Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Jono's meet and greet at the YMCA!

Episode Date: May 28, 2025

On today’s show: Jono decided to follow in Lordes footstep and hold an event at the YMCA... at 6am Producer Grace's first person recount of the Lorde surprise pop up! A listener who invited Jonthan Bailey to stay at her house! Jono's pranky history comes back to bite him... What crucial item did you leave behind? Can Megan wear this dress to a wedding? (Vote on Facebook) Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Jono, Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to HelloFresh, your home advantage for delicious midweek dinners everyone will love. Welcome to the podcast. On a Thursday morning, we need to make things brief because we're just about to jump onto Zoom, which you'll hear in another podcast, with Ryan Tedder, the lead singer of One Republic. Who's also written a million really famous songs. So many songs, eh? Like for Beyonce and things. Retire from One Republic and still make millions of dollars. Yeah, so many hit songs that you're like, oh, yeah, Jonas Brothers or Adele, Beyonce, whatever. It's written by him.

How does he choose which song to keep and which to give away? That's what I want to know. Yeah, we'll ask him. Yeah, because he could be greedy and keep them all for himself. Yeah. But sometimes you're probably like, oh, I can only hear Beyonce singing. Yeah, and he's like singing, I love you like XO, you kill me boy XO. That's not really...

It's not, yeah. He probably, he's channeling, you know, someone else when he writes it. So, yeah. I wonder if he gets, oh, these are all questions that we can ask him and he'll answer.

Let's not interview him without him here. Well, these are all, that's a good... Write it down. Good dress rehearsal for it, you know, right? So we're going to rush off

and do that and you'll hear that on another podcast. But on this particular podcast, because Lord is back in New Zealand, surprising people with a pop-up gig at the YMCA bathroom. Unusual location. Well, Jono had the idea to head on down and see who would turn up in the YMCA bathroom when he went down there.

And unfortunately, he got a bit of a surprise. Have a listen. The Jono, Ben and Megan podcast, thanks thanks to dilma goodness really does taste great dilma making the world a better tea last night lord uh pop star surprised a lot of fans with impromptu performance at the ymca randomly at the ymca and uh and the toilets in the bathrooms in the bathroom she was in the cubicle and she was performing and then she popped out. But there was lights and everything. There was security.

It was a full set up. She put it out on social media like an exclusive performance. No one knew where it was going to be. And in the end, people got, basically, some lucky people got to go in there. And she was filming for a new video. She performed a couple of songs. Yeah. And if you can hear my indicator in the background,

that's because Jono has decided to go to the same YMCA toilets this morning and see if anyone turns up for him. Now, have you put it out there? Or is this putting it out there now, Jono? This is our version of Lorde mysteriously posting on social. So, hey, if anyone wants to meet me in the YMCA toilets, I'll be there in five minutes. Are you performing or what's happening?

What's happening? To be honest I haven't put too much thought in beyond But maybe I can offer some awkward cubicle conversation I'm not a bad wiper If you need me to wipe anything It sounds like some sort of hook up situation Doesn't it mate?

Maybe in the toilets. Maybe in the YMCA toilets, alright yeah, don't tell my wife. Also it's like 6.30 in the morning. Okay, there might be people in there going to the gym, shooting basketballs around, that sort of thing, you know, so you might have people there already, you know, for your big performance. So listen, we know the odds are stacked against me guys, Lorde had the advantage of doing this at night time when people have more free time to chase her around town.

We go on first thing in the morning. So listen, we know she had a bit of an unfair advantage. But I'm heading down. Megan, how do you turn your car lights on by the way? They should be on auto. What we need to explain that you've got Megan's car, Megan's swipe card and Megan's phone. And my phone. It's like you've got Megan's car, Megan's swipe card, and Megan's phone. And my phone. It's like you've taken her identity.

Yeah, and this is the last you'll hear of me. Can I ask who's actually driving? I'm driving. Producer Ali, she's filming social in the passenger seat. Also, you left your driver's license here, so, yeah. Okay. Well, listen, I'm just pulling up now, guys. Okay, so if you want to meet

jono there for whatever he's gonna do in the bathrooms then that could be between you and him that's fine uh we're gonna come back next and find out if anyone is gonna join jono for his performance like lord in the ymca toilets okay jono ben and megan the podcast the hits last night lord surprised a whole lot of fans at the YMCA. It ended up being the YMCA, a secret venue where she performed. In the bathrooms, but she had lights, she had security. It was like a little gig in the bathroom and she'd pop out of the cubicle. Yeah.

But only for like 30 fans at a time and people on a special secret list. Pretty cool. Yeah. Pretty cool experience. Pretty random. The location to do it at, but anyway. But we're all talking about it. Exactly. Exactly has gone down to the same ymca you said this morning maybe you would see how many people would turn up if one of us had uh went down there for

i don't know you're not really performing what are you going to do in there i can wash people's hands okay okay uh i'm offering a pretty hands-on service. Now, you said Lorde had lights and security. I also have lights and security. Producer Ellie, acting as security, and also her cell phone, which she's filming on, has the lights going. Oh, good. Okay. So I'm walking in now, guys, into the YTA. There's a lot of gym activity going on this morning.

Okay. Hello. Hi. What was your name? Kenesha. Kenesha, is that a Jono? Lovely to meet you. I'm from the Hits.

