Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Jon Reveals Megan's biggest secret LIVE on air!!!

Episode Date: September 18, 2025

On today’s show: Jono accidentally exposes Megan’s secret post-divorce living situation… at the radio station. Producer Troy shares the heartbreak of discovering his first Shania Twain concert was actually a tribute act. Ben checks in from London on his hot girl European autumn, complete with a questionable British accent. The team dives into the most memorable concert moments, from snail trails to broken barriers. We hear from listeners about falling asleep at work, including one who accidentally started a fire. And Megan’s manky fridge makes its TV debut (yes, she still hasn’t peeled the plastic off). Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thanks to Hello Fresh, cook easy, delicious dinners the whole family will love, because nothing beats dinner time. Hello, welcome to the podcast for your Friday. We made it to Friday. Hello, Jono. What's up this weekend, Megan? What are you doing this weekend? SFA, actually, because we had such an epic weekend last weekend. We're chilling. We've got a third birthday party to go to on Sunday. Morning. I'm so glad that period of my life is over. Oh, are you?

Yeah, well, I miss, you know, the kids being young, obviously, but just the awkward standing around having to have conversation with, you're like, the only thing we had in common is we all bummed uglies around about the same time. Really? You know, it's like when you have the group, the, I've just forgotten everything about that period, antinatal. Yeah. Before you have the child. Yeah. And I was like, oh, let's all become friends. And you're like, no, let's not.

Let's keep going on with our lives, how they were before we knew each other. We didn't keep in contact with any of them. Some people do form some love it. And it makes me sound like a really antisocial hermit. But yeah. Honestly, I've got friends that I haven't seen in years. I'm a terrible friend to the friends I've already got, let alone trying to make new friends to try and maintain, you know?

Yeah. We're really lucky. Both our kids, their best friends, have really cool parents. That's good. That is good. Yeah. Bastie's best friend is very much into Formula One, his whole family, into motor racing.

So I'm like, yes. You've hit the jackpot there, yeah. You kind of go, loss, loss, loss, win. Yeah, that's a good one. Lost, loss, lost, loss, win. You make a couple of connections along the way. Yeah. Yeah, we're, yeah, we've probably, you've got two families

with with with from school. After all these years. Such a great. Two, two we've collected along the way. It is, yeah, it is awkward at a birthday party because all the kids are like doing stuff and all the parents are just literally standing around, like. It's like, yeah, and it's not the environment

where you're like, do you want to, do you want a beer? You want to, you know? Yeah. I did appreciate the ones where you would turn up and there'd be the old, yeah, should we have a bear, mate? Yeah, that makes them somewhat more bearable. We had a pool party for our son. That's cool.

And there was alcohol provided to the parents. And in hindsight, probably not actually that safe. No, but they would have loved it. Like everyone there would have gone, that was a good one. Yeah. You know, we walked away from there and it just, yeah. And great activity too for the kids swimming. Although you guys would have had to get in.

They would have been so young. You would have had to swim with them, right? Yeah, that's why I'm saying, drinking alcohol when we were kind of responsible for them in the pool was probably not actually that responsible. Oh, I see. Yeah, no, it's probably a black mark on your parenting there. But it made it more palatable. Oh, well, good luck.

What do you get for a three-year-old nowadays? What are they into? She is getting a, it's a toy, like, hairdressing kit. It's what she wants. It's called like a toy hair straightener. It's very cute. But, yeah. What really impresses me about the toy market is that the cycle moves on so quick.

Like stuff our kids grew up with now. You know, there's the Barbies and the, the G.I. Joe, some see it through, but for the most part, it's just a rotating cycle every five years and boom, they sell. They shift them units, don't they? Yeah. Gabby's, I'd never heard of Gabby's Dolehouse. Yeah, it's massive. Yeah, and that, I imagine it's drenched in merch, is it? Absolutely. I'll get you a headband if you like. Pinch on the left, pinch on the right. Is Princess Sophia? Sophia the first. Is she still a thing? No. See, she was a big bang him back in the day.

But then my son like loves everything Sonic and Sonic was around when I was young. Bubble Guppies, they still around? No. No. Wow! Damn! It was bubble guppies big. It was huge. Really? Yeah, jeez it moves on really

quickly. My niece liked Jungle Junction that's not a thing anymore. Oh yeah, I might have missed the boat on Jungle Junction. Did your kids like Bluey? Was that around? No, that was pre-bluey. But yeah, that was all. Is that still huge Bluey? Massive. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, there we go. we go that's just reminiscing about children's stoves shows enjoy the podcast we just had a funny story that has come across our desk i've always wanted to say come across our desk because we don't have desks makes the show seem far more sophisticated than it is but it's about an air traffic controller which would be a really tough job caveat this but one air traffic controller he was in corsica which is a french island um so if flight was going from Paris to Corska in the Mediterranean. So maybe

he was on island time. But the flight took off an hour late and it was due to land in darkness but when they approached there was no lights on in the runway. The airport was dark and the was this the pilot talking?

We don't have any radio contact with him. Love car A zero four, McAgo Pucks. So they're just flying round in circles about the airport. There's no lights on. To go into a holding pattern, they're like we can't see the runway.

