Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Jono let his son meet up with a strange man!

Episode Date: January 26, 2026

On today’s show:  Why Jono let his son meet a strange man from the park… Can kids call shotgun on the front seat… and steal it from their parents? Ben’s wife accidentally brushed her teeth with a toothbrush meant for cleaning and blames him! Producer Troy did a gym photoshoot, so why was he cropped out? How Jimmy Carr and Ed Sheeran turned up at our listeners’ workplaces Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFAST Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thanks to Hello Fresh, cook easy, delicious dinners, the whole family will love because nothing beats dinner time. Welcome to the podcast. No Megan today. She had a bit of a shocker yesterday. A big night on Sunday. But she also was a bit of under the weather as well. Were you saying like if you're under the weather going into the party, you shouldn't have been partying? Well, yeah. She was talking about Jaeger shots.

She lost her phone. She was in her makeup. She said she only got a couple hours, three hours sleep as well. So I think all those conditions. She was sleeping in her car outside work. She's like, geez, you had a really roller coaster of an evening. It was a Sunday night, too. Oh, no, but then it was a holiday for a lot of the New Zealand.

Basically half of the North Island of New Zealand were on holiday. So, yeah. Yeah, we're just doing the 90s countdown in a couple of weeks here on the hits, and we're just going back down memory lane on some of the things of the 90s. Got talking about the Dinky Diary. Yeah, the Aussies. The Aussies brought that over to, you know, to New Zealand. It grew out of suburban Australia, just reading about it.

And they brought it back. A couple of moms brought it back. Most like they brought back all of our criminals too. Yeah, they brought it back a couple years ago. Oh, the dinky diary for nostalgic reasons. Yeah, so you can buy some dinky diaries for a new generation, which is nice. Yeah, not, I wouldn't imagine as much diarying going on with the kids growing up nowadays. I mean, you've got your internet history now, which is essentially acts as your diary, frighteningly so, doesn't it?

And your calendars and stuff that you can do on computers. Some people really love writing stuff down. Photo stream, that's kind of your... Yeah, true, actually. If you want to know what you're doing on any day. Oh, yeah, pretty true. People have their Snapchat or your Instagrams or things like that. You're right.

So that's kind of a way that people do it. Did you diary? No, I wasn't a huge. I do remember going on trips and stuff and writing every day and stuff like that, you know, things like that and doing that. Yours would have just been, today woke up, played cricket. Yeah, probably. Had a great day.

Next day, played some more cricket today. I did like diaring for like things coming up. That was probably the things, like putting things in skiing. in schedules to do things. I never documented my days, you know. So just having a calendar. Yeah, but you have a diary, yeah, take around. And then I'm like, oh, that's happening there.

And then you'd go to the date and then you'd write it down. Jeez, you're organised even as a trial. Yeah, a little like doing that. That was good. Or you write down birthdays and things like that. Do you know one of the more painstaking exercises that Annie Pryor would make me do is handwrite thank you letters for Christmas presents. Did you have to do that?

Yeah. Oh. Yeah, it was. Yeah. Because your hand would get really sore. And then you're going, I mean, it was a nice polite thing to do. I understand what it was, she was trying to teach and instill in me. People go to the effort of giving you a present.

It was trying to write something to say thank you to back, but so much easier these days, isn't it? Just text or an email or something like that. Kids will never know the pain of having to write thank you letters. I know, I know. It's not very often these days that you write something down by hand, but when you do, jeez. I felt bad for my daughter because she had exams end of last year.

Yeah, Indy, and in the middle of her, she got my old laptop. I think I was talking about some radio. And she, my old laptop was one that got water spilled all over it. I was in the store for about three weeks, they were trying to fix it. And in that time, I was like, I need a new laptop because I can't do my work on it. So I ended up getting a new one. They said they fixed it. And to the credit, it probably worked for about a year and a half.

And then just in the middle of the exam, soon as it started, the exam just stopped. Oh, did it? Did not do anything. She was like, uh-oh. And it was like an English exam. And so she's like, oh. Hand, she had to handwritten.

Did she tell the exam? Yeah, I was like, I don't know what to do. They gave a paper and a pen. And I felt bad. I was like, oh,

that's my laptop. That's all me. If you fail English, oh, dad will take this one on the chair. You know, and writing it, she said,

oh, it was all right. She was like, but, you know, you couldn't really go back and rewrite something. She was throwing. Yeah. It's like,

oh, so I ended up to get her laptop. I was like, oh, here we go. Right. I felt really bad about that. but why are you going ugh then? No

was that for the cost of the laptop Yeah it was It wasn't cheap Did you just feel bad that you have to buy A new laptop Is that the Yeah unfortunately she passed But I was like

Oh yeah All the times were it to go It had to be the start Of the English exam Poor thing Yeah So that is terrible Through her a little bit

But anyways I just walk out You got through it Yeah Well the podcast today We're covering a lot of ground This morning And speaking to Ben's daughter

What they did to him What they did to you in the car I know It shouldn't happen. A monstrous act. We'll get to this next. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast.

