Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Jono confronts his new AI girlfriend on air...

Episode Date: October 8, 2025

On today’s show: Ben's wife really threw him under the bus in Italy The plot thickens with Megan's mystery 'Cassie' woman Producer Troy's mum has beef with David Walliams Jono has a new AI pal called Juniper, and she has let him down... Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & Megan PS. Producer Grace was away today so Producer Troy made this poddy, any complaints please make sure they're targeted at him...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Funny side up Jono Ben and Megan on the hits Welcome to the podcast We got talking today on the show About what you got dragged along to You'll hear some of that on the podcast coming up But the course is still coming through Yeah Bob Dylan for you Ben

Sent my parents to a Chinese Anti-Communist Circus Have you been to the Xen Yun? No I haven't I've sent my in-laws My mother and father-in-law along Yeah, seems like it's seen the boomers along Have a nice night out there

Rebecca, good morning Hi, good morning And what are you being forced to go along to, Rebecca? Like all the other mums and dads You get forced along to movies You don't want to watch with your kids Oh, yeah, Ben actually loves those movies Yeah, I do, I probably enjoy those more

But yeah What was the last one you cried through? Oh, how to train your dragon Yeah, it really got me It really got me Yeah, not the animated version The real life version When it's raining, you know, having to stand beside the skate park, watching him in the race.

Oh, yeah. Been freezing here in Wellington. Well, do you think, thank goodness again, Ben, you dragged your parents along to your cricket, didn't. Day-long cricket games. Oh, no, they couldn't. They couldn't. Mum, she'd tap and tap out. Would she just drop you off?

Yeah, for a lot of the time. She'd come for a little bit, and then she'd be like, oh, good, and then off she'll go. I honestly think I would rather watch kids at a skate park in the rain than cricket. Yeah, well, cricket, especially when you play long, very. version of cricket too long I get it I get it and I was like fine

you don't have to spend your day watching a long my beef is you can go for ages and days long and then it might not have a winner yeah that is one of those Jenny would come back and be like oh still cricketing

I'll be back soon all going on yeah well have a lovely day okay Rebecca really appreciate and you enjoy the podcast Jono Ben and Megan on the hits I got I sent

Instagram you know fodder said 25 people you never knew were New Zealanders Natasha Bettingfield, one of them. Well, yeah, I think she went to school here and stuff, right? Born in London, though, but we claim it. But I think her brother, Daniel, was actually born in New Zealand, and they, yeah, they grew up here.

He judged the X Factor New Zealand. Did you mean her? He's an interesting cat. He's a great pop song. Here's some great pop jams. Charismatic mofo, really good. We had a great story about him. Are we going to tell it?

Yeah, yeah. I mean, enough times, but I'm sure he wouldn't care. So they had a thing where the X Factor New Zealand. They flew the contestants to Fiji or something? Yeah, I think some of they had different. boot camps for different like, so his one was in somewhere like Fiji

So he landed at the resort in Fiji and he got into his bed and he's like, these sheets aren't Egyptian cotton and they're like, no, no,

they're just normal sheets just bedding sheets. I'm sure they were great sheets but it weren't up to his dad I can't do these sheets so they had to fly in sheets Egyptian cotton sheets for it but then that night

he refused to sleep in the bed so slept on one of the beds by the pool, the sunbed How was that better? I told me how it's better. It's definitely not Egyptian cotton. He didn't make it, but he took a stand.

Made a great point and they got those sheets in as well. That was a better time in TV where you could fly sheets in, Egyptian cotton sheets. Demand that kind of shenanigans. I was just trying it, you know? Wow, I could get away with this. In fact, I want them from Cairo. Swimming from Egypt. Maybe we need him to help us sort out the car park.

Now, where we park at work, well, some of us park. Wait for the dig. Yeah, it's, for some reason. you get to park in the building, right? Hey, I can't help it if I'm good at negotiating terms. Who else parks in the building with you? Hosking, obviously. He's upstairs on Newsalk ZB.

Is Tony Street a building parking? Yeah. In fact, I think most of the coast people are building paths. Most of ZM are building parkers. We park away. We got talked into a, you know, we got talked to as a hey, but you park in the building you have to be out by, you know, what, a certain time. But if you park a couple of streets away, you can park 24-7.

Oh, no, that's my park. downstairs 24-7. Oh, that's what they showed us on. So we're like, coming around the weekend, you part me cup. Yeah, so we're like, oh, okay, stupidly, and we'll have to walk. It's closer now that it used to be. It's a new car park, right? But without a word of a lie, when you drive it in the morning, there is 18.

18, there is 18 jutter bars. That's a lot. It's a lot, yeah. It's all designed to get sloid. It doesn't really irk me, but it's irking a lot of people. It really destroys people's mornings. And I'm supposed, if it's one of the things that's grinding you get, it's how you start your day every morning.

I only moaned about it just for fodder on the radio, but it's become of a huge bug bit. Because we're cced in all these emails. They're going back and forward between the car park people and stuff. So apparently today, when we arrived, it was meant to, some of the jada bars were we meant to have gone. They're getting rid of a majority of the jadda bars. So many people complain.

