Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Jono smashes a can on his head… and regrets everything!

Episode Date: November 6, 2025

!On today’s show: The team gets swept up in a chaotic energy drink-fueled moment… and Jono ends up with a forehead bruise. Listeners share their wild scar stories, from industrial mixers to flying baseball bats. Megan’s hatred for Mr. Big sparks a debate: what songs give you the musical ick? Why Ben is afraid to have his wife in the car? Mum meals! Dinners your parents were obsessed with in the 90s Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee 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 tea. Welcome to the podcast. Oh, geez, we really stumbled across something this morning on the show. It was songs that give you the ick. We were playing a song from a group that, you know, and again, it's, it's subjective. Yeah, subjective.

I like, I'm a big fan of Mr. Big. That's great, you know, but you have, like, for some reason, Mr. Big is one of those songs. It hurts me. Eurs you. Even in the 90s. Oh, yeah. And the other one. It's a great one to sound.

What was the second rate one from Mr. Big this morning? The Wild World, yeah. Oh, baby, I think it's a cover of someone else's song as well. You didn't like that one as well. I didn't like it when it came out. So we threw it out there this morning many, many songs, many artists are giving people the act. And the calls and texts keep coming through. Yeah, we'll get to an early one this morning.

Lisa, what is it for you? What music gives you the ache? Well, I actually can't remember mine, but I worked from home. And I can, every now and then here, I'd be howling from the kitchen, and I know that you're playing Bruno Mars, locked out of heaven. Who's howling? He's he's here next to me. I see if they're doing that.

Oh, so you're a dog that does this. Oh, yeah, it's not me. Someone's howling, you're like, why? Maybe he likes it. Maybe he's singing along. Yeah, maybe he is. I don't know. It's quite funny.

Can he hear the phone now? Like, if you put the phone, okay, here we go. No, he's not, he's not delivering. Probably needs to be on the radio, but it's funny because the kids, it's their wee party trick now when their mates come around and have a drink. It's not annoying for us. Oh, they put on a dog going to heaven, the dog will go, whoa, woo, woo, whoa. Maybe that's going low, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Maybe that's his jam. Yeah. He's good, yeah. Oh, that's pretty cool. That's brilliant, Lisa. How are you going to have a great weekend in Christchurch? It was hot there yesterday, wasn't it, it was 28? Yeah, yeah, too much.

Yeah, awful, actually. Was it? What's happening there today? 21, I think. So you're... Big weekend, a cup week, you know, kicks off cup week this week, starts tomorrow, so a very exciting week. You don't want 28 when you dressed in a frock. No, true.

It's just sweaty backs. Well, there's more of that to come with the podcast, enjoy. John O'Bin and Megan. The podcast. The hits. And after the show yesterday, we have our boss Matt comes in for, you know, an after-show meeting, and we were talking about the giant can of what's some of toxic waste that Megan's been drinking. It's got B vitamins and like stuff.

It's like an energy drink, a new energy drink that you're drinking. You're enjoying it as well, but it's a giant can of it and, you know, get allowed one a day going to the back and that's fine. It's fine, don't you. It feels like it's not fine, Ben, but anyway. She's got, she's electric. She's got the fizz running through her veins at the moment. So at the end of it, you're alive. We're getting a lot of productivity out of Megan.

the meeting and then Matt was like you pretended to smash the can on your head you had so much energy pumping through your veins yeah I didn't you didn't follow through fair enough too and that's when our boss said to me I'd do you to do it I'd do you to smash it on your head he does that he comes in here and he uses us

as his little minions for his entertainment doesn't he's like you Ben take your pants off and you're like some sort of Roman empera season back of the day too over there in Matt's defence that's never happened Eat that stapler for me. You know, stuff like. Keep your job, and I'm like, nine staples deep.

I'm like, okay. Oh, radio did feel like that in the past. Smash that computer on your face. You know, then he's like, you need to smash the camera on your head. He said that. And, you know. Yeah, he didn't make us to it. We got swept up.

No, I was pumped up on the energy juice. Garada and vitamin B, right? Torreed. All sorts of stuff and illegal ingredients from a different country. as well, but you gave it a good crack, you smashed it against the society. I had like four or five attempts. I was like, she's going to get a concuss herself.

You know, there's some shirtless mutters out there that can do it in one. Oh no. I know. But here's the coverage of probably a low moment in all of our lives. Is it high? We're going. We're going. Ben, I reckon it's, we're bored it up.

This is the uncooler show. There's shows out there in the market that would have done this in one. They're there or the air or? Where are you on? Hey! Yeah! You're yours, baby.

That's how we're doing. So some of you're Megan. It went to Patricia Grace. It went to Jono. Jono's got a massive mark on his forehead because he went forehead as well a couple of times. A big bruise. And then I came in at the end.

I feel like you guys like when the jar, the jar theory, when everyone else has loosened it, you're the last person. But you just came in to the side of the head in one go. And to me honest, you've never looked, man. Yeah, I know.

