Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Jono and Ben are babysitting Megan’s kid...

Episode Date: May 4, 2026

On today’s show:  Why is Jono ranked Radio Guy #2? Jono and Ben have well‑intentioned idea to help Megan with her kids in the morning! How Ben ran into the stranger who gave him a lift... The Imposter Game returns! Can you guess the keyword?  How a casual café chat leads to meeting someone who’s just launched a rocket into space! Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFAST Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Jono Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better team. Welcome to the podcast. I know Megan again. She's off. We're all doing some life admin at the moment. Juggling things.

Struggle, juggle, at the moment. You're all here on the show, we proposed to her that we can help her out for Mother's Day and on behalf of the show and the audience, who I know want to do something nice for Megan. We also had on the program, you'll hear, Jazz Thornton, social media legend jazz. does some fantastic work in the mental health space. I've always wanted to say that. The space. You know how people refer things as the...

And she does. You do some great work in the radio space. I don't know if I do. But yes, I work in the radio space. Troy, the production space, I feel like you're owning producer Troy. So keep that up in the production space. Producer Grace, and you, and you, producer Grace, doing great work in the football-supporting space for Auckland FC.

And the podcast space, which you can also hear a full jazz Thornton interview. be on the podcast. Should be on this podcast or just on the other one? Different podcasts. Oh, okay. So you listen to that whole chat on another podcast. Yeah, on our podcast. Not in this space that we're talking in here.

Not somebody else's show. Like our podcast, so you've got a full chat with jazz. She had a really crazy story though about a, because obviously he's quite big online. Someone who stalked her from the Netherlands, flew to New Zealand from the Netherlands and found her house. Truly frightening. Yeah. Someone's texted in after that went to air saying my daughter had stalker

For eight years, she stayed one night at a hostel in Paris. Thousands and thousands of emails and Facebook messages from multiple accounts from this guy who was in the hostel. He flew from Paris to Sydney, found out where she lived. The police could do bugger all finding him, and then she found him on social media. And he was convinced that they were in a relationship, this guy. The police finally got to him and said that was literally the weirdest person. The police said this, the weirdest person they've ever met. Wow.

You just don't know who you're running into day-to-day, do you? No, no, yeah. You don't know what's going on in people's minds? That's wild. That is wild. Yeah, it's from one night at a hostel. And you just feel like, obviously, there's some mental issues that play there. But you're like, that's eight years, this guy was like, you know, that is huge commitment.

And flights, accommodation, that really is. I mean, terrible, terrible thing, but the commitment levels. Yeah, wow. Through there. I've never shown commitment like that to anyone. Well, hopefully we'll be back again with some commitment for the podcast. But tomorrow, but you enjoy it right now. Jono, Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits.

Yesterday to go pick up some dry clean. I don't really dry clean many clothes, but there was something that had been sitting there for a couple of weeks, so I'll pop down and grab it. Now, as the wonderful lady behind the counter, a very friendly lady, she's like, I'll just go and grab it off that rotating rack, you know, that does the loop.

Yeah, yeah. They look fun. They look really fun. those rotating. I'd like to play with those. Yeah. And I could see on the screen because I handed over the docket, I could see on their system what she had labeled me as. Oh.

And I was like, oh, radio guy number two. Oh, really? Yeah. Which means I'm second place to another radio guy. You're not the only radio guy. I was the only radio guy. I was she going to call you what, baldie locks or something.

But no, she... I didn't even know this was a competition, but I'm sitting in second place on this podium. Number two. Did you, I suppose she couldn't really go. No, I didn't. No. Do you's Radio Guy number one?

Yeah, because I didn't want to let her know that I'd been snooping on her screen. Yeah. But yeah, I'm happy, listen, don't get me wrong. Happy to be even be on the podium. Well, we'd be to be Radio Guy number two in the ratings. We're radio guys number, I think, eight or nine, to be honest. So she wants to get that fact. It's actually correct.

The latest listener audience results. Yeah, I can. I can do the edit on that for it. Yeah. Well, it can't be Simon Barnett. He doesn't wear a shirt. I mean, number one of the ratings. He's not sharing the dry cleaner.

He's not. Yeah, could be Hoskin. Could be Hoskin. Could be Hoskin. He's getting into the stuff dry cleaning. Yeah. So there we go. Oh, 800 of the hits.

