Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Jono honks at a nun… and gets blessed!

Episode Date: November 5, 2025

On today’s show: Jono’s road rage backfires when he honks at a nun… and she blesses him. David Beckham finally gets knighted, but Ben remembers the time he made fun of Beckham’s voice! Producer Grace reveals the weird pre-arranged argument rules in her relationship. The team debates the word of the year: “six seven” (does it mean anything?). Ben has officially turned into his mum with what he’s eating. Mariah Carey’s Christmas song is claiming victims early in the game… as Days show host Hayley Barth gets taken out. A listener got paid to watch bubbles!Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & Megan See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The John O'Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better team. Hey, welcome to the podcast. We're talking about, we're just about to get into your relationship rules when it comes to arguments. You have more on the podcast as well. Producer Grace has got a rule involving sleeping on the couch with her partner, which they haven't actually, no one's implemented this rule yet. But hey, it's there.

Megan wants to see how it plays out, IRL. Yeah, the heat of an argument. True, we need to find out who ended up sleeping on the couch or not. I had an overflow of calls on this. Some really handy tips from people. You know, don't go to bed angry. You know, talk. Sit down and talk through an issue as opposed to just slinging words back and forth.

Yeah, it's all well and good until you're in the heat of it. I know. But then you need to both agree to go, okay, now this is a sit down and discuss moment. Yeah, true. You go to the table. Paper out. Okay, let's get the flow chart out. Renee, morning to you.

Good morning. You're on the podcast intro, Renee. So it could be afternoon. Middle of the night, who knows, when people just. decide to listen to this. Who knows if people listen to it? Yeah, that's true. But Renee, you've got a really good rule in front of your son.

Yes. What's that? So my husband and I, if we're ever arguing and he happens to see it because, you know, we're just human, not perfect. He, we always do repair in front of him and include him in the conversation and let him see that mum and dad are okay because I think our children, they don't deserve to feel that insecurity of wondering like oh what's mom and dad going through and

not having answers yeah that's a really good way close the case in front of the child yeah I did read that on a parenting website so I think you're doing the right thing it's not because you want them to see that in relationships these arguments

like that's natural but yeah you need them to see the resolution too the other side of it yeah it's very healthy good on you but do you drop in a at the end So this is what we argued about And mummy was right Oh, mommy was right, was she?

Like, if I'm having a go at his daddy's like, don't talk to my dad like that And I'm like, right, okay, so he's already a part of the conversation To be right, yeah You bring it back in, yeah What I really appreciated when it was probably when the kids were sort of under the age of five is you would argue through the children

You tell daddy that mommy, you know? Yeah, well, mommy, you tell dad They can act as a good little communication speaker. The kids are like, I'm not singing either, right now. I'm just watching like a game of tennis. Hey, well, listen, thank you for sharing. Lovely to chat with you. Yeah, you too.

Have a good day, guys. Yeah, you too, Renee. And the podcast is about to rip into gear now and how I had a shocker with a nun. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The hits. You know my theory on, you know, tiny little vehicles on the road.

Particularly tiny little vehicle, your yarises, your demios, and you can't see the head over the driver's scene. And I've said it before. If you're stuck behind one of those people Your journey is going to be extended Okay, so I found myself Stuck behind a little red Demio Yesterday

And there was a couple of situations At the lights where the lights went green And I did not make a fuss And eventually they saw it And then moved on Right Second set of lights Happened again

And I just gave a little Yeah, it's a courtesy Bip Yeah, a friendly You're trying to do it as friendly as possible It's hard sometimes You misjudge it sometimes sent them on their way

okay then I'm stuck behind the same car at an intersection this time they're doing a right turn and oh my God it felt like my Warner Fitness had expired the amount of time I was waiting to turn

and so I was look I could see the traffic on both sides there was nothing coming nothing so eventually I did give it time again I just went bink just to give it a little just a nudge just get out there have a crack you know

turn and then she eventually turned and I got stuck with her at the lights next to her at the lights my windows are down it's a hot day she winds down her window guess who it is it's a bloody nun it's a nun I honked at a nun and she's like she's a sweet old nun and she goes I'm so sorry I don't like to drive and peak hour I like to go so it's like two o'clock in the afternoon because I'm in a rush to pick my daughter up there's a teacher's strike I just don't drive in rush hour I just drive during the coffee I just drive during the car I'm and I'm like, I feel like a monster. You're a good Catholic boy. I road raged and nun. She even ended with, God bless you. Oh, she God blessed me. I felt awful. You can't tote at 2pm.

No, true. I just feel like, no, no, that is like Nana driving. If you were in the car, honestly, honestly, I know you're judging me right now, but if anyone listening right now was in my pit situation, they would have given friendly to, they were friendly to, they were friendly toots. They were friendly to us. Right, yeah. That's all I'm saying.