I don't know what happened there. I was like, go, Ben. Do it again. Do it again. Do you even. Do you even. But the problem is I got a giant red hickie in the middle of my forehead. You have.

You've scarred. You've scarred. It's because I've got rice paper, thin, old man's skin. Bruised very easily. It came up straight away. Straight away. Big red mark in the forehead. Is it still there?

Yeah. Yeah. I'm having to wear my hat down. Anyway, I had friends over last night. Oh, what's happened to the middle of your head? And I was like, I don't want to say what's going on here. Here, this is when I was like, embarrassed of what we were doing. I was like, I, we were smashing a can against our head at work.

You just talked about how you'd gone soft the other days. Maybe this has given me some cred back. No, my skin's clearly. Gone soft. Okay, so we want today the story behind your scar. Many, many people listening right now. There'll be a lot of embarrassing stories behind scars. Yeah, sometimes cool stories, but, you know, maybe you got swept up in the moment.

Yeah. We've got to host a thing tonight with this giant, well, well, inside. Oh, I'll give you some concealer. Yeah, you can conceal up. No, I'll hide nothing. If people ask them, they'll hear the truth. They won't like it. We're talking scars this morning.

Jono Ben and Megan, the podcast. Because Jono smashed our energy drink can into his head. We all decided to try and crush a can. I don't know why we did it. In the end, I managed to, after everyone else had loosened the can to finish things off. At least you and I had the foresight to do on the side of our heads. Jono went right on the forehead and you've got a big bruise there now. proud of it.

I'm like, I was like, 44, again, the second time this week I've had one of these moments and I'm like, you're 44 years old. Pull it yourself together. There's people in suits outside here, at the window,

they would have been looking and going. It's probably what they expect from. Yeah, anyway. So we did it now. No regrets. So we wanted to... Actually, a lot of regrets. Yeah, yeah.

Nothing but regrets. Giant scar in the middle of four years. There's a big regret. So what is your scar story? What's some cool scar stories? I know 100 the hits. Megan, you're on. Welcome.

Hi, good morning, guys. Morning, guys. Morning, good morning. Okay, I have a forehead scar too, but I got mine in a different way. So I was helping my sister, she works at like a bakery, and I was helping her out in the back prep and think of a huge industrial mixer and a long ponytail. So my ponytail got caught in the huge industrial mixer,

and my forehead ended up. squished against the bowl, the mixing bowl, and now I have a permanent scar on my forehead from the pressure of the bowl. I should laugh, but jeez, it sounds, in hindsight, it sounds very funny. That would have been one of those videos you'd see the security footage of a workplace

and you, that would go viral if that was on film. Actually, we have got some of it on film. Oh, send it, please send it. Megan, please. Megan's like, no, because we said it's a radio station, we're going to share that everywhere, aren't we? Can we put that on our socials, Megan? Yeah, you can.

I just want to start a charn of my own name. Megan, wow. But how did you get out of it? So I had to be cut out by firemen. Oh, no. And police came and everything, and then I was ambulance off to the hospital. You're like, I didn't need the trifecta. Why are you all here?

Everyone's there. Oh, my goodness. They had the helicopter on standby because they thought I might have scout myself. Oh, my God. I was fine. I reckon why they all turned up, they're like, you've got to come and see this. She wants? Yeah, come on down, mate.

The ambulance, yeah, bring them all. Can you just cut me out? She'll bring the Air Force. Get the Air Force here, the Army, everyone. The Prime Minister. Everyone's here. Oh, man. It was traumatising, guys.

That is so, well, please, Megan, you would be an absolute Kiwi hero. If you sent us that footage, and we'll put it on that as breakfast. Up to you, up to you, though. Oh, that's the funniest thing I've heard in a long time. Thank you so much, Megan. Appreciate your call. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast. The Hats.

My wife and I, we first, you know, started seeing. each other we went away on like a camping trip and we went up north and you with tents and things did you put the tent up? Oh yeah it was a tent up yeah. Did you go an early relationship camping trip? We've been together for a few months and stuff and over summertime and it was

one of those occasions where she was on the beach and she was yeah she loves like I don't like I'm not a relax even then I was like she was lying on the beach I was like I need to do stuff I was off and I was like just playing around in the waves the waves the waves was tiny on the day too they were really low and I was trying to body

surf, never done it before at the same time. You're like, get a load of this. People who do it look so cool. I know, and the waves were in him in body surf conditions and I must have a little twig out there, buddy. Somehow I was somersaulted round and the wave took me down and it just, there were shells on the bottom and I came out of the water and I was like, oh my God, I'm bleeding just from the forehead and I come up to him and man and I'm like, and my bleeding

and she's like, yeah, you're bleeding, go to the lifeguard who had like got checked out for the day because the waves are like, and he's like, how did you do that? I'm like, I don't know. He's like, there's not even waves. I know, but I'm like, yeah. They threw your little body round. I had to get a little plaster stuck on my forehead as well for the camping trip. I'm like, well, I did not look cool at all too.