How are you? I'm good, thank you. Did you have Lorde here last night? Yeah. She was here last night. Well, I've done the same thing. I've put it out on social media that I'm going to meet people in the toilets. Oh, my God.

Is it okay if I just go and wait in the toilet? Is that all right? Yeah. Yeah, sure. Okay. Well, I'll be in there.? Sure. Is that all right? Yeah. Yeah, sure, okay. Well, I'll be in there. You just tell all the fans to come through. I have a lot of fans. Yeah, yeah.

Did you meet Lorde last night? No, I just heard about it today. Oh, great. What toilet was she in? Maybe that might be a good, you know, come in here like... She might have been in the wrong bathroom. Yeah, it might be in the female's toilet, Max.

Okay, well, I'll just head through now anyway. Okay, you send them through. All right, it might have been in the female's toilet, Max. Okay. Well, I'll just head through now anyway. Okay. You send him through. All right. We're going through to the toilets, guys. Okay. He's through. He's in.

I mean, who knows? There might be already in there waiting. You'll burst open the door and, you know, like there'll be fans, a frenzy of fans ready for you. Ellie's not going with you, is she? No. No. She's also not supposed to film in the toilets.

No, no. I just walked in there. Is she? No. She's also not supposed to film in the toilets. Not now. I've just walked in there. What's happening? There's a naked man. Well, of course there is. It's the bathrooms. He's been to the gym, John. Yeah, yeah.

Don't go in there, Ellie. There's a naked man. It's backfiring. Yeah. I don't know if I'll ask him I think maybe you can go outside the toilets you're at the YMCA maybe just wait in the corridor or something fully butt naked he's in the bathroom.

He's in the bathroom, mate. What did you expect? He's probably just had a shower. Yeah, okay. All right. We might have bought the mission, guys. Yeah, fair enough. Okay, well, any signs of any fans turning up?

No, he might be one. He might be one. But I don't know if it's appropriate to go and deal with a social media camera. No, definitely not. No, please don't. No, please don't. Okay, well, there we go. Jono's performance, a little bit more lacklustre than Lorde's.

But, hey, same venue, same venue. I hope she didn't have to deal with this last night. She probably booked it out and did it above board. All right, there we go I'll wrap it up very quickly before someone gets arrested

Jono, Ben and Megan The Podcast The Hits now we went away last week and Ben big lover of the to-do list

loves to knock things off and he says the thing with the to-do list is it's never ending it's always it's the problem

with the to-do list but you do get some satisfaction in knocking off I do you know like some stuff off your to-do list is it's never ending. I know. It's a problem with the to-do list. But you do get some satisfaction in knocking off, I do, you know, like some stuff off your to-do list. You have like a daily and then you have like a long-term one.

Yeah. I know. And I've got a lot of stuff. It's kind of my systems and weird systems but I was away for the week as you know in Sri Lanka thanks to Dilma.

You could of course win a trip to Sri Lanka if you buy the tea with our faces on it and find the golden ticket inside. Yeah. Now you are very, I reckon even at his funeral, he'll be lying in the casket. He's like, don't forget to put the sausage rolls in there.

No, it'll be fully planned. There's a PowerPoint presentation for the eulogy. Before I go, here's everything you need to know. There's the schedule. And, you know, a lot of it works out because that's the way I am, but also the fact that my wife does work in the evenings and stuff. So she works a lot later. So I take care of a lot of the admin around does work in the evenings and stuff. So she works a lot later, so I take care of a lot of the admin around the house

and the kids and stuff in the evenings. Yeah, don't get it twisted. We tease you, but it's great for John and I. Yeah, great. You're very organised. Yeah, it really is. And it must be great for the household as well. Yeah, well, I do like to be organised,

but I was away, and so I had all these things sort of locked in. A lot of things that I just know I've got to take. There's guitar lessons, there's musical theatre, there's netball, there so I had all these things sort of locked in. And a lot of things that I just know I've got to take, you know. There's guitar lessons, there's musical theatre, there's netball, there's appointments, there's things. I've kind of got my systems worked out. But I was like, oh, a lot of things I need to pass on that.

A handover period. Knowing you were going to be away, you're like, this thing is going to turn to custom. So I wrote, you know, and you guys mocked me, but I had a shared message to the family. I had a couple of whiteboard situations written down. Dude, whiteboards? Because I had the mother-in-law helping out with some stuff as well.

I had to allocate some things. Oh, you allocated tasks. Because my wife wasn't there to do some of it. She's like, she still can't get out of work. So I was like, oh, can you pick up from here and do this thing? Or bits of the council coming over. So Joyce had her own whiteboard? Yeah, everyone had their own to-do list over the week. And they'd come back, and I was like, to be honest,

I would say pretty good results. You know, like 80%, 80%, pretty good. Of the tasks. Of everyone, you know. And for them, that was probably, for everyone else, it's probably great. Did you sit down and do a review? No, I noticed there was a couple of things that I booked,

and I'd gone, hey, if this doesn't work out, reschedule. And a couple of things had been rescheduled. One of the meals that I'd planned didn't work. But anyway, that's fine. Oh, my God, Ben. if this doesn't work out, reschedule. And a couple of things had been rescheduled. One of the meals that I'd planned didn't. But anyway, that's fine. Oh, my God, Ben. These things happen. Do you? So my husband loves the to-do list too.

