Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Jono is starting a conspiracy theory podcast!

Episode Date: March 17, 2026

On today’s show:  Megan enters week two of school lunch‑making and is brutally reviewed by her child How Jono ended up being asked to be on a conspiracy theory podcast! There is a new update from the women involved in the Coldplay kiss‑cam scandal. How did you reveal you were pregnant? Listeners reveal shocking TV binges: Grey’s Anatomy, Survivor, Big Bang Theory. Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Jono Ben and Megan podcast thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better team. Welcome to the podcast. Megan, you're going back and forth with producer Grace. You're trying to... Yeah, she's been a bit. Trying to save lives at the moment.

Come on, Grace, you get to speak for yourself too. Grace is trying to save lives by making content for the internet. Megan, most of the time I schedule time with you guys, you're always late. I schedule time. 11 o'clock is the earliest I can do. Too bad. Too bad are you about your blood. Get blood on Friday.

It's a Thursday's my time. I mean, you're trying to give blood. There's one thing in there, and it's a little chat with our boss. Otherwise, there's two. What time? What time is a little chat with our boss? 10.30. And then 10 o'clock.

The show finishes at 10. Yeah, but you guys are doing teasers and getting coffees. And I can never. Yeah, voicing. Yeah, voicing. Exactly. Not on a Thursday. But you guys are always busy at 10 o'clock.

I can never get time with you. And I'm not going to rely on you tomorrow to not be busy at 10 o'clock. So my filming will be at 11. Okay. Okay. Now, I'm just, this is what you don't get on the. radio. This is the behind the scenes admin. Grace is the ass blast week.

This is, yeah, that's Grace. You scheduled this in. Yes, thank you. But I love a schedule. I love a to-do list like bad. 11 o'clock is my time, bitches. So Megan, you can get blood any day. That's not true. Yeah, give blood on Friday. I can't you? I am busy on

Friday, Grace. With your thing. I was trying to take priority over my things. It's all I'm hearing. No, it's just I have to save lives. I do have children I have to care for, unfortunately. Just on a Friday in particular. No, every day. It's like listening to two sisters' fun.

I know, I know. I don't know what you did, yeah. Megan, just get blood next week. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, see? Okay, Grace. I've won.

She's the girl who goes home and has four-hour naps. Oh, okay. We're going to. I'm a person. I'm a lot. I'm in person. I don't have kids yet. Do you say you bloody into star signs too?

Everyone's talking about it in the office, Megan. Everis? Oh. All the producers have been more gathered. Okay. Oh, no. I'm not giving blood. then.

Okay, sounds good to me. Troy, you were talking about her giving blood with you. Come on, come in here, Troy. No, oh, you won't. Yeah, bet you won't. Beat you won't. Because they're scared of you, Jackie. It's not because I want to go and get my fucking nails done.

I don't know what we're doing anymore. I don't know what we're doing anymore. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. I'm glad we did this as part of my podcast. Just had an email for management guys that want us off here for a couple of weeks. I don't feel safe anymore.

I don't accept it. This is, this is all in reference. Prince to Carl and Jackie O. I don't think anyone Missy all know We're role playing. We enjoy it. This has been a horrific podcast

in charge. It was one of the worst. John O'Benn and Megan The podcast. I'm in week two now of my lunch making career. Lunch era.

Yeah, we were lucky enough to our kids went to a daycare where they made them food there and now I have to make the food and I was like, I've got this. You know me? Like I like to cook I like to make things.

God, it's a warlike. It's so draining. And I made him some little muffins, but they've gone really hard, and he's like, why are you giving me rocks in my luncheon? The feedback is brutal. Yeah. Well, he's used to, you know,

homemade cooked, spaghetti bolognese, fichita, all of the finest cuisines on offer at lunchtime. You're bloody chucking in a three-day-old stale muffin, mate. And then I made him. What is this? He's like Gordon Ramsey, send this back. Yeah, it just keeps looping back to school back home. As that happens, it's in the lunchbox, right?

The things are... We've got an apple that I think's been in transit for about nine months. Back and forth every day. I made him a roll. I got like a roll with, like, cheese on tops. I thought it'd be super fancy, and I put, like, cheese and ham in it. And he came back yesterday, and the feedback was, can you just give me bread?

I don't want the big roll. I just want some plain old bread. Has he got to the swap The swap season of bartering? No. They haven't, oh yeah, that's a great period. How do you know if they're doing that? Well, they don't always tell you, but

They come home with half-eaten random items and you're like, what happened here? Where's that from? Because the other thing too is you're like, oh, you like marmite and cheese sandwiches and then you just do marmite and cheese every day release. Yeah, and then like two months later they're like, can you stop giving me this? I thought you liked it. They're like, yeah, two months ago, I loved it.