But I got a little bit scar on my forehead from that one. So, yeah, a shell from body surfing. I look at the life going. How did you even call it body surfing? I know, true, yeah. Frolicking in the water, so we're saying. Being tossed around. Delta, morning to you.

Good to have you on Delta all right the story behind the scar what happened mate so I've actually got three scars all due to one of the same accident happened one each day so it was a three day event what happens so there's a shelf at the end of my bed and it was on its side and I didn't even each time I walked past it I would scrape my leg and I was like oh Oops. And I completely forget that I scar so easily. And then within four days after that event, that three-day event, I had three scars. So you had scar just, you'd hit yourself the same place, same time, every day?

Kind of, yeah. But the weird thing is that it was like similar spot. I hadn't shrunk. I hadn't grown. And they're like three scars, like three stripes. Like I added up on your leg. Yeah, kind of, yeah. Like an 80-day strike on my leg

Love it The three-day bonanza Delta, that is brilliant Thank you so much for your call Who have we got on the phone here? Can't even remember Thank you Thank you, see you mate

Logan, morning Oh hi So I was at school one day And we were playing baseball And so I was bat stop I was about a metre or so Away from the batter Oh

Oh Yeah and he hit the ball and then he threw the bat backwards happy in here why did he throw the bat backwards? Because he's run into base one you always know you're supposed

to throw it away from the backstop yeah it's trying to drop it you're right Logan where did it hit you I was just in my white eyebrow oh so a scar obviously there now

and that position is you know the most vulnerable on the field I reckon the backstop Yeah. And, well, there you go. Have you got, like, a cool, one of those cool scars in your eyebrow? Like a Mamoa one, Jason Mamoa. Yeah, I do.

Oh, that's pretty badass, Logan. That's kind of cool, in hindsight. It's a bit better than the welter I have in the middle of my 40s. Yeah, your spot's not great for it. Are you good on you, Logan? Appreciate you cool. That's funny story, mate. Have a good one.

Thank you. Pretty in text coming through on 4487. Someone texted in and said that me and my sister were chasing each other around the barn, and she threw a pitchfork down and threw a pitchfork down and front of me she thought it would be like a cartoon rake and smack him in the face which would also hurt but instead it went through his foot oh that really brings the sucks the area out of the comedy doesn't it? She was like oh I just thought it was going to whack you in the face it was going to be really funny you like okay it's impaled you oh my goodness great to

find here me and my cousin were in the car playing helicopter fights with the seat belts you know the buckle bits and like swinging them around oh my goodness dad kept telling us multiple times don't do that don't do that boom buckle in the forehead the whole face is bleeding he made me go sit on the couch and think about what I'd done mum came home my whole face is covered in blood the couch is covered in blood

he gets thrown out of the house the dad because she's like why haven't you taking them to A&E? So a loss on many levels there couple of scars emotional ones and physicals John O'Benn and Megan The podcast

The Hits The Role's got to be in the country and Shibuzi which is pretty cool playing Saturday night as well and he's just been in Australia and as we mentioned earlier this morning he went into like a Louis Vuitton store and he put this out on the social media the Louis Vuitton in Sydney

legitimately just treated us like we were coming there robbed that place I have never been looked at more like a crazy listen the last time I was looked at like a criminal this bad I was an actual criminal because he's done some time in prison isn't he yeah

yeah and a turn around now though just shopping at Louis Vuitton yeah it's right from dying from actually going to jail and he's also like he's publicly sees this at the moment i was watching something of them yesterday he's lost a lot of weight he's been looking after himself he's like my friends are calling him he's he that veggie roll now like jelly roll sushi roll he's like he's like i'm looking trim he's like my friends have started to call me that so yeah which is pretty cool so good on uh just don't walk into louis vitton i tell you what they do

to uh our criminals in australia jelly roll they put them all on a plane and send him back here and they are he's coming over here on his plane yeah now something in our eye I'm not a, I don't know, I'm just not a big fan of using the horn that much in the car. You know, like maybe I would give a little polite to it if I have to, but it's something, and particularly if something's going on, I sort of just end up just trying to avoid the accident at first, and then I don't think about the horn. I'm more worried about, you know, actual, the, it winds my wife up. She's like, just use the horn, just use the horn, so I'm going to come to.