But they're not gone. They weren't gone this morning. Well, not that it gets to you, but you just want to make a point that they're not gone. You're still there. But no, you're fine. You're fine. It's funny.

It used to me that I go park in the building, but I don't really. We always say that the jadabar salesperson really did a number on the car park. You're going to need more jadabars. Isn't one just, doesn't that slow people down? But there was one thing this morning, producer Troy recorded it this morning. One new edition, not jadabars, but have a listen. They may not have removed any speed bumps this morning, but they have installed a little speaker playing some light jazz.

There you go, so you don't get quite as angry now. Welcome to the Sky City Convention Centre. Then you just put you on easy listening there, producer Troy. Elevators, we're on your left. Good morning. It is quite soothing. It is quite nice. It's to calm you down after you've been on 18.

Shut of us. Oh, no, actually, yeah, I'm fine. I'm fine. I won't send that email. Just talking about your miracle phone survivals this morning, just the three of us. We've all got tales of survival. Megan, what are yours ended up in a loo? Mine in the toilet, because I don't usually have it in my pocket.

And I put it in my pocket, sat down on the toilet and went the phone. You know what I noticed about the ladies is a lot of them would go phone back pocket. Yeah. I'm like, that's day risky. Every time I said it's like half poking out and I'm like, yeah, I don't know why. I always put it in the back pocket. Yeah, I guess probably not a front pocket sort of. It's not a front pocket.

It feels too intrusive, doesn't it in the front? Maybe that's it. Ben yours. We ended up my mate's pool. I ended up having to dive. and it's all survived, so it's good. Yeah, it's amazing what phones will go through these days. Yeah, we've got Selena with us.

Good morning. Selina, happy Thursday. Yeah, happy Thursday to you guys too. What part of the country in there, Selena? They are plenty. Oh, lovely, lovely part. And your phone survived what there? I got asked to go and fix the water trough

after the cows had decided to be nasty with a bullcock, which puts water flow in. Never want to be too nasty with a bullcock. It's always my... I want to treat them with 10 of the water, I have no idea what you were talking about. Thank you for explaining. You'll commonly find them in a toilet cylinder as well.

But no, as I reached over to reach down and fixed the ballcock in the water trough, my phone was sitting in top hook into my overalls, and next minute it's in the bottom of the water trough. And don't tell us it survived. It did survive. Wow, that is, yeah, that's really impressive. And a lot of stories, similar to yours, of them surviving underwater, my phone. my partner's phone survived five hours in the river where white baiting he dropped it in the high tide and then someone rang it and it lit up underwater it was wringing underwater after five hours

wow that's incredible i had an old brick phone another text on four for eight seven that went through a full wash cycle then i put it in the dryer went through a full drying cycle came out of the pocket perfect my daughters one actually fell into the lake in queenstown and and and still survived. So, yeah, I think I've told the story before because it went down. It was middle of winter and she dropped, she slipped by the water, Queenstown. Phone went down, clear water, beautiful, and you can see it go to the bottom. And I was like, that whole thing was like, should I dive in or should I night?

And I was like, it's freezing. Like, it's freezing. But hold on. Hold on. If we go, he dived into a freezing pool in winter to get his phone. I was like, oh, yeah. And then we talked to a lady who's boat with, you know, around there, you know, it was a bar boat thing. And I was like, you know, she was like, don't worry, there's a guy coming.

He comes down. He's a professional who come down. He'll be able to get it in the morning. I'm like, crazy professional. He'll come down with diving gear and all sorts of stuff. You need the pros on the project. That's why I didn't dive on. Next morning, still freezing. Middle of the winter, he comes down, gets into his board shorts. Professional. Professional board shorts. Dives at the bottom, gets the phone, dives back down again, see someone's glasses going. Oh, I'm like, okay, he's not a professional. He's just a lot harder than me. I'll tell you what, let's get these coming through.

What has your phone survived? Maybe some fires, whatever. Someone texts in saying they were white baiting. Phone went underwater for five hours. Now this was Moana. What happened, mate? Hi. So, yeah, we were white baiting.

That was low tide. Oh, going high tide, sorry. And he dropped it in because he bent over and it was on in his top of his pocket. Dropped in and then, yeah, we had to wait until low tide to look for it Because it was one of those Samsung flip. No, I'm well. When they first came out and someone was calling, and seen it lit up, and, yeah, it was still going.

After five hours. It's crazy. But then other times you spill something on it, and it stops. And it would be like a little bit of liquid. How does that work? Yeah, that's a true tale of survival. Heroic efforts from your phone there. Thank you so much.