Were they friendly to him? A nun felt the need to apologise to you. You're raging. Clearly the nun got some payback on me because I got stuck behind a funeral procession on the way back home. That's karma. I'm not on getting. Sit in it.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hit. David Beckham, he was knighted yesterday in the UK and it feels like he's been wanting it for a while. So it's awesome that he's got. And he's well deserved for all he's done over the years for football and charity. I forgot. Grace was saying this morning

reading an article Troy Producer Troy that Remember he waited in line To see the Queen's coffin Pay his respects Didn't jump the queue Big Royalist as well And he was pretty stoked

To get it yesterday When he was finally knighted At Sir David Beckham To receive the honour of knighthood Sir David Beckham For services to sport And to charity I think that

You know Being an East London boy You know Growing up in Leyton Stone Moving to Manchester and now stood here at Windsor Castle with His Majesty the King giving me a knighthood

he's something that I could never have imagined happening to me I'm beautiful I saw the king he does the sword on either shoulder Jesus looks heavy and he does not have the core strength do you know likes I've been saying he's been campaigning for age as I was trying to remember how I know that so in 2013 David Beckin's emails were leaked

and he was calling the committee that picks the people unappreciative very full on expletive and he was like he said he had he'd been campaigning for this for an evening long time

Oh well now he's got there 12 years later Can I ask what dog released those emails? She was hacked I was actually thinking yesterday many many years ago he came to He's come to New Zealand a couple times To play football and stuff as well

Many he was playing in America He came to New Zealand years ago and I, long story but I was hosting a TV show at the time and you know it was a bit of a silly sports show and we were like

let's try and get a signature from David Beckham when he first came to the airport frenzy in Wellington we flew to Wellington to get a signature and we'll like well we'll put one of the

my co-host in a wheelchair like we'll put him in a wheelchair because you can't walk past someone in a wheelchair You can't say no to anyone in a wheelchair and it doesn't mean you could have broken leg

and be in a wheelchair there's many reasons why but no one ever asked that at the time just like you see a wheelchair you're stopping us Celebrity. Got him there and, you know, all these people there, David Beck and got off the plane,

walked past everyone, saw co-host in the wheelchair, came back and signed it. It was like, great, signed it. What he didn't realize is we'd done another silly gag and we'd folded up the piece of paper and made a mock contract that he'd actually signed, you know, when you pulled it out saying that he gave all his money and everything to us as a gag. And, you know, like, he would never see this, obviously. We'll put it on a TV show. But we ended up hosting an event when he came to New Zealand the next time.

a couple of years later and he was there in the room and came in and we're like oh we've played this video to him we're like we actually know you we can see him we're like we've got history and he's like looking at us like what they're like have a look at this clip you sign this when he was in a wheelchair everyone was laughing and then we read out the notes you know you give us all your money you give us your wife posh and then everyone was killing it was killing it lots of laughs and then we had a line going and i also confessed that i have a silly little voice and everyone went ooh that was that that was the point i mean he seemed like he laughed but everyone was like Or, that kind of sucked, suck the air out of the room.

Yeah, too far. We push it too far. I love it when you got everybody going, ha, ha, and there was like, oh. Yeah, everyone just stopped. You're like, that was going so well, guys. That was going really, really well. It's just his voice. Yeah.

It was like, he's silly little voice. But he can't help it. And he does have a silly little voice. He's a great voice. Yeah. I feel like he's changed his voice slightly. Because it used to be like, David Beckett was a little bit more like, yeah. But anyway, so I feel like I'd feeded David Beckham.

So congratulations on your night. I'd never got to see him. Afterwards, they whisk him away and stuff like that. You were in the same room? Yeah, but in the same room. Talking to him. Talking to him, played him the video of him signing the thing. They didn't whisk him away.

He wanted to leave after that, man. Yeah, probably. He was campaigning hard to get me off as well. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. Com have come up with their word of the year. Oh, I love... Six-seven.

Oh, is it? Six-seven, it is six-seven. What's their definition? Because does anyone really know what six-seven means? Yeah, well, yeah. it doesn't really have a sort of concrete meaning it says it here it doesn't really

a concrete meaning it's come from a song it's been used on NBA videos the Malo Ball who's an NBA player he's 6 foot 7 so they often use it with that and it now becomes almost like you do the hand gesture like I don't know 6 7 you know but people who are around teenage If it's got no meaning how can it be in a dictionary

yeah well yeah I love the guy from dictionary and this thing said he got a message from his friend who's a teacher saying do not make 6 7 the word of the year Well, sorry, mate, I'm going to. Well, dictionary. They can just chuck whatever they want all there. Also, technically, those are numbers.

Like, can that be the word of the year? Yeah, but put together, I guess put together in that term as well. It would be 67. Yeah. So the 67 is the word of the year. Oh, please don't go out there and go, 67. 67, 67, 67, 67. That's fun to say.