To be fair, it was like quarter to 11 at night. Okay. But you're still on the job. So the air traffic controller had nodded off. I could see how that would have. But he must have knotted off early because he didn't turn the lights on. It can't have been dark when he nodded off because he would have had the lights on.

But he's exhausting job air traffic controlling though, isn't it? We knew an air traffic controller. He was so highly strung the poor fella. Yeah, well, because literally thousands of people's lives are in your hands every day. Are they by themselves or is there a team? I'd imagine there needs to be a team.

Yeah. So you're right, maybe they both fell asleep. There was a couple of them who nodded off. So they, yeah, they contacted the fire service and the police and they ended up going up, finding him asleep and being like, can you turn the lights on, mate? I remember the old place we used to work there used to be giant mailbags hidden under a desk and reception.

And I would go and steal the mailbags. and there was a room like a sort of a cupboard that no one would go into it and I could sleep on top of the mail bags for hours, hours on it. What were you supposed to be doing? Working. Oh no, because I would work from midnight

is I'd start work at like midnight and then I'd start a job which Jennifer, my wife is actually the boss of and I'd send out products and mail products and she's like, you were the hands-down worst employee. That's how you keep your job. Anyone could have with the boss

And so I would sleep on the mailbags But I'd wake up with a rash The mailbags would give me a rash All over my face and neck Oh when I was an intern I used to like record Record ads And so I had my own little studio

Dark little corner booth Yep Dark little booth And because I was the intern You know I only got the overflow No one wanted to come to me Because I was just learning So I had a lot of downtime

So I turned the lights off And hide under my desk and I would just not off. You'd sleep under the desk. But I'd hear people come in being like, where's Megan? And I'd just like crawl under them further. I'm like, no, no one would know I was sleeping under there, sometimes for hours. Wasn't there a period?

Can I bring this up where you were like after your first marriage where you're like, when you're living and sleeping at work? Yeah, the edge radio station. That's the first time anyone knows that for that. Oh, is that sorry? Oh, that's okay. I slept on the beat bag at the studios. That must have been a bleak time in your life.

I'd set the alarm before anyone came into work and then I'd go down to my car and pretend I'd just arrived. Would you? That happened. What were you doing for shower? You must have stuck. There was a shower at work. Yeah, yeah, it's a bleak time. I can't imagine.

But I've slept a lot at work, you're right. Sharon, her, Sharon Casey, who used to work with, just texting saying, oh my God, I didn't know that. She was at the station at the time. Yep, that happened. No one knew you were living at the radio station. Fresh off of marriage breakup. No. Doesn't get any lower.

Thank you, Johnno. No worries, mate. You can always rely on me to share stuff that you don't want on the radio. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the Hats. Now, Megan, I must apologise because I've shared something that I've deeply personal about you. No, it's honestly fine. Are you sure? Yeah.

It's one of those weird things that you've just never been able to bring up in a conversation. We're all fan. Yeah, that's right. So we're just talking about when you fall asleep at work. And then I said, oh, Megan, after her first marriage was living at the radio station, no one knew it. So she was sleeping there and she'd wake up Even my ex-workmates had texted me now saying, I never knew you were sleeping at the radio station

A lot of text coming in too People are saying, oh you should have told us You could have lived with us Yeah But then you're saying the wonderful Mike Padu Ended up finding out and paid for a motel for you Hotel, a fancy hotel Mike Peru paid for a hotel

Ho not a Mo Wow Mike Purdue must be nice Ho not a Mo She deserves a ho not a mo Well, that's very nice What a lovely gesture from him I want everyone to know that about Mike

He's lovely Yeah, well I'm glad you worked your way through that Low Low Point And the last 10 minutes of me sharing the lowest moment in your life So when you fall into sleep at work That's what we're doing Kylie, lovely to have you on Good morning

Great to have you on Kylie When did you fall asleep on the job mate? So mine wasn't quite as drastic as Rogers I didn't set fire to anything but our friend of mine were actually still friends now and we worked in a certain department in a pack and save store and after a big night we would stop off at the pie cart have a pie, have probably an hour's sleep

and then we would cover for each other she would cover for me and we literally would say who was going to go first but you would have to climb up this old rickety old ladder and up onto a mezzanine floor and we've used to take turns falling asleep up on the mezzanine floor with all the alcohol. Oh, really?

Bet the stick man wasn't across this, I bet. No, definitely not. Work to treat. Work to treat. You can actually sleep anywhere if you're tired enough, can't you? Yeah. Yeah, that's fun. A good little tag team situation there.

And Roger, we've got old Roger on the phone. So what happened, Roger, on your job? I will put a louder and we finished doing it loud and I'm supposed to be at the fire watch and we have a half an hour cool down period and in that half an hour I fell asleep and woke up to a bit of a fire and saw the enclosure

Uh-oh, so you finished welding for the day You meant to stay there for 30 minutes Just make sure everything cools down It's all safe and kosher And you woke up to a fire Yeah, yeah, dozed off Oh no How bad was the fire?