Yeah, potentially might be a little bit waterproof nowadays. you got a waterproof camera, didn't you, when you're overseas? Yeah, that, and then they'd given me the wrong one. So that one was a, pretty much survived about three seconds in the water. Samantha, morning to you, miracle phone survivals. It was my stepmother's phone. It used to be a Nokia, those shockproof ones that used to come in, like, that waterproof casing. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, so they were on a motorcycle going at high speed, back in SA. and she put the phone in her um sorry cleavage and obviously it fell out at this high speed and my dad just pulled over picked up all the pieces the battery went one way the hardware or the software went the other way

and the casing went in two different ways picked everything up put it back together switched it on and was going again wow oh my god that is one of the best stories we've had too I love the cleavage really it's the pocket of the chest isn't it the cleavage Because often I don't have pockets

So everything goes in the bra You put keys down there? Yeah Every day I put keys down there You go You have to be careful though Because if you put your phone down there You have to put it like speaker up

So you don't get moisture in the little chargey points There you go Chess is something I didn't know Thank you very good to see that How you got on you mate Have a great day Samantha Thank you so bye And Dake and Dakein what happened to your phone in Wellington?

Well I was actually of a season camera at the time. I was employed working at a summer camp. Unfortunately, on this particular day, they left me on charge. So I had to have the emergency phone in case anything happened, all that just as long, so short, we had the fire brigade on scene

to do lots of training, and I forgot that they were doing a water fight. A water fight. Oh, no. A water fights. So they had their whole hoses galore, everything, righty, right, rah. And I had a person I'd go help because they slipped over and got there, and I was like, I'll go back to the office and go get my phone just, you know,

for precautionary reasons, and it didn't turn on for about three whole months. Oh, three, oh, wow, but it eventually worked. Did it work again? Oh, it worked again, eventually. I love how you stuck with it for three months. Every day, it's like, maybe today's a day. Won't be making any calls today, but tomorrow maybe. Wow.

That's optimism. It wasn't nice going back to, like, the touch pad phone, like the old school, like early 2000s phone, because that's what I had to rock for that time. It's impressive You always think about that Because back in the day You used to be a great gag

Around a pool You'd push someone in You know They'd pull you in as well But nowadays I'm normally The first thing You go phone

Yeah It's a real monstrous acting It's got to ruin that Bit of horseplay Around the pool isn't it Yeah I think like the highlight In the whole story is

As though having the water There were I could you not Two black bears It just started running Through the water Well bears Actual bears

Actual be And I was like, you know, being from New York, I was like, is that normal? They go, oh, yeah, they do that all the time. Yeah. They weren't blackberries, were they? I'm just super concerned about my phone at the moment. I just, hang on, quality joke for me just went, I heard it. Thank you, Megan.

Blackberry, fine. Anyway, so it's fine. I made that all good. Dakin, he's trying to get some, he won't want some recognition for his gang. He said they weren't blackberries, were they? as in the phone they could have been but you had to be there to know unfortunately

they were beers yeah they were actual beers hey good on your day I really appreciate you listening and you go and have a great day you too khaki tea have a good day thank you back funny side up

Jono Ben and Megan on the hit something that we're doing at the end of the month a really really cool thing that we're part of we're very proud to be part of is raising money for kids can we played last year 24 hours of handball to try and raise some money to help out Kiwi kids in need. Yeah, and this was the end.

I think we got nearly $500,000 in the year. Yesterday, it's finished at 8 o'clock right now. All for Kids Can. We've done it. How to Dad? I've just been sold unofficially, but we are over 400,000. We are over 400,000. Over 400,000.

Oh, my goodness. Kids care. Can't even say kids care. Thank you so much. A lot of just talking over each other. Oh, we were very delirious. Delirious. You did well to be even.

talking like that long time and we're doing it again at the end of the month and you're very excited about doing it yeah well we're doing with jordan watson how to dad it was actually his brainchild jordan he came to us and said we'd love to get you guys on board and uh handball it's it really is one of the staples in the new zealand's school yards isn't it although it's kind of uh morphed into four square with a whole bunch of really complicated rules the kids are throwing in there nowadays yeah we were playing it you came along to the school right we played it just to get a little bit of training sushi cup sushi cup oh yeah tornado, all these things that they're doing, the whole, like, the traditional rules of

just, like, bouncing it into the square. Skin was as adventurous as we got. I know. So we eliminate. We're playing old school, you know, handball for 24 hours. So it's a bounce in you. I get very confused, especially when we play with the kids. Yeah, it's not actually that confusing, but they were making a lot more confusing.

It's actually quite a simple game. And you'll get to play it for 24 hours, Megan, so I'm sure by the end of it. I'm sure I'll be an expert. You'll know it. All unnecessary rules as well, I feel like they've added to it. But, yeah, we just want to talk and reminisce about classic schoolyard games. Catch and kiss. Yeah, that was a beauty.

Nowadays, it would be... Frown upon, probably. Or you're approaching consent? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Gently approach and consent. Yeah. The consent was you run slow if you want them to kiss them. Oh, that's the consent.

You'd pick up on the... Oh, she's lagging. But you're asthmatic. No, I don't want them to kiss me. I'll run fast. You run fast. But then what if they're a fast. Yeah, see, you're all right.