But every day, it's like, yeah. Yeah, no, I've got that. Like my kids now, because I would often make the lunches about, they're like, please, they've got it. They would rather do it themselves because they would want to get the things they like. And I'm like, oh, great, this is great. If anything, I'm messing it up when I help them out. So I'm like, yeah, cool, I can eat back. Because then I did a fun thing where I, like, rolled up the ham and cheese in, like, a tortilla thing.

And I rolled it up. And he was like, I don't want a tube. I don't want a tube sandwich. He was like, I'd rather eat David Seymour's depressing school. lunches, then this tube you're providing for me. Yeah. At the school all about minimizing waste is well they're like, we're a waste free thing, but they just send it home with the kids at the lunchbox.

The waste still exists, whether I put it in my bed or yours. I thought the school's like, hey, we've got no way. We've got a clear conscience, baby. It's like, oh, now I'll check out bins. Now I'm getting it all back. How's that work? No, it's sweet. They do the thing called brain food, so at playtime they have to have only brain food, which is like fruit or vegetables.

But then he's like, is that jelly sucker brain food? I'm like, no, mate, no, you got to eat the fruit. I remember we go to school, get a 1.5 of Coke. Big old pack of Biguns, remember big uns? Big uns, yeah. He used to be able to order lunches and get like a pie and a cream bun. Yeah. Glory days.

And you had Fish and Chip Friday some days. Yeah. Oh, those are the days. Well, week two and you're already failing. So you've got a long, a long career. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. There's a guy, it sort of works around this area,

and sort of bump him to, from time to time when we walked to the car park after work. And I got involved with a conversation with him about three weeks ago. And I sort of politely nodded through an Epstein list conversation. You know, politely nodded. Now, this was a terrible mistake on my part because I think he assumed I was like-minded. And I had a cork board at home with pieces of strings attached to pins and stuff. Well, you know, not far.

What, of course, it's well. Ben's too polite to say It's not far from the truth Yeah No to be honest He's quite deep in that sort of stuff Me and you Yeah

I mean he's that lovely guy He's a lovely guy But every conversation The guy that I talk to Oh okay Not the I'm like I mean

He's had a bit of brand damage Oh my wow You know Let's get to the heart of the guy You know Peel back the layers No No bumper dude

Oh good Okay I just wanted to clarify that Yeah Didn't need clarification But yeah So he starts most conversations with, you probably haven't heard this, but.

And anyway, yesterday, he was, he caught me again and he said, I'm thinking of starting a podcast. Would you be a guest on my podcast? And I'm like, oh my God, I need to think of a conspiracy theory about how I can get out of appearing on this podcast. Because I only love it, though, all the stuff you really want to talk about here on the hits, you can actually talk about it. But no, I don't, I don't know anything about it. He just tells me and I'm just like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, no. that you tell, you know, you'd love it. You'd be great.

Yeah, all the misinformation. Yeah, be like full of misinformation. Yeah, you don't have to, you know, spout the truth to you. You just say whatever you want. Oh, such and such a thing. You're like, oh, did you? You know, just do all that. You'd love it.

Yeah, true. You're a perfect person. Just this rogue podcast. You don't have to fact check anything, John. No, but then Louis Thoread come and do a documentary on us. So, yeah, might be starting a bit of a conspiracy theorying podcast, guys. I'll be like I'm pretty sure the microphones are listening to us, bro. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast, the hits.

Well, speaking of bands, Megan, you have just stumbled a, this is a bombshell. Yeah. I think another great learning lesson for the world as well. But we knew this is going to happen. The cold played couple, so they got caught what we thought having somewhat of an affair on the cold play kiss cam. Oh, is this the clip, or is this just... Just a bit of cold play. I'll just hear to enhance your voice breaker.

Oh, thank you. Andy and Kristen were their names. And fast forward and Kristen, the woman in the Colpe Kiss Cam, has done an exclusive interview with Oprah. Of course she has. But she gave away right at the start of this interview some pivotal information that changes the whole story. Have a listen to this.

Andy and I had gone out to grab sandwiches during the workday, and he asked me, I seemed a little off. And he just said, what's going on? And I said, well, my husband and I are separating and planning a divorce. And he immediately let me know that he was in the exact same situation, that he and his wife were living apart. They were planning for a divorce, and it had been many years in the making. So that became like a really instant kind of point of connection for us.