Oh not too bad, we've got it under control pretty quickly it was just small and that's how the Sky City Convention Centre was put behind 10 years oh roger now did you get in trouble oh I got to rid of morning for it and kicked off site oh poor rog oh now you must have been working too hard mate

oh that's age we were doing 13 hours 30 nowadays and you got in trouble for it well yeah and so what is first First reaction, when you open your eyes and you're like, uh-oh, what are you thinking? Oh, this is sort of just grabbed the fire extinguisher and radioed up control to tell them about what's going on. To be honest, I've always wanted to use a fire extinguisher.

It seems fun. Yeah. I could never reprimand Roger. He seems too nice. Hey, good on you, Roger. Thank you so much for sharing. Appreciate it. Cheers.

A lot of texts about your sleeping awake, Megan, coming through. So I feel like an absolute monster now. No, honestly, I, no. John, it's fine. A lot of people, this is a lovely one. More than a Megan, firstly, I'm glad John I apologize. Secondly, the way you are owning your sleeping at work after your divorce is incredible. Most people would be too ashamed to talk about something like that, so deeply personal.

Well, she didn't have a choice. If you've just cottoned on or just joined the show, John, I just mentioned before after my divorce that I had a low point and slept at my old radio station in the studio for a few days. Another text here too, Megan, there's no shame in what. happened okay you know the best way to banish shame is tell everyone it frees the shame so you should be thanking me thanks john oh good thank you finally i get the recognition i deserve for sharing your deepest darkest story johnno ben and megan the podcast that something something's accidentally happened uh sweating yeah so the last 20 minutes you just joined us so i accidentally shared

a story that i didn't realize hadn't been told on the radio before about megan after a divorce, living at work. Yeah. And sleeping at work. No one knew. No one knew. The edge radio station. They had beanbags.

It was comfy. Don't worry about me. I'm just fine. Even your former workmates. Colleagues finding out about it for the first time now, too. Someone's texts into, all these texts coming through. It's turned into something. You're a super strong woman, Megan.

Jono just has no filter. No, the thing is, you tell, this happens all the time. You tell Jono things, and he forgets what's on air and what's not. for on a year. Oh, I've got a couple of bangers that I just would love to tell. You've told me some great ones over there. I'm not going to. I'm not going to. I'm, yeah. I just didn't, yeah.

I just didn't, yeah. We are talking about when you have full of the sleep at work, though. Mark, good morning. Good morning, how you done? Yeah, we're good. You fell asleep on the job, mate. Well, it was late one night at work. I was working on a computer system, and I knew that the solution was simple, but I was so tired, I couldn't think of it.

And there was a sick bay there, so I decided to lay down, fell asleep, and I started dreaming. And dreamt the solution, woke up, had the computer system going very quickly and on the way home. It came to you in a dream. Wow. Yeah, yeah. That is special. Like, using technology and stuff, that should be the same as driving a car if they say you're sleepy, take a break, have a nap, and then use the gear again. Does that make sense?

Exactly, if you're driving, if you're feeling sleepy, pull over, have a quick smooth, yeah. But that's an incredible story there, Megan, about, yeah, you know, it's obviously must be a low point and whatever. I've been for a divorce and itself, so it's good that you've come through. Yeah, good. Thank you. Do you think it was great that I shared the story, too, Mark? Yes, definitely. Yeah, good.

See, everyone agrees, Megan. It's great to get it out there. I'm sure everyone goes through a rough time when they get divorced, right, Mark. Now we have to recap the story, too. Megan got divorced. She lived at work and no one knew. Yeah, I slept and showered at work. It's great.

For some weeks after. Thank you for leaving the whole country. It's good. Mark's brought it up again. No one's really letting it go. Some more great texts coming through about it as well. I feel like it's overshadowing the whole point of this. Deeply vulnerable moment.

Hey, thanks, Margaret. Thank you, Mark. Have a good one, bud. Okay, you have good day. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Now, Quiz Queen, producer, Grace.

It's lovely to have you back in here. I'm feeling a 10 out of 10, guys. When I say that, just put that in your out there. Well, that's what they say, don't they? That's, you know, positive self-talk will get you the results eventually. She's got new nails.

I like those. Yeah, they're red. It looks like they could cut someone. What you do? We should put those on the Hitsbury's Instagram because Grace is a very good nail design, like makes little pictures and stuff on her nails. Guys, I'll put some of my really good ones on them. Yeah, check them all up there.

Every time you do your new set of nails, we'll put them on the Instagram. I'm really like it. It's good. We could call it a little, you're fingering with Grace. Come! With her fingers. We'll workshop that one It's a great title for the segment

Alright Just try something else Okay question number one Who recently became the youngest male actor To win a primetime Emmy Owen Cooper Owen Yeah

From adolescence Well done him Congratulations Question number two Who performs the voice of Buzz Lightyear In the Toy Story film series Tim Allen That is correct

Oh my god We are feeling good Here we go Question number three Demi Moore appeared naked And pranged out on the cover of Witch Magazine in 1991. Playboy.

Wait. That's not one of the options. Vogue, Vanity, Fear, Cosmopolitan. Oh, was it V-A-F? Was it Vanity Fear? Fear. Yeah, Vanity Fear. Vanity Fear?

That is correct. Nice word. Oh, was it Vogue? No. Definitely not a Vogue thing. Okay. Question number four. Which new AirPods model was announced at Apple's September event?