I hung did a nun yesterday, remember? Exactly, yeah, exactly. So I'm not, you know, I'm not trying to think of, be patient on the road. Yeah, it winds me up when people use the horn on me, so I don't try and use the horn on me. so I don't try and use the horn that much. It's meant as a warning. Yeah, and I guess if I have to, but sometimes you're just trying to avoid the situation,

but someone cut in... Sometimes when you fly overseas, though. But it's like a soundtrack of horns. They love it, eh, it's really taking away the punch of the horn, though. Big cities love it overseas. But it does wind up my wife at the moment, and the moment she can't drive because she had back surgery, so then if she has to go anywhere, like to the doctor

or pick up something, I'll have to drive her to that. And, you know, of course, it's me not using the horn, but yesterday someone cut in, she leant across and used the horn. On your vehicle. On my vehicle. They look back at, of course, me. I'm like trying to point to the, like,

in the middle of it. They're flipping him off the finger. I'm going, oh, pointing at my wife. Throwing her under the bus. To her, mate. They're like, why do you want to cross at that? It's my favourite thing to do. You shouldn't be allowed to do that as the passenger,

as well, because that's the responsibility of me. When I drive, I'm pretty light on the horn, but when I'm in the passenger... Oh, do you lean across to do that at the time to time? It's my favourite thing, because you get the blame, and I get the benefit. Yeah. The only good thing the horn is good for is you drive along

and you see, like, boys that go to high school and I tuting like that and my kids look across, and they're like, Dad, shame. I'm so glad you'll explain what you were talking about. He loves driving around schools, tuning at the boys. I don't even look that way, but... I see boys from high school and I'm like,

My teenage Sean has definitely look over and they're like, dear, I know those people. That's a good gag. I love the confusion when you honk at someone and you realise

I don't actually know them but the look on the air face of like they're looking as well sometimes they wave and they're like I don't know that person scrunched up face

but there we go so don't yeah okay well maybe you can use someone else's horn or just use the horn yourself Ben Ben no it's not for me

John O'Benn and Megan the podcast The Hats I've been talking about this yesterday and we thought we'd bring it back the meals that you remember usually mum meals, but sometimes dad meals, the iconic meals around about the 90s that you grew up,

having to eat. You did this just before 9 o'clock before the show wrapped yesterday, and I was thinking driving home, curried sausages. Oh, yeah. With those like pre-cooked. Yeah, some legend decided that Indian cuisine and sausages needed to co-lab. And they were tasty, but they were, it was a staple in the 90s. Carla Morena.

How are you? We're doing well, mate. lovely to have you on your mum meals what takes you back oh well i put louise cake but my mum always home bait all my eyes i remember louise cake was it like a raspberry oh yeah yeah with the cut cake with the little jam and then the oh yes just a sneaky little little slither of raspberry you know layering and then a whole lot of jam was it cream on top or what was it no it wasn't like a coconut and meringue that's it that's it that's it yeah we

I thought of my throat was cut and I used to swap with the boy down the road for the brought biscuits every day. Oh, you'd swap what your Louise cake for some biscuits from like Gryffins or something. Yeah, because my mum always home bake. We always had home baking and we thought, oh God, we're not the cool family.

You bought biscuits. You want the bloody cookie beer cookies. You never appreciate what you've got because the other people would be like, oh, home baking, yeah. Yeah, but then you got... And I'm much older than you guys. We used to all belong to the cookie beer club.

to be a cookie beer club. Was there a cookie beer club? Yeah, there was a cookie bear club. Yeah, it was a database of all the kids. Yeah. It sounds like you're on some sort of list now, but yeah. That was the case. Do you remember you go to someone's house and they didn't have own baking?

They'd bring out like a box. It was like the sampler, sort of, there were different, a whole lot of different biscuits. It just made me think of that. The chocolate ones always gone first. Yeah. Roses, but for biscuits. One plane, one, one good one, one plane. Yeah.

Yeah. A bloody short bread. Yeah. The one, one party. You're like, oh, what the two of the good ones. Have a shortbread and a pink, pink wafer. Pink wafer. Yeah.

Yeah, they were good. They were good. That was bougie. If someone had one of those, they brought that out. You're like, that was an important occasion if someone brought that out. You're like, wow, I'm here now on that sampler. It's not just a packet of biscuits. Oh, well, that's great.

Louisecat's really falling off the market, isn't it? Yeah, you should bring it back. Griffin still do the sampler. I'm living to look here. You've got the crispy wheatens, toffee pops, shortbreads. You've got pink wets. You've got hundreds and thousands. I think they rock them out at Christmas time.

Yeah. You're probably right. The gift for people you don't really know. It's a good generic one, too, isn't it? You gave one to me last year, but maybe it. I know you now. No mouth doesn't enjoy a biscuit. Hey, thank you, Carla.

I really appreciate you. Cool coming through. Johan, welcome. Good, how are you? We're doing well, Johann. Take us back to the 90s meals. Oh, mate. My dad, he was notorious.

What did he do? He used to take lamb ribs or mutton ribs and cabbage and green beans and make this stew and he boiled it to death and he never thickened the sauce so you'd end up with this kind of an oil flicky

and the beans go grey. The beans go grey the cabbage wind translutes The Viji's kind of dissolve into the slot. what you were eating, but you could taste salt and pepper, that's for sure. You knew what you were eating.

Built character. You know, years later, my brother still craves for that stuff, and I used to actually tell my wife to keep my dad busy, so that I could thicken the sauce with a bit of best.

You took some creative license on his recipe. Yeah, because by crack, he bought it from about 11 o'clock in the morning. Dinner time. I love boiling things. They did. Boiled to death.