The hits. Now, my son, Oscar, teenage boys, starting back at school today. I know a lot of kids are this week. Staggering back to the school yard, aren't they? He arrives home from the park the other day. And he goes, I just met a fully grown man at the park. And he said, he can make all my dreams come true if I just slide into his DMs. Now, as a parent, that is probably one of the top three.

sentences you never want to hear from your kid's mouth when they return from the park. Yeah on the surface it sounds very sketchy right? Yeah and I'm thinking who in the Jeffrey Epstein is this pest and did some digging okay my wife and I start

panicking that this man is trying to get our boy into his DMs and he's like oh he's he's giving me his name I was like what's this person's name let's alert the authorities the bloody child protection CIA, FBI, Inland Revenue, we'll alert them all. And he's like, his name's Simon Squibb.

I was like, sounds like a Willy Wonka type character. You know, Wonka, Wonka was being luring people to his problematic factory, isn't he? I was like, let me look up this Squib character. I look him up on Instagram. Simon Squib's got 5.3 million followers on Instagram. He's like, look at his TikTok, 8.2 million. I'm like, there's 13 million followers in total. You get into your bedroom and you slide into this man's DMs.

Okay, you tell him your dreams. Your dreams are to pay off your parents' mortgage. Get your dad's a brand new here. You tell him all your dreams, son. You go ahead. So that's what he does, right? He goes around the world and I've seen him before. You probably see him pop up in your feet, and he asks people for their dreams.

He asks famous people, ask people on the street as well. And sometimes he even helps, not all the time, but sometimes he helps people make their dreams come true. Absolutely. And so, we did a bit more digging on this. And I was like, well, this could be a fun journey. Why don't you, because he did ask my son and his friend Peter, who's like, have you got a business idea or a dream,

and they didn't have anything. He's like, well, go away tonight, think of it, DM me, and then we can meet up tomorrow. And so they did. They came up with a business idea overnight, which involves making basketball for kids who couldn't play basketball. Oh, nice.

And then he's like, great, meet me at this cafe tomorrow. So I'm driving my kids to meet this man at a cafe. And we met Squibb. Yeah, wow. Lovely character. Every part of my, every bone of my body was like, got to tell him he should do a segment called the Squib Games I don't know what it is but he's that's the title

The Squib Games I just took the parental role and sat on the sidelines But you know so he filmed them for their dream and stuff And so then he said oh you go and train a couple of little kids And I'll give you some money for it Oh yeah lovely guy Yeah well so he's over here obviously at the moment

Doing a whole lot of stuff like that Yeah Yeah very random And then he said oh you listen you've raised a lovely young chap If you know an 8 year old son if he ends up like Anything like your boy, I'd be, you know, really happy. And I was like, oh, Squib, you're a wonderful, wonderful character. I think you were saying about him.

I've seen some stuff about you behind the closed doors, squib, and I regret it all. So I think the lesson here is, kids, maybe talking to strangers sometimes is not a bad thing. Well, that's my takeaway. That's my take away. I think. Stranger danger, what? No such thing. Squib's out there.

So you're right, you're encouraging your kids to talk to more Rannos in the park? Well, listen, if more stuff like this keeps happening, Talk to them all. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. 42 degrees at the Australian Open, they're expecting today. She was. She was.

Two degrees. It's so hot. That's hot to play tennis in, too. I was watching some of the tennis over the New Year's here in New Zealand. The ASB Classic is a great event, yeah. They were playing in some heat, weren't they? Yeah. And I can imagine it's probably another five degrees hotter when you're on

center court, you know, with all the body, all the sweaty Australians watching you play tennis. Yeah, so we'd be getting into a bit of tennis at home. We watched a bit of the air. Be Classic. We'll watch the Australian Open and every now and again I start to go, we should get the girls into tennis. Great sport. Yeah, it is a really good sport.

I watched that movie King Richard many years ago about, you're inspired. Venus and Serena's dad, and I was like, you know, tennis. Senna and indie boys. They sound like professional tennis playing games. They'd be like, Dad, bloody, he would beat us if we didn't go to the tennis court. So I got some little rackets a while back,

and we sort of had a little one or two games many years ago, so much so. that the girls don't even really remember playing tennis until yesterday. I was like, we should get the rackets out watching the tennis. Let's go play some tennis. And I say you're a shocking King Richard. Like, have you just took them months and then didn't take the few years after? Well, I don't know if it was quite.

They weren't taking to it as quickly as I thought I was going. So I was like, hey, maybe there's other revenues from my daughters. Yeah. But anyway, I thought, well, let's go have a fun, just have a fun game of tennis. Yeah. And so they hadn't played too much of it, got on the court. There was the two of them. And I was like, hey, guys, let's just hit nice.

back and forward so you can feel how things go and we can have hits back and forward to each other you know so you know and and they would just start going well you just want to whack it and i'm like yeah but you whack it it's going to go off it hit over the fence yeah i know just go just let's just start with a little shot back to all for the back and forward to each other but no all they kept doing was whacking and one person would hit one shot and then it'll whack it i have to go run get the boy like just hit it back and forward over the top of each other and the next person next time someone would whack it somewhere else. I'm like, stop whacking it. Just hit it back and forward.