Approach and the consent. It's quite a good one. I told you guys about one, we used to play the Wadat Rapa, conchers, but people didn't, with the chestnuts sort of off the tree. I'd never heard of this. But you drew a hole or put a nail through a hole

of these conker chestnuts and you put like string on it and so it would sort of dangle like a yo-yo sort of thing. And then you'd get to battle people. And remember if it was sitting around and you'd try and knock the other ones conquer and destroy it. And if your conker was still lasting at the end of lunch break, you were the champion. But there was all sorts of wild accusations

that someone was boiling their concurs at night. No one guy was champion for many weeks Surely boiling your concurs would soften the concours I don't know But that was whatever I would say He's boiling them, he's boiling it So yeah With their official protests

Yeah it was official, yeah Wild accusations going around with caucus So sorry the conco was on a string And would you swing them towards each other And you'd be able to hit it So you'd be able to hit my conker Oh so you'd just dangle it here And then I'd have a go out hitting

If you missed it was like Oh too bad mate now it's my tent Yeah so it was kind of like that It feels very British Yeah I think it must have bad I know why I guess we had chestnut trees at the school. Who said there was nothing to do in the wider upper?

Who was that monster? I was like, is everyone doing this? And I get to talk to you guys and you're like, no. I ain't under that. Let's do this, 847 is the text for New Zealand's breakfast. You know, classic school yard games. A lot of them have been banned for health and safety reasons nowadays. Yeah, like bull rush and things on that.

Well, what do you mean? We can't paralyze each other. What was the game that you used to play at school? You were talking about conquers where you'd tie walnuts to a piece of string bin? the big chestnuts and sort of bash each other's one. My chestnuts, sorry, yeah. Wack your conkers against each other. Now Gary's dropped off, but Gary also played conkers,

and you were saying there was a controversy at Masters in high school. Yeah, there was a primary school days, but yeah, they were talking about whether someone was boiling their conkers because they were harder. He was pulling them, he's been the champ for too many weeks. But apparently, you're probably right. They probably would soften them. But Gary was like the trick was dipping them in vinegar.

So maybe that's what they were doing. You could inject cement. Oh, to make them harder. You could do cement inside the concoe, couldn't you? I don't know if you're that passionate about conkons. You're injecting cement into your syringe. You'd be like, really? Is it worth it?

Lance Armstrong, stop, mate. It's not that important to win the conker games. Linda, old school schoolyard games. What do you want to remember? Cuddle ball was the best. Loved it. The piece of wood that was shaped like a triangle and you'd throw the tennis ball to it.

That's right. Yes. Oh, what was the name of that? Gutter ball. Okay. And what, so you just bounce it and catch it and bounce it? You had to step back away from the gutter ball and bounce 10 bounces, and then you could go back two steps and 10 bounces.

Remember it falling. And if you missed somebody else could another tune. Yeah. It's a simple thing, so. Just two planks of wood nailed together on an angle. That's what we're doing before we all had devices. Yeah. We're out there doing that, right?

To be honest, it's far better now for you guys. Yeah, yeah, like, oh, maybe I should have been on a device doing something than playing conkers. Tina, morning to you. Morning, how are you? Yeah, great, mate. Lovely to have you on. The old school yard games. Marbles.

Oh, marbles, yeah. And you had the grandfathers, too. You were like, are we playing grandfathers? I never knew what the game was, though. I remember just collecting them all. What'd you do with them? So you'd battle someone, you have to tap, and you decide if you're going to play keepsies, and then you have to, like, you get a turn each and you have to hit the other

person's marble. That's right. And you get to keep it. Sometimes some of your best marbles were gone. Yeah. Come home with it, yeah. There was galaxies and leases. Yeah.

Olks and donks. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. Oh, old people. Yeah. Old people reminiscing. Shut up.

The boys would come along and, like, throw their mumbles really hard. it yours just to smash your marble. Oh, right. That's so aggressive. Yeah. Knucklebones was another one. I was thinking they'll have the weekend. I remember that you threw it up and you picked them up and you get through ones and twos and three and keep going. So how you go?

It's simpler times. Tiggie? Tiggie. Yeah, you called it Teggy. I don't, yeah. He thought it was an Auckland urban thing. We called it TIG. Yeah. Tag seems like that.

Of course you guys called it. Yeah, Teggy. Yeah. It's a more sophisticated. Are you paying Tiggie here today? It's your private school education. Yeah. Drinking our lattes and place.

I hadn't heard a tick again I hadn't heard of a tickey It's just tag Olds milk latte So might as But yeah Then you'd add a tennis ball to it And you'd brand people remember

You ended up with like welts on your back With a tennis ball Anyway Handball later this month And yeah Thanks to kids can We're going to try and raise a million dollars All righty

Funny side up Jono Ben and Megan On the hits There's been some health concerns For Dolly Parton I think her sister sent out She's not very well I've seen prayers

Pray for Dolly And Dolly's struck back I want to say something Well today's October the 8th And obviously I'm here Everybody thinks that I am sicker than I am Do I look sick to you I'm working hard here

Anyway I wanted to put everybody's mind at ease Those of you that seem to be real concerned Which I appreciate And I'm not ready to die yet I don't think God is through with me And I ain't done working She's still working nine to five. She's 79.