I feel like mom would put the veggies on just when she put like the meat on or something. You're like, well, they could be like last. I think the veggies were on at three in the afternoon sometimes. Yeah, they love the one pot meal just suck everything and boil the juice out of it. Good one, you, Johan. I appreciate you call. Okay.

See you, mate. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. Talking about the meals you remember fondly growing. up that your mum or your dad would make for you. So many texts and great ones coming through this morning. So thank you for those. We're going to get Donna on this morning.

Welcome, Donna and Nelson. How's Nelson's weather today on a Friday? Lovely and sunny, thank you. Yeah, good on you. Donna, what to the meals? Nelsonians get really, it's sunny. Thank you very much. Yeah, I hear it's better in Blenheim actually today, Donna.

Did you hear that? Oh, don't do. Don't start that. Oh, nice. Yeah, right. Okay, you took that very well. Okay, yeah. Two degrees warmer as well.

What's the iconic me? I don't like too much hate. It reminds me of Australia. I don't like too much hate. Little passive digs. You do that all the time, Megan, when you defend Nelson as well. Yeah, it's more, yeah. It's your hometown.

It is my hometown. It's always sunny. And it's such a... It's such a Simpson storyline, the beef between who has more sunshine hours. Exactly. But we're talking to our 90s meals and meals you remember from growing up. What are they? Yeah, so we used to have ham steaks with boiled potatoes.

Oh, you're the hamstacks. I used to happen about once a week. I hated it. My mum, I think we had boiled potatoes. The cat was stationed underneath the table and the cat would eat it. Hamsticks. I'd be feeding the cats. Bloody brilliant, you know, sort of about a couple of centimetres thick chunk of ham in a circular.

Yeah, how they got it into a circle? I don't know. It starts as a rubber disc and it ends as a rubber disc. So you just chower it up somewhere to eat it. My mum used to put like a ring of it. have pineapple on it sometimes. Oh, and that's the worst. Yeah, love the pineapple.

Sexing up the food with a bit of pineapple. It's a whole ring, ooh-l-la. I had mates that you used to hate their stuff from their mum every now and again, so they just sit by the window. When the mum would go to the kitchen, they'd just scrape it out the window and pretend they were eating it.

Yeah. Because you wouldn't have to leave the table or do everything was finished. That's the thing. But now, as a cook to two young kids, you feel the pain, don't you? I still don't eat it. I make them fancy stuff and they still don't eat it.

You make them too fancy stuff. That's your problem, yeah. Here's some... Give them my handsake with some pineapple. Yeah, maybe they'll be into that. Some caviar. Kirstie, how are you? Curse.

She's busy. She's juggling babies and radio. Are you baby and radio? You have three boys. Kirsty, what are the meals you remember from the 90s, mate? Yeah, I just picked in my lunchbox, which was like, you know, that Vogels's bread. I think there was no butter. and then bedemite, like real basic standard, big wedge of cheese and ice butter.

Oh, yes. It's such a bad combination. What was that popular then? Because I remember that too. Yeah, I really enjoyed that sandwich, to be honest. I love the, yeah, the dishes like lettuce, eh? So, yeah, I don't know why it was a compact. A lot of things.

Yeah, and then sometimes vanilla wines or crispy biscuits. Oh, yeah. And they would put margarious. in the middle and stick them together. Yes! Mum would butter the bloody wine biscuits and kind of make it... Oh, Marjorie would put them together like a little... Oh, oh!

Why are you doing that? It's right. Like a vanilla Oreo, basically. Oh, what about barley sugars on walks? Barley sugars? My dad used to pick... What are you picking some barley sugar for like a, you know, 500 metre walk? Glucose energy.

Glucose energy, got to get it in you. Then we got jacked up on them in the 40-hour famine. Oh, I love it. Thank you so much. Keep this coming through. These are so good. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats.

Mariah Carey, uh, seems to be the song every year that, uh, is played all over the place. And we thought we'd play a little fun game. We started it last year to see how long it would take you about this time to avoid listening to the song. So we all try not to buy it. We don't play it on the radio. Uh, you're trying to avoid it on social media. If you go into a shop and you hear it, you're out of the game.

Now, do you know that we did this last year? The Canadians, there's a show in Canada doing it too. Oh, wow. So we'll have to talk to them next week. They will not be getting out and or about without being attacked by Mariah at the moment. And the calls and texts are coming through thick and faster people who are either in or out of the game. But let's be honest, this week has seen many casualties far more than last year. And so we'd like to play tribute to those fallen soldiers.

You're dead. Oh, my God. You're dead. I'm a victim to social media. And I only listen to the voice note at 9 city. And then towards the end of the voice night, she's like, oh, wait, wait, hear the song. And there it was. All I want for Christmas.