These things happen. If you tick something off, do you then go back and review what was done? Because he gives feedback and he's like, oh, this wasn't right. I'm like, you are lucky it got done. No, I'm not reviewing what was done. So, yeah, a few things had been, you know. But for the most part, everyone's live well, house, you know. Everything's still ticking.

Yeah. How does that make you feel? You're like, well, the house still functions. Yeah, yeah. A few things got bumped. Probably far more relaxed without me around, you know. Did the world end when that 20% didn't get done? No, that's stuff that I've had to pick up again.

Maybe one of the meals didn't get cooked. The point we're trying to make is the moral of the story is you don't need to do it every day. No, you don't. And you and me, I don't burden other people with the list. You just take it on. You put all that anxiety and stress on yourself. Yeah, I got back from,

she said, again, our washing machine had broken down. And then I said to my wife, how are we going with fixing that? She's like, all right, you're back already, are you and her washing machine had, you know, like, had broken down and I was like, you know, and then I said to my wife, how are we going with fixing that? She's like, all right, you're back already, are you?

Organising me again, are you? Yeah, yeah. When did the washing machine break down? While I was away. Oh, okay. So you're like,

you had many days to get it. Still, but we're working on it. We're working on it. Don't say that. Pass, 80%. 80%, good result.

Good result. Well done, family. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Last night, Lord. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Last night, Lorde, pop star in town. She's been doing these cool little pop-up sort of events around the world. She did one in New York.

She turned up at a nightclub in Sydney that were playing Lorde songs. And last night she sent a bit of a cryptic message on her social media saying, Auckland, I'm here. Kind of alluding to the fact, Producer Grace, that she was going to be maybe doing one in Auckland? Yeah. Very much alluring to that, that she might be doing one, just like she did in New York and Paris.

Yeah, right. But she did like a nightclub in Sydney. She did the streets of New York. Why did we get a toilet? We got the YMCA toilet. Let's read it up, because it was a secret location without a word of lie. It feels like every time we say it, it's a gag, but it wasn't. It really was the YMCA bathroom.

Maybe it's the only place open on a Wednesday night. Well, when we were like, oh, she's at YMCA, we were like, she's at YMCA? Was it a council issue? Yeah, she might have finished her aerobics class and was like, I might as well kill two birds. Exactly. So you went along, Producer Grace, you found out first where it was. It was that you messaged back a WhatsApp, you found out first where it was.

It was that you messaged back a WhatsApp. Yeah, well, we were messaging. It was all these like Reddits and Twitters to try and find out where people were. Ended down at Commercial Bay,

walked up Queen Street and then finally people were whispering about YMCA so that's how I ended up there. Yeah, right. And how many hours did you spend chasing Lord around town?

Well, I got to work at six after a half an hour drive because of the traffic, people. Just to let you know. And then it was about five hours. Five hours. Five hours going around. And in the end, you weren't, unfortunately, you weren't lucky enough to go in there. And I didn't even get to see her.

Hi, guys. Jenzie, producer Grace here. I'm located. We're in Lorders, but I'm not going to be able to get in. Ran around the city for about two hours. She's in an undisclosed location. But I'm unfortunately not on the list. Grace will not be seeing Lorde.

Anything you want to say to Lorde about the logistics of the event? I still love her, even though, and I wish I was one of those people who got the intimate, you know, I wish I got a cuddle. Was I jealous? Yes. Do I still love her? Yes. Someone actually did get into the toilet cubicle with Lord

This is what she had to say The best listening party ever She just starts with us and then lights her up Best ever Why did you have to play that John? I don't know who recorded that audio But I would have gone to take two personally I'm all about the siren

Maybe they didn't have an option Well this is what we want to chuck open. Grace spent five hours traipsing around town for a glimpse of Lorde. Which she didn't get, but we get it, okay? That's fine. That's what you do, though. You know, like, you've got to take that chance to maybe, you know. Exactly, the possibility.

I was two and a half hours in, and I was like, I'm going to wait. The journey was fun. What a great story. Hanging out with other people who are huge fans as well. It's a cool part of it. And you filled in two minutes on the radio this morning. It's a win-win. The journey was fun. What a great story. And you're hanging out with other people who are huge fans as well. It's a cool part of it. And you filled in two minutes on the radio this morning. It's a win-win. Ben, I know you spent, we put Ben up a bloody

scissor lift for 12 hours outside Spark Arena waiting for his hero, Kevin. He's got two heroes. Dwayne the Royal Johnson, Kevin Hart. Will Smith wasn't there. Will Smith fell off, but anyway. He did fall off the scissor lift. He wasn't there. It was just me by myself waiting hanging out

literally hanging out for Kevin Hart and we never ended up we think we might as car might have driven past

the car did not stop I wouldn't stop either you're like what's that going to do you're like

so you're Kevin and Kevin we were going Kevin Kevin it sounded like the mum from

Home Alone we should find that audio keep driving so that's the links We've gone to try And meet Kevin Hart Again a fail

But hey It was a lot of fun But what's the links You've gone to try And meet a celebrity Maybe you ended up Meeting them John O'Bannon Megan

The podcast The hats The links you've gone to To meet a celebrity Producer Grace Five hours last night Trying to track down Lorde and her secret

Pop-up gig in Auckland Yeah which ended up As the toilets in the YMCA. If you said name 100 locations where Lorde might pop up. You're right, not one. Would you have thought that would be one of them? She did her gig in the YMCA toilets and I did mine this morning as well, which you'll hear. It was a sick night to be fair to me. Conditions were against me.