Is that our number? I don't know why I just gathered out. And that's why I'm Radio Guy number two. That's right. John O'Benin and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Megan away at the moment.

gone on in her household. Her husband, Andrew's gone away for six weeks on tour for Anne Juliet, the musical production that he's doing. So Megan taking time to deal with a lot of a life, Abbin, and she mentioned Mother's Day. Not really going to have much of a chance to do anything this week.

So we thought we'd do something for her. Yeah. I don't know, Megan speaking. Oh, my God. Megan, Megan, Megan. Why did I answer my phone? Why did I answer my phone? Well, we've been trying to call you like 19 times. What do you guys want? You're on annual leave. You don't actually, like, contractually you don't need to answer the phone call.

No, you don't. No, and usually I don't answer phone calls. Why do they answer? Don't reply to emails. Don't answer phone calls. She's off the grid. No, that's not what I use my phone for. What do you use your phone for?

Online shopping. Like, yeah, an Instagram. Yeah, right, that's. Okay, so Megan, I know lots going on in your household at the moment. We actually genuinely were thinking about what you said the other day about for the second year. Mother's Day you're not going to have Andrew your husband around to celebrate. We feel for you. There's a lot going on.

This sounds genuine. It is. It is genuine. It is. It is genuine. It doesn't sound like there's a lot going on. Sounds like you're asleep, mate. No, I was asleep because my daughter's been up all night.

Right, but it's a weekday. Don't they have to go to school? Yeah, mate. What are you doing? Maybe shocking mothering. You said I've taken two weeks off to look after kids and do life admin. They absolutely do need to go to school. So it was great.

Yeah, really, you're sleeping to this time. Anyway, what my trainer thought was that we decided yesterday with the help of the listeners, we wanted to do something for you. So the idea that we want to propose to you as we come over Friday, Friday morning, we do the radio show, but also help you. You know, we get the kids ready, get them fed, get them into school, daycare where they want and we send you out and you get a massage. How's that sound?

Yeah, but like what time are you going to come over? Yeah, that's where people are starting to text in. They're like, well, she's clearly going to have to let you in at least at 5am. If you thought 740 was an early phone call, you're still asleep. And then Troy's getting him to set up the broadcast equipment. I don't want to sound, I don't want to sound grateful. That sounds like you've planned, you know, you've tried. We have tried.

Which actually is more than what my husband's. done so yeah ouch and one text really stuck with me they were like wouldn't it just be easy for her to just drop the kids off and then go and do her own thing for the entire day true that's very true it feels like a broad an outside broadcast in your lounge is a little bit of a burden huge burden

huge burden but I know but they haven't met my daughter so if I don't have to deal with her in the morning you know what that also it might bring me some joy to like put her on you guys okay so that's the deal we'll turn up You go off, have a massage. We'll look after the kids, give them breakfast, drop them off at school. We might need a little help through that process from you,

but we'll try not to bug you too much. Are you going to, can you feed them like breakfast food, not like chocolate and stuff? Microwave Kranskis. It's my signature dish. Oh, geez, okay. You just tell us what needs to happen and we'll try and give me a to do list. I love a to-do list.

I'll try and tick some items off, and we'll try and help you out on Friday. How's that sound? It's going to be chaos. But hey, I'm, yep, thank you. Happy Mother's Day. Happy Mother's Day. That's on behalf of the audience and us. Now, you sound really busy.

You should go back to sleep. I actually do have to get up because I've been to go to school. You do, man. It's shocking. Bring Andrew back. That's what I say. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The hits. We're a little gun shy. We wanted to do a heartfelt thing for Mother's Day for Megan. Her husband Andrew is away playing Romeo in the And Juliet musical six weeks. Where are out, though, Romeo? Well, he's away for six weeks. He's in Timaru. That's where Romeo is.

Smooching his way around the Motu. And unfortunately it means for the second year running, he's not going to be around for Mother's Day. So we'll all help him out. We'll be his wingmen. And thanks to you, you came up with an idea that maybe we could babysit Megan's kids for the morning and let her go out and pamper herself.

There was the suggestion of a full-body head-toe massage. No no crick. Travis left unmissaged. Well, we're going to leave that up to the masseuse and Megan. I mean, that's on them. That's between them as well. Whatever they do, you know, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, leave it up to them.

That's to their discretion. But, uh, we were a little worried because people started texting at the end of the show, you stay going, you guys doing, uh, a broadcast from Megan's lounge on Friday morning, you know, it turns from a gesture into a broadcast. And I think the gesture kind of falls away and it just turns into admin for poor Megan. Yeah. Yeah.