Airpods Max 2, Airpods Pro 2, Airpods Pro 3. Pro 3. airport's pro three that is correct wow we wait what are we up to question number five this is the fastest

you've gone I feel so excited okay in what year did the first episode of the Graham Norton show air 2005

2007 2009 and it was after I was born so crisis 24 or they're all after when you were born

yeah so 5 oh 7 oh 9 I'll get rid of 05 these questions are really mean yeah that is mean okay should we Go 2007?

Yeah. That is correct. Oh, okay. That was a guess. Because he had a show before that show too, didn't he? In Ireland. Yeah, he was an Irish talk show. Was it also the Greyhorn show, but...

I think it was a completely different show. Yeah, it was a lot more wild, late night stuff. Is he? He's not Irish, is he? Yeah, he's Irish. Yeah. I thought he was like Welsh. No, he's Irish.

Does he have an accent? Yeah, he's got an Irish accent. It's definitely like chilled out of it. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Good show. Question number six.

Jambon is the French word for what food product. Ham, bacon, salami. Jambon. Yeah, it's jam and then B-O-N. Jammer. Damn it, I know this. Ham, bacon or salami. Well, let's go.

Let's have a breather. Okay, we're going well. It's half time. We'll regroup. We'll get the fluids in. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits.

Grace, we're always stuck on a French food question. Yes. It's actually question number six. You guys keep down playing it. You're on question number six. Jambone is the first. French word for what food product, ham bacon, salami. We know it's not salami.

I'm going to hand it over to the resident foodie. I was trying to figure out where I'd seen it before. And I think it's a jammon bough, which is like a ham and butter sandwich. Sounds very fancy, but how I'm going to go with ham? Ham is correct. Jam, well, ham and butter instead of jambo. Just a ham sandwich. Well, it's baguette, usually with it just like ham and butter.

Because bur is like butter. We could make that. They can make anything sound exhaust. I know, yeah, great stuff. Question number seven, here we go. Okay, what popular sport did James Naismith invent? John, I feel like you might know this. Football, basketball or baseball?

James Naismith. N-A-I-S-Mith. I don't want to blow it. I don't want a blind guest. We've got a lifeline, please. 4-487 on the text. All you can 0-800 hits. Give us a call.

The inventor of... What popular sport did James Naismith invent? Football, baseball or basketball. I don't know. Yeah, James May Smith. I've never heard of him before this, but all of these are American sports. If someone has texts through basketball, I feel like you know basketball, Oscar plays basketball, I feel like you should know that.

I don't know, like the history, like, who created basketball? Oh, I expected you don't know everything about it. Yeah, no, I just go along and watch teenagers play basketball. A few ticks coming in now, basketball. Okay. Yeah, basketball is correct. Well done. Thank you.

Here we go. Question number eight, guys. The town Roswell, famous for its 1947 UFO incident, is in which US state? New Mexico, Texas or Arizona. It's New Mexico. That is correct. Yeah, yeah. There we go.

Oh, my God. A couple of years ago, we spoke to someone who claims are abducted by aliens at Roswell, and it was the most intense interview ever. He went on for 90 minutes. We pre-recorded it for 90 minutes, because he didn't want to miss any details because of fear of making him look like her crazy. He covered off everything. Probed? Got a probing?

Why? Whole family? Yeah, okay, we could go on to that. Why are they probing? I don't know. Like, I just don't know. Science? So it's a scientific probing?

Abduck you and they're like, the first thing we're going to do is stick something there. It wouldn't be the first thing I'd do. But if it's scientific, there's other ways to get materials. You're right. It's just like a DNA swab of your mouth or let me blow my nose. Surely there's a bit away. Hopefully they did, I'll wipe the probe too when they head off. Yeah, but between customers, you know.

We're on another probing mission team. Question number nine. Music Star Post Malone launches fashion line in which city? Paris, Milan or London. Oh, God. I didn't realize he had a fashion line. Yeah, me neither. I thought his fashion line was just t-shirts from vintage shops.

It'll be Paris and Milan, surely. Okay, yeah, we're going to, yeah, okay. Milan is like... That's the fashion capital, isn't it? The fashion capital of the world. But then you'd have like Paris Fashion Week that I imagine he would probably go to. Should we lock in Paris? Locking in Paris?

Yeah. That is correct. Wow. Okay. Stresses me out every time. Question number 10. I cannot. Okay.

However this goes down, I still can't wait to tell Ben when he comes back that we hit nine so many times. Yeah. I think you've got one seven, the rest for nine. I think we've identified the week's like. It's been holding us back with his inferior intelligence. We've been saying it all along No, it's because we're decisive And he sits on the fence

Sorry, Grace you go Question number 10 NFL legend Tom Brady has announced He's coming out of retirement Everyone's only coming To play in a flag football tournament Being held where Jonathan Pryor

United Kingdom Arab Emirates isn't it Or Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia Oh my God Everyone take a deep breath Yeah Tom Brady

is playing flag football tournament In Saudi Arabia We've done it! We've done it! Six months in the making John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The Hats The New Zealand Basketball

Secondary School National Tournaments on Megan And I'm heading along I'm going along Not just I've got a son playing in the tournament I'm not just some weirdo hanging out At the teenagers' basketball tournament But it's in Palmerston North

And I'm going along by myself going to be in a motel by myself feels like I'm putting myself into witness protection in Palmerston North It does a bit Because Oscar's going to be busy He's busy staying in another place He's got his team, he's got his games

So he's not even staying with you No Do we need to be worried about you? I'm just there on a lonely dad tour I honestly don't think I would have spent This much time alone With my dark dark thoughts for Probably 15 years

15, 20 years I'd say We travel together and we stay in separate rooms but you don't, you know, you sleep and then you get up and you do other things. You're going to be by yourself. Just me. Just raw dogging me. I wonder when I'm going to get bored of myself. That's not factoring in the eight-hour drive too, all alone.