They were both single. Yeah. Yeah, this was weeks before the Coldplay concert. And then they went to the Coldplay concert together. They went with a bunch of friends. and they had discussed how they had feelings for each other. She said that they were planning to report to the board on how they could change their roles

so he wasn't her superior, so they could start some sort of relationship. But the Coldplay concert was the first time they'd touched. And then that gets put up on camera. I was just reading that. She was saying that her ex was in, it was at the concert. She didn't realize that to her daughter text.

And so that was the thing she was embarrassed about. Oh, the husband saw her. It was awkward. Even though they get on, oh, they get on fine, have they separated as well. And she didn't even hear Chris Martin say about their having an affair. So she let me know that my estranged husband was also at the concert. So I think it's very important.

Jeez, okay. Well, this is, I think on behalf of the world, I mean, Ben, I know we've done multiple MC gigs, live MC gigs, where we've done gags on the Coldplay kiss cam. Yeah, I know. Let's offer a heartfelt apology. She lost her job. Yeah, she said, I might have been...

I mean, it was still like he was her superior. So in terms of a workplace. Yeah, and she said that, I made a bad decision. And I took accountability. I gave up my career for that. It's the price she chose to pay. But did she deserve death threats and all the jokes from the world? Maybe not.

No. I'm sorry, I sent one D threats. D threats is crazy when that happens. It's like, that's shocking. That's shocking. Everyone, we all make mistakes. Calm your farm. Don't write death threats to anyone on it.

It's so dumb. It is. So if you want to watch the Oprah interview, Here's a little teaser. That was the first time you all had physically touched. I did not know the crucial part of that story that was missing from all of the TikToks. I'm going to let you share that. Do you still talk to Andy Byron, your former boss?

You've been called a sht, a homewrecker, a gold digger, a sidepiece, the usual tags for shaming women. There you go, Oprah just launching her. Thank you for reminding me, all right? He's called a heartless monster. Have I? Have I? Who would steal from a charity box? And producer Troy's actually got the interview clip up.

If you want to text Coldplay to 4487. The whole hour. Yeah. Damn, Troy. You've got a spare hour in your day. Here we go. I mean, if you're really, does it warrant a whole hour? But maybe, maybe.

John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. I feel like I've got some cred with producer Troy. Yeah, I didn't know what was going on. But earlier in the show, Troy's like, oh my God, Ben coming here. and then he's looking, look at the sweet little face of producer Troy. He's so excited.

He's looking at being in a whole different light this morning. Now, what on earth is happening? Okay, so Spider-Man, there's new Spider-Man movie coming out, Spider-Man a brand-new day, and Tom Holland, who is Spider-Man, has really cool thing. He's asked people around the world, they've asked people around the world to release little bits of the movie trailer in sort of two-second snippets, like 24 countries,

and then people can piece the trailer from little snippets. And I don't know how I got on the movie. the list but I was asked you know I've got a spider man costume I do love Spider-Man they're like hey would you like to be the new Zealand representative to release out Spider-Man quite quite crotchy a spider-man costume yeah they're very quite crotchiness and also something I'd hear like once you put the thing on hood hair as a whole you know take the thing off and your hair just static yeah very hard to get I don't know how Tom Holland does it to be honest he looks fantastic in there he takes it off and his hair looks perfect he feels out of the costume

obviously it was pretty hot because he got Zendaya yeah well true yeah so you could have got Zendaya in that little outfit of yours too So it's almost like one of those chain letters So people would go from one country to another And then I think with someone in Hawaii Said okay the next part of the trailer Is going to come from being voiced in New Zealand

And so then I would put my bit up And then I'd tag someone else And it would go around the world like that That was really cool Who was organising all this sounds like a logistical nightmare Tom Holland's on the email Tom Hollins doing it Is he good on him

It's spider he says it's going around the web mate Spider-Man web They know all about the web It's their thing Yeah but so obviously someone had called me out And you know to release my thing And just, I didn't know what the friends. I mean, I love Spider-Man, but there's just passionate fans all over the world, Troy.

And big fan accounts. This is how I first heard about it. I follow a few Spider-Man fan accounts myself. No, just imagine Armageddon and a human being that's producer Troy. Yeah. And I shower. I do shower. He does shower.

He does show. He likes to get that across. Yeah. Yeah, so one of these accounts that I follow said, the sixth clip is up next. Coming from Auckland, New Zealand will be posted by Ben Boyce. I know that guy. He's right out. He's right here.

Ben coming in. And then that same account is posting, Update, Ben Boyce has teased the release of his clip. Update 2, Ben Boyce has teased another clip. I got all these things this morning. People was just like, do it, do it, do it, do it. You could have got creed with your Spider-Man mates and gone, I can get him to post it now.