I feel like we've really put a lot on her plate. She's got a lot on her plate and us being there as well. Doing a radio show trying to look after the kids. Like, no one, if you've got the option not to have a radio show doing radio in your kitchen in the morning, always say no. Take it. I mean, Megan the other day when we did do the show from there, she got up early and she made bread from scratch. I mean, that's what the kids are, that's what they're expecting too. I'm not making bread from scratch.

Hand-read bread. Yeah. What, you know? They'll be lucky if they get a sail cross-on. So that's what we're doing Friday And we, to be honest, have been doing this job now for six, seven years Have not really been involved in a weekday morning routine

For an extraordinarily long time And you know, when you do take some leave from the show And you do insert yourself in the family's morning routine You're a nuisance Oh yeah, you're trying to help but you're just kind of messing it up I find everyone's got their systems Everyone knows what they're doing But you feel like, oh, help, I'm here

And don't try and come in here as a high pan Oh, well done, you're here for four days. Yeah, yeah. You put some toaster. Well done, you hero. So, yeah, what is the hardest thing in the morning routine? What's something we need to get our head around?

And, you know, like, what's the thing every morning? You're like, oh, that's tricky. I've got to do that every morning, but I'm doing it. I remember when the kids were young, shoelaces were a huge bug bear. Just do your shoes. Like, why not? Put your shoes on. Every day, you put them on and you tie them up.

Yeah, yeah. And at that point, there was just velcro straps. Just velcro them shut, for God's sake. You know, when you need to leave. we need to put your shoes on. So, yeah, I mean, we're not going to say this. I don't want to do it, but we might crack off at Megan's kids on Friday. There might be some terse words said.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. Megan today, she's off at the moment. Her husband is doing a musical theatre production. He's travelling around the country, and she's, well, taking care of a bit of a life admin. Life admin at the moment. And we wanted to do something nice for her for Mother's Day. We wanted to give her a break, and somehow that's landing.

into turning her house into a radio studio Friday morning while we look after her children producer grace actually you have had previous babysitting experience with Bastie and Iyer that's their names good you got the names that's good that's handy remember the names you said there's a really complex toilet reward chart that's

on the wall so they have star stickers but they also have like different sizes for different amounts of toilets and one time I gave Ia the wrong I gave a two bag of a sticker and she freaked out at me And I was like, I don't know where the soul stickers are. Oh, she hadn't earned the big sticker. She hadn't earned the big sticker, so she yelled at me for 10 minutes. But we would chill after that.

Okay. Okay, so that's what we're contending with on Friday. Hadn done enough pushing and grunting for that big sticker. So, oh, 800 that's telephone number. That's the number. The biggest thing in your morning routine, maybe that we'll need to look out for Friday morning. G.B, good morning from Previlton. Happy New Year.

Yeah, I think we're budgeting for the next year. So I think we've passed that bit, mate. You know, we're trying to keep it going all year. I know, he's like, well, he really throws you off, doesn't it? Is that the first time you've heard us say, happy new year, G.B. All right, happy New Year's you. Thank you. That's all we wanted.

Okay, so what's the thing that we need to watch out for in the morning routine? No, yeah, that body training was exactly what I was referring to. I suppose it's one thing when is your own kids. But, yeah, somebody else's kids will be a tough one for me. Yes, you're right. Oh, yeah, true. Might have to get the garden hose. It's getting a little bit cold for that now, isn't it?

Put it on jet mode or something. You stand 20 metres away. Uncle Ben will spray the garden hose. Good luck anyway. You guys have fun. Thanks, mate. I appreciate it. I think we're going to need it.

Sandy, good morning to you. Good morning. And happy new year. Happy new year. Happy year to you too. Thank you. routine that is tricky. Well, it's actually my husband.

He says the worst part of the morning is waking me up. Okay. Is that tough, is it? It is that tough. And he has to appeased me by a couple of cups of coffee. Oh, wow. You're a slow riser, a slow riser, Sandy. Sometimes it's best to let those sorts of people just wake up.

Well, let nature wake them up. Yeah. Yeah, but then I might not wake up to get to school and write. Hey, well, you have a great day. Okay. So the wake up, we'll have to, maybe waking up kids is a bit of a mission as well. Leisha, the hardest part of your morning routine, what is it? The number of questions I have to ask before they get out the door.

And I pop to three, see, I'm like, have you brushed your hair? Get off your iPad. Where are your shoes? Do you have stock? Get off your iPad. Do you brush your teeth? No, you have not brushed your teeth. What do you mean you've got full bake sale today?