I do like, let's see the ones you see, like the people waiting in Burger King and stuff and order comes up. I was like, ooh. I know. It's like, kids can't avoid it. What are we doing with our lives? Yeah. I appreciate it though.

But then, you know, I've seen those great, great examples of everyone's like, oh, kids these days, just stupid. And then they flash back to what we were doing at that age. Beavis and Butthead impersonations and all the stupid things that we were and all the things you're like, every generation was doing. You know? Like, oh, kids these days, you know, oh, why are they doing it? It's like, we were all doing it.

We're no better than that. Don't put the spotlight on yourself. Yeah. Exactly. So I've got enjoying it. Just get on board the 6-7, even if it makes no sense at all. And even if the kids aren't enjoying you doing it. Yeah, exactly. That's the best part about it. There's an adult just doing it. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. I hope it was a safe night for you around the neighbourhood last night with Guy Fawkes going on. Jeez, it was going on to be a down buzz. But man, it sounded like some of them. Yeah, that's something who's a downbuzz says.

Oh, so the problem is it's after daylight savings too. So it has to be an hour later. I was trying to put my daughter to sleep and she's like, what are those noises? And some of them felt like they're going on the house. And I was like, why, when you can go to those spectacular displays, do you want to see a little fizzar in your backyard? You're like, that's the sound of irresponsibility, darling. It's happening right outside our doorstep. Can I give a big shout out to the moon last night as well?

Supermoon. Moomer's doing its bit, wasn't it? I was driving to work this morning and going, you don't appreciate the moon enough. You're like, we're just like, what is that? Oh, that's just a moon. It just floats there. It's just this thing that's there every night. To me honestly, I think we do talk about the moon a lot weirdly.

Yeah, it gets a lot of coverage of the moon. When you think about the moon, the more you think about the moon, the more you really do appreciate the moon. Anyway, we're not here to talk about the moon. No, we're here talking about Mariah Carey. We have been talking a lot about that on the hits recently because that's the song, All I Want for Christmas, you need to try and avoid if you want to play our game.

You can start now, of course, you can jump on in, just try and avoid the song, all I want for Christmas. It's one of her big ones. You know, this time of year, it's her biggest. And she still makes a lot of money. from this song. It took 15 minutes to write that song. 15 minutes to write.

So we're talking with our boss Craig yesterday about it. And the song still earns Mariah in New Zealand dollars, $90,000 a week. A week. Holy! That's an NZD, baby. Wow. Like every week or only at this time of the year? Consistently.

Every week. So that song is, that's how she's set her up for life. Two or three mill a year. no wonder she makes like gags about defrosting and stuff she can just ride home on this one song she's ready to go maybe she's got so many others I mean talented talented singer 15 minutes of you know putting it all together and that's incredible obviously the talent for that but when you boil it down easy money right yeah it takes me 15 minutes to pick meat out of my teeth after you know you have shredded chicken or something yeah 15 minutes to pull in that kind of money easiest cash she's made what's the easiest money you've made I'm probably During high school

I got some money For being the guy in a poster That wore a bike helmet wrong And so obviously it was the time That people were wearing bike helmets wrong I don't know how you could be How can you put a bike helmet wrong I was the guy who had the helmet on the side

The high bits the backwards as well And yeah looking like a bit of an idiot In the campaign as well I thought easy money couple hundred bucks There's a teenager I was like oh this is incredible God mercilessly boy I bet there's a lot of credit damage Yeah

Well maybe not but easy money Easy money. At the time. Are you the klutz wearing a bike helmet as a pair of pants, you're idiot? It was in pamphlets as well that my friends would always find. He'd be like, look at this idiot. But, hey, easy money, easy money. Easy money.

Just put a bike helmet on slightly left a seat. That should have been your comeback. Be like, well, whatever, Brian, got $200 for that. Yeah, so that was easy money for me. It was worth the character, damage. Aren't you also paying your kids not to vape? That must be. They're like, sweet, thanks for paying us for something that are not going to do anyway.

Well, yeah, a lot of them do, though. days they all try it and yeah my kids are my yeah the bait i didn't think it was a yearly thing but they've now gone hey this is a yearly salary not to vape the vape things that your vape payments rolled over for another year what's the easiest money you've been me i don't know i feel like i've always like worked my bot off like clean toilets and look what we do for a job mate we do right now come on oh yeah but you know like it's not a huge amount really i'm not on john on ben You only dream of that, man

One day maybe I'll work hard Sorry we've got that glass ceiling Nice and clean and strong Easiest money you've ever made Not really me Because I did a paper round And that was a giant pain in the ass Lugging...

You got like 10 cents Yeah Back in the 60s I do have a friend who did Quite a few medical trials Oh yeah He was like sweet That seems like easy money

Especially if you get the placebo but then... Could go wrong. There's a risk involved in that one. Sits in a comfy bed and might not get cancer over a week. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast. We're talking about Mariah Carey because we started the game this week. It's a really fun game.