He's right here. He's got to do it. He's going to show it to me first. Because the last video that I did was another random video someone got me to tell a joke and they'd shed it. And the comments all on that video were all Spider-Man fans. People go, just do it, release it. This guy who did the video with, he's like,

what's with the comments? What are these Spider-Man memes and ticking clocks and go do it, release it, release it, do it? I was like, oh, these are Spider-Man fans. Ferral, feral fans. Yeah, they're passionate. Just passionate about it. And then I finally released to get everyone off my back,

which is great, and then it goes off to someone else. Have you flicked it on to now? Someone in Australia. It's an Australia's problem now, mate. It's the issue. Nerds are great for engagement, though. That's incredible amount of, yeah, just like, wow. So part of the Spider Universe is pretty impressive.

I'm tweeting them now going, I work with that guy. You should get a photo. Do you want to get a photo? No, I would actually, yeah. It's the guy who released the two seconds of the thing. The two seconds of the clip. We put it all together as well.

So, yeah, well, there we go. But then there's a bit of hate coming towards you now because people have shared the clip that you shared saying, AI, AI, not real. Not my clip, though. Not my clip. My clip was with genuine sheep. I went to New Zealand, I went sheep.

They're real sheep. I'll tell you that. I dragged my family out the hill to film that with the sheep, and I did that. You know, what's more New Zealand than sheep, you know? It might's not AI, but other stuff, I can't answer that. I can't answer that. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast.

That's cool. All New Zealand retailers must give customers a minimum of three years to use gift cards. Now, there's new role coming into store of this as well. It still doesn't help. I let a three-year one expire the other day. Oh, did you? Precied card. No, it was a plant shop voucher.

That's on you, though. Three years is ample time. I know. But, like, you still just thinking about it. Did you go into try and use it? I went to go and I looked at it and had expired the month before. Did you give it a bash? No.

Nah. That would have been like, you'd have been three years, mate. It would be like Ben, you've been three years. Three years. I can't help you. I can't help you on this one. Prezy cards are, you never know how much you got on a prezy card. Have you done that situation when you've swapped it once?

You're like, it's always a bit of a gamble that second swipe, isn't it? Is it going to be able to pay this off or not? Yeah, a lot of praying. Praying going on is your swipe. Now, something I, you know, like I like to get stuff done. You know, we often talk about that. but I find myself maybe once a week once or twice every couple of weeks. And I think every parent does this.

You're doing stuff and you've got lots in your brain and you walk into a room and then you stop me. You're like, now what was I doing here? And then you think that your brain's going to sort of recalibular. Calibrate. Calibrate. Yeah. I always go, you know what to fix this problem? Going on Instagram.

Sit down and go on Instagram. Then I lose 25 minutes. I'm like, why am I looking at Mexican cartels, blowing at petrol stations? Fold the washing. But I get it. there sometimes and it doesn't happen. He's, but it will happen and you're like, why did I come in here and you start looking at stuff? Was it that? Was it that?

And then you don't want to leave because you know the second you leave you'll go, oh, that was what it is. But then you stand there and the kids are like, why you're staring at the microwave? You're like, I don't know. I don't know. Right now. Are you saying that happens to you once a week? Oh no, probably once every couple of weeks or something. Oh, no, that happens to me multiple

times a day. Oh, right. Yeah. You're just kind of getting somewhere and you're like, what was I? I think we're talking about dementia, guys. Maybe we've got an early onset. I thought it was just like mum brain because you get like a bit like that when you're pregnant. And then it just never came back for me. So like sometimes I'll start a sentence and I'll be like, I, no, it's gone. Yeah.

I don't need to be worried. I don't think it's going to get any better to either. No. We've got so much stuff going on out here while I have it. You know, that I feel like there's lots going on. And then when you go, I'm on a mission, you're like, why am I here? Well, a lot of your brain space is taking up worrying about stuff that hasn't happened. Yeah, yeah, true.

It's atchipizing. Yeah, so that's 80%. And then I get in there and I'm like, what else was I doing? And then I start worrying about what it was like, what important thing was I meant to be doing right now. But it's because you gun it to where you need to go. So you're like, I'm going to the laundry to do this. And then you start thinking about other things. And then when you get there, you're like, oh, it's gone.

Well, I mean, so do you, how extreme is it? Do you end up sort of butt naked in the shower going, what was I meant to be doing in here? No, I think that's dementia. Just sort of, yeah. I think you're butt naked in a mall. What was I doing here? Sorry, sir, just come with us. It's like what happened to me, yeah, yeah.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. We didn't know this. You shared a video with us off air yesterday. Yeah, it's kind of a special moment when you find out you're pregnant and you're by yourself. I know a lot of people will like do it with their partner, but I found out I was pregnant with my daughter on the, Eve of my son's first birthday. Right.