I actually worried about bored, Jono. Talking. Because I'm just like, what are you going to get up to? I reckon I'm probably going to arrive in Palmerston North after an eight-hour drive and relived every embarrassing moment in my life from kindergarten right through to the moment that I've landed in Palmer's Nord. I feel like we need to set you activities or tasks just to keep you busy. Otherwise, we might lose you or you might get in trouble.

Don't get me wrong. Love Palmer North. Four days alone there, though. You can only go and see the wind turbines so many times and entertain yourself. Do you need some listeners to call up and, like, invite you over for dinner or, like, tell you where to go? I don't want to be an old man burdening. You know, it's like when your granddad comes to say, you know, oh, we better show him room, take him to the clock tower in Palmerston North.

That's not what I meant. So, yeah, if you just see me next week lonely, wandering... Meandering through the town. Wandering the streets of Palmerston North. He is alone, and he does need assistance. Yeah. But, yeah, 4487 on the text. Well, Ben's looking at art in Europe.

I'm looking at spray painter genitals on a wall in Parmy, ma'amie, ma'am. The juxtaposition. But it's going to be fun. You might not. come back you might what happened to him really find yourself we lost him to parmy he's in parmy now parmy's got him he's gone to a better place yeah no but looking forward to i genuinely am it's really good it's awesome seeing kids so many talented kids out there now yeah it really is wild yeah but like bigger we're pumping growth

hormones into chicken they're getting bigger and stronger and do you need to look at them for four days in parmy though all the talented kids all i gotta do may i've got nothing else to do Joining a John O'Ben and Megan The podcast 23-year-old, 23-year-old, Patricia Grace, sorry. 24.

Are you 24 now? Don't count. Don't say. She was 22 when she started with us. Oh, you're getting old, boy. I'm every hour of the day now. I'm a whole day. And you guys are like a year.

It's crazy. Yeah. Now, Grace and Megan, off the yearways. You know, this is pulling the curtain back. behind the scenes, have a very Cicely relationship, quite bickory at times. Generally, you know, three out of the five days of the week, it's pretty smooth, plane sailing. Yeah.

But every now and then there's just these spikes of disagreements that take place. I think we're both quite stubborn and spirited. But, like, Grace, we go to Pilates. We, like, text each other all the time. Grace sits after my kids. So I want to caveat this argument by saying that we do love each other. But. Now, this was, I didn't even.

Oh, this was actually just recording by accident We had the microphones on I had no idea This is being recorded And this is going to reveal me to be A bitch Grace used the word law L-O-R-E

And for some reason This really struck a nerve With Megan and it all studied I was also sick this day Okay here we go Have a listen He's got good law Stop using law

Law's not going to happen Do you know what law mean? Yes What? What is all mean then? Do you know how to spell it? Yeah. L-O-E-R.

L-E-R is L-O-E. Oh, that's what I meant. Boy, you said E-R, no. No, I know, but my brains are working. You guys didn't make it up. Well, we started using it with different things. Usually the exact same reason. Everyone always used the word law.

But you're like, like, book law. It's like the history of the book. That's what that word... Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Don't... Why are you doing that? I'm just... The migraines coming.

I'm gonna name it great. I'm gonna keep yelling. But we just made law happy. No, you just took folk off it Oh, is that one? So, yeah, I have a good argument to have too. Like, out of all the stuff you could argue about

in the world at the moment, that was a good topic. Can you please tell everyone I'm not usually that sweary too? Yeah, normally I'm the sweary around, but I was like, Megan, I was beeping at ours. Stop. And it really goes from like zero to 100 real quick with you too as well, which I appreciate.

Yeah, we're entertaining. We're here for entertaining family as the boy. So I'm trying to make law happen. I love how I'm like, Allo R-E. What is it? Like, L-O-E-R. Don't start it again.

Let's not go back. We did make it happen. I just want to put it there. Yeah. You were talking about who generation trying to make it happen. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The Hats. Has been announced. 2026. And there's a lot of artists on there that I'm going to be honest. I haven't heard. Doesn't mean they're not great. H-D-M-I cable? Haven't heard of them?

But Chappell Rhone is headlining, which is very exciting. Yeah. She can probably sell out a venue just on her own, I imagine. It's going to be a great festival. Great festival. Now, speaking of all things, music, we've got producer Troy in here with a real formative moment in your childhood years, Troy. Yeah, well, we're talking about this yesterday.