You can play it right now. You can join us in the Mariah Carey game. Just try and avoid listening to all I want for Christmas for as long as possible. If you hear it anywhere, you're out of the game. Yeah, we have been taking lots of calls of people falling. Already, eh? Fallen soldiers in the first two of them. three days of this competition.

And are you still in and Napier or you're out? I am out. What happened then? I was just, you know, scrolling through Instagram and it was like, I don't even remember who the, you know, whose page it was or anything. But it was like someone just going to a door and then hearing something, he turns around and the caption was like, you know, someone's defrosting. And, you know, just the faintest, faintest beginning of the song.

And I was like, no. This is our catchphrase this year, Angela. It's still cute on mute, okay? Yeah, but you're right. Sometimes you don't even know what's coming, though, do you? Especially in November, early November. No warning. Also a lot harder to hear stuff on mute, too.

Yeah, yeah. But thank you, Angie. It's been nice knowing you. Yeah, in memoriam for Anne's right now. You know, I'm sorry you're out of the game. We lost another one, guys. Laura, good morning to you. Have we lost you?

Have we lost you? Good morning. Hi, how are you? You're still in the game? I'm still in our game. I'm still in the game. All right. You don't get emotional piano music.

No, you're still in the game. No, don't need it. Now, producer Troy was saying to us that you may have a bit of a hack. Yes, I've been wearing my noise-cancelling headphones in the mall and in Woolworth. Oh, that is smart. I know, I've, yeah, I'm determined not to get out. I got up really early last year, so it feels like this year's my year. This is your year.

Well, you've got, it's great tactic. Huggy Social, but you'll be in the case. Yeah, well, no one really bugs you either, too. I know, I love really antisocial. I was admired. Yeah, when you see people want around a headphone, you're like, that's a great hack. No one's pestering you? I know.

Yeah, yep, exactly. Well, lovely to have you still in the game. So with that tactic, you're probably going to go a long way. I'm hoping so mute the social media and noise cancelling headphones It's the way to go So if I found a hack like the headphone hack

That Laura just gave us It's like we stipulate it must be the original recording of the Mariah Harry song So covers alternate versions That seems like fair game So I just want to pitch a few to you to see if these might be Okay viable This is something that's close to your heart

Megan I can't remember the name of this group but. Oh, the meow, meow, meow. It's the meow cat. Yeah. I love that. Let's do the meow one.

They do so many songs. They do all the songs. They hacked the Matrix, didn't they just meowing songs? You know all the words. Yeah. Little John, you know, little John. He's kind of done his take on. He took a bit of creative license with it.

Oh, yeah. Oh, that really want for Christmas. All that really want, really want for Christmas. All that really want, really want for Christmas. Is everything on my list, maybe? Hey. Oh, that's me. Yeah.

A little John, you know what I love about little John? He's done a complete 180. He's a meditation guru now. Yeah. That guy. Oh, la way, that guy. Yeah. I want everyone to take a deep breath into your nose.

You can say it to yourself. I really, yeah. It's quite a change, eh, quite a change. I just really want him in the middle of that to go, yeah!

Yeah, no, he's like, no, not anymore. There's no middle ground with that guy. Or there's this option, which is kind of a heavy metal version.

I don't need to hang my stocking they're off of the fire place. Santa Claus will make me happy with a toy of Christmas day. I just want you for my home. Wow.

More than you go. Take a lot of good words. Oh, I want for Christmas. Yes, yeah. Jeez, all right. Very beautiful words in a very aggressive way. Whoa, whoa, chill out. Just calm down.

Okay, well, yeah. Everyone to take a deep breath. Thank you, Joe. If you could, let us know if you're in the game or not, and if you do get out of the game, we'd love to see a video of you, wherever you are around the country when you get out. You can send it to us at The Hits Breakfast.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. This time last week, we started 24. hours of handball at Eden Park where cold play has performed uh yeah and we performed for 24 hours. Wonderful time there, a good connection between cool play and us playing a handball there's nice. Yeah and so we played handball for 24 hours ready raising money for Kiwi kids uh for the organization kids can over $515,000 it keeps going up uh which is incredible uh so thank to everyone that's donated you can still donate at kidscambore.org

dot n's head and help Kiwi kids get the basics uh basics that they deserve as we keep saying they're going to school. Hungry, cold, without the basics, so you can help them out at kidscambal.org. But we had a little snack table to try and get us through the 24 hours. And Megan's trying to remember this. You're trying to go back through about,

you mock me for a choice because there was a few options and there was sort of like candy-like options just to keep us going, you know, for 24 hours. I can't remember what I mocked you for. There's a lot I can't remember about that time. The longer you stay awake,

the more your sass levels increased. You're very sass. Yeah. The middle of the night, sass levels. She's like, I really don't know. Oh, I'm like, oh, okay. And then be wildly off to something.