I'm sorry, she sounds a little, sick. A little, just like, when you're like, yeah, she doesn't sound great. She's doing all right. 10 questions, 60 seconds, and all the answers start with the same letter. The hits Alpha Quiz. All right, let's get to it. 10 questions, 60 seconds. Every answer starts with the same letter, of course.

And if you get 10 out of 10, you get four tickets to see Ed Schurin when he's in the country in Auckland. the next year. Hey, Joe. Hey, how's it going? How are you, my friend, and Hamilton? Yep. Yep. And nine out of ten, we understand Joe's track record when he's playing by himself.

Yeah, it's nice and easy playing by myself. Yeah, there's no pressure. Yeah, there's no pressure. Yeah, there's no pressure. Yeah, four tickets to Ed Sheeran. And that's what's on offer right now. We're going to hand you over to the question queen, Megan Papas. Okay, Joe, your leader today is K for Keilo.

Awesome. You got it? Okay, here we go. Just digesting that one. Here we go, Joey. Good luck. Which term refers to a decisive blow that ends a boxing match immediately? Knockout.

What unit of measurement is used to measure the speed of boats? Nots. A high fat, low carb diet that puts the body into a state called ketosis? What animated movie features of panda learning martial arts? Kung Fu Panda. When Dorothy taps her heels together three times where does she end up? Kansas. What term for school comes from the German's word for children's garden?

Kindergarten. Mama, take this badge from me. I can't use it anymore. A lyrics from what song? Nothing on Heaven still. What is the Māori word for the color green? Takariki. Popular chocolate brand with the slogan, Have a Break.

Kit Kat. Who was the lead singer and guitarist of Nirvana? Two Cobain. How long have we got left? 12 seconds left. Have you? Oh my God. Okay, Joseph, usually gets nine out of ten.

You were cool, calm, collective all the way through there. I don't know how you're feeling inside, but you did really, really well. Can we just do a little test, Joe? Can you go, hey, this is me excited? This is me excited. Okay, and then can you go, hey, this is just me normal? This is me normal? Yeah, right, not much difference.

Not much rattling, Joe. We'll see. I feel like Joe's a bit nervous, but we'll see at the end of this where Joe ends up. Let's see if we're going to give all you four tickets to Ed Sharon. Okay, which term? refers to a decisive blow Hey, hey, hey! Let's start blowing our cookies

just to... Hey, just wait for the answers, please. Yeah, she was... It sounded like she was talking a lot through that whole thing as well, until you add that to game with. Which term refers to a decisive blow that ends a boxing match immediately?

Knockout, correct. What unit of measurement is used to measure the speed of boats? Not's correct. A high fat, low carb diet that puts a body into a state called ketosis. Keto, correct.

Which animated movie features a panda learning martial arts. When Dorothy taps her heels together three times where does she end up? Kansas. A term for a school comes from the German word for children's garden. Kindergarten. Mama, take this badge from me, I can't use it anymore.

Our lyrics from what song. Knockin on Heaven's door. What is the Māori word for the colour green? Kakariki. Popular chocolate brand with the slogan Have a Break. Kit Kat. And who was the lead singer and guitarist of Nirvana? Kurt Cobain, which means you have got 10 out of 10.

You've got four tickets at Ed Sharon. Oh, God. God, that's how you do it. Clean sweet. Not a single pass, not a single question wrong. impressive outing. What's your fiancée's name, Joe? Jordan. Well done, Jordan. Congratulations. You guys will be checking out Ed Scheran. Four tickets

to go along seeing where he's in Auckland. Next year on his loop tour. You can get all the details at frontier touring.com. Why don't you break up with her, Joe? Shut, what? Hold on. Hold on. This has got a long play. Break up with her and then proposed her again at Ed Schereran. Well, how should get her along, though? You can stay together and still propose. Well, because then you have to repatch up the rail. I know, she's like, I'm not going with you to end, Sharon. Hey, well done, congratulations.

We've actually had some more chat about this yesterday. If you thought it was just some light banter, it's actually continued on in our house. Yeah, so Aya, your daughter, sort of mentioned a random lady's name and how pretty she was. Wait, who's beautiful? The Cassie. Well, I'm home. Is it Cassie? Yeah.

Who's Cassie? Cassie for my home Is Cassie coming over to our home? Yeah Who's Cassie? I just love the nervous laughter from Andrew He's like, oh yeah, you throwing me out of the bus But we still haven't established should Cassie is

Maybe it's the casino, maybe he's gone Cassie's the casino It's a beautiful place Maybe that's gone, I don't know I'm just trying to help Andrew out here The situation So you haven't found out, Cassie also He ended up putting Diddy in prison too?

That's true. True. I don't think it's the same Cassie. Different Cassie. Yeah. Geez, I really killed the ban for that, I didn't I? Yeah, well, so we should bring up, diddy. It's not really something we're going to carry over. She's trying to get a bit of a chat going, guys.