It was before seven in the morning. Yeah, and we'll get to what happened. The nudity, that's happening in the next 10 minutes. But what was the links you went to to meet a celeb? Nikki, who was it? Hi. So I was a massive fan of AHA back in the 1980s, Morton Harker, et cetera.

And they actually did a 30-year reunion tour just at the start of 2020, and they came to New Zealand. And they did a gig down in Christchurch, and I went down to see it. Massive fangirl moment of 30 years of being a fan. At the end of the concert, I thought, oh, I'll just go and have a little look around the back of the arena just to see if there's, you know, any sign of the band. And so went around there and waited for ages and ages, thought, oh, actually, probably not going to see anything. And then just about to leave, black limo comes out and stops.

And out gets... Yeah, yeah. And out of the back door Get Mags Who is my favourite member of the band Not Magsy Yeah, and came over And it was just Yeah, one of those moments

I was like, wow That is amazing They actually stopped and got out In 30 years on Aha, still getting a limo Well, that was the amazing thing, yeah Jeez, I would have thought They'd been Ubering or something And crap, did you get a hug? a limo. Well, that was the amazing thing, yeah. Jeez, I would have thought they'd been Ubering

or something. And Crip, did you get a hug? Did you get a photo? Yeah, absolutely. Got it all. And yeah, it was just

an amazing moment. He was such a nice guy. Oh, that's lovely. It's nice when you meet someone that you actually have looked up to and they are genuinely lovely, right?

Yeah. Were they so nice that they offered you a lift home? Not quite. Oh, well, that's awesome, Nicky. Congratulations. They are genuinely lovely, right? Were they so nice that they offered you a lift home? Not quite. Oh, well, that's awesome, Nikki. Congratulations on meeting your hero.

Cool. Thank you. Someone's texted in saying, just forcing your husband for 14 hours to sit behind a computer to try and get Adele tickets count. Oh, that does seem gone, yeah. Zoe, our friend Zoe in Tauranga. How are you, mate? Morning, everyone. I'm good, how are you?

We're doing well We understand this is a trip across the globe Yeah It's so excessive but I will take it to the grave So I'm obsessed like every other woman and gay man with Jonathan Bailey So that's Bridgerton

He was in Wicked He was Vero in Wicked. He was in Wicked. He was Vero in Wicked. He was great in Wicked, the movie. He is a beautiful man. He is such a beautiful man. And he was playing Richard II on the West End. So I flew to London from Auckland to go and watch his play in the hope that I could meet him at the stage door.

Jeez, this is commitment. Wow. Which I did. I met him at stage door. I got him to sign my program. I invited him to come to New Zealand and told him he could stay at my house, which was hilarious. Has he followed up on that? You know he's an openly gay man, eh?

Yeah, which is why I think he thought it was so funny. He was absolutely, like, creasing himself laughing. Oh, that's awesome. And he was like, yeah, I'll come over, I'll bring a troop, I'll come and bring a troop over and do some theatre. And I was like, yeah, stay at my house. Yeah, and he was amazing. It was the most ridiculous, ridiculous excessive trip.

Good on you. I'm very happy he's cool, though. The more you keep saying stay at my house, the more I think he was going, I'm probably not going to do that. Oh, Zoe, thank you for sharing that with us. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits.

Really surreal experience yesterday in the mall. I was just in the chemist and I was at the counter. Oh, you okay? No, I was just buying some oat-driven nasal spray. Was that a sarcastic, are you okay? I felt like there was no care behind that one. There's no love or care behind that.

Anyway, so at the counter and then the assistant behind the counter, she goes, Oh, you've pranked me before. And I'm like, oh God. We've come into this a couple of times. And it's from a long, rich, dark history of pranks, phone pranks, in-person pranks, hidden camera pranks.

Over a decade of pranking. And so every now and then you are going to bump into your victims. Don't say a couple of times, because I've been with you and it's happened multiple times where people were like, you pranked me. And this lady was just like, I was at a previous job and you phoned me and you conferenced me up with our opposition. And then it was very confusing and no one knew what was going on. And then you played it on the radio.

And I was like, oh, I said, I'm sorry. But then I'm like, oh, no, I wasn't sorry because I played it on the radio. You played it on the radio, yeah. And then so that conversation wrapped up. And then the lady behind me goes, you've also pranked me. I was like, what is going on here? She's like, you pranked me on, we used to do a thing on The Rock called Wind Up Your Wife. Wouldn't stack up at 25.

Was she a wife? She was a wife. She's like, you pranked me. You phoned me and said my husband had been embezzling funds from his work. And I was implicated in the investigation. And we were both going to prison. I was like, oh, sorry. That's not even like you crashed your car.

No, that's like you go to prison. That's a different time. Making people believe they're going to prison. I mean, yeah, a lot of that audio, if you find it and play it now, it'll probably be cancelled. But so I'd like to publicly apologise to those two wonderful people for the pranking

and maybe all the other victims that have been pranked over the years. I kind of want to hear it, though. It sounds funny. And the thing is, I think the most insulting thing on our part is you pranked so many people, you can't even remember the pranks. They remember it, though. Yeah, that sticks with me. It stuck with them the time they got told they thought they were going to prison. Ah, though. That's the thing. It stuck with them. By the time they got told, they thought they were going to prison.