Let's get a banana, you know, or something. You're like, okay. Have it in the celery, put some celery in your mouth. Oh, that's helpful, is it not? It was great. I was like, Ben, eat some celery. It's really great. Cold, crispy, good for you.

I loved it. But I had a licorice, all sorts. A licorice, all sorts. So I hadn't had for a while. Now, this is something my mum traditionally loves. Liquish all sorts. There was something there. And, geez, I enjoyed it.

Like, I read to the point that two days ago, when I was in the supermarket by myself, I was like, I'm going to buy some more liquor all sorts Oh bless And I'm like Am I turning into the taste buds Of my mum?

I haven't probably had these See it's something my mum loves Yeah And I don't know I mean liquorish game My liquorish game Is really really ramped up Over the last year

But not liquorish all sorts Once you hit your Your Wothers original That's what I was going to say Yeah But licorice you know Like the RJs do a lovely red Liquish with chocolate in between

That's like your mother amazing Have you got odd fellow mints Inside the Cup of your sleeve Oh A sleeve. Yeah, my nana, I always remember that. She'd have them stored next to the used tissues as well.

She's like, you want a mint? It's like, yeah, damn right. And her sleeve is interesting. I guess my pockets maybe weren't really for her. Those big juicy mint, you know what? Yeah, the big ones. You're right, though, as you get older, you appreciate black licorish more. Yeah.

Because maybe it's just not, it's like a little sweetie, but it's not too sweet. It's not too bad. But then the licorish also has got the sweet aspect and then the licorish bit. Yeah. But, I mean, there was some high quality treats. on that table and you went for licorice. I know, but I enjoyed it. And it's so much so that I've double-dipped.

I've gone back with liquorish all sorts by myself as well. And I regret no part of it. You're into licorice all-sort. Oh, mate over here likes rum and raiser. He does. It's all best of boom. Kippers on toast. Can I, like, something in the other, I was thinking about the other day,

you know, your mum would often make or back in the day, there's sort of a white sauce that would be with stuff. The bitishmal sauce. Like corn beef and you'd have a white sauce. No, the corned beef one is like a mustard. Well, no, but sometimes it wasn't even, maybe she didn't like, because I don't know mustard. It was just a white sauce. Washed potatoes, you have a white sauce.

Mystery white sauce. What is this white sauce? We didn't question it at the time. It was like, here, you know, put that on what over here one. It wasn't overly flavorsome, too, from memory. No, it was just like a white, hot sauce sauce thing. It was fine. And I was like, I haven't had that for many years now.

And we went on everything, like your Brussels sprouts, your broccoli, your cauliflower. Now I was like, what was that? We should do, we should do. an old school dinner with listeners boiled corn beef and like what was the silver beet

with the mum meals mum meals yeah okay apricot chicken yeah that's a good one 4487 on the text all the veggies are boiled

and they go grey John O'Nean and Megan the podcast The hits I get to just talk about sort of mum meals and mum taste buds that I'm maybe starting

to develop with my love of liquorish of late yeah I think the older you get your taste buds you kind of bully them into flavors that, you know, as a child, blue cheese. Could you have, if a blue cheese smell,

it smells really like something that's inside of a fridge that you need to burn. It does. But then all of a sudden you're like, oh, I just put with a rich wet wine. And you're like, where did this, where did this come from? That's what happens, I guess you changed. And I love Brussels sprouts now. Yeah, yeah. I hated those things when I was ever.

Play a buddy $22 bucks for some Brussels sprouts, say. Nowadays in the fancy gastro pub or something. Ha ha ha ha, Nicola. Ha ha ha. Oh Nicole Welcome, how are you? Yeah, I'm good, thank you Lovely to have you on the show

Okay, your mum meals What takes you back? When you're saying, the corned beef Oh, yeah, they love the corned beef In a crock pot With a bit of malt vinegar, brown sugar Some carrot White sauce

White sauce, don't get the white mustard sauce It's not white sauce It's mustard sauce, yeah Maybe your mum put too much white in it Yeah, well, I wasn't a mustard fan, so maybe she was catering for me, just making it even blander for me. That's a really good call, Nicole. You mentioned a...

The condensed milk, salad dressing, which you can buy from, like, eat a dozen out of the supermarket, but you used to shake it up in a tupperware thing. So sweet. So, it was it so sweet. So sticky. I remember being really, like, a he... John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits.