King Richard didn't have to deal with this. I was just like, let's just get into the habit of what it feels like. And in the end they were like, oh, tennis sucks. I'm like, no, it doesn't. It's just that we're just not building, they want to be like, you know, the top. Yeah, it takes a while to get to that. It's trading. I've been banned from playing

tennis with my wife, Jennifer. Yeah, on our honeymoon. I was like, let's go play some tennis, you know, just a lovely honeymoon activity between a freshly married couple. Yeah, right? And I was, buddy, getting my slices on and everything. Slice in the... She threw the racket down,

she's like, I'm never playing tennis with you ever again. And it's been nearly 20 years. I haven't played a game of tennis. Oh, I hasn't played another game. I'd love to have a comeback game for our 20th anniversary, Jen, if you're listening. She definitely doesn't...

It's not my fault I can slice, babe. Oh, yeah, one of those annoying little drop shots. Yeah. We're out for the win. I have for the win as well. But yeah, there we go. A lot of great tennis on. Just not in my house old, that's for sure.

John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast The Hits Now, you know, as a parent you You get dragged along to things where If you had the option You wouldn't be there Yeah

I'm sure you've You've had to go to a few of those Many many things over the years I think it's a big part of parenting You know Yeah, but that's fine That's what you do And there'll be a day where you miss

Yeah, exactly Having to do those things, you know But there was a moment recently Where the torrential rain Like it was the heaviest rain I don't think it stopped raining all day It was I've had a few of those days

Around summertime, haven't we? Yeah, basically from Jan 1 to there. So it could have been any one of those days. But my son's like, can we go out and see Cam Wilder? And I was like, who's Cam Wilder? He's like, he's a basketball influencer from America. Oh, so in the country, I'd be loving the weather. Yeah, I feel bad for all these famous people who have come here.

You're chair and Jimmy Car. They're all here at the moment. Yeah. Yeah. It's not what we want for them. It's summer time. It's not what they'd imagine when they were coming to New Zealand in the summer. But anyway, Cam Wilder's out here in the Trenching rain.

And I'm like, okay, where's Cam Wilder? He's like, oh, he's playing in this gym. Now, on a good day, it's 45 minutes to the gym. Oh, right. Okay, now, torrential rain day, this was 70 minutes in the car. Okay? There, and then obviously you have to go back, right? So then we get out there, and Oscar, my son, he goes into the gym,

just sort of sitting in the car, clearing emails. You didn't want to see Cam Wilder. Cam Wilder, that's how I deal with youth culture, just sit in the car and clear emails. Must admit, you know, there were some fans there who were outstant. the gym waiting for him to come in. Oh wow. They were in the torrential round. They're saturated.

Jeez. So eventually I cleared my emails. I was like, well, I'd better go in and check out this Cam Wilder chap. And walked into the gym. Now, the problem is when there's a game of basketball going on. I didn't know which guy were meant to be focused on. Was one guy better than everyone or were they all really good? They were all really good to be fair.

Yeah, they all, you know, dunk in and passing and, you know, doing it all, doing all the stuff. You're like, Cam Wilder, yay. And so then I'm like, because I want to watch the guy that we're all here to watch I've driven the 70 minutes to watch. So I'm sort of secretly Googling on my phone. Cam Wilder. And then some kid comes over my shoulder. He's like, bruh.

Starts with bruh. Do you not even know who Cam Wilder is bruh? I'm like, no, I was just checking up some photos of him, just making sure that he was still looking the same as he was on the internet. And I was like, no, I don't. I don't have any idea. Can you show me? So he pointed out Cam Wilder.

Wow. So I saw him at the end of the day, man. Another 70 minutes back at the Doreen rain. Now you're saying you've said. seen Cam Wilder but this is the legacy I do you do you know I think I've told you about it before we're in the Gold Coast on holiday and my kids wanted to see the cafe

from one of the mermaid Netflix shows Oh that was the one that was the main Mermaid's or something about the toy Oh no! Yeah no and they were like we had to go It was like great I was like cool and again I looked it up and I was like well it's about 45 minutes to drive out there and I was like at least it's a cafe at least we go there

we can have something have lunch Yeah, drive out there it turned up there it was a fishing like it was a fishing club It wasn't even a cafe. The little plaque that says this is where it's been used for the thing. Apart from that, that's it. And it's just these battlers smoking siggies and giving some bait and salty ice to take out. The opposite of the mermaid show.

Like, what is this? And then my two teenage daughters like getting photos of pea sides out the front of this little fishy fingers in a cigarette. We came all the way over this. It's not even a cafe. They just used it. Anyway. John O'Bennon and Megan. The podcast.

The hits. Something happened to me yesterday. Kids are on, you know, on school holidays and getting back into the school year. Jesus, it's a long time, isn't it? Oscar, my son, he finished November 12th. Even he was like, I'm really actually looking forward to studying school today. Just he wants to do something. Oh, totally.