Yeah. When they throw something like that at you at your last minute, you're like, what? What did I not know about this bake sale? Yeah. And the frustrating thing is, Like, you just need to do this every morning. Just do the same stuff you did yesterday. Just do it again today.

I feel your pain. Well, no, I don't feel your pain. We don't have to experience that pain sitting here talking nonsense. Friday, we're going to feel your pain. Someone's texts in saying, do not underestimate the power of a missing sock. It can turn the morning as a complete chaos. A lot of people talking about doing here as well, too, which I was, yeah, I was never that good at that part of it, you know, when it comes to kids and girls here.

There was the famous Instagram hack where you see. stick all their hair in a vacuum cleaner. Oh, that's right, and you roll down the hair tie. Yeah, we do that. Let's do that Friday. We've got garden hoses, we've got vacuum cleaners. These kids are going to get out the door. They won't know what I hit them.

They won't know what to traumatise or safe. One of the two options. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. Now, you know, sometimes in your life that you kind of go, you go away from a situation and you're like, well, I'll never see that person again. Well, isn't it a great? Something shocking happened.

I'm glad. Something happened and you're like, well, it was a bit. It was a bit, you know, like a bit of a strange situation, but I'll probably never see that person again. Get on with your life. You carry on your life. Well, yeah, because I think I told you this. It was like last year.

Obviously, a huge fan of the Warriors. The Warriors game was on my birthday. And, you know, the family and I, we all went along to the Warriors. And you enjoyed, enjoyed the experience. That was the one thing you wanted to do for your birthday. You don't celebrate your birthday, but you said all I want to do is for my family to take me to the Warriors this Friday night. It was like a gift from the NRL gods putting it on my birthday.

I was like, great, I got something to do. I love the Warriors, head along, had a great time. And, you know, Go Media, Mount Smart Stadium, great when you're in there, but always the exit can be difficult sometimes getting out of there. And we hadn't, you know, my wife had sort of organised the night. I'm like, how are we getting home? Yeah, she's like, we can't get home. Jeff Bezos has dismantled the train network.

And so we ended up, you know, like she ended up running into someone. I thought she knew. She was chatting and she's like, sweet, jump in there. And so we got great, we got a ride. I sat in the front, the kids, and my wife clambered into the back. They even moved a car seat, kids car seat into the boot. So you hopped into someone's car who you thought your wife.

Yeah, my wife's like, yeah, yeah, get in. And we're like, great. And I went to him because I was in the front. And I was like, how do you know Amanda? He's like, I've never met her before my life until just now. She just said, hey, which way you go? Can I get a ride? And I was like, oh, ha.

I definitely would have gone in here if I knew that was the case. It's a very weird experience. So he's sort of talk to the kids and be like, is not something you do generally. We're going to get a great life lesson. But it was for, you know, like, asses altogether. And he was like. Stranger Danger's okay when you outnumber the stranger.

And he was lovely. And he took us well out of his way and dropped us home. Home? Yeah, home, yeah. Where did he live? Chatting what was kind of like not real, like started in the general direction. And then he would have had to go left and he sort of took a big sort of like dog leg to take us home. I can't believe we dropped you home.

Which is amazing. And it was lovely. But it was one of those times where you're like, that was weird. When you got out, you're like, well, I'll never have to see that person again. Last week, I ended up going to the Harlem Globetrotters event, and, you know, sent hi to a few people that were there, and I was like, how do I know you? He was like, well, well, I took you home from the Warriors that night.

I was like, oh, yeah, I was like, that was a bit weird one. Did he agree it was weird? He was like, yeah, the start was a bit weird. I mean, he's like, we had a good time chatting. I was like, yeah. It's a long drive to talk to something as well, as you're all coming to terms with what's just taking place. I keep looking at my wife going,

what, why is this, why are we in this position? Like, I know, it's like we can wait a little bit for an Uber or we can get a train or something, but, because you would have been,

all of you would have been having light conversation, but in the back of your mind going, how we all ended up here? Yeah. Yeah. That's really funny. I was like, can you take me home after?

If you want, who knows where I live now. Did she pay him? We offered to give her money. He wouldn't take it, which is lovely. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. No, Megan, she is away rearing her children.

Is that what you do? Is that rearing? No, I'm not sure. What is rearing your children? Anyway, she's looking after her kids is what I'm trying to say, because her husband's away around the country on working duties. So we're going to play the imposter game without Megan today. Producer Troy stepping up.

