particularly aggressive

when he breastfed. Oh my God. So called him Tugger. Yeah. That poor woman. And everyone was like, this should have just stayed in the family. Yeah. That didn't have to leave the household.

But now there was his baseball name. Everyone was like, oh yeah, Otaga McGraw. This was, this was, and then it became a famous baseballer in the 40s. that was nickname his origin story was his mom and breastfeeding. Wow. Very, yeah, very handsy.

Anyway, yeah, so I was like that should have just stayed. Probably shouldn't have gone on radio then either. Well, can you beat Tugger, Taga McGraw? Oh, 800 that's full freight. At least it's not what a lot of us could have been big. Yeah, it's not what I thought. Yeah, we'll take you out with an ode to Judith Crusher Collins. I understand a joke when you hear it.

My husband is Samoan, so Talofa. Talofa. I don't know the hits witness story. That was a little song we made for her when she was the leader of the national party a couple years ago. But yeah, the best nickname. Jono Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. To know New Zealand's best nickname, Judith Crusher Collins.

Amazing nickname. Very cool nickname. She's fully embraced it as well, which is kind of cool. Yeah, it's badass. Did she fully embraced it or she didn't have an option? Well, maybe she didn't have an option. Seems like, you know. We just feel better about ourselves if we say she's fully embraced it.

Yeah. She was wearing a jacket, I think, a couple days ago I heard. And she'd be given to her from the Air Force, whatever. And it had crushed a Judith Crusher Collins on her name in it. She was wearing it. It was Barry Soper that gave that to her, wasn't it? Yeah. As well.

I think if you're going to be in politics for 20 plus years, you're probably going to have to have a pretty thick skin and a sense of humor. Yeah. So I would hold of the greatest nicknames, whether they're workplace ones or family. A lot of ones coming from the family, too. They start in the home. Yeah. My dad calls me ferret. My dad calls me ferret.

I've been ferret my whole life. Have you? Yeah. I'll call you ferret. Only my nearest and dearest can call me ferret. Out of all the rodents, it's probably the more adorable. Yeah. Okay, let's get Aaron on.

Greatest nicknames, Aaron. Is it yours or someone else's? No, it's not mine, mate, but I used to work in recruitment, and I recruited a lot of people and got quite close with one of these companies and I recruited unfortunately one of these guys that was he was good at his job

but he only worked sparingly so they called him sensor light because the only time he worked was when someone walked past me and you're like sensor light is all my fault I've bestowed senseless sensor lights done and I'm like

you know but I thought it was like I only found out because I went to a toolbox one more morning and they asked old sensor light to say something but he wasn't anywhere to be found so he couldn't do too much

talking but I thought that was pretty classic Hopefully sensor lights out there working when people are walking past him now Good on you Aaron, really appreciate you call Lisa greatest nicknames Can you beat Crusher Collins? Of course I can When a kid we worked with

that was called showbag Showbag? Showbag Because you had to carry him and he was full of crap. You call a child showbag. No, he was 20-something. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, well, shout out to showbag. Shout out to showbag. Thank you very much. It's always funnier when it's not you having the nickname, isn't it? Is there any nickname that's like nice? Flattering one. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay, I'll wait home to the hits, telephone number best nicknames. That's what I was like, you know, smoky and bulldozer. Those are respected nicknames, aren't they? Sam. How are we? Great to have you on. Greatest nicknames. Workplace nicknames.

So, yeah, I work for a trucking company. I won't disclose the area. But, yes, we got this dispatch guy, and he does the bare minimum. So we call him C-section because he avoids labor. Now, does C-section know that he's referenced as C-section? I hope not. I don't.

I think of play, though. If you get away with it, if you get away with that, it's great. Working smarter, not harder. Yeah, good on. Alice, morning to you. Greatest nicknames. The Munchbunch. Oh, the Munchbunch.

Do we want to know the origin story of this? Yeah, we're a group of Muslims. We've all got club cards and nicknames, Matt. They're a group of lesbian. And then we've got our tomato who can't decide if it's a fruit or a vegetable. You guys are got to get merch. You do, you do. John O'Bin and Megan, the podcast.

The Hits. Well, we've been trying to. is the hits looks for the best song of the 90s. We wanted to have a singing fish, the singing Billy Bass Fish. Now, you'll know the one we're talking about. Ben, you had one on the wall of your lounge. Because you know I'm all about that.

Bass. By that bass. No trouble. And it was, you know, my dream, I feel like I burdened the show. It made the show's dream to get one to put up in the studio, by the countdown, by the 90s countdown. The best 99 songs are happening February 5th of Feb.

And you can vote for your favorite right now. The hits dot co.com. Yeah, a lot of people were phoning through. But we understand you've got a working trout on your wall that sings the song, the singing trout. No, no, I haven't. It's a bass. Oh, sorry, the bass. Sorry.