That Laneway's probably going to be a lot of people's first concert, because it's R16, you know. Oh, yeah. So it got me thinking about my first ever concert experience at the Civic and Greyham. This is where you grew up on the West Coast, the South Island. Okay, so you at age five were a huge fan of who? Shania Twain. Shanaia Twain?

Yeah, I mean, she had some bangers. She had big bangers. It was the first cassette I ever bought was up. You know, the red one, and it's like her in the white singlet, and she's like pointing to the sky. Can I just say, a little out of a demo for a five-year-old boy on the West Coast, I would have thought of Shania Twain. What do you mean? The West Coast loves a bit of Shania. It was the leopard print.

That got us West Coasters. What was your favourite song? Is this one? This one? No, you're going to get me good. Oh, you're going to get me good. He was a true fan. I'm going to get you.

Yeah. I'm going to get you good. We don't even have. It was a B-side. It was a B-side. True fan. Loves the Shania B-Side. So you went along to a concert.

Shania Twain came to Greymouth. That is a... I didn't know Shania Twain came. Massive on the West Coast. I went with my mum and we'll maybe front row at the Civic and Greymouth. Oh my God. Oh, my God, it was amazing. I think I remember crying.

When you were what, six? Five or six, yeah. Oh, bless. And she played all the hits. I was screaming, singing along. It got to maybe... Did you play your B-side? She played the B-sides.

Played everything. Great. It was like two hours of Shania, and then she left the stage. Oh, God, oh, cool, oh, cool, oh, cool, oh, cool. Five-year-old Troy just... One more song. And then Shania Twain comes back out onto the stage, takes off her wig.

What? He says, thanks, I've been Mandy Stanton. It was the Shania Twain tribute act. So the whole time you thought you were watching real Shania Twain. That's on your mum. Yeah, I think so. Your mum sold it as Shania. She couldn't really have sold it as Mandy Stanton.

I probably wouldn't have been as keen to. Now, on the scale of interest, how much did that impress you? Little. Did you cry at that moment? Didn't impress you much. It broke my heart. I've got some audio here of, Mandy, actually, when she played in Toad.

I don't impress me much. So you got the brains, but I didn't got the touch. Now, I don't get me wrong, yeah. She's good. Now, I know you're only five years old, but it sounds like she's just rattling on to a backing track there. Like, did Shania with no band, not ring any bells? No, no flags? Not even any visuals.

It was just her standing on the stage at the Civic. Maybe this is a stripped back version of her. She's just raw, Shania. Troy loved it though I can't believe she let down the facade I know Even at the end Took the wig off

Great reveal though Taking the wig off too She could have kept it on She could have kept it on You just imagine your little Troy's face Me like What Oh 800 the hits

This is what we want to chuck open What is your most memorable Moment at a concert Is it Shania Do you thought it was Shania Twain Coming out and pulling her wig off At the end of the show At the Encore

End of the Encore You would have been to a few gigs In your time A few yeah Nothing, all pretty stock standard stuff. One I did, remember we went to Kendrick Lamar when he first came out here and we're at Spark Arena. We're way up in the nosebleeds, Jen and my wife and I, and then behind us was this couple

just in the middle of a pass-fest, just passion, passing from the opening act all the way through to the end of the encore. They were, yeah, I thought it was like some sort of fundraiser for kids can or something. I'm a passion for kids or something. Raising money for the kids. But like, not even a smooch during their favorite Kendrick song. Like, right from the gecko. Just all the way through. Wow.

Yeah, well, obviously my back was faced. At one point, his leg was over my shoulder. I was like, am I a part of this? Am I being called off the bench? Am I in the team now? Sorry, we were just really excited to be there. I mean, my husband. No, that's not something even, that's not even, we wouldn't even do that.

Yeah. I thought maybe that, you know how you sometimes things suction clothes and you can't separate them? I thought, maybe they're mouted. Yeah, so that's probably my most memorable moment at the concert. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. Talking this morning about your most memorable concept moments after producer Troy realized he was saying a tribute Shania Twain.

Not the real Shania. And it was only revealed to him when she came out and pulled her wig off after the encore. Dreams were shattered. Childhoods would change that day, Troy. I never bought another casino. set. You need to make a correction though, an apology. Yeah, Rose actually called through and has apparently a correction to the story.

Oh, Rose, you're from Greymouth. Lovely to have you on. Hi. Did you go to the wonderful Shania Twain tribute impersonator show? Yes, yes. You did? I did. Big gig, was it?

Oh, they're always big gigs. I mean, you know, things come to Greymouth, everyone goes. Did you, do you remember the wig reveal and the encore? No, I must have missed that bit Did you think you're watching real Shania Twain Or impersonator Shania Twain? Oh, I knew it was an impersonator Because I was a bit older

Yeah You got your head around it You didn't buy any merch that sort of said Sort of Shania Twain No, no, no But there is a correction you want to make From Troy's story There is Troy, and because

It's a regent in Greymouth, not the Civic Oh, that is You know what, Rose? I hate to say this, but the Troy you knew in Greymouth, he's changed. He's gone certified. He's gone urban, you know? If he ever returns to Greymouth, it'd be like that scene from Zoolander, you know,

when he goes back and sees his family in the mines, you know, the coal mines. Rose, love your work. He's got beautiful soft. Hey, go on you. Thanks, all. Love listen to you, he's got. Can have a great day, Rose. Appreciate it.