So I was going for an innocent scroll on Instagram last night. As we know, social media can be a real danger zone. Our chief marketing officer posted a reel to her story, and it was a woman walking towards a record player. and it's here come November 1st, but in a moment of weakness, I clicked to unmute it and was met with the dulcet tones of a version much better than Ben's. I am out. I was just, you know, scrolling through Instagram, and 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 then, you know, just the faintest, faintest beginning of the song. And I was like, no. We love you. Gone and probably forgot it. I can't remember the names of those people. One of them was met our boss, I think, but hey. Oh, there we go.

He's gone now. He's dead to us. And more, more soldiers coming through. We're losing you. Lisa. Hi. Talk to us. What happens?

Am I allowed to say the name? Yes, you've got to be. It's an open book here. You can say it. At work, we listen to the breeze. Oh, that's your problem. I know. I know.

You thought you had a friend in the breeze. They let you down. Apparently I don't. No, enemy. What happened? They obviously chucked it on, those animals. In November too. The first day playing and I'm out.

And I work in a retail shop. I'm the manager. I get to choose the radio station. Oh, excuse me, Lisa. So it's on you. Oh, Lisa. Today we're going to be listening to the breeze. No, we're not.

We're going to be listening. into the Hats. I was going to say. She's a bloody roller coaster, mate. To be honest, I said, don't. What a morning. That's your fault, Lisa. You shouldn't have been listening to them anyway.

I know, I know, but no more. No more. Good on you, Lisa. She's been stung. We appreciate you play the game. Like you said, you can still play. You can still, yeah. Someone got out last night watching Nile art videos on Facebook.

Oh. Who puts it? What wants to puts it on now? I guess so, yeah. You're all heroes in our hearts. Scroll on mute base. If you are a business note, you want to keep Mariah out of your playlist just until maybe December.

That would be great to have a Mariah Carey free zone around the country. That's no, 4487. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. Yeah, a lot of talk about the Louvre Museum in Paris and how there was a big heist a couple of weeks ago, and it's just been revealed that the password for the security system was Louvre. Out of a lie, that was it.

I hope it was just all low-case. There wasn't even like a number Or an exclamation mark It was just that I love that system That's a system I'd prefer to be Maybe they should sign up To the buddy NZME system

We're on We're having to update it every five minutes And when they choose a password for you You're like no one is ever going to remember All these letters 23 different symbols And hylographics and Also they were rocking Windows 2003

I love it Love it They don't They got all their stuff sold Yeah true actually But I love it from the air the heist people too hacking in on that one that would have been a gamble let's just try this

it would have been probably the first past word you would try and then we'll go Louv one Louv two three The hardest part is like how do you spell Lou? Yeah that's true Now you said it's driving to down the motorway and

it was near your house Megan on the old on the old Western there and someone had put two couches in a table on the medium barrier on the side you know where you pull over if you're broken down or something and I was like that is probably one of the top ten most interesting locations

I've seen in lounge suite on the side of the motorway. To be honest couches get put everywhere They do! They do! I don't know why. All over the country I was driving down the desert road. But he littered with couches. Who drives to the desert road to the middle

nowhere? Oh, we'll just drop the couch off here, the desert road. Yeah. But next to maybe Mount Rua Peu needs a nice seat you can sit on and have a look at the mountain. Sometimes you put it out like in the berm and stuff, people come past pick it up and take it away. Yeah, free, take it away. Maybe it's an organic time on the desert road at the moment.

You feel like most people are going to be unprepared to pick up a couch. You're right. It could be a trade, you know, a marketplace meet up. Okay, we'll meet you half on the desert road. Do the trade. Listen, I love bending the rules. That's one of the things I enjoy doing. But I wouldn't dump couches on the side of the road.

The motorway. No. Maybe we need an amnesty given to the day. And Eden would love them, you know? Big students, burn some couches. Yeah. Maybe that's a winnie. Chuck a burning siggy out of the one.

No trouble. But the couch, no way. You see all kinds of things of West Auckland, baby. Yeah. So if anyone is after a lounge suite, actually, just swing over to the West and you pick yourself out, it's a little bit. It looked fine. It's on the road, hey.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. Megan, you shared with us that you're real detest for Mr. Bick. Yeah. My boss isn't going to. I'm sure they're lovely people. let's just say that's just take this separate the artist from the song but and like we play music that everyone else likes so you know that you don't like the other one there um the one who wants

hold up little girl yeah no that's a oh they they were like really pretty boy sort of rock dudes weren't they so not like poison sort of if you remember poison so they had the makeup and the long that's right long flowing locks black and white video i remember this one so how can you Hey, Mr. Big. It just grates me. Their music just grates me. There are those songs. There are those songs.

When we were doing 24 hours of Kids Campbell, we played probably my number one most hated song in the wee hours of the morning, and it really upset me. Well, producer Troy was saying, you really unleashed on him for putting the song on the loud speaker. I would easily say this is my most hated song.

How can you? Can you hate this song? Yeah. This is like the most happy, inoffensive song music has ever created. I think this is voice. He's like, don't give up. He's like, pouring his heart out,

and he's like, like it, mate, you're grading on me. It's a song of positivity. Also, you only get what you give, and I'm just giving him negativity and nothing. You'd be at his concert, arms folded. Maybe you should throw this out. What song gives you the yack?