And it's not working. I've actually got her on the bench at the moment trying to fix it. I'm looking at all its insides. That was John then. We spoke to Grant, who had one up at the Smokoe Room. Do you have the singing fish, the Billy Bass? Don't have a road I want to sing it

It's not worth it But he couldn't take it down He wasn't allowed to remove it It was works It was works And then Adam got in touch with us And he was like Oh my dad's got one

In his place in Great Mouth Yeah Very friendly And the problem was It was not working No Yeah And so Adam took it upon himself

Classic West Coast Hospitality To fix the fish And put it on a $40 Courier It's a big box To send it up to us and said it's fine.

His dad's decluttering it, decluring a place, and he sends a fish. This is very exciting, and the boxes arrived. I have not seen one of these. I feel like we need some monumental, opening music.

What should I go like chariots? Okay. Chariots of fire. Okay, Vangelis. I tell you, he could write a jam, this bloat. Oh, here we go.

Okay, I'm hoping up the box. Slowly. Slowly. Slowly. New Zealand Post, thanking you very much for this. There's bubble rat. Oh, bubble wrap.

There it is. There it is. The Go bass. Hold it above your head. Holding it like I'm on some Tinder profile for a dude. You go, look, it's the fish. God, that's a great condition. Oh, it looks so good.

Big mouth, Billy Bass. Wow. Wait. We'll put this footage up on the Hits Breakfast Instagram and Facebook. It works. Oh, my God, the joy on Ben's face. Look at the fish, go. Oh, that is.

It was worth it just with Ben's face. Oh, the two songs there go, the big mouth, Billy Bass. We got it, we got it, guys. Press the other song. And I don't need to get, we'll come back to that one. Does it do, don't worry, be happy? Oh, it's not broken. Oh.

What's that's that so broken, or are you? Is that the same one? Is that same one? It's the same one. It's okay. It's a little tepore. It's okay. It's a little tepper.

We've got it, guys. We've got it. We've got it. We've got it. We've got it. We'll put up the studio. Mattie McLean won't be happy about this. Mani McLean.

That is everything Maddie McLean isn't. Oh, okay. Ben's not cut like the fish. Oh, mate. How is the way you slept again, Megan? I'm just like, go take the fish and me and the fish.

We need to give you a fish in time. We're sleeping with the fishes. All right, there we go. We've got the Billy Bass. We're going to erect it on the wall. And thank you so much to Adam and his father on the West Coast. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The hits. I'm trying to, because producer Troy is trying to read like, what, 40 books this year? So I decided I'd start reading a book yesterday And I got carried away It was a good book but I realised I'd been in the sun for like 20 minutes Without sunscreen Doesn't take long

No Roasted You get the old teenage tan lines going on? Very on trend I have Yeah no you'll be on trend on the pictures Very popular at the moment Now you think you

You might possibly could be the only person in the world doing this I don't know what is this You've been saying this for a couple of days You know there's some things you do And you don't really think about it Until someone else points it out That it's quite weird But I noticed that my daughters

Started doing this And I'm like, oh no I think she's got this from me Handed down the gene It's when I'm in bed at night So how I like to sleep Is I I lie in bed

But then when it's time to go to sleep I pull my pillow down Almost halfway down the bed And I hang my feet At the end of the bed And I fully cover my myself with the blankets. Oh, so you're, and just your feet are poking out, like some sort of, you know, a crime scene.

Well, they're still covered by the blanket, but they're on my feet are off the end of the mattress. Oh, you, okay. So I'm down, I'm down, halfway down the bed. So your feet are over the end? Yeah. And what happens to your head in the, are you? I'm under the blankets.

Halfway down the mattress. So I'm cocooned. You're coming your face? Yeah. Do you sleep with that blanket over your head the whole time? Yeah. Over your face? I can't do that.

I couldn't do that. around the mouth I think there's a breathing hole but that's about it I have it right over me Why is that? It's just the way you voice It's just like

It feels like I like to be cocooned Yeah If someone walked in on that You'd be like Is everything okay? Do we need to do a welfare check? If your feet, for me If my feet and ankles

got over the end of the bed That's a You know Put yourself back up the top situation Yeah Or like you know I don't like it I'm in the sheets too tight

And your feet are bloody Hurting down the air Oh everything has to be tucked in Oh no literally like to be cocooned in there. Yeah, I like, I kept my feet, I'd like to put my feet out if I need to, if I need to, just in case. He likes to be.

If I need to get up and do some activities or something, I need to, no, I can do it as seconds notice. I reckon you're probably the only one who, yeah, sleeps on that. Literally, my husband will be like, if he hasn't given me a kiss yet, he's like a kiss good night, he'll be like, where are you? Where have you gone? He's sort of peeling back the layers, like you're a banana or something. Scooted down the bed.

Yeah. Okay, so, yes, so obviously he doesn't do it. No. And he thinks it's very, very weird. Your head's at his waist height. Yeah. His heads at normal, normal person's sleeping height. Yeah.

And your legs are dangling over the bed. But I've always done this. You're quite short, too. Yeah. I'm literally halfway down the bed. Yeah, that's good say. I remember my parents. Yeah, okay, so I'm just, you know.

That's fact. My parents took a photo of me when I was like a teenager and I covered myself right over. So I've just always done it. And your daughter's, because as a parent, nothing is more freaky going in when they're young. getting the blankets off their faces and stuff. Obviously your daughter. She's burying herself under. Sometimes she crawls under a pillow and then pulls the blanket up over.