And I was home alone and then I vacuumed the house. I went on a cleaning frenzy. I was just, I was in shock. And so I was like, how am I going to tell my husband? Because all my family had come to stay. There was a big party. There was alcohol and everything. And I was like, oh, no.

What am I going to? Like, I have to tell him beforehand because he's going to have to help me hide the fact that I'm not going to pop this champagne. What is the trick there? What is a good trick when you're going through that phase? I filled up. the glass. I had the champagne on my hand and I always just put it to my lips and it just looks like the champagne never goes down.

You don't actually drink it. Yeah. Don't actually drink it. Yeah. Some people do L&P because it looks like champagne. Yeah, good heck. And then people get drunk and they forget you're not drinking then. Yeah, and then you're fine. I decided that I would get my husband the night before to record a little

message to our son. And then I was planning to reveal it to him during this video because he didn't know. So he's filming a message for Bastie right now. Yeah, but there's like chaos in our house. People were like making, blowing up the looms.

Oh, you don't when everyone was all there. Yeah. Okay. And my family's the end up. We're making content in here. Here's how we found out. You are a big one-year-old. I hope you have a very special day.

We love you very, very much. Very, very much. And I know that you're going to be just the best big brother in the whole wide world. What? Are you serious? Is it happening again? You're not kidding me.

Are you pregnant? Oh my gosh, I can't believe this is happening again. Oh, that's lovely, good reveal. You sound like a different person. But also, Bestie was once. But also, Bessie was once. It was like a baby. So I was in

Hey, Lucy, baby, you wishee Okay Okay No, that's a beautiful lovely, lovely stuff Yeah, yeah So

I was talking I was talking My baby No, We're recording a video To my baby Shut your face Do you do that every year

Is it just one and done? No, I was just We planned to But we haven't It's a good tradition But a good reveal To, I'm surprised

He clicked on to that reveal Yeah, I would have missed it Yeah, you're like, Yeah, you're like, Yeah, you're like, What? You're like, yeah I was kind of making a face

Like, eh Got you. So we want to know this morning, you found out. How was the way you told your partner? I remember when it happened, when, you know, before Amanda got a pregnant before we had seen her of a first child, we were meeting at a basketball game. I think it was a Tallblakes game.

And Amanda arrived there. And she had just obviously found out. But couldn't tell me because we were surrounded by lots of people. And I'd bought her a drink. Like an RTD thing in the can. And she's like, oh, yeah, thanks like that. And then later when she got home, she told me, and we still kept the RTC can in the garage.

Did she not open it? No, she didn't open it. And you never questioned... No, I was watching sport, mate. I was actually a question. I was watching sport, mate. Oh, she's sneaking out of the venue. Yeah.

Yeah, I guess where he did. I mean, it's not, yeah, not much of a sneak taking it home, but yeah. Yeah, so. Yeah, they get a bit of honesty about taking it and taking it home. Not as much taking it home, I guess. Oh, that's great. Yeah. Okay, so how did you find out?

How did you deliver the news? Were you delivered the news of the pregnancy? John O'Benon and Megan. The podcast. The Hits. Just talking about how you found out that you were expecting. Megan did a great reveal on your husband, Andrew. Yeah, night before my son's first birthday,

I made him record a little video to him. Your birthday, Bastion. You are a big one-year-old. I hope you have a very special day. We love you very, very much. Very, very much. And I know that you're going to be just the best big brother in the whole wide world. Who's that?

What? Are you serious? What's it happening again? Yes. Are you pregnant? Oh my gosh, I can't believe this is happening again. Great reveal, great reveal. Ben thinks there was another woman delivering that year.

I was talking to my baby boy. Happy birthday, pasty. Shut your face. Shut your face. Andrew sounds like Andrew. You just sound like, I don't know who you're that person is. But love you above it. You're such a dick.

You know, trying to have some bloody emotional moments here. Ben last thing what you need is making cheap. Thank you, John. Yeah, sorry. Lovely, beautiful, beautiful. I wish I had something to throw at you. I can't reach you over there. So how'd you find out the big news?

How'd you deliver the big news? Charlene, it's great to have you on. Happy New Year. Hi, happy New Year. What did you do when you were pregnant? How did you drop the bomb? Well, my husband, he wasn't my husband back then. I'm a school teacher, so we were planning to go to the UK.