Yeah, the musical act right now. That gives me the musical act. And I mean, yeah, again, we're not saying the artists or anything of terrible people with it, just the songs that's a great guy

and that's the thing about music it's all very subjective I think you know you've talked about it many times in the song

tub thumping oh you know and it's a popular song still on the hits I love that song I'm gonna with you

on that one John I'm like are you with me on that yeah I feel like I feel like a novelty window for that song

was there and it's still going around like it sounds oh yeah it's kind of fun and now it's like we're still playing this how many years later

it doesn't get knocked down. It keeps getting back and playing and playing. We play it so much. That's inspirational when you get knocked down in life. Yeah, it does, yeah. It's a whiskey drink. It's a little bit of a drink. Well, I don't get the pissing than I don't know. 1997, that one. So almost 20 years

we'll be holding on to that one. Okay, musical lick. What is the song that really grinds your gears? Now, it's a slightly negative topic for a happy Friday. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. We're just talking about the songs that give you the musical lick. And if you hate that song, you're racist. Okay, I'm going to go out and say it

And there's so many Loads of texts coming through And a lot of them are for songs that You know, are quite positive Like Pharrell Williams I am for a second thought that the song Would Gride Summer's Gears But happy

They're like How can you hate? All of these songs are quite positive You had the new radicals right That was quite a positive song Don't give up I like this one I'm going to say

Yeah I don't mind that one It doesn't grime my guess This lives my spirits. Yeah, but so many texts are coming through. What else have we got here on the text? We've been and me collectively share a disdain for... I just want to drive my car off the road. We just want to drive my car off the road.

We just have come through. I love that song, but I can understand. It's novelty. It's a novel. It's quite whiny. You see, again, I don't mind it, but it's... No, I like that song, but... Tickets, do I and me?

Yeah. Shania Twainz, don't impress me much. It's come through. Really? Well, yeah. This one has come through a couple of times. Someone's like, Adele, hello sounds like a serenade of several cats

been run over by a lawnmower. This is like a really early therapy session. A couple of Adel's coming through as well. I was saying she's quite whiny. She is whiny, but she's good at it. It's made a great career out of it. Good pitch. Yeah.

Should we get to the phones? Dale, lovely to have you on on a Friday morning, mate. How are you? I'm good day. Great. Welcome to our uncharacteristically negative phonotop it this morning, Dale. It's very negative. What song do you want to get off your chest that you may be not a fan of?

I turn you guys off every time you play pink pony club. Oh, stop it. Stop it What is it And I'm not a fan of Taylor Swift But I'd much rather listen to her Over Pink Coney Club We campaigned so hard for Chappewan

I love Love I love I'm a friend So I'm so glad that this song Has not caught on with the kids Because I'd have to listen to it all day long You must be a victim of the K-pop

Demon Hunters at the moment then Yes I am And I didn't like that song until it gets sung like 50 times a day. Yeah, true. What is it about the Pink Pony Club that you can really drill down on? It just makes no sense. Like, give me something from the 80s.

Give me, like, it just, yeah. She just wants to keep dancing in the Pink Pony Club. It's just straight forward. Yeah, I definitely don't want to join a pink pony club. I'll give you. Okay, okay, are you on something from Easter year? Yeah, I'll listen to that. You'd listen to that?

Oh, yeah. No. That's the thing about music. People love, yeah, and people love songs and other people despise. So, yeah. We've got Kelly joining us on 0800 of the hits.

What gives you the musical at, Kelly? Well, there's actually a few. The one that really gives me the ick is that... I think the guy who said it was called daft punk one more time. Like... Oh, yeah. I'm going to play that song.

The problem is, we need to play it. So everyone goes, oh, that song. So now we need to play it. It's really groaning, you guess. It's so gross. It's so gross. What is the particular bit that winds you up? A whiny.

One more time. And even the, oh my God. Even the video clip, like these ridiculous blue people. Oh, it was animated, wasn't it? Yeah, I remember. It was horrible. Oh, I love how much you hate it. Yeah, well, pass your feedback on to Daph Park.

so much. Jono Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. But this morning starts with a cloud of negativity. Can you be honest, I've found it quite humorous. It's been quite fun. To hear what other people don't like. And there's songs that, you know, often you're like, what? I love that song, you know.

So it's quite good, what one person likes another one despite. So we're doing the songs that give you the ick. And it's, when it gives you the ick, you're so passionate about it. And that's what makes it amusing. Someone really wound up by... Slowly Wartis. Everything from Oasis. The first and a kind of all

Where we are we were getting home I'm pretty much anything by Benson Boone He's so shoutsy It's coming through It's Megan's favourite artist Oh my God Die with a smile The worst song ever risen

Oh I'm that's Yeah Justin Bieber's daisies The guitar part Sounds like a five-year-old It's supposed to be stripped back Other people will text through For other songs

I love Darth punk I love the you know It's quite good. It all comes. It's a boon. Beezabu's lovely. I mean, he's fine. He sells tickets to his shows.