Ah, prank. That would scare you. Great, great when you find out you're not. Yeah, but it's a good relief. Good relief. You're right, Megan. And we'd give them like a bloody Pizza Hut voucher or something. Oh, what a brilliant.

Yeah. The emotional scarring. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. She went to the French Open Yesterday And she forgot her racket Yeah

Pivotal Pivotal instrument To her craft Isn't it Ben Boyce I know you love a to-do list If Coco had you there Hey don't forget

You know Racket Yeah shoes Maybe you need to be Someone's manager Yeah That would be a good role Yeah I probably would enjoy that

Actually So but wouldn't her bag Have felt Because they come out With half a dozen rackets Don't they Racket, yeah, shoes. Maybe you need to be someone's manager. Yeah. That would be a good role. Yeah, I probably would enjoy that, actually. But wouldn't a bag have felt, because they come out with half a dozen rackets, don't they? Usually, yeah. Yeah. They probably have a few. And they carry their own bags, right? Yeah, when they come out to the court, they do. So, yeah, anyway, pivotal, pivotal thing that she forgot.

So we thought, oh, 100, that's four, four, eight, seven. What was a pivotal thing that you forgot? Now we have someone joining us in the studio right now from your first wedding Megan yeah now Rob from the office welcome welcome to me I like being welcomed everywhere I go most people don't welcome me so I welcome myself

everywhere I go it's nice to be welcomed it's very nice now we're talking about the things that you forgot and this happens my first wedding Megan's wedding and this happens. My first wedding. Megan's wedding. Yeah. Rob came along.

The first one. Yeah, first one. Shut up. Could you tell it was doomed from the wedding, Rob? You can be honest. I mean, kind of, yeah. Really? Really?

It was the soapbox at the end of the aisle that kind of gave it away a little bit. What did you have? A little box for him to stand on because she was too tall and they wanted to be the same height for the photos. Oh, did you have a little box? Oh, that's nice. Did you make him stand on a box? Yeah.

No, I didn't make him. I didn't make him do it. And then the song when you're walking down the aisle was like Highway to Hell or something? Okay. You're like, oh, okay. That's the final countdown played before I walked down the aisle. Let's not get into the speeches.

Yeah, no. Okay. Oh, really? Okay, so people could, there were flags.'s not get into the speeches. Yeah, no. Okay. Oh, really? Okay, so people could, there were flags. You know too much, Rob. There were flags. Okay, but something that happened for you on the way there. Yes, I left my suit.

I got the park and ride at Auckland Airport and just jumped on the plane, went all the way to Nelson, got to Nelson and grabbed my bags and was like, oh, crap, I don't have my suit. I left it in the park and ride it's in the little waiting area and yeah, I had no suit and the wedding was that day because I flew in that day but luckily there was one more flight that was going

to Nelson and the Air New Zealand crew who were like going to the flight to work one of them grabbed it, put it on the next flight and I went to the airport and they picked it up Oh they sent it out! Air freighted in the suit! Yeah, it was amazing flight, and I went to the airport and they picked it up. Well, they set it up. That's awesome. The air freighted in the suit.

Yeah, it was amazing. So I just gave them a call and they're like, yeah, well, it's like that old, I don't know if you remember that old air, but the pilot dropped the keys. I gave it to the pilot and he threw it out the window. The keys, yeah. Oh, that's pretty cool. But then I did it again on the way back.

We had to stop through Wellington to fly to Auckland for some reason. The same suit. I left the same suit on the plane in Wellington. Did you just let it go? That time they were just like, no, you can get it yourself. No, you needed it for the next wedding of Megan.

So you really need to hold on to that suit. I need to get it. And two years later I got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Keep holding that so you probably might need it again in the future just in case.

We never know how things are going to work out. Those flights to Nelson are expensive too I'm sorry how did this turn into a roast of you still waiting for

that refund you were saying people were asking for their presents I'm hoping it was a joke the wedding presents do we get that back

thanks for coming in Rob welcome welcome under the hits 4487 what was the pivotal thing that you forgot? Yeah, anniversaries, work items, functions. Especially travelling overseas. What are you going to do then?

Passports at the airport, bags, things like that. We'd love to hear. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. We're just talking about important things you've forgotten. Megan, your dear friend Rob, who works here at work. Yeah, he forgot his suit to my first wedding.

You don't have to keep saying first wedding. You can just say wedding. One of my weddings. Just say wedding. Wedding. It's fine. We've had a laugh. We've had a mock.

We've filled that bucket, haven't we, Ben? That's right. Now we can move on. But you've moved on. Yeah. With your life. So he forgot a suit, but not once, but twice. Forgot it on the way down, then left it in Wellington on the way back.

Yeah, that's a bit of a shocker. There was lots of drama surrounding that wedding. Yeah. Could have been a sign. Not the only one, though. Someone's text her. What wedding? No, she went to Supercars in Oz.

Forgot passport, got taxi home, had to change flight, got to the event, forgot the tickets, husband was not happy. So they couldn't even get in. Oh, jeez. Oh. Did they fix that? Did they get in? We don't know.

I don't know. I don't know. We need to find out. We need to follow up on that one. Never want to upset a motor racing bogan. That's one rule you live by in life. Let's go to the phone, shall we? Teresa, morning to you.