And the weekend before we were going to buy a, tickets I found out I was pregnant. So I was freaking out of it and I wasn't sure how to tell him. But I knew he loved Burger King. So I raced to the shop, quickly bought a blanket in some booties, took the Burger King out, put it in the blanket and the Burkirk King bag and got home and delivered him some Burger King. I think it was his best Burger King he's ever had. Was he like, some babies lost his clothes in my Burger King.

He's like, hey. He was a bit confused. Weird promotion, Burger King are doing at the moment? He's like, yeah, it's like, where's my burger king? But, no, he was pretty stoked afterwards. Oh, that's a nice way of doing it. I don't know, it's lovely. Great, very creative too.

I did give him his Burger King after. I reckon that would probably the world's only Burger King baby reveal. Yeah. Really good, Charlene. Appreciate you listening. You going to have a great Wednesday, all right? You too. Thank you.

we were doing a thing, I was at the Rock, I think, years ago, and we were dressed in costumes. It was like the inconvenient Olympics, you know, just doing some content. Oh, yeah, yeah. And my phone rang, but my co-host at the time had to answer it, Robert, and my arms were inside a carrot costume, my dresses of carrots, so just my face was in there. Well, I think we were trying to do the hurdles or something. And he had to hold the phone up to my air as Jen revealed to me that this carrot had become a dad. It's just like a carrot.

The carrot worked. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. Now, St Patrick's Day, speaking of entertainment, we had your dear friend Irish Day. We'd get him in once every 12 months for obvious reasons. Yeah, he messaged last week. He's like, I'm ready for my annual catch-up back on the Hats.

He's like, can I come into the studio? I'm like, yeah, great. He wanted a face-to-face. And at the end of our, you know, we did have him in the studio. Usually he's on the phone. He was like, this was a lot better in-person. He enjoyed it. He's a sociable.

isn't it? Yeah, he did. That was the first time I met him as well. It was nice. He's lovely. He's lovely boy and he went off, you know, afterwards, you know, he had a big day. It was some petty's day, you know? So this is how it started for Irish, Dave.

This is 8-10 yesterday morning. We played a game of Irish or I wish, and you would phone up with an accent and Dave had to tell or try and investigate whether you were legitimately Irish or you're putting it on. Now Irish Dave needs to figure out if you are Irish, I think we could all play this game, to be honest. Top of morning, it's here, Kelly. How are we?

Not so bad. I'm great, I'm great. You can touch Rick Stair. Is it Scottish? Someone texted and said Kelly sounds like Borat. Can you say my wife in your Irish accent?

Me wife. It was a fun game to play. So that was him at the start of the day. Then last night I saw on his Instagram story. As the sun was going down, he was at a bar outside and he was singing 660 to a couple of members of 660. You'll hear much who the lead singer of 660.

React to Irish Dave. You're good I mean You're going I mean, you're going to Shut up There I want to be there Shut up

I mean You're to imagine much You try to have wood going out at dusk For that very reason Good gag though Good gag though It's a great game Now this is pretty vicious

But we're going to call Irish Dave Oh This is all Do you really he's going to answer It's Dave Oh I'll let me a message and out of the back

you sent him. Oh, I thought he asked. He screened us. You're getting he screened us, yeah. Is it a doll back? Is it a doll back? Can you pass his number again? I don't know.

Is that monstrous? Poor Dave. He said, you know, I would say at least 13 hours of socialising. Yeah, it's a big day. Big day yesterday. Surely, he's not an amateur. He'd put his phone on silent, surely.

Well, he probably has now. I've screened the call. Okay, here we go. This is an ugly early morning phone call. Thanks Dave, sorry, Mr. Cole Dave's not having a baron. Fair enough. John O'Ben and Megan

The podcast, the hits. Our friend of the show, John the Kiwi, he's based over in Portland, Oregon, and he pops over here from time to time, and he was here recently. And I forgot we had this, but a really interesting fact about John the Kiwi. Have a listen to this.

Another really interesting fact about John the Kiwi has watched every episode of Taskmaster I have in every country Not just the English ones Yeah Norwegian, Swedish Yeah All the Italian

Even the horrible Spanish one Was it? No good No good Oh no The episodes were three hours Three hours They filmed the studio and didn't cut anything They didn't edit

It feels like you got the version before It got edits And they did five episodes And then they quit halfway through episode six So They're just done This task is too hard. So they're the worst.

Who's the best? So the best season of any taskmaster in the world was New Zealand season two. Wow. Great. It was so good. David Correos, who I saw last, I went to the classic last night. Angela says hi. Oh, Angela Dravid.