Can we find anyone else listening right now that sleeps like this? John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hit. Is Megan the only one that does something? This is where we come to the show and something that we've been doing for a number of years you discover. It might not be the norm. And your husband's pointed this out, your sleeping technique, Megan. Yeah, I sleep halfway down the bed because I'm quite short so I can hook my feet out the end of the bed

because monsters can only get your feet if they're out the side of the bed. Don't do that. I don't know those rules. But out the end of the bed's fine. Why the monsters avoiding? They're like, oh, can't go there. Yeah, I don't know. It's just the rules. Is that like a friendly fire in a war situation?

The monsters know the rules. White flags down the end of the bed. And then I completely cover myself with a little breathy hole with the blanket. and yeah I guess it is kind of weird I couldn't do it I couldn't do it I couldn't do either of those two things I like to be completely covered I don't know why

we need to find someone else who sleeps like this just one other person in the country a lot of people on the text doing either or blanket over or feet over the edge of their bed what did you do like when you first spend the night with Andrew was he like

what's this like No. I like every girl, I contained the crazy for a little bit. Until I got him and then you show you crazy. A beautiful, fresh face. He married me and then realized I sleep under the covers down the end of the bed. All right, let's get Ismay on. How are you, Ismay?

You're right? Or Ismay's gone. Philippa, morning to you. Are you sleeping like this, sleeping like a psycho? Not me, but my 12-year-old son, he pulls the blankets right over his head and sometimes hits the head a pillow over his head too. Does he have the feet over the edge, though? No, but he's got a foot like a end on the end of his bed,

so he wouldn't be able to anyway. Gotcha. Do it freak you out a little bit as your mum, like when you saw that the sheets were over the head? Yeah, yeah, it's not ideal. I'd like him to have his face uncovered, but yeah, it is the way he sleeps. As a fully covered sleeper, he can breathe. Like, because my daughter does the same thing.

She's only three. puts a pillow on her because it completely covers her and then pulls the blanket right over, you always leave a breathy hole. They've got it sorted. Sometimes I get one of the spare pillows and squeeze it between my legs. Because sometimes my knees hurt, you know, when you, you know, when you've got knees on top of knees. You know, if you're like lying sideways. Do you get that?

That sounds like an old person problem. Then I wake up, the gout's flaring up. Alyssa, welcome to the show. Hello. Are you sleeping like Megan, feet hanging over the bed, you got your head halfway down the mattress under the blanket. I empathise with the blanket and I can one up you because my cat then sleeps

between my shoulder blades like on top of me so it's like cocooned and weight but the seat over the edge is just a bit deranged I'm sorry. You've got a lot going on. Don't you move a lot in the night? That's the thing you're talking about a breathyhole but I move around to you know surely that really doesn't stay there. Yeah but you say in one place. Do you sleep? Don't move.

Do you sleep? You said your cat's on your shoulder blades. You're sleeping face down. Yeah, yeah. I sleep face down. You put your face on the mattress? Well, you took your head to the side. No, I'm halfway down the bed. But your body... Okay, okay.

They would help your knee situation. Yeah, I know. You can't put your head to the side. Saw knees. Saw, sore knees. Claire, morning to you. Morning, guys. How are you?

We haven't had a clean sweep. We haven't had someone who matches exactly like you yet, Megan. How do you sleep, Claire? Pretty much exactly like Megan. Yay! Hey, we've got to win. Do you do the same thing? Yes.

I have always had my feet hanging down the end. I don't know if it's because I watched Pet Cemetery or whatever it was when I was littley, but I always leave, and I scooched down, and I'm tall, so I don't quite make it halfway down. Megan's short. Have we mentioned that? Very short. I know she should. I'll mention it once.

Yeah, yeah. And my 12-year-old, she does exactly the same. In fact, I lost her when she was little, because I was like, where the hell is she? And she was stuck at the end of the bed. So, and my husband thinks I'm wed. And I also, to add to that, I also flip the sheet off without even realizing. So I steal the duvet and he's only left with the sheet and it annoys him. But sorry, can't change.

Yeah, it sounds like a nightmare to sleep with Claire. You should try it. It's quite comfy, yeah, Claire. We had a match. Yeah, what a minute. Yeah, what a minute. Something else that a lot of the world are talking about this week has been the saga with the Beckams. Yeah.

The estranged relationship with Brooklyn, their son, he's gone, Victoria and David, very inappropriate at the wedding. Mum, very inappropriate dancing at the wedding. We spoke to Nicole, our entertainment reporter, about this. Yeah. Also, don't tell me at a 500-person wedding. Nobody's got that video. There's someone that has that video, and I'm going to get my hands on it. Inappropriately dancing on your son looks like.

What does that mean? Because it could take on so many meanings. Well, yeah, I saw DJ Tony, JJ Fat Tony, actually, as he calls himself, who he's not actually fat, but anyway. He was the wedding DJ, and he said the inappropriateness wasn't the dancing itself, like what she was doing, she wasn't twerking or anything like that.