There's just the three of us. So one of us is going to be bluffing their way. way through. Using the app right now, which gives a clue to the person who's the imposter, we get a special word, and there's a few categories it could be, and we have to bluff out one of us bluffing, the other ones know. Higher odds for each of us to be the imposter this time, too. Yeah. I don't even trust myself by the end of this game. You really figure out how good or how terrible you are at lying. So, Ben, you can text a word to 4487 so you know what

it is listening, and then you've got to try and figure out who it is. Take it away. Okay, so I'm having a look at the app. Oh, okay, okay, okay. And then I'm going to pass it over to Troy. I've had a look at the word. If you want to know the word, you can text word to 4487. Okay, okay.

Have a look now. Okay. Right. Okay, so we've had a look at the word. One of us is the imposter, and I'm going to try and bluff their way through. The other ones want to give some hints towards the word, but maybe not too close, I don't know.

What does it Troy start? Okay. Rouge. Interesting. Think about it, think about it, think about it. Okay. Over to Ben now. Australia.

Accent. Everyone starts with... Hmm. Okay. Okay. Most shady sounding radio ever. Think about it. Okay, thinking about it.

I'm thinking about it. I'm going to go urban. Okay, you said, I would say red. Okay, so we're going to start. there. John O'Bennon and Megan. The podcast. The Hits.

In the middle of the Impostar game, a game we play on a Tuesday morning. We all get a word and one of us, well, not get that word and they have to bluff their way through pretending that they know what the secret word is. It's really hard and you give us some vague clues, sometimes a little bit too vague. It's a real mystery this morning. I have no idea who it is. Producer Troy is playing with us this morning. Carol joins us from Thames and Morena.

Happy New Year. New Year to you guys. Okay, Carol, you've been listening. We'll do one more round for your sake so you can have a good, hard think about who the imposter is. You start, John. I'll start. Cool.

What would I start with? Baby girl. I'll go Aquaman. I'll go blonde. Okay, Carol, there you go. We've given you four rounds now. Have you got any idea who's lying, blatantly to all of our faces this morning and whoever it is is frighteningly good.

I think it's Ben. Oh, okay. Why do you think it's me? Oh, I don't know. You've just some of the crews that you've given. Okay, he seems a little vague, a little nervous. Okay. Yeah. Do you want to all have a guess or how we want to work at?

I have a feeling it might be producer Troy. I'm going Jono. I was going to go Jono too. Yeah. Okay. if the imposter could please step forward it's me oh well

that's me you did really well I figured out pretty quick what was the word is it Nicole Kibman it is Nicole Kibman so what was the clue that you got given? My clue was Moulin

Oh wow so that's And I was like that's got to be Moulin Rouge So I said Rouge And then you said Australian And I was like Okay think of an Australian That's a Moulin Rouge And I got Nicole Kimmel

Really really good He's a smart one, Carol. He did really well. Which makes me think what else is he lying to us about. Some vague clues. Thunder was Day's of Thunder. I was trying to think of movies she was in. But then as I said Thunder, I was like, oh, that feels a little too vague.

Yeah. Anyway, obviously Keith Urban, you know, married to him. Children was a bit vague too because kids, man. That's where you threw me off on that. I was like, yeah, no idea. Hey, Carol, listen, thanks for playing. Good effort. Thank you.

You can have a wonderful one. We're, what's the, geez, what is today? Tuesday. It's only Tuesday. Enjoy your day, Carol. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. But, you know, we've got a cat and a dog at home, and the cat and I, you know, a cat, I mean, I really love the cat when it's affectionate, and I know what he's doing.

Sometimes you'll be your infectionate, but really, very rarely. Very rarely. Does it feel like you're in a relationship and the cat has moved on? Yeah. But it's still with you. Yeah. And it's all on their terms, too. It's all on their terms. And I know it too, but I'm like, the cat.

The cat's out, the cat's out. The world's longest break up. And I know that it's only there because it's hungry. And the cat is often very hungry. Like, he's one of those cats that will, you know, like, we got it from, he was, his parents were on a farm sort of thing. So I wonder if he's like, he'll bring stuff back into the house as well. So I was like, maybe he resents you.