She was here. A very funny comedian. He might always say he's on the Burger King ads on TV in New Zealand as well. Yeah, he's very funny. He's a quirky character. Yeah, for sure. On Taskmaster. So I went out to the Taskmaster house expecting to take a picture.

of the closed gate because it's a private thing yeah gate was open parked out on the road gate was open so i stroll on in nobody appears to be there yeah i walk around caravan house everything's there's like a couple people and i walk up and i say hey you know i'm from america i'm a fan of the show can i take a picture of their house and they're like nah we just like they just literally finished shooting oh really season or whatever and uh was this just recently this was yes like two days ago. And so I'm like, all right, that's cool. You know, I expected a picture of a gate anyway, and I got to see it.

I walk out, I'm sitting in the car, fitting with GPS, and someone comes back out and like, we feel real bad that you came all this way, so come on in, and I got to take... Classic Kiwisai. Oh, so bad. And then three minutes later, the gate was closed, and they were gone. I don't have the gate open. Yeah. So you go, John the Kiwi.

Over 650 episodes we've looked at of Taskmaster This Guys Watched. Yeah. A lot of them, he would, you know, the non-English ones, you'd just have to go with the vibes, wouldn't you? I'm looking, I put it into chat, Jeppy T, and I was like, how much, how long would it take? It's basically like doing a full-time job for five weeks. That's the amount of time he's done of what she does. When you get to 400, 450, it's a personal quest from that point on, is it? Yeah, so we wanted to know, is there a series that you have just watched,

and maybe it's something that's been on for years and years, and you've been watching it for a long time, or maybe it's every series you've just binged. I'm not one of those people that really watch, like, after I've watched a series, don't really go back and watch it again. You don't have a comfort series? The only one I've done that to was Gossip Girl. Oh, yeah. X-O-X-O. I've watched that three times.

But you all smash out a series quite quickly that way. Yeah. You'll get it done. I remember my son, he's probably up until about a year or a year and a half ago, had watched every single episode of The Simpsons from quite a young age. There's a few spicy years where I was like, is this good parenting? You know, they taught him some life lessons. Thank you, that adorable yellow family taught him a few things.

it's like 34 series or something now and they haven't wait no they're still really good I mean there's a certain part of nostalgia for the ones we remember from where we were kids as well but yeah they're really good yeah something I'd like to it my retirement plan is just to watch the rest of the Simpsons I haven't watched

test match cricket in person and just catch up on all the Simpsons episodes it's a good show it's a great show alright I wait hundred of the hits have you have you watched hundreds and hundreds of episodes of a show maybe watch like Megan does the same series over and over again.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. That's... By the series that you've watched, pretty much every episode of, impress us. John, who lives in the States, he told us he's watched every episode of Taskmaster. And every country as well over... 650.

Yeah, crazy. He said the Spanish one was shocking. They hadn't even edited it. They just pulled out halfway through, too. They did five episodes and were like, nah. Oh, I like that. I like that fast and loose approach. Yeah, it's too hard.

But, Regan with us. Happy New Year. You too. Okay. What have you binged? What have you watched? I have watched every episode of Grey's Anatomy. Oh, wow.

So how many series of Grey's Anatomy is there? There's quite a few, right? 22. 22 says producer Troy. Oh, wow. That's a lot. And you just keep looping back. Is it your safe series?

Is it, Regan? You must have been devastated with the news recently. I have a took of you Mick Oh Do we have to break it to it? Do we have to break it to it? Did you know that

Mick Steamy has passed away? Oh yeah Oh yeah Oh right Eric Dane Yeah it's a couple weeks ago Eric Danes I didn't know

How we break this news to you Yeah Yeah It's really sad Really sad What's your favourite What's your favourite I watch

20 seasons in three months 20 seasons in two months My gosh How much every day you're chewing down. If I watch your shop, why do you can't stop? You can't stop. They do really well to hook you on, don't know, those shows.

So would you like spend five or six hours at a time watching them? Wow. Wow. You got welled, Ben. I wanted to be wowed and I got wowed. I got wild. There you go. Well done.

All right on your ear. I really appreciate your call. We have Neve joining us. Hello, Neve. How are you? Good, thanks. How are you guys? We're doing well, mates.

Love you. on. What have you binged? Um, all seasons of American Survivor. Sorry, this show's been going for a long. That's a great show, by the way. I love Survivor, but it's going for a long time. I think Jesus was started the first Survivor, didn't he?

Do you know how many seasons it is, Neve? We're on season 50 now. Wow. I'm currently watching season 50. So there's 15 seasons a year. It started in 2001, yeah. How many episodes per season, if you don't mind me asking? I think around 13 to 15 episodes. Wow.