It was the timing of it. Okay, right, right, right. The first dance should have been a time for, you know, the bride and groom, not the mum and the son. So, we off the back of this, have been having a little debate behind the scenes on the show. Really interesting one too Which is Grace brought it to our attention

Who do you think is more famous Grace asked Yeah come on in Grace come on in We'll get you to ask your question Because it did divide the room Well it was when me and my partner on our trip In the middle of lunch We started fighting yet again Not a fighting, fighting at the Sistine Chapel

Yeah Fighting at lunch Well we were arguing because I think that He thinks David Beckham is more famous Yeah I think she's more famous Who do you think she's more famous? Victoria Beggis

She is a Victoria Beckham, she is a Victoria Beckham. Okay, so you're basically talking about one of the Spice Girls, posh Spice, or you're talking about David Beckham, who's the most famous? See, I think it's really interesting for me if you compare Spice Girls, David Beckham, but as a collective, but I think, oh, if you're just going individually, maybe because of the football, it's Beckham, David Beckham. But I don't know. No, I would argue she covers more ground now.

Yeah, football's not, like, popular everywhere. It's pretty much the world. But also, you look all through the Latin America and all those places. Everyone knows the spice girls His relevance now is being his wife Could you sit down a kid who is 10 nowadays And you go who are the spice girls and who are not? No but she's not only just famous for being a spice girl

Now she's a massive fashion like magnate And she's in a scandal so But I would say a 10 year old kid probably wouldn't know for fashion But potentially no day David Beckham is a football Potentially I don't know He's not a footballer now He's a footballer now He's a footballer now

He's still really heavily involved because he's got the Miami team with Messi and stuff like that. Yeah, but you know that. I had no clue. I don't know that. So this is what's dividing the show. So snap poll. Who's more famous, David or Victoria Beckham?

Yeah, all right. John O'Benon and Megan, the podcast. That's who's more famous? David Beckham or Victoria Beckham, both extremely famous. That's not going to be wrong. Chattee PT says, this is ChachyPT. David, not even close. It says not even close.

But if you put the Spice Girls versus David Beckham, it would say the Spice Girls is more famous. Yeah, now Megan and Grace Girls. They're on Team Victoria. They're claiming Victoria's well famous. A lot of, bunch of texts coming through here. Beckham,

Football, UNICEF, Chudor Watches. Bend it like Beckham movie. Action M says this text. 100% Beckham. Football, the biggest sport in the world. I guess it depends where you come from because I knew Victoria

before I knew David. Yeah, same. Yeah. We're very working class. We're honest. I am being honest. I am being honest. I am being honest.

Why did your dad drive you to school in? So my dad did... No, one answer. My dad... What car is it? It's not a simple answer because... What car? What did you get to your dad?

I love that. It depends. No, no, no, no. Okay, in the 80s, my dad had a Rolls Royce. So, let's go to... It's not a simple answer. Yeah, like this debate right now. It's awesome.

And to be fair, that's not... Everyone's got entitled to their opinion. It's a pretty simple answer. You did it have a Rolls-Roy's. Gary, morning. Morning. Where are you sitting on this, David or Victoria? Who's more famous?

100% is David. Yeah, I'd say so too. But that's not saying Victoria is not famous. I know, but you're a British dude. David's who breed of butter. That's why I appreciate football war, because football is the number one most pocket sport in the world. In the world, yeah.

But I say, too, Spice Girls is a collective more famous than Beckham. Well, maybe, yeah, but Beckham just seems like the name Beckham is. So I'm just with him. If you said Beckham, who would I be talking about? I'd say, 100% people say David, not Victoria. Well, it was his name, I guess. Yes, the longer. True, true.

But yeah, she'd been married for a while. She's been married for a while. Alistair, how are you? Yeah, very good. Okay, David, Victoria, settle the debate. It's David all the way. 100%. You've got another British dude there.

This isn't a fair poll. Megan's dreaming. Megan just one text for Victoria and the rest are all David. Yeah, yeah, but I'm just questioning your sample. You can look at the text machine. You've got one text for Victoria. But that's like a... See if we can get another British dude on.

Larry, are you British? And if you're not, can you put on a British accent? Well, I'm not British, but I could put on a British accent. That's great. David or Victoria, what team are on? I think it's David Beckham. Oh, it's a clean. When we were growing up, you know, everybody knew David Beckham.

And I think he's held his pot till now. Okay. What's wrong? What's wrong? You get really feisty about these things Are you putting that accent on? Yeah, we asked him to We asked him to

But it sounded like it was like Irish or something I'm like you're going hard on the UK now So listen it's clean sweep No it's not Three quarters You just got three men Hey Alright if you're a female right now

I'm just saying I don't really care But I'm just saying Your sample was flawed Yeah Well sorry for the people that caught up You got three dudes from the UK That's great

That's unfair Well, apologies that no one's bringing up to back you, but if you want to get to pick up, you can give us a call. Oh, Andrew the Hits and how about Megan right now? We didn't see them out. I thought, I'm just saying, that's not a good sample. Yeah, okay. Well, you have a look at the text machine. Where's all the girlies at?