There's a long haul. Yeah, so we're walking towards the car yesterday. The family, the four of us, and one of my daughters went shotgun, because my wife was driving, and it went shotgun. And we could see the car, and that's normally the first rule of shotgun. I went, hang on a second. It was just assumed that I would be sitting and riding shotgun. That's how the family dynamics work. Yeah, shotgun, your shotgun with your friends and acquaintances is, you can't shotgun

your parents. I know that sometimes my, you know, if I'm driving and my two daughters and my wife's not there, they'll have a little shock. Yeah, you can, you can bicker away. That's fine. And then we're shotgun, shotgun, whatever it is. But I was like, what, what? And I don't know, me, just being me, I was a little rattled. And I ended up seeing in the back.

You did it. You did it. I was still a little rattled by this. I was like, hang on. as we're driving away sitting in the back of your own car I was like why am I sitting in the back

it's not called shotgun and I was like surely being an adult out ranks absolutely yeah that's what I thought as well producer Troy you come in here

you were saying there was a shotgun crime committed just on the weekend that you witnessed I mean George Ezra has got that wonderful song about it writing

but even there's no rules in that song he just says he's going to be writing shotgun he doesn't even give anyone a chance I'd be sitting in the back and going

I said he didn't even call Shotgun? She's in a song A big hit about it. But producer Troy? This was over the weekend heading to a wedding. The bridal party

was heading from an Airbnb to the venue and we've got some classic cars pulling up and one of the groomsmen called shotgun on the classic car. Surely the groom gets that.

Oh, yeah. I would have thought so. Yeah, I mean, there needs to be some pretty hard rules around the shotgun game. I'll be right his shotgun

underneath. Ezra, he would have taken shotgun on that wedding car. It's like I've caught it from now until eternity. He doesn't drive, I think, right? So he's like, I ride shotgun. Sharon from the edge, yeah, she was. Oh, she was like, I just, she just had a blanket rule.

Whenever we traveled for work in a vehicle, she was just like, I sit in the front. I get car sick, so I sit at the front. I get the car sick. I say, we can all get car sick, mate. She's like, I get the worst car seat. Wonderful play by Sharon. Yeah, so we never once sat in the front seat.

That's got shotgun yesterday by your, which daughter was it? It was actually indie. The youngest one. Yeah, the youngest one. She called shotgun. And, you know, I think it's a bit of a joke, but then she kind of went along with it, and I ended up sitting in the back. And not happy about it.

No, it didn't sit well, even though I was sitting well in the back, you know? A huge amount of feedback on this one, on the text machine, 4487. Yeah, so people, a lot of people are agreeing with me. You can't call a shotgun on your parents as a respect thing. You need to earn the respect back of your children, men. many years ago. Demand it. This is, you know, back in the 90s,

they had respect, didn't they? The parents? Yeah. Someone else said... We're a Lord smacking on the bottom. Someone said, it's okay, my four-year-old daughter

does it to me quite often. I don't mind seeing in the back. It's a good on chase for that one. Someone's saying if there's a couple, they should sit together. So that should be one of the rules. So you should let the couple sit together. Oh, the mother and the father.

Yeah, or whatever is. Whatever is. Whatever is. If there are a couple, they can sit together or whatever. That's fair enough. So they can sit together and you have to sit in the back. Now, producer grace, you came in with a real,

geez, this is out of left field. This one, you can actually cancel out the shotgun call. Well, I was told this by my brothers, and now I think about it, maybe they were screwing with me. The way you cancel it is you, I think it's the right back tire. You have to lick the tire, and then you get the shotgun. They would mess with it. No, because now I think about it, I definitely lick the tire,

and I don't think they have ever licked a tire. I don't think anyone in the history of transports have ever licked a tire. Even Tony from Tony's tire service, he's like, oh, that's a bit far from me, guys. He's like tires, but. He loves tires. he's not going to be doing that. I think, but if you just licked a tire yesterday, Ben, they would have been like, what?

And then you would have just gotten it. So tell me, when you did look a tire in front of your brothers to cancel, did they then leave you? Yeah, they were like, grace before shotgun. So I think it is it. I've earned it. So just look a tire, guys, if and doubt. The term comes from, I was just reading the Wild West, which makes sense.

You know, if you're sitting in a stage coach, whatever, the person with a shotgun was sitting next to it, looking for bandits and things like that. So they were riding shotgun. Yeah, which, yeah. They were on guard the whole time with a shotgun. Yeah, and they're ties back in the data lick. Someone's just texting 4-487.

Another way to cancel it out is wrap your mouth around the exhaust pipe. Oh, I'll try that next time. I don't think anyone is recommending that. That's for sure. Okay. The rules of shotgun. There we go. John O'Binn and Megan, the podcast.