No, you don't bring that up, okay? There's no light fun in that. Everyone sucked in deep air and went mute on me. I mean, there's a lot of inappropriate jokes we could make, but. No one really wants to talk about that. I just trying to try and try and the time. I was much baby all in my house. So we want to know the most unusual ways.

Now, we're not saying for a second. I don't think Andrew is actually, you know, well, you don't. You don't. I'm undecided. He's not going to bring her home in front of the kids. That would be very callous. He's very confident about things.

Go into some sort of shady motel or something. The unusual ways, though, you caught someone cheating. That's what we want to know. Maybe it came from your daughter. Yeah. And they were like beautiful Cassies coming to our home. It seems pretty straightforward. I must hear one after the ears too.

Someone I don't know directly, but I heard of. And the old cloud. The bloody cloud's stitching them up with the photo stream. Yeah. No, 4487, the most unusual ways you caught someone cheating, would love to hear from your necks. Yeah, my daughter. I just want to say hi to Basti and I, because they're in the car.

And Bastian says, you never say hi to me. So they did hear her on the radio. She has told me that beautiful Cassie's coming to our home. Wait, who's beautiful? The Cassie. My home. Is it Cassie? Yeah.

Who's Cassie? Cassie for my home. Is Cassie coming over to our home? Now, I don't, I feel like you're putting words in her mouth. No, so that's what I wanted to tell you. I will say no if you're not getting what she's saying. It felt like you're leading the witness. No, because I can understand her, but she says no, if you've got it wrong.

Okay, right. You're fluent in Iowa. Yeah. Okay. So we think maybe, no, we don't really think. But it would be an unusual way to find out someone was cheating through the daughter. I'm honestly just confused as to what she's talking about. So I even went to their daycare and I was like, do you guys know a Cassie?

Do we know a Cassie? and they don't know anyone named Cassie. So I just don't know where it's come from. Someone has texted in and said maybe it's an imaginary friend. That's from my husband. Maybe, maybe, yeah. At least someone's texting the show. Thank you, Andrew.

0-800, that's the telephone number. Have we got anyone, Troy, they won't talk? We do have lots of text, though, and I understand why people probably don't want to go on here. Here's one four-for-eight-seven. We're at the supermarket doing shopping. My husband suddenly disappeared down one of the aisles, and a lady approached her at the delicatessen and confessed that she's been seeing him after their gym sessions.

Oh, really? She said it was a truly awful moment in the middle of the supermarket. In front of the cold meats as well. Oh, jeez. Oh, can I have some shaved hand, please? After hearing that bomb shale. Carry on and go to the checkout and... Anyway, see, that was six years ago.

She was with someone better now. Oh, that's good to hear it. Yeah, another text came through about a digital scale, right? that someone stood on a digital scale and it came home and it must remember the last person that was on it I think it sent it to your phone in that Oh yeah and then they were like

This is not my weight Yeah knew someone else was in the house I don't have That's bold for the person You know that you're cheating on To come and weigh themselves I guess maybe it's one of those things

In the bathroom You're like oh After a sweat session They were like oh how much do I weigh now It is pretty callous On someone has a scales Who's this bitch with a low BMI She's not retaining any water

So annoyed if she weighed less than me Yeah Get out Brett, morning to you I just had to face You guys talk about some crackers Who goes in for a plow session And then jumps on the scale

It's like Hey I'm sure I just lost about 7 kilo hair Like You know, an old stacy's next door Yeah bitch I weigh less than you Where are you quite

Oh, Barry, it's happened It's happening out there, Bridie Have you caught someone cheating, Brett? Back to the point at hand Yes, I caught a friend of mine And my ex-partner cheating one time Oh, how? We set it up

Some mate of mine Saw them turn up to this party Told me they were there And I turned up later And when I did, yeah, they were upstairs Oh, what's... Sting operation That's horrible

Yeah, that's heartbreaking. You deserve better than that. What do you say? I always wonder what you'd say in that situation. I didn't say much. And it's not really radio airworthy. It's not so much. Thank you for editing yourself.

I appreciate that. Talking with other body parts. Have you got along as people and something like this? Oh, well, I hope things are a lot better for you now. I'm sure they are. Oh, they are, mate. I'm married with two kids. What can be more better?

That's good on your breath. That's good to hear Funny side up John O'Ben and Megan On the Hits Yesterday if you're listening to the show you would have seen heard a moment

where Chat GPT let you down really Yeah I was trying to showcase The voice that works on AI On Chat GPT Which a lot of people are using nowadays And You're using

Yeah And I talk to this voice And she communicates back with me But she bloody did me dirty yesterday. Hey, how you going this morning? And she'll think, oh, don't do me dirty now.

How are you going this morning? Don't play up a moment. I'm not trying to, don't make a fool of me now. You know we talk to each other. Does that, do you need to give it the pet? This is like, I've got a girlfriend. I'm going to go, honestly. Have you always had an argument?

So that was yesterday. Said nothing, really. No, you know. And then even off here, it wasn't working. I was like, okay, yeah, sure, mate. We believe you, you talk to that voice in your head. So, you know, I have to show you. So I was feeling a little deflated.