John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast, The Hits. We're in the middle of a debate. They're really, when it pulls down to, it means really nothing. No, but what I love about these meaningless debates is Megan and Ben both get incredibly passionate. This is giving me flashbacks to those dark. Megan Markle debate. Yeah, it feels very similar, right? Doesn't it?

No, I don't. I genuinely don't care. Well, you do. You clearly do. You clearly care. She cares about winning. No, you like winning. Yeah, that's true.

That's your thing. Yeah, the debate means nothing. The win. The win. You just want the win. Yeah, okay. Now, the debates, a lot of talking about the beckhams, obviously.

There's a lot going on with their family, and it's causing a rift, not only in their family, but causing a rift here in the studio right now. Stop my head in, I was like. We're very working class. Be honest. I am. I am.

being honest. Now we're trying to be honest. Yeah, so this is the be honest poll. Who do you think is, now be honest, the most famous out of the two. Be honest. Victoria, the Spice Guild, fashion Easter, incredibly famous, or David Beckham, footballer. Don't say fashion Easter, fashion designer. Fashion designer, sorry.

What's the difference between Easter and an Ina? One person where's the fashion, the other's making it. Fashion Easter and fashion designer, there we go, and David Beckham. Very fashionable guy in his own right, football, biggest sports. Where's the fashion? Easter. He's in Easter. I don't care, I don't care.

Hello, man. So this has been raging on for 20, 25 minutes. We've got guys, just my chance. They were the people that called up, right? And you weren't happy about this. Look, I just think that the sample wasn't great because you got three UK men. David or Victoria, who's more famous?

100% is David. It's David all the way. He's got another British dude there. This isn't a fair poll. David Beckham. Oh, it's a clean. It's not bad. All right, now we've got a bigger sample size for Megan.

Yeah, she wasn't happy. She's not happy about the fact that the first three callers were men. From the UK. Well, two were and one was undisclosed. I felt like he was Irish. I felt like the blame was being pointed towards us. I always called us up. To be honest, we're not mates with David Beckham.

There's no real win for us. No, I'm just saying, doing a survey, you need to do a good sample size. So you demanded three females. The girlies. Who's more famous. Tell us honestly what you. think and that's fine. Whatever you say is fine.

Who do you think is more famous? Honestly, David Beckham. Can I just put it this way? How many movies have been made about David Beckham and how many movies have been made about Victoria? Raises a point. I can think of one movie made about it.

Spice Girls movie, wasn't it? Yeah, Spice World. Yeah. And then... Bend it like Becum. The Beckins, that documentary. Yeah. And Lord of the Beckham's.

All right. So we go, we've got a lot for your text coming through as well, too, which you probably don't want to read. Carol, our second female participant in the sample size focus group. David or Victoria Beckham, who's more famous? Victoria. Oh, you're going. Carol.

Carol. Carol. Carol. Thank you for calling Carol. Why do you say that? Why do you think she's more famous? Well, you think she was not the spice girl. Yep.

A fashion designer now. Yeah. So she's born follow football Oh, or maybe if you like going to the chemist warehouse He's also a fragrance Yeah, he's got a lot of fragrance He's got a lot of watches You're like watches

Also an ambassador for unicycle That's a good debate Everyone knows the Spice Girls Yeah Yeah I love this We're not talking about the spy schools As a collective, are we though

Everyone knows man United But yeah We'll take one more Our third female participant Kelly Yes David of Victoria Beacon Please

Mousin born Mousin bred so I'm a proper Kiwi chick. Yeah, okay, Kelly. But sounds like you're not on my side, though. I'm not. You're a Nelson girlie too. She really led you down the path of that one.

She's okay. You're saying David's more famous. Yeah, and I'm a huge spice girl fan, but David Beckham. I mean, hello. I like this text has come through. Someone said, I'm British, I'm female, and I don't care. So there you go, but you can. The Hits.

I've said a couple times this week. My wife and daughter, you know, they've gone to the States, they left last night. We've gone to freezing temperatures in New York, and then they go to California side, which is not so bad, but I guess I've been really looking at focusing on the weather. The cold part of the trip. Yeah, negative 30 and stuff like that they're talking about at the moment.

Yeah, and I understand that the weather's really full on over there, but you've been on your daughter to pack for like a week. It feels like she's been going for such a long time because Ben's been going on about her packing. I know, and I'll be like get your stuff, we'll get it all, get it all. out and then I got her some winter stuff that she didn't have because we're not in season and stuff but then I got too involved and then I was like you know what I'm gonna pull me so I'm not going on the trip yeah that did see why you're stressing yourself out on a journey you're not going on I'm gonna pull myself back so anyway she I was like let be

but I think I got it too much into her head that you know she needs to be it's got the weather's going to be cold you got to be packed because when I went we're talking about to the airport yesterday I was like oh your bag's quite heavy you've been through it she's like yeah I've been through it with mom and that market I'm out of it I'm out of it. So it's very heavy. Not my monkey, not my circus. Very heavy, but anyway.