The hits. I get a text from my wife yesterday while I was at work saying, oh my goodness, you'll never believe what I just brush my teeth with. Oh, I hate it when you do that. It's because you're just an autopilot when your teeth. Yeah. You're brushing your teeth and sometimes concentration slips. And I probably, if she said to me my toothbrush, I would have believed it because

that's what she ended up brushing your teeth with. The problem was that this was an old toothbrush. You know, when you get, the toothbrushes get a bit sort of used and worn, you relegate. Sometimes you relegate them to cleaning, to cleaning toothbrush. So she's relegated one of her toothbrushes to a cleaning toothbrush. What are you cleaning with a toothbrush? So she would use the little areas hard to sort of get into areas and like in the shower and in the bins and things like that she will relegate a toothbrush for that they're quite handy

and those regards and stuff to getting in there i suppose you could do the grouting on tile yeah so she's used one of her old toothbrushes she's used a couple of days ago to clean uh some some places in the house toilets uh no she didn't do toilets but then somehow uh she's saying somehow well i haven't touched the toothbrush it's got back into circulation so did they somehow sort of lean towards Oh, yeah, she's like, yeah, it must be you. Like me. She's blaming you for this. I mean, if I did see a toothbrush around,

maybe I would have put it back in the bathroom, but I don't think I did put it back in the bathroom. Maybe it was the toothbrush seeking some revenge for being reassigned. Yeah. The toothbrush was like, I thought I was just based for, you know, designed for oral-based duties. All of a sudden now I'm cleaning scungy drain pipes. Yeah, yeah, you're right.

So it's been relegated to that. So unfortunately, yeah, she started brushing her teeth with that. At what point does she realize that? Pretty quickly, fortunately. But still, I mean, still, you know, I mean, even just a second or two of that is enough. I'm with you. Yeah, I've had a horrific toothbrushing incident once where the tube of Voltaren looked, you know, pretty similar to the tube of the brand of toothpaste we were using at the time.

And again, you get up early for this job, you're sort of half awake and I just started brushing my teeth with Voltarine emu gel. Spicy. It's really spicy. Numb to my gums and never felt more relaxed. I had by Panthen. That was the other one. Oh, Ben Panther, yeah. That looks like a tubusage.

It does, yeah. Again, putting that on and going, this is very unique flavor of toothpaste. Apart I rubbing it on, like, nappy rash and things, what else has Ben Pantham for? What do you use it for? Tattoos, quite good tattoos. They say, you know, your tattoos,

skin healing and stuff like that. Brushing your teeth? I don't think brushing your teeth is one of the recommended things that you do with it. But hey, you know, you can give it a crack if you want. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast. Rihanna. She went in a camper van trip You're telling me

Yeah, it was Aesap Rocky Her husband Are they married dinner What the arrangement is there That's up to them What they're doing But he was doing an interview And he said oh yeah

During like COVID When you had masks and stuff Have a listen to this Like a month trip That was a year after being together Yeah You know what I mean So bro we've

Live like like Like gypsies Like we would just like She would cook every day for us So we wouldn't eat You know like And this is like you're driving across America basically, like driving in RV.

In RV, yeah, right in RV. So we're in parking lots of Walmart. So there you go. The parking lots of Walmart. Freedom Campers. Yeah, defecating the way across America. No one recognized them. Yeah, wow.

What's he, the masks on? Probably in lockdowns and various lockdowns around COVID. Now, Patricia Troy, joining us this morning. Good morning. Now, you were just saying you were involved in a photo. What I love about you is you just, you agree to so much stuff. Yeah. too much stuff

yeah like since you've been here you've agreed to learn all 47 US presidents producer grace bullied you into that one you've agreed to take part in sort of like an intense cross-fit competition with your girlfriend's best mate

what else have we just watched the first the extended version of the Lord of the Rings the first movie yesterday four hours in the cinema what for just because you love it I mean a great movie don't get me wrong but just you know yeah

so it's been re-released after 25 years so there's a photo shoot that you've taken part in. Yeah, last year, as you mentioned, got really into the gym and working out. And it caught me right in the middle of that period. An email came out from the gym that said,

do you want to be part of a photo shoot? And we're going to redo our billboards and all the internal marketing inside the gym of people looking real happy with their weights and smiling that you see up on the walls. What's the criteria for the photo shoot? Because, you know, and you don't want to body shame anyone, and I'm not going to body shame Troy,

but as a gym, you want healthy-looking people, gracing your photos shoot on the walls. In the email they said they want realistic everyday people. Oh, that's cool. That's good. Good on them. Yeah. So you're like, hey, this is me. I'm a realistic everyday person. I'm a realistic everyday guy. As I said yes, and it turned up and it was about like an hour and a half, two hours of just like

just basically working out. You're on like mats and they've had all the lighting up and they just come around and snap photos. Are you quite wary too? Because I imagine like usually when you're pulling faces and you're sweating, you don't look. You don't look optimum. But maybe you look like a realistic everyday person. Maybe. No, I was conscious. of not wanting to go too heavy because I don't want to strain and look like struggling,

but I don't want to go too light because then I'm on the photos like, oh, this guy's weak. You can only do it. Getting chamed. Yeah. So you thought you did a great photo shoot? What sort of exercises were we doing in the photos? A little pump, pumping, pumping the ions. Pumping the things.

Yeah. Pumping away. Some back pulleys. Well, they give you a good encouragement through this? Yeah, they were. They're like, oh, that looks great, mate. Go, just hold it there, hold it there, and smile. Yeah.