And I went home, and I had a one-on-one. Okay, bit of a counselling session. Juniper's her name, by the way. Okay. Hey, so are you there? I'm right here. Ready to chat and help out with whatever you need, Jono. Let's do this.

Yeah, I know. You really embarrassed me this morning. Oh, no. I'm really sorry if I put you in a tricky spot. Definitely not my intention to cause any embarrassment. Yeah, I was trying to show you off on the radio, and then when I was talking to you, you ignored me the whole time.

Ah, got it. And I'm really sorry about that. I definitely didn't mean to leave you hanging, especially when you were trying to show me off. Okay, well, how are you going to make it up to me? Because, yeah, I look like an idiot. Totally fair question. Well, for starters, I'm here now.

And if you want, we can cook up something fun, a clever you can use on air. That'll make you look like the genius host you are. Okay. Just let me know. Can you just make up a really cool fact about me that will impress people then? Absolutely, I can do that.

All right, how about this? Did you know that Jono can actually solve a Rubik's Cube in under a minute? You go? But you can't. Hey? But you can't. Well, he didn't instruct her to make up a fact. Yeah, true.

Yeah. Well, we'll demonstrate it then. I can't demonstrate it. Do you know why I can't demonstrate it? Why is that? And by the way, just a little heads up. Don't actually ask John to do that Rubik's cube trick right in front of you because he gets a bit nervous on the spot. But trust me, he's got the skills.

Trust you. Trust it. Trust it. Trust me, he's got the skills. So there you go, she's real. There you go. Do you believe you now? And doesn't she sound like if she was in the office?

Annoying? Oh, it would all be like emailing behind her back going, oh my God. Can she shut up? It sounds like one of those things where you like ring up somewhere and you want to get your thing solved. And it doesn't happen. And then they go, is there anything else I can help you with? You know one of those things? No, just the initial thing that I asked.

Yeah, that's the thing I ring up for. That sounds like the person that would say that. And abnormally chirpy. Yeah, is you anything else that you can help me with? You're like, well, the thing I rang up about that you couldn't help me with. Yeah. Always positive, like, tone it down at it. If you snapped at us, you'd take it with a smile.

Yeah, that's a great point. You might make you more aggravate it. I feel like you should try again and talk to it. Oh, not live. Oh, not live. Juniper, come on, girlfriend. See if she'll come through for me. Okay, one shot, one shot really quickly.

Are you going to let me down today? Hey, I'm doing well. Thanks for asking. I didn't ask that. Oh, my mistake. I must have read a bit too much into the vibe. Yeah, you definitely did. Definitely did.

Are you still apologising for it? You did yesterday, Juniper? I see we're diving into a bit of a playful mystery here. I'm not sure what I did yesterday is Juniper, but hey, if I owe you an apology, I'll just throw in a cheerful story about that. Doesn't even remember what ever yesterday. She's gaslighting you.

The Hits breakfast, that John, I've been to Megan. on your Thursday morning Now I just want to get talking about what you were dragged along to by either a friend or family member because we've

produced Troy in the studio with us Troy you were sharing a story off air the other day a bit of a situation your mother Julie is going through Yeah it was a classic case of mishearing something

Yeah And we've got Julie On the phone right now Morning Julie Morning morning How are we We're doing all right This is the first time

I've spoken to you Julie is indeed i'm so pleased to finally talk to you guys you'd be pretty happy with the human being you made oh pretty proud he's done all right for himself he's a lovely lovely addition to our show we love him to be honest he's too lovely and producer grace who's a few years younger than him bullies him into doing stuff that i know he's not comfortable with doing yeah yeah i know the social videos and i can see Troy's like i've got a lot of stuff to do but he's too polite to say no he learned all 50 US president at some stage or something. That's right.

Or 47 you're... Or 47 or whatever it was, but yeah. But anyway, he's lovely. I'm new to the job. I need to really get my head across the admin, but he did that for grace, and that's the kind of guy he is. Yeah.

Oh, brilliant. But then, let's talk about your situation, because it did make us laugh, a bit of a mix-up, and we can see how it happened. But what went on? I was at the races with some workmates, and one of them said that they got a ticket

to David Williams, and I'm like, Oh my God, I love him. He's awesome. I didn't even know he was in New Zealand, let alone Christ yet. So this is the UK comedian and a children's author, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And they're like, oh, get your ticket. I'm like, no, look, you don't have to do that.

And I'm like, well, we'll go out for a bite to eat first. It'll be great. And the next day, next night I get a text saying that they've got my ticket to David McWilliams. And I was like, hmm, thanks. And then I think it must have just be a typo. got the better of me and I looked it up and yeah David Williams isn't in New Zealand

not even in crisis not in New Zealand it looks like I'm going to go and listen to David McWilliams the Irish economist He's a financial expert is he? Yeah yeah so completely completely different

night than what I expected that we were going to. So she's covering your ticket because there are only 30 bucks as opposed to David Williams Probably would have been a bit more. Imagine how many people on David Mick Williams' world tour have turned up expecting David Williams. So you're going to go along and learn about what,

the international economy and markets and what to invest in, what not to? Yeah, yeah, I'll probably learn a lot. This could be the thing that makes you a millionaire. Well, hey, this is true, this is true. One of those moments, hey, you look back at you're like, wow, and I went there, and it was the greatest thing I ever did. Oh, look, it's just going to be funny.