Mind you, you've got into her head to say pack everything. Exactly. So I'm like, okay, she's like got all the stuff. And then I dropped them off the airport. I couldn't go in because I had to go off to something else. So I dropped them off and I was like, said goodbye. And then I get to text from my wife about 15 minutes later going, oh, seeing his bag was over the limit.

I was like, oh, okay. 10Ks over the limit. That's what? What are you doing? I was like, do you want me to try and cancel the appointment? and I got to try to come back. She's like, no, no, it's right. We've managed to allocate the stuff around all the other.

Oh, the other travelers are having to take her stuff. I was like, oh, oh, oh, this is really. Maybe the 24 puppet jackets. I got her back in her bag. And I couldn't help her feel partly responsible to that. You're panicking for like two weeks telling her how cold it was. Yeah, and she's taking my advice and really got over the top as well. So I'm like, maybe you're going to have to post some stuff back.

Well, yeah, she went from just taking a pair of bike shorts to the single tip. Ready to go to Antarctica. No, yeah. For the Arctic conditions at the moment. There's Hudson River. Crazy. It's frozen.

Like the frozen river. It's how cold it was. Nicole is our New York correspondent. She had water in the studio I saw. It was frozen on their way to work. Oh, I think you were going to say in the studio. I was like, they need to turn their heating on. The way to work.

Yeah. Where's the mafia going to dump all the bodies up the rivers? That's right. Do you know, I've been in New York when it's been snowing. And the hardest thing is it's so cold. outside but then you go into a store and it's hot so you're like like it's 20 degrees yeah you're like there's no in between you've got to take off all your jackets and then when you go back outside again it's freezing well tell you who's prepared for those conditions my daughter yeah she's ordered

don't you worry about that john o ben and megan the podcast the hit now there's you know like i love going to the movies and i love going along with my kids as well but there's a movie that one of my daughters won't go to me with and it's a it's a movie aimed at kids oh so it's not a scary no no no now zootopia two's out now i'm a big i'm a big a big lover of and you know my kids to that yeah i know and it's like please can we go to zootopia i want to go and it's meant to be really really good i hear nothing but good things but she watched the first zootopia movie which i thought was brilliant but at the end spoiler alert the uh the sweet sheep character turns out to be quite evil and my daughter

was at the age when she watched it. She just traumatized it. Thank you ma'am. How did you know where to find us? And as sunny gets here. Run. And I don't even think the sheep's in the new movie, right? No, I don't. I kept saying to my daughter, see it.

And she's like, nah, I won't go see it. She won't go see it with me because she's like, she's like, I can't do it. Did they not wrap up with that cliffhanger? Yeah, well, I think it's done. I think it's done. I don't even think it's in the new movie, but she will just like, she's like, I can't do Sootopia. And I'm like, wow, that's a really unusual movie for your first.

You're thinking out of any film you can go and watch safely, you're right. Yeah, and Zootopia is the one movie. It's the one scene in the one movie that really has triggered her. Oh, yeah, I was like that with, remember Labyrinth? David Bowie was in that movie, Labrant. I started trying to watch it again with the kids the other day. I'm like, this is weird. I love that movie.

However, I can see, like, David Bowie's pretty creepy, and he's wearing, like, white tight lycra. Very crotchy. You watch it now and they're trying to steal the baby as well. It's all like, yeah, and all that. There's like, um, Phoenix characters that take the heads off.

Yeah. You're remembering it the bee. What babe? The babe with the power. What power? Car of. Voodoo. She's those pants were working hard,

they should have got an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor of his trousers. Creepy characters. I think Jim Henson, who made them up. It's made some of the characters, but really went a lot more creepy with that one. Yeah, that was, and it's, I guess the age that you watch these films too.

It's sort of imprint. I imagine for many kids, the Jurassic Park Velociraptor kitchen scene would have been. So when he grabs the dude on the toilet. Yes. Oh yes, there's another one. So that's what we wanted to know this morning. 4-487 on the text or 100 the hits. What's the scene from a movie that's one that just, it's etched in your brain?

The movie, the movie that you're like, oh, I can't do it. I can't do it. Mine's Candyman. Oh, yeah. I don't think I've ever seen Candyman. I was terrified. He's very breathy. Yeah.

He's not a lot of haribow eaten by that candy man, that's for sure. You know, it'll be a lot more happier movie. Can I have some delicious fruities just here? I watched it when I was like 10. Yeah. That's crazy. Sometimes you do watch a movie that maybe you shouldn't have as well. Because it depends on your friend's parents' morals, doesn't it?

You go to a friend's house and they may be very fast and loose with the PG system. Yeah. And Candyman sounds kind of, you know. That sounds fun. The Candyman can. Okay, so what's the movie? The movie's scene. There is a kid that you're like, oh my God, this has traumatized me for life.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. My daughter, Siena Will refuses to go see Zootopia 2, despite the fact I said it's a great, it looks like a great movie, got nothing but great reviews. And the character from the first movie, The Sheep That Traumatized Her. It's not in it, as far as I know. No, it's not. So the end of Zootopia War. One, the good little sweet sheep turns bad.