He's going to be fine. Just that person is not going to go. Jody, it's great to have you on New Zealand's breakfast. What's giving you the yik? The music ick. Oh, sorry, Jody. I should just turn the thing on. Sorry, what was it, Jody?

Take on me by AHA. Jeez, that's an old one. It's a whiny one. Oh, no, turn it off. I mean, fortunately, you don't need to hear it too many times. I mean, we do play it now and again. Jeez, you've held on to that hatred for decades. Someone's come through.

Here's one that does kind of wind me up a little bit as well. And I'm pretty good about the B-52's love shack. Only because the guy's voice, you know, like he's, I'm like, what does he do? The one who hates it, that's a good impression. Yeah, that's the good. Yeah, I like that. But he's like, what is he doing?

I mentioned the recording it, the person recording it that day was like, is he going to do the voice for the whole? It was that. We're like, we'll do one more to see how he goes. It's like, I got me, a car. It was like, well, okay. So true. Good on you, Jody.

Appreciate you cool. Have a good day. You too, man. When she starts singing, it's a bagger. at the side of the road It's like It's really good That's my favourite thing

Oh listen Thank you so much For your calls and texts on this one Oh that negativity brought us so much joy We've cleansed We've cleansed ourselves John O'Ben and Megan The podcast

The Hats It's a huge week in Christchurch So exciting Cup and Show week is on It kicks off tomorrow With Rickett and Park Opening Day Which will be incredible

Fashion fun Food Entertainment Across many magnificent days in Christchurch. It's what's great about Christchurch in the spring. And we're sending someone from the show down there. We've been talking about it, and they've got a big responsibility to make a big bet for us. And the winner's on the phone right now.

Nicola, the fascinators warmed up, ready to go. Sure is. Are you excited? Are you heading to Christchurch? Very excited. Yeah, it's going to be cool. You get flights, accommodation, tickets. You're going to enjoy all the wonderful action on and off the track.

The lashings of the finest. Anderbury has to offer. Sounds good. When was the last time you've been to Christchurch? Oh, not for 15 years. Oh, really? It's a beautiful city. Yeah, it is awesome there, eh.

So, okay, so you're going to go down and you're going to have a great time. Who are you taking along? Your mum, we understand, right? Taking mum, yep. Oh, that'd be awesome. Look out, the girls weekend. Girls weekend away. Girls on tour.

How's your mum going to be? Like, who's going to be looking after who? Good question. Yeah. Well, you've got some, you've got, with great competition winning, also comes great responsibility as they say because we are putting it on you to place a $200 bet and if the money comes through if the horses 200 bucks yeah if the money comes through we then give away the cash on the show yeah you get $200 of that winnings and then we give away the rest to the nation all right it's

the nation's bet okay so we can so don't forget to do that yeah and we've got uh we're calling him the show's tipster Aaron from Tauranga we got him back on we used to Aaron for the Melbourne Cup. It's lovely to have you back on, Aaron. Good night, how are you? Megan and Ben, how you do? Morning. Now, during the week, we spoke to you about the Melbourne Cup.

This is what happens in racing, you gave us a pick. It didn't quite come in, shall we say? Yeah, no, not my best work, to be fair. No, it's a buckaroo, unfortunately, and it was due to some lung issues, it came dead last, so now... It's not dead, just came... It's not dead. It should be, didn't win.

No, no. But Aaron, we're going to have a second crack. The show's tipster. Now, we've got Nicola on the phone. She's going to place the $200 bet. The winnings we're going to give away on here. You've had a look through the field. Are we going well, Britain?

Oh, have you got a pick, have you? Well, I'll defer to Aaron's judgment. Oh, well, Britain, you're saying. Well, Britain, oh, well, you've thrown out. Does this have to be one bet as well, or could she like? Well, we could do a couple. Yeah, we could do like a hundred on one thing and a hundred on. another or a hundred each way or if it's there's multiple options you can box them

quinellas you can find out more at the tabb.co.com. Yeah which uh which ironically I can't get on to uh due to the work system right now won't let you gamble away no no so um I like number 11 belly Cheval okay but a hundred dollars on well written to win hundred dollars on what were you saying Aaron Bell Chevelle Bell Chevelle okay so we got two bets we got two chances winning. Which is number 11 in the cup. All right. Thank you, Aaron, for your wonderful tips.

May you're going to have a good weekend? Awesome. You guys too. Appreciate you. And thank you, Nicola, for doing this. You have herself a wonderful weekend and hopefully you remember to put on this bet for us. Cheers.

I wouldn't be trusted to do that. I'd be there all day. I'd be like, there's something I've got to do. But I'm in a tent. Well, hopefully because they're at the races, Nicola will follow through for us. We'll find out on Monday how she went. And if we've got some money to give away to you.