How are you on this Thursday? I'm good. How are you guys? We're doing really well. Great. It's lovely to hear your voice. What's the important thing you forgot there, Teresa? It was a suitcase full of shoes.

Oh, no. Megan's like, you're more chill about your first wedding, aren't you? Oh, my God. Wait, you had a suitcase full of shoes. We should be friends. Absolutely. And it was a good excuse to get new shoes, you see. friends. Absolutely. And it was a good excuse to get new shoes, you see.

Yeah, right. Maybe it was a place... So was this when you relocated to New Zealand, we're being told? Yeah. Yeah, but you've got so much other stuff

that you probably have to bring over, of course. You're going to leave the odd thing behind, aren't you? So you just never got the shoes back? Don't worry about the shoes back. Oh, that's so bad for you.

Well, I got all new ones oh yeah great yeah but it was my favorites you know i want both yeah just described your cupboard full of shoes is never enough yeah just described her worst nightmare hey well theresa thank you so much for your call you're going to have a great day yeah you too thank you very much appreciate that now uh have you have you forgotten the wedding anniversary before? Yeah, I have. I have before. And I have it like, we got a text story, same situation. They've got it tattooed on their arm.

I've got it tattooed as well, Roman numerals, because I got engaged in Rome. And I've forgotten it. It's very hard to come back for when you forget when you've got it on your arm. And no one can read Roman numerals. That's what this text said. Text says, I always forget our wedding anniversary, so I've got it tattooed on my arm. And no one can read Roman numerals. That's what this text said. Text says, I always forget our wedding anniversary, so I've got it tattooed on my arm. I only got it in Roman numerals, but I can't read Roman numerals

and still forget the anniversary. And also, are you going to look at it every day being like, is that today? No. I think a calendar invites, you know, an annual calendar invites probably a more rock solid option than. Well, you just do what I do, and I just tell everyone, everything in the lead up, it is my birthday in five days, four days.

It's our anniversary in three days. Do a countdown. Same thing with Andrew. Do you tell him that? Yeah. Don't give him the opportunity to forget it. It's a horrible moment when you do it. You only do it once in your marriage career, don't you?

And Jen came in with a present for me. And I was like, it was when we were really busy. We were doing two jobs. And I was like, was when we were really busy we were doing two jobs you know and I was like there's no excuse for this I feel like a horrible human

your job came before your wife yeah well listen we've had this conversation Megan we worked through it okay don't need you bringing up your bloody no one of your first marriage

you did got some much needed cred points with my son Oscar who's in his teenage years. And he loves these two people on social media. Oosgang, who's very big on social media. Yeah, he's very funny. And TikTok.

And Terrell Taffer, who they do a lot of content together. It's very funny stuff. Really talented guys. And ran into them. Got millions of followers. Huge. Do you know who I'm talking about? Yeah. Yeah. Ran into them and I millions of followers. Huge. Do you know who I'm talking about? Yeah.

Yeah. Ran into them and I was like, I felt terrible and I was like, oh, can I get a video for my son? He's a big fan. And they are lovely. They're truly lovely people and they oblige. And so I sent this to Oscar. Aussie, look who I'm with.

Hey, what's up, Oscar? Hey, what's up, Oscar? Hey, let's go, Oscar. Have a good day, bro. man take care man it's a lovely lovely message and it made Oscar's day like he couldn't have been couldn't have been happier but so I was basically outsourcing my coolness to Terrell and Usgang and got home and he's like did you know Usgang met Dwayne The Rock Johnson? He's like, I'm one step removed now from Dwayne the Rock

Johnson. And I'm thinking, oh, okay. Interesting. So my daughter Poppy pipes up and she's like, didn't you meet Dwayne the Rock Johnson? Yeah, Dad's met. Yeah, we've talked about him a couple of times. Met him once in person, right? And I was like, yeah, I've met Dwayne the Rock Johnson. So you are one step

away. He's like, yours doesn't count count it's not cool when you do it yeah it wasn't as cool as when you met him as when ooskang met him i'm like mate i'm just busting my chops getting a video here but not as cool two different people meet the same person yeah one's better than the other how does that how does that mathematics work out? You're right. And a much closer connection you have. Yeah,

but he doesn't want to be associated with that connection. Oos Gang and The Rock would have had like a cooler interaction. Yeah, I see how it is. Whereas you're like, hello The Rock.

I remember the greatest, you know, like we've been lucky enough to have TV shows, radio show every morning, but the greatest thing that we've ever achieved was once we were on

the For You page from TikTok. Yeah, we did something for TikTok. Oh, wow. And my daughter was like, did you know we're on the for you page from tiktok um yeah we did something for tiktok oh wow and my daughter was like did you know you're on the for you page of tiktok that's pretty cool yeah i'm like oh yeah yeah i didn't know that but that's cool you know we've never been back on there though so maybe tiktok said maybe it wasn't for people it definitely wasn't for you but yeah jono ben and and Megan The Podcast The Hits Alright Megan now you've just

showed us an image of something I feel like you're teetering you're playing with danger here Oh really? I have to pitch

things to my husband to buy them often because especially if it's like something I don't necessarily need Right

So we've got a function coming up the Radio Awards which we invited the Prime Minister to Yeah that's right I haven't heard back if he's coming have we? No we need to chase that up The last place he wants coming up, the Radio Awards which we invited the Prime Minister to. Yeah, that's right. I haven't heard back if he's coming, have I? No, we need to chase that up.