Yeah, and she was at such a young age, that's traumatised her since, and she won't go back to the social care. The wrong country would be traumatised about sheep too. Yeah, true. Really? You're right, New Zealand. So many great texts coming through about the movies that have traumatised you, when you were young. Childs Play, lots come through for Childs Play. Chuckie, want to play.

Gremlins has come through. Oh, Grimlands, they were so cute, and then you got water on them. That's right, and they got evil. Tom and my mum at a birthday party I wanted to watch a TED with my friends She wrongly assumed it was a kid-friendly movie About a beer

Safe to say she had a couple of awkward conversations With my parents the next day Oh Poppy my daughter's just text in going The sheep is in the second movie Oh really? Oh thank you Poppy Oh yeah Oh thank you Poppy

You really would have started seeing her again It's fine it's fine And then ah the she's in a heck Oh yeah The witches come through as well Yeah that was scary where they had the mice and they ate the soap and then they turned into mice. Not a scene but a character this has come through.

The Grinch, particularly his fingers. Why are they so hairy? Where does the hair end and the fingers start? Yeah, he's got really... Run for your life before I kill it. Jeez, you wouldn't want the Grinch giving your prostate exam, would you? I'd almost at the start would be quite nice. A low tickle.

It's coming out of my mouth. Alright, let's go to the phones. We've got Danielle, the scenes that scarred you. It has to be Caroline. The scene where she has to fill her buttons his eyes, it's... Oh, that's horrifying. It was awful. You think it's going to be this beautiful movie.

It's supposed to have this idea of finding a better mom and a better life, and she gets everything she wants, and she has to give up her eyes for it. Three! What is it doing? Yeah, that's quite... traumatizing, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, and it's a kid's movie. Is her mother removing her eyes?

Yeah, it's like a spider mum version of her actual mom. I haven't even seen it and I'm now traumatized. Thank you, Danielle. Appreciate it. No worries, I hope to help. Gidey, Rian. Welcome, the scenes that scarred you. Yeah.

What was it? My memory, that one. The movie It, and he says we all float down here. Don't love me. You'll float two. Oh, scary clown. You'll float two.

Yo, flow, too. It just even sounds good. You'll float two. You'll float two. You'll flow two. Yeah, that's, yeah. That's intense. Hey, I'd never...

Hey, Georgie. And sleepless nights after that, Rian. Yeah, up to the top of the staircase to see what mum and dad were watching on TV. Yes, no. She shouldn't have done that. Yeah, wrong moves. Seven years old. I was scared of like sinks and drains and toilets for such a long time after that movie.

She still won't go to the bathroom and the actual bathroom. She does in the studio, which is weird. But anyway, we have to just keep lookout. Are you going on your reign? Have a good one. Michael, you're on. Movies that scarred you, mate. What was it?

When your older brother and sister babysit you in the 80s and they throw child's play on. Oh, talk about them before with Chuckie. the little doll way. Andy, no, please. That's freaky. We're friends to the end. Remember? And then, of course, when mum and dad

come home, every single soft toy in the house was thrown out of the bedroom. They're all after me. They all after me. Chitty, chitty, binging's come through on the text. Oh, the child catcher. John O'Neon and Megan, the podcast. The Hits.

Looking forward to a short one next week, too. That's right, white tongue. Yeah. I got the Friday off there. And then we'll have a, yeah, wonderful I think three or four years of long weekends around that Waitangi day. Oh really?

Yeah, because you know when it falls on the Saturday, it gets Monday eyes. Oh, Monday, yeah, the Sunday will be, yeah. Oh, we got a good run coming up, baby.

Yeah, that's good. A bit of a stressful night in the household last night in the Casadel Praire. Do you have this issue where you've got are your kids, do you have devices, Megan? Yeah.

Yeah. So you've got like multiple charges around the house, multiple charging courts. Yeah, yeah. And somehow, 99% of the cords don't work. There's only like one working charging cord

and we all fight for it and they go missing. Yeah, they go missing. That's the thing. Oh my God, it's the bane of our existence. Yeah, I tried to colour code our system for a while there. Of course you did. She and his brand and everything and that just that went out the window. That's a nice solution.

Yeah, it was like cool. So you know you're like cool because everyone goes, that's my one and that's what? No, it's not. Oh, yeah. Do you know, it's great that you can recharge things because, you know, batteries and stuff. But it gets the point like,

we have toothbrushes that need chargers. They have little, like, car things that need charges. Everything needs charge, yeah. The lint roller thing he now needs a charger. It's just like, I don't know where all of these are. And they're all different cables. Yeah, that's frustrating. Make it one cable.

We have the one where I plug my phone in, it's in the bathroom. My wife does as well, it's like a double one. And I'm like, this stays in the bathroom. This is where it stays. I've got a phone charger in the bathroom. Yeah, well, because it's next to our bed and that's where the phone lives at night. And I'm like, this stays there. Does it move?

Does it move? All the time. Oh, yeah. Just leave. this one here, I go to plug it in a night. It's like, where's that charging gone? I just used it for a thing. I don't know.