Jeff, Jeff has been a he's been a great host to the whole time. Is Jeff still here? Come on in, guys. That's always his thing. He's just raking in in at this point. So how many episodes all up, do you reckon? I think around 720. That's really impressive, Neve.

That is really... And have you got a favourite season slash episode? Definitely heroes versus villains. and Survivor fans will know. You'll know. If you know, you know. Who's the guy, the blonde guy with the curly hair? Here's a bit of a nuisance, wasn't he?

I literally, there's so many. So many blonde guys are characters. There's 50 seasons. Have they ever shot it? They never come to New Zealand to film it, have they? They've got Survivor Australia, but they've never come to New Zealand. Or have they? Yeah, no, never New Zealand.

I don't think we're intrepid enough to be honest. They're not intrepid enough. They always have the shots of like wild animals and, you know, I would just be like, oh, there's a cacapo or something. We could be like, oh, yeah. We could cast a wild pig or something when you push a pig out into the shot. Yeah, we're good. Seagulls.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. What's the series that you've watched the most of? James' Tech Story said he watched all seven seasons of the rookie last year, and then his wife got into it, and he re-binged the whole lot. They were all seven were there. Luke back to the beginning. Someone who's watched Game of Thrones a dozen times,

starting back over and over. That's a big commitment. are like movie link. I, you can make the jokes that Andrew's younger than me, but I watched Breaking Bad and he'd never see. I had to wait till he came of age and then I could like take him through it. Transitioned from Sesame Street to Breaking Bad. It's like made him sit through all of Breaking Bad,

but he loved it. It's so good. I've watched that again. Yeah, that is a really good series. New detectives for me on Crime and Investigation Channel. Boy, I've watched a lot of new detectives. Hundreds. hundreds of episodes.

Not so much lately, though. Don't get enough new detective time in my retirement being like you're going to nail the Simpsons. I might just knock off all the new detectives. Greg is with us on 0800 of the hits. Most amount of episodes you've watched, Greg. So I've watched the Big Bang theory

from the beginning to the end at least four times. At least four times. So how many episodes do you know if it's up of your head? 279. Wow. You know, that's full season. So, I know, do the math on that.

But, well over a thousand. What is it about the show? What is it about that show for you? Is it like a comfort watch? Yeah, it's absolutely a comfort watch. It's a guilty pleasure. Probably there's a resonance of inner geek. Yeah, gotcha.

Yeah, yeah, love it. I've got chat GPT working its ass off here for you, Greg, trying to figure out how many episodes. 279 episodes, let's say 18 to 29 minutes. per episode. You're looking at over 102 hours of television there. I don't tell me that. You don't want to hear that, right? You want to binge it four days

and six hours? I don't want the big number. Yeah, four days. Four days is great. Hey, well, thank you for sharing it with us. It's impressive. That's a well. Well, good on you, mate. Sandy! Yeah, hi. Happy New Year's guys. Oh, Sandy. Oh, Sandy. Sorry.

You too, Sandy. So many Greece references throughout your life, I imagine. Loads of them. Loads of them. Now, what's the show you've watched hundreds of episodes of, Sandy? I have watched hundreds of episodes of Home and Away. Are you still doing it? Are you still watching Home and Away?

I sure are watching Home and Away. I'm in my early 40s, and I'm pretty sure I used to watch it with mum when I was a young kid teenager when it first came out. I watch it when you go about it. It was on in the early evening, wasn't it? TV 2 back in the day? Out of here, you flaming gala. He's still there?

What's your favorite era, like character and time? I'm enjoying now. I think it's just, it's one of those easy kind of shows you watch it, but you kind of get about it at the same time. It's just, and you kind of find the stories come back again, but with different characters. So you've watched 8,679 episodes of Home and Away? Probably not all of them.

some of my early adulthood years where I didn't watch it, but I tend to binge it on TVNZ On Demand nowadays. I won't watch it for a few weeks and then watch a whole episode at once. I remember on Sundays they used to do the Omnibus. The Omnibus, that's right. And I used to be hung over eating snacks watching the Omnibus. That was good times. Yeah.

Before you now, you just go to like an on-demand service or something. I don't watch it all now. That's so cool. All right, well, thank you. Irene, Irene for the diner. Had a rampant drinking problem, poor Irene. For a while there, didn't you? Yeah.

Always hanging over her head. Geez, some big names, eh, from there. Heath Ledger, home and away? Chris Hemsworth? Ila Fisher. Yep. Big players. Good old I like, yes.

Good players. Yeah. Oh, that's awesome. Still into home and away. Good on you, Sandy. Really appreciate it. Thanks, guys. Have a good day.