The last place he wants to be is the Radio Awards. If I was the Prime Minister, you'd be like, how many events does the poor guy have to go to? Yeah, he does a lot. Yeah, but he's nominated for one. He's nominated for an award. That's his time to influence people. You know, that's his, yeah. In front of the media. Mainstream media. Fake news media. We'll follow that up.

So I've got lots of dresses and I had to pitch to my husband I want to buy this new one and he was like wear one of your old ones. That's what I don't get. That's what I don't get. I know but you know what

it's a thing. Why can't you wear the same one you know anyway. Because you get new photos and you don't want to be wearing the same one anyway. Does it matter? I've worn the same suit

for the last five years. No one's said a thing. You wear it to different functions so I was like we've got a wedding coming up. I can wear this dress to the wedding. He was like, fine. Promise that you'll wear it to both. And I was like, done.

Done deal. You've done your pitch, your proposal. Was there a PowerPoint presentation? Yeah, it was a hard pitch. But I got it. And I then showed the dress to some of the girls at work, including producer Grace. And I was like, do you like my dress? I'm the girls at work, including producer Grace. And I was like, do you like my dress?

I'm also going to wear it to a wedding. And that's when they poo-pooed the idea and said that it was not appropriate to wear to a wedding. Now, the dress is like full length baby pink. Right. But the top has like a roughly big white bit on it. You just showed us a picture of it. Well, can we put it up on the Hits Breakfast story as well so people can have a look at it themselves?

Yeah, it is. I mean, there's quite a lot of pink. It is light pink. It's light. It looks like the bottom half's gone through the red sock. That's the shade of pink. It's teetering on white for me. Oh, you reckon?

It's teetering in the sun. You'd be like, that long of that? Can I say, the bride is like stunning and she is glam and she will wear something amazing like i'm not going to take anything away from her take it away from you the dress you've ordered no it's not as if it's going to be a casual wedding you know she's going to be stunning so you think you'll know oh that's the bride rather than yeah but let's bloody call her let's and say, hey, we've put it up on the hit sensor. You look at it now. Oh, yes, you do.

And go, is this appropriate for your wedding? She's the one that only affects her, really. Yeah, okay. At the end of the hour, opinion doesn't matter. And you can, yeah, and 4487, if you've got something that you want to do, if you've got an opinion on that, for Megan, you can 4487. You can be honest. Is your friend callable on the radio?

We can try. We'll call her during the interview. We'll get it sorted out next. YMCA in the bathroom. Without a word of lie, that's where she had her little performance. Exclusive performance. We sent John along to hear more of that after 8 o'clock. But this morning you had your own at the same YMCA. Yeah, same toilet, same YMCA. You could essentially say Lorde opened up for me. Yeah, true.

And my show. But Lorde had a performance. What did you have? Well, here. Fully butt naked. Well, he's in the bathroom. He's in the bathroom, mate. What did you expect?

He's probably just had a shower. Yeah, okay. All right. We might have bought the mission, guys. Yeah, fair enough. Okay, well. More of that after a cock. The only one I'm really surprised,

for some reason surprised, that we're still getting changed in the changing room. Well, I just hadn't factored it into the campaign. I'll talk to my promoters about it. Hopefully Lord didn't tell us. I sure am. I think she would my promoters about it. Hopefully Lorde didn't have to usher off naked. I think she would have acted it in. Imagine if someone was during their

concert like toweling their undercarriage here. What's going on over there, mate? Now I'll tell you what, Lorde wouldn't do. She wouldn't wear a white dress to someone else's wedding bed. It's not fully white. It's not. Have we put it up on the Hits Breakfast Insta? Yeah. Now just recap your issues, Megan. Okay, so to get it across the line, I bought white it's not have we put it up on the hits breakfast insta yeah uh now you just really

recap your issues uh okay so i to get it across the line um i bought a dress for the radio awards and i had to jewel function it so i was like to my husband if i buy this i can wear it to our friend's wedding banging for bucks yeah and he was like fine do it but you got to promise you wear it to both so then i showed the girls at work and they said it's not appropriate for a wedding because it's got white on it. It's got a roughly white bit at the top. What would you do, Ben? Megan turns up to your wedding.

She's wearing all white. Are you phased? It's not all white. Well, I'm not the bride in the situation. I feel like it's probably the bride that you're most concerned about. Like as probably the groom, I'd be like, but I understand as a bride, you might be like, oh, you're taking the shine away from,

and I do say, I don't think it's fully white, but if there is any doubt that someone's textured before, maybe don't. Maybe play it safe because you don't want, your intentions is not to do that,

but you don't want to like. Yeah. You don't wear white. That's just the rule. Yeah. Well, we can't, we've been trying to track down the bride. Apparently she deleted you from Facebook

even after just hearing this. I'm not answering the phone. But Jason, you've got some advice. Tell you what, blow it up on the text. Good morning. Hey, so I'm a wedding celebrant and have been a wedding planner for 10, 15 years. Don't do it. It's not your day.

Just don't. When in doubt, don't. I know Jono and Beth, if they doubt something, they just do it anyway. Jono doesn't even factor it in. He'll get there and go, oh, I just walked into a bloody YMCA toilet. There's a naked man there. When I heard the YMCA thing, I thought you'd be right at home, bro. I mean, that's just another Friday night for you.