Early November, but everyone's turning their attention to Christmas. Christmas seems to be popping up everywhere, and we've started our Mariah Carey game. Basically, you can try. join in if you want you just need to see how long you can avoid listening to maria carries all i want for christmas you could be in a mall you could be scrolling social media you could be turning on the radio and then if you hear this song maria's version you're out of the game devastating losses so far i can't remember this many casualties so early in the game last year yeah early on

you need to let us know when you're out as well too it would be nice to let us know on four eight seven on the text or take a little video even better and send it to the hits breakfast on instagram yeah we'd love to get the uh the footage of that now uh one of our own another fall Soldier who joins us now. Our boss, Matt Anderson, out within three hours of the game starting on Monday. And Haley, Bath,

who hosts the day show on the hits, you're dead. Oh, guys. I'm victim to social media. It's getting everyone. It's still cute on mute, Haley. I know, yeah, but here's the thing. I was, um, Habe owns a

construction business, so I was scrolling from that account looking at builders. clicked into an electrician's page and they were the one using the real electricians last person you're not expecting that though are you you're right

so you're out of the game yeah I am I just literally heard like her screaming there was no music no jingle bells nothing under it I just heard her like the very high pitch you heard Mariah Carey so you're out of the game now but you have to promise thus so on the day show and the hits you're not you're not playing it

you're not playing it yet until everyone's out of the game right Not until the trauma really sinks in And I get the bitterness that follows Yeah That would still count as sabotage You can't do that to everyone, hey you You know, when you go to someone's house And they're playing Blackjack or something

And I'm useless at Blackjack You get out early and you've just like You're not involved anymore You've got no interest I'm just watching, it's just voyeurism now Oh well, okay Well, I'm sorry you're a fallen soldier From the game

Yeah, thanks guys Do you know what, it feels like trauma But then there's a wonderful freedom and sweet release that comes up and I'm slowly moving into it I know because I've got extra anxiety on social media now

it's like you've got immunity you've built up immunity you can go out into the community with immunity live your best life Haley be free thanks guys a lot of people text you in 4487 someone who's a really loyal

new world shop event and is afraid to step foot inside the supermarket they've got noise cancelling headphones they're going to be doing taking to the supermarket I think we should start calling these businesses the big dogs like the supermarket the farmers and asking them if they can please take it off the playlist

make it a safe space Yeah that's a good call We've got another one phoning through too Ashley you're out I'm out of the game How what happened I didn't heed your warnings And I didn't have Instagram on mute

And I got sucked in by a cute kitty cat with a sand hat on You can't I know and you can't deny that You're not going to watch that video It still would have been cute on mute Yes, I couldn't out myself I clicked it, there was Mariah and then I thought well it's cute

It's a way to go out Maybe that's the slogan for this campaign It's still cute or mute So you can remember us being That's a good one That's good Hey this call Will have saved someone else

Yeah You'll remind someone Volunteered as tribute You know Did any part of you think Well I don't have to be honest here Or yeah Honestly got the better of you

I was shocked I was like oh my gosh it's November, the start of November how this happened, but I thought, no, I'll be honest, because it's a fun game still to play along anyway. Yeah, and the good thing is you can enjoy the song now, you know? Because everybody's kept saying, we're not a hater of the song, it's just the hardest song to avoid.

Yeah. Yes. Did you play last year, Ashley? I did. I managed better that time. I think I was later, later in the month. Yeah, well, hey, we're still proud of you. And thanks for joining in.

Good luck to you guys. And you're not the only one. Lots of people are falling. early, mate? Yes. John O'Benn and Megan the podcast. That's.

Yeah, GPT gets a lot of chat at the moment and gets a lot of use around the place but no longer we'll be giving you medical, legal or financial advice. They're turning that off? Yeah, they'll give you some sort of guidelines or recommendations like to go see a doctor and stuff but they're worried, you know, obviously people

are taking it for, you know, at face value what it says and worried that things later will either be, yeah, they might be sued basically the company. I saw it in the news. Today, Kim Kardashian said she failed some of her legal tests because she was asking chat GPT. And I was giving her wrong advice.

Doesn't always get everything right. No. Do you see the thing in China that they're going to sue people $9 billion or something crazy if they offer out medical advice or financial advice and they're not educated? That's good. Don't know if it's $9 billion. I might have exaggerated that. See, I would have been sued.

That exact thing. Now, producer Grace is joining us in the studio. Lovely to see you, Grace. Hi, guys. Even though I've been seeing you all morning, this is probably the loveliest of all these seings. But, Grace, you mentioned something in passing. You and your boyfriend, Jack, have some prearranged rules for when you go into an argument.

Yes, we have to know, I'm 5'2 and Jack's 6.3. So there's quite a high difference between us. So we've discussed that if we ever have an argument and one of us has to go to the couch, I'll go to the couch. You've taken the head on that? I've taken the head on it, but I've done a lot of thinking behind this. Number one, I sleep on that couch all the time. Every Friday night, I sleep on that couch.