Yeah. And so we did the photo shoot and then didn't hear anything. and then they sent in an email in December being like with, there might be some photos

around the gym featuring you do you consent so I sent yeah all good and then I got up to the gym and I got cropped out

Oh so what any part of you There's a little I believe it's my finger On the pulley On a pulley Because I was next to the girl That is on the gym

Oh right Looks beautiful She's not an everyday realistic person No that's the thing They're probably in theory They're like We want realistic

everyday people Then they got to the bloody editing suite And they were like, Oh, these realistic everyday people are not doing us any favours. They want a realistic everyday fingers. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast, the Hits. Schools are getting back into action.

It seems like a staggered start for schools. Yeah, I mean, eventually they're all back into things by October, so we'll just stagger that. Our boss Harriet's in the studio with us, to you all wondering when they get back for traffic reasons. Yeah. Fine today. All right, today.

out and about. No traffic. Yeah, but it feels like some schools back at the moment. But you're doing something very unusual at the moment, Harriet. Yes, I set a reminder every night to go to bed at 8pm. So you've got an alarm reminder to remind you to do the most, this was probably the most pointless alarm reminder, because your body's going to do it regardless.

No, but it's daylight saving, so it gets to 9.15 and it's still light. And then I'm like, oh my gosh, I need to go to bed. You've got to bed very early. Do you go to bed at 8 o'clock? Well, I like to be asleep by 9.30. Oh, jeez. And it does take me a good hour. Do you faucet around in the bed for an hour and a half, do you?

Well, I'm meant to read, but I then scroll my phone and, you know. Okay, this is what we want to open up. The most pointless alarm reminders that you have on your phone. Does it work? Does it work? It does work. It makes me realize, oh, yeah, okay, I've got an hour until I need to be lights out. Were you doing this, you weren't doing this through the holiday period.

No, no, no, no, no. No, no. The holiday, you're like, oh, I'm off the alarm's off. I can stay up as late as I want. You're going to be at the same time as a toddler, yet? You are, actually. Surely you guys go to bed early. Every day I'm like, this is the night I'm going to go to bed

and then I'm still like, it's 11 o'clock, I need to be a bed. So, yeah. I must have, I shouldn't really mock you though, Harry, because I do have an alarm reminder every morning that I just haven't bothered to delete, but it just keeps refreshing to have a shower. It's something I do every morning at the same time anyway. That's even more concerning than you need.

And then I've got another one to empty the dishwasher. Again, it's a task I do every morning. But it feels like you're just knocking stuff off your to-do list. Is it when you can swipe the alarm off? Yeah. Well, yes, when I was writing ads back in this building, back in the day, well, yeah, we used to everyone had their phone reminders to move their cars, you know, for the clearway.

It was tuning into a clearway, so the alarms would go off and everyone would get out there and drive your car because you could park up until a certain time, then four o'clock I'd become a clearway, and then away you'd have to go. So that was a constant reminder. Okay, so this is what we're going to open up this morning. You can text us 4487-0-800 the hits.

We'd love to get some calls and text. You know, schools getting back into. it, staggering back into it. What is the most pointless alarm reminder that you have on your phone? Well, you turn it off after summer, you're like, oh, it's off now? Well, yeah, because I think I'll naturally go to bed earlier because it'll be dark. But you'll do that anyway. You're naturally

go to bed the same time every night. Oh, coming from you, you were like putting it up, well, you're showering? You have to remind yourself about showering. Yeah, I'm not going to throw stones. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. Yeah, well, Megan's off with a cold, which is, you know, that's, nothing screams summer like a cold. Yeah, there's actually been a lot of that going around at the moment.

But we wanted to know the most pointless alarm that you've got set to remind you about something. Our boss has a reminder to go to bed. At 8 o'clock. I do have a morning reminder every morning to have a shower, but I should just delete that one because I feel like I'm in a routine now. I don't think I'm going to skip that part of the morning. Do you know, speaking of alarms, have you done the phone update for your Apple recently? No, I haven't done that.

I don't know what happened. But, you know, I used to just have your normal stock standard. Somehow it's defaulted to this song as my alarm. And this is the part of the song it booms in on every morning now. Chandelier! I don't think I've once listened to Chandelier, but Apple's decided that I need to... And this is a lot of song at 3 in the morning.

And it comes in like, boom! I don't know why it's... Well, you probably can change that. Yeah. But maybe it's a way to do it a way to... wake up. Now someone's text through saying they have to set a reminder. They often will run a bath and then when running the bath because it takes a while

they'll do other things, cook dinner, sort the kids out and stuff like that. One time they flooded the hallway and the whole bathroom by forgetting about the bath running. So now they have a reminder every time I set the bath to turn the bath off. Yeah, we knew someone who sat in a hotel. They were so tired. They turned the bath on and near flooded the entire hotel. It can happen. An alarm reminder would have solved that issue.

We've got Nikita with us on 0800 the hits. Hey, Nikita. Hi, yes, when I was younger before my child arrived, I used to sit an alarm two hours before I had to wake up just so my mind knew that I had time to snooze the alarm and go back to sleep. Oh, so, okay, so what time was this? About 4.30 in the morning. All right, so you're getting an alarm. You're waking yourself up, and you're like, okay, I don't have to get up next for two more hours.