Maybe he's like, this is, oh, was a hardened rural cat out there fighting panthers in the forest. Maybe, yeah. But one thing he's really getting into is bread. bread or buns Now only the carbs If I leave out Like I go to the supermarket

And you buy like a six pack of buns And I leave that And that's sealed Without even opening it On the bench He'll get it in the morning It's like two mornings in a row It has been attacked

It has been attacked He's ripped into the bag He's eaten probably out of three It's not just one bun It's out of three buns And it's happened like Just dry buns Just dry buns

It's all over the floor It's like man And I don't know how he can smell it Or is he just getting into Like, yeah. It's bread. It's been bread or buns. It's like if you leave bread out, it's like we have to put bread in the fridge now

because if not the cat will get into it. I was always led to believe they preferred chef. We've been told for decades. But buns might and a far more affordable option too. Like you can just give you a cat half a dozen bread rolls. Jeez, you're saving some money there. Maybe I should try that. Like for dinner at night, just give them a bread roll and then.

I reckon bread rolls are one of the greatest foods ever invented. Oh, you love it. Yeah. bread but you don't eat during the day like I don't eat right like at lunchtime thing quite regularly at night I would anything I if I can put it a meal inside bread I will lasagna in between two slices of bread spaghetti bolognays inside bread some some and that's pasta that's already carving it and I'm wrapping it in more love bread it is a versatile food isn't it what it is but yeah you've really you've pushed it even the bread's gone

when you're pushing it right to my limits here like when you're putting it the lasagna inside you. Tell the cat to move in with me, mate. We'll live a one... A cat would love lasagna and so bread. That would be right in his wheelhouse. John O'Bennan and Megan. The podcast.

The Hats. I forgot to mention yesterday. We ran into this gentleman who was sitting next to us as we're just having a coffee. Ben, he was actually sucking back on a delicious dilmatte at the time, weren't you?

Yeah, I was, yeah. They gave him a coffee, and he took one stuff of it and spat it in the barista's face. Not on my watch. Not on your watch. But yeah, there was a guy at the table next to us And he's like, how are you being?

I said, oh, you're good. I like saying, keeping out of trouble. That's sort of a classic little bounce back to that question, isn't it? And I could tell he was really wanting me to ask, you know, how have you been? What have you been up to? That I sort of felt was the ulterior motive for the question. So then obviously I went, oh, you know, how have you been?

What have you been doing? And he said, you'll probably read about it in a week. and then the silence. And I was like, read about what? And he's like, take a look at this. Go straight to his phone. He's got the photo ready. A rocket.

He's like, I've just launched a rocket into space. Oh, wow. And I was like, well, that's a lot better than just keeping out of trouble. Yeah. You've blowing me out of the water here. This is not meant to release it into space. Then he's in a lot of trouble. But yeah, I'd say the rocket looked like about a meter.

tall, you know, just kind of like a bullet, look like a bullet. Here in New Zealand, obviously. Yeah, like a missile. Look like a big missile. Yeah, right. Yeah, here in New Zealand, so he was in Christchurch. And, yeah, obviously there's a great launching point somewhere in Canterbury.

Boom, straight up to space. Wow. And I was like, what happens once it's been to space? Does it just come hurtling back down and land on someone's trampoline or something? He said, no, they are parachutes that deployed. Yeah, which is great that there's a contingency plan there. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm sure they think about all those things.

Because we don't want to brag about it. We've been in the space race. We've been to space before. We have. Yeah. And Canterbury, actually. It wasn't us, obviously, but it was, yeah, remember it was people from the university helped us do it.

And they had like a weather balloon system. Yeah. The massive weather balloon that took up when we brought out the Heartland chips, eh? And they took it all up with the GoPro's into space. A bag of chips. Yeah, it just went past the atmosphere all the way up. To the point where it was dark.

They could track it. And they're like, we're in space, we're in space. It was sort of Katie Perry space. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Our bag of chips and Katie Perry to astronauts. Yeah, amazing. And then, but the problem is we didn't have the parachute system, right? And when it came back down, they were like, we don't know where exactly it's landed.

I mean, a lot lighter than a big rocket, but still. Did we have a tracking device on it? Oh, you did, and it lost the tracking device. So then they had to kind of try and figure out the trajectory of where it might have descended. and we were traipsing around people's farms and it was to a point I was like this is a loss cause so don't ever get me to find a missing person or anything because I give up quite easily

Ben you wanted to stay there for a couple of days I mean that's the thing I mean we paid all this money to do it and we didn't have the footage we didn't have the footage and you gotta yeah you just got to keep looking until you find it but yeah and then like was it four or five days later a farmer got in touch

it was like oh I just found this random thing in the middle of the paddock with the cows sort of staring at it yeah and so we got the space footage actually it's pretty cool is it around anywhere the space footage yeah what we should do okay we'll organise during the air break and we'll get door bounce back okay texting you can text space or something to fall for a second we'll just try and find the footage we'll