Beautiful soft hands. He does. Now, Megan, your most memorable concert moment. What do you got? My chemical aromates, when they came and played the. main stage at the big day out. Oh, the big day out. Oh, so good.

This was when I was younger and I liked to be in the mosh pit. I was right up the front. Were your mosh pit girl, were you? I was. I'd like act all innocent and push my way to the front. And this was before they had like a protection like D area. Yeah. And this was the year that the crowd surged and broke that front barrier and some people

broke their legs and stuff. Were you there? I was against the front of the barrier. Oh my gosh. As the barrier broke. But I didn't break anything. I can imagine you in your mosh pit era. Gotta get to the mosh pit!

I'd throw some elbows. I looked all innocent, but I was like, get out of my way! We're doing the most memorable moment at a concert for you, Amy. What was it? So I'll give you a bit of backstory first. My dad had quite a major stroke in 2008, and he wasn't supposed to survive,

but he loved Rod Stewart. And he'd seen Rod every time he'd come to New Zealand Bar, 2008, because he was in hospital. So the next time he came, got tickets front row center. I took some long-stemmed red roses, and I gave them to Rod, and my dad yelled out, I love you, Rod, and Rod's like, I love you, too. Oh.

And seeing my dad up and dancing when he had to learn to walk and stuff after the stroke, it was just an amazing, amazing night. And my dad really instilled my love of music, so I got to see BGs and Meatloaf and Michael Jackson and all these different artists growing up, because my dad, just took me to everything. Oh, what a good memory. That was a huge, huge concert for us, and a, yeah, treasured memory for sure. Oh, good, I was wonderful how those moments at concerts bring people together, isn't it?

It's a unified experience. Absolutely. When I took Dad to Cliff Richard, one lady came up to him after the concert and said to him, I don't know who I liked watching more. You were all Cliff Richard, so that made Dad's night because that was post-stroke as well. Oh, good on him. It was difficult to stop him. he'd keep trucking on for a few years.

The pelvis was still pumping. Good on you, Amy. Have a good one. Appreciate it. Let's get Cheryl on. Welcome to New Zealand's breakfast. Cheryl memorable concert moments. Yeah, so that would be probably plus minus about 30 years ago.

Grew up in South Africa, obviously, from the accent. So this was back then. Was at the concert with my husband and my best friend and her husband. and also a bit of a back story. We needed to go to the bathroom, and my husband was like, okay, you're on your own. So we made our way to the bathrooms, but on the way got handed shots from many random people on the way. Didn't end up going to the toilet, made our way back to the front, got right up close and personal. And by then, after many shots, we were so close.

I literally could see every single year of his snail trail on his gorgeous torso right down to his pants. Who's torso are we talking here? Who? Um, Shaggy. Oh, Shaggy! All right, you're looking at Shaggy's gorgeous snail trail. The way you set that up, it sounded like you were one of those mosh pit wheels.

I appreciate it. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. Welcome, welcome to Friday. Welcome to the last day of the school term as well. School holidays start tomorrow, well today, technically. A lot of excited kids and probably stressed out parents trying to figure out how they're going to fill in the next two weeks

and juggle jobs and... And 30,000 people expected at Auckland Airport today. 30,000! Wow! Yeah, all trying to escape. Escape. Yeah, well, a guy who did escape before the madness was Ben, who's not here, he's already on holidays. He headed over on his hot girl European autumn.

Yeah. We don't have his itinery. should have asked for his itinerary. I want to know where he is exactly at this moment. Well, he is, well, right now, he's, he's in London. And is it any coincidence that he's there with his hero Donald Trump? I would say not. He would be mortified that you said that. They would be, yeah, the city bracing for a shortage of hand sanitizer from Ben and Bondi's fake tan from Trump. So he sent us some audio.

This is fresh off the press, hot off the press, as they say. Hello, hello, hello, what have we here? All right, Governor, how are we doing? What are you doing here? David Beckham, Megan Markle, all right. Dad, five, four, three, two. What's that? It's like gender parenting.

He came down from five and you stop. I'm just doing a report back to the Hits Radio Station in New Zealand. People think you're crazy. No one sounds like this guy off the show. He can't do a British accent for the life of them. I just been in London town for a couple of days. For one day, how old are you? In both of them, Prince Harry.

Oh, King Charles, all right, jog on. Why are you just like listening every single thing? This is giving me a headache. All right, all right, all right, son, all right. Son, sorry, sorry. Okay, okay, so I stopped that. Yes. I was just picked up an accent quite quickly.

Yeah, yeah. A good one? Oh, very good one. Okay, well we're standing right here next to... The Big Ben, Little Ben is standing beside the Big Ben. He's feeling quite little. Yeah, well, Big Ben is right here. And it's, yeah, Big Ben's a little intimidating for me,

for me because I'm, yeah, not quite as big as that one. A more popular Ben, I'd have to say, all right, I'm going to go, jog on, son, all right, get white, oh, I go, like a shoeshine, all right. You go, live from, like a shoe shine, all right. He committed to the accent. So there you go, live from London. And he sent us a photo of... Little Ben by Big Ben?