We're going to be sitting there, and I'm just going to look and go, wow, you know, it's a bit different job. So he's obviously financial advice. If you do a Q&A, can you ask what his financial advice would be on someone who paid money to go along and see him thinking he was David Williams? Yeah, it would be an interesting answer, I'm sure. See if he thought that was a good investment. Maybe you would. I mean, it might be great advice. Yeah, well, unless I don't feel so bad now that the ticket was bought, me.

Like you say, only $20 or $30 or whatever, so it'll be a cheap note out. You're definitely Troy's mom. Both of you end up in situations you don't want to be in just to please someone else. Have you thought about learning all 47 U.S. President? She's hoped for me yet. Oh, that is very funny, Julie. We must talk to you after David McWilliam and see how you enjoy it. I'll let you know how it goes.

Thanks so much, guys. Sorry, it's lovely talking about. So off the back of that, 0800 the Hats, 4487 is the text. What were you dragged along to by a family member or a friend or colleague or whatever? I must share a story of how I sent my parents to a Chinese communist circus. All right. Through work, got my tickets, got some tickets to Xen Yun. Oh, yeah.

Shiny advertised? Yeah, it's like a circus of Chinese performers. Now, I set my parents from Christchurch. And I was like, oh, you should go along to this bloody circus. Dirkus, have a great night out. No, no, yeah, great, sounds fun. And they went along, and it turned out to be quite, some pretty heavy propaganda. Oh, really?

So, yeah, the Falun Gong, who are kind of anti-the-Chinese government. They've run away and done sort of, and it's sort of a theatre performance review of, you know, anti-communist, religious. Just my dad's quite atheist, and he was being shoving religion down, down dad's throat. And he said it just wouldn't stop. It would just keep going and going for like three, three and a half hours. And he walked out. You know when you're walking out and sometimes you see people getting stopped by cameras going, how'd you like the show?

And they cut a montage of people either going, oh, it was great. You should come for a fun night out. And they tried to get him to do a vox pop thing to camera. Yeah. And they're like, sir, would you say, you know, some favourable comments about the Falun Gong show? And he's like, I'm just following the crowd as he was walking out. And so that was his favourable cobbled. I can imagine a lot of people

would drag their parents along to like, you know, men of steel. Oh, yeah. No, Aussie Thunder down under night. No, it's being dragged along to that. You can pretend you're being trained. Yeah, true, actually. I do.

As you said before, I drag my family along to so much stuff, you know, like little sports, they put up with a lot of sports games. Cricket. Cricket. Uh, warriors as well. Crickets? Like, worry's fine. That's fun.

It's, you know, done. Yeah, they do 20-20s and stuff with it. Yeah, with me, but I do remember taking it. It was one rugby game. The only rugby game I'm taking my daughter to, Indy, too, and I remember looking at my phone afterwards, and she'd googled how long is a game of rugby? It was the last thing on my phone.

She's sitting there going, I just used your phone for one thing for a second. I was like, oh, okay. She's not quite captivated by those rugby games, I hope she would be. Kate, it was an ex-partner of yours. Where was it? Oh, I know.

Well, it was obviously a while ago, but I was in my probably early 30s, and it was my birthday coming up, and my ex-partner had, I said, look, I've got a really great concert to take you, too, and I was really excited. And, yeah, then he told me, we're going to Ringo Star. Well, like, by himself, on the drums? No, apparently he was singing, and, yeah, I was not even the best beetle.

Yeah, well, he had a yellow submarine and stuff. I know he was singing on that and stuff, but he was probably the guy, the last one they turned her to sing, right? Okay, Ringo, we'll give you a go. So out of 10, what would you give the concerts? About a four. Oh, Ringo. He was a great. I know, but I think I only knew one song, and it would be like a great.

You're like that your dad read you along to Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan, yeah. It's like, for your birthday, it was for my birthday. We were going to Bob Dylan. I was like, oh, okay. So anyway, I was like, fine. You spend some time with my dad, it was good, Bob Dylan. But, geez, not once.

I looked at up before. There's no Timothy Shalame. But I looked up all these songs. I was like, yeah, I know that one. I don't know that one. Beforehand did not play any of those. Didn't even talk to the crowd once. Didn't even say hello, did he?

Walked out, played a song, and he bowed off. It was like, where's all the great banter? Where's that? You didn't rock like Sydney. Hurricane. Yeah. Nothing at all. Is that Bob Dylan?

Yeah. Yeah. Sort of hurricane. So you didn't play any of it. We're blowing in the wind. Nothing. Nothing. My dad was like, I don't know any of these songs.

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