All any parent wishes for it is just they're one charging. To just stay in the same location. Not move. Exactly. It's all I want. I know. Now we're having to do a roster system for this one goddamn cable that we're.

It's just like any. I never, I never go expensive all the cables. Always buy the petrol station ones. And I know and I know at some point they always crap out. You know, they don't last the distance. Yeah.

You've got to look forward to me when your kids, you know, grow up a little bit more and they have devices. The other thing as well that really works me if I can get something off my chest early in the morning.

Let's do it. It's therapy. My car and their phones always connect to their music straight away. Bang, I've got to play something off my phone. No,

Siena's phone's connected. I've told you how to do that. You need to star your, when there's multiple devices, it goes to the favourite. You need to favourite theirs. Yeah.

You need to favourite yours. Sometimes I've got to kicked off my thing. I have to reset my thing. I'm like, this is my car. need to go to settings and favourite your phone. Favorite your phone.

Yeah, anyway. Bluetooth is a nightmare too. Bluetooth is near the network. Does Bluetooth that work for you? Air drop, nightmare. Oh, air drops. I remember that used to work really well back of the day. Did you just wipe your brow?

Yeah, sorry, I'm getting a bit wound up. I really got Friday off to a bad start. I'm sorry, guys. It's a Friday. Yeah, all right. It's out of the way now. We're going to move on. Nothing but positivity from here.

John O'Ben and Megan. You notice life is just a whole series of triggering sounds, don't you? You get triggered by your alarm when it goes off in the middle of the night. You have to get up. The fridge is a big bone of contention in my household. So you know, some fridges, if you leave the door open, after a minute or two, it'll just start aggressively beeping at you. Well, it doesn't start off aggressive.

It's just like a gentle reminder at first. And then eventually it'll pick up some steam, the passive aggressiveness to just go. to full out, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, but you're sometimes, I want to just say, I end up talking to the fridge, I'm going, I'm just putting stuff in you. From the supermarket, I'm putting it in you. The door needs to stay open. There is a button on the side that kids show me.

They'll like, you can push a button and it all. Shut it up. And they'll shut it up. Yeah, so you can when you do that, because I was getting the same thing. I was like, oh, this is, yeah, they're like, just push the button. Oh, there's a button. So you don't have to worry about that. If you got it open for a bit, just push the button.

Oh, end of segment then. It doesn't need to wind you up. up like that anymore. Yeah, right. Have you got triggering noises in your life? My one's finished. I'm not going to hear it again. You might relate to this because you had an visaline.

The, the, what do you call them? The mouthguards. Yeah, they pull out. My husband's had it for two years and he's just stopped. He's just finally finished. Because when they pull them out, they go, yeah, because they kind of quite well attached your teeth.

They come out with a lot of goobies and slobber and stuff. I suck the saliva out or I like dribble everywhere. So every time he pulls them out, it's like, yeah, I had them as well. My wife always never been more attractive than right now. Every time I'm like taking the purse out, aren't we. Can you just try this and he's like, hang on, I'm like, oh.

Now he's like making love and going, hold on, let me just take my business line off. Let me take my teeth out. It's a good, when we're in the rhyme and we'll be saying the same thing. Really gets the, you know, really gets the pheromones in the room. Whip it up the pheromones. I think we've got some audio of the washing machine at high. Now, a washing machine we've had for many years, and it feels like it's really, every time we hear it, we had to shut the laundry door because it's like a jet engine taking off. It really just.

It's a spin cycle. It's just spin cycle just gone for it and it really kicks in. Just working hard, that machine. I know. I feel like it's one day it's just going to stop. But it starts, and we're like, shut this. It's like a hell of a take out. The washing machine is very, very loud.

So that's something that really irks me. Triggering noises for you, producer Troy. This is something that happened in the movie theatre. Well, I'm triggered by most small noises You strike me as a guy who would get frustrated at noises It's a condition called misophonia If you're triggered by like a lot of tiny noises People eating all that kind of stuff

It's actually My wife's the same, she's the same shit Me Chewing gum, people cooking pens There's things, little things that will just be And I was like, I didn't notice that She's like, you notice this thing I'm like no Yeah, so obviously you're one of these people

As I raged at the movie theory the other day When I was a midday movie Just gonna, you know Have some calm, chill time to myself And then these two bloody guys came in, brought food from outside the movie theater, which Not allowed. Not allowed.

And it was bag of chips. What he thought was a big bag of salt and vinegar chips. I heard this interaction take place. He opened the bag and he went, oh no. And inside his bag of chips were more smaller bags of chips. Oh. He bought like the family pack. Oh, the lunch chippies.

Yeah, the lunch chippies. And most people would go, okay, I've failed this one, put it away. He threw out the whole movie, opened the little bag. finish the bag, scrunch the bag, put the bag away. Open a small bag, scratch the bag, put a bag away, open another bag, and oh my god, I couldn't focus on the movie. There would be 15 little bags he would have opened and shut there. I couldn't tell you a thing about the movie because I was so focused on that. What movie was it?

He doesn't know. He doesn't know. He didn't know. I couldn't tell you.