It's something called the Dilley. Oh, it's like a restaurant called the Dilley. And we all did. of crying laugh and he's good so he's been now on his Hot Girl European

autumn and actually before 7 o'clock he's heading to Danielle Daniel is our Italian correspondent he's heading to

her home stomping ground as well in Roma he's going to Rome in Italy John O'Ben and Megan The podcast

The Hits She raises the positivity of this program by at least 95% every time she's on the radio

Bonjourno Bonjourno Goodgiorno beautiful people I miss you We've missed you too Italian correspondent Daniela it's been a couple of weeks

Where are you been? You've been off the grid Yeah but I was hiding from you guys No I'm kidding How you two coping without Ben We're fumbling mate Fumbling our way through it It's a slower pace It is

Which I'm not mad about He runs a relentless to-do list Yeah He keeps me and Jono busy So we're kind of just chilling Relax It's your holiday time, I get it Productivity's at an all-time low

But we are relaxed, you're right Yeah, yeah Ben is like me He's a little bit hyperactive I was very tempting To catch a flight with Ben and his family Go in Europe, you know Yeah, well Ben's over in your part of the world

Actually, I think he's actually He's heading over to your country How dare him to no invite me I mean, sorry Well, because your hometown is Rome And he's going to Rome No fair, I'm really feeling angry with him that he didn't take me in the suitcase, but

he says I was a too growing adult to fit on his suitcase. Plus it's also weird if you're transporting an adult in a suitcase, you know. That's human trafficking. Yeah, yeah. It's human trafficking, yeah. It's frowned upon. It's like, yeah, no, I agree with you. Actually, sounds bad. Now, Daniela, obviously a massive weekend of sport.

The Rugby World Cup, the women's rugby World Cup, semi-final this weekend. What sport did you really not understand when you moved to our country? Because you guys are football mad, obviously. Correct. All of them? I mean, sorry, that was our answer, all of them? Cricket.

What cricket? Yeah. Ah, yeah. I mean, I tend to say you're not really missing much. Sometimes it goes for, like, days and days, and then no one wins. That annoys me. Oh, yeah, no, I cannot do that. No, I'm sorry.

What about rugby? Did you... It's so many times, but I cannot do that. What about rugby? Did you understand what rugby was when you moved? No. No, even worse. So why you got the two poles there?

No, I'm sorry, not. Why have you got two poles act in the same way that the goal does in soccer? Yeah, and what is the net? Why you got just two poles? You widow people. Why? You win the people. You know, we need a net.

Everything's we do when we do a net. Basketball is a net. You know soccer, there is a net. You know tennis, there is a net, guys. Daniel, a lovely to hear from you. Look after yourself in Tauronga. You too, guys. Ciao, guys.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. And yesterday I had, in the same building as the Oneroof people. Oneroof.com.com.com.com.N.Z for all your real estate and property needs, Oneroof.com.com. Chance to win a Suzuki car at the moment as well. Yeah, yeah. So they came to your house with a film crew. They wanted to come and see this luxurious palace featuring two lounges. Stop saying that. It's really not. Two lounges. Biggest, Ben's biggest bug bear with Megan is the fact she has not one but two lounges. Double lounges.

No, there's one lounge. We just, like, made another one into, like, a big area into a second lounge. Honestly. Second lounge. Should we adjourn? Anyway, he's never invited me to his palace, so I can't, like, tip for tat on that. But basically, yeah, some people came over and wanted to just, like, film. It's love where you live, and they wanted to ask me why I love where I live.

And I was like, because I own it, and I have to. But I'm paying a lot of money for it. To be honest, the bank owns it. To be honest, there's a lot I do to it. But, yeah, just don't film that area. We're stuck in a big long mortgage. That's why I'm here, if you want to know the truth. Yeah.

So we did a little filming, and I did a massive tidy-up, because obviously... I couldn't think of anything worse, some people coming over to film in my... It's all the stuff you'd have to hide and put away. What about your bloody Mankey fridge? You've got a fridge where you refuse... This really frustrates me. Refuse to peel off the plastic covering that comes with a new appliance. Yeah.

You know, most people, day one, boom, that comes off. You've left it on for years. Yeah. Well, we've got a two and a four-year-old, and so I'm not going to peel it off until they're a bit older, because it's protecting the fridge. But it's fraying, and it's all peeling. It's curling over itself.

It's like curling and lifting on the edges. So yesterday, I had to walk, I had to do the walk-and-talk thing, so I walked past the fridge, and they made me do it a few times because they said, and I've just realized now what the problem was, they said that the fridge was reflecting. That's not reflecting. They're like...

They didn't want it to frame it out because it's all peeling. The only person in the universe has decided to leave plastic on the fridge door and that's annoying us. I'm like, sorry, can you do it again? We just need to frame out the fridge. I can fully understand where they're coming from. Yeah. I saw for their nice video.

Hey, you know what? They can bring in another fridge for me if they've got a problem with it. So you'll see that soon. You'll see Megan's Mankey fridge and her double lounges on Oneroof.com. Thank you very shortly.