Yep, yep. And it worked a treat because I could go back to sleep straight away. But you could all just set the alarm for the time that you need to get up and then not even have to worry about that. Just go straight through. I know, but I'm a serial alarm snoozer, so I knew that if I just had the one alarm that I've hit it off anyway and then go back to sleep.

How many times you're hitting that snooze button, Nikita? Oh, these days, way too many times. Yeah, what's your record? Because, yeah, I live with a snooze button pusher, although Jen has to get up on the first one now. I love with a snooze button, pusher too. He is way worse than I am, but mine's a good six or seven times. I just feel like it's, I keep saying, because my wife would like, she'll like hitting the snooze, but I'm like, just, it just prolongs there.

It does. Rip the plaster off. I know. I put the phone in another road, like just around the corner so we'd have to get straight up, but now she's got Siri. Yeah, that's actually such a good idea. But she just says, Siri stop, Siri stop, and I didn't know she was doing that. And Siri stop. And Siri stops the alarm, you know, or Siri snooze.

Yeah, I was like, oh, so she found a way around my sister. How about your partner? How many times are he pushing the other snooze? Oh, look, 15 times is being generous, I feel. Wow. That's a lot of stuff. And what does each snooze buy you about... I've had to grill him many times. And does that buy you, what, six minutes of snoozing? I think his are like four minute incommations, which is just horrific.

Hey, well, thank you for your call, mate. Appreciate it. Cool, thanks so much. Have a good day. Hey, next, I must tell you what, took me 70 minutes. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. one more. Someone's going to point this reminder to tell them that the kids are coming every second weekend even though they've been coming every second weekend for 12 years. Sorry,

so just read that one. Mind you, get away on you, the co-perity, can't you? It's my weekend? Oh no. Yeah, we get the kids. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. Now, is it just me or do you find that birds,

birds are getting cocky or out there? Getting a bit more, too comfortable, but too familiar. Yeah, you're nice that sometimes around cafe, around the summertime and stuff. They know when to come in. They do. Especially if you've come to their home base like a cafe. They know when to strike.

They know how far to push it. Sometimes you even find them inside the cafe. They nibbling away on muffins and things. And they get swatted away. Okay, too far. Cross the line there. You know what to do. So I'm sitting at home the other day.

Boom. In bounces a magpie. Now, magpie is really, there's no child that grew up in the 90s that hasn't been attacked by a magpie on the way to school. I've got terrifying magpie story, have you? Yeah, I know, yeah. A real fighty bird, like always ready to have a crack. Yeah, be on your bite, your BMX, or your spoky dokees.

You're like, I'm nowhere near your nest, and it's, like, sweeping on your head. And you go to your helmet and things? Terrifying as a child. Yeah, so I've got real, they're real triggering for me the old magpies. But they're not afraid to have a crack, and they just don't, they do not trust us, do they, the magpie? They keep going, too. Yeah. It's like, okay.

Your nest is in a tree Yeah So your magpie bounces in, trops on it has a wine cork in its mouth Oh Yeah He's like, it gives me a look of You know I'm not meant to be in here I know I'm not meant to be in here

And I'm like if it was a sparrow or something You can kind of flap it away But if I start going to magpie You can guarantee the magpie's having a crack back So I'm panicking That's his house now You ought to move out I have moved out

Magpie you can look after the mortgage now But yeah it's bouncing around the land I had to just shut the doors in a panic. Because the family, they're not fans of birds, particularly birds on the inside, too. But eventually, what I did is a trick someone texting last year. So if you've got a bird in the house, just shut all the curtains, because you know how they get, they fly into windows and things.

Shut all the curtains, but just leave a little gap through the door where you wouldn't want them to go out. Oh, so they go towards the lights. That's very smart. So the magpie trotted out, no harm, no foul. But this is what we want to open up this morning. Yeah, what's coming through the door? Now, maybe an animal?

that surprised you through the door or maybe a person. We spoke to someone a couple of days ago. Ed Shearin's been in the country at the moment, and they had Ed Shearin just come into their dentist. Walk through the front door. Ed Shearin in the wild, we understand. Absolutely, yeah. Ed Sharon was here in Green Bay.

At the dentist? Yeah. Yeah. Wow. So was he getting dentistry work done? Well, I probably did not allow to exactly say what he was here for. You would assume it would be dental-based. I can't say that.

You're hoping it was dental base. Yeah, so how good was that? He went for a mole map. He's gone to the wrong place. So what would surprise us that came to your door? John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits.

We're on a phone call rampage at the moment. What or who has walked through the front door, Terry? Oh, well, it wasn't a front door, but I think it was the cat door. And, look, I... Not the front door. We can't take the call, sorry. No, the cat door store door to the house. So who came through the cat door?

door. Came through the cat door. Look, I broke up in the middle of the night early hours of morning thinking what I used to stay? What are you doing up there thinking it was my cat? Long story short, it was a possum had come in. I had an old villas.