I just fall to sleep on it. I love that couch. And then number two, in the morning, I can play it up and be like, oh, my back. I just sleep. Even though I would have had the best sleep ever, I love that. That couch had me a best friend. So I, we did agree on this pre, but it's, I've manipulated. So it hasn't happened yet, the couch?

It hasn't happened yet. That's my thing, is that it hasn't happened yet. Because when you're in the heat of an argument, are you still going to be as charitable? Because you know it will be hard for him. I think in the morning, I'll think about how much I can play it up in the morning. The emotional warfare of, oh, I've got to go to the chiropractor. Yeah. Okay, now that's a good, a lot of couples do have pre-arranged rules, don't they, for when they head into battle.

You don't swear at each other? Yeah, we don't, we don't swear at each other ever, especially not in argument. Here's swearing behind your back in other rooms. Oh, I'm swearing behind us back. Right, okay, okay. But like, you don't swear at each other, or you don't, like, say rude things to each other. Because then when the argument's over, you can't take it back, and it's always got to be like, you can say your feelings, but saying things, but saying things. things like that are you saying other words like oh fiddlesticks and things in

the moment like that'd be fun too just come up with the tone with which you say you're like i am so like you can use your tone you're the biggest cucumber oh yeah yeah because that still sounds like a compliment yeah oh that's great i'm great oh you're not so vegetar okay so rules i haven't even thought about having these sort of things yeah up front no i just like that no i'm not like that no other in the unearth rules don't you're like if it's something don't play games is kind of our only thing as well if you mean you know if you say just say it you know don't go I hate their second guessing or people go goes what is this person quieter why is this thing it's just

just say oh I thought you mean like monopoly no oh yeah board games that's another story love board games but the whole thing about you know like don't give silence you just say what it is you know because then we can talk about it rather than you know trying to second guess everything you know what I hate yeah you know what you've done yeah see that's a game that's a game I just have yeah I heard that in a little One day there was a couple arguing. And she's like, you know what you've done. You can see the poor bastard going, I've done hundreds of things.

It could be any one of these things. Yeah, so that's, yeah, just say it. Also, we don't argue in public, generally. That's happened a couple times. But, like, you don't, you don't air your laundry out. I don't think I've ever argued in public. No, you just save it for the car ride home. Tell you what I did learn early on in my arguing career, calm down.

Don't ever say calm down. Oh, don't say that. That's like adding bloody gasoline to a fire. in it. Really, yeah. So I've learned not to say calm down, because I don't think ever in the history of anyone being told to calm down. Have they actually calm down?

No, I don't think so. You're right. Natas Smith had a whole song about it, didn't she? I don't think it worked either. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. Super Moon at the moment, too. Look, very impressive overnight, and we'll continue again tonight as well, around the country.

Super Moon, great description for it, isn't it? Now, we're just talking about the rules and your relationship arguments when you go into battle. What on earth are you drinking there, Megan? Jesus, what is that thing? It looks almost nuclear. Oh my God, it almost went all over the computers. Yeah, some watermelon blast.

Looks like he'll keep her awake for about five weeks. Yeah. Good luck, I expect some productivity out of you after that drink, mate. Let's get Kusler on the phone. Welcome to the show. Good morning. Good morning. Now, have you got a relationship role?

Yep. What is it? We sit down at the table and talk things out. We've been married 35 years and we have not had one fight. Wow. One fight. So you obviously had discussions, you talk things out like you say, but no fights. Yeah, we just, if we, I can't talk properly because I had a stroke in September.

Oh, of course, yeah. Hopefully that's not from all the tension bubbling away there, mate. No, no. That's a lovely story. You never want to. But just talking thing out, having a robust conversation. We sit down and we got a problem. We say, how can we work things out and got paper and a pen and we write things down and stuff like that?

Oh, that's a really good advice. I can't do that when I'm in the head of the moment. No, Kush is better than all of us. Good on you, melting. You have to keep calm and talk things out and kumacate. And what cake? Coma cake. Oh, communicate.

Oh, yes, gotcha. Yeah, yeah. Thanks, Husha. Oh, great advice, great advice, Gushla. Thank you. I appreciate that. Thank you for calling. Isn't that, lovely, melting hearts this morning.

Chase, morning to you. Morning, how's going? Yeah, great, buddy. Lovely to have you on. Your relationship argument rules. What do you, what have you agreed on before going into battle? Oh, I've learned to shut up and just listen to the Wi-Fi. After years of just budding heads and stuff and just telling her to come.