And I was. And I was. It's a place where young men can relax. Oh, well, that's interesting. So if there's any doubt, probably don't. Because, yeah And I was. It's a place where young men can relax. Yeah. Oh, well, that's interesting. So if there's any doubt, probably don't. Because, yeah, I guess. If you're in doubt, don't. I mean, you don't.

Because other people will look, oh, what's she doing? Just don't. Yeah. To be honest, Jason, I'm fine with that because I've bought it now. When it comes to the wedding, I'll just buy another one. Yeah, exactly. I was just thinking that. Radio awards, you get ticked, you get to wear that.

And then for the wedding, you're like, hey. This conversation never happened. Well, maybe it did. And you're like, sorry. They said on the radio I shouldn't do it. I awards, you get tick, you get to wear that, and then for the wedding, you're like, hey. Everyone, this conversation never happened. Well, maybe it did, and you're like, sorry, they said on the radio I shouldn't do it. I'm gutted. Oh, yes. Yes. I'm gutted. I fully intended to, but everyone said I couldn't.

Yeah, you did. That was your intention. James, Jason, thank you so much for your call, mate. Have a good day, guys. Appreciate it. Thank you. And James, actually, is joining in. New producer Grace has told her, 24-year-old producer Grace has said,

don't wear the dress, too risky, James. Your thoughts? Well, it all depends. How much pink is in it? Because I haven't actually seen on Facebook how much pink is on it. If it's more pink than white, go for it. Yeah, it is more pink than white. 90% pink, 10% white, but the pink is a shade of white.

Yeah, it's kind of light. That's the issue. Very light pink. Yeah, well, the thing is a shade of white. Yeah, it's kind of light. That's the issue. Very light pink. Yeah, well, the thing is, when I got married, my wife was in a fully pink dress. Okay. So, to me, pink is a colour.

Pink is a colour. The most thoughtful thing we'll hear on this show. If I get any clap back from anyone, I'm going to quote James. Pink is a colour. It's a colour. Okay. John O'Byrne and Megan. The podcast.

The heads. Origin last night in New South Wales. Took it out over Queensland. Floats it over the top. They're going to score. They're going to score. The touch is called. Pass. Full time.

They're going to score. They're going to score. 18-6 was the final result. 54,000 people at Suncorp Stadium. A lot of people, eh? I feel like I ask you this every year, but is it best of three? Yeah, best of three. I think the next one's actually in Perth, randomly.

Really? Yeah. So this was the first one, right? First one of three, yeah. The Blues have got one out of three. Yeah. Okay. Did you stay up for it?

I know you're there. I watched a little bit in the gym when I was beforehand, but it was all the build-up. And then, yeah. You said you're a blues boy? I did like the blues, yeah, so that's good. Yeah, I got more into it back in high school, but it's still popular. It's funny, Kiwis have their team, even though you're like, well, I wasn't born in New South Wales or Queensland.

I saw a lot of blue and maroon jerseys going around yesterday. It's kind of cool. It's cool. Now, this can be today's fake news segment, something that got fed to me on TikTok. Drake, do you know Drake to me on TikTok. Drake. Do you know Drake? No.

Who's Drake? He started from the bottom. Now he's here. I like his new one that keeps popping up. Is it Stacy? Is it Whitney? Is it Keisha? Is it Ashley?

That's popular on TikTok. I only know him from that Kendrick Lamar song. Yeah. He had nothing but favorable things to say about Drake. I think they're good friends, right? Yeah. Anyway, so it said he wakes up at 2pm in the afternoon. 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

The day's done. But then he goes to bed around 6am or 7am. Oh, so he does the whole night. He's a night owl, which I guess a lot of those musos and creatives are aren't they but 2pm you're missing so much Ben how would you handle maybe he's one of those people

I like to come into work early when no one's emailing and stuff so through the night he's probably doing a lot of stuff oh you reckon he might be more productive yeah because there's no one around going hey Drake I need that thing. He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, like it's just him. He wakes up at 2 p.m. just in time to miss lunch

and start thinking about dinner. Three major meals. That's a wild schedule, though, isn't it? Where did you get this from? Oh, God, here we go. No, but like I just put it into AI to double check. It said, Drake is known to wake up very early in the morning as part of his daily routine. He typically starts his day at 5 a.m.

No. He starts with meditation. No. I am not having this. And he does a workout at 7 a.m. No, he doesn't. So where did you get this from? I got this on TikTok.

Yeah, you've got to stop. We've got to take TikTok. We have to take TikTok away from you. There's petitions going around to ban the under-16s off TikTok, but I think we need to start one to ban Jono. Bag your boomers. Some of us talk to the Prime Minister, we're like, can we ban Jono from TikTok?

Delete the app. Drake. Delete the app. His mornings also include dance practice and time in the studio working on music or meeting with his team. I'm fine with that except for two. That's the opposite end of what I'm saying.

Okay, well, there we go. He wakes up at two. That's the opposite end of what I'm saying. Okay, well there we go. Another TikTok potential fake news about Drake. Here's another one. What time does Drake typically wake up in the morning? He is known to have

an early morning routine that starts at 5am. I don't know. Yeah. Why would someone bother saying he wakes up at two when you clearly have evidence he wakes up early

and he gets the day. He's on top of the day. Early bird,'s catching the worm he's a successful man he's getting it done oh yeah well listen i take back everything i just said about drinks