Yeah, mate, it had climbed up the curtain rail and was sort of perched up there. And, yeah, possums. I sort of groggy was like freaking out. And of course, then it got a fright, let the bladder go. It was all on. Man, it was horrible. And so,

I let it out. I didn't kill it. I let it out. It was nice. Yeah. And you're like, do you have to urinate? Is this necessary? You're not wrong. We're all frightened now. How long was it in the house for, Terry? Oh, not too long. Oh, you know, longer than I wanted it to be. But only a few minutes, I guess. Anything over a minute is long enough. Oh, anything. Just in the door is long enough. You're right. Good on you, mate. Really appreciate your call. Chanel, great to have you on the show.

Hey. What or who walked through the front door, Chanel? Yeah, I had an old lady walk through the door. What? Was cooking dinner, husband gets home from work, walks into the kitchen and says, who's the old lady sitting on the couch? And I said, what old lady? You're calling me an old lady?

What are you doing? I walked in, I said, oh, hello. And she said, I've walked from potato and they've tried to kill me. Oh my goodness, poor thing. And so it was a whole situation having to decipher where she had come from, who she was. But turns out she'd walked quite a long way from a rest home sort of over the back of our property and down the road a little bit. So we sort of rung around and, yeah, worked out that's where she'd come from. And the carers came and she just wouldn't get in the car with them.

My husband ended up having to coax her into the car. And now that old sweet old lady is living with you. You adopted a sweet old lady. Did she not want to go back to the retirement village? No, she didn't. She didn't want to go back. And so my husband ended up, you know, just coaxing her back into our car and driving her back. But, yeah, it was a hell of a fight.

Yeah, it was very sad, but quite entertaining at the same time. You were like front door open or it's just unlocked? Yeah, it was open. It was a summer's day and it was evening and I had my sliding door open. And, you know, she missed to just, I was... What happens to us in our old age? I've wandered into a few houses. Gee, she would have been bloody dark at your husband when she found out what he did.

You know, like coaxing her into the car going, oh, should we go for a driver? She's like, you'll take me back to the village. This was a problem. Monster. Yeah. You know, have a great day, guys. Hey, good on, you Chanel. That's.

We're talking about what would surprise you about who walked through the door, whether your home were your business, you had a magpie pop into your lounge? Yeah, and we're just reminiscing about magpie attacks, too. There wouldn't be, yeah, there's not a kid in this country who has been attacked by magpie. We must get onto that tomorrow. Frightening. They are frightening. But 0800 of the hits, what or who walked through your door.

Maddie, thanks for joining us. Thanks. Who walked through the doors, Maddie? Who was it? Jimmy Carr. Oh, wow. Yeah. So the UK comedian?

Last week, he came in just before his crash shoot show. And what do you want? What do you do? Well, I didn't actually know that I'm the manager, and I was actually not in the studio at the time, but my work to message me, and she's like, the Jimmy Cars booked in for a sauna, and I was like, I think this is just someone, like,

made an account, you know, having the laugh. However, she messaged me half an hour later, and she was like, no, it's him. he's just walked through the doors. Apparently everyone who was in the sauna with him was laughing away. Oh wow. Did he put on a comedy show in the sauna?

Yeah, he was in the communal. He didn't even want to private. He just wanted to... What was just regular muntas like us? Yeah. Was he? Oh, that's so cool. He does seem like a genuinely lovely person.

Like everything you see of him, he talks to people on the streets, takes photos. It seems great. Yeah, he's super humble from what I learned. So, to be honest, I'd, I'd, don't watch comedy myself. So I'm like, I know often,

but my partner was like, we need to go down there now and take a photo with him. And I was like, oh, I think he's going to want us storming in there while he's in his tall trying to take photo with him.

He might be able to use it as some content for his next show. Yeah. Yeah, well, the other girls who were in the studio at the time were like, I don't want to say anything that's going to make me appear on his

show. Oh, yeah. Good on. I'm putting it on a comedy show inside the sauna. Hot conditions, too, for comedy. And then did he help in an ice bath as well? Yeah, he sure did.

So he is a bit of, from what I've heard, he's a bit of a sauna pro. So wherever he goes, he does find where the saunas are. And, yeah, I think he's sawners, if not every day, from what I've heard. He came in about three times over his day while he was in Craft Street. Oh, right, he's a regular. He's pretty, yeah, he's pretty much irregular now. Did you give him a like a loyalty concession card? You stamp the holes through the thing?

Yeah, well, the last night he came, everyone had kind of, everyone that all of our members had kind of heard that he was out and about. And I think there was a bit of a rumor that went around that he was coming in on the Sunday night. And the sauna was definitely booked out. Everyone was there. A free comedy show. Oh, it's awesome. Well, thank you for sharing that with us.

It's so awesome day here that he came and visited you. And also he was such an amazing person. So thanks for your time. Yeah, no worry. Okay. What or who walked through? the front door. We've got a whole bunch of calls we need to get to. We'll do what they call a teaser in the radio industry. Terry, give us a teaser.

Give you a teaser? I had a visit in the middle of the night. Something that really shouldn't have been in my house. Oh, oh. Okay. I hope this wasn't Jimmy Carr.