calm down, it's all good. It just tends to make things a lot of worse. Calm down, it's all good. It's not good. Megan, you were saying it never ends up well. It never ends out well, you know. So I've just learned over the years just to just shush and let her, you know,

say what she has to say and then just talk it out and communicate really. Sometimes saying you're right to the other person can be a good thing too, Megan. Yeah, that's what I've learned. It's just being like, sorry, you're right. It's like when you're in the heat of the moment, why do you need to be right or you can both be right no calm down it's all good

as long as you're being heard as well Chase you know like I don't think husbands should just shut up and not say what they're feeling good on you chase yeah and that's all for a wife you know you just got a discussion just you know let her say what she's to say and all as well

all good all good all good all good John O'Benn and Megan the podcast The Hats We're talking about easiest money that you've made on 0800 the hits

or 4487 after Mariah Carey makes pretty much $90,000 New Zealand a week. Just for the one song, all I want for Christmas. So we might not be playing it, but I think she'll be okay. She's going to be okay. She won't be getting the royalties from our station for the time being because we're all trying to avoid listening to it,

which you can play along to as well. But yeah, we're trying to find the easiest cash you've made. I reckon bribery cash would be some of the easiest cash you could make. You know, just getting paid to just not say stuff. I'll take you. Yeah, I'll take $50,000 to not say stuff.

Morally, though, that's where it probably eats away at you. I think I'll be all right. But no one knows it's eating away at you because you can't say stuff. That's the genius. We talked about a punta on the Melbourne Cup this week. New Zealand, actually, turned $2 into a couple of $100,000, $350,000 to be exact. Correctly picked the first four horses in order, which is pretty tough from a field of 24, in the order, one, two, three, four. But this is the only best.

they make annually, right? And $2 too. So was it in guess, or do they know what they? I know, that sounds like a me bet. That's incredible. Yeah, I mean, gambling, it's got its haters, but you know, there's the stories of hope and joy like this coming out, yeah, give us all.

Now, Troy, producer Troy, you paid $60 was it? $60, was it? 60 bucks, yeah, and $20 increments. Right, the easiest cash you made? Easiest cash I made, because I think I've just got, like, damaged mouth receptors or something. From what?

I don't know from what, but I don't know. in the coal mines of Greymouth when he was growing up. I don't find lemon sour. Like, I can eat a lemon, a whole lemon, skin and all. Oh, really? It doesn't bother me. The entire thing. And so I told this to some colleagues, and they said, I'll give you 20 bucks to do it right now.

Found a lemon, did it? And then someone else came into the office. Greg, Greg, have you seen Troy, did? And I was like, give him 20 bucks, he'll eat a lemon. Another lemon, 40? 40. And then another person, Louise, Louise, come here, come here. Give him 20 bucks, you'll eat a lemon.

It's a great party trick, Troy. Yeah. We've got to, you know, if we were more organized, we'd have a lemon for you to eat right now. But we'll take your word for it. I'll do have a 20 bucks. Yeah, true. It's my race. I don't have 20 bucks either.

I'm not paying 20 bucks. I was paying 20 bucks to see somebody eat a whole lemon. Skin and all. Skin and all. Shane, morning to you. How's life? Good morning. It's great.

Good. Oh, good. Thursday, little Friday. Okay, easiest money you made, Shaino. Standing watching bubbles. Watching bubbles, did you say? Bubbles. Yep.

How is this a job? And how can I do it? I was a construction diver and a rescue diver standing watching other people work and making sure bubbles were coming up. If the bubbles stopped, in theory, get a... Right, if the bubbles stopped, then you had to get to work. So a very important job, to be honest. A very important job.

Well, yeah, it was, but easy money. I thought you meant bubbles floating in the sky. So that's a bit more serious. There's got a few more stakes attached to it. Yeah. I'd probably... Just watching bubbles. Yeah, but like, I'd probably start scrolling on social media.

He'd be like, oh, we lost three of our colleagues that day. I was watching a great cat video, though. Oh, wow. Hey, good on you, Shane. Well, there you go, easiest money Shane's made. Let's get Tracy on. What was it? Trace.

Yeah, sorry. That's all right. No one apologises on this show. We will never accept an apology. What was the easiest money you've made, buddy? Back in 1990, you guys were alive. maybe not Megan. No need for them.

No need for that. What's that nonsense? But anyway, what we're doing back there? Back ages ago. Yeah, I became the Kiwi Kylie Mole at a competition run by 345 Live. I was 19 years of age. And I got asked to be the Commodore computer,

their new computer at the time. Commodore 64, remember well? Yeah, I remember. I remember. yeah you remember and i got to um i was flown all around new zealand treated like a celebrity meals paid for entertainment stayed at nice hotel and i did shop appearances and shopping center for about for about two weeks and earned about fifteen thousand dollars oh kiley mole the chewing gum twilled it around and was like she goes she goes she just goes

from her ozzy yeah yeah well that is 15 Okay, two weeks for that. You were living like, that was like bloody $1.5 million in 1990 as well, so well done. Exactly. And also, I was treated like a superstar. Amazing. Great story. Thank you.

Some good texts coming through as well. People who pay cash for deliveries. No one knows about it. Don't know what's being delivered. Someone who started a YouTube channel during lockdown earns thousands of dollars a week.